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I didn't vote for Trump in 2016, I went off the board for Gary Johnson. I voted begrudgingly for Trump in 2020. I believe large amounts of votes were manufactured in urban areas of key swing states (not a new phenomenon, the Democrat machine is quite good at it). That said, as a Floridian, I'll take DeSantis any day of the week and twice on Sunday. He's got the right amount of Trumpy fight to him but backed with a brain and a knack for policy and knows how to beat the press in a way that doesn't look petty or narcissistic.

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A regular lunch buddy and fellow historian was/is and will surely remain a diehard Trumpian, which I less-and-less gently ridiculed in the run-up to his eventual election. I also predicted he would win the election, despite the bleating press pointing fingers at Mrs. Mena -- much to his delight.

When he eventually asked what I thought Trump's political purpose would be, after events played out as I had predicted, I invoked Nero playing his violin as Rome burned.

He didn't like the analogy, but as previous (and numerous times prior) his head was turned when said prognostications played out seemingly as if scripted. Despite this, he remains a devoted Trumpian -- and has submitted to each and every jab without question.

He also struggled to wrap his "Rhodes scholar" mind (yes, really) around the idea that the Clinton and Obama terms were little more than a linear continuation of pre-approved candidates, all of who owed their education and political careers -- and swore fealty to -- the Company.

For what it's worth, my instincts on the Biden regime are equally dire : he will not see the end of his term, thereby ushering in the even-scarier proposition of Harris in the oval office. All of which will unfold as the overarching financial tactics of '29 are brought to bear yet again.

Personally, the wife and I relocated to her ancestral family farm back in 2001, in the immediate aftermath of you-know-what. Our local food net will keep us healthy as the urban centers are brought to heel with massive economic disruption and failing supply chains.

The only real question is whether or not the pitchforks and torches will be enough to get the job done this time 'round, in the face of media-moderated intellectual capture (programming) and technologies (directed energy, nano-tech, etc.) created *precisely* to enable large-scale crowd control in the glorious new Global Panopticon state.

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