November 12, 2026
Corsi Knew How the Dems Would Steal the Election
Timothy Birdnow
Back in 2024 Jerome Corsi predicted exactly how the Democrats were going to steal this election. His predictions line up perfectly with what just happened.
We are the victims of a coup yet the Republicans and "conservative" media refuse to even suggest it was so.
As Corsi points out, a political scientist could run a simulation with desired results, then swap it with the actual results in the given states and nobody would be the wiser. But it would be noticeable by the correlation between vote gaps exactly as it was in this last election.
America has been stolen and I doubt we'll be able to get her back. If somehow we were positioned to do so (and those who should be fighting right now are looking for ways to surrender) they would shoot the hostage.
America is probably going to descend into chaos and civil war.
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Miller Sets Cabinet Free
Timothy Birdnow
Trump complained he wasn't getting a lot of memos. Well, Susie Wiles had her thumb on the whole cabinet. Steven Miller just changed all that.
Miller sent out a memo to all cabinet leaders telling them the boot was off their throats and the President wanted candid and accurate input.
Good for him. I believe Wiles cost us all dearly in this last election.
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Gates Calls for AIrmegeddon
Timothy Birdnow
Bill Gates is telegraphing what the Ruling Class is going to do.
FTA:
Gates argued that politicians would be pressured to impose the sweeping artificial intelligence controls he has been demanding if the public endures a devastating cyberattack.
During a new CBS interview, the Microsoft co-founder warned that a catastrophic incident involving Americans’ retirement savings could finally force the political response he believes is necessary.
"It may be that we have to suffer a few of the negatives before we respond as fully as we should,” Gates said.
The remarks add a disturbing new dimension to Gates’s escalating campaign for a group of global regulators to control international coordination over AI.
Gates Raised Prospect of Attack on Retirement Accounts
Speaking with CBS host Tony Dokoupil, Gates discussed the prospect of cyberattacks against major retirement platforms such as Fidelity or Vanguard.
Such an attack could throw millions of Americans’ nest eggs into chaos and create widespread uncertainty, Gates acknowledged.
He insisted that a catastrophic incident would not necessarily be civilization-ending, but argued that the damage could force the public and politicians to embrace the stronger restrictions he is seeking.
Gates has spent months warning that private companies cannot be trusted to police AI on their own.
He has repeatedly argued that government officials and law enforcement must step in to impose safeguards, monitoring, and rules on the rapidly advancing technology.
Gates isn't a man to be denied when it comes to this kind of thing, and he's undoubtedly had this conversation with the World Economic Forum and others.
I would add the Trump Administration has been taking steps that suggest they are preparing for some sort of catastrophe'; they've had their doomsday jet in the air, have begun hardening military bases against an EMP and are preparing with good and water and ammunition to last months. Wise, but it does suggest they may know something we don't.
Gates may as well.
The Book of Revelations has a kind of comma midway through it where there is a proclamation "Babylon is fallen, is fallen. It has become a habitation of demons and every unclean bird" and furthermore ship captains will sit from afar and cry over it, as will merchants because it made them rich. What Gates is suggesting sounds quite similar to the fall of Babylon in Revelations. That comes shortly before the coming of Antichrist, which is obviously triggered by some sort of financial disaster.
Gates seems to be signaling something like that is coming.
By the way, a lot of Trump officials are moving onto military bases ostensibly to protect them from assassination attempts but is it for something more? Inquiring minds want to find out. It certainly is what they would do if there were credible intel about some sort of major cyber or EMP attack on the U.S.
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Iran Restarts the War
Timothy Birdnow
Mike and I had a discussion about whether we need to restart bombing in Iran. Looks like that choice has already been made by the Iranian government.
They want it and we should give it to them good and hard.
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To Bomb or Not to Bomb, That is the Question
Timothy Birdnow
On the issue of whether we should resume bombing in Iran Mike has this to say:
No need for anymore bombings except to keep their heads down. Trumps policy of leaving them to hang themselves is working fine. The irgc is constantly arguing amongst themselves. Its only a matter of time when they start offing each other due to the pressure from within. In the Southeast part of Iran the opposition forces have set up their own check points and are eliminating top irgc that wander into them. Even though Iran doesn't have many offensive weapons left they do have enough to do damage to their neighbors and as long as Trump doesnt do anymore then what he's doing now they wont use them for fear of the Arab neighbors uniting against them.
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Tim replies:
I hope so Mike but time is quickly running out for Trump's policies and the Democrats are going to try to throw Iran a lifeline because they don't want Trump to win and they don't want Israel to have peace. We're up against the clock. In a sane world I think this policy would work, but we are not in a sane world.
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The Late Great State of Texas
Timothy Birdnow
The ink isn't dry yet on the turnover of the Texas legislature and already they have a bunch of bills designed to turn Texas into a sanctuary state.
The article gives a list of proposed bills:
HB 393: Require immigrant detention facilities to obtain state licenses and undergo monthly inspections.
HB 392: Allow local governments to restrict employee cooperation with ICE involving domestic violence shelters.
HB 424: Restrict certain immigration enforcement involving children in designated protected locations, including schools, school bus stops, health care facilities, places of worship, and child-care facilities.
HB 257: Require independent audits of Operation Lone Star, the state’s multibillion-dollar border-security initiative.
Tis is in open rebellion to the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution but when did Democrats ever care about the Constitution?
They just happened to have all these bills ready to go when they didn't know they were going to win?
At any rate they are going to move at lightning speed to take over the state and make that permanent. Texas was always our Alamo; now it has fallen and the massacre begins.
Where is Travis? Bowe? Davey Crockett? We need men of their caliber now.
The very idea of Texas is going to die, swallowed up by illegal aliens and Democratic Socialists. Newsflash to Texans; the people you just put in power hate you more than they do most other Americans. They are coming for your guns, your spirit of independence, your oil, your entire way of life. I think it may be time to go all Sam Houston on them, because if you let them assume power they will destroy you. Are you ready for Texas to become another California? Bunch of hippies and homeless dirtbags wandering all over your cattle ranches?
That's what you just elected. Enjoy what you asked for.
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Numbers Don't Lie; They Stole America
Timothy Birdnow
Yes, it was a coup.
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The foundational argument against the legitimacy of the results begins with the numbers that show uniform swings across non-contiguous battlegrounds violating basic demographic distribution principles.
The primary anomaly centers on contested battleground outcomes where one party captures 29 out of 30 coin-flip congressional races. In probability theory, independent coin-flip distributions do not resolve with a 96.7% success rate without external bias. When thirty high-friction districts spanning diverse demographic regions -- from rural working-class enclaves to high-density suburban corridors -- all break in an identical direction by margins often hovering within single fractions of a percentage point, the outcome defies standard standard-deviation boundaries.
The macro-level numbers tell the same story: across the national House popular vote, turnout surged exclusively on one side, with Democrats picking up an estimated 13 to 15 million votes compared to 2022 while Republican totals remained largely static.
Even local races reflected institutional breakdown, such as in Texas House District 93, where an ineligible candidate facing felony questions remained on the ballot and was credited with a narrow victory under contested circumstances.
It is impossible to make Texas blue -- just impossible. This is the 2020 election, exactly like it, repeating identical statistical anomalies designed to engineer an artificial realignment.
The technical case targets the digital layer of the voting apparatus: central tabulators, direct-recording electronic units, and optical scanners. The core vector highlighted is algorithmic poisoning -- the insertion of modified code designed to alter vote tallies before results are compiled and transmitted.
Unlike crude, visible errors, algorithmic weighting operates beneath standard audit thresholds. The software applies a mathematical multiplier -- often referred to as fractional voting -- assigning decimal values to individual ballots (e.g., counting a vote as 0.85 for one candidate and 1.15 for the opposing candidate) while displaying whole numbers on public-facing dashboards.
This argument is compounded by software update procedures executed in the weeks leading up to Election Day. Jurisdictions that applied "emergency patches," logic upgrades, or firmware updates circumvented standard public certification timelines. When hash values of operational software fail to match the pristine binaries certified by accredited testing laboratories, the integrity of the tabulator logic is irrevocably compromised.
Read it all; it's brilliant.
This election was stolen right from under Trump's nose, and that means the whole country was stolen. The Democrats, from the precinct level up, will impose new paradigms that will guarantee they stay in power. We are never getting rid of them. They are now penicillin resistant syphilis.
Baring a miracle America is lost. I might try to find an island somewhere to immigrate to and live out the rest of my life away from these creeps.
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The Last Election was about Global Warming, Accoding to John "reporting for duty" Kerry
Timothy Birdnow
That is hilarious! The voters never once mentioned climate in their exit polling. Swiftboat Johnnie is delusional.
Get ready folks; we WILL be back in the Paris Accords when the Democrats steal the next election, mark my words.
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The Sound and Fury of a Dying Duck
Timothy Birdnow
Kind of like closing the coral door after the horses have escaped.
Soros's network has spent billions of dollars (and received billions of taxpayer dollars) to subvert and distort the American political landscape for years now and he's still at it. Why the Administration waited until AFTER the election is beyond baffling.
Something is seriously wrong inside the Administration. Trump seems to have lost his fire, and he's lost his follow through. I blame the top political advisers for this, but who knows what is going on? Trump may well just be looking ahead, knowing he's going to be Bolsinaroed by the next Administration and his kids are going to wind up fleeing to Bhuton or some place. I wonder if maybe he's extending an olive branch to get them to let him leave in peace. He still does rallies and the like; he's always loved that and as long as he doesn't say anything too controversial they might let him alone. But he's not going like gangbusters as he did in his first term or even at the beginning of this term. Nobody has gone to jail for anything, despite the obvious criminal activity over the last decade by the Democrats. Even USAID is operating in a shadow capacity, but they are still funding radicalism around the globe (look at Brazil's last election, or the attempted coup in Poland) and Trump hasn't taken steps to stop it.
This last election is just more proof; the Democrats stole this in a spectacular fashion and while Trump has hemmed and hawed a tiny bit he's done nothing.
Now, there are some who theorize he's plotting some master stroke, but I doubt it. He's in a much worse position now than he was six months ago. And he hasn't even won the war with Iran yet and it doesn't look like he will. He is dithering about whether he's going to resume the war or not and that because the strait is open right now. But the Iranians are going to pull something nasty again and Trump needs to end this once and for all. I'm all for going all Genghis Khan on them personally. I don't think the country can be reformed without it's total destruction, distasteful though that may be. As long as any of the radicals are drawing breath they will be plotting to murder us.
If you find a venomous snake in your tent when camping you don't pick it up and gently move it out - you kill it, lest it return and kill you.
I fear Trump is truly a lame-duck now. And I have no faith in this; I think there will be lots of lightning and thunder but in the end nothing will come of it. Nothing ever does.
We had hoped Trump would be different.
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All the Voting People, Where do they all Come From?
Tim adds:
This from Danny Torres
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The Texas midterm numbers are raising eyebrows all across America because they simply do not add up. Now, Will Caiin of Fox News is sounding the alarm like nobody else ever has.
When you break down the very specific numbers, it's easy to see that something is afoot.
"Republicans get 4.5 million votes, again, same as they did for the last 3 midterms or so," Cain said on his latest podcast episode.
"Democrats jump from where they'd been consistently at 3.5 to 5.2. 1.7 million new votes for Democrats."
That's a jump of nearly 50 percent. In one cycle.
So where did 1.7 million new Democratic votes come from? The analyst ran through the explanations, and none of them work.
Population growth?
"Only 1.4 million people have moved to Texas over the last 4 years. That's bigger than that," Cain continued.
"If you say Rs voted Ds, well, then why did the Rs stay in stasis and the Ds jumped?"
"This needs to be understood. Even if all in the end your understanding is, how did Democrats mobilize... How did they do that? That's wild," Cain concluded.
So the question everyone should be asking...where did 1.7 million votes come from?
The title is lifted and slightly altered from the Beatles Eleanor Rigby
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Made of Sterner Stuff
This comes to us courtesy of Koty Arnold:
"When a political party has been decisively defeated at the polls, the question naturally arises whether it will ever regain the support of a majority of the voters. The answer to this question depends upon the party itself. Defeat does not destroy a party, nor does success at any particular election insure a long life. If the principles which it represents and the policies which it advocates are sound and timely a party will survive indefinitely.”
"Political parties are successful so long as they represent the abiding convictions of the people. One of the first measures of their ability to govern the country is their ability to govern themselves. Their leaders should be chosen with deliberation, but when they have been chosen they should be permitted to lead. A party which gives itself over to factional controversy instead of public service cannot command the confidence of the country.”
—Calvin Coolidge, "Political Parties,” and "Party Loyalty and the Presidency,” Saturday Evening Post, 1934 [posthumous] and 1931.
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November 11, 2026
Happy Veteran's Day!
Thank you veterans. We owe you all more than words can express.
Without you there would be no America.
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Trump Now Wants to "Work With Democrats" on Immigration
Timothy Birdnow
This is the end of Trump and the end of the GOP if he is serious about this.
Part of why the GOP lost was the Administration was moving too slowly on deportations.
It is impossible to work with Democrats on this issue; they want to replace Americans with a more pliable electorate. If Trump seriously thinks they will work with him then he is in need of Adderall...
Anything they give him will be a poison pill.
If Hispanics don't like the Trump policy they should go back home. But the fact is while everyone cites the drop in support from Hispanics they don't actually delve into WHY Hispanic support dropped. I suspect it was a variety of things, most especially inflation.
You don't tailor your policy to buy votes based on bad demands, you explain your policy, promote it, and sell it. Politics is sales; you have to sell your people to the audience. And it is better to go down based on a righteous policy than to sell your soul to a bad one. The public sees through that usually.
Now is the time for Trump to double down on Trumpism. We need the old "give 'em hell" President we all know and love. That guy has largely been absent the last year; it's part of why the GOP lost. He wants to project a softer, gentler Trump so his legacy won't be so tarnished. But that is foolish, not what America voted for.
If he shows weakness the barbarians will storm the gates.
Trump is, I am sure, looking at a way he can extricate himself after his term of office is over. He figures he needs to go soft now, play nice, and hope the Demo-left lets him simply go into quiet retirement. Foolish if he believes that; they will destroy him, and his children too, no matter where he goes. They simply cannot allow a guy who thwarted them so effectively to just walk away because others might try it. This is gangster government and the Democrats are the Five Families. They have to get him to make it clear you NEVER cross them like that again.
Good luck with getting them to back off.
I hope Trump has a much better exit strategy.
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The Consulting Class Gave us the GOP Candidates that Cost the Election
Timothy Birdnow
The bottom line is that candidate quality does matter, but candidate quality isn’t necessarily what a lot of pundits will tell you according to Kurt Schlichter at Townhall.
He goes through and shows how it was primarily moderate and mediocre candidates who lost, the pastels the GOP consulting class is always saying are the winners. It wasn't MAGA except for Paxton in Texas, and there were other factors at work there (and Paxton got no money at all from the GOP.)
But the Karl Roves and other old guard Bush folks will tell us it was because MAGA is nuts and needed to be put in the ashbin of history, and we need to put the "adults" back in charge. You know, the guys who presided over America's decline and the extreme leftward movement of the country.
You may remember at the start of the Bush era we were a nation that opposed gay marriage, opposed transing children, wanted more oil and gas and more manufacturing, etc. By the end of Bush we were back to windmills and solar panels ala Jimmy Carter, had homosexual marriage and were promoting cutting off little boy's penises, were killing oil and gas exploration and production, were outsourcing most of our industry, and importing millions of illegal aliens. All on Bush's watch. Why? Because Bush did what those who put him in power wanted, and it was all of this leftist crap. We moved very far to the left under him, and that continued under Obama.
Trump was a reaction to that, a counter-revolution. But these people lurked in the tall grass, awaiting their chance. I believe they wanted to lose this election so they could take back "their" party.
Anyway Schlichter goes through many of these candidates the GOP ran and shows how their milquetoast mediocrity spelled doom for them. He didn't even go into the vote fraud, which was clear.
When Susan Collins is the best candidate you are fielding you are in big trouble.
The GOP deserved to lose.
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Calls for RINO Comeback
Timothy BIrdnow
At Hot Air Ed Morrissey discusses Ron DeSantis' call for a reform for conservative media.
Ed states:
"The future of the GOP will likely belong to a well-seasoned politician with a substantial track record of success in elections and policymaking, not a celebrity tycoon with a gift for connecting with the working class and charming media influencers into cheerleading roles. "
In other words, an Establishment Republican. This is the very thing that led to Donald Trump in the first place; it was Trump or the uniparty. Trump not only tried to work our will but he fought against odds that no "experienced politician" would dare stand against.
So much of this shellacking - massive fraud aside - stemmed from the GOP Congress not doing anything at all, not moving the Trump agenda through, and whose fault was that? The "experienced politicians" who insisted they knew better than Trump.
The very worst thing we can do is draw our next candidates from the pool of experienced politicians. Yes, they don't make the mistakes that the novices make, but they also mostly have sold their souls for power and they will do nothing to restore America. They will just promise to manage our decline better.
Folks, it's the last thing we need.
He's right about the need to reform conservative media, largely because Fox News and the rest f the Murdoch empire is in bed with the RINO wing (Karl Rove is on the board, for crying out loud) and they have been moving leftward for a long time now. They have been erstwhile friends of the People, but great friends to the pro-amnesty, pro-internationalism of the Establishment. That is what was killing this country in the first place.
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Iran Demands U.S. Surrender
Timothy Birdnow
You almost have to admire the gigantic balls on these jerks.
"The war on Iran has already wrecked the U.S. government. But Washington flails like a desperate gambler,” Rezaei sneered in a Monday night post on social media platform X.
"FOLD YOUR HAND. STOP manufacturing FAKE NEWS about imaginary talks. Stop denying the West Asian NEW ORDER,” he wrote.
"Time to SURRENDER to the seven conditions Iran has repeatedly set out,” he demanded.
Might I suggest he fold HIS hands and kiss his anus goodbye.
The 7 terms include what was in the Memorandum of Understanding the U.S. agreed to and that Iran violated, plus a promise of no new military action and reparations to be paid by the United States while Iran promises no concessions at all.
Yeah...right.
Iran is like the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail; after having all four limbs severed he offers to call the fight a draw, then says he'll bite King Arthur's leg off as Arthur steps around him.
Until we get back to bombing them into the stone age they will continue to play their little games and act as if they won the war.
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And The Dead Shall Rise - and Go Into Public Service
Timothy Birdnow
The Bible says in the End Times the dead shall rise. Why not elect them to office?
Why not. Missouri elected a dead guy to the U.S. Senate some years back when Mel Carnahan (I'm related to him) died in a plane crash.
From the Daily Caller:
Candidate Bruce Giudici is currently leading the race for Board of Supervisors in Calaveras County, California, over two months after he suddenly died in August.
Giudici is currently leading the race with 56.99 percent of the vote despite the fact that he passed away on Aug. 31 after he fell while door-knocking in the area. He was just two weeks shy of his 69th birthday.
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If there was ever proof that God didn't want this guy on the board it is this, yet the lunatics in that great funny farm on the Pacific are actually voting for this guy anyway.
We live in interesting times.
How will the dead guy exercise his vote on the boards?
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They Throw Ole Massie Into the Ditch
Timothy Birdnow
The horse he run, he jump, he kick, he throw ole Massie into the ditch...
Thomas Massie has shown who he truly is in these final days in office and it isn't pretty. We are well-rid of the creep.
There ought to be a rule that says lame ducks can't file such articles on their way out the door. In fact we need to turn Congress over much more quickly in general.
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Jordan Takes Reins of House Republicans
Timothy Birdnow
Republicans in the House are scared and they showed the fact by electing Jim Jordan as Minority Leader with minimal opposition.
Two years ago they fought bitterly over who would be Squeeker, and rejected Jordan out of hand because he was too conservative - and combative - for their tastes. Instead they chose Mike Johnson (who I designated "tiny" because he came in so squishy, even though he got better in time) as a man everyone could tolerate, a vanilla candidate.
But now they know they are going to war and need a warrior.
It's a good sign. Now we have to see who steps up to the plate in the Senate. John Thune was the main problem in the whole Congress since Trump's re-election and it was he who blocked almost all legislation, souring the American People on the GOP.
Thune was working on behalf of the RINO wing of the party and it showed; he blocked President Trump at every turn even though Trump endorsed him for Majority Leader. Thune refused to bring issues up for votes, claiming he didn't have the numbers. Issues like the SAVE America Act, which were hugely popular with the general public. He never realized that just putting that up for a vote put everyone on record, and the Democrats would be on defensive, having voted against this bill. That's how politics works; you don't just sit and wait for the numbers to favor passage.
And you whip. You cajole, horse-trade, and threaten to get the votes. You don't just ay "the votes aren't there" and leave it at that.
I would add Thune kept the Senate in a pro-forma session so Trump couldn't make any recess appointments; no other reason.
The public wanted action and it got nothing at all from the Senate. At least Tiny passed some bills which the Senate killed.
This recent election was a referendum on Congress, not President Trump. Congress lost big time.
(Yes, the election was stolen and we even know the algorithm they used to drastically increase Democrat votes, but that is a story for another post.)
So the GOP picking Jordan, and his easy victory, speaks volumes; the House at least understands what they need to do. I rather doubt the Senate will do likewise.
UPDATE: It's Thune again in the Senate. Rather like picking George Armstrong Custer to be your next general after Little Big Horn.
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Uncivil War
Timothy Birdnow
Sorry but wishful thinking isn't going to fix the problem of stolen elections, and that is what this is.
If he couldn't STOP the cheat before the election he sure can't fix it after. The Democrats now have a nationwide machine and they will own America forever. WE have become a political gulag.
Most of the commenters on this article agree; this is dim-witted optimism.
Many of them are saying they see no point in voting and I get that, but it is foolish. At least we should make the Democrats expose themselves more each election cycle. If you don't want to vote Republican anymore - and I get that as the GOP Establishment was in cahoots with the Democrats in my opinion - fine but pick another party. Maybe we should all move to the Constitution Party and let the GOP die with the RINO's who so dearly love their power there.
The GOP is not just a tarnished brand, it's a toxic brand and the public has now seen they do not do what they promise. Winning the public back is going to be a big task and it's not going to happen because the party is still full of those Establishment types (like John Thune) who refused to move Trump's agenda in the first place and who didn't care about the concerns of the voters and who refused to defend the President and his record.
I would add this smells much like a Color Revolution. I am always blaming the CIA for this kind of stuff but given the fact there was a clear algorithm that took 15% of Republican votes and flipped them to the Democrats it really stinks of their hand in it. Trump should have completely gutted the CIA but he failed to do that.
At any rate the cow has left the barn, the ills have left Pandora's box, and America's free and fair elections are now just memories. We live in a one party state now and if they don't like what you say...
I've studied Communist nations quite a bit over the years and often this is how it happens. Yes, on occasion they actually seize power, but more often they "win" power through electoral fraud and stirring up riots and "protests" and bullying the public into either not voting or they just change those votes when they count them. America has gone the very same path as did Venezuela. And we'll have the same outcome; poverty, starvation, etc.
It is a rare thing indeed for a Communist country to come back, at least not without foreign intervention (as in the Eastern Block). Communists are idiots in terms of what they want but they are masters at the tactics to acquire the power to get what they want - and extremely dangerous combination.
Now is perhaps the time to look to the Founding Fathers and follow in their footsteps.
The term Civil War is a misnomer and the Southerners were right to call it the War Between the States; it wasn't a civil war. Calling it that was pure propaganda as Lincoln and the Unionists could not legally invade those states - there is nothing in the Constitution that says membership is eternal - so he had to devise a way to pass legal muster and that was by calling it an INSURRECTION which he legally could suppress by force. So his Administration pronounced it a civil war as opposed to a war between states because the latter had an aura of legitimacy for the Confederate cause.
The only place there was a true civil war was in Missouri and Kansas.
When Kansas was opened for settlement it was under the horrible idea of Popular Sovereignty devised by Stephen Douglass. This ended the Missouri Compromise which said that every slave state admitted to the Union had to be balanced by a free state. Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland,, and Delaware were north of the arbitrary line dividing free and slave areas - the Mason Dixon line. Douglass and the other Southern leaders knew that both Nebraska and Kansas were going to come in as free states, and California had already come in as a free state despite a good chunk of it being south of the Mason Dixon line, and the territories in the Southwest were underpopulated and when they did come in would likely come in as non-slave states (during the war Nevada was admitted, mostly because that was Lincoln country and he needed their electoral college votes in the election of 1864.)
So the idea was everyone would vote on what kind of state they would be.
The end result was chaos. People from all over the north flocked to Kansas (Nebraska was never going to be an issue) and tried to turn it into a free state, and southerners likewise flocked there for cheap land and to keep Kansas in the fold. Civil disorder and violence came almost immediately to Kansas, and to south-western Missouri. There were the Border Ruffians, Southern men who were trying to drive the northern settlers out. (They had established their base in a town they named Lawrence, and it became the equivalent of Carthage to a Roman to the Southerners.)
The Northerners were no choir boys; they established the Jayhawkers, groups of irregulars, who would raid Missouri farms and take the slaves away but also usually stole everything that wasn't nailed down and burned the homes of the residents, and often hanged the men. The James Farm, sitting at a major crossroads, was raided multiple times, and in fact the James women were raped and beaten almost to death while the elder James was hanged and, while he did not die, he was brain damaged thereafter and required a lot of care. After that young Jesse, who had been out hunting, rode off to join his brother in Quantrill's irregulars.
Quantrill and his troops were amazingly successful at guerilla fighters, and they ran the Union Army a merry chase as Missouri fell into the grip of the North. Eventually they raided Lawrence but failed to get Senator James Lane, the principle architect of the policies of abusing Confederate Missourians and the guy who pretty much ran the Red Legs, the most hated group of Jayhawkers. Thomas Ewing, the brother in law of William Tecumseh Sherman, was one of the founders of the Red Legs. Read more about them here.
Read my own, lengthy post about the Bushwackers here.
Anyway, to get to the point, this was a true civil war, not the battles between generals in the East.
But there is more to this and it ties in with the current situation. The Governor of Missouri and the state legislature wanted to secede, and so probably did a majority of Missourians (they didn't do all the polling like now). So they created a 100 man committee to draft a new Constitution in which Missouri would declare it's dissolution of union and join the Confederacy. Funny thing though; somehow the abolitionists managed to pack this committee and they voted 99 to 0 to remain in the Union (in violation of their charter) and they then declared the entire state government illegal and made themselves the new state government.
As you can imagine the legislature and governor were appalled. They refused to recognize the legitimacy of this body. Enter Nathaniel Lyon, Lincoln's point man. He rounded up a bunch of Germans and marched on the state militia, which was doing drills in St. Louis, They arrested the militia (who did not have much live ammo) and marched them through the city to the Federal Arsenal (where Anheuser Busch now sits). At one point a woman hurled insults at the Germans, a scuffle started, and then shooting broke out with the locals shooting at the recruits. Sherman was there with his little son and had to lay on top of the kid to protect him.
After this Lyon went on the offensive; chasing the Legislature out of Jefferson city and all the way down to the southwest corner of the state where he was finally stopped (by a bullet).Quantrill was there, fighting on the side of the Confederates at the time (Quantrill had come to Kansas as one of the abolitionists but he turned against them in a big way.)
At any rate this led to open warfare across the state, with the Confederates not really having any troops to fight the Union but with the nastiest type of warfare - Guerilla warfare - being ongoing. Quantrill's lieutenant was a man named Bill Anderson, and Anderson became known as Bloody Bill, and he was too blood thirsty even for Quantrill so he split off. Quantrill's band was a who's who of the old West - the James=Younger Gang, the Dalton Gang, and their brother frank Dalton who woud become a legend as sheriff of Ft. Smith Arkansas (while his brothers were pretty dim and incompetent for outlaws). A bunch of others came out of this band.
My point is it was a dirty political move that triggered the true civil war in America back then, and it just may trigger another. When the public is denied their basic civil rights they rebel, and when it's done is so devious a way they really rebel. We still have our guns after all.
And I doubt the military will be willing to fire on American civilians with their best weaponry. Maybe they might shoot back if shot at, but I suspect if they are ordered to go into a protest and shoot the people there most of them will refuse those unlawful orders.
I once wrote a blogpost about Nathaniel Lyon but can't find it now; too bad.
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