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."

Washington Post article

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.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/npr-reveals-that-donald-trump-made-over-100-chilling-threats-to-perceived-enemies/ar-AA1sJTAq?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=1a735495a4c045e58235c348e5ca81aa&ei=23

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.

© Provided by LA Times

"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..."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/column-these-red-states-have-just-offered-the-most-ghoulish-argument-of-all-time-against-abortion-rights/ar-AA1sQ9iu?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=3cab9eb4af61437f9daf29f5264a367b&ei=360

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."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-secretary-of-retribution-unveils-plot-to-nab-north-carolina-s-electoral-votes/ar-AA1sJAsD?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6b63e8c759824088a2314fda4134cd14&ei=169

Trump's MAGA Manifesto, Project 2025, is perfectly aligned with The Heritage Foundation and GOP intention to slash Social Security by 1.5 trillion dollars and raise retirement age. But in an attempt to hide his real intentions, Trump is promising to slash taxes across the board hoping the electorate won't ask how he'll replace those funds.

Trump, between trying to frighten his base with absurd accusations such as Immigrants kidnap household pets for midafternoon snacks, or school age children are receiving sex change operations just before gym class, has come up with a new half-witted promise; he promises to cut taxes on anything he can think of to win some votes.

Of course, as with everything he promises he never stops to calculate the harm these 'magic' tax cuts would do to Social Security, the act the GOP has promised to slash.

Check this out -- boldface mine.

Trump proposals could drain Social Security in 6 years, budget group says

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A new report projects that the Social Security Trust Fund might run out of money within six years under a Donald Trump presidency, while Vice President Kamala Harris’s proposed policies would not meaningfully change the current trajectory. Social Security faces a looming funding crisis in an aging country, with trustees most recently predicting that the retirement and disability program’s trust fund will become insolvent in 2035. Many of Trump’s campaign proposals would accelerate that timeline, potentially by years, said the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan group that opposes large federal deficits.

In a report released Monday, the organization concluded that many of Trump’s proposed second-term agenda items all work in the same direction when it comes to the Social Security Trust Fund. The budget group did not produce a similar report on Harris’s policies because they would have a negligible effect measured only in weeks or months rather than years, said Marc Goldwein, CRFB’s senior policy director. Compared to prior presidential campaigns, Goldwein said, “I can’t think of anything that would be this order of magnitude” in its detrimental effect on Social Security’s bottom line compared to the policies Trump has proposed. Most directly, Trump has promised that no Social Security recipients should have to pay federal income taxes on their benefits. Under current law, 40 percent of beneficiaries pay taxes on some portion of their Social Security. The tax they pay on their benefits goes directly back to the trust fund, and getting rid of it could cost the program almost $1 trillion over 10 years, the report forecast.

Other Trump policies might have indirect effects. Trump’s pledge to deport millions of undocumented workers could cost the trust fund hundreds of millions of dollars, the CRFB said. Many undocumented immigrants have payroll taxes taken out of their paychecks for the Social Security Trust Fund, but never become eligible to claim benefits, so they are a net positive for the program. Trump’s proposed high tariffs on all imports could affect the economy in several ways detrimental to Social Security’s financial health, CRFB said. If the tariffs drive high inflation as projected by Wall Street experts, Social Security will have to pay out more in benefits because of automatic cost-of-living adjustments based on inflation.

The report also pointed to Trump’s promises not to tax tip income or income earned during overtime hours. Trump has not clarified whether he means to exempt them from federal income taxes only or also from taxes that fund Social Security and Medicare. If he means the latter, that could cost Social Security $150 million to more than $1 trillion over a decade, with the likely outcome on the very high end of that range, CRFB said. All added up, the report forecasts that Social Security under Trump would hit the point whereby law it must cut benefits in 2031 or 2032. And unless Congress changes the law that triggers the automatic cuts, the size of the cut to benefits would rise, from a current projection of a 23 percent reduction for all Social Security checks to a predicted cut of about 33 percent.

Both Trump and Harris have said they aim to protect Social Security to prevent cuts if elected, but neither candidate has offered a comprehensive plan to plug the current projected gap. Stabilizing the trust fund will require either raising more money or spending less money in some way, or a combination of the two. Trump has talked of raising more money by drilling for oil on federal lands and has claimed that undocumented immigrants receiving benefits has led to Social Security’s problems, a view rejected by experts who point out that immigrants pay more into the program than they receive.

Harris supports a plan to raise some of the money by imposing payroll taxes on income above $400,000; currently, workers stop paying Social Security taxes after their first $168,000 in annual income.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/21/social-security-crfb-trump-harris

Face it, at two hundred eighty-two pounds Trump is a walking Big Mac. He has the cognitive awareness of the French fries he eats by the plateful and literally sweats cholesterol. It is inevitable that he'll be found someday atop a pancaked hooker or sitting on his golden throne with his size 52 Fruit-of-the-Looms around his ankles after wiping himself with hundred-dollar bills.

That leaves Vance and Musk in charge of the country and military.

All we really know about Musk is that he'll say or do anything to be near to the seat of power. While plainly an engineering savant, we shudder to contemplate his other proclivities -- semi-liberal, conservative, fascist or Sovereign Citizen -- we have no idea what horror may be lurking behind those unfocused eyes.

We know a little more about Vance, but not nearly enough. We know he will pander to anyone in a higher position than he. He will testify to the truth of any lie or absurdity (Cat snacks and dog burgers, for instance), and sell his soul for a sniff of power.

He pretends to be Conservative, but is he?

In his novel, Hillbilly Elegy, he describes the difficulties of growing up poor in a disadvantaged environment. He describes with great sympathy the sad lives of the underclass -- the fears and uncertainty, the lack of opportunity, and the day-to day drudgery of those preordained to poverty.

Conservative on one hand, but sometimes exhibiting the compassion of Mother Theresa,

In short, you are not voting for Trump, you don't know who you're voting for! All you know for certain is you are putting the fate and future of our country in the hands of someone you might just as well have picked up off any idle streetcorner.

Are you ready to roll the dice?

Donald Trump, in a rambling and barely coherent speech, announced (after all the inane gibberish was filtered out) he will create a new position in his government entitled "Secretary of Cost Cutting' and Elon Musk will wield the bloody hatchet.

With Trump's plans to reduce taxes on the already obscenely wealthy, as well on corporations (the few that actually pay some taxes) drastic and radical cost cutting will be necessary if he is to fund any government services, at all.

Once in control of government his tyranny will know no bounds. Trump, then Vance, then who knows which despot will have a firm grip on the throat of our democracy and reduce it to the proverbial 'ash heap of history'.

Below is actual wording for Trump's MAGA Manifesto, Project 2025, which outlines just which governmental services will be slashed so as to transfer the burden of governmental responsibilities firmly on the back of those who can least afford it, rather than those who would never even feel the pinch of a small tax increase.

Food Assistance

Project 2025 will...

...apply cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). This means that many people who need help buying food would no longer get money from the government to buy food. [298]

...require states to implement work requirements for SNAP recipients. This means that people who are able to work would have to get a job or do some type of work in order to get food stamps. [299]

...eliminate broad-based categorical eligibility. This would make it harder for people to get food stamps because they would have to meet more requirements to be eligible. [300]

...eliminate the heat-and-eat loophole. This would make it harder for people to get the full amount of food stamps they are eligible for. [301]

...reform the Thrifty Food Plan. This could lead to people getting less money in food stamps because the government would change how it calculates the amount of money people need to buy food. [300]

...eliminate CEP. This would mean that some children who currently get free school meals would have to pay for them. [303]

Healthcare

Project 2025 will...

...reform U.S. healthcare into a free market mostly regulated by states. This means patients will need to develop more healthcare expertise, rural areas may be underserved, low-income and vulnerable populations may be underserved, sicker patients may pay more, the system may be ill-equipped to handle public health emergencies, and it could lead to an overall decline in quality and safety standards. [450]

...reform the Affordable Care Act. This could lead to loss of coverage, reduced consumer protections and an increased financial burden for Americans. [469]

...reduce funding for public health by splitting the CDC and reducing its funding. This could weaken the nation's ability to respond to public health emergencies and address critical health issues. [452]

...prevent the CDC from advising that school children should be masked or vaccinated, saying such decisions should be left to parents and medical providers. This could lead to increased disease outbreaks and a resurgence of preventable diseases like measles and whooping cough. [454]

...tax employers on workplace benefits that exceed $12,000 per worker annually. This would lead to employers cutting back on these benefits and workers paying more taxes, and would be damaging for millions of families who rely on one working adult's employer-provided health insurance to cover dependents, such as children. [697]

Drug Prices

Project 2025 will...

...repeal the Inflation Reduction Act’s drug price negotiation program in Medicare. This would allow drug companies to charge higher prices for drugs, which would make it more expensive for people to buy them. [465]

...reduce the government share in the catastrophic tier of Medicare Part D and require manufacturers to bear a larger share. This would make it more expensive for seniors to buy drugs when they reach the catastrophic coverage limit. [465]

Medicaid

Project 2025 will...

...shrink the scope and scale of Medicaid. This could result in millions of Americans losing access to affordable healthcare, potentially leading to a decline in overall health outcomes. [466]

...make it easier for states to kick people off Medicaid. This means that people could lose their health care if they don't follow all the rules. [467]

...let states make people work to get Medicaid. This means that people who can't find a job could lose their health care. [468]

...let states charge people more for Medicaid. This means that people will have to pay more for their health care. [468]

...let states put time limits on how long people can be on Medicaid. This means that people could lose their health care after a certain amount of time, even if they still need it. [468]

...make it harder for people to get on Medicaid if they have some money saved up. This means that people who have saved some money might not be able to get health care from the government. [467]

...allow states to charge premiums and co-pays to people who receive Medicaid. This means that many people who are currently eligible for Medicaid would have to pay for some of their health care costs. [468]

...allow states to eliminate certain benefits from Medicaid. This means that many people who are currently eligible for Medicaid would no longer be able to receive certain health care services. [468]

...allow states to use Medicaid funds to provide private health insurance. This means that many people who are currently eligible for Medicaid would be enrolled in private health insurance plans instead of the traditional Medicaid program. [468]

...cap Medicaid payments to states without regard for their actual spending needs on health and long-term care. This could force states to outright deny coverage of particular benefits, especially costly services such as long-term care. [466]

Medicare

Project 2025 will...

...eliminate the Medicare Shared Savings Program. This program helps to lower the cost of Medicare, and getting rid of it will likely mean that Medicare will cost more. [465]

...repeal the Inflation Reduction Act. This law lowers the cost of prescription drugs for people on Medicare, and getting rid of it will likely mean that prescription drugs will cost more. [465]

...reduce the government share in the catastrophic tier of Medicare Part D. This means that people on Medicare will have to pay more for their prescription drugs. [465]

...repeal the drug price negotiation program in Medicare. This program lowers the cost of prescription drugs, and getting rid of it will likely mean that prescription drugs will cost more. [465]

...restructure 340B drug subsidies toward beneficiaries rather than hospitals. This program helps hospitals provide lower-cost drugs to low-income patients, and changing it could mean that those patients will have to pay more for their medications. [465]

...push more of the 33 million people enrolled in Original Medicare towards Medicare Advantage by making it the "default enrollment option". Medicare Advantage plans can require prior authorizations, making it harder to access care, and they can restrict enrollees' choices of physicians and hospitals. [465]

"Trump Plans to Appoint Musk as ‘Secretary of Cost-Cutting'

Elon Musk, the unhinged billionaire who many believe ruined Twitter, has a place in a potential future Trump Administration: secretary of cost-cutting. When Fox News host Maria Bartiromo asked former president Donald Trump about how he would trim "fat in government," Trump said that he would defer to Musk.

"What agencies would you want to shut down?" Bartiromo inquired.

"Let me have you ask another person that," Trump said. "Because I'm going to have Elon Musk - he is dying to do this. You know, he's a great business guy, actually. You think of him for science and rockets. And every time I think he's telling me about a new screw that was developed, he's developed a new screw - screws are difficult - and it's made out of titanium, and it's so exciting. But you know what? He's a great business guy, and he's a great cost-cutter. You've seen that. And he said ‘I could cut costs without affecting anybody.'"

Bartiromo then asked if Musk would be in Trump's cabinet.

"Not in the cabinet," Trump responded. "He doesn't want to be in the cabinet. He just wants to be in charge of cost-cutting. We'll have a new position: secretary of cost-cutting, OK? Elon wants to do that, and we have incredible people. He's running a big business. You know, he can't just say, ‘Oh, I think I'll go into the cabinet.' You know, other people can. He can't. But Elon's a little bit different in that sense. "Besides that," Trump added, "I want him to send the rocket up to Mars. He's made me a promise he'll get to Mars before the end of my administration. Which will be long before, hopefully, China or Russia."

Trump has floated the idea of Musk holding a top administration role before. In August, Trump called the SpaceX and Tesla CEO "a very smart guy."

"I certainly would, if he would do it, I certainly would," Trump told Reuters when asked if he would consider Musk playing a role in his administration as an advisor or cabinet member.

Trump and Bartiromo also discussed Musk's endorsement and appearance at a rally last weekend. Taking the stage, the richest man in the world - clad in a black Make America Great Again hat - jumped for joy, launching many mocking memes. "We have the endorsement of Elon, as you know," Trump told Bartiromo. "He's a great guy. He had such a good time. He put the black hat on… He calls it Dark MAGA. How cool is that? He's a great guy. He's given us a really powerful endorsement. He's out campaigning in Pennsylvania today. He's actually campaigning because he says if we don't win, we're not going to have a country."

Even though, according to Trump, Musk says he can cut costs "without affecting anybody," that seems highly unlikely. Especially when you consider his track record. One place Musk has tried to cut significant costs is X, formerly Twitter, which he purchased in 2022. Since Musk's takeover, he claims to have laid off 80 percent of the company's staff. Meanwhile, the platform has been plagued by hate speech and disinformation. Some of the misinformation comes from Musk himself. At the end of last month, X was worth 25 percent less than the $44 billion Musk paid for it. The eccentric billionaire is far from unproblematic. Many people have sued Musk and his companies for alleged sexual harassment; racial discrimination, age discrimination, and violations of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act; illegal firings; insider trading; defamation; cyberbullying; illicit drug use; "self-driving" car accidents; a canceled talk show and unpaid severance, among other claims of wrongdoing.

Sounds like he'd fit right into a Trump administration.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-plans-to-appoint-musk-as-secretary-of-cost-cutting/ar-AA1sbZSD?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=95ca453f40e74ebda6ecdbffffa43afc&ei=55