One of the best articles about the Slobfather's planned coup - Robert Reich last October

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Long but worth the read - the last paragraph wasprescient
Trump’s Fifth Avenue principle has kept him in power for almost four years of death and mayhem that would have doomed the presidencies of anyone else. But as a former New Yorker he should know that Fifth Avenue ends at the Harlem River, at 142nd Street. The end is near.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/11/donald-trump-fifth-avenue-shoot-covid-election

Trump said he could kill and win – Covid and cheating may prove it
Robert Reich

He’s ready to claim that mail-in ballots, made necessary by the pandemic, are rife with “fraud like you’ve never seen”, as he alleged during his debate with Biden – although it’s been shown that Americans are more likely to be struck by lightning than commit voter fraud.

With such allegations he’ll probably dispute election results in any Republican-led state which he loses by a small margin, such as Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania or Wisconsin.

Then he’ll rely on the House of Representatives to put him over the top.

“We are going to be counting ballots for the next two years,” Trump warned at a recent Pennsylvania rally, noting: “We have the advantage if we go back to Congress. I think it’s 26 to 22 or something because it’s counted one vote per state”.

He was referring to the 12th amendment to the constitution, which provides that if state electors deadlock or can’t agree on a president, the decision goes to the House, where each of the nation’s 50 states get one vote.

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1. They've already crossed the rubicon. It will no longer take a small election difference

now to claim the vote needs to be recounted. They have shown us
- voter suppression and nullification
- just the suggestion of fraud for invalidation
- republican legislature decides & so keep power forever.

We could not have imagined how low they would go. Is it possible they are planning another method to prevent loss of power? Any ideas about that?

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2. Of course they are planning other methods but so are those who love democracy

Still Reich nailed it

But the most egregious test of Trump’s Fifth Avenue principle is still to come. He is counting on his supporters to keep him in power even after he loses the popular vote.

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3. Dump during debate on live TV wouldn't disavow violence.

Fucker should have been removed from office same day.

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4. Before the 2016 elections he told his supporters to knock the crap of them

Note the it won't be much because the courts agree with us...

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6. I told everyone who'd listen, he's not just a short-fingered vulgarian.

And like much of today’s GOP, Dumpy’s a small-handed NAZI.

ETA: an excellent read…

Is it wrong to compare Trump to Hitler? No.

As a son of Holocaust survivors, I might be expected to find it offensive to use the Holocaust as a yardstick for the political turmoil caused by Trump. But I don't.

by David Lee Preston, Opinion For The Philadelphia Inquirer
Published Jan 27, 2021

Many people find it offensive to use the Holocaust as a yardstick for the political excesses of the last four years that culminated in the storming of Washington on Jan. 6. They believe that to mention Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler in the same breath, as Spike Lee did on Sunday in an awards speech, disrespects the millions of innocent victims and survivors, diminishing the enormity of the Nazis’ crimes.

As a son of Holocaust survivors and a grandson of four murdered Jews, I might be expected to agree. But I do not.

Snip…

This is not to suggest that Trump would have become another Hitler, or that Trumpism is equatable to Nazism. But we now have a clearer understanding of the darker side of human nature.

Wednesday, Jan. 27, is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. My mother, Halina Wind Preston, who hid from the Nazis in the sewers of Lviv for 14 months in 1943-44, devoted her postwar life in Delaware to teaching the lessons of the Holocaust.

She lobbied tirelessly for Holocaust studies in the schools, a mission fulfilled last July when Gov. John Carney signed into law a bill requiring students to receive such lessons — which will be partially provided by the Halina Wind Preston Holocaust Education Committee of the Jewish Federation of Delaware.

My mother’s vision was not consigned exclusively to the classroom. She established the Garden of the Righteous Gentiles in front of Wilmington’s Jewish Community Center, the nation’s first monument to Christians who rescued Jews — including trees planted for the two Polish Catholic sewer workers who had saved her life.

Continues…

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/trump-hitler-insurrection-autocracy-holocaust-january-6-20210127.html

Our planet’s full of profound people. Thankfully.

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5. Why doesn't M$Greedia remind folks that the Slobfather said

he'd be recounting votes for two years

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7. Corporate McPravda isn't there to inform, but to manipulate.

The guy who taught Chomsky and Herman: Alex Carey.

Details and the memo, courtesy of Greenpeace:

The Lewis Powell Memo: A Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy

Additional important history to know...

Alex Carey: Corporations and Propaganda

The Attack on Democracy

The 20th century, said Carey, is marked by three historic developments: the growth of democracy via the expansion of the franchise, the growth of corporations, and the growth of propaganda to protect corporations from democracy. Carey wrote that the people of the US have been subjected to an unparalleled, expensive, 3/4 century long propaganda effort designed to expand corporate rights by undermining democracy and destroying the unions. And, in his manuscript, unpublished during his life time, he described that history, going back to World War I and ending with the Reagan era. Carey covers the little known role of the US Chamber of Commerce in the McCarthy witch hunts of post WWII and shows how the continued campaign against "Big Government" plays an important role in bringing Reagan to power.

John Pilger called Carey "a second Orwell", Noam Chomsky dedicated his book, Manufacturing Consent, to him. And even though TUC Radio runs our documentary based on Carey's manuscript at least every two years and draws a huge response each time, Alex Carey is still unknown.

Given today's spotlight on corporations that may change. It is not only the Occupy movement that inspired me to present this program again at this time. By an amazing historic coincidence Bill Moyers and Charlie Cray of Greenpeace have just added the missing chapter to Carey's analysis. Carey's manuscript ends in 1988 when he committed suicide. Moyers and Cray begin with 1971 and bring the corporate propaganda project up to date.

This is a fairly complex production with many voices, historic sound clips, and source material. The program has been used by writers and students of history and propaganda. Alex Carey: Taking the Risk out of Democracy, Corporate Propaganda VS Freedom and Liberty with a foreword by Noam Chomsky was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1995.

Source: TUC Radio

Part 1: https://tucradio.org/podcasts/newest-podcasts/alex-carey-corporations-and-propaganda-part-one-of-two/

Part 2: https://tucradio.org/podcasts/newest-podcasts/alex-carey-corporations-and-propaganda-part-two-of-two/