Moon of Alabama Brecht quote
January 26, 2026
Why Is Trump Causing His Own Downfall?

The White House seems to do everything possible to help the Republicans to lose their majorities in the midterm elections.

Trump’s tariff policies have guaranteed that prices for $3 Trillion in U.S. imports will rise by at least 10%. His energy policies have caused 6% price rises for electricity and gas.

His move against allies to grab Greenland is unpopular. Bombing Iran and abducting the President of Venezuela was not welcome.

Sending heavily armed Brownshirts into U.S. neighborhoods to apprehend or assassinate random people is likewise disliked.

Trump’s approval rating is sinking.


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One would assume that Trump would notice the upcoming ballot disaster and change course. But instead of calming the waves he is pouring oil onto fire:

President Donald Trump and his top lieutenants are doubling down on their hardline immigration policies and rhetoric following the shooting of a US citizen by a federal officer in Minneapolis — even as the incident has revealed cracks in the president’s coalition.

A phalanx of top Trump administration officials fanned out across Sunday morning news shows and social media to publicly defend the officer’s actions and the administration’s heavy-handed immigration enforcement tactics, all shifting blame to Democratic state and local officials.

Why is he insisting that his immigration police Brownshirts are in the right when everyone who sees the videos of their actions recognizes that their behavior is simply abhorrent?

His party is worried:

As midterms approach, GOP lawmakers, candidates, strategists and people close to the White House are warning that the administration’s mass deportations policy — and the wall-to-wall coverage of enforcement operations, arrests of U.S. citizens and clashes between protesters and federal officials — could cost them their razor-thin House majority.

A new POLITICO poll underscores those worries: Nearly half of all Americans — 49 percent — say Trump’s mass deportation campaign is too aggressive, including 1 in 5 voters who backed the president in 2024. In a sign of growing discomfort among the president’s base, more than 1 in 3 Trump voters say that while they support the goals of his mass deportation campaign, they disapprove of the way he is implementing it.

“ICE should focus on the bad hombres. The bad hombres, that’s it, not the cleaning ladies,” said Rep. Maria Salazar (R-Fla.). “One thing is the gardeners, another thing is the gangsters. One thing is the cooks, the other thing is the coyotes.”

During his first administration President Obama deported more people per day than Trump. But he did so without generating a huge public backlash.

Are Trump’s policies really more controversial than those of other presidents or is the amateurish implementation of policies by his administration the real problem?

Whatever it is – he will need to change it. Otherwise he will lose much of his power at the end of this year.

Comments

In a way it looks like a cry for help

Posted by: Norwegian | Jan 26 2026 17:44 utc | 101

102
Concur, Sullivan & Blinken are biding their time…waiting with bated breath for the next “empty-vessel” into which the mockingbird-media will pour Americans HOPE into.

Posted by: S Brennan | Jan 26 2026 17:45 utc | 102

@William Gruff  @102
Any idea of options? Never been to NZ or Aus but they look okay other than high housing costs. South Africa? Other countries in that region? 

Posted by: BillB | Jan 26 2026 17:47 utc | 103

Israel has him believing that he is the Messiah.  Gave him the Messiah crown.  Didn’t ya’ll see that? 

Posted by: CeaClearly | Jan 26 2026 17:48 utc | 104

 psychohistorian | Jan 26 2026 16:07 utc | 16I posit that The Shock Doctrine is being applied to all of the West to lock as many nations as possible under the global private finance jackboot while they continue to divide and conquer socially.
 
Fit the CoronaPrank psyop almost perfectly. My wife and I both noted that the tenets of “The Shock Doctrine” worked on all the mechanisms of the disruption of society.

Posted by: Mann Friedmann | Jan 26 2026 17:49 utc | 105

All this focussing on Trump and his personality. It was said of Hitler that if he didn’t exist he’d need to be created. I’m paraphrasing. The whole political system is the issue and the fact is, it furthers its class interests at the expense of us all. 
The solution is pretty much as set out by Karlof1 at #48.
Do not look for mid-term electoral results or any electoral or parliamentary process to bring about the revolution required. Isolate the US. Don’t buy anything American. Anything at all. Don’t go there. Organise local groups to discuss this and to raise political consciousness. And don’t expect Russia China or Iran to do the fighting for us. We need to do it ourselves.

Posted by: Vragtes | Jan 26 2026 17:50 utc | 106

In secret recordings, Ted Cruz trashes Trump’s tariffs and Vance. 
 
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/25/cruz-trump-vance-secret-tapes

Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 26 2026 17:52 utc | 107

I don’t think he is a psychopath. Pretty sure he is a sociopath. ***
Posted by: ftp | Jan 26 2026 16:04 utc | 9
Posted by: Maverick | Jan 26 2026 16:40 utc | 41
 
He presents more as toward the Asberger’s side of the spectrum while not meeting the diagnostic categories. This can be easily mistaken for sociopathy. 

Posted by: frithguild | Jan 26 2026 17:54 utc | 108

Trump is convinced people will love him again once money and security starts flowing in. That’s not completely wrong although overly simplistic. Maybe tomorrow the 27th would provide some numbers for him to feel confident enough again to start even more trouble. The trap here is this idea that big rewards will come “later”, that people will understand all his blessings, as long as they’d “give him enough time”. But this is not now politics work or ever worked. You can’t ask this amount of faith from a divided population. Ah well, if all fails, there’s always war fever to fix everything. Ideally (for him) the main attack will be done by Others first. A page out of the book of Bibi II vs 10-15.

Posted by: JohnDowser | Jan 26 2026 17:56 utc | 109

Iceland is next. Trump already spilled it in Davos.

“Experts are sharply criticizing the refusal to consider using the “trade bazooka.” If the EU fails to “respond strongly and immediately,” warns Tobias Gehrke, an expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), it will demonstrate “once again to Washington that the costs of taking over Greenland are limited.” [12] A former senior EU trade official, Ignacio García Bercero, is quoted as saying that if the “trade bazooka” is not used “in a situation like this,” then “it will never be used.” Critics also point out that further US aggression against Europe is already looming – at least if Washington succeeds in annexing Greenland. Last week, the US ambassador-designate to Iceland, Republican Billy Long, said that the island would become the 52nd US state and that he would take over as governor there.[13]”(machine translation)
https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10269

Posted by: p3t3r | Jan 26 2026 17:56 utc | 110

@ steven t johnson | Jan 26 2026 17:13 utc | 75
 
Mendacious fraud that you are, you ignored the part in my comment about voter intimidation, which Trump-friendly or -obedient soldiers, Guardsmen, police, or militias empowered to “protect the vote” can easily effect. As far as voter roll purges are concerned, this could easily (further) reduce the number of Dim congresscritters in states where the Rethugs control the government (and the voter rolls), and the battle to maintain state control over Minnesota’s voter rolls has not yet been concluded. As far as vote count manipulation is concerned, all that’s needed are a few targeted (and thus localized) hacks per congressional district to swing a sufficient number of congressional races.
 
Not that the Dims are all that opposed to what Trump is doing — they’re already using the Good and Pretti murders as fundraising opportunities and otherwise behaving like the corporatist-authoritarian little bitches that they are — so this might all be academic anyway.

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 26 2026 17:57 utc | 111

Midterms are a pressure valve. They allow the public to feel like they’ve “checked” the President’s power without actually derailing the machinery of the state. Meanwhile, whatever the result, performative politics will continue, where everyone in essence agrees on the “fundamental issues”, even if they distance themselves from the rhetoric or perceived lack of finesse with which they are currently pursued. What reason does Trump have to care about approval at this point?

Posted by: Skiffer | Jan 26 2026 18:01 utc | 112

Princess Bodica 111
 
It’s funny how many times the “blue-no-matter-who” crowd here is “on-message” with establishment-GOPers.  Of course, this is just a coincidence as I said in 100 “…to many here, a return to “responsible*-leadership” [see attached video*] would be welcome”
 
*Hillary: We Came, We Saw, He Died [REMIX]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABdF7dyUIcc

Posted by: S Brennan | Jan 26 2026 18:01 utc | 113

Right about now I could use some c1ue / tobias cole comic relief. How’s about it, guys?

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 26 2026 18:02 utc | 114

William Gruff | Jan 26 2026 17:39 utc | 102
“The good news is that we still have a couple years to relocate to south of the equator.”
Until the Zio-Kikes are eliminated there will be few places to escape to.
BillB | Jan 26 2026 17:47 utc | 107
“Never been to NZ or Aus but they look okay other than high housing costs.”
I do not want what you are smoking!
 
 
 
 

Posted by: Mann Friedmann | Jan 26 2026 18:04 utc | 115

Vote counting in the US is decentralized. To falsify the count, you need a centralized vote counting system.  *** When the count is genuinely faked there will be evidence presented in the law suits. 
Posted by: steven t johnson | Jan 26 2026 17:13 utc | 75
 
You underestimate the ingenuity that the allocation billions in spending can create. Boss Tweed will live forever. 
 
As far as evidence of election fraud, how do you get to discovery and the power of the Court to compel disclosure of facts held in secret by public bodies and organizations alike, when nobody has standing to sue? Just about all cases focusing upon election fraud have been dismissed – not because there is not fraud, which is what the narrative will tell you every time, but because the parties have no standing before the Court. Until Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections even a candidate had no standing. So how do you keep a person claiming election fraud from drowning in a bucket of water? Get your foot off their neck.   

Posted by: frithguild | Jan 26 2026 18:05 utc | 116

Before the 2024 election when Trump was popular there were (supposedly) several attempts to assassinate him. Now that “everybody” see him as a murderous thug, there are no attempts?
 

Posted by: Norwegian | Jan 26 2026 18:09 utc | 117

President Donald Trump on Monday continued his attack on “fake and fraudulent polling,” saying it should be considered “a criminal offense” as he accused legacy media outlets of deliberately misleading voters and trying to influence elections.
 
In a lengthy post on Truth Social, Trump argued that major media organizations knowingly published inaccurate polls during the 2024 election cycle in an effort to suppress voter enthusiasm and shape public perception.

Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 26 2026 18:10 utc | 118

Vragtes | Jan 26 2026 17:50 utc | 110
 
Thanks for your endorsement–a lone voice in the wilderness.
 
It was noted by Crooke during today’s chat with Judge Nap that Trump’s actions disrupting the Bond Market caused him to do immediate about-faces twice now, meaning the Empire’s Achilles Heel is financial as so many of us have hinted or continue to advocate. This is a very big component related to any attack on Iran, to which Iran has said it will respond with Total War that will include closing Hormuz. Such a move will completely destabilize an already very insecure Bond Market. This information is very useful and suggests the cessation of dollar use is the easiest action ALL people can take. For Americans, that means cut spending back as far as possible, and when shopping, don’t patronize the corporate behemoths if at all possible.
 
Nature had its say with the major ICE storm that temporarily crippled parts of the Empire and made the use of deICEr mandatory in those places. For many people, Nature means God.      

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 26 2026 18:12 utc | 119

Please understand Trump has no more concern for GOP “winning” in 2026 midterms than he did for them in 2018. In 2018 midterms, GOP wanted to give the House back to democrats. 38 House seats had no Republican on the ballot. Only 3 seats lacked a dem. Either Trump knew or should’ve known. https://ballotpedia.org/U.S._House_elections_without_a_Democratic_or_Republican_candidate,_2018
Until 1994 the House had been controlled by democrats for 40 straight years–and no one complained. The only reason 1994 happened was because of Rush Limbaugh (Jan. 1951-Feb. 2021) on the radio every day saying, “where are the Republicans?” He eventually shamed them into pretending they cared but they just trashed the joint and embarrassed us. To this day Republican voters have no party behind them. There’s no money in what Republican voters want. As to Trump, he only cares about ridiculous Ivanka and her pathetic husband Jared Kushner.

Posted by: susan mullen | Jan 26 2026 18:14 utc | 120

Let’s also mention that many of the people who supported him and would support his immigration policies for instance, were also America First MAGA and are pissed off at his foreign affairs shenanigans, between wanting to bomb Iran, defending Israel at all costs, bothering with Venezuela, possibly even Greenland, instead of focusing on the internal mess that’s growing.
Not to mention the various MAGA fans who were hoping that he’d use Epstein to go after some prominent (corrupt) Dems.
Like B. said, it’s puzzling to see how he seems to get so many things so wrong.
 

Posted by: Clueless Joe | Jan 26 2026 18:15 utc | 121

It appears none of our masters really give a shit what we think or know anymore. That tells me they KNOW something VERY bad is coming and there is no stopping it so fuck it lets party and steal every dime possible, it not like the sheeple can or will do anything about it.

Posted by: IcyR7 | Jan 26 2026 18:15 utc | 122

ZH has a posting up saying TACO Trump is on the move
 
Trump Hails “Very Good Call” With Walz As He Sends “Tough But Fair” Tom Homan To Minnesota
 

Trump said Sunday that the operation in Minnesota was a key part of why he won in 2024 and signaled that Democratic politicians were to blame.
“Tragically, two American Citizens have lost their lives as a result of this Democrat ensued chaos,” the president said.
This morning, ‘diplomacy’ appears to be taking place as President Trump said in a Truth Social post that Governor Tim Walz called him with the request to work together with respect to Minnesota.
“It was a very good call, and we, actually, seemed to be on a similar wavelength,” Trump said.
“I told Governor Walz that I would have Tom Homan call him, and that what we are looking for are any and all Criminals that they have in their possession. The Governor, very respectfully, understood that, and I will be speaking to him in the near future.
He was happy that Tom Homan was going to Minnesota, and so am I! We have had such tremendous SUCCESS in Washington, D.C., Memphis, Tennessee, and New Orleans, Louisiana, and virtually every other place that we have “touched” and, even in Minnesota, Crime is way down, but both Governor Walz and I want to make it better!”
We will just have to see if the manufacture crisis ebbs after this… and just how Walz will respond to Trump’s statement.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 26 2026 18:16 utc | 123

Well, Malenkov  116
we don’t often agree fully subjects but this line had me nodding my head in total agreement:

Mendacious fraud that you are….

And here you cast yet more pearls upon a politico swilling in the hacker’s pen
…er…uh…hack spilling ink with a pen

As far as vote count manipulation is concerned, all that’s needed are a few targeted (and thus localized) hacks per congressional district to swing a sufficient number of congressional races…not that the Dims are all that opposed to what Trump is doing — they’re already using the Good and Pretti murders…behaving like the corporatist-authoritarian little bitches that they are”

 

Posted by: S Brennan | Jan 26 2026 18:16 utc | 124

Leaders across the Wotan west are behaving as if elections don’t concern them.
Trump, Starmer, Macron, Merz, etc…
Completely relaxed about disastrous polling numbers.
What do they know that we don’t?
Do the polling numbers actually not matter at all?
Do they face no prospect of losing power?
Has the whole Wotan west become Ukraine, with democracy and elections stopped for military rule?
Every day it looks more like this is so.

Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Jan 26 2026 18:19 utc | 125

The medic who was killed was carrying a Sig Sauer pistol known to auto fire on occasion and two spare magazines…He and the other “demonstrators” were trained from a detailed Alinsky style manual, and are part of an outright rebellion against US law and Government…Trump needs to call out the military, and soon…
The reality is that these tens of millions of illegals are a major part of the democrats’ voting base (the other part being sheer fraud), although they have no right to vote, and either they are driven from America or our society will not exist much longer….

Posted by: pyrrhus | Jan 26 2026 18:20 utc | 126

Let’s just hope that China keep on making 100 nuclear hypersonic missiles every day.

Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Jan 26 2026 18:22 utc | 127

For example, Wisconsin has 4.1 million people eligible to vote, but 7 million registered voters….Any election is a meaningless farce…

Posted by: pyrrhus | Jan 26 2026 18:22 utc | 128

America or our society will not exist much longer….
Posted by: pyrrhus | Jan 26 2026 18:20 utc | 131
 
This society. Please describe it. What is it based and built on?
 
Does it have an concepts it holds as inviolate? Can you list them?
 
 

Posted by: ftp | Jan 26 2026 18:23 utc | 129

Posted by: IcyR7 | Jan 26 2026 18:15 utc | 127
 
I suspect it is the collapse of the economic system du jour in the US/UK/EU, etc…. the end of financial capitalism in a good part of the planet and possibly the beginning of the end of capitalism as the dominant global economic system. 

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Jan 26 2026 18:24 utc | 130

“The medic who was killed was carrying a Sig Sauer pistol …
Posted by: pyrrhus | Jan 26 2026 18:20 utc | 131
 
You’ll find his summary execution to be a Pyrrhic victory

Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Jan 26 2026 18:25 utc | 131

In response to

This society. Please describe it. What is it based and built on? Does it have an concepts it holds as inviolate? Can you list them?  
Posted by: ftp | Jan 26 2026 18:23 utc | 134

 
Global Private Finance
Private Property
Ongoing Inheritance

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 26 2026 18:26 utc | 132

Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Jan 26 2026 18:19 utc | 130
 
Here in the Untied States, THE SAME PEOPLE ARE IN POWER REGARDLESS OF WHICH PARTY WINS THE ELECTIONS AND THE POLITICIANS RETIRE WITH GENERATIONAL WEALTH.
 
That is what they know. 

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Jan 26 2026 18:28 utc | 133

Norwegian  122
 
True, but if the globalist-neocolonialist-neocon-neoliberals bump-off Trump now they get Vance and that is not what they want, they want Rubio to face off against a Hillary/Obama type cypher, a person that will be told what to do by a Sullivan/Blinken-like duo.  That way, whatever the outcome, their agenda will continue. 
 
This will make many here happy…as mass immigration will return full bore.  Thus increasing asset prices while at the same time diminishing labors value.  Whether you are one of the DNC’s “creative-class” or, a traditional blue-blood-GOPer you want the same things…power…money…and wage-slaves waiting on you…hand and foot.

Posted by: S Brennan | Jan 26 2026 18:30 utc | 134

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 26 2026 17:57 utc | 116  As far as vote count manipulation is concerned, all that’s needed are a few targeted (and thus localized) hacks per congressional district to swing a sufficient number of congressional races.

 
Yes, in a centralized vote counting system malefactors can selectively re-arrange margins.  No one party can do that in the decentralized US system. Ignoring that point doesn’t refute it. You’re still pandering to Trump cult. I didn’t ignore your other points, I wrote more about them than you did but I wasn’t going to disagree with you when you happened to be correct. But if you want a mendacious fraud, take on William Gruff, who unworthily suggests that Trump is the victim of the MSM. Also, implies that our host is a fool swindled by the CIA.  

Posted by: steven t johnson | Jan 26 2026 18:31 utc | 135

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 26 2026 18:12 utc | 124
Trump will blame Canada for allowing the bad weather to cross the border illegally.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 26 2026 18:32 utc | 136

Posted by: S Brennan | Jan 26 2026 18:30 utc | 139
 
Bingo. Anyone who thinks the Pelosis or Chuck Schumer or Bernie Sanders are real leftists or even “liberal” is clueless. 

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Jan 26 2026 18:32 utc | 137

Wo bist du, Siegfried? Wir brauchen sie…

Posted by: Caveman | Jan 26 2026 18:38 utc | 138

My above was in response to Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Jan 26 2026 18:19 utc | 130

Posted by: Caveman | Jan 26 2026 18:39 utc | 139

Yes, in a centralized vote counting system malefactors can selectively re-arrange margins.  No one party can do that in the decentralized US system.

 
Your first sentence, Dim fraud, is my point. Your second isn’t even false: it’s irrelevant.

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 26 2026 18:43 utc | 140

I believe it’s simply controlled demolition of  “conservative” movement. He is literally the rights Barack Obama as he is an agent of division and fractured populations never unite against their true overlords. The administration is literally a drone of Israel destroying intended targets and flying over the will of the citizens.

Posted by: Powderfinger | Jan 26 2026 18:46 utc | 141

Anyone who thinks the Pelosis or Chuck Schumer or Bernie Sanders are real leftists or even “liberal” is clueless. 
 
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Jan 26 2026 18:32 utc | 142
 

 
They are certainly liberal.
 
Liberalism is an ideology that places the individual above the group.
 

Posted by: too scents | Jan 26 2026 18:50 utc | 142

Bizarre to me that there are still reactionaries who go on about the “silent majority”. This ain’t 1968, brother. The hippies had a big cultural victory. Even the Okies in Muskogee are smoking reefer now (not that they weren’t then, either, that old Merle Haggard song was always sung by a hypocrite, although Merle himself recanted later in life).
 
There’s about 40% of the electorate in this country which is motivated by psychopathic sadism. They see in every brown-skinned person a potential rapist or thief or murderer or – god forbid – a drug dealer. This is the type of person who is entertained by the ICE bureaucrat-thuggery. They’re the people who want to see heads cracked. The other 60% of this country is either revolutionary (I’d say a solid 10-20% of the country at this point wants a totally different government, re-organized on progressive lines) or who just can’t stomach the violence. The fact that the violence is now perpetrated against white-skinned people drives home the fact that the reactionary movement will happily cheer on violence even against white non-conformists to Mar-a-Lago and Bossier City whiteness, further alienating the white reactionaries from white moderates. Great job, dummies.
 
Leftists predicted that Biden would be a one-termer. He was too old, he had no alternative vision, and he tailed the right on the most salient issues, in particular immigration. The Democrats as a whole had an opportunity to repudiate the white-skin chauvinism of Trump I, but failed as they attempted – and failed – instead to be more Republican than the Republicans on immigration. By doing so they validated the pseudo-concerns of the reactionaries.
 
Steven’s posts on the Democrats are correct. They are a brand. They have no platform. They’ll win in the mid-terms because of a ratchet effect that happens every mid-term election, particularly when the president is losing popularity. But the ugliness of the white reactionaries is on full display. Their cheerfulness at murderous big government thugs, their hatred of freedom and liberty, their perpetual fear-mongering about our co-workers, friends, lovers, and loved ones. That taint won’t go away for a while, and it won’t go away until the next generation of Republicans remember that people like them for the small government stuff, not mass deportations and federalized white skin chauvinism.

Posted by: fnord | Jan 26 2026 18:51 utc | 143

Billboard @107: “Any idea of options?”
 
 
One thing to keep in mind is that many of the downsides to life in Latin America is due to the US constantly destabilizing those countries, and the CIA always boosting and organizing the vilest of their societies’ scum and garbage. Without external support the fascists and gangsters will fall apart and die out. Bolivia, for example, will quickly settle down and become quite pleasant once the Imperial core is reduced to radioactive glass. I don’t know as much about Africa, but looking at things in Burkina Faso, I would guess things on that continent would probably develop nicely once the Global North is taken out of the picture as well. 

Posted by: William Gruff | Jan 26 2026 18:51 utc | 144

Damn autocorrect. 

Posted by: William Gruff | Jan 26 2026 18:52 utc | 145

Posted by: steven t johnson | Jan 26 2026 16:45 utc 46
 
Great post. One of the better here in recent times. A nice materialist feel for the US political landscape.

Posted by: Patroklos | Jan 26 2026 18:54 utc | 146

Posted by: Powderfinger | Jan 26 2026 18:46 utc | 148
 
Interesting POV. In other words, now that the West couldn’t break Russia and China it has no choice but to self-destruct, beginning with the EU and NATO and then the US will be swallowed by the vortex. Not that anyone necessarily planned it that way from the start but isn’t that the “paradigm” that is emerging?  

Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 26 2026 18:54 utc | 147

Posted by: pyrrhus | Jan 26 2026 18:20 utc | 131

somebody has been feasting on your brain?
see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pKYkhABb4w

Posted by: MAKK | Jan 26 2026 18:55 utc | 148

Posted by: Princess Bodica | Jan 26 2026 18:54 utc | 154

Hmm, the US will demand a pharaonic burial.
Everybody has to join as burial gift.

Posted by: MAKK | Jan 26 2026 18:57 utc | 149

It’s because Trump is in on the fact the Zionist’s plan nuclear war 

Posted by: Boardindundee | Jan 26 2026 18:58 utc | 150

Yes, in a centralized vote counting system malefactors can selectively re-arrange margins. No one party can do that in the decentralized US system. *** 
Posted by: steven t johnson | Jan 26 2026 18:31 utc | 140
 
That the the US voting system is decentralized is the most beautiful thing for pulling off a vote fraud. There is no centralized standard and it is all up to local authorities – all of whom are in the tank because even Judges have party affiliation and owe whoever it was that got them their seat. No surprise that standing has been impossible to establish because just about any Court would find the alleged was generalized grievances or speculative injuries rather than concrete, personal harms. So walking around money use never gets even investigated, for one. 
 
Clearly, you haven’t seen this up close and personal. 

Posted by: frithguild | Jan 26 2026 19:01 utc | 151

Why Is Trump Causing His Own Downfall?
Mid-term Trump card…

Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 26 2026 19:03 utc | 152

Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 26 2026 19:03 utc | 160
Doh: add word
Epstein?

Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 26 2026 19:04 utc | 153

I think he’s a Russian Agent!
Posted by: sirdavide | Jan 26 2026 16:18 utc | 22
Of course he is. Every US President has been a Russian or USSR agent since Catherine the Great of Russia first recruited George Washington back in 1787 up until the Bush father and sons defected to Al Qaida. 
Trump is  currently jointly owned by Israel and Russia.  
/sarc
 

Posted by: jrkrideau | Jan 26 2026 19:08 utc | 154

Belgrade baby 
 
4 years US Expat in Serbia Belgrafe

Posted by: Exile | Jan 26 2026 19:10 utc | 155

Happy horseshit rhetoric aside, Trump surely knows that the midterms will be a disaster for Team R. He needs an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act, and letting ICE run amok is sure to provoke a response. 

Posted by: Feral Finster | Jan 26 2026 19:13 utc | 156

Maybe Trump is acting this way because he believes he doesn’t have to worry about elections.

Posted by: Not Necessarily So | Jan 26 2026 19:16 utc | 157

Israel via high profile Jews are in full control of little don. They would like nothing more than the country to erupt into civil war, but the docile Americans are not up for it. Imagine it. A US in civil war would not bother the rest of the world. It would leave the financial system largely intact and they will get to seize even greater control of the largest arsenal in the world. All they would need is for civil war and chaos and they can ease on into the drivers seat. What other benefit is there from all this? Israeli proganda is all but trashed and no one believes. They have nothing to lose.

Posted by: Unsafedata | Jan 26 2026 19:17 utc | 158

Posted by: frithguild | Jan 26 2026 19:01 utc | 159There is no centralized standard and it is all up to local authorities – all of whom are in the tank because even Judges have party affiliation and owe whoever it was that got them their seat. 

 
Like malenkov, you simply ignore the point.  The local authorities are not all in the same tank. Your rebuttal is mere wordplay, an equivocation that substitutes the word tank for a centralized vote counting system. Writing tank doesn’t change the fact there is no single tank for the judges to be in. The Republicans are trying to rig the system their way with mid-census gerrymanders and the SAVE act, and their efforts are impaired much more by the decentralized system than by any Democratic Party so-called opposition. Cheap cynicism will take you far, but in the end you still have to think things through.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Jan 26 2026 19:19 utc | 159

Posted by: They Call Me Mister | Jan 26 2026 16:06 utc | 15
> something bad happens in the US
> “They Call Me Mister” on MoA: but… but the Germans!

Posted by: Lemming | Jan 26 2026 19:20 utc | 160

Posted by: Feral Finster | Jan 26 2026 19:13 utc | 165
 
He could always forge a false flag terrorist attack to do that, but somehow he’s still not doing so.

Posted by: Lemming | Jan 26 2026 19:23 utc | 161

Trump is an actor.  Voters don’t matter.  There are factions.  Those do exist, but you do not matter.  Nobody cares what you think.  Nobody cares what the voters think.  The entire election process is a big show put on for entertainment.  Arguing about Trump and elections shows a grossly ignorant and naive view of the American political system.  It’s about as mature as arguing if Pokémon or Pikachu will be the next president.

Posted by: Nobody Special | Jan 26 2026 19:26 utc | 162

Posted by: Lemming | Jan 26 2026 19:23 utc | 170
 
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Timing. Timing is everything.
 
The sooner the Insurrection Act is declared, the more disruptive it will be.
 
Plus, this interim period is a good time to smoke out the weaklings in the GOP who aren’t 100% for Pax Judaica.
 
Haste is rarely optimal or efficient.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 26 2026 19:27 utc | 163

The local authorities are not all in the same tank.

 
Who said they all had to be, Dim fraud? That’s just your desperate straw man. Depending on the congressional district, as few as just one county election commissioner would suffice. And of course in a red district, none at all would be necessary.

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 26 2026 19:28 utc | 164

In response to Norwegian@122,
 
Well sure. Back then he was threatening with peace and prosperity. Now, he’s being presidential.

Posted by: Skiffer | Jan 26 2026 19:28 utc | 165

Otherwise he will lose much of his power at the end of this year.
He will loose his power anyway, even if he should be able to consolidate a tyranny in a totalitarian Gringdom. He ripped off the camouflage from nearly all nasty secrets of US power projection and made it’s assembling of two centuries’ old abhorrible nastinesses jumping into everyone’s face. It’s a conundrum of another nice messes everyone has been gotten into – right from the beginning, the collaps of another Emperor who actually reached Moscow just before his bloody defeat, thus finally enabling the big Going West.
This mess becoming obvious is so total that the Gringdom’s impact on the brute flat reality won’t leave any meaningful power to him or anyone else.
Otherwise he will lose much of his power at the end of this year.
He will loose his power anyway, even if he should be able to consolidate a tyranny in a totalitarian Gringdom. He ripped off the camouflage from nearly all nasty secrets of US power projection and made it’s assembling of two centuries’ old abhorrible nastinesses jumping into everyone’s face. It’s a conundrum of another nice messes everyone has been gotten into – right from the beginning, the collaps of another Emperor who actually reached Moscow just before his bloody defeat, thus finally enabling the big Going West.
This mess becoming obvious is so total that the Gringdom’s impact on the brute flat reality won’t leave any meaningful power to him or anyone else.
The latter is the point. Two centuries of self-delusion and hiding the blunt horror under the thin screen of asserted well-meaning, and two centuries of bribing the masses by the breadcrumbs falling form the opulent dinner table of plunders and prizes won’t be feasible anymore. This pratfall will render any attempt to continue utterly impossible.
This might be his inintended victory (Karma is a bitch), and at the same time, this is his life insurance against any further cases of lone gunmen – no need for that treatment, he will be out anyway, any svengali is lured to assume. Out of this mess, out of his duties, and empowered to blame those who inherits this mess, helplessly trying to steering it back on the envisioned track to no avail. The carefully webbed self-delusion and grandezza are tattered beyond repair. Only one power has the potential to rise from this catastrophic mess, we, the people. And Trump? Part of that power which still Produceth good, whilst ever scheming ill.

 

 

Posted by: Kassandra | Jan 26 2026 19:30 utc | 166

His last role will be fall guy, that has always been one of the most obvious parts of the plan.

Posted by: Rae | Jan 26 2026 19:34 utc | 167

Making
 
Assayers
 
Great
 
Again

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jan 26 2026 19:35 utc | 168

DJT sees himself as playing in a higher league than other presidents (except McKinley of course), and therefore immune to losing popularity. He looks upon his finished projects as certificates of excellence. Other presidents would just talk about bombing Iran, Trump did it. Others would keep mobbing Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua verbally and with threats – but only Trump resorts to action and causes (with the help of Mossad I bet) actual change in Venezuela. Same with tariffs, no other president would dare to touch that issue on such a grand scale.
 
Looking at unfinished projects: annexation of Greenland would make him a great president no doubt, if only he was successfull with it. Same with solving the Ukraine conflict. Same with the “peace board” in Gaza. The latter puts DJT into the driver’s seat since he is calling the shots, and even Putin will play a subordinate role there. Far from being lazy, Trump is setting new standards of what, in his imagination, makes an effective presidency. This does cause a certain level of admiration for the most active president seen in a long time. Let’s see in the midterms if this concept pays off.

Posted by: grunzt | Jan 26 2026 19:38 utc | 169

It’s possible the ICE stuff is intended to provoke an overreaction which would split the electorate into Law and Order vs. Libtards as a divisive issue.  
Posted by: BillB | Jan 26 2026 17:41 utc | 103
_______________________________________
 
No shit Sherlock. 
But so far nobody has taken the bait. 
I think Trump is going to have to hire some thugs to shoot and kill some ice agents, Maidan style, to get this to where he wants it.
 

Posted by: jinn | Jan 26 2026 19:38 utc | 170

There’s plenty of time for lots of stuff to happen between now and the US mid-terms.
 
[spoiler alert ] it won’t all be good stuff…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jan 26 2026 19:38 utc | 171

I’m more interested in how the snow is going. Any power plants failed yet?
 

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jan 26 2026 19:41 utc | 172

that specter of mid term elections has been gonna save us for a year now.
what a sweet line of nonsense. 
tooth fairy, get in line.

Posted by: Not Ewe | Jan 26 2026 19:42 utc | 173

More interested than in “Yet Another Senile Genocider” anyway.
 

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jan 26 2026 19:43 utc | 174

Yes, in a centralized vote counting system malefactors can selectively re-arrange margins. No one party can do that in the decentralized US system. *** Posted by: steven t johnson | Jan 26 2026 18:31 utc | 140That the the US voting system is decentralized is the most beautiful thing for pulling off a vote fraud. There is no centralized standard and it is all up to local authorities ____________________________________________________
I can’t see the half dozen little blue haired old ladies that run the local precinct where I vote being involved in what you describe. You can’t have the fraud you imagine without their cooperation.

Posted by: jinn | Jan 26 2026 19:43 utc | 175

Are Trump’s policies really more controversial than those of other presidents or is the amateurish implementation of policies by his administration the real problem?

Looks like B really hasn’t let his latent love for the orange clown go.     
 
Let’s explain again and again, IT DOESN’T MATTER if he loses or wins.   
What matters is he did his part for the Uniparty and none of the things he did will be reversed by whatever face comes next.   
The (probably) Dem successor will find excuses to consolidate the gains for the empire.   
They will performatively propose bills they know will never pass ‘blocked by the evil Reps’.   
On other issues they could turn back they will use another well-known excuse: “it shouldn’t have happened and it was wrong but we won’t do anything about it because this or that ‘regime’ we did this or that to is bad anyway so we shouldn’t accomodate them.   
 
This is how the Uniparty tag team works.   
 
 

Posted by: Ed Bernays | Jan 26 2026 19:44 utc | 176

Posted by: silverfoxes | Jan 26 2026 16:00 utc | 5
 
I would probably bet on the mystery NY “socialist” billionaire from “Uganda”… one really can’t make this stuff up any longer!  It’s nearly surpassing the literary distopias of the past.  

Posted by: Mr Bo | Jan 26 2026 19:44 utc | 177

Not in defense of Norwegian PM (not in the least), but:
 

🤪 TRUMP FLOPS WITH LETTER TO NORWAY’S PM — GETS D+
 
President Donald Trump received a D+ from etiquette experts for a letter to Norway’s Prime Minister — the one in which he waived his obligations to maintain global peace.
 
Experts criticized the letter for grammar, style, logic, and politeness errors. For example, Trump addressed Jonas Gahr Støre as “Dear Jonas” instead of “Dear Mr. Prime Minister.” A corrected version has already gone viral online.

 
https://t.me/ukraine_watch/54840
 

Posted by: Norwegian | Jan 26 2026 19:46 utc | 178

When was the last time the US had a “positive” policy ?

Posted by: Hiro Masamune | Jan 26 2026 19:50 utc | 179

Posted by: Not Ewe | Jan 26 2026 19:42 utc | 182
 
The tragedies, spectacles, and perversions have to be more exaggerated with each cycle to chase the now numbed, completely stressed and worn out America herds back and forth in the big pen… police shootings, pointless thug riots, assassinations, hairy men dressed as women, hairy women dressed as men, nuclear war brinksmanship, bestowing great honors on obviously insane mass murderers…. There’s not too much more they can do. 

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Jan 26 2026 19:52 utc | 180

When was the last time the US had a “positive” policy ?
 
Posted by: Hiro Masamune | Jan 26 2026 19:50 utc | 188
 

 
The “New Deal”.
 

Posted by: too scents | Jan 26 2026 19:53 utc | 181

It’s not just Trump.

Posted by: Suresh | Jan 26 2026 19:56 utc | 182

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jan 26 2026 17:25 utc | 87
 
Many thanks for your kind words. The “nothing ever happens” was mostly inspired by Baudrillard’s The Gulf War Did Not Take Place.
Looking for a copy of Ilyin’s On the Resistance to Evil by Force on PDF. Know where I can find it? Anna’sArch doesn’t have it… I know his work on Hegel and agree he is a very interesting thinker.  I’m inclined by the title to be sympathetic.

Posted by: Patroklos | Jan 26 2026 19:56 utc | 183

Ballot Box 13 – LBJ wins in 1948
 
(Excerpt) …….
On election night, Sept. 2, 1948, in the Democrat Primary runoff against former Texas Governor Coke Stevenson, it appeared LBJ lost.
 
Then, mysteriously, a box of uncounted ballots was “discovered” in the south Texas town of Alice in Jim Wells County, Precinct 13. Confusion reigned in Texas and by the end of the week, LBJ won by 87 votes. Both sides accused the other of voter fraud.
 
The FBI, Postal Department and other agencies investigated. Piecing together the details, the story emerged alleging that during the tabulation period, LBJ’s campaign manager, John B. Connally, traveled to Alice, Texas.
 
With access granted by wealthy “political boss” of Duval County, George Parr, who later committed suicide, John Connally was present when the ballots were recounted and the returns amended.
 
When the dust settled, the new totals showed 202 additional voters, some of whom were deceased and buried in the local cemetery or were absent from the county on election day. These voters “lined up” in alphabetical order at the last minute, signed in the same blue ink in the same handwriting and all cast their ballots for LBJ.
 
The New York Times published an article July 30, 1977, titled “Ex-Official Says He Stole 1948 Election for Johnson”:……

Posted by: Exile | Jan 26 2026 19:57 utc | 184

First analyze how much of this is Trump and how much of this is of it just a more venal, naked servant of Empire than yesterday’s monster.    Trump is a newcomer to the scene, he did not create Zionist genocidal entity in the Middle East that was Lord Rothschild and his fellow British Lords .  What Trump is responsible for is introducing  IDF trained Geztapo tactics into the US, commonly referred to as ICE.  Trump is merely the latest manifestation of Western civilization’s institutionalized rulers mayhem and destruction that we are forced to live with in our particular generation.  Whether it is the monsters that sent a hundred million of Europe’s finest to their death a century ago, the slavers of 2 centuries ago or the native american indian genociders of 3 centuries, or the Crusades a millenium ago, there is really a tiny group of people who are the beneficiares of the carnage and they will always be there to continue the Empire.   If you have any doubt in what I am saying, do you really think if Trump died of a Big Mac tomorrow, the destruction would stop.  The best we can hope for is our criminal elite dial it back a few notches until they find their next monster to unleash on the world.  

Posted by: Deniz | Jan 26 2026 19:59 utc | 185

*** The local authorities are not all in the same tank. Your rebuttal is mere wordplay, an equivocation that substitutes the word tank for a centralized vote counting system. Writing tank doesn’t change the fact there is no single tank for the judges to be in. *** 
Posted by: steven t johnson | Jan 26 2026 19:19 utc | 168
 
I’m trying to teach you something here. Every litigated issue has two sides. If it is vote fraud issue, those sides will align with either party, roughly. If you think that a Judge is a neutral in a political dispute, you have another thing coming. Any skilled jurist can decide any case either way while 100 % complying with the law and vindicating justice. 
 
I am not talking about a “centralized vote counting system”, whatever nonexistent perfection you may think that is. I’m not talking about gerrymandering – to the legislative victor goes the spoils has been around forever. If you don’t like it, win an election and screw the other side is how it works. I’m talking about the kind of garden variety vote fraud that is as American as apple pie – “Vote for your friends and defeat your enemies” Samuel Gompers. There are more ways to game an election and not get caught than you can possibly imagine. Every “system” has an exploit. Every exploit will be used. So let’s get granular – what is “walking around money” and how does it work? Or do you really think real people vote after a neutral and detached meditation on the issues. I mean seriously.    

Posted by: frithguild | Jan 26 2026 19:59 utc | 186

Some overall global analysis including Trump that IMO is very relevant is presented today in a chat between Glenn Diesen and Jiang Xueqin. A very dense amount of information is presented that will make most people stop and think.  

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 26 2026 20:06 utc | 187

Posted by: Exile | Jan 26 2026 19:57 utc | 193
 
Famous incident but far from singular in US politics. That was back when party affiliation and voting actually mattered to some extent and there were rising, politically important working and middle classes. 

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Jan 26 2026 20:08 utc | 188

The best we can hope for is our criminal elite dial it back a few notches until they find their next monster to unleash on the world.  
Posted by: Deniz | Jan 26 2026 19:59 utc | 194
 
‘Best’ depends on your circumstances.
 
If you are urban, OK.
 
If you are rural, minimalist and off grid, well armed and merely wishing to be left alone in peace? Best would be for the chaos to get worse, the cities to burn, the polito-whores hung and something just this side of Mad Max for a few years to cull the herd and reset some priorities.  Sad that this seems the ‘good’ option.
 
But more likely the gilded cage will just get a bit more cramped, a bit less pleasant, a lot more authoritarian and the masses will just accept it.  I have watched them do it for 50 years,  I see no reason they would change.
 
 
 
 

Posted by: ftp | Jan 26 2026 20:14 utc | 189

B assumes there will be a 2026 election.
 
 

Posted by: Cato | Jan 26 2026 20:18 utc | 190

Overall the mid-terms are not looking good for Republicans and as some already pointed out, perhaps the party are happy enough to lose because the never-trump Republicans figure they should distance themselves and try again later.
 
However … don’t underestimate the requirement to bring out the base … getting voters angry over something (anything) makes them show up and vote. There’s no such thing as bad publicity. A lot of the unaligned moderates will tell you how much they dislike Trump … but statistically most of those people don’t bother showing up in mid&term elections so their opinions don’t have much effect.

Posted by: Tel | Jan 26 2026 20:18 utc | 191

@199 Cato

“b assumes there will be a 2026 election”

At least that provides voters with an opportunity to repent their behaviour.

Posted by: Ornot | Jan 26 2026 20:26 utc | 192

There is no doubt that the 2020 presidential election was stolen by massive voting fraud in Az, Pa., Ga., Mi., where fake pre printed mail in ballots in the millions were delivered in the middle of the election night.
This was a carefully planned operation by Pelosi, Holder, Rice, Biden, Soros and company.  These fake mail in ballots were justified by the concept that any action, no matter how illegal, is justified in defeating a ‘fascist’ like DJT.  There were no boundaries, every single illegal action was legit in the minds of the seditious conspirators.
It was an election coup against the Republic, and it succeeded.  But they needed a guarantee that DJT could never win another election….what to do?
The solution was for the mindless, senile, demented and corrupt Joey Boy Biden and Alejando Mayorkas to open the borders, allow 20 million illegal alien scum into the Republic, and register them to vote.
Luckily their evil plan failed.
Now that DJT won overwhelmingly, and has launched a huge crackdown to save the Republic from this illegal alien invasion of drug dealers, drug smugglers, drug mules, cartel soldiers, rapists, child molesters, armed robbers, murderers, burglars and other scum, the MSM purchased whole sale by the deep state, is erupting.  ICE/BP are killing ‘innocent’ citizens, and arresting five year old children……all completely false stories.  BP officers were attacked by an LGBTQ+ activist who attempted to murder a BP officer with her 5k lb SUV and was shot and killed as a result.  Another left wing activist armed with a Sig P320 semi auto handgun attacked several BP officers engaged in a spirited fight and was killed.  Apparently this left wing zealot decided while armed to confront and attack BP officers……….very unwise, especially when BP officers have been attacked dozens of times while apprehending illegal alien criminal scum in Minneapolis (note here: the BLM/Antifa insurrection in May/June 2020 was started in Minneapolis and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to the city, during DJT first term.  See the pattern here?  Dangerous career felon George Floyd died from a drug overdose of fent and heroin, (not tracheal compression), and this event was used as an excuse for the 2020 insurrection.  Now we see the ICE/BP crackdown on illegal alien criminal scum used as yet another excuse to stage yet another insurrection.  No one is buying the bs this time.  Its all staged.
The events in Minnesota and Minneapolis are an attempt to stage a seditious insurrection, to overthrow the Republic, and to retain the aliens in the Republic.
They will fail, because the average American patriot wants the alien scum out of their villages and towns and back where they came from…….live with it progressives, socialists, communists, anarchists, trokskyites, Antifaites………….

Posted by: tobias cole | Jan 26 2026 20:27 utc | 193

thanks b….
 
one wonders how this all plays out… i think trump is short term, but obviously not everyone agrees…
 
@ Grieved | Jan 26 2026 16:01 utc | 6
 
that is a really bizarre comment from you… we see it differently and i am an outsider who obviously has a different viewpoint here.. 

Posted by: james | Jan 26 2026 20:28 utc | 194

IcyR7 ( Jan 26 2026 18:15 utc | 127 ):
But if nothing matters then it doesn’t matter that nothing matters which means one should ignore it and/but then everything matter again! (The tautest tautology? An inverse or negative version of Russell’s paradox; in this case creating a set that contains no set including not even itself).
 
Nihilism itself delivers the proof that nihilism is self-defeating and meaningless; it is only ever you who can create meaning and value in the world (and one does that by continuing to shamble along through all the failures and disappointments).
 
That remains true whether you die from an icy cold “climate change” blizzard, or nuclear war, or aliens your mind can’t handle, or Hollywood “aliunz” on demand at the Superbowl, or the “tackiness” of old age breaking down your body bit by bit as time does (this process starts before you are born!) while you still dream of the lives and fortunes/happiness you could simply never have had —all aka and also because of “Life!” :3
 
Solution: drag myself to a store and buy a little treat like a chocolate or cigarettes or anything else that “it’s bad for you!” and then keep clinging on for as long as you’ve got lol. Nihilism: a philosophy defeated by KitKat :3
 

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jan 26 2026 20:29 utc | 195

Here is a tip for liberal/progressive/communist activists in Minneapolis.  Don’t bring loaded firearms to an anti ICE/BP demonstration and then engage in a violent confrontation with federal law enforcement……it will not end well.
Go home and read Marx have an Irish whiskey (preferably some Tullamore) and relax.

Posted by: tobias cole | Jan 26 2026 20:29 utc | 196

The UK and Ireland are now paying the price for unchecked immigration from illegal aliens and fake asylum seekers……chaos in major cities.
In Dublin, many areas are now no go zones after dark, and even in the Temple district tourists have been attacked and murdered by alien gangs……..
Let this be a lesson to these socialist governments…………destroy your national identity at your own risk……..

Posted by: tobias cole | Jan 26 2026 20:32 utc | 197

Looking for a copy of Ilyin’s On the Resistance to Evil by Force on PDF. Know where I can find it? Anna’sArch doesn’t have it… I know his work on Hegel and agree he is a very interesting thinker. I’m inclined by the title to be sympathetic.
 
 
 
 
Posted by: Patroklos | Jan 26 2026 19:56 utc | 192
 
 
 
 
Maybe
 
https://azbyka.ru/otechnik/Ivan_Ilin/o-soprotivlenii-zlu-siloyu/
 
 
 
 
Or
 
 
 
 
https://mybook.ru/author/ivan-aleksandrovich-ilin/o-soprotivlenii-zlu-siloj/read/

Posted by: BlindSpot | Jan 26 2026 20:32 utc | 198

Posted by: tobias cole | Jan 26 2026 20:29 utc | 206
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I always wonder how insecure and needy someone must be to side with the militarized state over their countryman.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 26 2026 20:35 utc | 199

Gepostet von: Patroklos | 26. Jan. 2026, 19:56 UTC | 192
+
https://legitimist.ru/lib/philosophy/i_ilin_o_soprotivleniyu_zlu_siloyu.pdf

Posted by: BlindSpot | Jan 26 2026 20:35 utc | 200