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Leanne Fierstein's avatar

I never thought we’d go all the way back to the 17th century mentality. The insanity is too much. Do people realize how bad it’s going to get with 18 year old boys and AR15’s running around, going after anyone who might look like an immigrant? This is not going to lead to good outcomes. We’re in a really bad chapter of our history right now.

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GW B's avatar

Another terrific overview. Love the graphic at the top. Maybe you didn’t even know that Homan’s ancestors of the same surname were actually in Salem during the witch trials. . . . . . quite the coincidence (although they don’t make it into the literature and they left for NY soonafter). He still seems to have the spirit.

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Allan Crow's avatar

A large portion of the population lives in a comfort zone that requires little or no critical thinking or political awareness, and that's where things unravel. If you don't experience oppression, you can't really rebel against it.

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Susan Cortilet Jones (link ⬇️)'s avatar

Tom Homan and Donald Trump know nothing about the Doctrine of Discovery… https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9C69wHfyao2ShAJswxHnfOX1NF11RIXP&feature=shared most historians don’t! “Deranged, lunatic, nut cases….”- yup! They might, in some twisted Jesus way that intersects with “Call of Duty” and “Minecraft” . Point? Delusion, AI and Cos play (not all 😉) are set to destroy us all. (And, we thought it would be climate. Silly us.)

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pa changa's avatar

No 2026 election fix 2024!

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Jonathan D. Simon's avatar

If an "election" is our only hope, why oh why did we acquiesce in the computerization of this bedrock protocol of our democracy, such that the right-wing-affiliated firms Diebold and ES&S had all the keys to the castle and control, behind an impenetrable cybercurtain, of the counting of over 80% of our votes??

It's not like no one noticed or warned: https://www.amazon.com/CODE-RED-Computerized-Elections-Democracy/dp/B087H83JCR/ref.

And: https://codered2014.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/TheRealSteal-IntroAnalysisCombinedUpdated-js8_WWW-2.pdf.

It is almost certainly too late now but might be coldly comforting to know that this country was not taken over and corrupted solely by organic factors, or by the collective will of its people. Thumbs on the electoral scales, interfering with the honest and accurate translation of that will into leadership and power, have brought us to where we are - the whole "mysterious" rightward veer - and will keep Trump/Vance/MAGA in control.

I subscribe to very few conspiracy theories, and recognize how dangerous they can be, but I spent more than 20 years collecting and analyzing data, and it all points to ongoing electoral manipulation.

We might ask ourselves why we'd think that characters like Trump, or Homan, or any of their power-drunk crew would draw a bright ethical line at simply shifting and stealing votes (when it's been shown that it's not very hard to do), blanche at such tactics, and go gentle into that good night? We don't know them any better than that? Then it's on us for being willfully blind to the reality.

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Mark Archambault's avatar

Indeed. Very scary, and to see the Democrats put all their hopes in the mid-term elections given all this doesn't inspire hope.

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Robot Bender's avatar

Is this what Kash Patel meant when he said this Misadministration was going to "carry out the biggest manhunt in history?" Or is this just the beginning? 🤔

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Blue Moon Pie's avatar

Yarvin and those who follow him are deranged people, plain and simple. We talked about lunatics a couple of days ago. Deranged, lunatic, nut cases, whatever term one wants to use, that’s what we’re dealing with.

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Mark Archambault's avatar

Your average American may well understand the implications of a pedophile tRump, but will they understand the dangerous philosophy that informs Vance, Thiel and Yarvin and what that implies for their lives?

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