We Are At a Tipping Point

This Führer, his in-house Gruppenführers and his spineless Republican Congress are at the edge of winning a nearly 50 year battle against We The People. The unaccountable billionaires, strongmen, politicians and the puffed-up, permanently duped MAGA followers will have triumphed over the 70% majority of We The People. Conservatives will have defeated us and will have conserved all power, all wealth and all freedoms for themselves, leaving none for us. Call it fascism, authoritarianism, oligarchy (as in post-Soviet Russia) or dictatorship; the repression is the same and the impoverishment of the rest of us will be universal.

Here are just a few of the tools the power crazed use to keep you from having any power at all. Several of these came from a Reuters piece, which I suggest that you read in full.

1. Extreme gerrymandering,
2. War crimes to pick your pocket and distract you from losses of your freedom
3. Illegal deportation that removes – disappears – U.S. citizens and legal residents from this country
4. Constant lies about non-citizens voting. That actually happens in only 0.00000636% of votes cast. That’s one in about 1.6 million votes.  See this.
5. DOJ’s massive election monitoring program seeking to strip control of voting from the states
6. Trump’s demand for a national “citizenship list”
7. Military at polling places
8. ICE Gestapo at polling places
9. Alleging voting fraud or compromised voting machines with no evidence, much less proof
10. Pressuring election officials to change or cancel results
11. Seizing ballots and voting equipment
12. Federal election monitors interfering with voting
13. Threatening to declare a national emergency and martial law
14. Federal investigations and phony charges against election officials
15. Congress refusing to seat election winners – see the next section.
16. States close polling places and eliminate ballot drop boxes to make it harder for specific demographics to vote

And the granddaddy of them all: kicking vast numbers of U.S. citizens, mainly minority and poor people, off voting rolls for no legitimate reason. It’s done because Republicans can’t get elected if we all vote.

Here’s probably the most dangerous.

The Speaker of the House Has Threatened to Refuse to Seat Democratic Party Election Winners on January 3!

Yes, really.

The spineless Speaker of the House is so deep into Trump’s plot to steal our nation that he’s prepared to mobilize a never attempted coup tactic using arcane House rules. His treachery would work this way:

1. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson would fire the Clerk of the House and replace him with a Trump/Johnson loyalist (read: toady).
2. The new clerk would refuse to enter the names of certified Democrats-elect onto the official House roles and would refuse to seat them.
3. The 120th Congress would convene with only Republican representatives but it would be powerless to take any action.
4. The Senate would be neutered because it takes both chambers to make a law.
5. The Republican pseudo-Congress members would prostrate themselves before Trump and allow every Trump criminal and unconstitutional action. They would allow and even encourage the formal ending of democracy. Trump in his dementia would rule in an America dictatorship.

It’s instant Constitutional crisis. Actually, it’s the instant end of the Constitution.

I strongly urge you watch Katie Couric’s podcast with Judge J. Michael Luttig explaining this contemptuous treachery. Begin listening at 35:20. And you can read Judge Luttig’s essay, The Final Battle for America’s Democracy in The New Republic.

Here Is What’s On The Way Should We Fail

From Jim Acosta’s program on October 15 (start at 18:15):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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From Heather Cox Richardson regarding streaming the execution of Nidal Hassan:

As Amy B. Wang and Alauna Safarpour of the Washington Post reported yesterday, 80% of Americans opposed livestreaming the execution to the public.

A poll by the Washington Post, ABC News, and Ipsos showed that the only demographic polled in which a majority wanted a livestream of the execution was MAGA Republican men, of whom 57% wanted the event livestreamed and 42% were opposed. Veterans, Democrats, non-MAGA Republicans, Independents, and MAGA Republican women all opposed the livestream by overwhelming amounts.

57% of MAGA Republican men want everyone to see the gore and the brutality. These thugs are what we get when Trump is the violence cheerleader, the dementia-addled Führer.

Best Quote of the Week

This comes from Steve Sheffey:

But in every district and in every state, including Michigan, the Democrat on your ballot will be the better choice and better alternative to two more years with no checks or balances on Trump’s agenda.

We have generations of work to do to repair what hateful MAGA and criminal politicians have done to our country. Demand nothing less.

Until the repairs are done (and, of course, forevermore) we must

VOTE!

and do so in massive, overwhelming, undeniable numbers in order to keep our democracy. The thugs may believe what they want. They may get all tingly-toughy when they play Rambo in the slimy bogs in the woods. They can wallow in their pitiful faux masculinity and smoke their own brand of weirdo-weed. It’s up to us to make sure that they never again get their cruel, barbaric hands on the levers of power.

That’s why we vote.

That’s what’s most important.

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The time for action is NOW!

Keep standing up,

speaking out

and taking action

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