1/ The latest gambit by the GOP to retain power is definitely worrisome (which is about a 3 on the fear scale, 0 = meh, 10 = take to the streets) but all the government lawyers I read say that it's another paper tiger
https://twitter.com/ssamcham/status/1326007183889326081?s=20
2/ The rule I use to analyze these particular plots & conspiracies is (a) how many moving parts & (b) who profits
This gambit has way too many moving parts. To work, a lot people need to pervert their offices & those people won't directly benefit. That's a bust plan
This gambit has way too many moving parts. To work, a lot people need to pervert their offices & those people won't directly benefit. That's a bust plan
3/ This plan needs law firms, state governments, judges etc. to all act corruptly in order to help the GOP overturn an election that Biden won with a bigger mandate than DJT did as well as a popular vote disparity growing daily, by the millions!
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1326025686914637825?s=20
4/ To aid & abet the fascist coup, those officials must risk ruining their currently powerful & lucrative jobs that matter only in a functioning democracy to bet on a promise of possible power by the GOP who're currently losing by every historical metric
5/ People help a coup because they want power, but these slimeballs are also greedy enough to know the risk-reward benefit. The GOP just lost POTUS but kept a lot of other power. Why would they risk that, esp. for Trump (ym'sh) who notoriously abandons his allies.
6/ To use the metaphor of The Comedian to Ozymandias in the Watchmen comic, it takes a certain type of desperate person who would want to be the most powerful person "on a cinder" - on a ruined world.
Only sickos like Trump (ym'sh) would be happy being king of trash
Only sickos like Trump (ym'sh) would be happy being king of trash
7/ In short, an illegal plot that needs a lot of people to work together to be effective, and those people lower down need to absorb the most risk but little of any promised benefit (from an unreliable psycho boss), esp. when they already have power & wealth, is a doomed plot
8/ Just to add: RedHats/GOP have been effective in the past because they outsource to efficient agents like the GRU, Facebook etc. But on their own, they're ridiculously incompetent.
Second, this thread by Asha is very helpful. I agree w/her analysis
Second, this thread by Asha is very helpful. I agree w/her analysis
https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1325968870352408576
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