It's super-true, that last line. No doubt if domestic forces weren't so prevalent, foreign forces wouldn't have made it so far. Here in formerly safe "America's Home Town," someone was shot this week over a parking-lot minor mishap. I see more Trump than Harris signs, in MA. Around a Cape Cod rotary, a large, loud group is holding "Trump/Kennedy" signs. My master's degree-holding best friend of 35 years quotes propaganda and screams at me if I try to dissuade her, a nationally well-known, apparently sane "blue" politician is advising people to stock up because, in summary, "things could get bad". Pinch me, it must be just a nightmare.
Frightening. In a solid blue county in which I live, on Saturday drove down a block with four houses displaying vote for 45 signs and a big "women for Trump" sign. Yet I believe there still are more of us than them and Democracy will prevail.
There have been FOUR permanent flagpoles that have gone up in the neighborhood within a block of me in the past three years. One of them, the size you'd find outside a city administration building has had F**K BIDEN flag on it from a week after these people moved in. The "**" is an American flag, which makes it SO much better! I haven't looked lately. I should check if it's still there. The other three poles are always sporting American flags, and for me, it just ties into the rumor I heard a few years ago about showing your loyalty to Trump by installing a permanent flagpole, or some such crap. They've even stolen the flag! But absolutely NO signs in the neighborhood. My only concession to my feelings will be to change all of our outside lighting to solid blue from Nov 1st thru 5th, and our post light to solid orange, representing Trump's head on a pike. LOL I'LL know what it means!
Old Man, near to where I live, a large billboard went up depicting a mother and a baby espousing pro-life. Within one day, that billboard received a big slice and pieces were torn off. There is a goddess!
Here I often see a jeep fully adorned in Trump Vance signs and regalia. There is a big flagpole affixed to the rear bumper with a Let's Go Brandon flag, still there. Guess the owner is not keeping track of current events. Such a piece of GARBAGE!
I'm getting an insistent hint that the increased amount of public disclosures from Administration-controlled agencies like HSA reflects internal schisms in which some personnel, supported by top management, are aware of & trying to promote awareness of dissident, anti-democratic elements trying to bury the information coming out & sabotage national preparedness to meet coordinated foreign-domestic chaos initiatives. Like Willie Sutton targeted banks because that's where the money was.
It's OK. The job of a good reader is interpretation. I knew what you meant when I read it this morning! And yes, the USPS is not to be trusted right now. I dropped off my mail-in ballot because of it. Louis Dejoy is STILL there.
No mail ballot for me this year. Hope DeJoy gets the axe soon. The repubs will destroy every great idea that Benjamin Franklin ever had if Project 2025 gets a chance.
Taking my mail-in ballot to the Village Hall today. I tried to have my deceased Mother’s mail forwarded last week. I told the employee how important it was and asked a lot of questions about the process. She had me fill out a card and then put it in a slot in her register. I did not have a good feeling about it. Low and behold, I have not received one piece of her mail. I have no idea where all her mail is, but I will make the dreaded call to try to find out. I have a feeling I’m about to enter the abyss.
Luckily, there are still a lot of Americans that are not ON "social" media, like me. Other than here, and one or two other places, I don't engage with social media as it's mostly toxic and full of all of the shit enumerated in this piece at the BEST of times. Not only did I make a plan to vote, which has now been carried out, and both my mom's and my own ballots have been officially received per Cook County, I've also made a plan for AFTER Election Day until Inauguration Day.
Once I hear from "The Networks," who won, I'm done. I still remember Rudy Giuliani's exclamation during his press conference in front of the landscaping business, squeezed between a crematorium and a dildo store, when he was told Biden had won per The Networks, "OH! THE NETWORKS!!" Yes, Rudy, the networks; the mainstream media; the radio, the TV, the newspapers around the world. I still believe them no matter how much they've been diminished and have diminished themselves (Jeff Bezos) over the past several years. So, once I hear that result, I'm going back to watching TV shows I need to catch up on, reading books that are blowing up my Kindle, and dog videos on YouTube, and honestly, fuck the rest of it. I mean, seriously, enough is enough. In Biden parlance, "My GOD!"
I downloaded the Nazi rally from Sunday night so I could watch it at a sped-up rate and discovered that 1.4x is the limit for me of understanding the spoken word and still being able to comprehend what is being said. I have heard it said that the Nazi rally in 1939 was a stain on the reputation of the history of Madison Square Garden. Sunday night is without a doubt, the second historical stain on its reputation. From the opening act, the alleged "comic" with the Puerto Rican jokes and the racist jokes, to Mike Johnson, to Tucker FUCKING Carlson and his insane girlish giggle, to Hulk Hogan, to Elon Musk's awkward showing, to What the Hell is Dr. Phil Doing Here?, topped off by Mr. Shitshow himself, I can hardly believe what I watched and more especially, HEARD. JD Vance was there too, but he was hardly noticeable amidst the rest of the dreck.
I also read last night, on maybe The Daily Beast, that the campaign knew what everyone was going to talk about beforehand, including nixing a line where the comic calls Harris the C-word. Big of them to nix that. The point is, they tacitly APPROVED everything else, so the Trump people trying to distance themselves from the rest of it is, once again, a LIE. So, the view that Puerto Rico is an island of garbage in the middle of the ocean, or that Puerto Ricans just can't stop making babies, or that the comic and his Black friend spent some time carving a Halloween watermelon, in addition to all the fascist rhetoric all night, is EXACTLY WHO THEY ARE, and I'm very happy that more and more people are seeing it.
MUCH more than 2016 or 2020, I just CAN'T WAIT for this to be over. Seven more days seems like an eternity! But after then, or shortly after then, via THE NETWORKS, and the institutions that we still believe in, we'll finally know where we stand. On second thought, I may hang out for a day or two after the results so I can hear, "President-Elect Harris" a few times before I withdraw!
Hope Lin Manuel Miranda will write a play about the Coup that failed. Sort of like the Coup of 1933, that should have been prosecuted, but FDR was sort of busy. I hope the cretains are held accountable for the myriad ways they are trying to destroy our world.
The enemy within, a 45 truth describing himself and his henchmen and most importantly his handlers. He is the incarnate of the enemies within and stooge of the enemies outside, Vlad, Xi, Kim, Bibi and the Ayatollah. Those he calls enemies within are really our saviors.
To see the true enemies look no further than the MSG speaker list. The comedians and the likes of Hulk are useful idiots but the Elon Musk, Mike Johnson and Steven Miller types are truly dangerous. They are beyond an existential threat, people ready to and capable of shredding the Constitution and sucking the life out of us.
To the undecided, wake the fuck up, smell the bullshit and join the best answer to the enemies within, vote blue up and down the ticket. In the Senate elect Brown in Ohio, Tester in Montana and Allred in Texas, among others. In the House, New Yorkers of your 22 House members, 9 are Republicans, kick their asses to Mars. DOJ, put Elon where he belongs, a jail cell. Once behind the Resolute Desk, Kamala don't get woke, throw the weight of Democracy around, purge our country of the enemy within to ensure they never are a force in our elections ever again.
Sedition is the currency of Trump and the GOP now.
This should be attacked relentlessly. Do not let it pass.
Every thing that gets passed, regrows and comes back, the living dead of our time, the symbolism of movies come to life. They are dead to American democracy...they should get the respect they deserve...from DoJ.
Good Lord, talk about the enemy within. How many ways can traitors be busy working for the enemy. Let me count and identify and prosecute. Hope it’s not too late. The traitor bees have been busy for longer than any knew…
I'm listening to your amazing, boundary-hopping, on-point Pre-Election podcast & of the several thoughts it's stimulating, I bring you this:
Trump's 60-80 2020 post-election lawsuits challenging the States results all correctly failed because the courts uniformly ruled that Trump had failed to present _any evidence_ of the frauds or other irregularities it was claiming as grounds to delay State certifications, 50 necessary individual State stepsl on the path to Congressional certification.
I agree with Gal Suburban & have stated on Timothy Snyder's substack that actual organized Election Day polling place violence isn't a substantial likelihood as much as will be the illusion of it. A firehose of disputers about voter eligibility & the appearance & possibility of actual polling place chaos will be designed & calculated to create enough of the appearance of actual evidence creating material issues of fact sufficient to survive the threshold dismissals which killed Trump's legal challenges in 2020.
The full evidentiary hearings that could be mandated by even well-meaning State courts, let alone by corrupt maga judges, could turn the full post-election month provided for the State certifications that have to precede the January 6 federal certification ritual, could well create arrest & paralysis, as well as depression of the national mood, of the normal progress toward January 20 Inauguration.
To mix two metaphors, such a vacuum of normal, reliable advancement could create fertile ground for desperate but relieving-appearing Trump solutions which an exhausted population might not be up to strongly resisting.
It’s TUESDAY🎉
Get out the prebunk!
It's super-true, that last line. No doubt if domestic forces weren't so prevalent, foreign forces wouldn't have made it so far. Here in formerly safe "America's Home Town," someone was shot this week over a parking-lot minor mishap. I see more Trump than Harris signs, in MA. Around a Cape Cod rotary, a large, loud group is holding "Trump/Kennedy" signs. My master's degree-holding best friend of 35 years quotes propaganda and screams at me if I try to dissuade her, a nationally well-known, apparently sane "blue" politician is advising people to stock up because, in summary, "things could get bad". Pinch me, it must be just a nightmare.
Frightening. In a solid blue county in which I live, on Saturday drove down a block with four houses displaying vote for 45 signs and a big "women for Trump" sign. Yet I believe there still are more of us than them and Democracy will prevail.
There have been FOUR permanent flagpoles that have gone up in the neighborhood within a block of me in the past three years. One of them, the size you'd find outside a city administration building has had F**K BIDEN flag on it from a week after these people moved in. The "**" is an American flag, which makes it SO much better! I haven't looked lately. I should check if it's still there. The other three poles are always sporting American flags, and for me, it just ties into the rumor I heard a few years ago about showing your loyalty to Trump by installing a permanent flagpole, or some such crap. They've even stolen the flag! But absolutely NO signs in the neighborhood. My only concession to my feelings will be to change all of our outside lighting to solid blue from Nov 1st thru 5th, and our post light to solid orange, representing Trump's head on a pike. LOL I'LL know what it means!
We had better be or the USA is toast.
Old Man, near to where I live, a large billboard went up depicting a mother and a baby espousing pro-life. Within one day, that billboard received a big slice and pieces were torn off. There is a goddess!
Here I often see a jeep fully adorned in Trump Vance signs and regalia. There is a big flagpole affixed to the rear bumper with a Let's Go Brandon flag, still there. Guess the owner is not keeping track of current events. Such a piece of GARBAGE!
One I wake up to every day, as do so many.
I'm getting an insistent hint that the increased amount of public disclosures from Administration-controlled agencies like HSA reflects internal schisms in which some personnel, supported by top management, are aware of & trying to promote awareness of dissident, anti-democratic elements trying to bury the information coming out & sabotage national preparedness to meet coordinated foreign-domestic chaos initiatives. Like Willie Sutton targeted banks because that's where the money was.
You might want to take a look at USPS.
I'm told by several employees that more and more employees are calling in sick or finding excuses to take office as the election draws nearer.
Spell check got me again. Its OFf not office.
It's OK. The job of a good reader is interpretation. I knew what you meant when I read it this morning! And yes, the USPS is not to be trusted right now. I dropped off my mail-in ballot because of it. Louis Dejoy is STILL there.
No mail ballot for me this year. Hope DeJoy gets the axe soon. The repubs will destroy every great idea that Benjamin Franklin ever had if Project 2025 gets a chance.
Taking my mail-in ballot to the Village Hall today. I tried to have my deceased Mother’s mail forwarded last week. I told the employee how important it was and asked a lot of questions about the process. She had me fill out a card and then put it in a slot in her register. I did not have a good feeling about it. Low and behold, I have not received one piece of her mail. I have no idea where all her mail is, but I will make the dreaded call to try to find out. I have a feeling I’m about to enter the abyss.
When this is over we’re all going to have PTSD if we don’t already.
Got it
Luckily, there are still a lot of Americans that are not ON "social" media, like me. Other than here, and one or two other places, I don't engage with social media as it's mostly toxic and full of all of the shit enumerated in this piece at the BEST of times. Not only did I make a plan to vote, which has now been carried out, and both my mom's and my own ballots have been officially received per Cook County, I've also made a plan for AFTER Election Day until Inauguration Day.
Once I hear from "The Networks," who won, I'm done. I still remember Rudy Giuliani's exclamation during his press conference in front of the landscaping business, squeezed between a crematorium and a dildo store, when he was told Biden had won per The Networks, "OH! THE NETWORKS!!" Yes, Rudy, the networks; the mainstream media; the radio, the TV, the newspapers around the world. I still believe them no matter how much they've been diminished and have diminished themselves (Jeff Bezos) over the past several years. So, once I hear that result, I'm going back to watching TV shows I need to catch up on, reading books that are blowing up my Kindle, and dog videos on YouTube, and honestly, fuck the rest of it. I mean, seriously, enough is enough. In Biden parlance, "My GOD!"
I downloaded the Nazi rally from Sunday night so I could watch it at a sped-up rate and discovered that 1.4x is the limit for me of understanding the spoken word and still being able to comprehend what is being said. I have heard it said that the Nazi rally in 1939 was a stain on the reputation of the history of Madison Square Garden. Sunday night is without a doubt, the second historical stain on its reputation. From the opening act, the alleged "comic" with the Puerto Rican jokes and the racist jokes, to Mike Johnson, to Tucker FUCKING Carlson and his insane girlish giggle, to Hulk Hogan, to Elon Musk's awkward showing, to What the Hell is Dr. Phil Doing Here?, topped off by Mr. Shitshow himself, I can hardly believe what I watched and more especially, HEARD. JD Vance was there too, but he was hardly noticeable amidst the rest of the dreck.
I also read last night, on maybe The Daily Beast, that the campaign knew what everyone was going to talk about beforehand, including nixing a line where the comic calls Harris the C-word. Big of them to nix that. The point is, they tacitly APPROVED everything else, so the Trump people trying to distance themselves from the rest of it is, once again, a LIE. So, the view that Puerto Rico is an island of garbage in the middle of the ocean, or that Puerto Ricans just can't stop making babies, or that the comic and his Black friend spent some time carving a Halloween watermelon, in addition to all the fascist rhetoric all night, is EXACTLY WHO THEY ARE, and I'm very happy that more and more people are seeing it.
MUCH more than 2016 or 2020, I just CAN'T WAIT for this to be over. Seven more days seems like an eternity! But after then, or shortly after then, via THE NETWORKS, and the institutions that we still believe in, we'll finally know where we stand. On second thought, I may hang out for a day or two after the results so I can hear, "President-Elect Harris" a few times before I withdraw!
Hope Lin Manuel Miranda will write a play about the Coup that failed. Sort of like the Coup of 1933, that should have been prosecuted, but FDR was sort of busy. I hope the cretains are held accountable for the myriad ways they are trying to destroy our world.
The enemy within, a 45 truth describing himself and his henchmen and most importantly his handlers. He is the incarnate of the enemies within and stooge of the enemies outside, Vlad, Xi, Kim, Bibi and the Ayatollah. Those he calls enemies within are really our saviors.
To see the true enemies look no further than the MSG speaker list. The comedians and the likes of Hulk are useful idiots but the Elon Musk, Mike Johnson and Steven Miller types are truly dangerous. They are beyond an existential threat, people ready to and capable of shredding the Constitution and sucking the life out of us.
To the undecided, wake the fuck up, smell the bullshit and join the best answer to the enemies within, vote blue up and down the ticket. In the Senate elect Brown in Ohio, Tester in Montana and Allred in Texas, among others. In the House, New Yorkers of your 22 House members, 9 are Republicans, kick their asses to Mars. DOJ, put Elon where he belongs, a jail cell. Once behind the Resolute Desk, Kamala don't get woke, throw the weight of Democracy around, purge our country of the enemy within to ensure they never are a force in our elections ever again.
Amen
Goebbels first rule. Call the enemy what you are. Accuse them of what you do. The reflection is you, chump.
Sedition is the currency of Trump and the GOP now.
This should be attacked relentlessly. Do not let it pass.
Every thing that gets passed, regrows and comes back, the living dead of our time, the symbolism of movies come to life. They are dead to American democracy...they should get the respect they deserve...from DoJ.
The Coup of 1933 didn’t get punished. Prescott Bush was in on it. Guess who won’t criticize chump. Prosecution needs to happen. Elect a prosecutor…
I hope they've got their eyes on Mike Johnson.
May the force be with us and the Death Star explode into infinity
I wonder if our motley American crew of saboteurs interferes in foreign elections. Maybe it's a kind of international pass time.
I have a lot of confidence in our systems on the U.S. But I despise our electoral college set up. Billserle.com.
Good Lord, talk about the enemy within. How many ways can traitors be busy working for the enemy. Let me count and identify and prosecute. Hope it’s not too late. The traitor bees have been busy for longer than any knew…
I'm listening to your amazing, boundary-hopping, on-point Pre-Election podcast & of the several thoughts it's stimulating, I bring you this:
Trump's 60-80 2020 post-election lawsuits challenging the States results all correctly failed because the courts uniformly ruled that Trump had failed to present _any evidence_ of the frauds or other irregularities it was claiming as grounds to delay State certifications, 50 necessary individual State stepsl on the path to Congressional certification.
I agree with Gal Suburban & have stated on Timothy Snyder's substack that actual organized Election Day polling place violence isn't a substantial likelihood as much as will be the illusion of it. A firehose of disputers about voter eligibility & the appearance & possibility of actual polling place chaos will be designed & calculated to create enough of the appearance of actual evidence creating material issues of fact sufficient to survive the threshold dismissals which killed Trump's legal challenges in 2020.
The full evidentiary hearings that could be mandated by even well-meaning State courts, let alone by corrupt maga judges, could turn the full post-election month provided for the State certifications that have to precede the January 6 federal certification ritual, could well create arrest & paralysis, as well as depression of the national mood, of the normal progress toward January 20 Inauguration.
To mix two metaphors, such a vacuum of normal, reliable advancement could create fertile ground for desperate but relieving-appearing Trump solutions which an exhausted population might not be up to strongly resisting.