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Martin Eden

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14. We have to remember the first priority of an authoritarian regime:

Reply to Bayard (Original post)

Tue Oct 7, 2025, 12:32 AM

6 hrs ago

Sieze and hold onto POWER.

They will do anything they can to ensure they maintain control of the House & Senate in 2026. By 2028 elections in the USA will be like Putin's Russia, with predetermined outcomes.

Unless we can STOP them.

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Gov. Pritzker on Rachell [View all] Bayard 9 hrs ago OP

JB is one of the best kwolf68 9 hrs ago #1

Frog soup. LuvLoogie 9 hrs ago #3

Watched malaise 9 hrs ago #2

Sounds correct, for a scheme of his. elleng 9 hrs ago #4

I'm so happy to see him gettiing deserved national exposure. greatauntoftriplets 9 hrs ago #5

Amen to all of this! ShazzieB 7 hrs ago #11

So thankful that Pritzker and Newsom are waking people up. Paladin 9 hrs ago #6

He said what I feel is exactly the plan Mira 7 hrs ago #7

He sees it and so should we. It's a slow roll military dictatorship. ancianita 7 hrs ago #8

A military JUNTA. Justice matters. 7 hrs ago #9

What's the big difference. Innocent Americans shouldn't have to make out the difference. ancianita 7 hrs ago #10

Won't scare this old broad. I have no fucks left to give. Joinfortmill 6 hrs ago #12

Saw that Duppers 6 hrs ago #13

We have to remember the first priority of an authoritarian regime: Martin Eden 6 hrs ago #14

There has to be some other remedy, Bayard 6 hrs ago #15