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   Brosephine Wires (joparkerbear@universeodon.com)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 07:15:51 JST Brosephine Wires

   More on Project 25:

   “Leading Trump’s Insurrection Act initiative is Jeffrey Clark, a Trump-era DOJ official currently being prosecuted for his part in an alleged scheme to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results... (Told… that there would be riots in the streets if Trump sought to stay in office despite losing the 2020 election, Clark is said to have responded, “That’s why there’s an Insurrection Act.”)”

   Trump’s Recipe for a Shockingly Raw Power Grab -POLITICO
   https://apple.news/Ade-gsOvlTT-IGFBNd_2Rlg

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     Brosephine Wires (joparkerbear@universeodon.com)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 07:15:50 JST Brosephine Wires

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     (not recommending because 1) it’s not good & 2) was found to have inaccuracies later)
     The book Fear by Bob Woodward opens with Steve Bannon, as he was candidate-shopping in 2014. He asks Trump for his position on issues like abortion, and swiftly corrects him: like “nope, you can win unless you’re against it” and of course, Trump was willing to do whatever it took to win.

     I don’t think Bannon said it outright, but he knew Trump was easy to manipulate & control—that’s why he picked that horse.

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     Brosephine Wires (joparkerbear@universeodon.com)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 07:15:51 JST Brosephine Wires

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     Shafer is 100% correct: every other primary challenger needs to answer whether they support deploying the military in the United States and locking up a long list of Trump’s enemies who have not committed crimes—volunteering themselves up for prison, too, or… cabinet member? Maybe. Could still be prison though. I’d say you’re lucky if he leaves you alone, but a lot of these assholes would take a cabinet position in a second.
     #project25

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     Brosephine Wires (joparkerbear@universeodon.com)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 07:15:51 JST Brosephine Wires

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     People like John Eastman and Jeffery Clark aren’t doing this because they admire or like Trump. They’re doing it because they have wanted and worked toward this for decades, as modern history of far-right conservative politics demonstrates. On a smaller stage, in certain states and counties, for decades we’ve seen authoritarians who want to control what we read, write, say, worship, NOT worship (god forbid), learn in school, even music we hear—their time has come. They have *almost* arrived.

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.