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Paywall… yeah

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Looks like your hesitation was justified because if you had waited a few hours you could have also included in your preamble the gutting of aviation safety resulting in the worst mid-air disaster in 16 years.

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Ironically the onesthat voted for it!

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Professionals and experts have been warning the public since 2016, and still they don’t understand: the warning signs have been there for eight years. This is what we were warning you about. Let them distract you at your own peril. The cheating and Fascism are clear as a bell. Fascism is mental pathology injected into politics. It never ends well

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Direct anger at T. His handlers and flying monkeys.

They want us to be angry at Democrats. Blame those who lost or gave up the fight for recounts, and have not yet fixed gerrymandering and vigilante voter fraud. Dems are in the minority, after all.

But keep an eye on the money that’s frozen. And our classified documents while all this mayhem ensues. THAT’S why the Mag Hats want us pissed at our own.

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Jordan, thank you for your support of the common American. Yes, the new administration is moving quickly. However, I believe their strategy if effective in the short term, actually shows their weakness and actual lack of confidence. They write and talk a hell of a game. Anyone can do that in a closed meeting with like minded players. However, execution of that plan can be difficult in real time. Especially if you are over confident to the extreme. If they were on firm ground and truly believed in what they have planned, the “shock & awe” would not be necessary. They know their only chance for any success is to throw everything at one time. What they are selling is BS. They know it is. They also realize even their supporters will turn into opposition after time. That is the reason for the all out rush. It is also the cause of the bombastic interviews/press conferences and filming/videos. The whole point is to intimidate. That is what shit talkers do when they are actually not good at what they are trying to do!!! These enemies of democracy make the exact same mistake the Japanese did at Pearl Harbor. Quick partial success at first. But then, you awaken a sleeping powerful force. And a force once on a joint path and decidedly moving, is unstoppable. But some must learn the old saying, if you go looking for some shit, you will find it. And, you are not going to like it!

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The issue is of course if R’s and Trusk refuse to obey the law.

If we can impeach Trump. It requires the DOJ to act independent. Everything Bondia summery mission focus is thr dismantle, ignore everything she was asked in Hrsring. Same as Patel, same as Kennedy, same as Vogt,

When your job is at stake, if health is at stake, if plan is at stake. If wealth is at stake( majority of ppl will capitulate)

Or they will blindly believe that POTUS does not lie.

He beeps blah blah blah… if you think everything he says is just a sign he should be pres. Then I cannot help you.

We are, we have lost safety with those immigrants that were arrested and some they had no room for. They took them by van , where’s the footage of this shit storm?

This is the Story media.. this is your Pulitzer. Get at it.

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Trumpists are already seeing the light and realizing they've been taken for a ride. All those FAFO videos on social media make that clear.

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No one I k is is speaking openly. Does it mean they realize the grift? Or they just can’t admit they fell for the grift?

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Both, I think. I saw one video from a farmer talking about how he made his business plans based on Trump’s promises, and now they're falling through and he's going to owe $80,000 in loans and he'll lose his farm. Plus, there's lots of videos from people realizing they'll lose their jobs.

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Absolutely love this, thank you! @Michael Solis.

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Don’t forget the wholesale attempt to “encourage” almost all federal employees to resign. See WAPO article “White House incentivizes federal workers to resign””

From Rachel Maddow tonight and a few quick searches.

The mass retirement offering to government employees, or RAGE (Retire All Government Employees] is part of a strategy to dismantle the federal government as advocated by Curtis Yarvin, the right wing blogger who has been quoted by JD Vance as a thought leader on overturning the US Democracy in favor of a dictatorship, and whose strategy appears to be central to the Trump administration’s shock and awe actions in the last two weeks.

Peter Theil, the billionaire who funded Vance’s run for office, Steve Bannon, and the Tech Broligarchy are also followers of Yarvin’s ideas.

Yarvin is one of the founders of something called the “Dark Enlightenment” movement, which “argues” against democracy and against egalitarianism – a school of thought that people have equal intrinsic value and are deserving of equal rights.

In 2022 Vox called Yarvin the “person who’s spent the most time gaming out how, exactly, the US government could be toppled and replaced”.

Yarvin suggests that a would-be American autocrat should campaign on and win an electoral mandate for an authoritarian program.

They should purge the federal bureaucracy in a push Yarvin has anagrammatized as Rage (for “retire all government employees”).

…Midway through their conversation, Anton says to Yarvin, “You’re essentially advocating for someone to – age-old move – gain power lawfully through an election, and then exercise it unlawfully”, adding: “What do you think the actual chances of that happening are?”

Yarvin responded: “It wouldn’t be unlawful,” adding: “You’d simply declare a state of emergency in your inaugural address.”

Yarvin: They should simply ignore any court rulings that seek to constrain them. They should bring Congress to heel, in part by mobilizing their populist base against recalcitrant lawmakers. And liberal or mainstream media organizations and universities should be summarily closed.

SOUND FAMILIAR?

For more: Robert Evans, an extremism researcher and the host of the podcast Behind the Bastards, recorded a two-part series on Yarvin.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvin-trump

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It's so important to know where and how progress is being made in our nation right now - even if it's one state Senate seat in one state.

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