Thread by @ThyConsigliori

25 May 2021 #MAGAanalysisMini

When Almost Sure Defeat Is Still A Good Thing

I've made up my mind. You can see my decision represented below. I haven't gone in to place my vote yet, and haven't decided if I'll do early voting, or go in on the 8th. Justin Fairfax is my man.

2) I have to tell you, man was I dreading the research tasks you see represented in these two screenshots. If you look closely at the second, you see I have all four Non-McAuliffe candidates' wikis up in my browser. They've been there for days without a single glance from me.

3) The cop out I gave myself was that I'd just do the research and analysis in real time together with you, generate my thread as I did so. Methodical, meticulous, honest research with all these parameters in mind, if you follow me, you know the drill. But then...EUREKA!

4) I am a Republican voting in a Democrat primary. I shouldn't and need not do that in my own normal way. I should attempt to mimic normal people. Normal people, I'm told, don't research their votes. They go in, see names, recognize one - maybe - and vote for that one.

5) I admit, before last week the name Fairfax was only a county in Virginia, for me, with the exception of a hidden recollection of some scandal about a year ago. I have Google as my long term memory anymore, anyway, so I'd have popped his name in and voila, I remember things!

6) Actually, as soon as this crazy #DefeatMcAuliffeNow idea took me over, I opened all those wikis, and when I saw Fairfax's face I kind of remembered something about him being #2 to Northam, right? And that there was an intern, I think. No blue dress, but an intern, maybe.

7) At any rate, this morning, I'm looking at my sample ballot and I noticed something else. McAuliffe is on top, you see his name first, and Fairfax is on bottom, you see his name last. Ha. Tell me that's not on purpose. It's obviously NOT alphabetical order now, is it?

8) I haven't done any work at all on ballot construction, but I think anyone would know that the first name will get the most votes, and the last will most likely get the second most. And Fairfax does have the benefit of sharing his name with a county. Name recognition, right?

9) While networking on topic yesterday (more on that in a moment) it hit me that the one candidate I really want to #DefeatMcAuliffeNow would be the one that the MOST Democrats would support other than McAuliffe. That way, the number of R votes needed is smallest.

10) All that took at least 10 times longer to write than to occur. In a flash, I knew I'd just become a Fairfax man. He's my choice to #DefeatMcAuliffeNow. That was actually a lot of fun. I love making decisions, and even more when they come easy and clear. Yay!

11) But what about this model I have been teasing to you:

1) Research
2) Analysis
3) Strategy
4) Organization
5) Action

Here's what I found over the weekend and yesterday especially.

12) We Republicans do not embrace such things as a party. As friend after friend told me we have no time, we can't get this done, no one will make this their highest priority, and single word hit me that we are NOT:

AGILE

13) Agile. Adjective. Able to move quickly and easily. Synonyms: nimble, lithe, spry, supple, limber, sprightly, acrobatic.

Alas. Who can imagine the Republican Party described with any of those terms. If we're anything, we are NOT agile. Alas.

14) Twitter, by the way, is to my eye the MOST agile of all the social media platforms and the lack of agility was the reason my investments into the others became so heavy. Trump, by the way, is likely the most agile politician we have ever known. Do you agree?

15) Look at my little model again. Done rightly, each of the five steps must be absolutely agile. They must be completely with a sprightly spring in your step.

1) Research
2) Analysis
3) Strategy
4) Organization
5) Action

16) That's why my favorite instrument in politics, in political warfare is the hashtag. When it hits, it can do so with lightning speed and thunderclap force. Viral power is likely the greatest power today. Who knows, maybe we could get #DefeatMcAuliffeNow trending.

17) Twitter knows everything there is to know about hashtag trending power, and it has re-engineered itself to destroy Republican users trend powers to the bare minimum. They ejected Trump. He could create an instant viral trend before that. One tweet was all it took.

18) There was a hierarchy of trend power before the great purge. That was, in fact, one of the great reasons behind the purge. That hierarchy, oh let's map it for fun:

1) Trump
2) Superstars like Hannity and Bongino
3) Hot Shots like Candice Owens and Ben Shapiro

19) The map continues downward. Let's just finish it this way:

4) Millions of Followers
5) Hundreds of Thousands
6) Many 10s of Thousands

I almost made it into Category 6 before the purge, myself. My high was 31,500 or so.

20) We Republicans become such masters of trending power that the other side realized they had to use big tech to stop us. They could not allow us to leapfrog them and become 10 times more agile than they were. Stopping people is something they're good at.

21) By the way, I consider memes to be the second most powerful social media weapon. They have more flash bang than hashtags, but vastly less staying power. A mighty campaign manages both. It's kind of like fighter planes and bombers. Both are needed.

22) My reach at a heavily shadow banned and steadily dropping, still slightly over 18,000 followers does not give me adequate reach to pose much danger to the other side. But my real danger was always access to the hierarchy. That's completely gone, now.

23) All those conversations I had over the past few days where, to a soul, they all told me we can't get this done in time - and they're likely right, of course - did nothing but resolve my fighting spirit as the true and happy outsider I am. I love this.

24) One of my best and dearest friends told me, I just don't want our people to suffer another failure. I do get that. But that's not how agility is built. You have to fail fast, fail often, and learn how to fail well. All that means is you learn from every failure.

25) So, what do we do now? Having let go of any institutional support, we go guerilla. I'm going to vote. I've published my choice and reasoning. That's one. We've begun! Now, I'm asking, will you vote too? Who for? Don't know? Then vote my guy, Fairfax. Boom. That's two.

26) Every evangelist has ever known, you show up, preach, and you hope to reach just one heart. When I was NOT a vote believer, I forgot that from my evangelical youth. You fight for one heart at a time. In politics, we fight for one vote at a time. That's the goal. Just one.

27) That, for me, is the definition of success for the #DefeatMcAuliffeNow movement. If we get just one more Republican voter in Virginia to vote in this Democrat Primary, we have won, and lived up to our purpose. We'd like to repeat, but just one is all that matters.

28) In fact, the use of a hashtag, purposefully, is a type of social media mini-vote, a micro-vote. All you have to do is type in the letters:

# D e f e a t M c A u l i f f e N o w

Properly: #DefeatMcAuliffeNow

And you get to vote as many times and as frequently as you wish.

29) Alrighty now, with the hashtag as our bomber, we need a hornet's nest worth of memes as our fighters. I am asking. Please? Here's one I'd like to see. Fairfax knocking out McAuliffe in a boxing ring. Each meme needs the hashtag: #DefeatMcAuliffeNow.

30) Another? How about one where Fairfax eats a Big Mac? Okay, maybe not a great idea, but what the hell do we have to lose? And how much do we have to gain, one heart, and one voter, one vote at a time? So, I say...

GO FAIRFAX, KICK MCAULIFFE'S ASS!

#DefeatMcAuliffeNow

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