A week ago the U.S. Department of Justice released this statement regarding elections on November 4th scheduled in California, New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City. "Transparency at the polls translates into faith in the electoral process, and the Department of Justice is committed to upholding the highest standards of election integrity. We will commit the resources necessary to ensure the American people will get the fair, free, and transparent elections they deserve."
At the same time the DOJ said it would send election "monitors," to Passaic County, NJ and also to, Kern, Riverside, Fresno, Orange, and Los Angeles Counties in CA.
While everyone in the nation is, or at least should be in favor of, "fair, free, and transparent," elections some of us might be forgiven for becoming a little suspicious of the DOJ's deployment of, "monitors," to specific locales in blue states during off, off year state elections. Let's face it, other than caterwauling about election fraud in 2020, which they have never proven, this administration's main election focus has been to rig upcoming ones. How else can you describe the dismantling of the voting rights act piece by piece and a campaign of congressional district gerrymandering so openly criminal and undemocratic it even makes guys like Viktor Orban blush?
So, other than transparency, what could be afoot here? Well, for one thing, Passaic County's population is now 44% Hispanic, Kern County 54.9%, Fresno 53%, Riverside 49%, and Los Angeles County is 48%. And while Orange County's Hispanic population is 34% another 21 plus % is Asian. You think Stephen Miller's boys might be interested in who shows up at the polls in all those places? Hey, what better way to goose those arrest numbers that have been lacking. Not only that, but there is the added benefit of suppressing the total number of voters which is always a good thing for republicans. (Or it could end up that just the threat of ICE and Border Patrol at polling locations will scare away scads of potential voters.)
However, if Miller's SA does show up to take names and kick ass the shock and horror show effect will be enough to cause millions to question if their right to vote is worth the risk. Indeed, on Tuesday, just chuck them all in ICE detention centers for a couple of days without any sort of due process. Fuck with not just their heads, but everyone's. Meanwhile, if they do resist both Miller and Trump will be able to claim the, "radical left," is committing election day violence. You can almost hear El Donald addressing the troops before he sends them into hostile strongholds like, Bakersfield, Paterson, and Anaheim: The enemy from within has attacked. The use of excessive violence is not only authorized but encouraged!
Granted, paranoia might be involved here, but even the most naively optimistic among us must admit there has been some awfully strange shit going on lately.
You know--like those two Assistant U.S. Attorneys who were put on indefinite administrative leave the other day. Carlos Valdiva and Samuel White were pulled off a case involving, Taylor Tranto who was one of the January 6th rioters pardoned by Donald Trump. Not long after he walked free, Taranto was busted near Barack Obama's house. (He had the address thanks to Trump, who posted it on his social media account.) Taranto was armed to the teeth and had been publishing online threats. In a pre-sentencing memo Valdiva and White had included a line about the January 6th attack which said it was carried out by, "thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters." It didn't even take 24 hours for them both to get sacked and the memo to disappear. from court records. When a replacement memo was filed there wasn't any mention of January 6th.
Then on October 7th the Swedish Royal Academy of Science awarded the Nobel Prize in physics to John Clarke, Michael Devoret, and John Martinis. Thursday Donald Trump reposted this message from his Secretary of Energy, Chris Write. The Secretary wrote, "A former Lawrence Berkeley National Lab scientist won the Nonel Prize in physics for work in Quantum Physics. Quantum computing, along with AI, and Fusion are the three signature Trump science efforts. Trump 47 racks up his first Nobel Prize!"
Clarke was the only one of the three to ever work at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. He is British. The experiments the three men won for were designed and performed during 1984 and 1985.
Obviously when re-writing history one has to act quickly, ruthlessly, and with fanciful panache. It clearly isn't a job for the meek.
But then neither is making sure this country is always run by right wing white guys.
10-31-25
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