Holy fucking shit, he was inside for 40 minutes and the cops were afraid to go in!

[Jarqui]

162. I think it is bigger than that.

"The gun lobby and their campaign money" is an accomplice.
The oligarchs are winning.

They're going to make people think they're getting to vote.

But with the things going on at the state level that can override the electoral college votes, I'm no longer confident those individual votes will count as they should.

This is collectively happening across many states. It is not an accident. It is a coordinated effort. Pretend there is voter fraud to put something into place to steal electoral college votes. They attempted this Jan 6th. Next time, they'll have new GOP state laws to enable them.

The demographic trend was unfavorable to them. As they see it, there is no other way for their policies or way of life to survive. "all men are created equal" is not how they really see it or want it to turn out. For a bunch, the civil was is not over.

The GOP have control of the vast majority of the media - the great arbiter for democracy. So the game may be already over even if it hasn't played out yet. Biden's lower approval numbers are a result of that. Biden's approval is similar to Trump's. There's no way Joe has done as poorly as Trump in executing his job.

Their safety valve for when folks figure this out (some already have), and they eventually will, is to have their side heavily armed. It seems to be about if their side loses control, they can take matters into their own hands - as a number have threatened to do.

Not getting their way on abortion, gun rights, voting rights, immigration, etc are being presented as if they're losing their country (MAGA) to gin them up for the fight. Outsiders like Putin are gleefully stoking it as the US could crumble without an external shot being fired with Russian trolls stoking the fight.

Democrats are not up for this - they're blindly not expecting it. They're faithfully trying to make the constitution work as it says it should - following the law. For a bunch in the GOP, it is not working out that way and they are setting up to take their country back.

I suspect Obama and now Kamala getting elected stirred the pot some. The racists heads were exploding - being subservient to a 'slave' (or something lesser than them). In 2008, during the election, I did a google search for Obama and the n-word. Millions and millions of hits. Racism is very much alive and well in America.

I think this is much bigger than the NRA & gun lobby money.
There were a lot of people who enabled Trump becoming president and remaining as president.
There were a lot of people who were behind Trump on Jan 6th, 2021.
That wasn't about guns.
A bunch of the GOP have doubled down on the concept of Jan 6th hoping to 'get it right' next time.
Guns give them a sense of security to 'fight for their country' and coalesce around