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Certainly a good 'go' at other non-critical thinking, 'we' roll over often to easily on those in our or adjacent silos, maybe due to exhaustion from being on the ropes in far off silos.

Engagement across all of 'your' neighbourhoods is hard work, but necessary work.

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And, from the Jon S and HCR quoted above from 46:00-ish;

"... we individuals As Americans as Citizens can help change the climate we are not helpless and that there is efficacy we have been here you know the everyone keeps saying we've never been here before..."

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And, as for Trump's co-conspirators:

[Time For Jack Smith To Indict Trump Co-conspirators like Rudy, Sidney Powell, John Eastman & Others - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoYcCIendPQ

says former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner in tonight's YT post -- because "Justice Matters!"

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Here's Heather and Jon Stewart tonight discussing Trump's win:

[Jon Stewart on Trump’s Win and What’s Next w/ Heather Cox Richardson | The Weekly Show - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7cKOaBdFWo&t=2206s)

00:00 - Introduction

04:06 - Heather Cox Richardson

06:00 - The candidate’s commercial selling points

07:30 - The economy, the voter’s perspective, and political technology

08:20 - The voter’s view on the system, touching on neoliberalism

11:00 - Looking back on the economic policies of Biden administration

12:50 - Voter’s rejection of Biden economic plan

15:26 - Bringing Tim Walz on board

18:14 - Comparison to Steve Bannon’s takeover of Breitbart

21:20 - Groups of voters, motives, and strategies

27:12 - Democracy in this moment

34:04 - State Governance

40:40 - Reactionary Movements

41:53 - Propaganda vs. Reality

48:09 - The world we are looking at now

49:53 - How similarly/differently do you feel to 2016 election?

51:09 - How do we stop the Democrats from learning all the wrong lessons from this loss?

55:14 - How do you want the media to cover Trump over the next four years?

59:15 - How do you find the strength to have hope for the future?

1:02:08 - Breaking Down The Episode

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"... the real problem is those people right and what the pattern that we have seen

in those other places is of course to go after those people... " Yet else where came up with this quote;

"I’m listening to Republican strategist Sarah Longwell on NPR talking about public opinion of Trump’s tyrannical posture and she just said:

“When I ask voters in focus groups if they think Donald Trump is an authoritarian, the #1 response by far is, ‘what’s an authoritarian?’”"

... until 'they' read and think critically, i.e. use Arabic numerals, etc. You'll have Das Fuhrer with an education policy 'stolen' from my friend and yours 'Tristan Eugen' as oft quoted from Robert Gerwarth book.

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Well Dan, taking on Heather Cox Richard's posts should raise your readership!

Her Nov. 6 audio has 930 hearts; her Nov. 6 written post has over 7.5K hearts and over 1.5K comments. I am looking forward to your new current events commentary.

I have read Heritage's Project 2025 -- you can read my August post as a start:

[The 2025 Plan To Takeover Government - by Patrick McNamara](https://patrickmcnamara.substack.com/p/the-2025-plan-to-takeover-government). Also read today's The Guardian article[^1] about Heritage President Kevin Roberts' new book,[^4] out next week. (It was due out weeks ago, but they delayed it until after the election because it was causing trouble for Vance and Trump.)

You wrote "while there WAS an unprecedented attack on the Capitol, it is still unclear that Trump "launched" or led it." -- are you kidding? Read the report.[^2] "Will be wild!"[^3] The attack and the plan to prevent the certification of the 2020 election results was planned well in advance by Trump, Stone, Giuliani, Meadows, Hawley, Cruz and lots of other Republican co-conspirators!

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1. [Project 2025 chief’s book urges ‘burning’ of FBI, New York Times and Boy Scouts | Project 2025 | The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/08/project-2025-kevin-roberts-book-burning-fbi-new-york-times)

2. [Final Report - Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (Executive Summary): 117th Congress Second Session - House Report: Thompson, Bennie, Cheney, Liz, Lofgren, Zoe, Schiff, Adam, Aguilar, Pete, Murphy, Stephanie, Raskin, Jamie, Luria, Elaine, Kinzinger, Adam: 9798371253255: Amazon.com: Books](https://www.amazon.com/Final-Report-Committee-Investigate-Executive/dp/B0BQY28C9L/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=sseb&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.XK7qNK2NrnqtPbXGiMNq_wNVPvxfXcqbJ05uwzz9H550W7H6-L2un6uAjQYyGmbvr6mLiVL0VRIMQNtzJdQ83k8oacMCFPrdEHCQ3ZbuTErwHB5BZ9W-kziHXbSQ3v9gMjL6wTxBMTcia3Ljljgx5w.vVfwFgS2ieZkMa3AxMtzP9FQQFe38vXMfkry8Jmn0nM&qid=&sr=)

3. [‘Be There. Will Be Wild!’: Trump All but Circled the Date - The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/capitol-mob-trump-supporters.html)

4. [Dawn's Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America: Roberts, Kevin, Vance, J. D.: 9780063353503: Amazon.com: Books](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0063353504/keywords=political%2Bscience?tag=harpercollinsus-20)

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And don't forget your "https://substack.com/home/post/p-147685968" for the other "piece of work" writings. : ((((((

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Right! Thanks Tim. About Posobiec -- see

[How This 'Game of Thrones' Blogger Made His Way Into the White House](https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-this-game-of-thrones-blogger-made-his-way-into-the-white-house/?__readwiseLocation=)

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