Thread by @ThyConsigliori

30 May 2021 #DefeatMcAuliffeNow & #FairfaxForVA

Why Should America Care?

Hapless. We Republicans are a people without a mission right now. We're hapless. What are we fighting for right now? The 2022 Midterms? The 2024 Presidential Election? Obviously they're too far away.

2) We've been purged out of social media, just a few of us still straggling along, but with so little force as to feel like just punching water. The left knows, cut off the head of the snake and the body just writhes and convulses and goes nowhere till the life force is spent.

3) We're still reeling from the stolen election. Hapless, yes, and perhaps as bad or worse, we're feckless. We don't have a feck to give. No mojo. I know you know. But we aren't facing our disease, naming it, and doing something about it.

4) For myself, I feel about as powerful as if I were watching a slow motion train wreck that has lasted these weeks and months and doesn't show to be finishing up or even slowing down. I feel helpless, without a goal, no mission, no purpose as my nation sinks into history.

5) I'll confess, the moment I learned we might be able to #DefeatMcAuliffeNow, I was so charged up again that I pounced on it. If you know me, you know I live for that single moment when strategy and tactics merge into a single whole with absolute, shining clarity.

6) McAuliffe is no mere evil Virginia politico. McAuliffe is an evil American, with reach across our nation. His evil acts have hurt every single American and as Governor here, again, his power will rise higher and his evil will sink lower. All of America should care.

7) When I type in the hashtag #DefeatMcAuliffe now, there is an implied subject preceding. The implied subject is "us," we Virginia Republicans. Spelled out it simply states:

Let us #DefeatMcAuliffeNow.

As a Virginia Republican, I will vote in person June 8.

#FairfaxForVA

8) In case you haven't read my previous posts on topic, here's a quick rundown:

* We're an open state and do not register voter's party affiliation.
* In primaries we can vote in any, but only once.
* The Republicans ran no primary this year, so all VA Rs have a vote to cast.

9) Cont'd:

* McAuliffe is certain to win the nomination as is.
* There are 4 others with no chance to win.
* Therefore, just 300,000 votes out of 2.5 million VA Rs, wins the nomination for our choice, if we coalesce.
* VA Rs can decide the outcome.

10) Concluded:

* I predict hands down victory for McAuliffe in the general election our man Youngkin.
* Justin Fairfax is a distant 2nd in this primary.
* He is, however, and by far, the best candidate for VA R's to support.
* If 300k of us VA Rs do, we #DefeatMcAuliffeNow.

11) Think about it. What if we succeed? This would be a Republican blow heard round the world. We rise up from out abject weakness and strike a victory for the Good Guys against pure evil. Do any of you remember chanting: Lock Her Up? This is her man we're talking about.

12) Whereas the hashtag #DefeatMcAuliffeNow is our Virginia mission, you can say it too, and in your own honest voice. Like so:

Please, Virginia Republicans: #DefeatMcAuliffeNow!

Or,

Hey America, there is a chance to #DefeatMcAuliffeNow. Wow!

13) A hashtag is an amazing thing. It crunches down into a single term both the thoughts and emotions of those who use it. It is, itself, that moment when strategy and tactics meet in the lowest cost action. Do contemplate that term: Lowest Cost Action.

14) As buyers, it is obvious common sense that the lower the cost the better. But as politicians, the opposite is true. The higher the cost the more slush there is going around to tap into. $1,000 toilet seats, anyone? $15 muffins? The corrupt only seek highest possible cost.

15) A hashtag is not free. It takes time to type it in. Attention. Yes, even political exposure. What if your friend or fellow committee member sees you Tweeting out #DefeatMcAuliffeNow? What will they think? These are very, very real costs, I promise.

16) One of the worst risks is just the embarrassment of being the only one, or joining in on a hashtag movement that fizzles, sputtering out. People only want - and rightly so - to sign on for a winning mission, not a merely righteous one.

17) For all those costs, it remains the smallest possible action carrying the largest possible wallop. The key is called a "network effect." Yes, little me yammering on about #DefeatMcAuliffeNow only takes on meaning when someone else joins in and Tweets it out too.

18) Do you remember the two hashtags #ClearFlynnNow and #PardonFlynnNow? Along with some other incredible souls, I created the movement that employed them. It was my idea, and I led the execution to the point of victory. I share for this reason...

19) Millions of patriots signed on for the mission. Signing on takes nothing more than using the hashtag in a Tweet. The more you care, the more times you employ this simple tactic, the greater the odds of a network effect arising.

20) Consider, the Washington Post did a story on our movement and you'll find your author interviewed. It was the millions of patriots who signed on who made that happen. And you may be assured that our movement's victory was more than noted.

washingtonpost.com/politics/micha…

21) It was in the course of our movement that Tamara Leigh put forward the hashtag: #PardonOfInnocence.

It went like so:

Please Mr. President, #PardonFlynnNow, by a

#PardonOfInnocence

And that is precisely what happened:

nypost.com/2020/11/26/mic…

22) So, if I lived anywhere but Virginia right now, I'd be saying...

Yo! Virginia Republicans, please #DefeatMcAuliffeNow!

Yo! Virginia Republicans, please vote #FairfaxForVA!

23) Look at the numbers again. There are roughly 2.5 million of us Virginia Republicans. We just need a targeted 12% turnout to vote #FairfaxForVA. We need you to call us to task, not only on our own behalf, but on yours, on America's behalf. Virginia has a chance here.

24) But Scopelliti, you may say, most of my friends aren't on Twitter and social media has so little impact for them. Great point, I rejoin. So, for those of us here, please use the hashtag, but then don't stop. Pick up the phone and call a friend to discuss all this.

25) Have you heard of the network concept called Degrees of Separation? In a nutshell, you know someone who knows someone six steps and you have a direct line to any other person on earth. The exponential nature of this is mind boggling.

26) Luckily, REO Speedwagon taught about three degrees of separation back in the 1980s.

1) Heard it from a friend who
2) Heard it from a friend who
3) Heard it from another you've been messing around

That is network power. You can take that on the run.

27) I don't know the precise number, but I bet it's just 2. You know a Virginia Republican yourself, or you have a friend who knows a Virginia Republican. And if you know 2 Virginia Republicans, and motivate them to sign on, this is how that looks!

28) I say we have plenty of time. While we listed out costs of a hashtag above, there is one cost you do NOT see listed. Money. It costs NO dollar money. What we have is a chance for commitment to convert to action without the impediment of cash costs. How about that?

29) This is NOT a strategy that most Republican PACs can get behind for that very reason. What if it took NO money to get a candidate elected? What would happen to all the powerful money men running things now? No, that day will never come, but wow, it's a beautiful image.

30) I will do my best, America, to persuade my fellow Virginia Rs to come out in force and completely take over this Democrat primary, right now. And I'm asking you to ask us to do this for you, too.

What do you say?

I say, we can #DefeatMcAuliffeNow by voting

#FairfaxForVA

Thread ends at #30.

Let’s stop this doldrum. Let’s fight this feeling of despair, because you know, America, we’re going to keep on loving you. Come share the action and the love we feel for America with us at Telegram and #DefeatMcAuliffeNow.

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