It's not clear who it even speaks for:
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Personally, I'll never see one of their protests the same way again.
I'm optimistic about our future, whatever the billionaires may try. Every new precedent they set with their traffickers' regime is a new tool for us to use.
We are now in a time now where billionaires and their enforcers threaten a second insurrection to shield the Epstein list. Should they make this choice and send their enforcers once again, we will then have a mandate to bring the lasting peace of justice. Though we failed after their first, we could then remake our world without the Epstein class.
From September 10^(th) to November 12^(th) last year, every “MAGA” House Republican could have been the final signature that brought the Epstein Files Transparency Act to a vote. Even in its half-released form, it was only the Act-mandated release of these files that launched investigations overseas. For over 60 days, every man and woman woke up and made this choice: To shield traffickers who may still be moving children, lest they enrage their clients.
They are the natural conclusion of corruption in our country. These oppressors escaped unscathed after first their acts of open theft, then executions by masked men in the Capitol, then our streets, and we’ve now reached the end: They want to make us tolerate their crimes against our children.
This isn't an exaggeration, it ignores the new precedents the billionaires themselves have done. To use my own country as an example, Epstein class enforcers actually stormed the United States Capitol and very nearly overthrew the government. That attempted coup left police officers dead, and those same terrorists have now all been mass-pardoned. To use another example, the same billionaires who incited that insurrection are now just trying to jail sitting politicians for standing against their president.
While I don't condone those violent methods, the billionaires themselves have offered them as an alternative to legitimate elections. So, are we supposed to believe that they could just steal an election themselves and everything would just work out for them again? That - in a time of historic disapproval - their enemies are just going to roll over and accept that Epstein's clients are now our autocrats? It seems very weird for any person to assume that and just ignore all the new precedents that have been set by the Epstein class themselves.
In a Meet the Press interview, the billionaire Trump made it clear his J6ers may still get millions:
“The people were destroyed by dirty cops and by weaponization. Many of those people should be compensated.”
If you didn’t know those same J6ers nearly terror bombed the Knoxville FBI, you may want to listen.
These terrorists prefer targets close to home, and white nationalists are responsible for the two deadliest domestic terror attacks, the Tulsa race massacre and the Oklahoma City bombing. When 1,500 other terrorists akin to Mr. Kelley or McVeigh are not just walking free but with the billionaires' own protection, that matters here at home. With our own infrastructure, any sheltered pocket of these men is a threat made to us all. But sheltering that threat is not enough for our billionaires; at taxpayer expense, they’re still trying to give America’s enemies millions.
Look at our refineries and major river structures like Old River Control. What happens if we let men just like Mr. Kelly make their million-dollar bombs?
Louisiana will be holding its gubernatorial election November 20, 2027. What's your Project 2027 that a candidate could carry out for your state?
With Project 2025, billionaires chose to end the precedents that had protected them. Yet while billionaires like Trump now openly plot their second insurrection - and actually arming the insurrectionists now with our own tax dollars - many Democrats' Project 2029 proposals just codify the same weakness we showed after the first attempted coup. For example, project2029.me's proposal to "Hold public servants and elected officials accountable to the rule of law" reads like a mix of just undoing what's already been done and "referring" people for civil or criminal prosecution. We tried that after their first insurrection, and that got us slow-walked trials and mass pardons - and likely payouts - for the insurrectionists.
So, what's a Project 2029 that's not just the same mistakes all over again?
The billionaires and their protectors know what's in the files, or know enough to fear their exposure more than death. Yet in the aftermath of a second insurrection, there will be insistence that the 6-3 Supreme Court stay is now the law, the lawsuits are dismissed, and the vote is overturned; this would be the Eastman memos of the first insurrection now carried out. So, what should happen to all of these people - not just the billionaires, but from the politicians down to the ICE agents grabbing voters at the polls - if we find out all of this was attempted to cover up what's in the files?
If a government has shutdowns to protect pedophiles or tries to - and likely will - send tax dollars to over 1,500 FBI-bombing insurrectionists like Edward Kelley, there's not much in answer that could be called an escalation.
From a historic perspective, Louisiana's corrupt regime doesn't even seem that sustainable. In the case of the English, ancien régime French, and Tsarist Russian revolutions, the regimes already lasted for centuries and their own protectors thought these kings were blessed by God Himself. Yet there's people still saying that our pervert billionaires, and their stateside protectors, are all just going to be okay. Is it really just a given that this is the exception?
While the "Anti-Weaponization Fund" is currently blocked in court, this is an administration that flew people to an El Salvador concentration camp against a judge's order. I can see them still making payouts, if they haven't started already.
There's been both threats and actions on the part of the J6ers. Edward Kelley tried to detonate car bombs at the Knoxville FBI, and this was when he was on a watchlist and without a multi-million dollar settlement. This was not an isolated incident; though the Justice Department doesn't exactly announce when a J6er reoffends, there are both assassination threats and another bomb threat/attempt, one actually livestreamed as the J6er drove through Obama's neighborhood.
My thoughts are this: this group of over 1,500 sick individuals already has political protection, federal agents who actually try to stop any legitimate threat they pose might just be fired. If you start giving them 7-figure payouts, you'll eventually find another Edward Kelley, but now building a 7-figure bomb. That's a mass casualty event that no one but a billionaire would risk.
This event, should it happen, would be a product of America's billionaires. And so, here is the question: If their payouts to this group end up funding another attack, how can we make sure that this will never happen again?
While the "Anti-Weaponization Fund" is currently blocked in court, this is an administration that flew people to an El Salvador concentration camp against a judge's order. I can see them still making payouts, if they haven't started already.
There's been both threats and actions on the part of the J6ers. Edward Kelley tried to detonate car bombs at the Knoxville FBI, and this was when he was on a watchlist and without a multi-million dollar settlement. This was not an isolated incident; though the Justice Department doesn't exactly announce when a J6er reoffends, there are both assassination threats and another bomb threat/attempt, one actually livestreamed as the J6er drove through Obama's neighborhood.
My thoughts are this: this group of over 1,500 already has political protection, federal agents who actually try to stop any legitimate threat they pose might just be fired. If you start giving them 7-figure payouts, you'll eventually find another Edward Kelley, but now building a 7-figure bomb. That's a mass casualty event that no one but a billionaire would risk.
So, what happens if that happens, and what role would we need to play from that point forward?
To narrow the scope, this would be after after the present US administration and would assume there would be a significant number of both firings and voluntary departures.
First, there are ethnonationalists in the Department of Homeland Security. The language they've used to recruit includes calls to deport at least 50 million native-born citizens and multiple statements that align with translated Nazi propaganda. ICE prosecutor James Rodden is one well-documented example of a known extremist that they've kept on, and the violent language and policies he's advocated for illustrate the bigger point: Ethnonationalists are a violent group.
They won’t get any better as they lose their cushy jobs, and the men and women on their lists would be the first at risk. In the case of extremists with the needed access, this would let them monitor commute times and routes, old or sick family members, and where their kids go to school. Even if the extremists couldn't smuggle out that data, human memory alone would be a problem.
So here's my question: What should be done as these people leave the government?
You can look at DHS social media; they are literally posting translated Nazi propaganda. This is who they hire.
And here’s where it gets scary: They can just monitor anyone with zero oversight. You can read the Executive Branch’s NSPM-7, “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence” on the White House site for yourself. Newly-hired eugenicists can just stalk you and your family if your views are seen as – from the directive itself – “anti-American”, “anti-capitalist”, or “anti-Christian”, among even broader smears like “anti-fascism”. If a Nazi claims you’re an “anti-fascist”, you’re going on their list.
First, there’s a legitimate concern about a second insurrection, and it’s a well-documented threat. But we can’t again “move on” from the threat they will remain. Watch Trump’s Jan 7^(th), 2021 surrender speech and count the promises they broke – they’ll just lie to us and then wait to strike again.
Even putting justice aside, how do we protect our loved ones as these people fall from power? These budding Dylann Roofs won’t get any better as they lose their cushy jobs, and they also won’t forget the men and women on their lists. They’ve had an entire surveillance state at their disposal; they’ll still know commute times and routes, old or sick family members, and where our kids all go to school.
Long before the Nazis and their “deportation” camps, there’s been a Jewish proverb that still rings true today: “To be lenient when you should be firm is to be cruel when you could be kind.”
You can look at DHS social media; they are literally posting translated Nazi propaganda. This is who they hire.
And here’s where it gets scary: They can just monitor anyone with zero oversight. You can read the Executive Branch’s NSPM-7, “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence” on the White House site for yourself. Newly-hired eugenicists can just stalk you and your family if your views are seen as – from the directive itself – “anti-American”, “anti-capitalist”, or “anti-Christian”, among even broader smears like “anti-fascism”. If a Nazi claims you’re an “anti-fascist”, you’re going on their list.
First, there’s a legitimate concern about a second insurrection, and it’s a well-documented threat. But we can’t again “move on” from the threat they will remain. Watch Trump’s Jan 7^(th), 2021 surrender speech and count the promises they broke – they’ll just lie to us and then wait to strike again.
Even putting justice aside, how do we protect our loved ones as these people fall from power? These budding Dylann Roofs won’t get any better as they lose their cushy jobs, and they also won’t forget the men and women on their lists. They’ve had an entire surveillance state at their disposal; they’ll still know commute times and routes, old or sick family members, and where our kids all go to school.
Long before the Nazis and their “deportation” camps, there’s been a Jewish proverb that still rings true today: “To be lenient when you should be firm is to be cruel when you could be kind.”
You can look at DHS social media; they are literally posting translated Nazi propaganda. This is who they hire.
And here’s where it gets scary: They can just monitor anyone with zero oversight. You can read the Executive Branch’s NSPM-7, “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence” on the White House site for yourself. Newly-hired eugenicists can just stalk you and your family if your views are seen as – from the directive itself – “anti-American”, “anti-capitalist”, or “anti-Christian”, among even broader smears like “anti-fascism”. If a Nazi claims you’re an “anti-fascist”, you’re going on their list.
First, there’s a legitimate concern about a second insurrection, and it’s a well-documented threat. But we can’t again “move on” from the threat they will remain. Watch Trump’s Jan 7^(th), 2021 surrender speech and count the promises they broke – they’ll just lie to us and then wait to strike again.
Even putting justice aside, how do we protect our loved ones as these people fall from power? These budding Dylann Roofs won’t get any better as they lose their cushy jobs, and they also won’t forget the men and women on their lists. They’ve had an entire surveillance state at their disposal; they’ll still know commute times and routes, old or sick family members, and where our kids all go to school.
Long before the Nazis and their “deportation” camps, there’s been a Jewish proverb that still rings true today: “To be lenient when you should be firm is to be cruel when you could be kind.”