Sure, but what I meant is, the level of support will be even more inorganic, and therefore less of a factor we can rely on.

I think the reason their authoritarian plan is so fast is because, like in Russia or China, they want to have such deep propaganda oversight over the media landscape by 2028 and potentially November 2026 that they will have suppressed most critical press. And they are moving to be able to revoke citizenship at will (if there’s no birthright citizenship, and no due process, how many of us are provably citizens? Will it even matter at that point?).

People are forgetting life and standards before Trump already. And if we’re living in fear of being kidnapped and deported, that’s a strong counterweight to revolt. I think popular will can actually be suppressed for a long time.

Trump, apparently: The way we get back to a strong economy is to eliminate as much buying and selling of anything as possible.

As cleansing as it would be for the 2024 election to actually have been stolen (how nice, I could believe in the country and my neighbors again!), none of those websites present anything close to reliable evidence. The downballot claims are not compelling.

What’s more, how many people, the absolute minimum, would need to keep a secret - people who tampered with or had knowledge of tampering with voting machines? 50? 20? 10?

The apocryphal Benjamin Franklin quote, “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead,” is on point here. There’s no way there wouldn’t be direct evidence leaking at some point in the last 10 months if that actually happened.

Halligan told the Washington Post that she met Trump at a November 2021 event at his golf club in West Palm Beach. A former contestant in Miss Colorado USA pageants, Halligan has said she probably stood out to Trump during their initial meeting because, unlike other women at the event, she was wearing a suit. Trump hired her as a lawyer soon after.

Halligan was at Mar-a-Lago during the FBI’s 2022 raid of the club. And she went on to represent Trump in a civil suit related to the raid. According to court records, it was the first time she had represented a client in federal litigation.

At the start of the case in August 2022, District Judge Aileen Cannon rejected two filings Halligan submitted for failing to comply with local procedures. The judge directed Halligan to the court’s website for instructions on how to file the documents correctly.

Two days later, Halligan submitted a notice updating her contact information. That filing was similarly rejected by the court. “Attorney has not followed the required procedures for updating their address with the Court,” a court notice explained. “See the Court’s website for detailed instructions.”

Two observations:

1. Even in her own telling, she was put on Trump’s radar for the qualification of…“wearing a suit.”

2. And she was not being able to even competently file documents to satisfy freaking Aileen Cannon, Trump’s pet judge who is singularly responsible for Trump not facing justice for a clear violation of federal criminal law, multiple times. How dumb do you need to be to appear incompetent to a judge that is herself the epitome of incompetence and fecklessness?

ABC nine months ago: We didn’t do anything, but let’s just pay him $16 million to make him go away, and that will be the end of it. Surely no bad can come if we show a sociopath that we are totally compliant and willing to bend at the least pressure.

Trump today: Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative.

I’m sorry, that sucks.

If you needed any more proof Stephen Miller is a white supremacist psychopath:

The day after the first strike, Miles Taylor, a former chief of staff for the Department of Homeland Security during the first Trump presidency, shared a telling exchange. In his newsletter, Taylor said the exchange took place after Trump visited a counter-drug command center in Florida.

On the flight home, Stephen Miller — then a senior advisor to the president — sat down across from me and the head of the U.S. Coast Guard. What followed was a conversation I’ll never forget.

“Admiral,” Miller asked, “the military has aerial drones, correct?”

“Yes,” the Admiral answered.

“And some of those drones are equipped with missiles, correct?”

“Sure,” the Admiral said, beginning to catch on.

Miller pressed further: “And when a boat full of migrants is in international waters, they aren’t protected by the U.S. Constitution, right?”

The Admiral clarified that while technically true, international law still applied.

“Then tell me why,” Miller said, “can’t we use a Predator drone to obliterate that boat?”

The Admiral, a veteran of military command, was dumbfounded. “Because it would be against international law,” he replied. You can’t kill unarmed civilians just because you want to.

Stephen Miller didn’t appear interested in the legal implications. Indeed, he seemed more interested in whether anyone could stop Trump from committing such acts.

“Admiral,” he concluded, “I don’t think you understand the limitations of international law.”

Yeah, creating a new party even with incredible organic support would take 3-4 2-year election cycles to shift the balance, and we have about 13 months before we’re very likely not even having reliable elections.

Stephen Miller needed a pick-me-up, I see.

If you want to see how toxic Twitter is in 2025, just click through to the original post and see the comments. With maybe one exception, it’s fascists (or bots to drown out any non-fascists) all the way down.

https://nitter.net/KatAbughazaleh/status/1969013628398411810

The comments cheer violence against any protester and gleefully act like Abughazaleh attacked ICE and committed a crime (which itself wouldn’t justify violence, but I digress), when the video clearly shows her being pushed by a uniformed thug without provocation. They are so emboldened by each other and intoxicated by their power to lie freely on the platform, they don’t even bother addressing it.

Wow, so appeasement didn’t work? Hold on, I have to go call Chamberlain.

We bought our gas oven from Samsung and the front right burner wouldn’t light after a few weeks. We got a full refund, but the front right burner started working again a few months later, and we still use the stove, though the oven light epileptically glitches every time we open the oven.

So, sure, you could pay for things that actually work. But it’s like that tagline at the end of Samsung advertisements:

Samsung: Buy Samsung, Then Get All Your Money Back, And Possibly Also Receive A Mostly Working Appliance For Free.

Again the mass media failing us so resoundingly. Every outlet is saying “Kimmel was fired over comments about Charlie Kirk.”

There were no comments about Charlie Kirk. This is a nonsensical configuration of words, and to half the country, it just says “he must have said something bad and these are consequences.” Even those who would support Kimmel won’t investigate. It’s creating a narrative and removing him out of literally nothing.

We really are in Russia now.

Yeah, I was expecting an understandable slip-up in (I dunno) quoting Kirk’s own hateful opinions. But no, it doesn’t even remotely address Kirk’s death, or make inopportune comments. It’s about Trump’s absolutely transparent lie and his comedically inept use of Kirk as a martyr. There is literally nothing here.

Of course, we recall Trump said Kimmel was “next” in public comments after Colbert was canceled. The conclusion we - living in this mafia-run fascist government bizarro reality - can draw is that these affiliate owners took Trump’s direction and attacked the one Trump directed them to at their earliest convenience, cause and reason be damned.

Interesting, source?

Careful not to post any messages of support for her, you might be labeled “not a Nazi” and fired from your job.

MTG: Here’s a thing Putin wants and coincidentally I want it too.

The media continues to un-self-critically just repeat whatever self-serving nonsense comes out of Trump’s mouth.

Hey, CNN (and all the other outlets reporting this as a “$15 billion lawsuit”): Trump is using your headline to legitimize a made-up value to a frivolous legal claim, and you are increasing his power by reporting on it as if it isn’t nonsense.

The opening paragraph for easy viewing:

Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism. Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives.[1] In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives.[2] A recent threat assessment by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security concluded that domestic violent extremists are an acute threat and highlighted a probability that COVID-19 pandemic-related stressors, long-standing ideological grievances related to immigration, and narratives surrounding electoral fraud will continue to serve as a justification for violent actions.[3]

So also: the right wing extremism is motivated by immigration ideology grievances and electoral fraud claims. Probably unrelated that an administration built on lies about immigration and electoral fraud wants this removed.