Trump ally or not, West’s campaign is being aided by the GOP in North Carolina and Arizona and probably other states as well. So whether or not he is Trump ally, he is at minimum an ally of the GOP.

In answer to your edit, those down voters probably assumed you were sealioning. Your post history suggests to me that that’s not likely though. Maybe they just vehemently disagreed with your assertion that they are not Russian assets. Anyway, here is some reading about West and Stein that you might find enlightening. I’ve included snippets but if you really want to learn, I suggest that you follow the links and read the whole thing. Personally, I’m convinced that they are working for Putin and anyone working for Putin is allied with Trump.

West

But as he campaigns for president, West is moving beyond the DSA and forging bonds with far-left activists who call for the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism, who support the Chinese and North Korean regimes, and who are associated with communist organizations and Russian state propaganda operations.

Stein

• Stein is pals with Vladimir Putin and his team: She joined MAGA extremist Michael Flynn as the only Americans to sit with Putin at a dinner in Moscow in 2015.

• At an event in New York that same year, she met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. – NBC News; Jill Stein

• The Russians helped Stein in 2016: “Russians working under the direction of the Internet Research Agency, the firm run by a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, tweeted the phrase ‘Jill Stein’ over 1,000 times around the time of the election. The posts were often accompanied by variations of the same hashtag, ‘Grow a spine and vote Jill Stein…’ – NBC News (December 22, 2018)

• And Stein touted their propaganda in return: In 2015, Stein “recorded a video from Moscow’s famous Red Square, in which she talked about ‘the need to rein in American exceptionalism’ and replace ‘a U.S. policy based on domination’—words that sounded like they were ripped from Putin’s talking points.” – POLITICO (June 20, 2017). During the campaign of 2016, Stein “parroted the Russian position on Ukraine and criticized the U.S. for installing a government in Kiev ‘hostile to Russia.’” – NBC News (December 22, 2018)

• She still sounds like a Russian propogandist on Putin’s invasion of Ukraine: “Russia’s invasion was a provoked response to the bigger, more murderous and illegal game plan of US empire - in which ‘overextending’ and defeating Russia is only one small part of the picture… In 2014 the US backed a coup in Ukraine led by far-right insurrectionists. The installation of the new government was a giant step towards the goal of adding Ukraine to NATO - and putting hostile bases and nuclear-capable missiles right on Russia’s border.” – Jill Stein (February 24, 2022)

President Trump signed Executive Order 13823 which kept Gitmo open and declared that the USA can detain “persons captured in connection with an armed conflict for the duration of the conflict.” That being stated in Trump’s executive order makes it clear that detaining such a person would be an official act.

Trump and his MAGA supporters have made unproven claims that the 2020 election was stolen and they intended to overthrow the government and install him as President on Jan-6 despite his election loss. Trump and his supporters have made continuous threats of violence and committed numerous acts of violence since then. It is therefore clear that the violent conflict that started on Jan-6, 2021 has not yet concluded. Trump and members of his MAGA army can legally be detained, without charge, for the duration of this conflict if and when they are captured.

Now there may be some question about who would capture Trump and his criminal allies and where they would be detained. It’s really quite simple. George W. Bush gave us extraordinary rendition. This program used agreements with about 50 other countries to abduct “terrorists” off the streets of those nations and hold and interrogate them indefinitely in CIA black sites. It is debatable on whether or not the CIA, NSA, or FBI could legally capture Trump or any of his terrorist allies, but that is not a problem. No doubt there are any number of foreign powers that would be happy to do so on our behalf for some diplomatic or financial consideration. Negotiating with other nations and arranging treaties and agreements is unarguably part of the Presidents job and therefore an official act.

Thanks to this ruling all Biden needs to do to save our democracy is to come to an agreement with one or more nations to capture the terrorist Trump and transport him to some black site in a foreign nation. There he can be held, and interrogated if need be, until such time as the conflict with his MAGA army is ended. If there are any legally questionable actions by Biden here, they in the nature of official acts, and he is therefore immune to prosecution now or in the future. Should anyone else involved be charged with a federal crime during the capture or detention, Biden can simply pardon them.

Thank you SCOTUS. You’ve given Biden the ability to save our nation with no legal risk to himself or anyone else involved in the process… Except, Biden would never do any of this because he is a decent human being. So what SCOTUS has really done is destroy our nation. This is the dumbest ruling ever made by this or any other SCOTUS in the history of this nation. The next Republican president will almost certainly not be a decent human being and will commit atrocities that he or she will never be prosecuted for and will tear down our democracy and will rebuild our nation as a Christian theocracy.

It probably won’t work. SCOTUS will just declare the new legislation unconstitutional and then go lounge on their billionaire provided yachts while the rest of us drown in sewage.

It seems like everyone is voting against a candidate and no one is voting for one. I bet that if either major party replaced their candidate, they would take the White House in a landslide.

I respect your optimism, and I will be voting for Biden as he’s the least worst option on the ballot. But for the policies you mentioned, Biden is NOT your man.

In 2020, Biden said he would veto Medicare for All if it came to his desk because it is too expensive. Even a Koch funded right wing think tank says Medicare for All would save the US $2 trillion dollars over a decade, but Biden erroneously thinks (or claims to think) it’ll cost too much.

Just one year ago Biden said he would not expand the supreme court because “if we start the process of trying to expand the court, we are going to politicize it maybe forever.” Apparently he hadn’t noticed that SCOTUS was already absurdly politicized.

As for punishing insurrectionists, Biden has taken great care to stay on the sidelines and avoid even the appearance of using the bully pulpit to push for the prosecution of the traitors that tried to overthrow our government. He should have been pressing the DoJ from day one to prosecute all of them, including Trump. We have people still in the House of Representatives who apparently gave tours to insurrectionists in the days before Jan-6, But Biden is so concerned about appearing to politicize the DoJ he’s letting them essentially, and maybe literally get away with murder.

Don’t get me wrong. Biden has done an adequate job in the White House, and he is not the fascist, so he’ll get my vote, but make no mistake. Biden is not a progressive.

I like to quote Matthew 6:5-6 to them too.

And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

This election cycle — when researchers have found Black voters are being heavily targeted by political disinformation — it is crucial to not turn “communities against one another,” Johnson said.

The only way republicans can win is by turning communities against one another. Finding wedge issues to turn groups of Americans against each other is the main tool in their tool box.

Both, in particular, EV public transport. Something like this would be nice.

“I’m wondering if there’s some point- if you’ve identified some point where you will stop, where the administration will stop, where the federal government will stop this requirement and let the market decide…"

Let the market decide? Sure let’s do that. As of now, let’s have the U.S. government stop subsidizing the oil industry to the tune of $20 billion+ per year and see who keeps buying gas powered cars when gas is $15-20 per gallon. Better still, pour that $20 billion into EV car development and green energy and help save the fucking planet.

Hilton, 43, accused the industry, which is worth billions of dollars, of being more interested in making money than protecting and caring for the vulnerable children it is responsible for.

At which point the Republicans present smiled, nodded, and made mental notes to check their investment portfolios.

The army has a manual on how to improvise munitions from commonly available items? Who knew? The one google showed me is dated 1969. I am both curious and terrified that there might be newer versions.

Well my days of not taking Minnesota seriously are definitely coming to a middle.

As Admiral Patrick poi ts out, that is the arrangement. BTW, Biden chose the right hand podium and Trump gets to speak last.

It’s the best government money can buy!

The death squads are implied.

Make it pay-per-view and we could wipe out the national debt.

Anyone giving odds on Trump stroking out when he realizes his microphone has been cut after a couple minutes of rambling?

Do two wrongs make a right? Is this woman just in her attempts to drown a 3-year old child?

On the brink of his prison stint, Bannon is attempting to rally an audience he calls an “army of the awakened” to sustain his anti-establishment crusade.

So he wants a “woke” army to support his crusade?