Over on X, DataRepublican’s reporting on documents and recordings from the Democratic Socialists of America and allied networks lays out a calculated strategy for the run-up to the 2028 elections. The goal is sustained mass violence and street clashes designed to push President Donald Trump into invoking the Insurrection Act. Once invoked, Democratic governors and progressive organizations would treat the order itself as evidence of “fascism” and a reason to undermine federal authority.
Groups including the United Democracy Alliance, invoking Erica Chenoweth’s 3.5 percent rule, appear ready to coordinate the street actions, legal support, and media framing. Neville Roy Singham, operating from Shanghai and connected to the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department, is positioned to amplify the disruption from abroad.
The plan assumes Trump will choose immediate order over patience, and hand his opponents the optics they have prepared. Whether that assumption holds depends on the costs of each path.
rtwt
Early voter in Dixie County, Florida! 🙂 Went with NPA for Federal candidates & REP for State candidates. Skipped the Judges & Amendments. No line at 10:30 am.
My wife and I went out to vote yesterday and the turnout for early voting in our town, Boerne, Texas has been great, parking lot has been packed most of the day each and every day. We are in a mostly conservative town and we stay friends and tolerate those who think differently. I was reminded of a friend I had ten years ago in 2016 when I was helping with a cancer support group at our church.
This friend of mine was my age and his prostate cancer had come back years after his first treatment. This time of year during early voting he was talking to me and he said that the crazy choices for president were the strangest he had seen in his life time and he voted early, just in case he didn’t make it. We laughed about that and I am sorry to say that by the time the election occurred he had not made it. Folks joke about that stuff but this moving on thing keeps happening as we age on out. So my conservative friend cast his last vote in 2016, a decade ago and that was a wild night as the votes came in. My grown conservative kids, daughter now in her late 40’s in Michigan and son in his 50’s in Colorado joined me in a conference call in the early morning hours and we were all pleased with the outcome as Trump was declared. We had all voted Democrat before 9-11 and then voted for W Bush after that, he has been a disappointment for sure.
Vote early if you can, just in case.
I leave France tomorrow morning Saturday so I’ll miss the weekend protest. It appears authorities are taking preemptive action. My school notified me:
___________________________________
Dear students,
We would like to draw your attention to the situation in Montpellier tomorrow, Saturday, October 24, 2026.
Following incidents that occurred last weekend, the authorities have decided to strengthen security measures in anticipation of further gatherings.
Here are the key points to keep in mind:
The demonstration planned for tomorrow has been prohibited by the prefecture.
Gatherings are banned throughout a large part of the city center—specifically around Place de la Comédie, the Saint-Roch train station, the Polygone, and the Écusson district—from 8:00 AM to 10:00 PM.
All tram and bus services in Montpellier will be suspended for the entire day on Saturday. A significant security presence will be deployed throughout the city center.
As a precautionary measure, we strongly recommend that you avoid the city center tomorrow, particularly areas likely to be affected by gatherings.
___________________________________
It seems cutting off the USAID slush fund has imperiled the democrat grift machine and the money must be replaced. Same in WA.
Karmi,
You skipped Ad 3??? Shame on you.
🙂 @ physicsguy – Almost didn’t vote for first time since first 2002 vote (first time). Yeah, almost hit “Yes” for 3 but Dixie County is pretty good about taxes and I didn’t feel like checking out those Judges or Adms this time. Mainly voted this time for Byron Donalds and against Fed GOV GOP candidates…
Bon voyage, huxley. For the time being, find a conversational French tutor in New Mexico. (And, I think Trump’s riff on naming it New America is silly. New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, anyone?)
Kate:
I found a French tutor about a month ago. His name is Luc. He’s French and is both teaching and studying at UNM. We’ve had three sessions and we are a good match. I look forward to more.
New Mexico as a name isn’t going anywhere. I don’t know who Trump is trolling, but it ain’t working here.
Safe travels, huxley!
(I don’t know why, I dont love cheeseburgers or eat them especially often, but the day before I leave a foreign country to return home I always start craving a cheeseburger. )
(I don’t know why, I dont love cheeseburgers or eat them especially often, but the day before I leave a foreign country to return home I always start craving a cheeseburger. )
Rufus T. Firefly:
Funny you should mention cheeseburgers. Basically I lived on cheeseburgers here in France. Matt Burgers to be precise.
It was three blocks from school. I lucked into Matt Burger for my first lunch meal after class. I tried other places … meh. French cooking, at a reasonable price here in Monpellier at least, is not impressive.
I needed a solid whack of protein to keep going because I didn’t take the dinner plan with my hosts (which was a complicated relationship anyway — I dared not use their kitchen) and walking back downtown was too long and my feet were too sore.
I got to be friendly with the guys behind the counter. They gave me a left-behind umbrella on the day of a long hard rain, which threatened severe flooding that fortunately did not come to pass.
The past two weeks were complicated. I consider an ordeal one survives to be an initiation. 🙂
I’ll be smarter the next time I come to France.
I just left Brazil myself. Tomorrow we’ll see if Brazil votes in Flavio Bolsonaro.
This election directly impacts my wife and I. Even though we live in the united states, the day Flavio won the first round, the value of the dollar against the real declined by a significant amount. The rent from the apartment we own in Brazil will be more helpful if we can expect to convert it into a larger sum of dollars.
huxley, I’m glad you’ve been doing well over in Frankreich! But yes, maybe the departure timing is good.
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Those late doggy head-tilts were perfect.
The Federalist, Chuck DeVore, “The DSA Plans To Incite Nationwide Violence Ahead Of 2028 Election”
https://thefederalist.com/2026/10/23/the-dsa-plans-to-incite-nationwide-violence-ahead-of-2028-election/
rtwt
Early voter in Dixie County, Florida! 🙂 Went with NPA for Federal candidates & REP for State candidates. Skipped the Judges & Amendments. No line at 10:30 am.
Now that’s some spectacular trumpet work there–*
* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFmE9QvnLxw&list=RDHFmE9QvnLxw&start_radio=1
Our German shepherd used to join in on the Ode to Joy chorus at the end of Beethoven’s 9th.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vxZUnClmZnE
My wife and I went out to vote yesterday and the turnout for early voting in our town, Boerne, Texas has been great, parking lot has been packed most of the day each and every day. We are in a mostly conservative town and we stay friends and tolerate those who think differently. I was reminded of a friend I had ten years ago in 2016 when I was helping with a cancer support group at our church.
This friend of mine was my age and his prostate cancer had come back years after his first treatment. This time of year during early voting he was talking to me and he said that the crazy choices for president were the strangest he had seen in his life time and he voted early, just in case he didn’t make it. We laughed about that and I am sorry to say that by the time the election occurred he had not made it. Folks joke about that stuff but this moving on thing keeps happening as we age on out. So my conservative friend cast his last vote in 2016, a decade ago and that was a wild night as the votes came in. My grown conservative kids, daughter now in her late 40’s in Michigan and son in his 50’s in Colorado joined me in a conference call in the early morning hours and we were all pleased with the outcome as Trump was declared. We had all voted Democrat before 9-11 and then voted for W Bush after that, he has been a disappointment for sure.
Vote early if you can, just in case.
I leave France tomorrow morning Saturday so I’ll miss the weekend protest. It appears authorities are taking preemptive action. My school notified me:
___________________________________
Dear students,
We would like to draw your attention to the situation in Montpellier tomorrow, Saturday, October 24, 2026.
Following incidents that occurred last weekend, the authorities have decided to strengthen security measures in anticipation of further gatherings.
Here are the key points to keep in mind:
The demonstration planned for tomorrow has been prohibited by the prefecture.
Gatherings are banned throughout a large part of the city center—specifically around Place de la Comédie, the Saint-Roch train station, the Polygone, and the Écusson district—from 8:00 AM to 10:00 PM.
All tram and bus services in Montpellier will be suspended for the entire day on Saturday. A significant security presence will be deployed throughout the city center.
As a precautionary measure, we strongly recommend that you avoid the city center tomorrow, particularly areas likely to be affected by gatherings.
___________________________________
I’ll be happier to read about it in New Mexico.
France Is a Warning to California’s Tax-the-Rich Crowd
If you think the $25 billion judgement against Meta stinks to high heaven, you’re right.
A judge and the state AG say Facebook didn’t block enough political speech.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/new-mexico-meta-lawsuit-judge-francis-mathew-mark-zuckerberg-a2a08fe5?st=azr2fJ
It seems cutting off the USAID slush fund has imperiled the democrat grift machine and the money must be replaced. Same in WA.
Karmi,
You skipped Ad 3??? Shame on you.
🙂 @ physicsguy – Almost didn’t vote for first time since first 2002 vote (first time). Yeah, almost hit “Yes” for 3 but Dixie County is pretty good about taxes and I didn’t feel like checking out those Judges or Adms this time. Mainly voted this time for Byron Donalds and against Fed GOV GOP candidates…
Bon voyage, huxley. For the time being, find a conversational French tutor in New Mexico. (And, I think Trump’s riff on naming it New America is silly. New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, anyone?)
Kate:
I found a French tutor about a month ago. His name is Luc. He’s French and is both teaching and studying at UNM. We’ve had three sessions and we are a good match. I look forward to more.
New Mexico as a name isn’t going anywhere. I don’t know who Trump is trolling, but it ain’t working here.
Safe travels, huxley!
(I don’t know why, I dont love cheeseburgers or eat them especially often, but the day before I leave a foreign country to return home I always start craving a cheeseburger. )
RTF,
I assume you know Jimmy Buffet has you covered. 🙂
https://youtu.be/jBsPZV14I-k?si=ZwRQpwfTueJ141RR
(I don’t know why, I dont love cheeseburgers or eat them especially often, but the day before I leave a foreign country to return home I always start craving a cheeseburger. )
Rufus T. Firefly:
Funny you should mention cheeseburgers. Basically I lived on cheeseburgers here in France. Matt Burgers to be precise.
https://www.matt-burger.fr/
It was three blocks from school. I lucked into Matt Burger for my first lunch meal after class. I tried other places … meh. French cooking, at a reasonable price here in Monpellier at least, is not impressive.
I needed a solid whack of protein to keep going because I didn’t take the dinner plan with my hosts (which was a complicated relationship anyway — I dared not use their kitchen) and walking back downtown was too long and my feet were too sore.
I got to be friendly with the guys behind the counter. They gave me a left-behind umbrella on the day of a long hard rain, which threatened severe flooding that fortunately did not come to pass.
The past two weeks were complicated. I consider an ordeal one survives to be an initiation. 🙂
I’ll be smarter the next time I come to France.
I just left Brazil myself. Tomorrow we’ll see if Brazil votes in Flavio Bolsonaro.
This election directly impacts my wife and I. Even though we live in the united states, the day Flavio won the first round, the value of the dollar against the real declined by a significant amount. The rent from the apartment we own in Brazil will be more helpful if we can expect to convert it into a larger sum of dollars.
huxley, I’m glad you’ve been doing well over in Frankreich! But yes, maybe the departure timing is good.