@gulfgal98 but I'm beginning to wonder if they're not much happier with another civil war? These people are absolutely ruthless, and divide and conquer is their game.

#2 about what they wish for. The Democratic party and Hillary Clinton's campaign created Trump by using their pied piper strategy. What do they think they are going to get when trump is impeached or resigns? It sure isn't going to be Hillary Clinton.

The Democrats are still engaging in a scorched earth strategy against both Donald Trump and even moreso, the left. That damn basket of "deplorables" is getting mighty crowded.

All I know is that you do not win elections by alienating the voters and it appears that is exactly what the Democrats are trying to do.

@gulfgal98

Do they really care about elections anymore, especially now that Homeland Security has complete Top Secret control over all electoral infrastructure, including voter rolls, and The Psychopaths That Be really do no longer need actual voters, except to con them into accepting whatever results they're handed and abiding by whatever boot lands on their faces?

(Emphasis mine.)
https://popularresistance.org/this-is-a-coup-homeland-security-takeover-...

This Is A Coup: Homeland Security Takeover Of US Elections

By Jon Rappoport, www.jonrappoport.wordpress.com
January 10th, 2017

...“Such a change [in who controls the US election process] does not require presidential action [or Congressional approval], and only requires the secretary [of DHS] to first consult with the assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism.”

[Also known as: “this is a coup by the White House.”]

“Johnson said election infrastructure included storage facilities, polling places and vote tabulation locations, plus technology involved in the process, including voter registration databases, voting machines and other systems used to manage the election process and report and display results.”

[Also known as: “We’re taking over every significant aspect of the national election process.”]

“The designation [of US elections as critical infrastructure] allows for information to be withheld from the public when state, local and private partners meet to discuss election infrastructure security — potentially injecting secrecy into an election process that’s traditionally and expressly a transparent process. U.S. officials say such closed door conversations allow for frank discussion that would prevent bad actors from learning about vulnerabilities. DHS would also be able to grant security clearances when appropriate and provide more detailed threat information to states.”

[Also known as: “we can intercede in the election process and determine its outcome without any need to pretend we’re being transparent; only people we approve will know the details of how we run elections; secrecy works.”]

“The Obama administration has proposed international cyber rules for peacetime that would expressly note that countries shouldn’t conduct online activity targeting critical [US] infrastructure, which will now also include election systems.”

[Also known as: “in case there is any doubt, elections systems in America will be property of the federal Executive Branch.”]

This is a coup.

This is equivalent to declaring a national state of emergency, including martial law: the DHS, if it deemed it necessary, could utilize armed agents to enforce the new directive and take over states’ offices that resist.

Election-processes belong to the states. But not anymore.

And of course, with this awesome new power, the DHS could intercede, behind the scenes, in the voting process and rig elections.

There is an additional aligned factor at work in this op: the proposed elimination of the Electoral College—yet another measure designed to “federalize” the election process.

Most people are entirely ignorant of the fact that the Constitution was a pact among states. With reluctance, the independent states agreed to relinquish certain specified powers to the newly created central government, while retaining all other powers.

The Electoral College was, therefore, a natural invention, because the states would maintain crucial influence in determining the outcome of presidential elections. State Electors would cast their presidential votes based on which candidate won in their state.

Eliminating the Electoral College now would add one more layer of federal control over the whole country, and take control from the states. More centralization.

Imagine it. Only the popular vote counts. The states are dumped. And on top of it all, the Dept. of Homeland Security has the power to run the election process as a piece of “critical infrastructure.”

Rigging the vote in New York and California, plus a few other populous states, would decide the election. And in time, no one would think about “New York” or “California” as separate entities—because they wouldn’t be. They would just be “more land and people” that are part of “wholly unified” America. ...

...A coup just occurred.

Never to forgive, never to forget.

#2 about what they wish for. The Democratic party and Hillary Clinton's campaign created Trump by using their pied piper strategy. What do they think they are going to get when trump is impeached or resigns? It sure isn't going to be Hillary Clinton.

The Democrats are still engaging in a scorched earth strategy against both Donald Trump and even moreso, the left. That damn basket of "deplorables" is getting mighty crowded.

All I know is that you do not win elections by alienating the voters and it appears that is exactly what the Democrats are trying to do.

@Hawkfish

After all, how hard would it be to generate a ton of fake hits from a bot army. In point of fact, I remember reading an article talking about a suspiciously large number of hits on DKOS coming from some European nation. I can't imagine how the establishment wouldn't seek to prop up DKOS with faux popularity.

What I find more reliable is looking at the thought bubble they live in over there. As long as it remains as closed as it is, then I know the site is pointless no matter how many actual people are visiting.

#3 to account for seasonal variation.

@Pluto's Republic

#4

…set in a Stanley Kubrick landscape. Too corrupted and damaged to mingle with ordinary society, they find fellowship with each other.

@lotlizard
Was such a big fan too...

Was suspecting that, though I haven't followed him closely lately and refuse to look OT. His tweets have given me that familiar pit in the stomach.

Another big casualty in a looong list of 'em.

#6  
His “This Modern World” comic strip at TOP has become a mere shadow of its former self.

The irony is that, after years of courageously calling out corruption and hypocrisy on all sides, Tom Tomorrow found himself working for, and financially dependent on, the real-life political equivalent of Chuckles the Sensible Woodchuck.

This bit of Bernie-Bro-dom, dated April 13, 2016, seems to have been the strip’s last spark of frisky free thought before the Ides of March decree took hold and, inevitably, anti-Trump monotony set in: