BarneyPiccolo

Yeah, fuck these whiners. We are a nation of laws, and we still have several legal paths to follow before the next step is revolution.

On the meantime, as those legal steps play out, we all have our Red Lines that will not be crossed. You have a wife you're concerned about. I have certain people counting on me for support of multiple kinds, and some of those people are members of vulnerable groups, and if these psychopaths were to do ANYTHING to them, I would become a very dangerous person.

Likewise, cancellation of elections means the official end of America, the government becomes my enemy, and it's Civil War.

We aren't obligated to jump at the orders of outsiders who want us to act impetuously, for their own sick entertainment. This is our nation's future, and we will take it one step at a time, and the next step is the 2026 Midterm Election. We need to pour everything into that, and ignore the noise from outsiders.

It's MUCH harder to rig a Congressional election than a presidential election. In a presidential election, you only have to rig one race, in a handful of swing states.

To rig a Congressional election, you have to rig a lot more elections, over 400 districts. Even if you remove the solid Red and solid Blue districts, and only count on those that might swing either way, it would still probably be better than 100 elections, which will be overseen by locals.

That's why they are trying to game the TOTAL number of districts, rather than the individual races. Unfortunately for them, they've been getting pushback from the courts, while inspiring California to fight fire with fire, and redraw their own , and do it legally. Their greedy duplicitous mess may well backfire against them. MAGA only has a very narrow lead right now. If any more MAGAs resign before election day, the House may flip even before the election. California adding five more Blue seats, could easily make the difference, and flip the House to the Democrats.

Then they have to govern responsibly and courageously, which they've almost never done in the past.

Well, he did invoke the Monroe Doctrine in his speech today, even though he has no idea who Monroe is, or what the Monroe Doctrine is. It was supposed to claim America from coast to coast, but Trump is going claim the entire Western Hemisphere.

I also saw him get excited when Rubio mentioned the $50 million reward for Maduro. I give it 24 hours before Trump claims he should get the $50 million reward because he ordered the operation.

We have two serious foundational issues in our nation that must be addressed, or we will never move beyond where we are right now.

The first is what you referred to: the Conservative Propaganda Machine, which is an amazingly effective operation. They brutally abuse the First Amendment, knowing it is difficult to regulate it, but that is exactly what we have to do. The Conservative Propaganda Machine operates entirely in bad faith, and is the mouthpiece for MAGA, a domestic terrorist organization, and this nation's biggest national security threat. Under those circumstances, MAGA's dissemination of disingenuous speech can be controlled.

The second is Campaign Finance Reform, which is the issue from which ALL other issues flow. It allows Sociopathic Oligarchs to control our government through legal bribery and corruption by BOTH sides. We must reconfigure our entire election system so that it filters OUT the worst and most corrupt candidates, instead of washing out our most responsible candidates by bad-faith, disingenuous campaign rhetoric.

As long as those two situations remain in force, we will always have problems with the worst of our nation gaining power. We have to put ALL candidates on equal, fair footing, so the best candidates can be elevated to positions of RESPONSIBILITY, and keep criminals and traitors from gaming our system to gain power to exploit our nation.

If the Dems can control one of the Congressional chambers, they will control investigatory powers, including subpoena power and arrest powers. That would blunt his legislation, and would force his henchmen to account for their crimes.

That is, IF the Democratic leadership do their jobs, which only has about a 10% chance of happening, unless the new people coming in after the 2026 bloodbath start immediately throwing their weight around, and force the old guard to honor their Constitutional responsibilities. If they won't, we will treat the Establishment Democrats exactly the same as MAGA.

The Dems blew it badly during the Biden administration, and they either learned their lesson, or they didn't. They better have learned their lesson, because they only have the next two elections to turn this around, and if they don't, then America is finished.

I'm always hoping for the best, but if we keep going in the same direction, with the same proven losing strategies, then the future belongs to MAGA. This will be the final opportunity to save America, and Dems have to step up. There are those who are willing, let's see if the Dem leadership can grow a spine and support them.

We are nation of laws, and we still have a few legal steps to go through, including the 2026 Midterm election, and the 2028 election. Both of those elections give the Democrats the legal authority to take back America. If they do, hopefully they act decisively, and don't totally squander the opportunity, like Biden did, destroying his legacy.

If MAGA prevents those elections, or refuses to recognize the results, then they have gone off-Constitution, and it's on. When it becomes clear to citizens that MAGA has fully rejected any pretense of honoring or respecting the law, Democracy, and the Constitution, there WILL be serious repercussions, almost certainly violent.

There is a 50-50 chance that we get out of this through elections, IF Dems actually use their elected power to fully crush MAGA mercilessly. If they don't, then it will take violence, and that will come eventually and inevitably.

Kicking off a Civil War should make him a lock for Nobel Peace Prize now. That's how it works, right?

My Dad was a helicopter pilot in the Army during the late 50s/early 60s, stationed in South Korea. He's gone now, so I can't ask for clarification, but he used to tell the story about flying the President of South Korea around just before his re-election. It was the night before the election, and they had been told they wouldn't have to fly until the next day, so they were free to hit the bar.

As they were relaxing, they got the call to get back to the airfield to fly the president back to the Capital. Normally that would have be highly against regulations to go from freshly drinking to flying, but a new poll showed the president about to lose the election, so they wanted him back in the Capital when they announced they were suspending the election because, to quote my Dad quoting his orders, "the country wasn't ready for democracy, yet."

America has been manipulating international geopolitics from the beginning.

Nah, he needs to be preserved for the big show trial, then sentenced to decades in prison, as Trump takes personal control of the oil. Eventually Maduro will access his offshore account and pay Trump a billion dollar bribe, and he'll be pardoned.

The ONLY thing this is about is Trump taking control of the Vemzuelan oil fields, the largest oil reserves on the planet. He wants to be the equal of the Saudi Royal Family, and stealing the planets largest oil reserves will do that for him.

He doesn't care about drugs, he just PARDONED the ex-prez of Honduras, who was convicted in an American court, and was serving decades in an American prison, for doing the exact same thing of which he is accusing Maduro.

This about Oil. Nothing else.

Now it's going to be a Civil War, and we will back whichever side will allow Trump to take control of the oil.