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If fascism is imminent, then where was everybody?

That’s what Nadine Seiler was wondering. The 59-year-old had come all the way from Waldorf, Maryland, to be one of two protesters standing on a street corner near a Secret Service checkpoint, where attendees and reporters like me were entering the convention. “I Googled it, and America has at least 200 million adults over 18 years old,” she said. “Why, with democracy on the line, are there only two of us here?”

Seiler wore hot-pink lipstick and a T-shirt that read July 13 was a false flag. She told me that she didn’t actually believe that Republicans had staged the Trump assassination attempt. But Republicans had blamed January 6 on the FBI, so two could play that game. Democrats are “gutless and spineless,” she told me. “I am done being polite, and I am done being sane.”

Elaine Godfrey
July 19, 2024
The Democrats Aren’t Even Trying (msn.com)

I find it interesting Seiler is purposely seeking insanity. But perhaps she doesn’t really need to seek it. Maybe it finds her as soon as she lets her guard down.

Perhaps the jig is up and they know Fascism is not imminent. But that doesn’t stop them from being evil and/or insane.

Don’t be surprised if the public quiet is hiding a dark and sinister resolve to not miss next time.

Prepare appropriately.

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I remember from the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in 2016 and how it presaged our current era of political violence, before what is being called an “assassination attempt” on former president Donald Trump happened on Saturday evening. After the news broke, I paused. Was this appropriate? Actually, there’s never been a more important time to understand where this came from. It also looks like the shooter was a 20-year-old male registered Republican, but I don’t read too much into that—at 20, many young people are politically unformed, though they have access to guns. I won’t blame an ideology, except for the right wing’s gun worship. And we’ll never know why the Secret Service, maligned for its event security, let Trump pause after they rushed in to protect him, and stand and raise his fist in a fascist salute. He waved it around maniacally and almost hit the female agent closest to him in the head. Why they let him take a victory lap in a dangerous situation—there could have been other shooters—we’ll never know.

President Biden’s campaign pulled all his (increasingly wonderful and populist) ads down. I guess that’s what you do, if you’re a decent human being. Imagine the situation reversed: Trump would be running ads that say grazing Biden’s ear will worsen his (nonexistent) Parkinson’s. They are monsters; we are not.

To his political credit, in a somber Oval Office address Sunday night, Biden put the attack on Trump in the context where it belongs: of January 6, the brutal beating of Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, and the kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

But the monsters are still blaming Biden’s completely valid attacks on Trump as if they set up this (nominal Republican) to shoot the disgraced former president. Democrats must recover quickly and say Trump has been uniquely responsible for stoking the violence that apparently grazed his ear. There’s so much metaphor there, but he won’t hear it.

Joan Walsh
July 15, 2024
Where Our Current Moment of Political Violence Began (msn.com)

Was it a political attack on Paul Pelosi? I don’t think so.

How many of the kidnapping plot were found not guilty because of FBI entrapment?

January 6th was intentional violence? If so, then why did they all leave their guns in their cars?

They are decent people?

One has to wonder if Walsh is living in a different universe or is deliberately lying by omission of things like*:

1. June 2017: Republican Congresswoman Steve Scalise and four others were shot by a left-wing activist during a congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia. Scalise was critically injured but survived the attack.

2. September 2018: A Republican campaign volunteer in Minnesota was assaulted and left unconscious while wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat. The attacker was later charged with assault.

3. February 2020: A Republican campaign staffer in California was physically assaulted while registering voters. The attacker was later arrested and charged with battery.

4. August 2020: A Republican National Convention (RNC) volunteer in Wisconsin was attacked and knocked unconscious by a group of protesters. The volunteer was wearing an RNC hat at the time of the attack.

And I love how she says:

what is being called an “assassination attempt”

And claims Trump raised

his fist in a fascist salute

Delusional or evil? You decide.

* This list was obtained from New Chat | Gab AI | An Uncensored and Unfiltered AI Platform via the query “Please give me a list of violent attacks against republicans in the last ten years”

Both Gemini and Copilot refused to respond to that same request.

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The post-debate Biden situation has so far been all about electoral viability, with the news media’s entire focus is whether Democrats can win in November by dumping him for someone else. Horse race and such.

Which is stunning, because the main story should be that this is one of the biggest political scandals in history, and a legitimately massive conspiracy to keep Americans in the dark in order for Democrats to cling onto political power.

Seriously, think about the complete picture here. The President of the United States, the most powerful person on the planet, is suffering a rapid cognitive decline. Dozens of members of his party as well as “journalists” and celebrities have known this for many months, as they finally admit (because it is now advantageous to do so).

But what were they doing right up to the debate? Completely denying it. The New York Times and others even ran bullshit “fact checks” of videos of Biden struggling, telling us not to believe our own lying eyes. Save for maybe Dean Phillips and Robert Kennedy Jr., no Democrat politician would dare suggest Biden was in decline. They all tried to cover it up.

I think this may be the biggest conspiracy in American political history. It’s at least the biggest since Watergate, but even Watergate didn’t implicate this many co-conspirators. The Biden covverup involves pretty much all Democrats who regularly interact with Biden trying to hide his condition, from members of the House all the way up to the Vice President and the cabinet. They put their own political fortunes ahead of the good of the country – at least until it was time to stab Caesar for their own political benefit, once the debate made maintaining their lie untenable.

And maybe you expect that sort of craven political behavior from politicians. But the news media? We are now getting reporters proudly publishing pieces about scary interactions with Biden that happened 6 months ago or more. Where were these reports when those interactions happened? Only rightwing media covered Biden’s decline honestly (no doubt because it served them of course), but rightwing media doesn’t have the same access to him. The rest of the news media appears to have colluded with Democrats to hide Biden’s condition in order to help them stay in power.

And now, all these people now have the gall to talk to us about “Saving democracy”? Seriously? Eat shit.

The Democrats should be held accountable for this by suffering major losses in November. The news media should continue to lose trust, as it has proven more than ever that most of it is just a PR firm for Democrats.

Crazy that they are going to get away with what should be a cataclysmic scandal.

Kostas Moros @MorosKostas
Posted on X, July 10, 2024

“Appears to have colluded..”? It’s well beyond “appears”.

It was obvious to me, and I’m sure millions of others, that Biden was suffering from dementia four years ago. I specially remember telling someone I could not vote for someone with dementia (and getting an extremely emotional denial). Some people were in denial. Some were oblivious. But the majority of people with access to him had to have known for years.

They knew and made a decision to say nothing about the most powerful person on the planet being feeble minded.

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His job was to calm his party, to make them feel that, yes, I can do this. I have four more years in me. He did not do that.

He did the opposite of that. He made them more panicked.

Joy Reid
June 27, 2024
MSNBC host Joy Reid said Democrats are on the verge of a ‘full fledged panic’ after Biden’s ‘extremely weak’ performance

Scott Adam’s “quite likely” scenario may be coming true.

Now what happens?

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The wars of the future draw on a grim heritage. The fact that peace would seem to be the rational option for most humans has never been able to stifle the urge to fight when it seems necessary, or lucrative, or an obligation. And that heritage is the chief reason it is possible to imagine a future war. After the end of the Cold War, there was once a fashion for saying that war was obsolete – if only that were so, we might now live in a world without weapons and fear. While few would actively seek the Third World War, few envisaged or wanted the other two. The sad reality is that our understanding of why wars occur has so far contributed little to setting warfare aside as an enduring element in human affairs.

Richard Overy
June 23, 2024
Why it’s too late to stop World War 3 (yahoo.com)

I want an underground bunker in Idaho.