By LEE SMITH
The propaganda campaign labeling Donald Trump as an aspiring dictator determined to use the military and national security apparatus against his political opponents is designed not to affect the upcoming election but rather to shape the post-election environment. It is the central piece of a narrative that, by characterizing Trump as a tyrant (indeed likening him to Hitler), establishes the conditions for violence — not just another attempt on Trump’s life, but political violence on a massive scale intended to destabilize the country.
As I write in my forthcoming book Disappearing the President, Democratic Party research and media reports show that many senior party officials and operatives are preparing for the possibility of a Trump victory. Accordingly, planning is focused on undermining the incoming president with enough violence to rock his administration. Prominent post-election scenarios forecast such widespread rioting that the newly elected president would be compelled to invoke the Insurrection Act. With some senior military officials refusing to follow Trump’s orders, according to the scenarios, the U.S. Armed Forces would split, leaving America on the edge of the abyss.
By vilifying Trump as a despotic madman who must be stopped before he can commence his reign of terror, the regime’s propaganda apparatus not only slanders Trump but also pre-emptively threatens the reputation, as well as the livelihood and perhaps the liberty, of current military personnel. The point is to push the military against Trump: When the time comes to act, will you stand for democracy or side with a tyrant who sees the military only as an instrument to advance his personal interests?
For instance, last week the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, quoted former Trump administration officials claiming that the Republican candidate is contemptuous of America’s armed forces and, according to Trump’s former chief of staff, John Kelly, wishes he could command the same respect that Hitler commanded from his general officers.
This is not the first time that Trump has been compared to Hitler or that Kelly, a retired Marine general, turned on his former commander-in-chief. Kelly was the key source for a story published before the 2020 election, also in the Atlantic and also by Jeffrey Goldberg, that alleged Trump had called American WWII soldiers buried in French cemeteries “suckers and losers.”
The veracity of Kelly’s latest revelation that Trump admires Hitler must of course be judged against the fact that he waited five years to disclose it, even if it is unlikely to have much effect on the current election cycle. The military, and veterans of the Global War on Terror in particular, overwhelmingly support the candidate opposed to waging endless and strategically pointless foreign wars. Moreover, Trump has weathered far more damaging fabrications — like the false allegations that he had been compromised by Russian intelligence — that only galvanized support for him.
The purpose of the Hitler narrative is not to alter the electoral preferences of left-wing media audiences already solidly in the anti-Trump column, but rather to justify taking extreme measures against the Republican candidate and the America First movement and ensure that the bulk of the military sides with the anti-Trump plot. Thus, it is best understood in the context of recent accounts promising, or urging, violence after the November vote.
For example, last week the New York Times published a long interview with a scholar of fascism who declared that Trump is a fascist. The paper of record followed up with another long article by two Harvard professors calling for mass mobilization in the event of a Trump victory. The proposal suggests that private industry join civil society organizations to ostracize Trump and his supporters and engage in large public protests to provoke a crisis. Kamala Harris herself, commenting on Kelly’s allegations in the Atlantic story, claimed that her opponent “is a fascist” during a CNN town hall.
These stories are only the latest in an ongoing series of media reports warning of a Trump dictatorship. Beltway insider Robert Kagan was out of the gate early, writing even before Trump wrapped up the nomination that, without mounting resistance against the Republican candidate, America is “a few short steps, and a matter of months, away from the possibility of dictatorship.” A January story from NBC claimed that Trump was exploring ways to use the military to assassinate political rivals.
The propaganda meant to establish a predicate to employ violence to stop Trump has been reinforced at the highest levels of the Democratic Party.
When Joe Biden was asked by a reporter if he was confident that there would be a peaceful transfer of power after the 2024 election, he answered, “If Trump wins, no I’m not confident at all.” Then, seemingly correcting himself, the president said, “I mean if Trump loses, I’m not confident at all. He means what he says, we don’t take him seriously. He means it, all the stuff about, ‘If we lose there will be a bloodbath.’”
Biden was referring to a comment Trump made in March about Chinese efforts to build auto manufacturing plants in Mexico. The export of those cars to America, Trump said, would result in a “bloodbath” for the U.S. auto industry. Naturally, the Biden campaign used the figure of speech to accuse Trump of inciting “political violence.”
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) advertised a more specific scenario leading to violence when he promised that Congress will remove Trump by invoking Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits anyone “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” from holding federal office. “It’s going to be up to us on January 6, 2025, to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he’s disqualified,” Raskin has said. “And then we need bodyguards for everybody in civil war conditions.”
But the most significant post-election scenarios were drafted by Rosa Brooks, a former Obama Pentagon official whose 2020 wargaming with the Transition Integrity Project (TIP) has been credited by the left-wing press for its “accuracy.”
Ahead of the last election, Brooks and TIP, according to the Guardian, “imagined the then far-fetched idea that Trump might refuse to concede defeat, and, by claiming widespread fraud in mail-in ballots, unleash dark forces culminating in violence. Every implausible detail of the simulations came to pass in the lead-up to the U.S. Capitol attack on 6 January 2021.”
That’s a fanciful way of obscuring the truth. TIP anticipated that Trump would contest the results because party operatives knew beforehand that election irregularities resulting from new voting procedures, like mass mail-in voting, designed to facilitate fraud would be glaringly obvious. Thus, because of Brooks’s past performance and her central role in a network comprising the media and current and former defense officials, her work is widely acknowledged as the Left’s roadmap for post-election contingency planning.
For the 2024 election, Brooks teamed up with journalist Barton Gellman to run a series of wargames in May and June under the auspices of the Democracy Futures Project (DFP), part of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University.
As with the 2020 wargames, the two opposing teams were staffed by former government officials from the Republican as well as the Democrat establishment. The results were announced with a mid-summer media rollout to ready other officials and operatives for likely post-election operations. Four articles were published the same day, July 30 — in the New Republic; the Guardian; the Washington Post, which ran a piece by Gellman; and Brooks herself writing for the Bulwark — showing that Brooks and Gellman’s scenarios, at least those disclosed, assume a Trump victory. The play then is to block.
Disruption, destabilization, and violence are legitimized by a narrative driven by self-congratulatory mirror-imaging and projection in which the so-called defenders of democracy face down an authoritarian Trump.
Brooks and her cohort ignore the evidence of Biden and Harris’s abuse of power and assert that it is Trump who will who use the federal government against his opponents. It is Trump’s CIA and DOJ, according to the wargamers, that will cashier national security officials for “raising concerns about the politicization of intelligence and the pressure to launch ideologically motivated investigations.” It is Trump who will use the IRS to go after nonprofits. It is at Trump’s behest that journalists will be targeted and Democrat-aligned media outlets investigated as the FCC revokes broadcast licenses. And, writes Brooks, the Trump administration will force out top military officials on account of their “objecting to Trump’s cozy relationship with Russia.”
The forecasts read like paranoid fantasy, but they’re carefully scripted inversions of reality meant to to rewrite history and obscure the crimes of the Left that have shaken the pillars of the republic.
The most alarming scenario involves political and military officials “resisting efforts to federalize their national guard units and send them to quell anti-Trump protests in major U.S. cities.” That is, the post-election playbook calls for (or takes for granted) widespread violence so intense that the president invokes the Insurrection Act. The forecast posits a split in the senior ranks of the U.S. military after Trump replaces the chiefs of staff with officers who comply with his order and deploy forces to put down the riots.
This is where the political violence cultivated by the destructive Left is leading: blood-soaked streets and a divided military. The purpose of the Hitler narrative is to force members of the military to turn against Trump. After all, loyalty to the constitution means fighting Hitler, not obeying his orders.
With the two recent attempts on Trump’s life, we’ve seen how the regime’s narratives simultaneously create the conditions for violence and explain it away. When Trump was shot at a rally in Butler, PA, Democratic Party officials and the media not only denied any connection between the shooting and their inflammatory rhetoric but even blamed Trump himself. After all, he and his aspiring assassin were cut from the same cloth: “The gunman and Trump, at their opposite ends of a bullet’s trajectory, are nonetheless joined together as common enemies of law and democracy,” wrote David Frum in, of all places, the Atlantic.
On this view, Trump has polarized the country so profoundly that he is ultimately responsible for the attempt on his own life. But that is another inversion of reality, tailored to suit the bloodlust of a dark regime. It is the logic of terror: It is only the violence of our victims that drove us to slaughter them.
This self-serving logic not only gets the Left off the hook for past depredations; it serves as the pretext for future violence against Trump, his aides, and his supporters. After November 5, this weaponized narrative could be expanded to justify violence on a mass scale designed to break the republic.
Lee Smith is a bestselling author whose new book, “Disappearing the President: Trump, Truth Social, and the Fight for the Republic,” was published October 22. This article was first published at TomKlingenstein.com.
This article was originally published by RealClearWire and made available via RealClearWire.
An effective tactic is accuse your adversary of what you are planning to do yourself.
Donald J. Trump is the odds on favorite to win the presidential election for multiple reasons, not least being the Democrats stumbled badly by advancing a candidate abundantly lacking in executive and administrative skills and incapable of connecting with an enormous swath of the electorate likely to vote this election cycle. Harris has Lia at people and reflects a certain kind of personality engaged in politics who actually lacks hardened, mature political skills.
None of which suggests Trump is without flaws. He has a few.
In the end, Harris will lose because she comes up short in the minds of most voters on the economy and border security.
Harris had. Chance to inform the voters about what she would do as our president. She didn’t and her failure practically guarantees Donald J. Trump will prevail. He turned out to be the better candidate.
There will b hand-wringing when Trump and s sworn in for Term II, but no significant violence.
The hysterical projections spun out by this author reflect much of the kind of silly sentiments expressed by coastal progressives, most of which reflect a fabulous detachment from reality as it actually exists.
My recommendation is the author go out and get a real job instead is spinning out rank speculation.
“no significant violence” – mostly peaceful, lololol
If they do, they better understand the consequences. There are 18,000,000 veterans alive in our republic who most likely not put up with that sh–. If they do, they will most likely destroy their own cities as they did in the past. I’m thinking most Americans are law abiding patriotic citizens.
Would be funny to watch Antifa and BLM burn down blue cities cause Trump won
That is where they are going to start it off.
And, if it were to be contained in those areas, I am OK with it. But, it will not. It will spread.
Democrats will not give up power, they have said that. Hillary Clinton herself has said it. It’s why the rhetoric has gone off the charts these last few days before the election. Many see through it but there are those who believe every word and harbor hate on a fanatical scale. We’ll see what happens.
The letter signed by intelligence officials claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop accusations “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” doesn’t offer legal retribution because it was all weasel wording, even if it outed the weasels who signed it (maybe we need all flag officers to be tested as well?…….Did Obama do so when he purged the flag officers corp?) Any “split” within military ranks is fully open to UCMJ action, though, and treason is the most serious charge on the books.
People should be more careful of manipulation. Satan didn’t use nuclear weapons to destroy the universe. He used a lie.
Nothing like projecting the GOP plan onto the Democrats, the MAGA crowd demonstrated what they are capable of on Jan. 6, 2021. No there is no deep state out to get Trump, there is no plan. He fears law and order as he knows he has broken the law consistently. He wants to go back to the good old days when the wealthy could donate their way out of trouble.
Only you missed 1 thing Mr commie Alaskans for freedom. No one was armed. Your insurrection was BS.
Doug, I always wonder what “Alaskans for Freedom”‘s definition of “freedom” is. Asked that question of him/her several times. Never got an answer. So I have to conclude that his/her idea of freedom is the “my way or the highway” kind, since it clearly does not include tolerance for unlike-minded opinions.
Ahhh,,, yes. The good old days when the wealthy could donate their way out of trouble.
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You mean like the Epstein client list? (Isn’t it curious to you that Giselle Maxwell is in jail for trafficking underage girls to… well… no one.)
Or, Hunter Biden (right up until a judge with a modicum of respect for the bench overturned the plea deal.)
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By the way. Do you not remember the DisruptJ20 folks? I do. A multicity planned and executed riot. What side of the political aisle planned that???
I have two images from that time burned into my memory.
This first is the Jan. 6 “insurrectionists” wandering the halls of the capitol, staying between the velvet ropes, taking selfies. The other a reporter at one of the many BLM riots, standing in front of several burning cars and backlit individuals in the process of throwing items, claiming to report from a “mostly peaceful protest”.
The left has been pushing and pushing and pushing using law, stretching the law making up rules attacking media stealing elections, letting criminals out, not even arresting them, and they talk about war.
The selection will be interesting and will see what happens after the fourth, but be careful what they wish for turn this country upside down. Used to be a great country, but the politicians and elites have ruined it by stealing lying and robbing the taxpayer.
It’s still a great country. Nobody has shot anybody on the floor of the senate yet.
Not a great country when the Department of Justice is used against its citizens for stupid stuff. And the rapist murders thieves and Drug sellers get a little slap on the wrist along with antifa and Black Lives Matter, riding and burning down cities.
The senators work together as a one party club. They buy each others’ support with public funds, not shoot fellow team members.
The wild card to the system is the outsider who has massive support from the public itself. Trump’s election would disrupt the system, already resulting in 2 attempts on his life.
There are 2 months after the election if the mass ballot fraud schemes fail to finish him off for our FBI to use proxy crowds to instigate civil unrest justifying declaring martial law.
With martial law any travel or opposition expressed will be labeled treason and dealt with accordingly.
The Uniparty is not going to release power willingly.
We have all of heard the ‘screaming harpies’ as I describe them, stating unto the individual, be they a leftist politician, leftist ‘journalist’, leftist ‘celebrity’, etc., that they shall be somehow ‘targeted’ by, and ‘imprisoned’ by Trump, as well as all of their leftist idealogue friends and groups, such as same sex couples, interracial couples, transexuals, etc., even if individuals from these same groups do not adhere unto their own leftist beliefs, because it is the victimization that matters, not the actual threat itself, or which there is none.
So, one must wonder, within pragmatic thought, what these leftist woe mongers are actually afraid of?
Not of Trump, as a second term President, because he did NONE of the things they so thought he would have within his first term, so it must be something else.
Methinks that is the exposure of their wrongdoings, which lawfully, would land them within incarceration, regardless of whether Trump was actually elected POTUS, but by the rule of law within this Nation.
What have they done, hidden by the cloak of the supposed media that supported them?
I believe fully that what is feared most is exposure unto what ‘they’ have engaged within, that has remained hidden for so long.
Trump will lay open the record of their acts, and that is what they fear most.
The truth.
Trump didn’t fire Kelly, he promoted him then praised him when he left. He didn’t fire Pence. He didn’t fire Mattis, Miley or the vast majority of other Trump appointees telling the truth about him. So this whole argument that they are all lying because Trump fired them is BS. Imagine telling yourself that John Kelly, Mark Milley, James Mattis, Mark Esper, and Mike Pence are all lying to you, but a twice-impeached, rapist, business fraud, convicted felon who paints himself orange and rambles about sharks, batteries and a golfer’s appendage is telling you truth.
If Trump wins and seriously considers repid deportation of 1 million people, we should all prepare for war. Sheer lunacy.
What makes you think deporting the criminals that have been arrested for violent crime will result in war? Do you really think the people of Aurora, CO want to pay protection in order to enter their apartments?
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Are you of the belief that CBP and ICE are going to be grabbing families who are just trying to get by?
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You want lunacy? Leave the military age man with MS-13 tattooed across his forehead free to roam the suburbs.
No, not talking about 1 million face tattooed thugs. I’m talking about workers. If you take a million out of the farms, fast food, kitchens and manufacturing, you’ve gone the making of unrest. That’s the start of it.
Got it.
Because it is Trump, you automatically assume the action taken will be detrimental to the US.
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And, who did that work before we replaced them with migrants? Oh… wait… I know. Americans.
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But, you leave out another factor. What is each illegal costing every US taxpayer? It is not cheap to put them up in hotels and feed them, but do not consider that. Only consider the costs that will make Trump look bad.
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How about we do not deport them, but instead cut off the freebies? See how many self deport.
We can even fill a shift at McDonald’s paying 15 an hour. Drive through time the other day was 35 minutes. You can’t get anyone to work anymore but immigrants.
And… I wonder why?
HINT: it is not the pay. It is the sense of entitlement we instilled in our children. They are all such special precious snowflakes that they should not have to work for what they want. And, so they do not. Instead of actually working, they petition the government for handouts, and get them. It is easier. (And, a massive minimum wage IS a government enforced handout of the company’s money.)
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But, instead of fixing that problem, we import workers.
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And, as you note, it is not just fast food. It is farms, kitchens, manufacturing. But, again, fix the symptom, let the disease run rampant. Good plan.
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I also notice you gloss over the freebies we are handing out. I wonder… will the fast food places be able to hire people if we stop giving them rent and food money? (I bet the immigrants that want to stay in the country will be thrilled to take those jobs. And the ones that are here for the handouts will leave. Win-win in my book.)
Oh come on Greg, you are deliberately obtuse here!
You claim Trump will deport 1 million people!
(and by your own admission we have 1 million face tatooed thugs in the country, which fulfills your stated claim).
CBMTTek is correct. Deporting the criminal element and the thugs with terror ties, we let into the country over the last 4 years, will NOT result in a war, but a great sigh of relief.
From trumps own lips.
One begins to wonder if you simply hear what you want to and then embellish it to fit and feed your considerable animosity towards him beyond all reason.
Per CNN Trump stated he will deport 3 million criminals. It should further be pointed out that these are NOT legal immigrants but illegal aliens, who eschew the process of applying for immigration, abuse the asylum process and now expect to be fed, clothed, educated and housed at the taxpayers expense. Mayorkas freely admits that they have allowed individual with terror ties to remain in the country, along with gangs and other criminal elements. This does not include the got-aways, we all know are most likely a considerable number of individuals of unclear intention and backgrounds.
The question here isn’t if YOU like Trump or not, but if the country can afford another 15-20 million illegals over the next 4 years in a continuation of the current regime!
There are more domestic threats here than immigrants ones.
Really?
Who?
You for one New Yorker.
I am a threat?
Why?
Because I do not want the US to turn into a subservient state to the globalists you seem to like?
1) These are NOT IMMIGRANTS!
2) There should be no threats at all, if we enforced out laws and vetted properly, before allowing individuals to arrive at our borders!
It disgusts me that you so cavalierly dismiss the myriad of rules and regulation legal immigrants to the country have conquered to be here and become part of the fabric of this nation.
3) You really have no idea if domestic threats outweigh the threats from the illegal alien invasion, but it sounds good. It is also irrelevant. It compares domestic apples to outsider oranges. One is a internal disagreement over policy and leadership,(par for the course in a representative republic) the other an outside threat instigated by foreign actors to damage us as a nation. Certain quarters screamed “Russian collusion” some years ago, importing unvetted individuals from Syria, Iran, Venezuela, Haiti, China and other places hostile to our nation, could be seen as true subversion of our system and nation.
My own lips as well.
And the residents of Aurora, CO.,, Springfield, OH, NYC, LA, Oakland, Houston, Tx, etc… etc… etc..
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Admit it Greg, if it was one of those warmongers you like, you would not be knocking the plan to deport the criminals. You would be thrilled to see it happen.
You been listening to Carlson too much. Brainwashed.
Seriously.
There is documented proof of Venezuelan gangs taking over apartment buildings in Aurora. But, “it is only a handful of buildings…”
And the crime rate in numerous cities is rising in line with the illegals. Direct proportion.
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And, who is Carlson?
Almost every lefty is intolerant to any other point of view. I’m ready to loose many friends this coming administration. And yes a civil war is coming.
Not true, but I know many righties on here that are.
It is a trait of leftists. They are really just toddlers in big bodies.
When they hear something they do not like, they throw a tantrum. Scream so loud, no one else can hear the offending words either.
It is. But look in the mirror.
Not a leftist.
And, not throwing tantrums. Unless you think it is a tantrum on my part asking you to back up your claims. Asking for substance is a tantrum, is it?
No not that. I’m talking about you disagreeing with anyone, not just me, that has an opinion different than you. It’s a sickness cb. Get that looked at. Therapy?
Huh?
Isn’t the point of debate to hear multiple points of view? To hear from all sides to achieve a solution that is informed and accurate?
And please tell us all why YOUR opinion is the correct one and CB’s or mine for that matter is not?
Aren’t we all entitled to decide for ourselves how we view anything and then have the freedom to share that view? It’s called respect for your fellow man, democracy, freedom of speech, bill of rights etc.
So Greg make a better argument, don’t just whine that some are not genuflecting to your opinionated declarations!
You know I’m right though. You just argue for argument sake.
In your dreams, sweet pea!
Oh and thanks for proving my point. You have no actual argument. Just an intense dislike for a certain fellow originally from New York!
Leave CB out of it.
I am allowed to disagree.
And, I generally provide some information on why I disagree. See, that is not called throwing a tantrum. It is called having a discussion, a back and forth. Perhaps I could change a mind or two, and perhaps I could have my mind changed.
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Intolerant? Doubt it. Calling out the BS, OK, I will admit to that.
Somehow, the thought of thousands of pussyhat-wearing soyboys rioting doesn’t instill much fear in me!
Years ago this might have been fictional. Today, I believe every word of it!
If Trump wins the left will riot. If he loses the left will riot under the guise of celebrating.
Only real question is how much damage they will do and if they actually kill someone this time.
If he looses, the right will riot claiming cheating and restitution. This after the hundreds of court challenges get shot down.
Seriously?
Saying the outcome of the election is questionable is a riot? WTF, Greg!
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Ohhh… I see. The riot will happen because the right will claim there was cheating. Got it.
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No it will not. Did not happen in 2020, did not happen in 2022.
CBMTTek – 140 Capitol police officers would disagree with your assessment! I can imagine you believe the moon landings were fake too.
I do not doubt they would.
You leftists. That is all you have. One disruption. (I would call it a riot, but that would be insulting to real riots. See: DisruptJ20, CHOP/CHAZ, Portland, and Occupy anything for examples of a riot.)
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So, in the recorded history of the USA, there was one incident where the folks on the right side of the political aisle acted badly. Whereas, there are riots from the left over politics practically every month.
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Got. Thanks for sharing.
It was a big one. Search for others.
I did.
Did not find anything of any substance.
On the other hand, plenty of disturbances from the left.
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Perhaps you can enlighten me. (Prediction… Greg will come back with some deflection. “Look it up yourself…” or something else.)
I just refuse to do your legwork for you.
See, you have nothing. Once again. Deflect when challenged.
The right will say, fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me and pick up their weapons.
No they will not.
Did they riot in 2022? Nope. And, the questionable antics going on across the nation were even more egregious in some cases.
News flash… the right are not children. They do not throw tantrums whenever they are upset.
Haaa! You’re still butt hurt over it. Salve available on Amazon.
Looking forward to meeting you forkner. In battle. Nose to nose just you and me. You’re a Marxist pos.
Now you are ready to fight someone over online comments! This article is doing the very thing it accuses others of doing. It is just trying to paint those that do not have the same political views as evil. To pretend that the divisive and hyperbolic rhetoric is only coming from the left is just not accurate. Now this guy Doug is so filled with hate he wants violence. Maybe just tone it down here a little. We all have to live in this country together!
You’re wats wrong with America today. Intolerance is regrettable. Bring it if you must.
Correct assessment.
Greg claims to be a conservative, but he likes the Bush family. A bigger bunch of RINO globalists I have never seen. If it is supporting the WEF agenda, Greg likes it.
I liked dad Bush. He was probably the last person alive. He was one alive truly knew where the roswell aliens are because his connections with previous three letter entities. I like Herbert Walker Bush. Because I believe he saved us after nine eleven. Sadam needed to be taken out
He was wanting to build a breeder reactor but the israelis took that out for him. I like Jeb because he’s a good person. He hails from florida?What’s not to like? And our famous founder used to work for him. I like good people with moral fiber.
See, you like globalists.
It seems that you are the self proclaimed sole arbiter of who gets the privilege of calling themselves a conservative! Maybe there is more room than you allow. Maybe it is not up to you to make the decision.
It’s absolutely my call to determine who I see as a leftist. No one else is allowed to make my opinion for me.
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Do you check with a panel before you make up your mind?
I don’t know about that. I tend to like the person rather than a label. Unlike you.
Let’s see.
Trump was going to get us into innumerable wars, and if it were not for his generals stopping him, WWIII would have already happened. You find him to be unstable, and you cite that as a reason.
But…. you like the Presidents that got us into three, THREE, unnecessary, costly (both in money and life), and destabilizing wars.
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Make that make sense to me? Trump will get us into wars, so he sucks. Bush Sr. and Jr. ACTUALLY got us into wars, and they are great.
We are safer because of the Bush’s.
So, going to war makes the US safer, but under the Trump administration, going to war would make us less safe.
Sorry, Greg. Both cannot be accurate. Choose one.
And there it is…..cb finally admits that he is for isolation mongering. He still thinks it’s 1930 and we don’t need other countries trade to survive. Further, he thinks globalists, is bad because it lowerers poverty and raises the standard of living is a bad thing. I’m afraid he’s hopeless.
Reading comprehension is not your strong point apparently.
Asking you to demonstrate how a President you like starting actual wars is OK, but a President you do not like, who did not start any conflicts, is dangerous is not calling for isolation. It is asking you to explain the disconnect.
Just because I am old and am no longer in Alaska, don’t make the mistake of thinking that i’ve grown soft.That would be fatal.
Shoot to kill orders may be exactly what the radical left is seeking, should Trump prevail on 11/5. In the mind of the Marxist, that would validate an all-out civil war. And the left loves to call Trump a dictator. In that regard, Trump would’nt need the military or national guard. MAGA volunteers would commence action, all on their own.
That would be a huge mistake. I guess it would be okay though.As long as they’re wearing those big red hats.
It does feel like the calm before the storm. There is no way the regime in power, backed by layers of Intelligence agencies with their private goon squads, FBI and their domestic thugs, the military, and millions of unvetted immigrants that were imported into our borders will not be mobilized to block the will of the public.
Whichever way the “election” turns out, the likelihood of mass unrest and declaration of martial law is more likely than the continuing of the false “normalcy” we have been living in.
The likelihood of mass unrest is a given, no matter how the election turns out, Brian, as those creating said unrest are the same individuals, or groups, or organizations, that would have created said unrest, because that is exactly what they were created for.
The thing is, is that the locations of this ‘unrest’ shall preside within blue cities and locations, rather than red cities and locations, at the allowance of the blue cities and locations, and the resistance of red cities and locations, but the thing is, the ‘unrest’ itself shall garner the majority of the coverage, even though said ‘unrest’ is brought forth within the very blue cities and locations as the fault, somehow, of the red cities and locations.
All the while, the blue cities and locations destroy themselves, whilst the red cities and locations defend themselves.
Why?
Because the blue cities and locations ALLOW said destruction within support of the control of their government overseer, whereas the red cities and locations support the control of the individual, as their own overseer.
The ‘Government’ as it is, is a very weak, though powerful construct of existence.
The ‘Individual’, as it is, is a very strong, though underutilized construct of existence.
Once the individual understands the power of oneself, as that individual, they realize that they, are, within fact, more powerful than the Government overseeing them.
Now multiply those individuals’ times millions, and the ‘Government’ stands no chance, nor should it.
The will of the individual shall always outweigh the power of the ‘Government’ overseeing said individual, based upon the numbers of individuals versus the numbers within the ‘Government’.
Similar to our local Alaskan crop duster,
Some people just need a good fight.
Look at the Brooklyn dodgers, or shall I say … LA Dodgers, they win the World Series, and what does the fans do? Take this opportunity to riot and steal giant t v sets. Sometimes, no matter how hard you try,
There just is no pleasing people.
And, the political make up of LA is???
HINT: It is not on the right side of the political aisle.
Brilliant strategy – accuse Trump of being a dictator, then when he is elected call in ANTIFA to riot, loot and destroy. Then being in the military and arrest Trump and those loyal to him.
I can see it now…Trump looses biggly. He is hoisted up into that dump truck by the pillow guy. Tucker is driving. They lead a 4 truck caravan to the US Capitol where forces take them out with RPGs. Communists shrink back into the shadows waiting for another Mesia claiming to be a conservative.
Greg, you have a problem.
Within fact, you have always had a problem, from the moment you began to espouse your opinion within this site.
Your problem is twofold.
One, you identify as a conservative, of which your political DNA is opposite of, though you claim otherwise.
Two, and more importantly, you adhere unto the TDS philosophy of politics, whereas you wish that Trump, or those that support him, are somehow negligent, or lacking within individual experience or intellect.
You attempt to present yourself as somewhat intellectual, but your intellectualism is severely lacking, just as your reasoning skills.
You cannot hold a variant and solid argument against any foe without foisting an unmitigated argument.
That is who you are.
That is who you always shall be.
I pity you, and whom you have become.
I will probably betray my age when I say that the comments here and the reality of a woke culture on the left that no longer tolerates dissenting opinions actually took decades to finally reach this low point. When I was a kid the political conventions were transparent, especially the democrats. They were fun and educational to listen to to see and hear what actually went on to come up with a party platform. Democrats were an umbrella organization and they and republicans talked to each other and even cooperated on legislation after the elections were over. My father was a democrat committeeman and my mother fulfilled the same role on the republican side. They used to laugh about cancelling out each other’s votes. People listened to each other because they actually respected each other and most were friends. Two events changed all of this.
1. The Clintons brought in the managed convention which was no longer transparent.
2, The democrats changed from an all-inclusive party to an Identity Politics party.
They knew that they had the unions and most workers because there was no other place to go. That held until Trump brought in the MAGA movement to the republicans, which mirrored the old democratic party of inclusiveness. That’s why the establishment hates him. He is changing the political landscape that the big boys with the money had painstakingly set up. And that is why if Trump wins, we will have thousands out in the street with signs stating “not my president.” And yes, we could see the return of Antifa rioters as well. There wasn’t supposed to be more than one actual party, but now there is.
Maybe enough FUD* already?
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So, electing Trump causes blood-soaked streets and a divided military, not electing Trump ends America as we know it.
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Either way forces fearful Americans to wonder why they vote at all, why not just stay home, memorize the number for 911?
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In what world does Lee Smith expect easily outraged Lefties –not– to riot, burn stuff, break stuff, steal stuff, kill cops and babies, steal elections, commit treason, overthrow the president, misbehave to the point of martial law?
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Lefties “preparing for war”, what’s that mean, sacking America like the Vandals sacked Rome,
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…while armed Americans whose patience is vast, but bloody well not infinite, huddle fearfully, quietly, hoping not to enrage Leftie filth into “future violence against Trump, his aides, and his supporters”?
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Just the sort of rot that’ll sell a book or two, but not to us.
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*Fear Uncertainty Doubt (‘https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt)
I would hold off stocking inventory for black Friday or white sales or president’s day sales.
Wow. After reading through all these comments it appears to me the author of the first lie has possessed all these nihilist to the point they are completely blind. The question I ask myself everyday is, are we looking for the truth, or are we looking for results? I truly fear for our Republic
Certifying an election is a process due, takes time and substantiation, a civic duty and corporate fiduciary obliged of even communications giant corporatists something they understand in distinct pacifistic manner.
It’s funny to think of the Left attempting violence against conservative patriot Trump voters. A bunch of beta-male cucks with man buns who are scared of “assault weapons”, who cant define what a woman is, and thought a bunch of people touring the Capital was an “insurrection”, against well-armed real men consisting of veterans, LE and good old boys. Grab the popcorn.