Staring into a crystal ball, what would you predict? Me? I don’t need no ‘stinkin’ crystal ball. If I were a billionaire I would bet it all on a simple premise…
    You think it’s bad now? What’s ahead us even will be worse than what you might imagine.
    2026 election. I am guessing Trump will send National Guard; and especially his special brownshirts: ICE, to vulnerable polls. “Vulnerable” according to how Trump, Bannon, Miller (etc) define it. Polls where they don’t tend to vote MAGA. They will be there, the story will go, to make sure it all goes well and there’s no cheating.
    NO. They’ll be there to harass voters who look like they might not support the Orange Dictator. Arrest them for no reason at all. Claim they must be illegal immigrants and it won’t matter what kind of ID they show. At best they’ll get a placebo ballot, otherwise known as “provisional.” But more likely, just drag them away until after election day. Kill them if they can find an excuse, or just make up a reason.
    When it comes to those who disagree with them, vote against them, and especially stand in their way no matter how peacefully, these people are no more pro-life than Nazis were pro-Jewish life.
    Some voters: you know which ones, will be pulled out of line and put under restraint under bogus assumptions. Anything to keep them from voting. Machines in districts where voters tend to vote in politically incorrect ways will be confiscated, ant mail in votes IF ALLOWED AT ALL, will be frequently confiscated and only allowed to be counted once checked to make sure the voter voted the right way. At least some of those voters will be arrested, again under bogus charges.
    We will have a bombing of at least one neighborhood and all kinds of unprovable claims it was filled with members of that organized declared terrorist group: Antifa. That is no organized group at all.
    Any of you ever wonder if those supposed “Antifa” trouble makers are actually MAGA actors there to give Trump an excuse? I suspect so: why they mask up so they can’t be identified. Kind of like a lot of ICE who suddenly LOVE masks. (Wonder how many were mask objectors during COVID. Most I would think.) Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Three Percenters…
    Etc.
    Expect all cities with mayors who ran as Dems to be under occupation and a lot of dead shot in Kent State fashion. Probably by ICE. They will claim rocks were thrown or they were threatened. (maybe by donuts?) Governors, mayors, senators, members of the House will be forcibly removed. Bogus charges will have them arrested, detained. Some may even disappear. Certainly protesters and other irritants will be disappeared. Maybe even thrown out of helicopters, planes, ala’ Pinochet.
    Eventually there will be at least a mass shooting of protesters. Probably many. Excuses made. Most of MAGA will cheer them on.
    The Court will rule the 22nd Amendment unconstitutional, or use some legalistic trickery to get around it mif Trump runs. Sound nuts? Sure it as, as many of their ruling have been and the actions of the Trump adm that have been ignored, glossed over.
    Trump will attempt, and probably succeed, in eliminating the cash-based economy. All will be crypto, or whatever is controlled by the Trump family.
    My guideline here is the obvious. When the 2024 election was done did you think Trump would be sending ICE and the National Guard ONLY to cities run by a Democrat? Having men, women and children dragged out of an apartment complex, some naked? They apartments trashed? He would be bold enough to consider a pardon for the woman who helped Epstein? Refuse to release the files after so much noise was made the other way by many members of his own party?
    That last one is a trick question because that one I think many of us could see, but there has been so much more even worse than any of us imagined, right?
    Since I started working on this edition a lot of this is already happening. I will add one more” Trump is declaring Antifa a terrorist organization. Since THERE IS NO ORGANIZATION called “Antifa” it’s obvious the object here is to eventually just declare anyone they would like to silence, get rid of, “Antifa.”
    Beyond that, especially if we go beyond 2028 or maybe even 2026: mass incarcerations and then mass executions.
    I AM NOT KIDDING. THESE PEOPLE JUSTIFY ANYTHING NO MATTER WHAT.
    Crystal balls are pretty much useless, and to often used by con ‘artists’ to make predictions vague and conned out of unwitting victims in exchange for lightening their purses and wallets. I have made some outlandish predictions here, I admit. You may ask, “But Ken, be realistic, do you think it will REALLY get this bad?” Why, yes, I do. I don’t need no crystal ball to state the obvious.
    And given my own premise it will probably be even worse.

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