"What happens to America's mental health under a second Trump administration? Very bad things" salon.com/2021/10/10/wha…
Dr. John Gartner predicts:
"Democracy would be dead, and the coup complete. All future 'elections' would be Putin-style shams, where the electorate never actually has the power to remove the Republicans from power.
"We could expect criminal prosecutions against Democratic leaders, the press and anyone who opposed the regime. Experts of all types would be persecuted.
" 'Patriots' would be encouraged to expose, punish and marginalize citizens at all levels of society who are not MAGA. Fox would become de facto state-TV propaganda. Only loyal 'party members' would be allowed to work in government.
"Hate crimes would skyrocket. Hundreds of thousands of immigrants would be incarcerated in concentration camps.
"Thousands of ordinary citizens would join cells of an 'underground resistance,' which would become progressively more violent. This 'terrorism' would be used to justify martial law and heavy surveillance. Millions would flee to Canada and Europe.
"Internationally, the U.S. would become a Russian puppet state. NATO and our international alliances would crumble. The economy would contract. Global warming would spiral out of control. And we might well stumble into war."
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"Behind-the-scenes redistricting work: Adam Foltz, who was part of a secretive process that crafted Wisconsin’s legislative maps, is on the payroll of the Texas Legislative Council, a nonpartisan state agency that manages the internal mapping tool used in redistricting.
"Records show the agency hired him as a 'legislative professional' at a $120,000 annual salary, but Kimberly Shields, the council’s executive director, said Foltz reports to the House Redistricting Committee.
"Shields and other legislative staffers did not respond to questions about Foltz’s involvement in redistricting.
"In 2019, she joined Facebook to work on civic misinformation. She took the job because she viewed it as an opportunity to make sure others wouldn’t experience the pain she did of losing a friend to online conspiracies, she said at the Yale panel." washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
"She also wanted to do her part in the run-up to the 2020 election to prevent a repeat of the foreign interference in the 2016 election, she said.
"She went into the company clear-eyed about the problems with social media, which had been extensively covered by the news media in the fallout of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. But she soon learned that the problems were much worse than she realized.
"The Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank that ex-Trump legal adviser John Eastman works for as a senior fellow, on Monday defended Eastman’s memo to then-President Donald Trump ...
"and then-Vice President Mike Pence that laid out how the latter could hijack the 2020 election certification process to keep Trump in power.
"The organization released a statement that spun Eastman’s memo, which blatantly sought to help Trump subvert the election, as mere 'legal advice' that has 'since been maliciously misrepresented and distorted by major media outlets.'
"About a month after Kim announced his departure, Trump nominated Treasury Department official David Malpass to run the World Bank." news.yahoo.com/how-donald-tru…
"In announcing the nomination in February, Trump said he hoped that Malpass would make sure that 'U.S. taxpayers’ dollars are spent effectively and wisely' and that 'financing is focused on the places and projects that truly need assistance.'
"Once the chief economist at investment firm Bear Stearns, Malpass was best known for a 2007 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that infamously predicted that the unstable housing market —
"By September, Haugen had made the decision not just to leak documents but to go public as a whistleblower.
" 'I just don’t want to agonize over what I didn’t do for the rest of my life. Compared to that, anything else doesn’t seem that bad,' Haugen wrote in a text.
" 'The actions of this person created an atmosphere of hostility and tension. Your affiant believes that this individual's sole aim was to incite violence,' she added."
Update from this summer:
"About a year ago, a man dressed all in black and carrying an umbrella was pictured on video smashing windows at a south Minneapolis AutoZone store amid demonstrations against police for the murder of George Floyd.