Monday, November 2, 2026
Sunday, November 1, 2026
Lex Anteinternet: The 2026 Election. 27th Edition. The Impending Clerico-Fascist Coup.
Lex Anteinternet: The 2026 Election. 27th Edition. The Impending Cle...: Flag of the Belgian clericofascist Rexist Party of the 1930s and 1940s. October 23, 2026 I keep thinking to myself that I'll be glad whe...
It looks like there's a real chance that the Democrats may flip a Republican seat in Montana. This is getting a little press attention. I frankl think that they might flip Wyoming.
The 2026 Election. 27th Edition. The Impending Clerico-Fascist Coup.
Flag of the Belgian clericofascist Rexist Party of the 1930s and 1940s.
October 23, 2026
I keep thinking to myself that I'll be glad when the election is over. The 2024 election was bad, but this one seems even worse, at least locally. Seems like not a day goes by when I don't have to read something about Alabama Becky Bextel saying something outrageous or some disgruntled Wyoming Freedom Caucusers saying that they're the only real Republicans, and for that matter, the only real Americans.
Worst of all, not a day goes by that Donald Trump doesn't act crazier than the day before.
So, in the back of my mind, I keep thinking that the election will put an end to the Republican Party's control of Congress, if not an outright end to the GOP itself, and things will start getting back to sane, if not normal.
But Trump won't let that happen.
The General Election is on November 3. The Evangelical Far Right Mago Clerico-Fascist Coup will start on November 4.*
There's no doubt about it.
Only if the Democratic victory in November is so overwhelming that it can't be sanely denied, and Republicans in Congress need to get moderate to save their remaining seats, will this be capable of being avoided. Trump will attempt it anyhow.
And here it starts:
And the start of the attempted 2026 Coup commences:
Trump administration sues to block Senate race certification in Alaska if Republican loses
As this is the first part of what will be a desperate effort of the Trump administration to cling to power, we'll start a new edition.
Lawsuits, voter intimidation, the whole smash. The Trump MAGA extremist, and the National Conservatives, who is all he has left, are not going to go into the political night without attempting to seize power. Trump is all they have to try to make their dreams of a Clerico-fascist state (and their dreams on the nature of that state do not align) become a reality.
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Guest Column: Proposition 1 — An Historically Huge Mistake
Rod Miller: Why Hasn't Bryan Miller And The Wyoming GOP Endorsed Eric Barlow?
October 24, 2026
October 25, 2026
There's definitely angst in the Chuc Gray camp. I saw one of the campaign television ads he's running that Miller had mentioned, and it was remarkable. All about inflation etc., and how he can be counted on to back Wyomingites.
Give us a break.
Gray's entire campaign today has been based on being a complete Trump toady. The fact that Trump's economic policies, including his tariffs and illegal war on Iran has boosted inflation can't be ignored.
But Gray's attempting to ignore it.
That must be making inroads into his support, if he has any support. He's deeply disliked in general and barely won the primary. His campaign is trying to shift late in the day into an area which, frankly, he has no traction.
October 26, 2026
Mary Peltola was injured in a car accident over the weekend
Chuck Gray made another appearance at a University of Wyoming football game this week, and promptly posted photographs of himself, which means somebody (I suspect I know who) goes to all of these game to photograph him in "candid" shots.
One thing that this is causing is for people to ask why Chuck is always alone.
Chuck is in trouble, and knows it. He's never been popular with Wyomingites in general, and people don't regard him as somebody you'd expect to see at anything. He revised to debate Kinney and Johnson, and now it looks as if Kinney might pull off an upset. He's trying to appear as a real buy now, which is a bit too late. His only really campaign points have been that he loves Trump. Trump love is wearing off.
Trump love is wearing off in Iowa big time.
Iowa candidate Ashley Hinson is in the same boat and was on This Week practically declaring herself to be an opponent of Trump's.
October 27, 2026
A person has to be dumb, or wilfully ignorant, to believe the US didn't go to the moon.
To vote for such a person is inexcusable.
Bryan Miller tries to thread two needles and avoid threading them at the same time.
Wyoming GOP Chair Says Party Won't Endorse Barlow Or Bextel For Governor
Miller is another of these characters that spent a life time government service sucking on the government tit only to come home, or maybe just come to Wyoming (I don't know where he's from) and hate mommy. He is an Air Force Academy graduate that retired from the USAF as a Colonel.
Bextel took a shot, probably accidental, at Miller on the Tucker Carlson show. First of all, why anyone is taking the gadfly journalist seriously is beyond me, and the state of his show might be demonstrated that Bextel washed up on shore there, but she claimed the Wyoming, and national, GOP has no leadership.
The fact is, it does. It's lead by Dixiecrats, here and there, and people don't like them.
Bextel, for her part, is getting a lot more attention than she merits, mostly because of the nature of the Internet. The like minded ignorant gather to her in small numbers attracted to the stank, and the press finds her fascinating due to her ignorance. And she's also well funded on a personal level.
Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) called for the citizenship status of every American who has been naturalized since 1990 to be reevaluated.
Melania Trump was naturalized in 1990.
Elon Musk was naturalized in 2002.
Well let's at least investigate the naturalization status of those two.
On other matters, at this point, diehard Trump fans, and hence MAGA accoylites, have to discuss and explain this:
25th Amendment Watch, 27th Edition. CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist 162nd Edition. "The Case Against Donald Trump Emerging in the Epstein Files and DOJ's Desperate Efforts to Cover It Up"
October 28, 2026
Yup, and you heard it here first.
Economists Say State Income Tax On The Table If Proposition 1 Passes
It will happen, and what a battle it'll be.
The opinion can be found here: AG Opinion.
It won't matter. The local U.S. Attorney will proudly declare Meine Ehre heißt Treue and march in anyway. Indeed, they've already declared they will, but will honor the AG's opinion by honoring the 100 yard restriction, which will allow them to better sing the Horst-Wessel-Lied anyhow.
Alaska's Senator Lisa Murkowski endorsed the Democratic candidate for Governor in that state. Just earlier this week King Donald stated she was the worst Republican Senator in the Senate, which coming from the worst President in U.S. history is quite the compliment.
The MAGAs are already seeding doubt in the local election.
Fred Harrison: Wyoming Elections — When Certification Does Not Match The Record
They've just been unable to accept that the WFC is hated, and I mean hated. The power pouting is at the absurd level.
October 29, 2026
Feds Tap Former Chuck Gray Deputy To Run DOJ Election Monitoring
Well that figures.
The Peltola campaign is coming under a lot of fire due to a New York Times report that some of its members actively recruited the second Sullivan for the race, a charge the campaign denies.
October 30, 2026
Election complaints allege donors to Bextel, Bien and Degenfelder exceeded campaign finance limits
Changing views:
Trump and Freedom Caucus approval, election confidence: Three takeaways from a Wyoming survey ahead of the general election
Reports reveal that Pope Leo XIV has requested an Illinois mail in ballot.
October 31, 2026
Today, of course, is the last Saturday before the election.
November 1, 2026
And it's the start of the last week of the election.
Yesterday, October 31, 2026, was "Reformation Day", that day which some people celebrate as its the day that Martin Luther supposedly nailed his thesis on a cathedral day. As I'm less than impressed with Martin Luther, which is probably obvious, I can't say that the day is one that I think deserves much positive attention, but I note it as Lutheran minister Jonathan Lange posted one of his occasionally far right wing political post in the Cowboy State Daily, this one supporting Proposition 1.
Anyone who looks at it can tell that Prop 1 is going to hurt Wyoming municipalities. I have a little bit of a hard time not wondering if the Pastor should be commenting on it.
It's not that I'm of the view that religious figures should abstain from political topics. I don't hold that view at all. But because of their position, when they do so publicly, there's always the suggestion that they're making the statement based on moral grounds. Privately, that's not the case.
Lange does opine on some things that are of a moral nature. But more often than not his columns in the CSD are just right wing politics. That bothers me. Perhaps it shouldn't.
Today, and tomorrow, will be wild, campaign wise, I suspect.
Footnotes:
* I started this thread a couple of days prior to the first post. I hadn't anticipated the coup attempt starting before the ballots were counted, but it has.
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The 2026 Election, 26th Edition. The hoping to avoid sitting on blisters edition.
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Saturday, October 31, 2026
Lex Anteinternet: Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or less locally, Part 13. “Walmart Recession Signal” grows louder.
Lex Anteinternet: Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or les...: October 21, 2026 According to the economist who came up with it, the “Walmart Recession Signal” indicating an oncoming recession is getting ...
Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or less locally, Part 13. “Walmart Recession Signal” grows louder.
October 31, 2026
Falls Ranch, owned by 75 year old billionaire carpetbagger Russell Gordy, is still trying to recruit a data center.
Billionaire property owner to take over data center project in Natrona County
This is a good example of why: 1) nobody should be allowed to amass this degree of wealth, 2) people who don't make their livelihood in agriculture should not be allowed to own ag land.
This is a really good reason to bring in a wealth tax in Wyoming, and an idle rich landowner tax.
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Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or less locally, Part 12, the Deflect and Deny edition.
Labels: 2020s, 2026, 2026 Election, Donald Trump, inflation, Joseph Biden, The Second Trump Administration, The Trump Trade War with Canada, Trump War Inflation, United States and Israel v. Iran, Wyoming's boom and bust economy
Friday, October 30, 2026
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Lex Anteinternet: 25th Amendment Watch, 27th Edition. CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist 162nd Edition. "The Case Against Donald Trump Emerging in the Epstein Files and DOJ's Desperate Efforts to Cover It Up"
Lex Anteinternet: 25th Amendment Watch, 27th Edition. CliffsNotes of...: I'm only going to post excerpts of this. It'd be too long to post the entire document, and you can look it up. The excerpts are eno...
Let's jump ahead here.
25th Amendment Watch, 27th Edition. CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist 162nd Edition. "The Case Against Donald Trump Emerging in the Epstein Files and DOJ's Desperate Efforts to Cover It Up"
I'm only going to post excerpts of this. It'd be too long to post the entire document, and you can look it up.
The excerpts are enough. The rest, however, does really set the tone. Much of what it notes, we have noted here before.
I'm reminded in this about stories about the Playboy Mansion and some of the people who attended parties there. Bill Cosby, Jim Brown. This went on for a long time. Hefner even managed to escape being exposed during his lifetime.
I'm particularly reluctant to accuse people of horrible acts simply based on reporting But here, in order to believe there's nothing to this, we have to wilfully disregard the women involved.
Is it possible this is all a fable? Well, such things can occur, although by this point this would be an extraordinary fable.
Be that as it may, Trump is now 80 years old. He's destroyed the Republican Party, which has gone from being a Conservative Party to a Fascist Party. His dementia is crossing over from the noticeable stage to the raging stage. So, what will occur with all of this, given the status of his mind?
He remains the purported President of the United States and in that capacity he's steadfastly refused to cooperate in the release of the Epstein files. All the current poll data suggests that the GOP is going to lose the House and may very well lose the Senate. If the Senate remains in GOP hands Trump is safe from impeachment. If there's a "blue wave", as some feel there may be, he isn't.
It's not that there would be so many Democrats in office that they could impeach him on their own. No, rather, it's to what degree the remaining Republicans in the Senate, and the House for that matter, would be willing to cling to a sinking ship, or if you prefer in Trump terms, to be on a sinking electric car in which there are sharks in the water. After the election, the GOP is going to have to take stock on the results, and if things are really bad, and they look like they may be, the same noodle backed politicians who have gone along with Trump will be looking to save their jobs. Some will switch over to being anti Trump in that effort, if a solid reason to do so is presented.
The story of Beatrice Keul provides ample reason to do so. She's a named adult, and has little to profit by having revealed her story. Indeed, she's the former Miss Switzerland. While I'm not a fan of pageants, having a title such as that lends credibility to her accusations. And the accusations are brutal. She maintains that she was ushered into a private suite and that Trump grabbed her from behind and outright raped, not groped, her, leaving her bleeding as a result. In order to discount this, you have to be willing to believe that Keul just flat out made this story up.
The story about the 13 year old is so horrific that if it is further developed, and is true, that would certainly provide ample reason to impeach Trump, as well as an ample reason to prosecute Trump. That story, as noted, has been out for awhile and so far has not been deemed sufficiently established, however.
When the Democrats take the House, it will undoubtedly be the case that these stories will be more fully developed. MAGA's will howl. It's like Rebecca Bextel believing that NASA hasn't made it to the Moon, knowledge is a dangerous thing and would hurt their world view.
If the blue wave is big enough, and it it looks like Trump will drown in it, both big ifs. that brings us back to the 25th Amendment. It's the saving door for Republicans. If the cabinet comes out and states, "gosh, he's nuts", there will be no impeachment. He'll be ushered out the door, and a grateful nation will quit looking at the wreck.
But on the upcoming election, candidates strongly backing Trump, or backed by him, have to answer for this. That's very difficult to do. If you say you flat out don't believe it, you have to provide a reason for such certainty, which is different from having doubts.
A person can't just turn a blind eye to rape. If there's reasons not to believe these stories, and they are now cumulative, what are they?
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25th Amendment Watch, 25th Edition and CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist 161st Edition. The Time is Running Out Edition.
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