Dan Tillotson
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Dan Tillotson
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Twitter refugee. Grandfather. Politics junkie. Film, classic TV, music, journalism, literature, SF and horror. Smartie, Inky, Patch - the resident pussycats. Plumstead Common, London.
Sure. He can try to shape the elections in some way (verbally attempt to delegitimise them - see 2020; whip up local chaos, gerrymandering...) - but the elections will happen.
January 27, 2026 at 4:46 PM
No doubt, Trump will seek to make as much mischief as possible, but since elections are run by the states, the elections *will inevitably* go ahead. "Emergency powers", "martial law" - neither suspends the operation of the Constitution.
January 27, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Videos don't matter to the likes of Trump and Stephen Miller. They're so far gone, so disturbed & unstable, that they are more akin to Jim Jones, Marshall Applewhite and David Koresh than to public officials. Note what all three of those characters were prepared to do to avoid final accountability.
January 25, 2026 at 2:38 PM
2nd Amendment- designed to allow citizens to arm themselves against a government like Trump’s.
January 24, 2026 at 9:13 PM
When I questioned him about a huge elephant in the room in his book on liberalism, he blocked me - in one stroke, completely contradicting a key thesis of his work, as summarised on the last page of the last chapter. Under minimal scrutiny, he blocked without attempting discussion.
October 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Yes. Is it Musk who wants to create a Mars colony? That's the stuff of nightmares right there. Isolation and psychosis, Lord of the Flies-style. Why can't these grossly wealthy people spend their money on solving Earth problems?
March 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I do apologise - I am so late to reply. Yes, those astronauts might have to surf down, like at the end of Dark Star.
March 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM