I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There.

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Including domestic. Like it or not JR, Trump has done the *best* job of undercutting American values than any foreign power could hope to achieve. Iran sure has jumped all over the midterm results like a rash and must be laughing their backs off.

You mean like repealing the NFA (pro-2ndAmend), deporting foreign invaders, protecting our borders... Those american values?

It's kind of humorous that at the time I answered you, your post only had one sentence, the one I quoted. That was the entirety of your post.

Fair.

Anyway. Let's not assume the truth of something that obviously didn't happen, and we know it didn't happen.

So you can't answer a hypothetical?

The fact is that roughly 120-125 million people voted resoundingly to repudiate the current administration, giving it a whomping so severe it's historic. Dems only needed 218 seats in the House. So far they have 259. The Senate was expected to be more of a challenge, yet Dems exceeded expectations, blowing past the 4 seats they needed by gaining 7 so far.

Here's more, that you won't hear from MAGA mouthpieces:

In governors’ races, Democrats flipped Iowa, Georgia, Ohio, Nevada, and Texas. None of the new Democratic governors will be hamstrung by a Republican supermajority in the state legislature. Republicans in Kansas, Iowa, North Carolina, and Ohio either lost or failed to regain supermajorities that could override a governor’s veto.​

The topline races don’t tell the whole story. Voters elected Democrats up and down the ballot. In Texas, the most prominent example of this phenomenon, Democratic senatorial candidate James Talarico won by about 12 points. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa won by 7 points. Voters flipped two congressional seats in districts Trump won by at least 14 points in 2024. Voters elected a Democratic attorney general and four Democratic supreme court justices, and they flipped control of the lower chamber of the legislature.​

Many of the races across the country were not close. Some races flipped by double digits from the margins of 2024. Some flips were as high as 20, 30, or even 40 percent. Observers called the results “seismic” and “jaw-dropping,” not just a blue wave but a “tsunami.”​

The 2026 midterm elections marked a revolution in American politics. Election scholar Michael McDonald estimates that about 124.3 million people, or just under 50% of those eligible, turned out to vote. That rate is just under the voting rate in the 2018 midterms, which itself was the highest midterm turnout rate since 1914.​

The election came off without anything more than the usual hitches, a tribute to the quiet work of dedicated lawyers and voting rights groups who have been fiercely contesting the administration’s efforts to rig the vote or to stir up opposition to accept the outcome. It was, as organizers had hoped, “too big to rig.” After months of suggesting he would contest the outcome of the election if Democrats won, Trump told New York Times reporters Erica L. Green and Tyler Pager that he would accept the results.​

The historic nature of this election cannot be overstated. It is a rejection of Trump, who insisted voters should imagine he was on the ballot. But more than that, it is a rejection of the Republican ideology that has driven American politics since the 1980s: the idea that some people are better than others and have the right to rule.​


So much more at the link. She ends by saying that "for now, anyway, Americans have moved on."

Trump will be irrelevant sooner than he (maybe even I) expected. He's already back to his ballroom and other pretty things. It remains to be seen if he's lost his recent obsessively male gaze.

Unfortunately, I think you're misconstruing what happened.

Yes, people voted blue. I'm not denying that.

It wasn't because they wanted democrats ruling.

It's because the Re-publicans in certain states have either gotten complacent and think there's no way they'd be voted out, or they were actively seeking to implement the same policies the Dumbocrats were pushing.

Or both.

And sadly, voters didn't stop and think that they could simply just vote for a different Re-publican, instead of voting for a Dumbocrat.

I hope that in 6 years time, people realize what a mistake this was.

You think it's bad now, if you had a kid in 6th grade, he will have graduated high school by the next voting period.

Well there's Trump, the rest of the Epstein class, his cabinet and his billionaire donors to name a few.

And you think the DSA is going to be any better?

Because the same policies they're pushing are very similar if not the same as the ones that moderates (Dems) are pushing.

But better days ahead now that Americans have decided enough is enough. Frankly I'm disheartened by your support of Trumpian lawlessness.

You keep forgetting I don't like Trump.

But I'm also not going to ignore his and his administrations accomplishments.
 

Arthur Brain

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You mean like repealing the NFA (pro-2ndAmend), deporting foreign invaders, protecting our borders... Those american values?

No, I mean stuff like a myriad empty pledges to Americans, wasting millions of dollars of taxpayer money on pet vanity projects, persecuting innocent people for his own gormless mistakes (reflecting pool) raising the costs of living through a needless foreign war which he promised not to start, allowing obscene terror to sweep through American cities with ICE operating unchecked, including the deaths of American citizens, cutting medicaid etc.
 

Arthur Brain

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Unfortunately, Trump's remaining time in office is likely to be rough because he's unhinged, and after such a historic walloping at the midterms he may well be *thinking* let's just do what he can and to hell with the consequences. He's never cared about American citizens. He's a malignant narcissist as well as a sociopath, so it's great that the democrats have control of both houses, but we can probably expect more of this. He's already marketing a new "VETO" baseball cap to replace the MAGA one so we'll have to see how things pan out. Thankfully, his power is significantly reduced now but he's not dormant yet...
 

annabenedetti

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Thanks for admitting to it. I'm a little surprised you did, to be honest. Because you're a mod/admin, when you edit a post, whether automatically or manually, your post didn't show the edit like it does for the rest of us after a short period of time. In the interest of transparency, I'd like to request you let us know when you make an edit the system doesn't display. Because your reply was aimed at my not reading something I couldn't possibly have read at the time I answered you, while knowing I couldn't have, it feels dishonest, even if unintentional. I happened to have remembered your post and my reply, but what if I hadn't?

So you can't answer a hypothetical?

Can't isn't the same as won't.

Unfortunately, I think you're misconstruing what happened.

Yes, people voted blue. I'm not denying that.

It wasn't because they wanted democrats ruling.

It's because the Re-publicans in certain states have either gotten complacent and think there's no way they'd be voted out, or they were actively seeking to implement the same policies the Dumbocrats were pushing.

Or both.

And sadly, voters didn't stop and think that they could simply just vote for a different Re-publican, instead of voting for a Dumbocrat.

I hope that in 6 years time, people realize what a mistake this was.

You think it's bad now, if you had a kid in 6th grade, he will have graduated high school by the next voting period.

It shouldn't be reduced to Republicans being lazy/disillusioned/unimaginative/afraid to go to the polls alongside 120+ million Americans. There are many reasons for the historic (on the scale of 50 years and more in some cases) turn to blue. They vary person to person, demographic to demographic, state to state. The through-line, however, is Trump. And a repudiation of all his works, and all his empty promises. He lost the independents. The Hispanics. The young. The women. Non-evangelical Christians. Truckers. Farmers. Your neighbor.

Here's a right-wing take that's fairly accurate, but still leaves things out.

(NB I post X links because I know you're on X. Because I'm not, I can't read the comments that follow his post so I don't know how it was received.)

 

annabenedetti

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Unfortunately, Trump's remaining time in office is likely to be rough because he's unhinged, and after such a historic walloping at the midterms he may well be *thinking* let's just do what he can and to hell with the consequences. He's never cared about American citizens. He's a malignant narcissist as well as a sociopath, so it's great that the democrats have control of both houses, but we can probably expect more of this. He's already marketing a new "VETO" baseball cap to replace the MAGA one so we'll have to see how things pan out. Thankfully, his power is significantly reduced now but he's not dormant yet...

When he's cornered, as he is now, expect him to double down. Appointing Miller is a good illustration of that.
 

Arthur Brain

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When he's cornered, as he is now, expect him to double down. Appointing Miller is a good illustration of that.

Unfortunately, this is gonna be the case. If Republicans want a realistic shot in 2028, they need to find some backbone and oust the embarrassment before he does yet more damage. That's just in the next few weeks/months let alone his two remaining years, cos he isn't going to resign. If they don't, buh bye...
 

commonsense

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Unfortunately, this is gonna be the case. If Republicans want a realistic shot in 2028, they need to find some backbone and oust the embarrassment before he does yet more damage. That's just in the next few weeks/months let alone his two remaining years, cos he isn't going to resign. If they don't, buh bye...
I don't discount a health crisis forcing him from office. He seems to be getting more and more feeble by the week. And on these rallies he's been doing, he tries to cover it up or ignore it, but often he can't find a word, so he bluffs. And often he can't get his mouth to form a word. Neurological glitches with his arms and shoulders. You don't hear too much about it on regular media. He's falling asleep on camera a couple of times a week. Even Sleepy Joe never did that.
 

Arthur Brain

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I don't discount a health crisis forcing him from office. He seems to be getting more and more feeble by the week. And on these rallies he's been doing, he tries to cover it up or ignore it, but often he can't find a word, so he bluffs. And often he can't get his mouth to form a word. Neurological glitches with his arms and shoulders. You don't hear too much about it on regular media. He's falling asleep on camera a couple of times a week. Even Sleepy Joe never did that.

It's a distinct possibility. He's never been an eloquent speaker of course, because he's far from a 'very stable genius' but his cognitive decline is getting more and more marked. The amount of times he's been caught dozing off on camera outweighs Biden's by some margin now and his continuous gaffes (which he was always prone to - airports in 1748?!) are beyond ridiculous. In fairness, Biden should have stepped down long before he finally did. Trump is gonna need to be hauled out...
 
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annabenedetti

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It's a distinct possibility. He's never been an eloquent speaker of course, because he's far from a 'very stable genius' but his cognitive decline is getting more and more marked. The amount of times he's been caught dozing off on camera outweighs Biden's by some margin now and his continuous gaffes (which he was always prone to - airports in 1748?!) are beyond ridiculous. In fairness, Biden should have stepped down long before he finally did. Trump is gonna need to be hauled out...

Now we need to watch what those around Trump are doing, particularly Stephen Miller and Russell Vought, who've been working for years towards expanding Trump's ability to govern without Congress. A major goal of Project 2025 is expanding executive power, and Project 2025 hasn't gone away, although they probably hope people have forgotten about it.


Senior officials, including deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and budget director Russell Vought, have been working with the White House Counsel's Office since April to identify executive actions on immigration, tariffs, housing costs and federal spending that Trump could pursue without congressional approval, said the three people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. . . .​
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White House counsel Will ‌Scharf and his team also are looking at "what Trump can legally do ‌on his own, where he could push the limits of his authority and how to defend those decisions in court," the White House official said. . . .​
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Federal agencies have submitted proposals and legal reviews of actions the administration could take unilaterally, one of the people with knowledge of the plans said.​
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Vought, whose US Office of Management and Budget oversees federal spending, is examining which priorities can move forward using money already appropriated by Congress, two of the people said.​
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He also wants to change federal grant rules to give political appointees more say in which government programs receive taxpayer money, they said, potentially giving the White House more influence over federal spending without seeking congressional approval.​
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Per bolding - the plan is to enlarge the President's capacity for governing as if the executive office was the only branch of government instead of being one of three, and some of that capacity could come by taking Congress' power to assign appropriations and by using political appointees (anxious to please the president) to make grant decisions instead of apolitical career public servants.

The above information comes from the link above, and from commentary by political analyst Jack Hopkins, below:

 
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Arthur Brain

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Now we need to watch what those around Trump are doing, particularly Stephen Miller and Russell Vought, who've been working for years towards expanding Trump's ability to govern without Congress. A major goal of Project 2025 is expanding executive power, and Project 2025 hasn't gone away, although they probably hope people have forgotten about it.


Senior officials, including deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and budget director Russell Vought, have been working with the White House Counsel's Office since April to identify executive actions on immigration, tariffs, housing costs and federal spending that Trump could pursue without congressional approval, said the three people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. . . .​
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White House counsel Will ‌Scharf and his team also are looking at "what Trump can legally do ‌on his own, where he could push the limits of his authority and how to defend those decisions in court," the White House official said. . . .​
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Federal agencies have submitted proposals and legal reviews of actions the administration could take unilaterally, one of the people with knowledge of the plans said.​
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Vought, whose US Office of Management and Budget oversees federal spending, is examining which priorities can move forward using money already appropriated by Congress, two of the people said.​
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He also wants to change federal grant rules to give political appointees more say in which government programs receive taxpayer money, they said, potentially giving the White House more influence over federal spending without seeking congressional approval.​
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Per bolding - the plan is to enlarge the President's capacity for governing as if the executive office was the only branch of government instead of being one of three, and some of that capacity could come by taking Congress' power to assign appropriations and by using political appointees (anxious to please the president) to make grant decisions instead of apolitical career public servants.

The above information comes from the link above, and from commentary by political analyst Jack Hopkins, below:


Good points and I suspect Trump already had the odious Miller in mind for the chief of staff role. Even he must have known things were going to go badly last week (not as spectacularly badly as they did possibly) and was talking out of his hat when he said Susan Wiles wasn't going anywhere:


It's not as though he doesn't have a history of throwing people under the bus..

Project 25 is a concern and so is Miller especially.
 

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Miller's biographer on Stephen Miller:

Stephen Miller, one of President Donald Trump's longest-serving aides, was called a "sadist" by his biographer, Jean Guerrero, on MS NOW over the weekend following his appointment as White House chief of staff.

"𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬, 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬, 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥, 𝐚 𝐬𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭," 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐨, 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐟 "𝐇𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫: 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫, 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚." "𝐇𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧'𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 — 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐩 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥."

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤, "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬," 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 "𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥." 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 "𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬," 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐨𝐧 "𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞, 𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐬."

"𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞," 𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐝. "𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐢𝐧 — 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞."

 

Arthur Brain

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Hmm, Tom Emmer sounds like just the sort of thoughtful, considered and reasonable person the political climate in America could sorely do with right now...

“𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭, 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐒𝐃𝐍𝐂. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐬’ 𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞,” 𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐝.

𝐄𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 — 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐖𝐖𝐄 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 — 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 “𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐨𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐬” 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟖.



Or not...

 

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Miller's biographer on Stephen Miller:

Stephen Miller, one of President Donald Trump's longest-serving aides, was called a "sadist" by his biographer, Jean Guerrero, on MS NOW over the weekend following his appointment as White House chief of staff.

"𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬, 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬, 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥, 𝐚 𝐬𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭," 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐨, 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐟 "𝐇𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫: 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫, 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚." "𝐇𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧'𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 — 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐩 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥."

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤, "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬," 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 "𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥." 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 "𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬," 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐨𝐧 "𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞, 𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐬."

"𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞," 𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐝. "𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐢𝐧 — 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞."


I've heard of the The Camp of the Saints, popular with great replacement/white nationalists.

I didn't know Miller was connected with it, but very much not surprised.
 
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