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Sincere gratitude to all who share or donate. Thank you
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I’m sorry for the long post but a lot of you have followed me for a long time, since 2016 when I was one of the first to repeatedly call out Trump for being a Russian asset.
I don’t know how else to say this, as a person who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it) and totalitarian states. I’ve been attacked on Fox News, berated by the VP and others and like many of you, I’ve gotten death threats.
So please believe me when I say this. Things have changed.
ICE is going to be the vehicle for fascism in this country. The extra-judicial practices (no warrants, no ID), the masks (anonymity leads to horrors again and again throughout history), the dehumanization of immigrants and Democrats (dehumanization precedes arrests, torture, murder, again and again).
No we are not going to be Nazi Germany because nothing in history matches Nazi Germany.
But fascism has arrived in America. Here is how it is going to happen:
ICE will be the vehicle, the gestapo empowered by the President, to enforce his will, first among vulnerable undocumented people, then among legal immigrants, then among political rivals, then among citizens who speak out against the Trump grift.
This is not a hypothetical. It’s happening.
That Big Dumb Racist bill gives $170 billion dollars for an organization which has no respect for the constitution, no oversight, nothing but marching orders from a couple racist, power-hungry madmen.
$170 billion to build hidden prisons with no oversight. To put this in perspective, this is 62% larger than the entire federal prison system.
$170 billion to drag people out of their places of work, parks, homes. $170 billion to hire racist little man babies who hide their faces as they assault children, old people, pregnant women.
How do you think this goes? How has this ever gone in history? We are entering a dark period.
Our only hope is to draw the line now. To stick up for our friends and neighbors, our co-workers and loved ones, who are undocumented and being hunted.
If morality or empathy for them is not enough to motivate you, fine. Then let this be your motivation: if you don’t draw this line, you are next.
Do you think Trump will grow a conscience? Do you think Stephen Miller will have any trouble going from, “these people are criminals” (them) to “these people are helping criminals?” (You, by being against Trump). To “we must arrest the traitors opposing our efforts to arrest criminals?” (You or anyone you care about who publicly opposes Trump.)
Do you think republican congressman are going to care? To lift onefinger to protect you? To do anything which gets in the way of Trump’s agenda?
A person who has no problem letting children with cancer die in order to put a few dollars in the pockets of rich men will have no problem with letting Democrats and activists rot in jail for trying to stop it.
This has happened again and again throughout the world. And now it’s happening here.
I wish I had concrete plans. I don’t. Not now. All I know is the first step for change is identifying the gravity of the truth.
And the truth is fascism has arrived in America.
And we must stop it in its tracks or it will swallow all of us.
@amandacarpenter I’m not taking the bait. There is not much we can do about it now, so what’s the point in giving him oxygen? I’m feeling a bit cynical in case it doesn’t show … but I also need to conserve my energy.
Dear @POTUS@VP@TheDemocrats@HouseDemocrats@SenateDems are you planning on requesting recounts?
This election is too critical, the stakes incredibly high, and the results in swing states highly improbable.
Trump's public comments leading into the election that he "already had the votes," the Election Day Russia bomb threats and the disruption they caused, as well as Elon Musk's involvement in the campaign and Starlink technology—all point to the possibility of discrepancies between the votes and the tabulated results.
Your voters and supporters are not conspiracy theorists and will accept the election results, but deserve to know that those results were indeed accurate and that you did your due diligence to ensure that.
A #SwingStateHandRecount of at least several precincts in a single state would go a long way in establishing a reliable process.
Please consider fighting to make sure that every cast vote was recorded.
Thank you.
We had a bomb threat and evacuation at our county election office, where people go to vote, remedy errors etc. and which is the central location for oversight of all the county polling places.
If the @TheDemocrats want to go down swinging they MUST INSIST that every single county that got a Russian bomb threat be hand recounted. That is foreign election interference. Period. Full stop.
You don’t need to prove a hack or Starlink or any of that.
#Recount2024
If the @TheDemocrats want to go down swinging they MUST INSIST that every single county that got a Russian bomb threat be hand recounted. That is foreign election interference. Period. Full stop.
You don’t need to prove a hack or Starlink or any of that.
#Recount2024
If the Democrats don’t initiate a recount for the swing states and bring an investigation into Elon Musk’s involvement in the Trump campaign, they are willfully ceding our nation to fascism in the face of results across 7 states that defy any precedent or reasonable explanation.
We all deserve a #SwingStateHandRecount.
@GovernorShapiro Can you do something to protect women’s medical freedom permanently? We can’t rely on elected officials to stay out of our health care. We need more than a blocking strategy.
@Logically_JC New kitten delivered this summer from the Cat Distribution Network. His name is D and he’s so grateful and loving. He often stares at me 🥰
Here's the deal:
In 2020, well before Election Day, MAGAs were crying "rigged election."
Immediately following the election, Republicans brought 60+ "election integrity" court cases, requested (and received) hand recounts—and despite no election fraud discovered, still rioted at the Capitol and have spent four years perpetuating a stolen election lie.
It is just days following the 2024 election, one where:
- Donald Trump spoke several times in recent months about "already having the votes"
- Elon Musk and Peter Theil (two men with more technology available to them than anyone) have been working alongside Trump and the Russian government.
- dozens of bomb threats were sent by Russia on Election Day, causing shutdowns and delays
- 5 swing states showed results of Dems winning down-ballot and yet a Trump victory in all (a near impossible split-ticket scenario).
- The Trump campaign (always proving a complaint is an accusation, claimed a stolen election until the moment Trump was declared the winner.
In an election as pivotal and Democracy-altering as this one, The Democratic Party owes the American people to fight passionately to ensure the results were fair.
It is reasonable request to do a #handrecount of one of the key swing states, to make sure that the results match the Election Day reports, and to ensure the voting machines' code has not been tampered with.
We won't be the other side, shouting "rigged election" despite having no proof, and we won't content that #TrumpCheated—if an investigation refutes that.
But Kamala Harris, Tim Walz and her campaign, tens of thousands of tireless volunteers, a record number of first-time voters, the women of this country, and the tens of millions who voted Blue, deserve the smallest efforts to ensure that the numbers are correct.
We cannot let America be ceded to those who will dismantle it without assuring it was the will of the majority.
A secure election can withstand scrutiny and a blameless party won't prevent that scrutiny.
Who's going to step up?
#SwingStateHandRecount
#ElectionInvestigation