This is it. The Wire. You may think that our fateful moment will come on Election Day in November. Or when the last tranche of Epstein Files hits. Or the coming New-9/11. But you're wrong. This is a potential save that (alas) we're about to lose.
In a couple of weeks it will be too late for 'decent Republicans' to step up and register as candidates in 2026 GOP primaries. There's still just a little time for honorable, courageous conservatives (and I must believe that some still exist!) to step up and flip the tactic that till-now effectively destroyed the Republican Party, turning every top GOPper into an unknowing -- or in many cases knowing -- tool of our nation's enemies.
Maybe two weeks. That leaves just a little time to talk it over with family... then step up. Like a citizen. Like a patriot. Like a decent person.
Sure it would take guts to 'primary' the MAGA cretins who now rule in red districts. Even now, as polls show GOP popularity plummeting nationwide, those districts have been heavily gerrymandered and now are weighted toward fanaticism. By design. Moreover, all sorts of KGB methods are used to coerce into darkness any challengers who possess even a scintilla of honor, methods that range from honeypot traps, to blackmail, to (in some cases) threats of violence.
Above all why try something that's doomed to be futile?
But is it? Futile, I mean?
Less than you might think! Because there's another deadline looming. One that every decent person in any Red district should consider. Because only a fool remains a "democrat" or "independent" in such a place.
== Register in the party of your district! ==
If cheating politicians have rigged things so they get to choose voters, instead of the other way around, then you should vote in the only election that matters, in such a district. The primary of the dominant party.
1. If you do, for the first time in years, your vote might actually count! Even if it means a liberal or leftist must choose a somewhat decent conservative over a mad-corrupt one. Aw, poor baby. (And don't pick the crazy one! That never works!)
2. You'll protect your own registration to vote! In recent years we've seen flagrant and rampant purging of Democrats in red states (and may the culprits rot in hell.) Often this happens just weeks before Election Day. (Even if you don't re-register to change parties, as I recommend, CHECK your registration, especially this coming October! And tell your friends.)
3. If you do change parties, you'll mess up their calculations! Their joy over an uptick in GOP registrations will soon turn to sour bile in their mouths, when they realize.
And sure, this also holds for conservatives who live (frustrated) in heavily Democratic districts. So? Vote for a moderate instead of a leftist? That's your right! Only note that in California and bunches of blue states, party registration matters a whole lot less than it used to. Any citizen can vote for any candidate, already.
The way things ought to be.
Anyway, envision this happening nationwide, if say 200+ honest, honorable and residually sane American conservatives were to step up -- (again the deadlines are soon!) -- to challenge cretinous confederate Putin-puppets. It might seem hopeless, but have courage!
A: If you do step up, publicly and vigorously, there may follow a flood of newly registered "Republicans" in the district. Democrats and Independents who are sick of having no meaningful choice. And...
B: You'll have staked ground for after the GOP self-torches in the fall. Folks will remember that you tried!
And I have one answer for the MAGAs who are already screaming at their screens right now, typing furiously that 'this'd be cheating!' No it wouldn't be. But it's a good way to answer YOURS!
== The Voter ID Scam is NOT what you think! ==
They are desperate.
Almost no one anymore believes that there was even a scintilla of evidence for a 'steal' of the 2020 election. Not only zero evidence, but Democrats have shown ONE-EIGHTIETH the rate of cheating, corruption and malfeasance in office as Republicans, as revealed by Grand Juries (mostly white retirees) all across the continent. (And I invite you to have your attorney contact me when you have escrowed $10,000 in wager stakes.)
But faced with those facts, the Foxites are trying to distract. by howling that 'Democrats oppose Voter ID. And hence must be intending to cheat!'
First, there have only been about 30 known and audited cases of fraudulent voting by non-citizens, across thirty years and over a billion votes. Want to prove your case? AUDIT MORE! Though in fact, the case is nonexistent. An incantation.
BUT DEMOCRATS ARE STOOPID TO OPPOSE VOTER ID IN PRINCIPLE!
This is a trap to make it seem as if you are intent on cheating.
There is a better answer.
"Sure, we'll all be happy to do Voter ID! Just as soon as you confederate/MAGA/Foxite jerks stop cheating.
"Stop deliberately CLOSING DMV OFFICES IN BLUE OR MINORITY AREAS IN RED STATES! And offices for other government services. Which should OVER-serve those who need help, not under-serve or starve them.
"Re-open those offices and help poor folks to GET the ID that will help their lives in all sorts of ways. And thereupon they'll have their rightful ID to show at the polls. It's called COMPLIANCE ASSISTANCE and corporations demand it, whenever they face some new regulation!
"If you do that - and get results - then watch as we'll all negotiate over Voter ID. Because we're not the cheaters.
"Oh and do you truly want to get folks to go back to standing in line to vote, instead of mail-in ballots?
"Fine! Then make any citizen's receipt for in-person voting their ticket to a day off work! Watch how quickly things will shift back!"
Can you see how this flips the narrative they hope to use against us and against America? Yeah.
And that's just one of the 35 proposals in my Newer Deal list of pragmatic, easily passed and crucial reforms that you can scroll through, here.
Specifically:
13. THE VOTER ID ACT: Under the 13th and 14th Amendments, this act requires that states mandating Voter ID requirements must offer substantial and effective compliance assistance, helping affected citizens to acquire their entitled legal ID and register to vote.
Any state that fails to provide such assistance, And thus substantially reducing the fraction of eligible citizens turned away at the polls, shall be assumed to be in violation of equal protection and engaged in illegal voter suppression. If such compliance assistance has been vigorous and effective for ten years, then that state may institute requirements for Voter ID.
In all states, registration for citizens to vote shall be automatic with a driver’s license or passport or state-issued ID, unless the citizen opts-out.
== And a couple of small revisions ==
Finally a couple of revisions to one of those proposed reforms.
2. THE PROFESSIONALISM ACT will protect the apolitical independence of our intelligence agencies, the FBI, the scientific and technical staff in executive departments, and the United States Military Officer Corps. All shall be given safe ways to report attempts at political coercion or meddling in their ability to give unbiased advice. Any passive refusal to obey a putatively illegal order shall be immediately audited by a random board of quickly available flag officers who by secret ballot may either confirm the refusal or correct the officer's error, or else refer the matter for inquiry.
Whistle-blower protections will be strengthened within the U.S. government.
As described elsewhere, the federal Inspectorate will gather and empower all agency Inspectors General and Judges Advocate General under the independent Inspector General of the United States (IGUS).
NEW PARAGRAPH: Certain positions that have until now been appointed entirely at presidential discretion or whim shall be filled henceforth -- by law -- in ways that narrow selection down to a broad pool pre-approved by pertinent professional organizations. Posts that involve scientific judgement, for example -- such as the heads of NASA, NSF, EPA, CDC and so on may be presidentially appointed only from pools of twenty or more candidates selected by the National Academies of Science and Engineering. The leaders of agencies or institutions bearing on the arts shall be chosen from pools selected by pertinent arts councils, and so on. The Attorney General and other high justice officials and federal judges shall be chosen from large pools of candidates rated 'qualified' by both the American Bar Association and a national academy of police officers.
== Get busy living, or... ==
Are we lesser Americans than the blue volunteers who stepped up to rescue our revolution -- against 6000 years of wretched/failed/oppressive feudalism -- before us? At Cowpens and Yorktown? At Gettysburg and Appomattox? At Pearl Harbor and Berlin... and 44 years later, again, in Berlin?
I guess we're about to find out.
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Lagniappe:
Shouts for you to use at the right moments:
If there's some kind of 9/11 event aimed at distraction and to get us to 'rally around the leader,' shout "Reichstag fire!" Folks will get it.
From now until this phase of the US Civil War finally ends:
"APPOMATTOX!"
...OH...
And THANK YOU, MINNESOTA!
13 comments:
I live in Missouri's Second Congressional District which is gerrymandered Republican. (I'm not to blame for Ann Wagner, I promise.)
We have open primaries in Missouri, and you don't have to be registered in a particular party to vote in their primary. When you get to the polling place, you tell the election official which ballot you want. It's that simple.
I always check out all the candidates' websites at least; but I usually can't tell one Republican from another. Their main argument seems to be that their opponent isn't MAGA enough. The one time I voted in a Republican primary, I wound up being responsible, in my small way, for our disgraced former governor, Eric Greitens. I need to own that.
Is registering as a Republican in order to vote in the primary enough, or enough that can be done safely? Safe as in would it be safe to attend a Republican town hall or open forum and ask if you can ask just two questions. The second question being dependent on the answer to the first question.
You ask:
1. "Did Donald Trump win the 2020 presidential election?"
2. "As you did not give a yes or no answer to the first question, was your answer scripted as you replied because a reply of yes will automatically bar you from receiving funds from the Republican National Committee?"
By now the microphone has been shut off. But to continue (if media is present)
"I cannot support a candidate who makes a consistent concencous effort to avoid a yes or no question."
"I cannot support a candidate who affirms the welfare of Donald Trump over that of the state of Arizona."
"I cannot support a candidate who accepts the systematic structure of financial blackmail for political compliance."
A dream scenario of course.
To do so in reality would get a brick through your plate glass window in under 24 hours.
Re: Celt, from the last thread:
With the rising anger against the greed, unfairness and perversion of the rich, America feels like France before the storming of the Bastille.
I wanted to mention Marquis de Sade as a child of those times, but then remembered that the crown actually persecuted him and sentenced him to death.
Yet, there are similarities: Wealth disparities lead to resentment on one, and entitlement, lack of empathy and loss of a grip on reality on the other side.
On the AI topic from yesteryear:
Here's an article about a team working on some of the ideas Dr. B has been promoting here...
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/canadian-researchers-develop-ai-tool-to-fight-online-disinformation/
The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research says incorporating AI technology into its debunking tool CIPHER has allowed it to better keep up with a constant flow of false and misleading claims.
“Russia was the main threat … targeting Canada most generally,” he said in a recent interview. “We are now beginning to shift.”
...
McQuinn cited a recent example where the system found a Russian media outlet had reported Alberta is moving towards independence, which is factually incorrect. Separatists in the province have held events and reportedly spoke with U.S. officials, but no process is currently underway for Alberta to separate.
“Effective disinformation often has kernels of truth in it,” McQuinn said.
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McQuinn said the overarching goal of disinformation campaigns is to tear societies apart and incite violence.
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He said the United States is increasingly becoming a main source of disinformation in Canada.
“You have to always remember that most of Canada’s dialogue when it comes to social media is on U.S. platforms,” McQuinn said.
“We have seen that Canadian news and certain types of Canadian content are being downgraded and throttled within these algorithms.”
Artificial intelligence has been the source of much disinformation on people’s social media feeds, he added, but he said CIPHER needed the technology to make debunking easier.
“We are in an AI arms race around disinformation,” he said.
" I usually can't tell one Republican from another. "
Do you remember the 2016 Republican primary debates, before Donald Trump was the undisputed front-runner? Something like 13 candidates on stage, and every one of their speeches was (essentially) about how much they believed in the same things that all the others did and how closely they resembled Ronald Reagan.
"To do so in reality would get a brick through your plate glass window in under 24 hours.:
Well, to continue the daydream, you could arrive dressed in full MAGA cosplay with plenty of pro-ICE buttons, so part of the costume which would be totally accepted is a mask.
"the crown actually persecuted him [ the Marquis de Sade ] and sentenced him to death."
Similar to Jeffrey Epstein.* And maybe for similar reasons. Who knows what dirt the marquis might have had on some rich and powerful aristocrats?
Or maybe, as also with Epstein, he was just too gross even for them. He gives the court of Louis XVI a bad name.
* the "sentence" being carried out extra-legally in Epstein's case
https://www.threads.com/@stonekettle
How do you reform an agency that kidnaps people, puts children in cages, and summarily executes Americans in the street? How do you reform goons who sneer at due process, probable cause, and the Fourth Amendment? How do you reform thugs who believe they are above the law and not bound by the Constitution? How do you reform an ideology that see AMERICANS as the enemy?
Answer: You can't.
Just as you couldn't reform the SS.
Abolish ICE and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.
* * *
Shutting down ICE seems like a reasonable reform to me.
That could be the new recruiting ad: Are you a total loser with an inferiority complex who couldn't get hired to ride around the mall on a Segway? Join ICE! Everyone hates you and you don't get paid.
Ruefully gratifying to see that my viewing the Trump administrations through the lens of Nazi Germany, once considered egregiously deranged, is now pretty much accepted as common sense. Even among those who like the similarities.
Seen on a recent protest sign:
You want 1939 Germany
You'll get 1789 France
My first No Kings protest sign back in April highlighted the year 1789 and asked rhetorically, "Constitution or Revolution?" The "Revolution" side had a drawing of what has now become my trademark guillotine with "Basket of Deplorables" written on the container that catches the heads.
Stonekettle links to an Elon Musk post on "Shitter":
https://www.threads.com/@stonekettle/post/DUyVk6GkR--/media
Elon Musk @elonmusk
For a country to survive, there has to be a common culture.
Nobody dies to defend a "multicultural economic zone"!
American culture with its English-Scots-Irish origin is great and worth fighting for.
Some might not realize it, but that's why people come here.
So many things wrong with that, starting with what kind of "common culture" did the oligarchic planation owners share with the peasants who fought for the Confederacy? Or that people might indeed fight and die for a country that protects their right to practice whatever religion they believe in against those who would compel submission to a different one.
But what caught my eye was the blindness that prevents one from noticing that "English-Scots-Irish" is itself multicultural.
We'll need anthems. The Battle Hymn of the Republic served out blue forebears in the 1860s, but not today. Springsteen will do. Still, listen to the righteous rage in Judy Collins singing this warning of revolution, from Marat-Sade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEysfTMWmSY
Elon's surround of flatterers must be complete. Jeepers. Debt/deficits are ALWAYS worse under republicans. And the all-absorbing nature of American culture, sucking in and incorporating all immigrant cultures, has been its greatest strength. Idiots mouthing such nonsense probably don't recall what big fans they were of the Dirty Dozen. Lee Marvin, Jim Brown and a big hillbilly and mexican and so on, killing Nazi lords.
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