I was talking to a friend of mine who asked me if I thought Americans would fall out into the streets in huge numbers if Team Evil interferes with the outcome of the elections to steal it. I used to believe in our revolutionary spirit, so I wanted to say, “Yes, of course.” The thing is, I don’t. I don’t think enough Americans will fall out to make a difference.

We SHOULD, no doubt. But we’ve just taken it on the chin, over and over as the One Percent have bashed us, nonstop, with one un-American reality after another. We’ve had plenty of reasons to hit the streets like they do in France. We’ve even had some success with No Kings Days. But one day of protests from time to time doesn’t get the job done and we haven’t had any general strikes or open-ended No Kings movements. Any tyrant can ignore a one-day protest.

But why are we, the inheritors of one of the most successful revolutions in history, just sitting back and taking it? Where’s our revolutionary spirit when we need it? My current working theory is that our revolutionary spirit has been tucked safely into the ballot box and the courts for safekeeping. At least, that’s what Americans are depending upon.

In our history, one of those two has always protected the nation. Americans have become accustomed to the process. That is to say, Americans have become accustomed to relying upon the checks and balances that have served us so well for so long, and we’re ill-equipped to respond when the checks become unbalanced.

We’ve had miserable politicians before. For the most part, by and large, we vote them out when we get the chance. There have been a couple of impeachments when we couldn’t (or wouldn’t) wait for a vote. When the voting process is too far between, we can count on the courts. Well, we could, and in fairness, so far, the lower courts have been holding the line and respecting the Constitution.

But that’s why the One Percent worked so hard to corrupt higher courts, most especially the so-called Supreme Court. Cheat Justice John Roberts and his toadies stand ready to service the highest bidder, and the One Percent have more money than the rest of us combined. MAGA Mike, the Johnson is also an obvious threat. Will he certify the actual outcomes and seat the winning candidates? Has he done a single honorable thing since you became aware of his disgusting existence? Do you think he’s going to start now?

EVERY indicator suggests the Democrats should take control of the House of Representatives and there’s a better than average chance to flip the Senate as well. EVERY person (expect MAGA) knows it. So what do we do when that becomes the reported outcome, but Team Evil starts screaming and yelling about cheating and refusing to seat incoming pols?

I think what the American people will do when that happens is…wait. We’ll wait for the inevitable lawsuits to work their way through the system. Meanwhile, the One Percent’s media will barrage the airwaves with stories about the faults of this race or that outcome. We’ve already been told not to believe the results of exit polling, the gold standard of polling. Many of us have accepted that fraud. Too many of us will accept more.

In short, we’re being made victims of our own success. The process has served us so well for so long, we just trust that it’s going to save us again. It always has in the past. It’s not an unreasonable position. Except this is the first time the nation has faced an intentional threat, designed and implemented to undermine the Constitution and the process.

People have always done questionable things in their quests for power, but this is the first time people are willingly doing despicable and criminal things to maintain power permanently. I fear that by the time we realize our stalwart bulwarks have failed us, it will be too late…

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Eddie Murphy once starred in a film called, ‘The Distinguished Gentlemen’ in which a challenger takes advantage of name recognition to win an improbable upset. Murphy’s character has the same name as a recently deceased but very popular politician, so he puts his name in the hat and wins. It turns out, life is imitating art with the main difference being that the incumbent isn’t dead. His name is Dan Sullivan and he’s running. The thing is, he’s running against another Dan Sullivan.

Demented Don supports the incumbent Dan Sullivan. The Drumpfster is just sure the second Dan Sullivan is running to confuse voters by having the same name. There IS the slight problem that BOTH Dan Sullivans are running as Republicans. Also, the challenger Dan Sullivan and the Democrats, themselves, deny they have anything to do with challenger Dan Sullivan’s challenge.

But 47 has stuck his nose in anyway. Our National Embarrassment had his DOiJ (that’s the Department of inJustice) file a lawsuit in Alaska, seeking to block certification of the election unless the guy he wants wins. That’s a weird lawsuit, even from this very weird guy. He has already confessed (bragged) that he gave the order, shattering the pretense of an independent DOiJ. “Well, I’m the one that said ‘do it,” he told reporters. That checks. It’s a very stupid move.

I’m no lawyer but I don’t see how a guy can win such a suit, unless they can find solid, irrefutable proof that it’s some kind of scheme between the Dems and the challenger. Even then, the state has already decided that challenger Sullivan can run. It’s really moot. Besides, as of this writing, the Democrat, Mary Peltola, is leading by a large enough margin that if you combined the two Dan Sullivan’s outcomes, she’s still ahead.

47 has tipped his hand. Everybody on the planet (except ever-gullible MAGA) knows the GOP intends to cheat as aggressively as possible. Asking courts to refuse winning candidates for no reason other than The Demented Don doesn’t like them seems like one arrow in that cheating quiver. But the main point to this story is that there IS rigging being attempted in this election – it’s just that it’s being done by Republicans – the Drumpfster, in particular – not Democrats…

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So, just a quick catch-up, yeah? Israel entered into a cease-fire agreement against Palestinians in Gaza and now the West Bank. Since then, they’ve killed over 1,000 Palestinians and injured over 3,000 more. The military is still involved but now citizens have taken over the killing and harassment and the Israeli government is doing nothing. No, that’s wrong. They’re not “doing nothing.” They’re encouraging the assaults, then acting all surprised and “tut-tuting” in all the right places.

Now Israeli security forces are even detaining American citizens. In some cases, Jewish American citizens. Those who have been blindly supporting Israel no matter what will think nothing of it, of course. It may not be a perfect genocide – the Israeli’s may not care if Palestinians leave. Israel’s message is more like, “You don’t have to die, but you can’t stay here.” It IS, very clearly, an ethnic cleansing in the region.

Israel is taking land they have no right to and they’re doing it by force. They’re doing it with the support of the US government and under cover of a “cease-fire agreement.” Historically, it’s VERY reminiscent of when the Europeans landed at Plymouth Rock and started moving west, pushing the First Nations aside all along the way. Except, Israel isn’t even offering Palestinians crappy little reservations. They’ve just got to go. Go where? Not Israel’s problem…