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When I saw the news that Trump is planninga rally at #Madison #Square #Garden
— as the Nazis did in 1939
— I checked the date to see whether that was before or after #Steve #Bannon gets out of prison.
Bannon is due to get out on October 29; the rally is two days earlier, on October 27.

On the current schedule, Bannon will be released nine days before the election, but not soon enough to attend what will undoubtedly be a larger version of the #Nazi #rant that Trump put on in Aurora the other day.
Unless something disrupts it, Bannon will start trial for defrauding Trump supporters on December 9, days before the states certify the electoral vote.
This is the kind of timing I can’t get out of my head.
According to FiveThirtyEight, Kamala Harris currently has a 53% chance of winningthe electoral college -- That’s bleak enough.
But based on everything I know about January 6, I’d say that if Trump loses, there’s at least a 10% chance Trump’s fuckery in response will have a major impact on the transfer of power.
Experts on right wing extremism are suggesting the same thing.
-- @emptywheel

The two Stephens
— #Bannon, whose War Room podcast would serve to show that Trump intended to loose all Hell on January 6,
— and #Miller, who added the finishing touches to Trump’s speech making Mike Pence a target for that violence
— appear to have a plan to deliberately stoke violence, working in concert with Elon #Musk.

THE TWO STEPHENS SAY TRUMP MUST BE ABLE TO STOKE VIOLENCE WITH FALSE CLAIMS AS PART OF HIS CAMPAIGN
https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/10/13/machine-for-fascism-the-two-stephens/