"Any Republican Senator seeking the coveted LEADERSHIP position in the United States Senate must agree to Recess Appointments (in the Senate!), without which we will not be able to get people confirmed in a timely manner," Trump posted, adding that positions should be filled "IMMEDIATELY!"

Project 25 doesn't tolerate people voting, just the Dictator's will.

As is his odor, apparently.

"Oh, Lord Trump, won't 'chu buy me a Mercedes Benz?
My money's all gone now, I must make amends
Worked hard for your Insurrection, no help from my friends
So, oh, Lord Trump, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

Oh Lord Trump, won't you buy me a brand new RV?
Dept of Justice is trying to find me
I wait for delivery each day until three
So, oh, Lord, won't you buy me a brand new RV?

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a new law license?
I'm counting on you Lord Trump, please recompense
Prove that you love me, I'm not like Mike Pence!
Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a new law license?

Everybody!"

Trump is usually first in line for Oligarch sperm, er, I mean money.

Laura... "the Parties are the same" isn't the case here; Dems fought all the rwing campaign laws for decades, and only succumbed when CU and others made it Law, the only way to win a Race.

And many more Dems than Republicans vote for remedies and against such laws every year.

But yeah, now that money is speech thanks to Republicans mainly, money not only talks, it rules.

Our Oligarchs and the Big Corporations really have no interest at all in, 'morals'.... they aren't much of a concern for their Holy Bottom Line.

And with Trump in office, neither does our Government have much interest in doing the right thing for the People, rather than for their REAL EMPLOYERS, the ones who pay them for their campaign expenses, hence their very jobs, and promise all our politicians Golden Parachutes on a Corp Board somewhere when they retire.

It's really not that difficult to understand... most candidates for Pres run for at least a year or two, full time, to establish themselves as credible candidates.

Harris had a couple of months, and it's not like she was a household name, which is incredibly important on it's own, when she was picked for VP.

Michelle! would have done much better with those swing voters, not that she was an option, but she was a known quantity. Although still a woman in a man's world for lots of voters.

SO the already low info swing voters, and a few Republicans, chose the devil they knew rather than the devil they didn't.

And when I say 'devil', I'm being literal.

Vlad told the Ayatollayaso to tell Hamas to lay off Israel, so his Boy Donald can bring Peace to the Middle East, along with his Trump Hotel Dubai Tower.

Ukraine has already be told to make a deal with Vlad, which is his payback.

"Political operations linked to former President Donald Trump and the GOP gave millions to those that organized the Jan. 6 rally before a mob of pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol, according to a watchdog group.

OpenSecrets, a non-profit research group that focuses on campaign finance, found that Trump's political network and other Republican Party groups gave at least $12.6 million to the organizers since the 2020 election cycle began.

Trump and his affiliates haven't turned off the funding spigot since the riot, according to OpenSecrets, which found millions of dollars in contributions to the rally organizers during the 2022 cycle."

from the link in #10

He planned and paid for the violent riot to stop the peaceful transfer of power, and he paid for the illegal Fake Electors, many of who are in prison now.

And Trumpers are proud as they can be of him... for being a traitor and a criminal.

Wherein we learn about the NRA's little brother, the NAR.

"Trump last month said the military should be used to handle what he called "the enemy from within" and "radical left lunatics."

"I think it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military, because they can't let that happen," he added, referring to potential protests on Election Day.

Several former senior military officials who served under Trump have sounded the alarm in recent years about his authoritarian impulses, including Milley and retired Gen. John Kelly, Trump's former White House chief of staff.

Kelly said before the election that Trump fits "into the general definition of fascist" and that he spoke of the loyalty of Hitler's Nazi generals."

Wow. Just wow... I mean, Republicans were bad enough at being the Establishment, but they are even worse as the revolting rwingers. And Establishment Republicans still LOVE their Cult Leader.

You would have at least thought they might notice that part.

For swing voters it seems to have been a case of the devil you know vs the devil you don't know; it's not like Harris ran for the Presidency for 1 to 2 years like most people do.

She did it in a couple of months.

And for better or worse, low info types only know what their social media tells them, and we know who owns that.

Trying criminal Presidents who have had literally dozens of their own Staff testify under oath against them and dozens of others go to prison for crimes they committed for him... isn't 'law fare', it's following the evidence and prosecuting the criminals.

Even your Cult Leader.

"What the hell is going on in the US Senate?" Carlson posted on X on Saturday afternoon.

After Trump won, "Mitch McConnell engineers a coup against his agenda by calling early leadership elections in the Senate. Two of the three candidates hate Trump and what he ran on."

The former Fox host took particular issue with Cornyn, whom he summarized as "an angry liberal whose politics are indistinguishable from Liz Cheney's."

The election will take place on Wednesday, November 13.

"It will determine whether or not the new administration succeeds," Carlson wrote. "Rick Scott of Florida is the only candidate who agrees with Donald Trump. Call your senator and demand a public endorsement of Rick Scott. Don't let McConnell get away with it again."

Sounds like quite the girl fight.

Yeah, might as well just distribute Nat Def Info directly to all authoritarian leaders worldwide.

And put it on X, of course.

"It's not a crime if the President does it."

"Richard Nixon was correct."

Making the media lose credibility was one of the First Goals of the Far Right several decades ago.

It tool a while, but eventually the media was discredited such that Trump's Lies were just as good to Trumpers as any media.

Also why Musk's X has been the tool that pushed Russian propaganda and Qanon-sense down the Cult's throat... which was, of course, wide open and willing.

The False Prophet is never far from the Antichrist.

Democracy depends on a well-informed People... which is why the first thing the the far right did was to make the media a liability in finding accurate information, not an asset.

When that happened, well, Trump's Lies became just as good a source as any to people who wanted to believe them.

"The conservative elite's second move towards authoritarian rule was helping the Nazi Party to gain power. The conservative elite and the Nazi Party had a common enemy " the political left .

As Hitler controlled the masses support for the political right, the conservative elite believed that they could use Hitler and his popular support to democratically' take power.

Once in power, Hitler could destroy the political left. Destroying the political left would help to remove the majority of political opponents to the ring-wing conservative elite."

"Jack Smith must indict Donald Trump's co-conspirators because that will force Donald Trump's hand," Kirschner said.

"If Donald Trump wants to get rid of the cases against his criminal associates, his co-conspirators, the folks who helped him try to steal the 2020 election if he wants to get rid of those cases after he's sworn in as president, he will have to engage in corruption."

Speaking to Newsweek on Saturday via telephone, Kirschner said that he believed Smith was always going to indict these co-conspirators, but it was a matter of timing.

"We have to attempt to hold [the co-conspirators] accountable for their crimes because if we don't, that's just giving permission and encouragement to the next criminal conspiracy that wants to try to steal an election," he said."

- ...in a post-truth, post-fact world, none of that mattered. Trump appealed to people's emotions, the baser the better, and that is what proved to be the winning formula.

That about covers it.

Apparently appealing to anti-intellectuals isn't all that difficult.