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what happens when?

friday, september 6th, 2024

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Note that I did not say ‘if’ the regime steals the election.

So far the 2024 election is proceeding according to the same playbook as 2020. Trump is touring the country, holding massive rallies that generate vast enthusiasm. He puts his foot in his mouth as often as he strikes rhetorical gold, making his online supporters oscillate wildly along the familiar it’s so over/we’re so back pendulum, alternately convinced that victory is inevitable and that their leader is determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by, for instance, declaring that he wants lots of immigration because AI is coming (no, that didn’t make sense to me, either). None of this matters to the base, who continue to turn out in their tens of thousands, regardless of what the big man says or doesn’t say. It’s all vibes.

[FULL TITLE: "What Happens When the Regime Steals the 2024 Election?"]

Meanwhile, Kamala hides from the public, refuses interviews, avoids any unscripted interactions, and doesn’t attend rallies. She’s an idiot, of course – a mentally deficient, vindictive, charmless, alcoholic dollar-store prostitute. Every time she opens her mouth in public the word salad that cackles out elicits incredulous mockery from everyone who bothers to pay attention, just as she always has. She can’t even run on her record -- the border broke on her watch, and so did the economy, with her campaign insisting, remarkably, that inflation is fine but also, supermarkets need price controls to prevent gouging. In recognition of this, her team plays hide-the-candidate, a game the regime’s fluffers in the legacy propaganda outlets are only too happy to assist with.

This is precisely the strategy adopted by Joe Biden in the 2020 campaign, which he conducted entirely from the comfort of his basement. Biden was obviously senile. Everyone could see it. His running mate was as unlikable then as she is now. So they both stayed out of view, let the press do his talking for them, while Trump ran around the country holding massive, enthusiastic rallies.

It was obvious to everyone that Trump would win, easily, in a landslide.

And he did win.

Except where it mattered.

Everyone saw what happened on election night. They stopped the count in swing counties in which it looked like Trump would win. When the country went to bed, Trump was comfortably in the lead. When they woke up, the Democrats had magically found boxes of ballots with Biden’s name on them. In some places Democrat-controlled vote-counting centres covered the windows to prevent an angry public from seeing what was happening within. Elsewhere the count lingered on for a week, weeks even, so that the Democrats could count up the number of Trump votes and introduce a sufficient quantity of Biden votes. Then of course there were all the questions about electronic voting integrity, with revelations that the machines were not airgapped, but were in fact unsecurely connected to the Internet.

When it was all said and done, Trump exceeded his performance in 2016, but Biden obtained more votes than any presidential candidate in history.

Despite never leaving his basement.

Of course the propagandists gaslit everyone -- election fraud was a conspiracy theory, it was the most secure election in history, and so on and so forth. That this was the precise opposite of what they’d been saying for the previous four years -- that Russia had hacked Our Democracy – was neither here nor there. Later Time Magazine bragged that they had ‘fortified’ the election, which everyone understood to as an admission that they’d stolen it.

Election fraud in America utilizes a variety of tactics: ballot stuffing, ballot harvesting from senile seniors, registering illegal immigrants and other non-citizens to vote (which, as everyone knows, is why the regime is so hostile to voting ID laws), electronically forged ballots, and forged mail-in ballots. Definitive evidence of any one form of electoral fraud is extremely difficult to obtain, requiring painstaking forensic work. Even when such evidence is found, it will only pertain to one form of fraud, in one or a few locations. This enables regime respecters to claim that fraud is rare, and does not occur on a large enough scale to swing elections. Somehow they never say that any cheating at all is unacceptable. Funny that.

Not everyone fell for the fraud, of course. Outraged rallies began to spontaneously rise up across the country, ultimately converging on DC for the doomed J6 ‘insurrection’.

It didn’t matter.

The propagandists called Trump’s supporters terrorists. Those who entered the Capitol were arrested, imprisoned, subjected to various forms of psychological torture.

The regime stole the election in broad daylight, grinned with its hands in the cookie jar, looked the country right in the eyes with crumbs dribbling down its wobbling chins, grinned “What cookie?”, and dared anyone to call it on their blatant lies.

The regime got away with it.

It is obvious that they are doing the same thing again. It worked the first time, so why would they not? The Biden administration proved that you don’t need a charismatic candidate, or even a minimally competent one. All you need is a warm body that can be wheeled in front of the cameras every now and then. The compliance of the propaganda organs renders any embarrassing behaviour from the warm body wholly irrelevant. Enough of the population is so thoroughly brainwashed, so completely incapable of evaluating reality, so utterly prostrated before propaganda, that they will believe whatever they are told to believe and they will do so with the whole of their hollowed-out hearts. Not everyone, to be sure -- but enough. Particularly as those most completely captured are the Single Woke Females, the professional-managerial class aparat-chicks that infest the institutions.

In the confusing months between November 2020 and J6, there was rampant speculation Trump would take some sort of bold action -- a military coup d’etat, or even a Civil War. There’s no question that if he’d given the word his supporters would have turned out in their millions. Everyone sensed that it was go time, and they were ready to go. In the end, after some half-hearted lawsuits and a few rallies, the big man lost his nerve. Go home, he told his supporters. Go in peace. It’s over.

He may well have been right to do so. The Biden presidency was disastrous for America. The economy has fallen apart; inflation has wiped people out; the leaking border has shattered, letting in tens of millions, many criminals, many very possibly much worse than criminals; America has found itself embroiled in wars all over the world, which threaten to turn nuclear. The last four years have been an almost unprecedented national humiliation. Biden is, without a shadow of a doubt, the worst president America has ever had.

But was the Biden presidency worse than a Civil War?

Think about that.

Civil Wars have a tendency to spin out of control, very quickly. They are almost uniquely vicious. With America’s total breakdown of social trust, the war would spread everywhere, and fast. No one really knows what way the military would go; it would probably split, in practice, some units (Air Force and Navy especially) declaring for the regime, others for America (Marines, if I had to guess). Ad hoc militias would form all over the place. There would be ethnic strife that would make the usual antics of Blacks Looting and Murdering look mostly peaceful. Supply chains would break down. Civilians would die of lack of medicine. Children would starve. Then of course there are foreign adversaries, all of whom -- the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians, the Saudis, the Mexicans -- would almost certainly get involved, with the goal of exacerbating the war, dragging it out as long as possible, in order to break American power forever.

As horrible as the last four years have been for America, they were nowhere near as bad as a Civil War would have been.

Maybe Trump understood this. Maybe it wasn’t cowardice on his part, but prudence – he did not want to be the one to unlock the hellgate in the District of Columbia, and unleash the legions of the damned on the continent.

So what happens in November, when the Democrats steal the election in broad daylight once again, and their cackling idiot Kali assumes the Oval Office.

The most likely answer is: nothing.

At least nothing of consequence.

There will be outrage on social media. Everyone will see right through the charade, and they’ll make sure the establishment knows that they see. The memes will flow like fine wine at the open bar of a billionaire’s third wedding. There will be rallies. Angry Americans will show up to wave placards and chant slogans about fertilizing the Tree of Liberty and so on. There will be grim predictions of Civil War, of the right’s inevitable victory because of course, they have all the veterans, and all the guns, so the left better watch out.

But without a leader to tell them to open fire, the barrels of those Ar-15s will remain as cold as a witch’s useless tits.

The response to the regime’s theft of the Republic will be an idiot’s response -- sound and fury, signifying nothing. The barking of angry dogs, whose owners know can be easily kicked into supplication. A resentful, fitful supplication, to be sure. But supplication nonetheless.

If Trump was a different sort of man, things might be different. But he is not a general. He is not a warrior. He is not a military man. He may possess physical courage, he may be bold, but he is not a Julius Caesar, or even a General Franco. He is a businessman. He negotiates. He strikes deals. He is also an actor -- a reality television star who plays himself. He cultivates his personal brand, rides the waves of the publicity he generates, curates his image. These are not useless talents. He knows how to talk to his audience, how to get a message out and get people fired up about it. He’s great at getting things built. He knows how to strike a deal. But he is not a man of violence.

So when the deep state steals the election for its papier-mâché candidate, Trump will probably do what Trump did the last time: put on a good show, make lots of noise, and then swallow his losses and his boundless pride and go back to Mar-A-Lago -- while those of his supporters who are too hot-headed to take the hint, take the hit.

What happens next is hard to say. Again, probably just a continuation, and an acceleration, of the same decay into impoverished single-party totalitarianism that America has already been experiencing.

Maybe the first amendment will finally be destroyed via explicit implementation of hate speech and counter-disinformation laws. But maybe that won’t be necessary, and instead an end-run around the first amendment will be found: some sort treaty with the EU, for example, which forces American social media platforms to abide by European regulations.

Maybe they’ll finally come for everyone’s guns. Oh, sure, that will start the Civil War, you say. Cops going door to door confiscating people’s black rifles will find themselves full of holes. Only that isn’t how it will happen. People will simply be ordered to turn their weapons in; those who do not comply will find their bank accounts frozen. It is very difficult to shoot a frozen bank account. Will people be angry? Sure. Angry enough to start shooting? Who will they shoot? The ATM? The people responsible are inaccessibly distant.

Maybe they’ll naturalize all of the illegals who have flooded in, expanding Democrat voter rolls by tens of millions overnight. They can even have honest elections after that, because the demographic changes will mean that no Republican will ever win an election again -- certainly no anti-immigration Republican.

Maybe they’ll finally push Russia too far, and the Russians will let the nukes fly. Or the Chinese. Or the Iranians. Or all of them. In that case it’s the end. But maybe America’s adversaries, more responsible than Washington’s petulant tyrants, will resist America’s nuclear brinksmanship, while ratcheting up World War III in other ways. In that case there will probably be a draft. The white boys can go die for the regime, and make room for their replacements. That might start a civil war, sure. But not if the guns have been confiscated via bank account freezes. Oh, and if you don’t show up for the draft? That’s also an account freeze, of course.

Leaving aside a strategic weapons exchange, none of those scenarios are worse than Civil War. At least not from a purely economic, material standpoint. Americans will find themselves impoverished and disinherited, second-class citizens in their own countries, reduced to helotry. But they’ll be alive, mostly. And they’ll be better off than they would be with a complete breakdown in public order. This might not be true in the long run, given that the globalist elite has made it quite clear that they intend to embrace degrowth, dramatically reducing living standards in the former first world, while gradually replacing the native populace with imported ethnic groups. But that process will stretch out over a decade or two, it will be soft and incremental. By the time those who remember how good things used to be realize their mistake, that they should have fought, they’ll be too old and beaten down to do anything about it; the youth will be accustomed to their reduced circumstances, and so hormonally poisoned and MKULTRA’d that they, too, will accept their prostrate subjugation in the country once known as the land of the free, now the home of the slave.

How do we avoid such a grim outcome? Assuming it can be avoided.

‘Voting harder’ doesn’t seem like it will do anything. It doesn’t matter how aggressively you get out the vote if the other side just fakes as many additional votes as they need to cancel out your lead. I should think this is obvious.

Some have suggested election surveillance. This would require a huge, coordinated open source intelligence effort in every key district in every swing state, with citizens shining a bright light on every single ballot that gets counted. This should absolutely be done, but I’m skeptical that this will be very effective in practice. In many cases citizens won’t be allowed in to observe as their votes are counted; forcing their way in on election night would disrupt the count, and probably get citizen observers arrested for election interference. Monitoring electronic voting is extremely difficult, as the systems are all proprietary. Keeping track of mail-in ballots is similarly hopeless. And of course, whatever evidence of fraud is detected, no matter how blatant, the propagandists will simply lie about it, right to the country’s face -- and their demoralized base will be only too happy to believe them.

What about secession? Perhaps in the aftermath of an obviously fraudulent election, a coalition of red state governors, with Florida and Texas in the lead, might have the backbone to declare the obvious, that the ‘elected’ president is a pretender, and leave the Union. We had a preview of how rapidly this might spread last January, when Texas’ dispute with the Feds over the border rapidly led to a large number of states declaring for Texas.

Not that it mattered; the Feds backed down, sort of. The border crisis continues unabated.

Secession is likely to lead to Civil War. Many are already convinced that this is the only way. For this to be even remotely plausible, America -- the real America, which is to say not the Blue coalition of non-Americans and traitors -- would need the right leader. As discussed, Trump is not that man; at least, he has given us no reason to think he is that man, and many reasons to believe that he isn’t. It is hard to say who that man might be, or where he might come from. There are no generals with the necessary name recognition; in any case, America’s general staff are now, and have been for many years, political appointees, wholly loyal to the regime. We live in an age of actors, celebrities, and entertainers, not in an age of conquerors and kings. We may wish for a king, but the only kings we know are those who play one on TV.

I do not wish to blackpill. There is much about this election that is more favourable than in 2020. In 2020, Twitter was in the hands of the enemy, which enabled them to shadowban Trump’s supporters, and to suppress the news of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal; had that news been allowed to spread beyond the narrow circle of the Very Online, it might have changed enough votes to complicate the regime’s vote fraud. In 2024, X belongs to Musk, who has purged the state’s agents, taken the leash off of the right, and has recently come out for Trump, inviting him back to the platform and hosting a conversation with him that broke every record, racking up over a billion views. Indeed, it looks as though the tech elite – or at least a considerable part of it, for Google is certainly still wholly owned by the regime -- has thrown its weight behind Trump. They certainly do so for their own ambitions, not out of any sense of patriotism, but this split in the elite is to the regime’s detriment, and our advantage.

The well-wishes of billionaires and a levelled playing field on social media won’t count for anything, however, if the regime simply steals the vote again. It won’t matter if Musk himself points out the obvious fraud, as he surely will; Musk is a fascist or something, remember, and you shouldn’t believe anything that racist incel says. It won’t matter how many people see right through it if they aren’t willing to do something about it in the real world. And if their leader tells them not to do anything, they almost certainly won’t. Not in enough numbers to matter.

So we come back to the question.

When the regime steals the election, what happens then?

Does anyone have a plan for this?

© DATE by John Carter, "Postcards From Barsoom/ Substack".

A Day In The Life.

Up at 8a on Friday, I went thru my finger stick to check my BSL (Blood Sugar Level) and recorded it on my Diabetes 2 chart, made coffee and breakfast, skipped the 2 50mg Tramadol but took a 300mg Gabapentin for various feet neuropathy pain, fired-up the Win-7 Pentium HP desktop to let 32 million lines of code load, had a couple smokes in the HOT garage and checked the leftover errands list. All that is postponed until next week.

It was cool 66°, low 35% humidity outside, headed to 75° w/ showers. Nice, after the heat/humidity of last week. I had some wonderful Hawaiian Kona "Rise and Shine" Coffee, then scanned the news and weather sites, and missed the entire "Chris Stigall Show LIVE" (CS Show) from 6-9a, but caught the "Chris Plante Show LIVE" (CP Show) 9-12noon.

This weekend's Labor Day Holiday marks the calendar's First Day of Fall, and it's a nice 3 day weekend for much of the country. In the 23yrs I had my Ol' GC&N, I (and Dad) worked the entire weekend; no breaks in that 3-day holiday for us, and an occasional employee wanting some overtime. It was a very busy weekend for gardening, plants products and streams of non-stop customers. Today, most places are already shutting down.

When everyone's in the pool, someone's gonna pee.

Over the past 2-3yrs, several friends and readers have chided me about taking "snoozes" or "naps", but this study is on my side. Snoozes and naps are good for me and you. Try it, when you can.

Sherry arrived at 1p, and we had a relaxing, delightful time -- and dinner (excellent Dbl Decker Turkey/Ham Club Sandwiches, Onion Rings, Fries) from nearby Isaac's -- and just stayed at my condo, instead of going food shopping. Sadly, she left around 7, before it got dark, and I watched some news and the usual Friday evening series on Discovery, "Gold Rush: Freddy & Juan's Mine Rescue", until 11:30p. Lights out.

Up at 8:30a on Saturday, a heavily-clouded, looks-like-rain-any-minute, 68° morning, forecast to be only 75°. Nice. I made my new 1-lb bag of Kona "Opio" Coffee,scanned the weather and news, and tuned into the "CS Show" Podcasts" on iHeart.com radio. No back pain, yet. After breakfast, I had several errands to do; all local and in the immediate area, so they went fairly quickly, except for the Labor Day Weekend Holiday traffic.

I spent the afternoon working on the growing pile of paperwork and mail and, by 6p, had most of it done and gone. I had another delicious Dbl Decker Turkey & Ham Club Sandwich and Fries, from Isaac's, watched Discovery's "Expedition X" until 12midnight, and unplugged. But I couldn't get to sleep -- mind racing and unable to clear it for sleep -- until just before 5a, sleeping only until 8:45a. Sucks to be me, for the coming day.

Back up around 9a on Sunday, a cloudy, humid, 69° morning, I felt like a walking zombie. Multiple mugs of robust Hawaiian Kona "Hapa" Coffee helped, I watched the F1 Grand Prix of Italy (legendary Monza race track) for the race's 2hr duration, got my week planned out while leaving a couple days available for Sherry, and did some condo chores, after scanning the news and weather headlines. (((BREAKING NEWS))) Damn, the murderous Hamas MUSLIM(spit!) subhuman filth slaughtered all the 6 remaining Oct 7th hostages, as I predicted that none (106 at the time) would survive captivity. Just damn. May God rest their poor tortured souls.

I watched the F1 Grand Prix of Monza (Italy) Race in the morning, the IndyCar GP Race at Birmingham (AL) in the early afternoon, and the WEC (World Endurance3 Championship) 6hr Endurance Race at COTA (Circuit Of The Americas) in Texas. Nice, full day of racing fuel and blistered tires. After some dinner, I caught the end of the TRASHCAR race at Darlington (SC). Yawn. I switched to MotorTrend's "Fantom Works" until 11:30p, and unplugged.

Up at 10:15a on Monday, to a beautifully clear, sunny, 68°, low humidity morning. I had coffee, an Apple Fritter for breakfast, opened-up the condo's 2 floors, front & back, and relaxed with what was left of the "CP Show LIVE". I planned to work in the basement, continuing the 'prepper supplies' inventory, and run a few errands. I left at 11a for Flinchbaugh's Orchard & Farm Market, and 2 other stops. Back by 2, I had some lunch and worked until 5, when my eyes glazed over. Heh. I fell asleep on the LR couch until 8, and closed the condo down. Motor Trend's "Iron Resurrection" was on, and I watched until 12 midnight. Early day tomorrow; JoAnne, my cleaning lady, is in at 8:30a.

Awake and up at 5:30a on Tuesday -- damn, the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks and months are going by fast! -- to a very cool, 48°, too-dark-to-see-anything, I made coffee, had rye toast, fed the squirrels and bluejays, scanned the news and weather, and got ready for the day. After the sun rose, it was another clear blue sky morning, and JoAnne was here a bit early. While having a few smokes and coffee in the garage, I noticed the joint driveways were loaded with oak leaves, acorns, twigs and debris. so around 10a, I'll fire-up the tornado-like Toro PowerJet F700 Leaf Blower, so any still sleeping residents aren't disturbed and PO'd.

Have you ever wondered why the lowlife, Marxist, socialist scumbag Obama -- aka ∅bummer-Boy -- did so well for 2 terms? And why is the lowlife scumbag, socialist, Marxist Kama-Lama-Ding-Dong is doing to well in the polls? So did I, but after doing some "Rush Research", I found out ***why***: The Limbaugh Theorem (great article at that link). She is, as Obama did, running against herself, and her admin's policies, and it's not real... The Limbaugh Theorem:

"The American people opposed the direction the country’s going, and issue by issue by issue they opposed everything Obama was doing. Every element of the Obama agenda, a majority of the people oppose it, and yet they support him by 50, 55%. I said, “How can this be?”"

"There's only one answer. People do not associate Obama with his agenda, and that’s because he's permanently campaigning. He's running against his own agenda, by design, on purpose. He's running against what's happening. He makes people think that he doesn't like what's happening and he's trying to fix it when in fact everything that’s happening is precisely because he wants it to and has made it happen. So here comes a story in the Wall Street Journal. It’s an opinion piece by a guy named Jason Riley. And it’s entitled, “Obama's Poll Numbers.”"

"And here's how it starts: “How is it that President Obama, despite the recent scandals, has been able to maintain an approval rating in the mid- to high-40s, or about where it’s been for the better part of three years? A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll may provide some clues. For starters, the public doesn't seem to be blaming the president for the Benghazi terrorist attack, the IRS targeting of conservative groups or the Justice Department snooping.”"

"The public does not blame the president for anything that’s happening, and this guy says, how can this be? How is it that President Obama is able to remain unattached from his own policies, his own administration? The Limbaugh Theorem explains it. I’m sure Mr. Riley has not heard it. ‘Cause if he had heard me explain the Limbaugh Theorem, his poll would be understood by him."

The demoKKKrats have painted Trump as a felon, a hateful man, rapist etc etc etc. The very same ***Deep State Masters*** who shoved Obama into the Presidency and pulled his strings for 8 years, are doing the same for VP Kama-Lama-Ding-Dong, without a single vote, thru the campaign and into the Presidency. And with the well-known demonKKKrat's vote fr4aud, corruption, crimes, 2020's going to look like a "walk in the park". I have a bad feeling about Nov 5th...

Hey, how about that pandering, phony-assed Harris skank bitch's new southern "Foghorn-Leghorn" accent? Is she "versatile" or what? Like Hitlery Rotten Klintoon's legendary "black accent", right? Phony, baloney crap, both of them! The corrupt, socialist WH denies it.

On a pleasant note, Sherry arrived at 1p, we left after an hour to go to Flinchbaugh's Orchard & Farm Market and then to Saubel's Market, and back to my condo. We had a wonderful time together, on a wonderful weather day, but alas, she left around 6:30p. I had some dinner, watched the news and Fox shows, and settled on History's "Ancient Aliens" until 12midnight. Lights out.

Up at 7a on Wednesday, to another clear sky, very cool 48°... I fired-up the furnace just to get the chill off, and the condo back to 72°, from 70°. The warmth felt good. I had breakfast, LOTS of new Kona "Hopio" Coffee, and tuned into the "CP Show LIVE" until noon, while doing some paperwork. It was nice sitting on the back patio, just outside my office-sunroom's door, and having a smoke.

Get ready, America -- “It’s September, and it already smells like Christmas,” the murderous, corrupt, dirtbag, Venezuela dictator Maduro said, Monday night, during his weekly television show. Jingle, jingle bells.

My two favorite comics are both dead -- Robin Williams and Richard Pryor -- but, if you're bored and want a good laugh, this guy's pretty darned funny; more of his improv on the R/S column. And here. Give thanks for a break from your family!

No, I don't have any tech in my condo. No Smartypants iPhones, no Ring Doorbells and Cameras, no Nest Thermometers, no built-in cameras/mics on my HP Desktop, and certainly no Alexa-Amazon electronic crap. After lunch, I set the computer to clean all 4 HDs (2 internal, 2 external), defrag and optimize the 4 HDs, began getting drowsy and hit the LR couch for almost 3hrs. After getting up, I had some morning leftover coffee to help clear the 'cobwebs', as dusk all too soon carrived around 5:30. After a 6" Turkey Sub and chips, I watched the evening news, Discovery's "Expedition Unknown" and POTUS 45's FNC "Town Hall" interview -- in Harrisburg, PA -- until 11:30, and bagged it for the night.

Up at 5a on Thursday, at 0-DARK-THIRTY, on another very cool 51°, I made coffee, had a couple smokes in the closed garage, fed the squirrels (13) and bluejays (11), and soonb fired-up the HP Desktop to tune into the "CS Show LIVE". After breakfast, I switched to the "CP Show LIVE", but it was his boring sub, and I ditched to that and listened to the "Adam Ferrara PODCAST Show" for a while, made an errands list and left at 12:15p.

Back by 2p, Sherry arrived at 3, with an Isaaac's Dbl-Decker Turkey & Ham Club, Onion Rings and Fries -- some of that fine eatery's best fare. We had a great late lunch, spen 3+ hours together at my place catching-up, and she was gone by 6:30. I opened a bottle of BUTTER Chardonnay and, by11, was fast asleep in one of the diretctor's chairs, in front of the wall-mounted, Samsung 82" QLED 4K Smart UHD TV (now 85"), I woke-up at 1a, closed down and went up to bed. Rough night and morning coming...

Tomorrow starts a new week here in the "Journal", and if I can get thru the pending hangover from the Chardonnay, I'll be doing fine. Light a candle for me... heh.