@usefewersyllables had his Biden sign stolen. He lives in the middle of nowhere. I guess he was lucky it was only stolen. He has small children too.

As for me, I've still got me Jolly Roger up a-hangin' from the deck rail. Keep 'em guessing, I say!

I'm not planning to leave the house tomorrow. We have supplies and booze laid in, and will just lay low and see what ends up happening. Lots of really noisy asshole Trumpers up here in Douglas County (jacked up coal-rolling trucks with flags, yard signs, signs saying "Never socialism!", yadda yadda), but they are clearly a (very) vocal minority. I don't think that CO is going red this cycle, despite their noises.

They don't have a thing to worry about in any case: they'll get a repub president either way, and socialism is a long way away (at least until they get their Medicare).

Nobody wants to put any non-Trump signs up, because of the threat of vandalism. Somebody keyed a bunch of cars at my work on election day in 2016 (Bernie and HRC stickers), so we've seen this movie before, and they've had 4 years to improve their fantasies...

@Dr. John Carpenter [video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLZ5xcNPMcY&list=OLAK5uy_nCv5k2f2Gx2omkD...

who knows?

I know the media and TPTB have done everything they can to hype up the idea that whichever side you're against is going to be out there stirring up trouble and spoiling for a fight. It seems inevitable that something will happen somewhere just because self proclaimed defenders on both sides are all geared up for the other side to start something. I never thought I'd see the potential for US elections to turn into say Jamaican style chaos and violence, but here we are.

@Cassiodorus a war on terror.

"Antifa" is an idea, not an organization.

@snoopydawg "Non-scaleable"? What are they going to build it out of, greased teflon? Tear that shit down.

come on, man!

Four years after pledging to make America great, Trump has to turn the White House into a fortress to protect himself from the people.
Authorities building “non-scalable” fence around the White House today over fears of civil unrest on Election Day. https://t.co/5rhTmLUZZv

— Frida Ghitis (@FridaGhitis) November 2, 2020

SOURCE

Trump has cancelled his election nite event at Mar McGoo and moved it the White House where he will host another super spreader event. Good. IF they don't care about getting infected why should I? These people never think about the lesser people occupying their country.

Schahill states that Trump has changed 400 immigration rules that will be hard to overturn it. He says that Trump assassinated a US citizen without due process. "Retribution will be swift under my watch."

But then Biden hasn't been much better and very hawkish. Gee if Biden tells you he is going to change the country's direction then he should be asked why he spent 4 decades working to make it go where it is going now.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CRRzS6v-cQ&list=TLPQMDIxMTIwMjAeXta8PuD...

"Dems are bringing up squirt gun to a raging fire. Joe Biden is a fundamental problem of the American empire." Yeppers he has been.

Worth a listen.

This is the 2nd fence Trump has put up around the WH. What are the odds that the next pres takes it down?

@wendy davis

Neo-lib/Deep State/Never-Trumpers have been engaging in rolling coup attempts ever since Trump was elected and ICAP is certainly a part of that, as is the Transition Integrity Project and Lawfare .

Darren Beattie breaks down the Color Coup:

i'd guess i'd also wondered how long the mayhem will/might last, sorta echoed by BAR radio on mumia's quip on the 2020 election:

“Given the speed and power of social media, anything can happen in the blink of an eye,” said Abu Jamal. Plus, “It ain’t the voting that matters; it’s the counting.”

on a break i'd found this; raul diego deeps deep again:

'Meet the Obama-Era Neoliberals Advising State Governments on Election Day Security; A neoliberal think tank filled to the brim with Obama-era national security officials has been advising government officials via states’ District Attorney Offices throughout the nation on how to handle potential election violence’, by Raul Diego, mintpressnews.com, Nov. 2, 2020
[add in the fact that there are boatloads of CIA in the D party now...]

“For months, officials across the country have been war-gaming the 2020 election through so-called ‘tabletop exercises’ that projected various outcomes for the electoral contest now less than 24 hours away. Organized by DHS and others since February, one of these scenarios is likely to play out tomorrow, and one group, in particular, is making sure that state and local authorities have all the legal resources they need to face what promises to be a pivotal – and perhaps, historically violent – U.S. presidential election.

Across the nation, businesses are preparing for a repeat of the mayhem that spread throughout the country during the George Floyd protests. Lumber and hardware stores in major cities are seeing a considerable spike in business as other retail establishments board up their storefronts.
..............................
The preparations at the state level go far beyond concern over a few broken windows, however.

A neoliberal think tank filled to the brim with Obama-era national security officials, called the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP) at Georgetown Law Center, has been advising government officials via states’ District Attorney Offices (DAO) throughout the nation since the summer. ICAP has been churning out “critical resources to help local governments and community members across the country protect public safety” in partnership with the Anti-defamation League (ADL) and a “coalition of the nation’s leading law firms”, which have been working pro-bono to offer “legal principles, best practices, and creative solutions for local jurisdictions” to confront “political violence” according to a July press release.

The outfit’s legal director, Mary McCord, spurred the creation of a special task force to fight “voter suppression” in Philadelphia, to “work alongside the City Commissioners and our partners in law enforcement, government, and community to ensure that no Philadelphian is intimidated, misled, threatened, or harmed as they cast their ballot,” as Philly DA Larry Krasner revealed in early October.

Pennsylvania is likely to see its fair share of civil unrest, given the critical role it played in the 2016 election and other notable factors, such as the Transition Integrity Project (TIP), recently covered by Whitney Webb and Ryan Christian. But, according to McCord, other parts of the country – particularly the northwest – could be primed for more serious problems. “There’s a great potential for civil unrest in Washington [state],” due to the large number of paramilitary units in the region, McCord told In Homeland Security, in a recent article about the prospect of Gov. Inslee deploying National Guard troops at the polls.

She warned of groups like People’s Rights, which was founded by anti-government activist Ammon Bundy, who captured the national spotlight in 2016 when he led the occupation of the federal Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. The organization boasts over 26,000 members in 15 states but counts Washington as its largest stronghold.
“Hair-trigger

Washington – along with Oregon and Pennsylvania – is among five states identified as “at risk” of increased militia activity around election time in an ostensibly independent report published two weeks ago by a U.S. non-profit called the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), which like ICAP’s nationwide campaign, launched its “US Crisis Monitor” project to “provide real-time data on political violence and demonstrations in America” last July.” [large snip]

Bad advice

The state of Washington is getting their ducks in a row for what many see as a referendum on the country’s ideological direction. A common theme of any election campaign, to be sure, but one which seems especially fraught with danger at this particularly volatile moment in history where deep political divisions are intersecting with a pandemic crisis, that has – in turn – brought on a frightening display of government power and top-down control over practically every aspect of normal life.

Preparations at the state and municipal level in Washington beyond have been significantly aided by ICAP, which has been pumping out copious amounts of materials – information packets, publications, and reports – to “help prevent unlawful paramilitary conduct and voter intimidation” on the eve of the election.

One such publication features nine bullet points, which describe what officials should be looking out for when identifying “voter intimidation.” The document also cites multiple instances of case law and sections of the U.S. code that apply to questions like free speech and its limits. In September, the Center put out fact sheets on “unlawful militias” across the country to help all 50 states “prepare for possible unlawful militia” actions at the polls.

NatSec sabotage hawks

McCord’s opinion about what the 2020 elections could bring might be taken with a grain of salt if not for her central role in the historic 2016 election and its aftermath. McCord was the Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the Justice Department between October 2016 – installed by Obama only days before Trump’s victory – until April 2017, when she left in the midst of one of the administration’s early purges, which had not yet filled the vacancies at the DoJ.

It was none other than McCord who led the DoJ’s investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the election and the Trump campaign’s suspected ties to Russian oligarchs. She was also a key player in the FBI’s initial investigation into the Trump campaign, code-named “Crossfire Hurricane,” and was one of the high-level Justice officials who reviewed the controversial FISA warrant renewals against Carter Page; two of which were deemed invalid by Bill Barr’s Justice Department in January.”

Diego names the ICAP board members and gives their chilling CV’s in three longish paragraphs, then ends:

“By and large, however, it is through Mary McCord that ICAP channels its drive and purpose. In April, she published an op-ed in the Washington Post condemning Trump’s alleged incitement to violence via social media and declared, outright, that the president’s tweets should not be considered “protected free speech.” McCord goes even further and suggests that the presidential tweets might even constitute a crime under federal law.

Despite vacillating over the answer to that question, McCord seems relentless in her pursuit of a casus belli that will not only justify the abrogation of freedom of speech but of public assembly and other constitutional rights.”

later; got to get back to so-called Real Life. ; )