Four books on Trump’s last days paint a ‘mind-bending’ picture of the days leading up to the Capitol riots
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-final-days-books/
Trump admits he may not run in 2024 for ‘health’ reasons
‘MAGA defectors’ threaten to expose Trump’s ‘unhinged’ behavior in wake of Omarosa decision
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Steve Bannon doubles down on ‘shock troops’ takeover plan: ’We’re going to have 20,000 ready to go’
“If you’re going to take over the administrative state and deconstruct it, then you have to have shock troops prepared to take it over immediately,” Bannon explained to NBC News last week.
Bannon doubled down during his Monday broadcast on Real America’s Voice.
“We’re winning big in 2024 and we need to get ready now,” he said. “Right? We control the country. We’ve got to start acting like it. And one way we’re going to act like it, we’re not going to have 4,000 [shock troops] ready to go, we’re going to have 20,000 ready to go and we’re going to pick the 4,000 best and most ready in every single department.”
“And that’s when we really start to deconstruct the administrative state,” Bannon continued. “You look at these institutions, they’re rotten to the core. They need to be rejuvenated and they will be rejuvenated. OK? Starting with the FBI and the Justice Department.”
Now the GOP has a coup plan — and Steve Bannon’s ready to put boots on the ground
Today, the congressional Jan. 6 commission continues to subpoena witnesses and demand documents from various players in the post-election saga, and the press keeps reporting new information on exactly what went down during that bizarre period weekly. Last month, the new book from Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, “Peril,” revealed the existence of a full-blown coup plot based upon a legal theory advanced by conservative constitutional lawyer John Eastman, formerly of Chapman College and a founder of the Claremont Institute, a right-wing think tank. They actually memorialized what they planned to do in writing.
The idea was to have Mike Pence refuse to acknowledge the electoral votes of certain states whose legislatures might be persuaded to send an alternate slate of electors and then declare Trump the winner based upon the remaining electoral votes. It was a cockamamie scheme, but the concept of Republican state legislatures declaring that the vote was rigged and sending an alternate slate to declare Trump the winner did not come from nowhere. I wrote this in November 2020, just a couple of weeks after the election:
Having lost over and over again in court, Trump and his team have switched to their Plan B, which, as longtime Democratic strategist Chris Marshall spelled out in detail in Salon on Thursday, is to delay the certification of the vote in certain states and try to get Republican legislatures to assign electors to vote for Donald Trump instead of the actual winner, Joe Biden. This is based on the theory that if they can create enough chaos around the election results, Republican loyalists will rise to the occasion and “save democracy” from the Democrats, who are allegedly stealing the election.
America is amusing itself to death — and the media still can’t face the truth
America remains in the grip of an existential democracy crisis: Donald Trump’s Republican-fascists and their movement are on the march, winning victory after victory while the Democrats and the “resistance” are hunkered down, doing little if anything to fight back.
America is literally amusing itself to death, even as we learn further details about how Donald Trump and his agents attempted a coup to overthrow American democracy after his defeat in the 2020 election. The newest “revelation”: Step-by-step plans for this coup were outlined in a memo written by right-wing lawyer John Eastman, who became a key Trump adviser during the latter days of his presidency.
Some of the most influential voices in America’s mainstream news media — with the notable exceptions of CNN and the Washington Post — have largely ignored this story. At Mother Jones, Tim Murphy offers these details of Eastman’s memo, and the media’s non-response:
In six concise bullet-points, the memo outlined a process by which Vice President Mike Pence could use his powers on January 6 to throw out the electors from seven states that President Joe Biden won in the 2020 election. The plan counted on Republicans in those states to submit competing sets of electors, based on the false and fabricated premise that Trump had somehow won those states … .
Not knowing for sure what happens when you dissociate “peaceful transfer of power” from “a society entirely predicated on it,” I sort of think this is a pretty big deal. This is a break-the-glass moment, as some have said, only someone else already broke the glass and took the axe and is running around with it.
Tarzan & Redd Panda over 2 years ago
To the guys who said ‘’We should keep 2500 men in afgagastan’’ I ask, how where you going to do that?
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
General Eisenhower ran the country fairly well, but the current anti democracy republicans are 100% against the 1956 republicans.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Four books on Trump’s last days paint a ‘mind-bending’ picture of the days leading up to the Capitol riots
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-final-days-books/
Trump admits he may not run in 2024 for ‘health’ reasons
‘MAGA defectors’ threaten to expose Trump’s ‘unhinged’ behavior in wake of Omarosa decision
.
Steve Bannon doubles down on ‘shock troops’ takeover plan: ’We’re going to have 20,000 ready to go’
“If you’re going to take over the administrative state and deconstruct it, then you have to have shock troops prepared to take it over immediately,” Bannon explained to NBC News last week.
Bannon doubled down during his Monday broadcast on Real America’s Voice.
“We’re winning big in 2024 and we need to get ready now,” he said. “Right? We control the country. We’ve got to start acting like it. And one way we’re going to act like it, we’re not going to have 4,000 [shock troops] ready to go, we’re going to have 20,000 ready to go and we’re going to pick the 4,000 best and most ready in every single department.”
“And that’s when we really start to deconstruct the administrative state,” Bannon continued. “You look at these institutions, they’re rotten to the core. They need to be rejuvenated and they will be rejuvenated. OK? Starting with the FBI and the Justice Department.”
https://www.rawstory.com/steve-bannon-shock-troops/
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Now the GOP has a coup plan — and Steve Bannon’s ready to put boots on the ground
Today, the congressional Jan. 6 commission continues to subpoena witnesses and demand documents from various players in the post-election saga, and the press keeps reporting new information on exactly what went down during that bizarre period weekly. Last month, the new book from Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, “Peril,” revealed the existence of a full-blown coup plot based upon a legal theory advanced by conservative constitutional lawyer John Eastman, formerly of Chapman College and a founder of the Claremont Institute, a right-wing think tank. They actually memorialized what they planned to do in writing.
The idea was to have Mike Pence refuse to acknowledge the electoral votes of certain states whose legislatures might be persuaded to send an alternate slate of electors and then declare Trump the winner based upon the remaining electoral votes. It was a cockamamie scheme, but the concept of Republican state legislatures declaring that the vote was rigged and sending an alternate slate to declare Trump the winner did not come from nowhere. I wrote this in November 2020, just a couple of weeks after the election:
Having lost over and over again in court, Trump and his team have switched to their Plan B, which, as longtime Democratic strategist Chris Marshall spelled out in detail in Salon on Thursday, is to delay the certification of the vote in certain states and try to get Republican legislatures to assign electors to vote for Donald Trump instead of the actual winner, Joe Biden. This is based on the theory that if they can create enough chaos around the election results, Republican loyalists will rise to the occasion and “save democracy” from the Democrats, who are allegedly stealing the election.
https://www.rawstory.com/now-the-gop-has-a-coup-plan-and-steve-bannon-s-ready-to-put-boots-on-the-ground/
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Salon
America is amusing itself to death — and the media still can’t face the truth
America remains in the grip of an existential democracy crisis: Donald Trump’s Republican-fascists and their movement are on the march, winning victory after victory while the Democrats and the “resistance” are hunkered down, doing little if anything to fight back.
America is literally amusing itself to death, even as we learn further details about how Donald Trump and his agents attempted a coup to overthrow American democracy after his defeat in the 2020 election. The newest “revelation”: Step-by-step plans for this coup were outlined in a memo written by right-wing lawyer John Eastman, who became a key Trump adviser during the latter days of his presidency.
Some of the most influential voices in America’s mainstream news media — with the notable exceptions of CNN and the Washington Post — have largely ignored this story. At Mother Jones, Tim Murphy offers these details of Eastman’s memo, and the media’s non-response:
In six concise bullet-points, the memo outlined a process by which Vice President Mike Pence could use his powers on January 6 to throw out the electors from seven states that President Joe Biden won in the 2020 election. The plan counted on Republicans in those states to submit competing sets of electors, based on the false and fabricated premise that Trump had somehow won those states … .
Not knowing for sure what happens when you dissociate “peaceful transfer of power” from “a society entirely predicated on it,” I sort of think this is a pretty big deal. This is a break-the-glass moment, as some have said, only someone else already broke the glass and took the axe and is running around with it.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/america-is-amusing-itself-to-death-and-the-media-still-can-t-face-the-truth/ar-AAP7svk?ocid=msedgntp