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Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Election certification is a mandatory duty, not discretionary, for county election officials in Georgia, a judge ruled on Tuesday, rejecting assertions made by a Republican elections official that elections board members could refuse to certify an election based on their suspicions of fraud or error. read more


Monday, October 14, 2024

Kamala Harris will do a sit-down interview with the rightwing broadcaster Fox News on Wednesday, the news channel announced on Monday, in the most dramatic moment yet in a recent media blitz by the Democratic presidential nominee. read more


Kids as young as 15 were stripping on TikTok's live feature fueled by adults who were paying for it. read more


Sunday, October 13, 2024

Excerpts of a memoir written by late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny revealed he believed he would die in prison. The New Yorker magazine published the excerpts Friday in anticipation of the release of "Patriot" on Oct. 22. read more


Saturday, October 12, 2024

"Grossman is best known for his Magicians fantasy series, which in many ways takes the magic school formula of Harry Potter and combines it with an adult take on Narnia. Here, he explores another kind of fairy tale, less plot-driven and more whimsical. read more


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The Real Plot to Replace Democracy with an Authoritarian Government:

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"That's the point. Thiel and Vance " along with Elon Musk, Steve Bannon, Blake Masters, tech entrepreneur David Sacks, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, Palantir adviser Jacob Helberg, Sequoia Capital's Doug Leone, blogger Curtis Yarvin, and others in the anti-democracy movement " believe that the only way true libertarians can win in the US is for a Caesar-like figure to wrest power from the US establishment and install a monarchical regime, run like a startup.

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Yarvin comes as close as anyone as being the intellectual godfather of the anti-democracy movement. He has written that real political power in the United States is held by a liberal amalgam of universities and the mainstream press, whose commitment to equality and justice is eroding social order.

In Yarvin's view, democratic governments are inefficient and wasteful; they should be replaced with sovereign joint-stock corporations whose major "shareholders" select an executive with total power, who serves at their pleasure.

Yarvin refers to the city-state of Singapore as an example of a successful authoritarian regime.

How to achieve Yarvin's vision? The first step, as Vance offered in a 2021 podcast, is to replace "every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state ... with our people.

And when the courts stop you, stand before the country, and say" " as did Andrew Jackson " that "the chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it."

Vance has been anointed by Thiel and the rest of the anti-democracy movement as the post-Trump president, tasked with replacing the US establishment with an authoritarian regime.

Make no mistake: the foundation for the US's first anti-democracy president is being laid right now.

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