Republicans have a fairy-tale plan for 2024: put in enough public officials to steal the election for TFG, with no way to prevent them. It also needs Democrats and the MSM to do nothing about it because Gloom and Doom, because Ds supposedly always give up. But that is not how reality works, no matter how often you pretend that it is just a simple football play, the Green Bay power sweep.
Let me remind you that we have been here before, and We Have Overcome.
Grokking Trumpists: We are Not Helpless before These Losers
The essence of Jim Crow was to teach Blacks that they were helpless, and should not even try to vote or anything else to advance themselves. We know how we broke through that. Now we have to do it again, for all of the oppressed.
If your vote doesn’t matter, why are they trying so hard to take it away?
Always remember that there are enough more of us to do our own power sweeps, to win elections, even against gerrymanders (which are fading) and voter suppression, and that we have real lawyers to take these ganefs on in court. We might even get new voting rights laws next year, crafted as far as possible to be SCOTUS-proof.
Grokking Trumpists: Their Cognitive Dissonance is Even Stronger This Time
Why, we all want to know, do Republicans believe in nonsense that has been repeatedly debunked over decades, and in some cases 150 years since the Civil War? And, to be fair, why do other people believe even older nonsense? At the same time, why do they keep making stuff up? Several scientific studies have been done on various aspects of the problem, including research reported in our first book, When Prophecy Fails.
White Supremacists have been making vain prophecies since the Civil War, such as The South Will Rise Again and The Permanent Republican Majority. This stuff today is just as bogus, and just as firmly believed regardless of facts.
Thursday Good News! The Tipping Point has Toppled!
The funny thing about tipping points is that until you reach one, nothing seems to happen, but when you do reach one, everything seems to happen all at once. A whole lot of everything has happened in the first fifty days since the Biden/Harris Inauguration—not quite all at once, but close enough for the history books. EOs, firings, appointments, pulling out of Trumpish court cases at SCOTUS, basic humanity, dogs and cats, rejoining the world...
Yes, the long-promised Biden White House cat is scheduled for next year, even if some won’t believe it until they see it.
Democratic strategist Chai Komanduri explained this Republican fantasy on The Beat With Ari Melber yesterday, the last Chai Day of 2021.
The strategy is to show power and dominance by undermining democracy in an open fashion.
The big idea that Vince Lombardi had was a play that basically the defense knew was coming, however you could not stop it.
What Steve Bannon was saying, what Peter Navarro was saying, what Newt Gingrich was saying was that what we want to do is telegraph all our moves ahead of time and then watch as our opponents become demoralized with their inability to stop it.
As if.
This is all about rigging the next several elections with voter suppression, gerrymanders, and enabling legislatures to throw out election results and declare the winner on their own.
Chai Komanduri
Trump ally Steve Bannon is indicted and awaiting trial for hiding evidence about his January 6th plotting. Now, one of his accomplices, Trump veteran Peter Navarro, has leaked information detailing the plan to rally Congressional Republicans to interfere with certifying Biden’s 2020 election win. MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber is joined by Democratic strategist Chai Komanduri to discuss the revelation and Navarro’s comments likening the effort to the “Green Bay Sweep.”
Navarro statement via PR Newswire
In Trump Time Book Claims to Exonerate Bannon & Trump From Jan 6 Violence
Navarro says VP Pence Betrays President Trump Aiding Globalist Koch Network
Navarro reveals the real culprit and Pence puppet master—resembling another Shakespearean character in Iago—is Pence's Chief of Staff Marc Short who would convince Pence to do exactly the wrong thing, thereby furthering the interests of the Globalist Koch Network from which Short had gotten so many paychecks. Yet it was only because of the violence on Capitol Hill that day that Pence could credibly refuse to call for an investigation into what Navarro documents are massive election irregularities.
I am not going to explain how many delusions are wrapped up in that short paragraph. Feel free to have at it in the comments.
In Navarro’s version, there was no need for violence at the Capitol. It only required Mike Pence to assert the [unconstitutional] power to refuse certification of the Electoral College results, supported by enough Republicans in Congress. Never mind that there aren’t that many Republicans in Congress.
The Actual Power Sweep
This is what Newt Gingrich claimed to have done in 1995 by taking over Congress. Steve Bannon invoked the Green Bay power sweep in a Jan. 5 broadcast, claiming that it was going to happen in Congress the next day when a multitude of Republicans in the House would refuse to accept the Electoral College results.
I have never understood why other football teams didn’t learn how to do the power sweep themselves.