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More evidence I am right about donators flocking to and crashing the server.  Trump’s campaign received $34.8 million dollars in the first 6 hours after the verdict.  Plus his approval in the polls went up by 6 points.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13480451/donald-trump-live-updates-guilty-verdict.html

Even the Kremlin?  They should know.  Wow.  The whole world sees this for exactly what it is.

Rather than breaking the US apart, I'd rather see us re-affirm the Constitution where most of the power resides with the States.
Maybe even go further in limiting the power of the Feds to National Defense and certain infrastructure (think Interstate Highways and the power grid), and I'm not even sure about giving them control of the power grid.  Departments like the EPA and Education would be eliminated or reduced to a supporting role only and available to help the States "ON REQUEST" and without strings.  There are some problems that are too big for a state to tackle alone, or shouldn't have to tackle alone, like border protection and water rights.  Georgia should not be allowed to dam up the Chatahoochee and choke Alabama and Florida.

But I see the odds of either to be about the same as the odds of peace in the Middle East.  We will become a 2nd or 3rd rate county in a world ruled by strong, decisive leaders (eg: China, Russia or some other dictatorship).

That sounds kind of similar to what Styx said recently in the context of his “libertarianism”.  Many of the wackos in the capital L Libertarian Party are purists, like anarcho-capitalists, meaning there should be virtually no centralized government and things like roads and police protection should be completely privatized.  The U.S. federal government should be stripped down to next to nothing. Borders should be open, there should be no trade tariffs, no federal regulation of any kind on free markets, no drug laws, no abortion restrictions, etc.

Styx specified that this is NOT his ideology. He presented his preferred scenario which would be to cut the federal bureaucracy by half, lower taxes a great deal, stay out of foreign wars, defend the border, allow states to set their own abortion laws, in fact, return power back to states and local districts as much as possible.  This is more or less my philosophy as a small l (el) “libertarian”. 

I agree that a return to constitutional originalism is preferred to a breakup and I also agree it is highly unlikely to happen and that our probable destiny is to become a third world country, only richer.  The problem is that we are now a duel-culture that has irreconcilable differences and we will continue to simmer with hatred under the boot of a permanent commie-fascist oligarchy.

I’m not going to judge Jim unless I find out he voted for Biden.  But you’re right, I’m not sure this country can recover from this. Now that the precedent has been set, no one will run for president or a high government office ever again who isn’t in with the Uniparty, for fear of literal prison under spurious made up charges. The weaponization of the “justice” system against anyone they don’t approve of is complete.

isn't there usually some indication of that?  Not just you-can't-get-there-from-here...

Right, here's the notice, although it does not detail the cause of the gateway timeout.  That I had to infer from the totality of circumstance. I suppose it could have been the CIA taking down Trump's campaign donation page but apparently they haven't taken that step yet. It's probably on Biden's to-do list though, of things to try. They're not going to stop trying to block him from winning.

The first thing I was going to do was go donate $34 to Trump (one for each conviction) but the site must be swamped, I can't connect.  I bet millions of others have the same idea.  They might have just handed him the election.  But they're going to try to disqualify him, take him off the ballot, imprison him, or somehow keep him from entering the WH.

That's the end game, the actual goal:  to take away our agency, to subjugate us.

To permanently consolidate their power, and not under the original framing of the U.S. but under their reformulated neo-Marxist ideology.  The American experiment in liberty is over if they win.  Even if Trump wins, for four years it may just be another temporary bump in the road on the way to irreversible tyranny.