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Who are the Romney Brigade, you may be asking yourselves. Answer is easy and you may know an specimen or two: Any so-called republican that feels we need to engage the Democrats and the Left  with a high level of politeness and fairness it was a tea party at Martha’s Vineyard (with classical music being played in the background). That the enemy is having us in a knife fight in a public bathroom and tries to cheat at every possible occasion because they want to win does not even compute in their brains. And, of course, the Romney Brigade is and has been fully #NeverTrump as he is too crass, too noveu rich and has had the ball to move to their beach neighborhood or West Palm Beach.  President Trump is their Al Czervik making a mess of their pristine golf course and overall being more successful that they could ever hope to be.

The Romney Brigade had the vapors almost immediately after Harris’s VP slot was announced and the jokes began to flow: From kneepad innuendos to full fledged slogans like “Legs Up, Don’t Come” to “She has the Black Vote all locked up. In prison.” The Brigadists have gone out of the way to inform you we are supposed to be better and that you are an impolite, reprehensible uncouth for point out that she advanced  her career on her back and knees. That such comments will actually draw votes away from the good folks of the Republican party and that we always are supposed to conduct ourselves with the utmost class and behavior which makes a sure way to win.

Unfortunately, that “sure way” has been proven wrong: First with Romney as candidate losing the elections and bringing us 8 years of Obama and then the brash and unapologetic behavior of president Trump got him elected when everybody else gave Hillary a 96% chance of winning the election.

And we need to win. We cannot afford to lose “with grace” or we are gonna get in full socialist mode in this country. Imagine the Antifa experiment of Seattle and Portland in your hometown and with the full backing (official or otherwise) of the federal government. Is that scary enough for you? Or you need me to recite all the Socialist goals the Left Branch of the Democratic Party wants to impose on you, your family and your income?

So, if calling Kamala a whore works, double it down. I am here for the win, not for the so-called moral victory. Many people died in prisons because they waved burning sage in the face of the enemy rather than flinging a lead pipe against it.

 ‘The fight has commenced, get to fighting or get away.”
Wyatt Earp.

Defense One is an online magazine that focuses on the topic of military defense and national security.

John Nagl is a retired Army officer and is Head of School at The Haverford School.  Paul Yingling is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel.  Both are radical partisan Leftists.

They collaborated on this article for Defense One:

“. . . All Enemies, Foreign and Domestic”: An Open Letter to Gen. Milley
If the commander in chief attempts to ignore the election’s results, you will face a choice.

Prepare for some crazy paranoid bullshit fanaticizing.

As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, you are well aware of your duties in ordinary times: to serve as principal military advisor to the president of the United States, and to transmit the lawful orders of the president and Secretary of Defense to combatant commanders. In ordinary times, these duties are entirely consistent with your oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic…”

We do not live in ordinary times. The president of the United States is actively subverting our electoral system, threatening to remain in office in defiance of our Constitution. In a few months’ time, you may have to choose between defying a lawless president or betraying your Constitutional oath. We write to assist you in thinking clearly about that choice. If Donald Trump refuses to leave office at the expiration of his constitutional term, the United States military must remove him by force, and you must give that order.

That’s not actually the military’s job.

Also, let’s say that “Donald Trump refuses to leave office” what does that look like?  Nothing.  It looks like nothing.  Biden would be sworn in.  That would be it.  It’s not like the President is just the guy who hits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.  Trump would have no Constitutional authority to do anything and would get escorted out of the building by White House security.

The idea that he could just stay in the White House and give orders that anybody would be obligated to follow is do detached from reality that it’s shocking anyone would believe it.  Except that these two college-educated Army officers believe it.

But I digress…

Due to a dangerous confluence of circumstances, the once-unthinkable scenario of authoritarian rule in the United States is now a very real possibility.

No, no it’s not.  At least not from Trump it’s not.

Mr. Trump is assembling a private army capable of thwarting not only the will of the electorate but also the capacities of ordinary law enforcement. When these forces collide on January 20, 2021, the U.S. military will be the only institution capable of upholding our Constitutional order.

A private army?  Really?  Where?  How is this happening under our noses and nobody is noticing?  How does someone get in on that action and get an M249 or M240?  Asking for a friend.

Given this dizzying array of threats not merely to his political prospects, but also his liberty and wealth, Mr. Trump is following the playbook of dictators throughout history: he is building a private army answerable only to him. When Caesar faced the prospect of a trial in Rome, he did not return to face his day in court. He unleashed an army personally loyal to him alone on the Roman government. No student of history, Mr. Trump nevertheless appears to be following Caesar’s example. The president’s use of militarized Homeland Security agents against domestic political demonstrations constitutes the creation of a paramilitary force unaccountable to the public. The members of this private army, often lacking police insignia or other identification, exist not to enforce the law but to intimidate the president’s political opponents.

This is bullshit.  The US Marshall Service, INS, and BORTAC, are not Trump’s private army.  They are federal law enforcement agencies that were tasked – within the limitations of their duties – to enforce federal law and protect federal property from destruction.  They were not going door to door shooting or disappearing innocent people just for indicating that they were not going to vote for Trump.

A private army would be an army that Trump funds with his own money, like Blackwater or Executive Outcomes.  Not sworn federal officers who graduated from FLETC and collect US government paychecks.

Also, they did not lack police insignia.  They lacked name tapes to prevent them from being doxxed.  They wore badges and police ID.

This is paranoid insanity that has nothing to do with reality.

Mr. Trump may refuse to leave office. He would likely offer as a fig leaf of legitimacy the shopworn lies about election fraud. Mr. Trump’s acolytes in right-wing media will certainly rush to repeat and amplify these lies, manufacturing sufficient evidence to provide a pretext of plausibility. America’s greatest Constitutional crisis since the Civil War will come about by a president who simply refuses to leave office.

No, it really won’t.  The winner of the electoral college will be sworn in at 12:01 on January 20th, 2021.  It’s that simple.

The Democrat-led House of Representatives will certify the Electoral College results, which Mr. Trump will dismiss as fake news. The courts, flooded with cases from both Democrats and Mr. Trump’s legal team, will take months working through the docket, producing reasoned rulings that Trump will alternately appeal and ignore.

The Supreme Court will make a decision before then.  If for some reason they can’t the Presidency will automatically revert to the Speaker of the House who would be sworn in on January 3rd.

Then the clock will strike 12:01 PM, January 20, 2021, and Donald Trump will be sitting in the Oval Office. The street protests will inevitably swell outside the White House, and the ranks of Trump’s private army will grow inside its grounds. The speaker of the House will declare the Trump presidency at an end, and direct the Secret Service and Federal Marshals to remove Trump from the premises. These agents will realize that they are outmanned and outgunned by Trump’s private army, and the moment of decision will arrive.

This is the point where this turns dark.  You can just hear the salivation at the idea of the US military being unleashed to murder the fuck out of Trump supporters.

Sure, these same people pissed and moaned about rioters who were attacking federal officers and destroying federal property hit with rubber bullets and tear gas.  But when it comes time to open fire with live ammo on Trump supporters they cannot control their hardons.

U.S. military forces escort the former president from the White House grounds. Trump’s little green men, so intimidating to lightly armed federal law enforcement agents, step aside and fade away, realizing they would not constitute a good morning’s work for a brigade of the 82nd Airborne.

These two guys are masturbating to the fantasy of the 82nd killing US citizens.  Just taking turns sucking each other off while the other dirty-talks a Tiananmen Square like massacre of guys in MAGA.

As the senior military officer of the United States, the choice between these two options lies with you. In the Constitutional crisis described above, your duty is to give unambiguous orders directing U.S. military forces to support the Constitutional transfer of power. Should you remain silent, you will be complicit in a coup d’état.

If at 12:02, the US military isn’t ending in the SEALs to get Trump like they did Osama Bin Laden and having the 82nd Airborne gun down MAGA hats, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is a traitor.

You were rightly criticized for your prior active complicity in the president’s use of force against peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square. Your passive complicity in an extralegal seizure of political power would be far worse.

Peaceful protesters who burned a church and threatened the White House.

Notice the double standard.  Tear gassing Leftist rioters is bad.  Shooting MAGA hats is good.

The fate of our Republic may well depend upon your adherence to this oath.  [Defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.]

Respectfully yours,

John Nagl and Paul Yingling

Trump and his supporters are domestic enemies  Their minds are already made up.

These two guys attached their names to this shit.  If they were just asshole pundits for MSNBC it would be one thing, but these guys are both retired US Army officers.  If they exist you know there are more in the military that believe this too.

We literally have US Army officers who get excited at the idea of staging a tactical operation against a US President and his supporters.

You know that given the opportunity they would jump at this.

The mask has come off.  There are members of the US military brass who are partisan hacks who consider their fellow citizens to be enemy combatants.

This should scare the shit out of you.

I did the last Windows 10 update and got rewarded with Black Screen. It pissed me off because after years o0f having zero issues, I ended up with a problem that was a pain in the gonads to fix.

By te way, a lot of idiots in Youtube with alleged fixed for this Black Screen are full of shit. Windows Key + Crtl + Shift + B does not fix a thing. And when you says to click this or type that in this “x”  program, do I need to fucking remind you I CAN’T SEE SHIT? THAT IS WHY IT IS CALLED BLACK SCREEN!

Eventually I started the pounding the Shift Key + Any Key fix and it worked. I think I hit Shift F10 and momentarily managed to get a faulty & slow screen, so i went for reverting to the old version and crossed my fingers.

Took about 45 minutes, but it worked.

About the only thing I was relieved was that I had just got my new external drive yesterday and did a full back up of my files. It seems nothing is missing, but at least I had a fallback position.

There is close and then there is this:

That officer deserves a big ass medal, period.

Some news from the front that is entirely expected:

From Chicago:

Ken Londe, the owner of Londo Mondo, said his store got hit around 2:30 am. He said there’s well over $25,000 worth in loss merchandise. He also said the cash drawer was stolen. pic.twitter.com/rsRI08irVk

— Madeline Kenney (@madkenney) August 10, 2020

https://twitter.com/zerosum24/status/1292772033814769664

https://twitter.com/zerosum24/status/1292772033814769664

Looters broke into a Chicago mall and are looting the place clean tonight. #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/wKJZbcvpoZ

— Andy Ngô ?️‍? (@MrAndyNgo) August 10, 2020

Looting and violence.  These businesses are being hit hard.  Between the loss of revenue from the COVID lockdowns both from locals and tourists, the loss of inventory from the looting, and the destruction of the actual property, some of these businesses might not reopen.

What has been the response?

Chicago residents who live in quality condos (which I can attest to are not cheap, and therefore these are the business owners and professional-class people of Chicago) are planning on leaving the city and taking their business with them.

Next is Minneapolis:

Landscape of rubble persists as Minneapolis demands taxes in exchange for permits

In Minneapolis, on a desolate lot where Don Blyly’s bookstore stood before being destroyed in the May riots, two men finish their cigarettes and then walk through a dangerous landscape filled with slippery debris and sharp objects. The city won’t let Blyly haul away his wreckage without a permit, and he can’t get a contractor to tell him how much it will cost to rebuild the store until that happens.

The main reason for the different recoveries is simple: Minneapolis requires owners to prepay the second half of their 2020 property taxes in order to obtain a demolition permit. St. Paul does not.

“Minneapolis has not been particularly friendly toward business for some time,” said Blyly, who prepaid $8,847 in taxes last week but still hasn’t received his demolition permit. “They say they want to be helpful, but they certainly have not been.”

Cleaning up that mess is expensive. Most property owners must pay $35,000 to $100,000 to clear their sites of debris, with larger tracts — such as strip shopping centers — costing as much as $400,000, according to property owners. That doesn’t include the money those owners must pay to get their permits. On average, the owners of properties destroyed or significantly damaged owe $25,000 in taxes for the second half of 2020, which come due in October, according to a Star Tribune review of county property records.

The city requires the tax money upfront to allow for a demolition permit to clear buildings damaged or destroyed in riots that the city allowed to happen.

The result is the rubble is sitting there and business owners who don’t have the money can’t rebuild.

Next is Seattle:

Seattle business owners close shop as city moves to defund police: ‘Safety became paramount’

The push to defund the Seattle police is causing a local business owner to close his store, said Matt Raetzer, owner of Steelpologie Teas.

“It was a decision after deliberation. We’ve been there for three and a half years. That was our first store,” Raetzer told “Fox & Friends.”

Raetzer said that over the past several years the police have made “best efforts to stem the tide of growing homelessness, open-air drug use and violence.”

“Seattle City Hall seems to continue to hobble their efforts to make a change,” he said.

This is only one of hundreds of similar stories from Seattle.

Now Portland:

Portland business owner on impact of riots, coronavirus: ‘It’s terrifying’

Two months of daily and nightly protests and rioting have devastated the city of Portland, Ore., leaving many residents and businesses in a state of fear and uncertainty.

“It’s terrifying,” Gibson said about trying to keep her businesses alive – and her employees in their jobs – amid the twin disasters of the coronavirus and the rioting, which Bream described as a “one-two punch.”

Gibson told Bream that the coronavirus outbreak had already taken a 60 percent bite out of her overall sales – then two months ago the rioting and vandalism began, slowing sales by another 20 percent.

The difference can be seen by comparing the numbers in her downtown Portland restaurant versus those in outlying areas away from the unrest, she said.

“I mean, we’ve got one store that’s well over last year’s sales, it’s as if you know everybody’s just doing quite great,” she said of a store away from the violence.

The downtown location had to be temporarily closed.

“When we boarded up, it was absolutely devastating financially,” Gibson said. “We had to make a really tough decision on whether or not we wanted to just close the store and wait for everything to kind of be over.

The loss in revenue to business has been in excess of $23 million.

Last we look at New York City:

Retail chains abandon Manhattan: ‘It’s unsustainable’

The tourists are gone, the office towers surrounding it are largely empty, and the restaurant’s 1,000-seat dining room is closed. Instead, dinner is cooked and served on its patio, and the scaled-down restaurant brings in about $12,000 a day — an 85% plunge in revenue, its chief executive said.

In the heart of Manhattan, national chains including J.C. Penney, Kate Spade, Subway and Le Pain Quotidien have shuttered branches for good. Many other large brands, like Victoria’s Secret and the Gap, have their kept high-profile locations closed in Manhattan, while reopening in other states.

Of Ark Restaurants’ five Manhattan restaurants, only two have reopened, while its properties in Florida — where the virus is far worse — have expanded outdoor seating with tents and tables into their parking lots, serving almost as many guests as they had indoors.

“There’s no reason to do business in New York,” Weinstein said. “I can do the same volume in Florida in the same square feet as I would have in New York, with my expenses being much less. The idea was that branding and locations were important, but the expense of being in this city has overtaken the marketing group that says you have to be there.”

It’s not just the lockdowns in perpetuity but the crime as well, keeping the people away and the businesses closed.

Blue Cities across the country, between harsh lockdowns and permissive policing of riots, have utterly destroyed the business districts of these cities.

The business owners and professional class in these cities are picking up and leaving, and taking their businesses with them.

All that is being left behind is broken windows, boarded up and vacant storefronts, and rubble.

Portland, Seattle, Chicago, New York City, are all headed the way of Detroit.  Within a few years, the cities will be gutted.  Only the poor will remain in any numbers and these cities will be the dilapidated husks of what they once were.

It seems as though turning Detroit from the nicest middle-class city in the midwest into a third-world shithole of crime and empty buildings wasn’t a fluke, it was a goal, one that is being implemented in Blue cities across this country.

Harassing people at their houses “Give us your home!” #Seattle pic.twitter.com/k6DuVNEuxY

— Kitty Shackleford (@KittyLists) August 13, 2020

I hate to break it to you Bubba, but you are saying that Black people are useless and incapable to create their own wealth so they have to either beg for it or steal it while waving the flag of victimization.

During the dark days of truly institutionalized racism in this country, Black were portrayed as less than human, incapable to make good decision and to extricate themselves from poverty so they had to be controlled and  given scraps to survive. It should be embarrassing for the leaders and participants of  Black Lives Matters that they are unknowingly supporting the arguments of Jim Crow.