Thread by @VMadge

DT was the ideal pick for the oligarchs in 2016. Imminently popular from his TV show as a straight talking business tycoon, and a willingness to do anything crooked for money and fame, he was selected and then financed by massive Dark Money super-Pacs.
Others had no chance then.

He had privately agreed to accept the Federalist Society's SC judge picks. That cinched it. If they controlled the SC, they wouldn't need Congress anymore.
They then sabotaged Clinton by tricking Comey to reopen his investigation 11 days before the election.
That did it.

Once in office, he delivered on everything the oligarchs wanted. Massive tax breaks, slashing regulations, opening up mining on public lands, destroying Obama era gains, ramming thru Supreme Court Justices, ripping up trade treaties and arms treaties, pumping up arms sales and

much more.
NOBODY else would have been as reckless, blindly following the Council for National Policy game plan funded by Koch and others. It was critical to keep him in office, so he was kept out of trouble by bringing in Bill Barr to stab the Russia Report in the heart,

concealing the worst of it (to this day) from the public. Barr protected him in the first impeachment, stonewalling everything in the courts, even attempting to discredit the entire report as corrupt.

But Barr had his limits, and saw what was unfolding after the election, so he resigned, washing his hands of the Big Lie and the coming Insurrection. By then, the plans for J6th were in high gear. Even after that outrageous power grab, DT was protected from a second impeachment.

They wanted him to be able to run again in 2024, and the impeachment would have prevented him from holding office again.
They won, by legal trickery.
Now they are stonewalling the J6th Cmte, funding the defense of all the key players, keeping them silent.

If they delay till the mid-terms, they figure to take back the House or Senate and kill all investigations in to the insurrection. Saving DT as their ultimate corrupt puppet, letting him think he is so important.
If DT is jailed, they will gin up another equally corrupt puppet,

like DeSantis, and use the state laws they have pushed thru to control election results by feigning election fraud. The stage is set.
They have @Sen_JoeManchin standing in the way of voter protections using the badge of bipartisanship. And they are tearing down Roe v. Wade while

@SenatorSinema refuses to push thru the WHPA, insisting on the 60 vote threshold that WILL NEVER HAPPEN in an anti-abortion GOP. She will insist it is not her fault, since she is a strong women's advocate and supports the bill.

So the oligarchs are all set. Take the Congress back in 22. Have partisan control of election boards in half the states, overturn Roe v. Wade in the courts, attack gay rights gains, whittle away at public school funding, put prayer back in schools, ban and burn books, and

reverse social spending programs put in place by Biden.

This is why it is so critical that FTVA and John Lewis voting acts bypass the 60 vote filibuster. That sits squarely on the shoulders of Manchin and Sinema. It will be 100% their fault if the radical right regains power.

People much smarter than me are saying the same thing. Pass the voting bills or kiss democracy goodbye - hello oligarchy.
Call, email, tweet and protest Manchin and Sinema demanding they relent on the filibuster. They are THE problem right now. @SenateDems @HouseDemocrats

In the mean time, DT can be quickly sidelined by using Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to prevent him from holding office again for supporting an insurrection.

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