Is the Electoral Fix Already In?

Racket News ^ | 1/26/24 | Matt Taibbi

[CFW]

The fix is in. To “protect democracy,” democracy is already being canceled. We just haven’t admitted the implications of this to ourselves yet.

On Sunday, January 14th, NBC News ran an eye-catching story: “Fears grow that Trump will use the military in ‘dictatorial ways’ if he returns to the White House.” It described “a loose-knit network of public interest groups and lawmakers” that is “quietly” making plans to “foil any efforts to expand presidential power” on the part of Donald Trump.

The piece quoted an array of former high-ranking officials, all insisting Trump will misuse the Department of Defense to execute civilian political aims. Since Joe Biden’s team “leaked” a strategy memo in late December listing “Trump is an existential threat to democracy” as Campaign 2024’s central talking point, surrogates have worked overtime to insert existential or democracy in quotes. This was no different:

“We’re about 30 seconds away from the Armageddon clock when it comes to democracy,” said Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Defense, William Cohen, adding that Trump is “a clear and present danger to our democracy.” Skye Perryman of Democracy Forward, one of the advocacy groups organizing the “loose” coalition, said, “We believe this is an existential moment for American democracy.” Declared former CIA and defense chief Leon Panetta: “Like any good dictator, he’s going to try to use the military to basically perform his will.”

Former Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the U.S. Department of Justice and current visiting Georgetown law professor Mary McCord was one of the few coalition participants quoted by name. She said:

We’re already starting to put together a team to think through the most damaging types of things that he [Trump] might do so that we’re ready to bring lawsuits if we have to.

[sauropod]

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[metmom]

Absolutely it is.

Get right with God and make your peace with your Maker.

He can turn things around but also, we all die some day and even if the worst happens to us from this government, you can end up where they can NEVER touch you again.

Eternity is, well, forever. It’s critical to be ready for it while we fight the good fight. Do what we can, leave the results to God, and be right with Him.

[thecodont]

It should create concern for Americans that the Republican National Committee is attempting to influence the election of the President of the United States.

I thought that's why political organizations existed, to positively influence the election of their party's candidate. Am I mistaken?

[mewzilla]

High tech is the only way to steal a landslide.

[x]

In the 80-minute confab, audio of which was obtained by Semafor, a dire warning was issued to anyone considering a third-party run:

Through every channel we have, to their donors, their friends, the press, everyone — everyone — should send the message: If you have one fingernail clipping of a skeleton in your closet, we will find it… If you think you were vetted when you ran for governor, you’re insane. That was nothing. We are going to come at you with every gun we can possibly find. We did not do that with Jill Stein or Gary Johnson, we should have, and we will not make that mistake again.

If they look in the barn, that's bad news for Bobby Jr.

[Verginius Rufus]

I don't know. Jack Ruby's rationale for killing Oswald never made sense--it's more likely he was sent to silence Oswald so that the truth about the assassination of JFK would never come out. It has worked so far.

So whoever organizes the next assassination will probably have the actual shooting done by (or at least ascribed to) some fringe type who can be dismissed as crazy (like the attempted assassins of Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan) who will then be killed. The public will then be given an official version which directs their anger at the supposed crazy person.

[null and void]

The problem they have with that is they want to blame their political enemies for shooting their political enemy.

Maybe they could pull that off with their allies.

But not with the vast plurality of American patriots.

Then the 'two can play that game' starts and rapidly spins out of control.

I don't know who wins, but I know, and they know, before the dust settles they, personally, will be dead.