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From: Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com>
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Subject: Re: Awfully quiet in here...
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 14:34:35 -0800
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On 11/11/24 08:14, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 21:11:46 -0800, Bobbie Sellers
> <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/10/24 20:29, Titus G wrote:
>>> On 9/11/24 08:26, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>> snip
>>>
>>>>       And yet we have American citizens who did not know that
>>>> Biden had dropped out and did not know that Harris and Walz were
>>>> the candidates of the Democratic party. As shown by search engines
>>>> queried on Election Day.
>>>
>>> George Carlin said that Americans only vote for the waiters who will lie
>>> to get your tip whilst serving up the same old shit from the same old
>>> kitchen. Those using the search engines knew which group of waiters they
>>> wanted, the Democratic party in this scenario. It didn't matter whether
>>> it was led by a dithering old pedophile succumbing to something like
>>> alzheimers or a non-white female who froze in mid-speech when the
>>> tele-prompter failed. Perhaps these people had switched channels
>>> whenever political crap appeared on tv or perhaps they had read the
>>> published policies of both the Republican and Democrat Political Party
>>> Manifestos, (as, of course, have all rasfw readers, here), and made a
>>> serious choice based on their findings and trust that those they elected
>>> would fulfill that trust.
>>> (Brief pause whilst I roll around on the floor laughing.)
>>>
>>> If Idi Amin or [Insert favourite corporal here, Marines Ineligible],
>>> stood for President for YOUR party, (after, of course, the published
>>> policies of both the Republican and Democrat Political Party Manifestos
>>> had been studied), would you vote for that other group of waiters?
>>>
>>>>       Americans prefer games to the duties of citizenship,
>>>> one of which is to stay well informed as to political matters.
>>>
>>> There are far too many vested interests who profit from you being ill
>>> informed. Wouldn't it be better to develop a skill in life as did The
>>> Player of Games, (Iain M Banks), who was manipulated into achieving
>>> political ends by devious means.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>       bliss
>>
>> 	Well the corporal I am thinking of ingratiated himself with the
>> elder statesman of his nation as well as the Corporate Interests and
>> the Military. It seems their are parallels, some what askew, but the
>> story line is still there.  Before long the elder statesman was out
>> of action and the former corporal rose to lead his nation into
>> infamy and war, while he pretended that the projects begun under
>> a more liberal administration were his ideas.
> 
> I believe he also had the Brownshirts
> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung], which were both larger
> and more disciplined than any "militia" existing in the USA today.
> 
> So the parallel fails at the critical point: no large disciplined
> group of thugs designated as Republican Party security to carry out
> Trump's will.
> 
> IOW, no "oomph" in the streets. As the failure on Jan 6 showed. 1000+
> protestors tried/convicted/plead out, only -- what? 6? -- militia
> members.

	One of the promises (yes he is poor at keeping promises)
made by the ineligible candidate was to pardon everyone involved
with January 6. As for the Republican thugs sorry they are MAGA
thugs and must include the Proud Boys and other brands of politial thuggery.

	bliss