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POST 1090

Trump Must Never Get His Hands On Any Power Greater Than The Flush Handle Of A Prison Toilet.

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Stop The Steal

Don’t let the semi-coherent and fraudulent Republican rants and their phony patriotism mislead you. Any reasonably conscious person with only minimal critical thinking skills can interpret their corrupt, unscrupulous, anti-patriotism claptrap and then label it what it actually is.

We have been informed and cautioned about what these extremists are promising. There are many exposés of the diabolical Project 2025 plan to end our democracy and clues come directly from Trump at most of his rallies. Here’s an example from July 26.

“Christians, get out and vote! Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years. You know what? It’ll be fixed! It’ll be fine! You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love you, Christians! I’m a Christian.”

When you have stopped gagging over Trump’s stumbling awkwardness and sickening faux-religious fervor, you’ll recognize that that isn’t just a clue. It’s a plain language announcement that if he wins the November election it will be the last free and fair election in America. Democracy will be over. Dead.

That is what Trump and the extremist right wing schemers of the Republican Party are promising you. It’s a plan of destruction and robbery that is in plain sight.

So, let there be no doubt. This un-American, anti-Constitutional cabal of thieves is planning to take away all of your freedom and your rights. Not just your right to vote for your leaders – as in: democracy, rule by the people – but all of your rights, because voting is our check, our protection for all of our other rights. Plus, of course, their detailed plan to destroy our democracy lays out plainly how you will be subjugated into powerlessness.

This is not satire. There is nothing exaggerated in my words. There is no hyperbole. It’s all in the open, in plain language, from Trump promising no more elections to the 922 pages of Project 2025 that provide detailed steps for the legalized neutering of your rights and your freedom.

Should you do anything they don’t like, the organized crime ring planning to run the future dictatorship won’t promise your safety in any way. They would be sad to see you suffer, they would tell you, so you better get in line. That’s what organized crime does as a first step. You would not like step 2.

We have only 96 days to stop the grand larceny, the theft of all you hold dear.

From David Frum in The Atlantic:

If [Harris] does secure the Democratic presidential nomination, then she becomes the only hope to keep Trump out of the White House for a second term. She becomes the only hope for Ukraine, for NATO, for open international trade, for American democracy, for a society founded on the equal worth and dignity of all its people. Anyone committed to those principles and ideals, whatever his or her past or future political affiliation, now has everything riding on the chances of the nominee chosen by some 4,700 Democratic delegates in Chicago next month.

Did I mention that we only have 96 days to stop the grand larceny? We only have those same 96 days to keep alive our hopes, our ideals, our principles and the promise of the American dream, your vision for your children and their children.

Let there be no doubt.

Resources Of The Week

I always thrill to people’s brilliance of clarity and communication and we have a pair of “don’t miss” offerings here.

Heather Cox Richardson is a professor of history at Boston College, much to the benefit of her students. This week she lays out the record of the ongoing fight for democracy – the “protect and defend” thing – that puts our present moment into brilliantly clear focus.

Next, do you have any idea what Christian nationalism really is? It turns out that the labeling is grossly dishonest in ways you might not yet fully appreciate. Put on your Sunday best and listen to James Tallarico’s sermon. I promise you’ll get a lesson about the dangers we face and the rank deceit of those who want to twist religion to benefit themselves.

Thanks go to Dave Lindgren for pointing me to this talk.

Quote Of The Week

From Steve Schmidt:

Trump tried to hang his last vice president, and now his new choice for VP is going to hang him in November.

Just For Fun

Here is a demonstration of why Pete Buttigieg is always the smartest person in the room.

And .  .  .

Me, too.

Pic by PY

“Friends do not let friends vote for con artists.”

• – Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), 2016.

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