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J Earl Smith's avatar

About a clear as it gets. Writing has been on the wall for a couple years. This was always the plan.

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Connie Snyder's avatar

I’ve said the same to friends since before they picked Vance to be Trump’s VP. That crowd can’t wait to do away with that crazy old buffoon and he’s too dense to realize it. He’s too busy counting all his grift money to notice that Brutus “Just Dance” Vance is ready to do the deed and knife Caesar with Thiel’s blessings. It has to be obvious to more than a few Americans if I’ve noticed it and now substacks are being written about how the 2025 plot to establish the Oligarchy ends for Trump….and for us.

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Douglas Thomas's avatar

#47 is a puppet testing all the holes in the laws and regulations passed by defying all of them includinding treaties and trade agreements negotiated over the last 40 years. The

Libertarian

Anarcho-

Syndicalist

Theocracy or L.A.S.T. version of the American EXperiment is what theyhave sought since Fred Koch ditched the GOP to begin the John Birch Society. K.O.C.H. aka

Kafka's

Oleaginous

Corporate

Hierarchy chose Pence for VP in 2016 but he did not play along in 2020.

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Evelyn's avatar

Precisely outlined. It’s what I have been saying. Trump is a vehicle for the take over of the government for the Christian Taliban, the KKK, the end of a democracy for a theocracy.

They will end the 19th amendment.

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Elwood Watson's avatar

Good article.

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Judy Williams's avatar

A lot of scary stuff here, and I believe Vance is far scarier than trump and more evil. I feel the biggest mistake we have all made is not acknowledging the brilliant minds and money who are working behind the scenes to orchestrate all this, and I totally believe they have put him out front like a DUMB puppet AND THEIR GOAL IS TAKING PLACE IN FRONT OF OUR NOSES, WE JUST do not recognize how evil they are.

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Douglas Thomas's avatar

America is 57th on the Press Freedom Index for a reason. 90% of media is in 8 corporate donors' hands, 77% is in 6 hands. Trump is defunding NPR and Public Broadcasting Network because they report facts.

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Judy Williams's avatar

You are so correct and it is a huge problem in fighting this administration

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Michelle W.'s avatar

Thank you, Cliff. DJT is just a front man, a smokescreen and that the real and most dangerous threat is Thiel and all of that group, Heritage, Federalist and who knows who else.

And President Biden himself warned us about the Tech-Industrial complex, not without good reason.

The whole kit and kaboodle need to go and heaven knows how many there are out there.

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Glen Miller's avatar

For those of us who follow the present, this is a clear summary. It's scary to think of Vance in office. Really worried about the voters who won't open thier eyes and minds to this real threat. Guess Russel Vought is a cog in the machine.

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Theresa's avatar

I also believe that trump was chosen as a scapegoat but….everyone I speak with doesn’t trust Vance as far as we can throw him…another snake in the grass.

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Rob T's avatar

It all makes sense, and dangerously so. We are in uncharted waters and we need leaders prepared to prevent what is mentioned from happening, ending the American Experiment.

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Dannys's avatar

So Peter Thiel is a gay guy supported by MAGA. Wrap your head around that. Call me when you have figured it out. We can compare notes.

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Jerry L. Payne's avatar

I haven’t seen media coverage of him being gay. You probably won’t unless the prime like Rachael and Lawrence Report it.

It probably wouldn’t make any difference the maga cult would not believe it and follow him over a Cliff as they have the evil one.

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Cor's avatar

He’s gay. He’s got a partner and two fascling children. He’s also a big believer in Curtis Yarvin (look into him, as Vance is as well), he’s written about how he doesn’t believe in democracy after his libertarian dreams kept falling apart, and he’s a Christian nationalist.

It’s all out there.

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Jerry L. Payne's avatar

As with the republicans especially the maga cult Repub. Of is convenient at the time or benefit them in some way. It wouldn’t matter of he was the devil as long as they cold use it for their hypocritical rhetoric.

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Cor's avatar

It’s a cult, but it’s starting to fracture. Some can’t be reached because it’s a cult and they want revenge on everyone for their suffering, it’s authoritarianism 101.

As the files trickle out, there will be people who draw the line at being a pedo rapist.

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Dannys's avatar

I did not make it up.

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Jerry L. Payne's avatar

Why. You trying to lose your credibility,

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Dannys's avatar

Thank you for saying that. I realized that I left out the word not. I did not make it up. Google it.

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Jerry L. Payne's avatar

I was only going by what you said. It’s called a conversation. And not bring critical.

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Here's what I'm thinking's avatar

Great job figuring this out. I was trying to tell people this since before the election. Thiel will dump the Christo-fascists at some point but they have been useful means to end workforce since they had already put wheels in motion to infiltrate, and huge money, for decades. And so easy for a foreign homosexual techno-fascist to manipulate! But now that the US.gov heist has occurred, there's not much we can do. We are owned by the tech oligarchy, but we can still avoid "AI" whenever possible until we can't. Most people won't bc it is a new toy and they buy into the hype that is being served and have extreme FOMO. Clearly Americans will sacrifice themselves and their planet instead of learning about how it works and the real cost of every time you do a stupid search. Americans have practically worshipped STEM for decades and this is the product. An election and government stolen and an oligarchy who think they are gods destined to steer humanity to the techo-future they want. They grew up in VR living out their fantasy mythic worlds and much of that was dystopic cyberpunk.

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Karen Rubio's avatar

We need to get rid of Vance before trump dies or they use the 25th amendment on him. Mike Johnson would move in as VP and Hakeem Jeffries would become speaker.

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Douglas Thomas's avatar

Jesse Waters said "He looked beatiful" on debate night... he was wearing the same shade of eyeliner as Jesse. Probabliy a coincidence.

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Jerry L. Payne's avatar

Hakeem couldn’t unless the democrats took the majority after the midterms. Which we’re hoping the democrats will control both chambers.

Remember folks the democrats do not have the majority. There’s not much they are able to do other than file lawsuit’s as they are against the lunatics abuse of power.

People continue to protest to continue bringing attention to what’s happening. Then EVERYONE THAT’S WANTING TO PROTECT OUR LIBERTIES, FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY GETS OUT AND VOTE IN THE MIDTERMS. IF YOU AREN’T REGISTERED DO IT NOW. WE AND OUR COUNTRY ARE IN A BATTLE FOR OUR DEMOCRACY.

PROPLE CAN REGISTER ONLINE WITH THEIR SECRETARY OF STATE, REQUEST A BALLOT AND MAIL IT IN, IF YOU AREN’T GOING TO BE AROUND ELECTION DAY, VOTE ABSENTEE.

VOLUNTEER AND HELP YOUR CANDIDATES CAMPAIGN. GIVE THEM MONEY, WORK PHONE BANKS, GO DOOR TO DOOR AND BE A POLL WORKER.

IF YOU HAVE CHILDREN THAT WILL BE 18 BEFORE ELECTION DAY. GET THEM REGISTERED TO VOTE.

WRITE LETTERS TO LEGISLATORS ABOUT YOUR CONCERNS AND LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

BUT ONCE EVERYTHING IS SAID AND DONE. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS. WE YOU HAVE TO VOTE.

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Mfaith2's avatar

Thank you for shining a light on the Heritage Foundation. Please shine more light on individual members and donors and expose their corruption and White Nationalist goals along with their names, businesses and greedy policy positions to the voting Public. Thank You.

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Cor's avatar

I don’t know….

JD Vance is universally unliked. Trump is what holds the cult together. Once the leader dies, cults tend to fall apart.

Trump has wrecked the economy and his voters are starting to feel it.

It takes a while to undo just regular dumb republican things but this is on a whole new level.

Vance needs popular approval and he’s never going to get it, regardless of how much evil Thiel tries.

Speaking of - can we deport the fascist South Africans already? They’re traitors to the country and should go fuck up their homeland.

What upsets me is that we have had project2025 as a document for a while and it was released before the election. So why the hell didn’t the Dems go through it and find a strategy for blocking these policies or at the very least come up with a comms plan? We hear nothing and holy shit has some evil stuff been accomplished.

Also we need to get rid of Jeffries. He’s not up to the job. He’s nowhere to be found. Him and Schumer need to go because we need people who will fight back! I don’t care if everything is up to the courts and Dems can’t do anything. You know what they CAN do? Hog up some media airtime by calling this shit out, informing the public about what has been accomplished via project 2025 - because my god is it grim. They should be out and seen - at protests, giving pressers, on talk shows, as talking heads.

Instead we get silence and as usual they will leave it up to volunteers on the ground during elections to somehow do the work of comms directors. It’s absurd.

The party needs to let us younger people take over already!

I am sure that we are headed towards an utter nightmare, but I don’t think all the Vance as Captain America will work.

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Grizzly96's avatar

I think you give too much credit to JD Vance. He is owned by Peter Thiel. The only reason Vance became a Catholic was because he wanted access to Opus Dei as a power center. He has no fixed beliefs. He obviously has no commitment to the rule of law as shown by his enthusiastic support for the summary executions of the Venezuelans on that small boat.

One wonders how his former law professors view him. In any case a large fraction of the MAGAt base are evangelical Protestants. It seems they are unlikely to be enthusiastic about one of their own who converted to Catholicism.

There are a number of fissures in the MAGAt movement that with a deft hand can be turned into full scale fractures.

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Cor's avatar

Ohhh I never put it together that that was why he went all catholic. Makes a lot of sense!

Also helps explain why even with two popes telling him he’s a piece of shit, he did zero reflection.

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Grizzly96's avatar

How else does one explain the a recent “convert” to Catholicism arguing about Catholic theology with the Pope?

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Cor's avatar

No you’ve absolutely nailed it. I hadn’t thought about how he’s a sociopath desperate for power. I also took his Christianity at face value, as opposed to a calculation.

He’s a nightmare and I can’t wait for him to get what is coming to him.

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Robin Dumler's avatar

Nice article. My summary boils down to 3 things: 1) Trump is a big, fat, stupid & corrupt liar and always will be. 2) This applies to most everyone in his cabinet or involved in this administration and 3) This is the reason we must be very aware and non trusting of things they say and do. The recourse is to FIGHT LIKE HELL & NEVER RELENT ! Have a good day !!!

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Thomas Waites's avatar

He’s a cunt. I try never to use Pay Pal

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