Manufacturing Dissent: Trump's Coup. Why now? Look no further than Rockland, New York.

After Trump provokes protests, he deploys ICE TACTICAL UNITS to five Blue states. Martial law looms. And Trump will need that ... BIGLY.

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While he quietly sets up the Internet to run through the HIS government surveillance—and manipulations—not civilian observers and compliance protocols (another executive order), Trump is racing as fast as he can to set up martial law in America. He’s racing because the tissue of lies he’s woven is unraveling very fast now, and he is now on very dangerous ground legally.

The electorate—not barbarians, but the electorate—are at his gates, and lawsuits to challenge an election he may have stolen are moving through the courts. Donald Trump is terrified right now, and he’s terrified of two specific things:

(1) It’s either Jeffrey Epstein from the grave, or Vladimir Putin has something on Donald that is devastating. And maybe it’s both.

Elon Musk, eternally stoned on Ketamine and as much a punishing ranter and Trump, raised the specter of Jeffrey Epstein on his way out the door, penning this tweet:

"Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files.That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!"

This raises a specter that will surprise no one. Elon Musk has just spent months data-mining everything the United States holds secret. This could easily include court records still under seal.

Anthony Scaramucci thinks it’s not something secret involving Epstein but something secret involving Putin. And it’s not, Scaramucci says, the alleged “pee pee tape.”

Epstein told The Daily Beast:

“But the flip side is, while I’m saying that to you, I believe there is kompromat on Donald Trump,” he said, adding, “I don’t know what it is. We all used to say, ‘OK, what is it? What is the hold that Vladimir Putin has on this guy?’”

Scaramucci went further.

He owns the president of the United States. … [Putin is] in a trainwreck situation at home, and yet he owns the president of the United States,” he said. “How does he own the president of the United States? You tell me. He has to have something on him, OK, that we don’t understand … something that would be too much for Trump, even Trump himself, to deal with.

Others don’t agree. John Pavlovitz, as trustworthy a person as you’ll find in America, says Trump is “all over the Epstein files.” I’ll have a deep tendency to go with that.

Whichever—and probably both Epstein and Putin—there’s something very, very dangerous lurking in the waters surrounding Trump, something with a big dorsal fin from which the godlike immunity the Supreme Court gave him wouldn’t save him.

(2) An election-stealing case is making its way through the courts in New York. It won’t be the last, either.

By some estimates, there were 19,000,000 “missing Democrat votes” in the 2024 presidential elections. And some mathematicians say it is impossible that Kamala Harris lost all seven swing states. And Elon Musk—the unelected, Ketamine-pickled Big Mouth himself—claimed recently that without him, Trump would have lost the presidency, the Senate majority at this moment would only be 51-49, and that the House of Representatives would be Blue.

Then there’s what the Mango Taco himself (Newsweek):

During a rally in Washington D.C. on Sunday, Trump said that his political ally Elon Musk had an advanced understanding of the voting machines used in Pennsylvania, a critical swing state that was key to Trump's victory in November.

"He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers," Trump told the crowd. "And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide." [Snopes verified.]

So The Mango Taco was talking specifically about Pennsylvania voting machines.

In July 2024, former U.S. President Donald Trump told a crowd, "Get out and vote! Just this time. You won't have to do it anymore! Four more years, you know what? It'll be fixed, it'll be fine, you won't have to vote anymore."[Snopes verified.]

This sounds very much like a man determined to steal an election and who has already put in place the mechanisms to do so.

Now what’s interesting is that, though Trump is talking specifically about the presidential election—it’s always about him—Musk is not just talking about the presidential election, he’s talking about elections for both houses of Congress. That very possibly implies vote-tampering at the digital or mechanical level or both.

What Went Down in Rockland County, New York.

In late May, the Supreme Court of the State of New York ruled in favor of SMART, a voting-fairness advocacy group, to allow discovery in a challenge brought by Democrat voters in a small New York county. Here’s why, from Dissent in Bloom:

In 2024, voters in Rockland County, NY, filed sworn legal affidavits claiming they had voted for independent Senate candidate Diane Sare. But the machines told a different story. In one district, nine people said they voted for her. The machines recorded five. In another, five claimed to vote for her but only three were officially counted by the machines.

At the same time, in districts where voters clearly favored Democrats (evident by strong support for democratic Senate candidate Kirsten Gillibrand) Kamala Harris’s name either under-performed or seemed to disappear from the top of the ballot completely.

They’d found that in some of the counties people where voted overwhelmingly for the Democratic candidate Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris somehow got no votes at all.

Read that again. In some heavily Democratic counties, Harris got no votes at all. In some places, ballots didn’t contain Harris’s in the presidential election box, or anywhere on the entire ballot. But in Rockford County, the ballots were fine. The problem was Democrat votes weren’t counted for Harris and sometimes other Democrat candidates.

Dissent in Bloom writes the following:

That kind of pattern doesn’t scream voter preference. It whispers something went wrong in the vote count itself. That’s not split-ticket voting. That’s a mathematical anomaly.

This perception is backed up by SMART, which reported a drop-off of over 314,000 votes between presidential and Senate contests—meaning that there were 314,000 fewer votes for president than Senate Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand on the same ballot—in a heavily Democrat area. SMART filed suit.

On May 22, 2025, Judge Rachel Tanguay ruled that the allegations were serious enough to warrant discovery. The lawsuit, SMART Legislation et al. v. Rockland County Board of Elections, moves forward, with a hearing scheduled for September 22, 2025.

The prime suspect: voting machines were significantly altered and nobody was told.

Between March and September of 2024, a lab called Pro V&V waived through hardware and software updates to ES&S voting machines that were used the swing states Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Minnesota as well as major-electoral-vote-states California, Illinois, Florida and Virginia.

And this is why any problem with the machines could spell a disaster in the election outcome. If the discrepancies in other states mirror those in New York, Kamala Harrison won the U.S. presidential election in 2024.

Writes Dissent in Bloom:

Between March and September 2024, Pro V&V signed off on a series of hardware and software updates to ES&S voting machines. These updates were all waved through under the label “de minimis,” a technicality supposedly meant for small, insignificant tweaks. Replacing a cable. That kind of thing.

The Denials

Pro V&V director Jack Cobb wrote Newsweek yesterday to say that none of the changes that were made to the ES&S machines were significant. Cobb told Newsweek:

… the changes approved by the lab relate to ballot boxes, ballot bins, changing printers to newer models, adding mounting brackets and moving the location of files, pointing to information about the changes published on the Election Assistance Commission's website. "There really is no change of any significance," he said.

But SMART responded that

"We alerted the public to the software and firmware updates in our February 19th Substack … but not only did we flag the updates, we alerted the public that Pro V&V did not seem to be engaged in careful maintenance and monitoring of their website for extended periods of time. The fact that the company does not seem to be engaged in robust and vigilant security practices puts them at greater risk of being successfully attacked and having malware planted in their official updates."

In fact, Pro V&V’s website collapsed to the existence to its single front page. This does not prove anything nefarious, though people have tried to say so. But what is striking is that reports of changes to software and firmware are NEVER mere trifles. If such changes were made the classification Pro V&V attached to them—de minimis, insignificant changes, trifles—a classification that allowed the changes to take place without external testing and supervision—may itself be a case of election fraud.

Meanwhile, the gears of state law in New York will grind forward, and sooner or later we’ll know. For the moment, it seems extremely suspect that there could be 314,000 drop-offs in just one state without an explanation that has to do with software, firmware, or malware. The de minimis classification means that nobody had to look to see if there was malware or test the changes to software and firmware for bias.

Was Elon Musk’s Starlink involved?

No. The voting machines themselves are disconnected from the Internet during tabulation. And there is no credible evidence that Starlink was involved in any tabulation at all.

But, as Trump reminded us, Elon “knows the voting machines” used in Pennsylvania — he knows “those computers better than anybody” and “we won Pennsylvania in a landslide.”

Right after the wizards find a cure for cancer, COVID, and AIDS, I would like a serious explanation of what went on here.

Meanwhile, the drop-off in New York is mirrored in other counties in other states with reliable Democrat majorities. As this case moves forward, it is likely other states will decide to go to hand-counts to verify that the election was fair.

Mathematically, at least, this looks very bad for Republicans, but the election has been certified and, most legal experts agree, cannot be reversed at this point.

But if investigations find the ES&S machines’ software and firmware were changed in the period between March and September 2024 and privileged Republican votes and dumped Democrat presidential votes, and Musk is found to be involved, and Trump and the Republican Party are found to have instigated any part of it, Impeachment of Trump and federal charges against Musk are a certainty.

It won’t be enough by any means, but it’ll be a start. Then Jack Smith can have another go.