“I
would like to promise and pledge to all of my voters and supporters, and to all of the people of the United States. that I will totally
except the results of this great and historic presidential election-- IF I WIN! “
----Donald
Trump addressing a gathering of his deplorables, October 20, 2016.
In
an open letter to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark
Milley, John Nagl, a retired Army officer, and Paul Yingling, a
retired Army Lieutenant colonel, warned the Chairman that our Caesar
Disgustus might refuse to leave office and that the military must be
prepared to remove him. “ The once unthinkable scenario of
authoritarian rule in the United States is now a real possibility.
The president of the United States is actively subverting our
electoral system, threatening to remain in office in defiance of our
Constitution. In a few months' time, you may have to choose between
defying a lawless president or betraying your Constitutional Oath “
(1) The
officers concluded saying that if tRUMP refuses to go, the military
must remove him by force and that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
must be prepared to issue the order.
As
Ana Kasparian pointed out in a podcast of The Young Turks (2),
looming constitutional crisis is now seen as so serious that
military officers are now pondering what the response will be when
our erstwhile Caesar pushes the country to the precipice.
The
concern is well founded. Other commentators have likewise raised
alarm as our would-be tin horn dictator once again in an interview
with Faux News' Chris Wallace, told the nation that he would wait and
see what the results would be before recognizing the outcome. It was Wallace, it will be recalled, in his role as presidential debate moderator in
2016, who pointedly posed the question. Disgustus, it will also be recalled, responded that he would wait and see; that he would keep the country in
suspense.
What
has been lost in the ensuing alarm is not only the quote above, openly
declaring before his bucket of deplorables that he would only
recognize the election as legitimate if he won!, but his
declaring the returns of 2016 illegitimate even when he won!. It
was tRUMP, after all, who raised the entirely bogus spectre of three
to five million illegal aliens voting in California and elsewhere
that gave the popular vote to Hillary, going so far as to appoint a
commission to investigate the fraud, an investigation that has now
meandered into the dustbin of history.
In
the interview with Chris Wallace, Disgustus once again took aim at
mail-in voting, a means of exercising the franchise long practiced by
the professional classes...bankers, lawyers, the well heeled
country-club class, now being made available by state and local
authority in order to ensure participation in time of pandemic.
Accordingly, the Secretary of State of the State of Michigan has, for
instance, sent out applications to every registered voter to apply
for an absentee ballot in order to mail in one's vote. Disgustus
who, like his country-club denizens, regularly vote in this manner,
now suggests that the process will be riddled with fraud—even going
so far as to tell the nation with a straight face that foreign
governments will somehow use the mail-in ballot as a means of
hijacking the election; that dogs and cats will now be able to vote
against him.
Now
in most jurisdictions—especially since the GOP has instituted
draconian voter I.D. laws—one is required to produce a birth
certificate and other pieces of identification—including photo
Identification—like a driver's license in order to register to
vote. How this can be commandeered by a foreign government or how
this can open the doors to a stampede of canines, equines, bovines,
or felines beggars the imagination.
Of
course it doesn't make any sense, nor is it so intended. What
Disgustus is doing is sowing doubt among a class of low-information,
intellectually challenged, and culturally retarded deplorables who
have long since been taught to suspend disbelief, a dangerous
undertaking since it gives license to the worst manifestations of
paranoia. Witches, ghosts, goblins, conspiracies, treacheries have
escape the confines of hate radio, cable television, anti-social
media, and Faux News and are now marching upon the forum.
This
is where tRUMP and his rescumlican enablers are leading us. As tRUMP
works to cripple the post office, threatening to delay the results
and give him time to further smear the record and discredit the
outcome, the question is: What will the military do? The once
unthinkable is now upon us.
An'
Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh
Impeach,
Convict, Remove, Imprison.
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1. Naal,
John, and Yingling, Paul. Defense One. Cited by John Iadarola and
Ana Kasparian in the August 13 podcast of The Young Turks.
2. The
Young Turks is a progressive-leaning podcast founded in 2002, a
format that briefly appeared on MSNBC several years ago when the
network, under the influence of Keith Olbermann, briefly functioned
as a progressive antidote to Rupert Murdock's Faux News.
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