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While they touched briefly on the money aspect, I think this article missed another point: Trump is campaigning in areas he's likely to lose, because he's laying the groundwork for an insurrection. He'll likely point at the results and craft a new lie for his supporters on how the election was stolen (in an area he had little chance of ever winning).
@mcfate I hope to goodness you're right - I never would have even considered the possibility before January 6th.
Of course for him, it doesn't need to be a successful insurrection - just something he and his crime family can leverage for more grift. :(
The only success J6 achieved was managing to have the element of surprise. They won't get that twice.
There are going to be a million National Guards and cops on alert the entire week. Anyone planning an insurrection is going to wind up in a cell.
@mcfate HE doesn't have a plan. who's watching the puppeteers?
NOBODY is. Not everything is a conspiracy. Most of the time, stuff just happens, people just do things.
There's no "mastermind" running things from "behind the scenes". What you see is what there is.
@mcfate what i see is a bunch of megalomaniacs (Bannon, Stone, Musk, Thiel, et al) trying to destroy the US for personal gain... they certainly aren't "masterminds" though
What you don't see is Formerly-Known-As having significant impact on the real world, other than on Elmo's net worth and reputation.
@mcfate he's a puppet. so is Vance, although Vance is more ambitious (but not particularly intelligent & totally lacking any charm)
Dickless is a puppet, too, just to his own dementia.
@mcfate i said he was a puppet. he's always been a puppet because he'll do anything to feed his ego & his greed
@mcfate i'm sure there may be isolated outbreaks of violence when Trump loses, but there's really no cohesiveness in his followers. they'll turn on each other as fast as they turn on "liberals".
And then they all go to prison, the end.
@mcfate finally. too much grace has been extended to (white male) bad actors for too long
trump is sowing the seeds of hatred & rebellion.
@Synical I like to think about the times since his followers have been arrested and jailed. An effective deterrence. Now most of the calls for "it will be wild" have been met with a meager gathering of "patriots" in the streets. Wouldn't it be great if we had the election, Harris won, and then we all went back to life?
@Synical
There's not going to be any insurrection, and especially not in places like California.
He's flailing. He's not a rational actor, which should be fairly obvious.
There's no plan. He just DOES stuff.