Secret Plan for Second Coup Attempt to Overthrow American Democracy in 2024 Election

 “Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on January 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here.” - Jack Posobiec, CPAC, 2/22/2024

And here's the secret plan to achieve their Christian Natoinalist dictatorship: The Hartmann Report.

Once they [GOP] have control of both the political and the “deep state” or administrative government, these conservatives intend to set about making the changes they’ve been pushing for years:

— End gay marriage and criminalize being trans.
— Outlaw abortion and most forms of birth control.
— End the teaching of Black history.
— Outlaw DEI and affirmative action of any sort.
— Shut down most functions of the EPA so the fossil fuel and chemical industries can do whatever they want to our air and water.
— End enforcement of our anti-monopoly laws.
— Fire thousands of IRS investigators to make America safe for morbidly rich tax cheats.
— Shut down all “green” initiatives and instead “drill, baby drill.”
— Sell off public lands and parks to the highest bidders.
— Privatize Social Security and end traditional Medicare.
— End federal funding for public schools and colleges.
— Outlaw unions.

Freudian slip

"We may say here that the patient remembers nothing of what is forgotten and repressed [unconscious], but that he expresses it in action. He reproduces it not in his memory but in his behaviour; he repeats it, without knowing of course he is repeating it." 

A Bigger Story Than You Can Possibly Imagine

Josh Marshall @ TPM

Refers to recent revelations that the primary source guy behind the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, the Twitter Files, and the GOP's effort to impeach Biden, etc, is, basically, a Russian intelligence operative, spreading disinformation to sabotage American democracy. Surprise, surprise! 

Media organizations at first wouldn’t touch the story because they’d spent the previous four years kicking themselves for allowing themselves to become the promoters of a Russian election interference and disinformation campaign with the purloined DNC emails back in 2016. Since the Hunter Biden laptop stories had all the hallmarks of exactly the same thing somehow happening to pop up in the final days of the 2020, of course they were suspicious.

 

At worst, that initial resistance was very reasonable, given the record for 2016, even if it had been the case that the story was entirely legitimate. But it wasn’t. Even though the Smirnov revelations themselves don’t speak directly to the laptop story, they tell us very clearly that Russian intelligence operations have continued to drive stories at the center of the American political debate right up until today. 

To sum up, for me: we know Dump and MAGA and conservative media (Fox et al) are Putin assets (if not active agents) and with them they have played the MSM, TV News, and NY Times/WaPo for treasonous fools going on a decade now, amplifying hostile foreign influences at a scale not seen since the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s, if ever in American history. This is the "Big" part of the story. 

A neurosis isolates; a sublimation unites.

neurosis (noun): a mental condition involving symptoms of stress (depression, anxiety, obsessive behavior, hypochondria) but not a radical loss of touch with reality; or (in nontechnical use) excessive and irrational anxiety or obsession.  

"The neuroses exhibit on the one hand striking and far-reaching points of agreement...with art, religion. and philosophy. But on the other hand they seem like distortions of them. It might be maintained that a case of hysteria is a caricature of a work of art, that an obsessional neurosis is a caricature of religion and that a paranoic delusonal is a caricature of a philosophical system." 

          - Sigmund Freud 

NY governor seeks to quell business owners fears....

"In an interview on the New York radio show the Cats Roundtable with the supermarket billionaire John Catsimatidis, Kathy Hochul [Gov. of NY] sought to quell fears in some quarters that the penalties handed to Trump for engaging in fraudulent business practices could chill the state’s commercial climate."- Edward Helmore in NY/The Guardian

Meaning, for one thing, the fraud and tax evasion Dump was fined for is widespread, or so some business people (like supermarket billionaires) think; and they oughta know, right?  

How about, if it is common place, considering how these practices rob public infrastructure spending, inflate government deficits, and squeeze lower income business enterprises? They are not "victimless" crimes. 

Reminder: MAGA and OFCB have been Putin Assets since 2016

 

"In exchange for weakening NATO, undermining the U.S. stance in favor of Ukraine in its attempt to throw off the Russians who had invaded in 2014, and removing U.S. sanctions from Russian entities, Russian operatives were willing to help Trump win the White House. The Republican-dominated Senate Intelligence Committee in 2020 established that Manafort’s Ukrainian business partner Kilimnik, whom it described as a “Russian intelligence officer,” acted as a liaison between Manafort and Deripaska while Manafort ran Trump’s campaign." -Heather Cox Richardson

Letters from an American Historian 

"Soft Space," Soft Machine (1978)

More psychedelic disco; or space disco or electro disco, etc. Some hybrid disco form from late-Disco era, 1976-1979. Strobe light synth drums racing neon lit city streets at night. Band from early '70s Canterbury scene, England; better known for jazzy progressive rock.