{"id":1352,"date":"2022-11-06T03:15:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T03:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2022-11-06T03:15:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T03:15:08","slug":"last-election-or-jumping-off-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1352","title":{"rendered":"Last Election? — Or jumping off place?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Election?<\/b><\/p>\n

Or jumping off place?<\/b><\/p>\n

Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/i><\/p>\n

November 5th<\/sup> 2023<\/i><\/p>\n

zeppscommentaries.online<\/i><\/p>\n

Trump has been teasing his cult that he will announce if he\u2019s running for President in 2024 or not on November 14th<\/sup>. That happens to be the day he has to comply with the January 6th<\/sup> Committee\u2019s subpoena to appear, but I don\u2019t think that is it. For one thing, the committee gave him an extra week.<\/p>\n

No, the main thinking is that it\u2019s his time after the mid-term elections. His entire strategy for the next two years rests on whether the GOP win the House and Senate or not.<\/p>\n

If the Democrats keep the House, he might want to rile up his base whether he complies or not. Being morally bereft, they\u2019ll be fine with it either way. He\u2019ll be pushing the \u2018stolen election\u2019 narrative and hoping to foment a revolution.<\/p>\n

What happens if the Republicans take Congress?<\/p>\n

He might see that happen. Fivethirtyeight.com is one of the few outfits not interested in blowing smoke up the asses of one side or the other, but even then, a lot of the polls they use have become increasingly suspect, partly from political influence, and partly from an out-of-date methodology (many voters, particularly younger ones, don\u2019t even HAVE landlines, and because of the huge numbers of spam and scam calls we all get, anyone with caller ID tends to not answer calls from unfamiliar numbers). And this year, pollsters are ignoring the elephant in the room, and not asking about abortion.<\/p>\n

And because \u201ccommon sense\u201d says that incumbent presidents lose seats in the midterm election, and the supposition that inflation hurts the party in power, so pollsters are uncritically saying it looks like a Republican election, with gains in the House and Senate. Add the factors of gerrymandering, voter suppression, and voter intimidation that the GOP is engaging in, and a Republican win seems likely. Certainly Donald must think so. But then, he didn\u2019t expect to lose power in 2021, either.<\/p>\n

If the Republicans do take the House and Senate, he will certainly announce that he\u2019s running for President.<\/p>\n

He can quit worrying about his legal problems. First thing the House will do is shut down the Congressional investigation. And they will launch endless \u201cinvestigations\u201d of the Department of Justice that should completely hogtie Merrick Garland. State cases will face increasingly hostile courts as suborned judges blindly rule in favor of Trump, going to any ludicrous length they can to protect him. We\u2019ve already seen quite a bit of that. Sammy, Slappy, and the Three Trump Stooges will be Trump\u2019s refuge from then on.<\/p>\n

The House will revert to the kangaroo court hearings that were the mainstay of the GOP House Rule going back to the Newt Gingrich years, only this group are even crazier and nastier.<\/p>\n

MAGA followers, emboldened, will intimidate and harass all dissenting opinion. I wouldn\u2019t rule out pogroms and a Kristallnacht or two. Targets will be blacks, Hispanics, anyone suspected of \u201csexual deviancy,\u201d Moslems (including Sikhs, Amish, and anyone who \u201clooks like an Arab\u201d), and Jews \u201cwho don\u2019t support Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then Donald can run without any impediment from the law or popular sentiment.<\/p>\n

Nor will he have to worry about losing the election. If the GOP control the methods of counting the votes and determining who will be permitted to vote, it won\u2019t matter if the voters hate Donald or not. He will get elected, just the same way Stalin and Xi and other autocrats got elected. Republicans know they can\u2019t win an honest election; they make sure they can\u2019t lose a dishonest one.<\/p>\n

The GOP have promised to do away with Social Security and Medicare, and will go after workers\u2019 rights, civil rights, environmental protections, and anything that might annoy or inconvenience a major corporation.<\/p>\n

Voters will be too busy fighting to survive to care about fighting the government, and will be hit with a wave of propaganda about how the new misery that makes up their lives is a result of the failed \u201cgreat experiment\u201d that imposed liberalism and godlessness on the citizenry. They just won\u2019t mention that that experiment began in 1789.<\/p>\n

Personally, I fully expect to end up in the camps if the Republicans win this time. I\u2019m a blasphemer, you see, a liberal, an intellectual, and a socialist. Why, with a record like that I don\u2019t even have to be guilty of any crime, but no worries: courts in the land of Trump will be happy to secure convictions for the greater good of the party.<\/p>\n

Think I\u2019m exaggerating? Boy, I sure would like to think so. But I\u2019ve read history, you see. I know how this sort of thing goes, and I don\u2019t for an instant believe Americans are immune. There\u2019s a reason the French and the Germans are watching events here with a mixture of horror and disgust. They\u2019ve been down that road. They know all about having a Strong Leader to Make the Country Great Again in the Name of God. The leader won\u2019t be strong; he\u2019ll be brittle and cruel. The country won\u2019t be great again; you\u2019ll just get propaganda telling you it will become great only when enemies both inside and out have been eliminated, and they are the reason there is no food or services. And as usual, God will be silent, but every vicious opportunistic jackass in the country will be willing to speak up on his behalf\u2014and amazingly, it turns out God hates anyone who so much as doubts Trump.<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t happen here? Folks, it very nearly has. We\u2019re only one step away. And we might take that step Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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