Thread by @spartyflyboy

Stealing Presidency - SCOTUS could install Trump🧵

As America debates if Biden is fit & can win over Trump there's a much more significant risk to American democracy:
In a professional rerun of a failed haphazardly organized '20 scheme SCOTUS could overturn the '24 election.
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The History
The election of 2020 saw a number of haphazardly organised and ultimately failing schemes to overturn the election of Joe Biden. The common motif of these efforts was the lie that the election was "rigged" and ultimately that an accurate result can't be delivered.
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One of the '20 schemes to overturn the election had active involvement by wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Ginni. She pressured lawmakers in Arizona and Wisconsin to ignore the vote and select Trump electors to "fight back against fraud".
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azmirror.com/2022/06/21/how…

Ginni & Heritage Foundation
Project 2025 recently brought this ultra conservative "think tank" into the public focus. Ginni Thomas started working for Heritage in 2000, later acted as Bush WH liaison. Links to people connected to Heritage also appear in the '20 Arizona plot.
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Ginni & Federalist Society
At Heritage Ginni was tasked to select suitable candidates for the judiciary, also focus of the equally conservative Federalist Society. Here ties are even stronger with the group's Leonard Leo being a close friend of the Thomas family since decades.
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Stealing Presidency '24 - The Preparation
Societal, liberal changes in the US have long been perceived as threat by conservative activists. Installing life long appointed conservative & activist judges/justices, especially in SCOTUS, laid a foundation for future minority rule.
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The second component is societal polarization with a radicalized, increasingly militant constituency at the right that identifies societal change, even the status quo, as an existential threat.
Stoking distrust in federal institutions, dismantling federal authority is part 3.
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Working the election process, gerrymandering, disenfranchisment, is the final part to prepare a takeover. Bush v Gore showed that the judiciary can be used to determine the outcome of an election. Claiming elections are rigged is groundwork to put elections to the judiciary.
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Stealing Presidency '24 - The Plot
Central to a hypothetical steal of the '24 election is to provoke a constitutional crisis by disrupting, spoiling an official act, the election.
Then escalate this to a situation in which SCOTUS rules the outcome.
Jan 6 meets Bush v Gore.
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Phase 1: Dog whistles & Radicalization
- Ramp up narratives the election will be rigged
- Peddle conspiracies playing on lower instincts and fear
- Mobilize militant groups, increase presence on streets
- Make egregious claims of a Trump landslide
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https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1810366858995941822

Phase 2: Spoiling the Ballot
- Increase pressure on the streets before and on election day
- attack ballot drop boxes, provoke 46 admin to ramp up security
- instill chaos/clashes using militant groups
- use chaos to spoil the election process locally
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https://x.com/FluteMagician/status/1810109594997276796

Phase 3: Overrule the Vote
- Campaign on narrative that spoiled ballots lead to unobtainable result, mimick '20 fraud claims
- Organise protests, pressure secretaries of state & state legislators
- Push for delay of certification until state legislative selects Trump electors
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Phase 4: To the Court!
- If DEM challenge state selection of electors, escalate to SCOTUS ruling
- Potentially instigate a challenge to selection of electors to have SCOTUS rule in any case so VP Harris can't reject the electors
- Assumed: SCOTUS rules in favour of selection
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Phase 5: March the Mob
- No matter SCOTUS ruling activate radicalized followers, militias
- If favourable SCOTUS ruling keep narrative that "deep state" will still try to "steal" election till inauguration
- Once Trump inaugurated invoke riot act, enact project 2025 playbook
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Stealing Presidency '24 - Project 2025
While the hypothetical plot laid out before is constructed to represent a worst case scenario it matches the context of Heritage's project 2025 quite well. Heritage and Federalist Society have worked decades to prepare the groundwork.
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While the Federalist society shaped the judiciary, Heritage developed the executive concept of a radical turn. A whole network of players involved in these projects are now in important places, for example SCOTUS.
Project 2025 is no vision anymore, it has started it's engine.
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Stealing Presidency '24 - Current Status
Several aspects that match the hypothetical plot to steal the '24 election seem to be already in full swing.
As Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation says the "second American Revolution" is in progress.
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https://x.com/DoomScroling/status/1808510390449397804

Stealing Presidency '24 - The Defense
It will be impossible to prevent organized spoiling of the ballots, the election is simply a too large operation. Most promising seems to attack a potential plot at the root - state level.
Many GOP state representatives are decent people.
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To foil most plots to overturn the '24 election via Supreme Court ruling addressing just few of the decent Republicans at state level is key. Many still love the constitution and hate to see the US thrown back to Gilead.
Voter mobilization & decisive DEM victory also matters.
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Stealing Presidency '24 - Stay On Topic
Yes, Biden is old and not perfect- but Democracy is at Risk. There are many secondary topics, many ways the pro democracy forces can fight with each other and end up paralyzing themselves.
Old story.
Keep focus, democracy is at risk.
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