For Soldiers at Fort Carson, Food Is Scarce https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/11/26/food-hard-find-fort-carson-base-struggles-feeding-soldiers.html

Bullshit!

And don't ask me how I know it's bullshit, I know it just is.

And what makes you think it does? Some snotty Democrat tell you? Or some so-called scientist, or faggy mathematician, or liberal college professor?

C'mon. some things you just know are true, so keep your progressive, commie education to yourself.

We don't want to hear it!

The election didn't go the way 50% of America wanted, and Trump will still be able to carry out the treasonous proposals in his MAGA Manifesto, Project 2025, but that is not the end of the story by a long shot.

You see, lost in all the 'mashugana' of the elections, MAGA treachery, and Trump's constant lying, other forces have quietly been at work, forces that keep Trump up late at night-- legal forces.

One of Trump's schemes to overthrow the results of Biden's election, was to put forth a cadre of MAGA slime who claimed they were the rightful 'Electors' and they would give the election to Trump, despite the vote of the people.

Like all two-bit sewer rats, they went too far and now it will lead to their extinction. In Georgia, Michigan Nevada, Arizona and Wisconsin, indictments have been served, criminals named for prosecution including in some cases Trump. Giuliani, Eastman, Mark Meadows, and dozens more, and trials will soon begin.

In many cases the rats have turned on one another and have agreed to testify against the rest in return for leniency. Many of these indicted have already lost their law licenses including Giuliani, and Jenna Ellis. Jeffrey Clarke, an active member of the other plot to overthrow the government of the United States is facing a two-year suspension of his law license.

Folks, these trials will take place, and the conspirators will face stiff penalties. Will trump escape prosecution by virtue of a corrupt Supreme Court, maybe so but during the course of the many trials all the insidious scheming will be revealed to the American public, and the treason of the participants made manifest.

Below is a lengthy -- very lengthy -- explanation of all the upcoming court cases. it is thorough, but the more you read, the happier you will become.

See this':

"The criminal cases against Donald Trump over his efforts to steal the 2020 election have not had an easy time of it. In federal court, Special Counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution was set back on its heels following the Supreme Court’s ruling finding broad presidential immunity for official acts—though Smith is doing his best to push forward. In Fulton County, Georgia, the case brought against Trump by District Attorney Fani Willis has run aground on a bizarre scandal over an alleged conflict of interest related to Willis’s romantic life.

But these prosecutions of Trump are not the only efforts to seek accountability for the 2020 election in criminal court. After all, the former president did not act alone. In addition to the Georgia case, prosecutors in four other states have pursued charges against individuals involved in the Trump campaign’s scheme to submit duplicate electoral certificates claiming that Trump had won those states. Some of those prosecutions are still moving forward, but others have faced potentially fatal complications. In no instance have these cases moved forward with perfect speed or smoothness.

In April, we reviewed the status of state-level investigations and prosecutions of what’s come to be known colloquially as the “fake electors scheme.” Here, we provide an overview of what’s happened in the intervening months. Since last spring, the Georgia case ground largely to a halt, a Nevada judge dismissed the prosecution of fake electors in that state, and pretrial proceedings have moved forward in Michigan. Meanwhile, the attorneys general of Arizona and Wisconsin have announced indictments of their own.

What follows is an in-depth, in-the-weeds status update of those cases, which we summarize briefly in this chart:

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/where-the-fake-electors-cases-stand-in-state-court

The ACA, or Affordable Care Act, was enacted by the Democrats to make healthcare affordable to low-income Americans.

Many Republican-leaning states, especially those in the South and Midwest, have significant numbers of ACA recipients. The ACA often serves individuals who are lower- to middle-income, which overlaps with some demographics that may support MAGA, particularly in rural and working-class communities.

See this if you are a recipient of Obamacare -- boldface mine.

By Berkeley Lovelace Jr.

Millions of Americans risk losing subsidies next year that help them pay for health insurance following President-elect Donald Trump’s election win and Republicans’ victory in the Senate. The subsidies — which expire at the end of 2025 — came out of the 2021 American Rescue Plan, and increased the amount of assistance available to people who want to buy health insurance through the Affordable Care Act. The American Rescue Plan also broadened the number of people eligible for subsidies, extending them to many in the middle class. The looming expiration date means that the incoming Congress and next president will need to decide whether to extend them — something Trump and Republicans have already signaled they don’t support, said Chris Meekins, a health policy research analyst at the investment firm Raymond James.

“If Republicans end up winning the House, in addition to the Senate and White House, having a GOP sweep, I think the odds are less than 5% they get extended,” said Meekins, who was a senior HHS official in Trump’s first term. Even Democratic control of the House likely won’t save the subsidies, he added.

In 2024, more than 20 million people got health insurance through the ACA, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Since the 2021 subsidies went into effect**, enrollment in ACA plans with reduced payments doubled, particularly in Southern red states,** said Cynthia Cox, the director of the program on the ACA at KFF, a nonpartisan health care policy research group.

The Inflation Reduction Act, passed in 2022, extended the subsidies through 2025. In 32 states where data is available, 15.5 million people receive the subsidies, according to KFF.

If the subsidies aren’t extended, the Congressional Budget Office — a nonpartisan agency that provides budget and economic information to Congress — estimates that nearly 4 million people will lose their coverage in 2026 because they won’t be able to afford it. Enrollment will continue to fall each year, with coverage reaching as low as 15.4 million people in 2030.

A spokesperson for Trump did not respond to a request for comment..."

There is more to the story here:

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/millions-risk-losing-health-insurance-trumps-victory-rcna179146

https://www.25and.me/?topics=

When you click on it, it will display a prompt asking what you care about. When you click on that it will present a list of topics for your choosing. When you pick one it will show you a brief synopsis of how the plan addresses that issue.

Try it. If you like what you see, maybe copy a few pages and send them to your Republican representatives throughout Congress, letting them know they will pay at the ballot box if they try to implement this sedition and attempt to dismantle our government.

Jesus preaches love and inclusion; the Devil preaches hatred and exclusion.

Donald Trump is a functioning Devil's advocate.

He is vile, obscene, a frequenter of prostitutes and a friend of pedophiles. His association with them makes us question his proclivities, as well.

His is gross, obese, slovenly, porcine, and a glutton. He is vindictive, vain, and like all cowards won't confront an adversary, but will only snipe from afar.

He is a convicted abuser of women, a convicted tax cheat, and is facing multiple indictments and certain prison time.

He ruins all he contacts, from his many marriages to his many failed business's, to the robust economy he inherited from Obama, to the Healthcare system that allowed so many Americans to die needlessly,

With his many sexual affairs he makes a mockery of marriage, fidelity, and the family.

He is a indicted thief, indicted seditionist and insurrectionist, and on two occasions schemed to overthrow the legitimate government of the United States, He is an instigator and self-proclaimed admirer of roving gangs of domestic terrorists whose only aim is to destroy Democracy and install him as dictator,

This is a man bereft of morality, integrity, probity, and he lies with every breath.

He is also the Republican candidate for President of the United States.

In their lust for complete political domination Maga thugs have pulled out all the stops and are making direct threats of violence against both the government of North Carolina and the citizens, as well. This is not exaggeration, nor hyperbole!

This is only the first step into what will be a coordinated effort across all fifty states to dominate our population and subjugate the citizens.

(See the report below which contains actual quotes from this roving gang of domestic terrorists.)

Folks, this is the government you will have chosen with a vote for Trump. He has long promulgated the use of violence against his perceived enemies, and now he includes you among them. In the past he has encouraged the seditionists and insurrectionists to 'stand by'.

Now they are not just standing by, but taking overt action against your freedoms and your lawfully elected state governments,

This is the face of a new Trump administration. One of threats, violence, the removal of all civil rights as outlined in his MAGA Manifesto, Project 2025, and complete domination of the citizenry by an authoritarian government no longer kept in check by our Constitution.

See below -- boldface mine.

© provided by RawStory

A group of anti-government extremists who showed up in western North Carolina promising to provide disaster relief after Hurricane Helene is now threatening to destroy cell-phone towers and sabotage military vehicles. The group, Veterans on Patrol, attracted attention by setting up a disaster relief staging area in the parking lot of the Ingles grocery store in Lake Lure, about 50 miles from Asheville. But locals, including some who initially cooperated with the group, began to complain about threats and harassment.

Over the past three weeks, members of the group, which falsely claims that Helene was caused by a “weather weapon,” have been making conspiracy-driven claims that the U.S. military is attempting to kill U.S. citizens with “directed energy weapons.” Veterans on Patrol’s channel on the encrypted social-media platform Telegram posted a message on Thursday displaying photos of what appears to be a cell tower on a mountaintop. The message asserted that locals “are in Live Exercises where the United States Military is permitted to destroy your homes, bodies and minds,” while suggesting that equipment on the tower “is solely for providing the U.S. military the means to murder Americans.”

“Focus on tearing down their weapons,” the message reads. It continues, “All it takes is one weapon tower being toppled with the stated reason spoken boldly.”

Another message posted in the group’s Telegram channel appears to advocate for sabotaging military vehicles and assets. “Simple acts of pouring sugar into fuel tanks of military equipment, backup power systems, and personal vehicles of military personnel can wreak havoc on those who murdered all these people out here,” reads the message, which was posted on Wednesday.

Veterans on Patrol is led by Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer, who has a long history of anti-government extremism, dating back at least 10 years. Meyer, according to the extremism watchdog group Southern Poverty Law Center, is not a veteran. Reached by phone on Friday, Meyer doubled down on the threats. “Jesus used bullwhips and flipped tables,” he told Raw Story. “We’re going to use our bullwhips and topple towers.”

At first during the interview, Meyer argued that the Telegram messages weren’t advocating for targeting cell towers, saying instead that the group would “surgically” remove the supposed “directed energy weapons." He went on to say that they would provide Appalachian residents with generators and Starlink boxes so they could maintain power and communication links. Asked about the message referencing “pouring sugar into fuel tanks,” Meyer told Raw Story: “We’re going to destroy your tanks…. You want to get dirty? That’s what we should be doing.”

Veterans on Patrol has promoted multiple conspiracy theories based on false claims since arriving in western North Carolina. One message posted on Telegram on Oct. 22 claimed that “Helene was a Weather Weapon steered to destroy the area, while also claiming that the investment fund BlackRock is attempting a “land grab” and describing the storm and its aftermath as “an act of war perpetrated against the People.”

As the final day of voting in the presidential election approaches, posts on the group’s Telegram channel have taken on an increasingly urgent tone. The Oct. 22 post claimed that “stolen elections” are a real phenomenon, along with “weather weapons,” “Satanic pedophiles” and “adrenochrome," which refers to a QAnon conspiracy theory that a cabal of elites tortures children to extract a chemical from their bodies which is then used as a recreational drug. In another post last week, a Veterans on Patrol member nicknamed “Shepherd” claimed that the U.S. Air Force command is instructing pilots “to deploy additional weather weapons.” The post goes on to say, “These people don’t have 2 weeks to wait for vote and 3 months to hopefully wait for a Regime change.” Another message on the group channel that was published on Wednesday suggests without basis that Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff is the beneficiary of BlackRock’s supposed landgrab.

Speaking to Raw Story, Meyer seemed to all but . “For people to go and do something to prevent weapons from being deployed — that’s not a crime,” he said. “If they want to bring this to court and charge us with conspiracy, then let’s go.”

The FBI did not respond to an inquiry about Veterans on Patrol's activities, but Meyer told Raw Story in an email that he "would imagine the FBI knows full well what we are attempting through Operation Leaning Tower."

Meyer told Raw Story that he notified the office of Gov. Roy Cooper about his "operation." Cooper's office did not immediately respond to a voicemail message from Raw Story. Phone calls from Raw Story for this story to officials in Lake Lure and Rutherford County, which surrounds the town, went unreturned.

Meyer’s history of extremism dates back to the Bundy Ranch standoff, when armed militants faced down the FBI and other federal agencies in 2014 during a dispute over rancher Cliven Bundy’s refusal to pay grazing fees. Meyer’s involvement in the Bundy Ranch standoff came to light later, when the Oregonian reported that he and a group of friends got into a brawl with other anti-government extremists during the standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, which Bundy and a group of armed supporters had occupied.

Meyer founded Veterans on Patrol in Arizona in 2015, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Prior to presenting itself as a disaster response group in the aftermath of Helene, Veterans on Patrol has claimed its efforts were directed towards rescuing children from sex trafficking, addressing veteran suicide and dubious claims that the military is maliciously harming civilians. Meyer’s activities have frequently landed him in trouble with law enforcement.

Meyer was arrested twice in 2015 after emergency responders talked him down from a light pole in Surprise, Ariz. in 2015.

In 2018, was arrested by the police in Tucson, Ariz. for trespassing and an outstanding warrant for an assault charge, after occupying a tower on an industrial property. A press release from the Tucson Police Department claimed that Meyer “found an abandoned homeless encampment” on the property, “and fictitiously declared, without evidence or corroboration, that the area was the site of a sex-trafficking ring.”

The Tucson police said they received complaints from Tucson residents that Meyer and his followers had threatened and intimidated them, and Meyer made “multiple threatening and hostile remarks directed towards various elected and appointed officials” through social media.

In the summer of 2024, before Hurricane Helene, Veterans on Patrol was active in Spokane, Wash. In Telegram message from July 2, 2024, Veterans on Patrol announced to the police that it “would no longer be safe” for one of its officers “to work his beat.” The channel also posted the home addresses of city council members.

This is the state of America today. Since the advent of Trump and his MAGA thugs, the Proud boys, Oath Keepers, Veterans on Patron and the like, elections that used to run smoothly and with complete confidence in their legitimacy are now subjected to intimidation, actual threats, criminal activity and the attempted usurpation of our democracy.

Make no mistake, Trump and his cadre of criminals are trying to undermine two-hundred and fifty years of a relatively peaceful transfers of power. They don't care who you vote for, they don't care who wins an election, they don't care about the damage they are doing to our country, and they will do all in their power to put this two-bit, tin-pot dictator back in power -- including crimes of violence!

If Trump and the thugs win you can expect four years of lawlessness, denial of civil rights, and the prospect of living under the thumb of roving gangs and military rule.

In spite of your political philosophy, your Conservatism, your Libertarianism, or even your Radicalism, a future Trump administration will punish all -- he has bragged about doing it -- should he allow dissent of any sort, from any quarter or current friend, it will lead to his downfall, and he will commit any crime to retain control of the government.

The decision is yours but weigh all your considerations carefully - there will be no going back!

See this -- boldface mine.

Ahead of potential civil unrest due to Tuesday’s presidential election, the National Guard is on standby as a precaution in several states, including Washington state and Oregon, where hundreds of ballots were damaged or destroyed after at least three ballot drop boxes were recently set on fire, officials said. Almost all the ballots set ablaze on Monday were in a drop box in Vancouver, Washington, while most ballots in a drop box in Portland, Oregon, survived a fire set the same day, election officials said. The incidents are believed to be connected to a third fire on October 8, also in Vancouver. Portland police released a physical description of a suspect but said they’ve not identified him.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee addressed the ballot box fires in a news release Friday announcing the National Guard being placed on standby, saying, “The southwest region of Washington state has already experienced specific instances of election-related unrest.” Inslee did not disclose how many troops would be activated on Tuesday, but said they will be available to support law enforcement from Monday to Thursday, according to the news release. The US Department of Homeland Security has warned that threats to “election infrastructure” remain high, Inslee added.

“Based upon general and specific information and concerns regarding the potential for violence or other unlawful activity related to the 2024 general election, I want to ensure we are fully prepared to respond to any potential additional civil unrest,” Inslee said.

In Oregon, Gov. Tina Kotek said in a statement Friday the National Guard is standing ready as political leaders call for peaceful protests, according to CNN affiliate KTVZ. “The governor’s office is closely monitoring and coordinating with local, state and federal agencies to ensure Oregon voters can safely cast their ballot,” the statement said. While there is “no current information to suggest unrest,” Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said, according to KTVZ, “there is a lot of uncertainty and tension in our community.”

Oregon State Police is also coordinating with law enforcement in Portland, KTVZ reported, along with the Oregon Department of Emergency Management. Portland’s unified command, which includes city police, is increasing staffing on Tuesday “as a precaution,” according to a news release.

In 2020, former Oregon Gov. Kate Brown put the National Guard on standby for a 48-hour period around Election Day and activated a unified command of state troopers, sheriff’s deputies and Portland police to handle any protests, according to the Associated Press. In recent years, the National Guard has been activated in several states to assist largely with cyber security threats during elections. The Colorado National Guard’s Cyber Task Force has been activated this year – a practice in place since 2018 – to safeguard election “infrastructure,” the office of Colorado’s secretary of state said in a statement last month.

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo this week also announced that 60 National Guard troops are on standby “in preparation for a safe and smooth Election Day.” “This decision, which mirrors the state’s routine preparation for past elections, was made after consultation with election officials and state leaders,” Lombardo said in a statement. “It is one of many proactive steps the state is taking to ensure all possible resources are in place for a timely response to any challenges that arise.”

The activation will support state and local resources on Election Day, the statement said.

Preparations are also underway in Washington, DC, where more than 3,000 police officers will work 12-hour shifts, Police Chief Pamela A. Smith said in a news conference Tuesday.

To ensure security, police chiefs across the United States are making unprecedented plans for Election Day and the weeks that follow. The issue has become pressing for law enforcement since the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol that delayed certification of the last presidential election.

Three law enforcement associations representing agencies from across the country – the Major County Sheriffs of America, the National Sheriffs’ Association, and the Major Cities Chiefs Association – said in a joint statement last month that authorities have been in preparation for over a year and a half leading up to the election and asked citizens to stay vigilant as well.

“As always, the associations encourage the public to speak up if they witness anything suspicious or unusual with election activities,” the statement said. “If you ‘See Something, Say Something’, and let law enforcement investigate and determine the outcome of any suspicious circumstances or incidents.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/national-guard-troops-on-standby-in-washington-state-oregon-and-nevada-as-a-precaution-for-potential-election-unrest/ar-AA1toHjh?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=d9f420beea9f468f82524a47f957440d&ei=85

This single issue alone should preclude women from voting for Trump. Yes, he's sex addict; yes, he a convicted sexual predator, yes, he's an outspoken vocal admirer of Arnold Palmer's penis; yes, he's a foul mouth reprobate you wouldn't let anywhere near your seventeen year old daughter, but that all pales in comparison to letting him appoint a recognized crackpot to be in charge of your mother's healthcare, your wife's healthcare, and your daughter's healthcare.

Trump, who is single handedly responsible for the rollback of Roe versus Wade, and who said women who get abortions (regardless of circumstance) should be 'Punished', has announced he would appoint Dr. Strangelove of the Kennedy clan, Robert Kennedy, Jr, as head of the Health Department, Health and Human Services, the FDA, and the Agriculture Department.

This Blithering Bozo of Biological Bloviation fits right in with Trump's MAGA Manifesto, Project 2025's insistence that all qualified civil servants be fired and replaced with any dullard who will sign a loyalty oath, not to the United States, but to Trump himself!

Ladies, and you men who love them, consider this vote carefully. While most of Trump's proposals are a danger to our democracy, this decision reaches right into your home and the very bodies of your family.

See this -- boldface mine.

"Donald Trump said Thursday vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would be in charge of “women’s health” if the former president is reelected to the White House.

“He’s gonna work on health and women’s health and all of the different reasons,” Trump told supporters at a rally in Nevada. “Because we’re not really a wealthy or a healthy country … I told Bobby, ‘I want you to take care of health, I want you to look at the food and the food supply and what we put on the food.’”

The comments reflect Kennedy’s growing role in a potential administration and his rising standing in the Trump orbit after he dropped his independent bid for the presidency and endorsed his onetime competitor. But calls for a senior position have troubled health advocates, who point to Kennedy’s long history as a skeptic of widely accepted science surrounding vaccines. Those concerns grew this week after the co-chair of the team planning Trump’s potential transition said Kennedy had persuaded him in a 2.5-hour meeting that vaccines caused autism, a widely debunked stance.

The Harris campaign was quick to share footage of Trump’s plans for Kennedy on Thursday, and Harris herself tweeted a short response to her opponent’s pledge: “No.”

The effort builds on the vice president’s campaign to showcase Trump’s behavior toward women and his work to undue the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that protected access to abortion nationwide. Trump said at a separate rally on Wednesday that he would take steps to protect women once he is back in the White House “whether the women like it or not.”

“This is the same man who said women should be punished for their choices,” Harris told supporters in Arizona at her own event on Thursday. “He simply does not respect the freedom of women or the intelligence of women to know what’s in their own best interest and make decisions accordingly.”

“But we trust women.”

The Washington Post reported Thursday that Kennedy would likely have “significant” control over health and food safety in a new Trump administration, according to people familiar with internal discussions he has had with transition officials. That role could see him take on a position as a White House czar, the Post added, rather than the head of a cabinet department or agency that would require Senate confirmation.

“The president has asked me to clean up corruption and conflicts at the agencies and to end the chronic disease epidemic,” Kennedy told the Post on Wednesday. “He wants measurable results in two years and to return those agencies to their long traditions of gold-standard evidence-based science and medicine.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/trump-says-vaccine-skeptic-rfk-jr-would-be-in-charge-of-women-s-health/ar-AA1tk2t5?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=54e24a19913b4746a0c361e4bc0929de&ei=150

America, Trump, MAGA, and the Republicans don't give a damn about how you vote. Their plainly announced plans call for giving all the votes cast to Trump in spite of citizen wishes.

MAGA is tyranny, plain and simple! They want complete dictatorial control regardless of voter preference and will arrest and imprison any dissident or protestor who dares defy them.

You heard them, Trump not just admitted it, he bragged about it.

A vote for Trump will not only negate every civil right we have earned over the years but will effectively end our Democracy and eliminate the voting process completely.

Here's the proof, their own words.

Are you ready to risk it all on the lies they tell you -- obvious lies, easily disproved lies, lies meant to enflame your sense of patriotism and manipulate your vote.

Trump's MAGA Manifesto, Project b2025 lays it all out in frightening detail.

Read it. Read the damn thing!

See this -- boldface mine.

'January 6 is going to be pretty fun’: MAGA activists are planning for a possible Harris win

Before Election Day has even arrived, the “Stop the Steal” movement has reemerged in force, with some of the same activists who tried to overturn former President Donald Trump’s 2020 loss outlining a step-by-step guide to undermine the results if he falls short again. For months, those activists – who have been priming Trump supporters to believe the only way the former president can lose in 2024 is through fraud – have laid out proposals to thwart a potential Kamala Harris victory. Their plans include challenging results in court**, pressuring lawmakers to block election certification,** and encouraging protests – culminating on January 6, 2025, the day Congress will once again certify the results.

“I have a plan and strategy,” Ivan Raiklin, a former Green Beret and political operative who has close ties to associates of Trump, told a group of Pennsylvania activists earlier this month. “And then January 6th is going to be pretty fun.”

Trump’s allies – and the former president himself – are increasingly pushing debunked claims of voter fraud, spreading their rhetoric through podcasts with massive audiences, megachurch sermons and political rallies in key states. Some Trump backers, including pastors associated with Christian nationalist ideas, have described the election as a fight between good and evil, describing Harris as the antichrist or suggesting that God has anointed Trump as the victor.

Four years ago, Trump’s unsuccessful efforts to overturn his loss to President Joe Biden didn’t truly materialize until after the election. They were largely improvised and ad hoc, with a flurry of hastily filed lawsuits that went nowhere and efforts to convince state legislators to block certification that fell short. But this time around, MAGA activists have been planning to undermine a potential Harris victory well in advance of the election, with some even arguing that state legislators should simply ignore the election results and award electoral votes to Trump by default.

Congress passed a measure in 2022 that makes it harder to overturn a certified presidential election, and with Trump now out of office, he and his allies cannot wield levers of the executive branch to try to influence the election. But experts say that the people involved in these conspiracy theory-driven efforts appear to be better organized, more determined and, in some cases**, more extreme** than four years ago. Federal law enforcement officials are also ringing alarm bells. A bulletin put out earlier this month by the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Intelligence warned that extremist rhetoric about the election could motivate people to “engage in violence, as we saw during the 2020 election cycle.”

Marc Harris, a former investigator for the House select committee that investigated January 6, 2021, told CNN he’s concerned that the tactics to undermine the election have evolved since 2020, even with the safeguards put into place since then. “Those looking to overturn the election are way ahead of where they were in 2020,” said Harris. “But on the flip side, the pro-democracy defenders are also more prepared. How that shakes out is not clear to me.”

Unfounded claims about malign forces conspiring to cheat Trump out of an otherwise inevitable election win have been increasing in recent weeks from influential members of the MAGA movement.

“Yes, the steal is happening again,” Emerald Robinson, a right-wing broadcaster with nearly 800,000 followers on X, declared in a blog post earlier this month, criticizing the fact that votes may take days to count in some states. “It doesn’t take days to get election results. It takes days to cheat.”

Patrick Byrne, the former Overstock.com CEO who donated millions of dollars to efforts investigating the 2020 election, warned on Telegram this week of a cyberattack that would rig the election and lead to imminent “death and cannibalism” unless Americans stand together. And Greg Locke, a prominent Tennessee pastor who spoke near the Capitol the day before the January 6 riot, told his followers in a sermon earlier this month that the US would be hit with “a catastrophic storm that is going to be man-made” in the days before the election, as an apparent method of stealing the vote.

“If Kamala wins this election, hear me when I tell you, we will never have another one,” Locke predicted.

Some of the debunked ideas that surfaced after the 2020 election and sought to explain how Trump lost remain rampant, such as the notion that voting machines are flipping votes to favor Democrats or that election officials in swing states have been complicit in widespread voter fraud.

“The same systems are being used. Many of the same players are in place,” Joe Hoft, who has contributed to the conspiracy-theory-peddling website The Gateway Pundit, told CNN when asked about the 2024 election. “I don’t trust the process. The process is broken.”

There is more, much more absurdity, treachery and treason.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/january-6th-is-going-to-be-pretty-fun-how-maga-activists-are-preparing-to-undermine-the-election-if-trump-loses/ar-AA1tgnAo?

MAGA, when will you come to realize you have been manipulated like a three-card monte victim on a street corner. But it's worse with you. On the street corner you can't look at the card, but there is ample evidence available for you to fact check the lies.

But worse than allowing yourself to be duped is your refusal to ask why the Republicans are doing it?

The answer, plain and simple, is to convince you that illegal aliens are voting in Federal elections, and it just isn't true. So the Republicans pile it on, keeping your hair afire and your attention away from the truth. because they have no policy other than Trump's MAGA Manifesto, Project 2025 (which will give Trump dictatorial power and devastate any opportunity for a secure retirement).

Listen to them, all they preach is hate. If they can keep you angry enough they know you won't look at the details, if they can keep you terrified at the thought of an alien evasion, if they can convince you simple peasants only looking for a safe and secure place to raise their children are red-eyed murderers and rapists looking to pillage and defile, then they know they have you in the palm of their money-grubbing hands.

Do you believe immigrants are eating cats and dogs? Do you believe immigrants commit more crimes than Americans (they commit fewer), do you believe working immigrants cheat the system? (They don't. In fact, because working immigrants pay into Social Security, but not all collect, they add three billion dollars annually to the fund).

And the economy wasn't better under Trump, that was the economy he inherited from Obama, And then, because he refused to accept Covid, called it a hoax, he allowed tens of thousands of Americans to die unnecessarily while he allowed the economy to fall into ruins.

He talks about devastation. Read about Project 2025 and you'll see the devastation awaiting you with another Trump administration.

Read it! Read the damned thing!

See this -- boldface mine.

"For the last several months, Republicans have been perpetuating the false narrative that non-citizens are illegally voting en-masse on behalf of Democrats this cycle, as Donald Trump and his supporters manufacture voter fraud hysteria that they can point to if they lose next week. Republican state officials across the country have bolstered this effort by announcing various voter roll purge programs and legal challenges to remove supposed non-citizens from the rolls in recent weeks and months — ominously close to the election.

One by one, however, the courts have swiftly shut down these programs and dismissed the lawsuits alleging issues with voter rolls. The across-the-board dismissals have only reinforced the idea that the GOP non-citizen voting myths have only ever been a messaging campaign meant for an audience of one.

“Whenever somebody is promoting the claim that there are non-citizens voting in our elections, it’s not based on facts,” Andrew Garber, counsel within the Brennan Center’s Voting Rights and Elections Program, told TPM. “And it seems to be driving towards a different narrative, which is election denial, which is trying to give the impression that there are problems so that it can be used to challenge election results they don’t like.”

Last week, a federal judge temporarily blocked GOP Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s recent efforts to purge supposed non-citizens from the voter rolls just before the election. In August, Youngkin signed Executive Order 35, removing more than 6,000 alleged non-citizens from the voter rolls, and also announcing the state’s new program designed to purge supposed non-citizens from the voter rolls. Voting rights activists filed a lawsuit in federal court earlier this month arguing that the program directly violates the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) and has the potential to disenfranchise eligible voters.

U.S. District Court Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles agreed with the plaintiffs last week, saying in her order that the program does indeed violate the NVRA’s 90-day quiet period, which prohibits voter registration cancellation, or any systematic list maintenance program being implemented within 90 days of an election. A federal appeals court on Sunday upheld the judge’s ruling, refusing to reinstate the program and restoring the voter registrations of those who were purged. Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares wrote on X on Sunday that “Virginia will be filing an appeal in the U.S. Supreme Court immediately.” State officials on Monday asked the high court to intervene.

Garber described the appeal too as simply a “messaging effort.”

“I think a lot of it is the messaging effort, and a lot of it is trying to have something to point back to if they don’t like election results,” he said."

There is more. Much more evidence it's all a ruse, a scheme to prey on your patriotic nature.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/courts-shut-down-non-citizen-voter-fear-mongering-efforts-across-the-country/ar-AA1t9tgj?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=458a876835d3441a92a1a8798b034249&ei=61S

Of all the horrors and tyranny in Trump's MAGA Manifesto, Project 2025, this plan to unleash the Insurrection Act against American citizens is the most dire.

Trump's MAGA Manifesto, Project 2025 calls for eliminating career civil servants and replacing them with Trump loyalists regardless of their lack of expertise in the bureaus they will be commanding. It will do away with Medicare, Medicaid, and virtually all health and social programs, and replace them with nothing more than promises and 'concepts'. It will reduce veteran benefits, eliminate child labor laws, and drastically reduce food aid to dependent children. It will outlaw unions, eliminate protections for voters, eliminate NOAA and the Department of Education, and on, and on...

For a full listing of all 900 pages of depredations and assault on America, just research it on Wikipedia, or HTTPS//25 and me.

But the most frightening aspect of it, is the plan to initiate the Insurrection Act and give Trump complete dictatorial powers. He tried to do it once, but the Justice Department, then comprised with true, loyal Americans, shut him up and shut him down. If Trump wins the election those patriotic Americans will no longer be there to protect us, and Trump and his domestic terrorists will reign unchecked.

They will unleash the military, and no dissention will be permitted. Like the Gestapo of Nazi Germany, they will swoop down, imprison and probably murder to keep a tight fist on us citizens.

Don't believe me? Read the damn Act. It is all spelled out there in unambiguous black and white.

Check this out --boldface mine.

"Newly leaked video shows one of Donald Trump’s former top administration officials detailing his plans to give the Republican presidential candidate unchecked power to unleash the military on Americans if he wins re-election. The plan involves creating “shadow” government offices that would create flimsy legal justifications to override objections from military leaders and carry out executive orders, including sending in soldiers against protesters and other perceived enemies, according to a stunning new report from ProPublica.

“We’re trying to build almost a shadow Office of Management and Budget. We’re trying to build a shadow Office of Legal Counsel,” said Russell Vought, who oversaw Trump’s OMB in 2019 and 2020, in a video from 2023.

Throughout his latest presidential campaign, Trump has repeatedly described Democratic lawmakers as “the enemy within” and mused about using the military against his fellow Americans. Republican pundits have tried to dismiss the comments as all talk, but Vought is expected to be given another high-level government role in a second Trump administration—perhaps even as White House chief of staff, according to ProPublica. He declined the news site’s requests for comment.

During Trump’s first term, lawyers often shot down illegal policy proposals, Vought says in one of the leaked videos. The goal of the “shadow” government is to avoid a repeat of that scenario, he explains. The plan would basically amount to stacking the Office of Legal Counsel—which has traditionally operated with a degree of independence and objectivity—with Trump loyalists ready to rubber stamp the White House’s executive orders, ProPublica reports.

In one of Vought’s examples, the White House could classify protesters as insurrectionists and then invoke the Insurrection Act, which allows the president to deploy troops within the U.S. The act was famously used to bring in the National Guard to desegregate schools in the American South after local officials ignored the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education.

Trump wanted to use it to deploy the military against Americans protesting George Floyd’s murder, but officials reportedly talked him out of it on legal grounds. According to Vought, that wouldn’t have happened with his shadow counsel in place.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/inside-a-trump-official-s-plan-to-unleash-the-military-on-americans/ar-AA1t8hJH?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=052080b90d7744128fb630ce5a1f4f39&ei=235

Trump's MAGA Manifesto, Project 2025s intention is to fire all civil service employees who refuse to sign a document professing their loyalty to Trump, and not to the United States. Replacing these career professionals who have been running the Bureaus and departments in quiet, competent servitude for generations, will be inexperienced and incompetent Trump loyalists.

No expertise is necessary, no resume rich in management experience is required, and no ability is necessary other than the talent to grovel and pander to the dictator in chief.

Remember Brownie, the bungling fool who couldn't even deliver water to New Orleans after Katrina? Imagine another Brownie in charge of NASA, or the Justice Department, or NOAA, and worst of all, the centers for Disease Control and America's overall health agencies.

Hard to believe -- no, not so hard. According to JFK, Jr, who admittedly has worms in his head and has proposed laws that would literally kill millions of Americans, Trump has promised him control over all health-related agencies and the Department of Agriculture.

This whack-a-doodle --confused, deranged, and oblivious to reality, sanity, and all processes medical, -- could start a new pandemic while watering his daisies or outlawing the use of scarecrows who he thinks are watching him.

But this is no joke, folks. this is Trumps plan.

Google Project 2025 and see what's in store for America.

Google it and read the damn thing! Read this.

Read this, it's terrifying -- boldface mine.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose anti-vaccine history attracted right-wing followers to his failed presidential bid, said Donald Trump has pledged to give him “control” of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other agencies if victorious in the election. The former independent candidate, whose own political family dynasty disavowed his views on COVID-19, made the stunning remark in a livestream to followers, according to CNN. The network said it obtained video of it.

Kennedy named umbrella agencies over which he’d preside in some fashion, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

“The key that I think I’m ― you know, that President Trump has promised me is ― is control of the public health agencies, which are HHS and its sub-agencies, CDC, FDA, NIH and a few others, and then also the USDA, which is ― which, you know, is key to making America healthy. Because we’ve got to get off of seed oils, and we’ve got to get off of pesticide intensive agriculture,” Kennedy said.

Trump, the Republican nominee, has said he was considering Kennedy, who’s currently campaigning for him, for a role in health administration. He ominously told a rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday he would let Kennedy “go wild on the medicines” in a potential second Trump White House.

Kennedy’s reputation as a vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist would not bode well for a role in the CDC, which provided guidelines during the pandemic.

Kennedy floated a baseless conspiracy theory last year that COVID-19 was “ethnically targeted” to attack Caucasians and Black people while “people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.” (He later said he did not mean to imply it was “deliberately engineered” that way.) Kennedy used comparisons to Nazi Germany to criticize health mandates to curb the spread of COVID-19 (though he denied it) and his own perceived persecution as someone who questions vaccines.

He also falsely claimed” that evidence “confirms” the COVID-19 shot “is the deadliest vaccine ever made.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/robert-f-kennedy-jr-control-cdc-trump_n_6721f8fbe4b03a564e7cbb96

This is the America Trump and his MAGA thugs have engendered.

The federal government has put out a warning to American voters, politicians, and poll workers to expect an outbreak of violence as MAGA attempts to undermine and disrupt our right to vote.

Note folks, these threats are coming from the hard right -- fascist white supremist supporters of Trump -- as an attempt to undermine our democracy and install an authoritarian dictator in direct contravention of the vote.

Trump himself said 'this is the last time you will have to vote'. Or did he mean 'this is the last time you will be allowed to vote?

These are not so-called 'woke' liberals, these are not well-meaning Libertarians, these are not what few moderate members of the GOP remain, these are radical operatives following the Republican line and will go to any extent to do away with Constitution (as Trump has vowed) and our remaining freedoms.

I know some of you have valid concern about our current government. but regardless of their faults they will still allow you to vote -- to voice your dissent -- and not use outright thuggery to stifle your absolute right to free speech,

You have heard Trump threaten to silence Newsrooms, lock up journalists, imprison dissenters, and even execute those he considers political rivals. Do you think you are exempt from his tyranny? You've seen him turn on friends many times before, and at some point he will turn on you, too

It's a hard choice, you have your concerns, but under Trump and MAGA you will have no choice, at all!

See this -- boldface mine.

"Extremists inspired by conspiracy theories pose major threat to 2024 elections, U.S. intelligence warn. Candidates, elected officials, election workers, members of the media and judges involved in election cases are among those U.S. intelligence officials identified as targets.

Oct. 28, 2024, 9:00 AM EDT

By Brandy Zadrozny

U.S. intelligence agencies have identified domestic extremists with grievances rooted in election-related conspiracy theories, including beliefs in widespread voter fraud and animosity toward perceived political opponents, as the most likely threat of violence in the coming election. In a Joint Intelligence Bulletin that was not distributed publicly but was reviewed by NBC News, agents from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security warn state and local law enforcement agencies that domestic violent extremists seeking to terrorize and disrupt the vote are a threat to the election and throughout Inauguration Day. The report identified the potential targets as candidates, elected officials, election workers, members of the media and judges involved in election cases. The potential threats include physical attacks and violence at polling places, ballot drop boxes, voter registration locations and rallies and campaign events.

The October internal report was among several intelligence documents obtained through public records requests by Property of the People, a nonprofit group focused on government transparency. Federal agents regularly provide that type of threat assessment to state and local law enforcement agencies through formal bulletins. Before Jan. 6, 2021, they were more reluctant to distribute them because of concern that investigations of Americans might appear to violate free speech protections.

“The United States remains in a heightened, dynamic threat environment and we continue to share information with our law enforcement partners about the threats posed by domestic violent extremists in the context of the 2024 election,” DHS spokesperson Mayra Rodriguez said in a statement. “Violence has no place in our politics, and DHS continues to work with our partners to evaluate and mitigate emerging threats that may arise from domestic or foreign actors.”

Still, the reports “are not typical election threat intelligence,” said Ryan Shapiro, executive director of Property of the People. “The documents are unmistakably a product of a radically heightened threat environment.” Former President Donald Trump has claimed elections have been rigged against him since 2016, when he won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote. In 2020, he and his allies ramped up false claims of cheating — lies the courts quickly struck down — but the claims became fuel for a violent attack at the Capitol, which aimed to overturn the election. Perceptions of election fraud are a “prominent narrative” for extremists who have targeted government and election officials, with at least three domestic extremist attacks and two disrupted plots being linked to such false claims since Jan. 6., according to the report. Intelligence agents also listed immigration, LGBTQ issues, abortion and the failed assassination attempts against Trump as motivations for recent calls for violence from extremists.

Threats to election workers — including letters containing white powder, online harassment and threats and swatting, in which fake calls to emergency services trigger potentially dangerous law enforcement responses to people’s homes — have recently increased, according to the FBI. Such threats tend to originate from areas where election results have been contested, according to the report. Election officials have responded to the warnings by ramping up security measures. In Maricopa County, Arizona, an epicenter of election conspiracy theories and challenges in 2020, officials are reportedly implementing heightened security measures for Election Day, including metal detectors, armed guards, drones and police snipers.

The reports follow others released in recent weeks that warn of an increase in online chatter about an impending civil war, as well as several incidents of violence or thwarted attacks before the election. Agents wrote that some extremists were “reacting to the 2024 election season and prominent policy issues by engaging in illegal preparatory or violent activity that they link to the narrative of an impending civil war.”

A separate October bulletin from Colorado’s state threat assessment center highlighted threats posed by people who dispute the legitimacy of the 2020 election results. The report underscored the problem of “insider threats,” in which people with authorized access to the election process might attempt to derail it. It also noted a “continued dialogue amongst individuals on extremist discussion groups and forums that the results of the 2020 elections were inaccurate.”

The report noted recent incidents of targeted violence, including increased activity from white nationalists and Proud Boy organizing against Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio. It also noted disturbing calls for violence on anonymous online message boards targeting election workers and undocumented immigrants as part of “election steal defense prep.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/election-threats-rcna177274

Yesterday the Justice Department issued a warning to all Americans that threats have been made against voters, politicians, and judges.

Chances are these cowardly threats weren't made by Liberals, Libertarians, or the few remaining members of the GOP who still retain some decency. No, you can bet this is the work of Trump and his tyrannical followers, MAGA.

Tyranny is what they do best, because they can do it in the shadows where yellow bellies and weaklings cower in the dark while trying not to wet their prissy little party dresses.

This is America under Trump and his thugs -- MAGA, the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers -- scheming for any way they can to diminish the vote and weaken our freedoms

See this -- boldface mine.

"Texas police are investigating the distribution of flyers targeting Kamala Harris supporters, which threaten that they have been added to a "national database" and will be subjected to an IRS tax audit.

On Saturday, the San Marcos Police Department shared in a Facebook post that they were investigating two reports of flyers posted on political signs around the city, stating: "You have been identified and are now in our National Database of miscreant Harris supporters, either by social interactions with your neighbors who are on our investigations team, or by yard signs, or vehicle bumper stickers."

Police are investigating who is leaving threatening flyers on Kamala Harris signs in San Marcos, Texas. Facebook goes on to say instead of "the hangman's nooses of the old days" the person receiving the flyer will be "IRS tax audited...and at a minimum - - - 4 years of painful misery."

It was signed, "The Grand Dragon of Trump Klan #124."

Since then, the number of incidents has jumped to five, according to reporting by KXAN.

"We're trying to identify the scope of how many flyers have been disseminated across San Marcos," San Marco Police Department Chief Stan Standridge told KXAN. "We have already notified the FBI and we've also notified the regional fusion centers—both Southwest [Texas] Fusion center and the Austin Regional Intelligence Center."

He added that it's a crime to influence, coerce, or prevent a voter from voting.

"When we identify the suspect or suspects, then we will present that to the district attorney's office for consideration of applicable charges," he told KXAN.

Will you picture for a moment in your mind's eye, Trump's Gestapo, MAGA, going house to house dragging hard working, tax paying immigrants from their homes and separating them from their American born children.

You saw this already in the documentaries, the cruelty of children being snatched from mother's arms as they are loaded onto boxcars. You may argue about the visual, about the implementation, but you can't argue about the abject cruelty.

Step back a minute and think about America before the advent of Trump, MAGA, White Christian Nationalists, and Nazi sympathizers opening marching in US cities. Think about the America before all the lies of manipulation -- all the red-eyed haters and convicted criminals glaring at you from the newscasts and headlines -- the dullards rejecting facts and reality, rejecting science itself and think about the effect of all this poison on your children.

Face it, children know no better, all they know is what is fed into them daily. Will the lessons be of loathing and revulsion of their fellow man, or as in the traditions of the era before Trump and his cadre of racists, a sense of decency and compassion.

On Tuesday next, you will decide which America you want for your children. Will you allow Trump to turn them into hate-filled drones of unrelenting fear and viciousness. or ones of morality and consideration.

See this --boldface mine.

"As we head into the final stretch of the cycle, Donald Trump, who has made his entire candidacy a referendum on immigration, will not discuss his mass deportation plans in detail—not in a recent Univision town hall nor his one debate with Kamala Harris. That’s a tell. Since those debates, Trump has only leaned deeper into mass deportations, while Harris has aggressively made her case about how she will help Latinos economically, a telling reset to reach Latino voters in the final weeks of the election.

Trump knows that explaining what mass deportations entail would be a disaster for him. Yes, some polls show an alarming rise in support for mass deportations. However, when voters are made aware of how much it costs and the human toll it would take in terms of family separations and the removal of decades-long residents, mass deportation becomes politically toxic. Mass deportations would be ugly; they would require local law enforcement to work with federal law enforcement to remove law-abiding residents, many of whom have woven their lives and livelihoods into the fabric of their communities. It would separate mixed-status families, leaving children who have been here their whole lives without their parents. We are still dealing with the aftermath of the last time the Trump administration separated families at our southern border—one of the ugliest moments in the modern history of our country.

We must bring this story to life for voters: new research from Valiente Action Fund found that hard negative ads against Trump, showing how his policies would separate families, could increase support for Kamala Harris with a broad swath of voters, including men, white, black, Latino, liberal, Moderate-Liberal, and Moderate voters. That’s a compelling clean sweep that shores up the softer parts of the Democratic coalition while also improving Harris’s chances with suburban swing voters.

"We have to tell that story and not let Trump define immigration for our country," Valiente Action Fund executive director Maria Rodriguez said. "When we identify the specifics of what Trump is proposing with mass deportations, as was done in the ad Playbook 2025, and tell the story of what he is planning on doing on immigration, it moves voters."

Beyond the human cost, mass deportation would also have catastrophic economic costs. Not only would mass deportations not lower costs for average households, but they could potentially lead to raising taxes for most Americans. According to the nonpartisan American Immigration Council: A mass deportation of 1 million people per year could cost $88 billion annually. It would require an unprecedented ramp-up of law enforcement staffing, detention capacity, immigration courtrooms, and flight capacity.

That amount of money does not currently exist in the federal budget. So to fund such a sweeping effort, Trump would likely have to either raise taxes on American households or possibly steal the funds from Social Securiy..."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-s-main-selling-point-turns-toxic-mass-deportation-is-a-polling-loser/ar-AA1t0fuG?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=f1a0a2f225cc4803ad126ed584a7c9d5&ei=17

It is simple indeed. If you order any foreign products that are subject to tariffs, you will pay them at the border. Anyone who tells you differently is lying. Why do they lie?-- ask them.

The manufactures don't pay them, the wholesalers don't pay them, and foreign governments don't pay them, you do!

Now the question becomes, do you eat them or do you pass on the cost to your customers and consumers?

What do you think, and what will that do to inflation in untold hundreds of billions of dollars are added on to the cost of everything?

Nazi generals brutally slew six million Jews as well as millions of other minorities and hundreds of thousands of US troops. Now Trump says 'Hitler did some good things, too", and is is bemoaning the fact he didn't have any generals like them. He complains our generals 'were loyal to the United States, not to him'.

In his developing dementia he is becoming more and more unhinged and is seeking unlimited power to rule - a south American style dictatorship -- with the backing of the military behind him.

We can't say we haven't been warned. His former chief of Staff, John Kelly, is just one of many former Trump White House officials who have criticized him publicly, expressed concerns about his character and fitness for the presidency and argued that he is antidemocratic. Other examples include former Vice President Mike Pence, former Secretary of Defense Mike Esper, former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Miley, former National Security Advisor John Bolton and his own former Attorney General Bill Barr.

In the past we have seen him call for the arrest, prosecution, and in some cases the execution of his political rivals. Rivals like President Biden, the Clintons, the Obamas, candidates Harris and Walz, and at least one former General -- and next will be those named above.

As he slips into further madness he has criticized actor Tom Hanks entrepreneur, Bill Gates, and in a delirium, dream saw immigrants eating pets and democrats controlling the weather.

But it is his fondness, nay admiration for the Nazis that is most troubling.

In the end days of Nixon, it was rumored he wandered the halls of the White House talking to the portraits on the wall. Will Trump have portraits on the wall. Will he wear a Hugo Boss uniform and converse with Hitler, Himmler, and Goebbels?

This is no Mel Brooks charade, folks, it is a vision of things to come.

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Fox News host Brian Kilmeade is under fire for what some see as him defending Donald Trump’s embrace of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s regime, including reportedly saying he wanted “Hitler’s generals,” when he was president.

“Donald Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff is warning that the Republican presidential nominee meets the definition of a fascist and that while in office, Trump suggested that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler ‘did some good things,'” The Associated Press reports. “The comments from John Kelly, the retired Marine general who worked for Trump in the White House from 2017 to 2019, came in interviews with both The New York Times and The Atlantic. They build on a growing series of warnings from former top Trump officials as the election enters its final weeks.”

“He commented more than once that, ‘You know, Hitler did some good things, too,’”

“In his interview with The Atlantic, Kelly recalled that when Trump raised the idea of needing ‘German generals,’ Kelly would ask if he meant ‘Bismarck’s generals,’ referring to Otto von Bismarck, the former chancellor of the German Reich who oversaw the unification of Germany. ‘Surely you can’t mean Hitler’s generals,’ Kelly recalled asking Trump. To which the former president responded, ‘Yeah, yeah, Hitler’s generals.'” The AP also reported, “Kelly added that Trump often fumed at any attempt to constrain his power, and that ‘he would love to be’ a dictator,” and told The Times: “He certainly prefers the dictator approach to government.”

Wednesday morning on “Fox & Friends,” Kilmeade, a staunch Trump supporter, defended the ex-president, a convicted felon awaiting sentencing who is running for re-election as the Republican Party’s presidential nominee. Kilmeade alleged that General Kelly, Trump’s then-chief of staff, and Jim Mattis, Trump’s Secretary of Defense, “didn’t like the president, and they didn’t think he deserved the job or they didn’t think he was worthy of the job, and they went out of his way to make sure a lot of the things they asked him to do that they didn’t like never got done.”

“And then you factor in the fact that he runs his own company, coming from the business world, the first one we’ve ever had, it’s not even a public company,” Kilmeade said of Trump, a real estate developer who was far from the first business owner President, “and then he obviously has frustration, and I could absolutely see him go now, ‘you know what? It would be great to have German generals that actually do what we asked them to do,’ knowing that’s a third, uh, maybe not fully on uh fully being cognizant of the third rail of German generals were Nazis and whatever.”

Harris-Walz campaign spokesperson James Singer responded: “German generals were asked to exterminate the Jewish people. They murdered 6 million Jews, including my great grandfather, in concentration camps. What the hell is wrong with **?”**

Former Trump White House deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews did not hold back: “This… is insane. Hitler’s generals carried out GENOCIDE. Republicans: STOP defending this. This is not normal. There is no way to spin this.”

Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas, who is also a co-founder Vox Media, wrote: “Now FOX NEWS is defending Nazis, because they must always have Donald Trump’s back, even when he’s praising Nazis.”

Republican Voters Against Trump commented: “Is  talking about the ‘Nazi or whatever’ German generals who were asked by Hitler to carry out a genocide? This is insane.”

Journalist Ahmed Baba warned: “If anyone doubts the right-wing ecosystem wouldn’t fully back Trump unleashing authoritarian depravity in a second term, look no further than this clip. They’re already excusing it.”

The Lincoln Project added: “There’s an ‘enemy within’ alright,” referring to Trump’s recent attacks in Democrats, “and it’s Americans who will justify any admiration of literal Nazis. Fox is not your friend.”

The Bulwark’s Sam Stein added, “The spin here is that Trump is…. unaware that the Nazis were bad?”

Issac Bailey, a professor of communication studies and McClatchy opinion columnist wrote: “This is one of the most damaging things Trump has done, convinced people to disregard all sensibilities in order to protect him from himself. Now his supporters are openly saying, hey, wanting to have Nazi-like generals isn’t all that bad. God help us.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/defending-nazis-fox-host-under-fire-for-excusing-trump-wanting-hitler-s-generals/ar-AA1sNkAi?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=acae4c77593a43a191056e42122754e8&ei=14S

First, it was General Michael Flynn who secretly met with Russian agents, and when he lied to the FBI about it, was sentenced to prison. Soon after, Trump, probably at Putin's behest, pardoned him. Now we have another Russian stooge- apologist who may soon be in the White House. Elon Musk, primary supporter and political advisor to Trump has already been promised a spot in any upcoming Trump administration.

The problem is, the Wall Street Journal, normally an echo chamber for MAGA lies, has reversed its position and put country above party by reporting Musk has been in constant contact with Putin, and Chinese President Xi.

What greater danger could America face than having an agent beholden to Putin having access to our deepest secrets, -- have Top secret Clearance, -- and also have the undivided attention of the President?

Trump has also stated in the past he has no regard for our Intelligence Services -- probably because they keep an eye on him, too, -- and he'll take Putin's words over theirs.

It has always been reported that the last person to talk to Trump, wins the point. He is so easily manipulated by flattery and ego massage he, in his ignorance, can be convinced of almost anything. When you consider it has been reported that Trump, himself, has been in touch with Putin over the years, and combine that with his admiration for Musk's wealth, can we trust him?

Folks, there may be a new snake in the White House, one who cajoles with his wealth and power, and who can manipulate with promised dollars from an undisclosed source.

Are we ready to risk it all on a convicted felon and sexual abuser? A man who can't control his instincts, his admitted sexual mania, and is a pathological liar? Can we risk our families and our very country betting on a man with a reputation like Trump?

See this report -- boldface mine.

Elon Musk has regularly spoken with Vladimir Putin and faced 'implicit threats,' report says The Russian president reportedly leaned on the Tesla and SpaceX CEO to block a Starlink deal with Taiwan, among other things.

By

William Gavin

Elon Musk, whose SpaceX is a major government contractor, has been in “regular contact” with Russian President Vladamir Putin, raising security concerns, The Wall Street Journal reports. Previously, it had been reported that negotiations to bring Starlink’s service to Taiwan had fallen apart over a requirement for a local entity to have a majority share of an eventual joint venture. Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs on Friday said it welcomes applications from international satellite forms to provide services.

Through SpaceX, Musk has received “top-secret” government clearance. The aerospace company has received at least $15.4 billion in government contracts over the years, including a $1.8 billion classified contract in 2021, and is the main rocket launcher for the Pentagon and NASA. The company conducted 90% of U.S. launches last year. Musk’s Tesla has notched another $352,000 in federal contracts. The Journal reports that several White House officials were unaware of the close ties between Musk and the Kremlin. A person aware of the conversations told the publication that the Biden administration hasn’t raised the alarm over possible security breaches by Musk but noted that “they don’t love” his ties to Putin.

“It’s all untrue, absolutely false information published in the newspaper,” Putin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told journalists in Moscow on Friday, Politico reports.

The U.S. sent thousands of Starlink terminals to Ukraine at the beginning of the war with Russia in February 2022 after seeking ways to keep the Ukrainian government connected in anticipation of the invasion**. Musk gave Ukraine free access to the system, which was a valuable tool in its ability to fight back against invading forces. But Musk later changed his tune, cutting off funding and later restricting Ukraine’s use of its service, which was used to control drones. In October 2022, Musk was hit with a barrage of criticism after he proposed that Ukraine cede some of its territory to Russia and repeated Kremlin talking points. Earlier this year, Starlink terminals were found being resold in Russia and delivered to the front lines of Ukraine by volunteers.

The Journal, citing a person familiar with Musk and Putin’s interactions, reports that Musk began having regular conversations with “high-level Russians” in late 2022. That included “implicit threats against him” and his businesses.

In recent months, Musk has become a public advocate for Former President Donald Trump, who is running for re-election to the White House and has often spoken favorably of Putin. The billionaire has dedicated tens of millions of dollars to efforts aiding Trump’s candidacy. If Trump wins the Nov. 5 election, Musk is expected to lead a government commission dedicated to making federal agencies more efficient.

From today's Washington Post article, "The Washington Post says it will not endorse a candidate for president": We learn that that the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post, two major media outlets, had planned to endorse Walz-Harris. In both cases, their billionaire owners blocked the planned endorsements:

1. "Earlier this week, Patrick Soon-Shiong, the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times, blocked a planned endorsement of Harris, prompting the resignation of the newspaper’s editorials editor."

2. "An endorsement of Harris had been drafted by [Washington] Post editorial page staffers but had yet to be published, according to two sources briefed on the sequence of events who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. The decision not to publish was made by The Post’s owner — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — according to the same sources."

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Edit: Added double quotes

You cannot have a democracy if you allow military tribunals of the sort Trump and MAGA are calling for, to prosecute, imprison, or as he promised, the execution of your political opposition. In line with the goals set forth in Trump's MAGA Manifesto. Project 2025, the aim isn't just to control the libs and their so-called 'woke agenda', but to control all of America and all Americans.

Trump's admitted plan to do away with the Constitution should cause every American to quake, whether Democrat, Republican, Liberal Conservative, or Independent.

He is not only planning to round up illegal aliens, he's threatened to have his Gestapo, MAGA, round up innocect citizens who dare to dissent.

We saw this happen in Nazi Germany and now the Republicans are bringing a fourth Reich and this tyranny here. Once these traitors gain power, they will never lose power by virtue of a vote. Trump himself has quoted Saddam Hussein who bragged, "It doesn't matter who votes, it's who counts the votes that matters."

Remember, Trump wasn't convicted by Biden, the FBI, or the 'Libs'. He was convicted by a jury of citizens just like you who heard the evidence, and as with any other criminal, punished him for his crimes.

There was no conspiracy, no weaponization of government such as he proposes to enact, just citizens doing their duty.

This upcoming election will determine the fate of the nation, and our democracy which has stood rigid against all manner of peril could easily succumb to the machinations of convicted criminals and fascists.

I understand some have legitimate concerns, but are they willing to risk the loss of your ability to vote in future elections and political slavery, in exchange for one political victory?

Over the course of time Trump has turned on many life-long friends over imagined disloyalty, and eventually he will turn on you, too.

See this -- boldface mine.

"Former President Donald Trump has made more than 100 public threats “to investigate, prosecute, imprison or otherwise punish his perceived opponents,” NPR reported Tuesday. Earlier this month, Trump ominously told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that members of the “radical left” represent “an enemy within” America that he said should be met by force.

But he’s been making such threats for a while, even telling a crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference in March 2023 that “I am your retribution.”

Among the people Trump wants to see prosecuted if he returns to the White House are his former Democratic opponent Joe Biden, his current Democratic opponent Kamala Harris, and former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who has become a prominent Republican Trump critic. Many of Trump’s threats are connected with his ongoing lie that he won the 2020 election.

Legal experts told NPR that if Trump is reelected, there isn’t much that would prevent him from following through on his plans to prosecute opponents. Just Security laid out a chronology of Trump’s efforts to pressure the Department of Justice to investigate his political adversaries during his time as president.

NPR reported that some people who are possible targets in a second Trump presidency are “considering whether to leave the country if Trump wins the election.”

Ian Bassin, the executive director of the nonprofit group Protect Democracy, which advocates for protections against authoritarianism, told NPR that Trump’s threats are in line with “how autocrats cement their permanent grip on power.”

As a supplement to the article, author and NPR correspondent Tom Dreisbach documented Trump’s planin a roundup on X, formerly Twitter.

The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.

However, Republican National Committee spokesperson Anna Kelly told HuffPost, “Kamala Harris is the threat to democracy. She and Joe Biden weaponized our justice system in order to sway an election,” an apparent reference to the federal criminal charges that Trump is currently facing.

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Morality, oh, the lives of innocent children, the protection of women's healthcare and all the other crap surrounding the abortion issue has just been revealed to be a heartless ploy immersed in the sanctimonious plot to secure more federal funding.

It's not about anything other than to produce more births regardless of the medical condition of the mothers to be.

You see, the greater the population the more federal funding and the more Representatives to continue the immoral cycle.

Here's the proof from Maga's own federal lawsuit.

Read this if it doesn't sicken you -- boldface mine.

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"The arguments made by antiabortion states to sugarcoat their manifestly misogynistic policies have always borne the acrid odor of cynicism and hypocrisy. You know what I mean: that their restrictions on reproductive medical care are all about protecting the health of women, preserving the lives of the unborn, fulfilling a moral imperative to honor the sanctity of life, etc., etc.

So we should thank the red states Missouri, Kansas and Idaho for at least being honest. As they disclosed in a federal lawsuit this month, their real goal is to farm pregnant teenagers and their unwanted babies to keep up their population numbers, in order to avoid shrinkage in their congressional delegations and lose federal dollars from programs based on population. That may sound incredible, but it's set forth in black and white in a joint legal filing in federal court.

"Each abortion," they write, "represents at least one lost potential or actual birth." Because of this "loss of potential population," the states face "subsequent 'diminishment of political representation' and 'loss of federal funds,' such as potentially 'losing a seat in Congress or qualifying for less federal funding if their populations are' reduced or their increase diminished."

The target of their legal filing is the dispensing by mail of

the abortion drug that the Supreme Court allowed to remain on the market in a decision in June. "Remote dispensing of abortion drugs," they assert, "is depressing expected birth rates for teenaged mothers..."

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In line with trump's MAGA Manifesto, Project 2025, the Republican party, the GOP of old. has shed every iota of truth, probity, and decency in this openly admitted attempt to do what they have ridiculously charged against the Democrats; change the election results so Trump can't lose no matter the actual vote.

Here is their publicly revealed scheme -- released without shame and in open violation of election laws --of their fascist-like 'Putsch' to deny the vote of honest citizens who rightfully detest Trump and all he stands for.

This is what a future America will look like if these traitors who support Trump, Vance, and Musk achieve their nefarious goals.

Here is their admission -- boldface mine.

Trump's ‘Secretary of Retribution' Unveils Plot to Nab North Carolina's Electoral Votes

An influential attorney in Donald Trump's campaign to subvert the outcome of the 2020 presidential election has outlined a proposal for Trump to steal the 2024 electoral college votes in the state of North Carolina - the results in November be damned. van Raiklin is a former Green Beret and an attorney; he has raised alarms in Congress by positioning himself as a future "secretary of retribution" in a new Trump administration, reportedly compiling an enemies list of more than 300 members of the supposed "Deep State." Is Raiklin a troll? Sure. But MAGA world is chockablock with such creatures, and this self-styled "Deep State Marauder" has juice with people close to Trump. He's a close associate of Trump-pardoned felon Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. And Raiklin' s legal ideas influenced Trump efforts to subvert the 2020 election.

Now, Raiklin has a plan to overturn any election result in North Carolina that's unfavorable to the former president. Raiklin unveiled his plot at the final stop of the far-right, Christian nationalist ReAwaken America Tour in Selma, North Carolina, this past weekend. He was introduced by Flynn, who characterized Raiklin as Special Prosecutor Jack Smith's "most feared Person of Interest." Raiklin took ahold of the event's red-white-and-blue mic, and spoke from the same stage where Eric Trump, the president's son, would appear hours later.

Raiklin asserted that the impacts of Hurricane Helene could disproportionately impact GOP voters and affect the results of the 2024 election beyond the margin of a feared Democratic victory. So he called on attendees to exert pressure on the speaker of the North Carolina state House, Tim Moore, and the president of the North Carolina Senate, one scandal-beleaguered Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, to be willing to subvert any vote count that favors Kamala Harris, and to transform the state's GOP legislative majorities into a rubber stamp, awarding North Carolina's 16 Electoral College votes to Trump. Raiklin's plan hinges, he said, on the legislature leaping into action in early 2025, just before the Electoral College certification in Congress. But only if Trump loses. "If it's legit, we don't have to worry, right?" Raiklin told the crowd of the November contest. "But who thinks it's going to be legit? You think they're just going to give it to you? No, there's going to be a fight!"

Noting that both the North Carolina state House and Senate have strong GOP majorities, Raiklin called on attendees to "apply the necessary motivation" if Trump loses to force them to overturn any Harris victory, by convincing the bodies' leaders that "they have the political obligation to remedy an illegitimate election." Railkin called for his imagined proceedings to be livestreamed on X and Rumble, with a preordained outcome. "How is the House body going to likely vote, with your motivation?" he asked: "For the Republican nominee!" He suggested the Senate would follow suit. "Is that a checkmate? Think about that."

Raiklin said his proposal would be "the only way… we can address" the "calamity in western North Carolina" in a "legal, moral, ethical manner under our Constitution." He relished that his proposal would cause the "radical left media" to "start to cry." But he told the crowd that "everything I say is always legal, moral, ethical, peaceful, and patriotic."

In reality, Raiklin's proposal does not appear to have solid legal grounding - yet all's fair in love and lawfare for today's GOP. Raiklin began by citing how the U.S. Constitution delegates to the state legislatures the power to run presidential elections - or even select electors on their own. That's true enough. But any changes to established process would have to be enacted before the election. And according to the Constitution Center, Raiklin's dream of an early 2025 emergency session by the North Carolina legislature would be far too late. The "safe harbor" date for all Electoral College disputes to be settled is Dec. 8, and federal law mandates that the results must be delivered to Congress by Dec. 25.

Such niceties didn't seem to bother Raiklin, however. He called on the crowd to "do what is necessary to take back the state, and then take back the country," and to make sure that North Carolina's votes are "not stolen by the radical commies… and guaranteed, go to the Republican nominee."

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