== Brinsbury’s summer time and winter daydreams ==
In Gary Trudeau’s fantastic Doonesbury strip, the lead character — Mike Doonesbury — has ‘summer time daydreams’ of how issues must be. In my case, it is year-round and each week! However hey, it is my job and somebody’s gotta do it — ponder potential paths — some believable and plenty of simply kind-of and a few not-at-all. Potential paths out of the traps that we face.
However here I am going to deal with 4 ideas that would have an effect on some of the essential and pivotal days in the complete historical past of civilization.
That pivotal day is in the present day, December 16, 2024.
It is the final day that a number of courageous Individuals would possibly flip again (partially) a tsunami of treason and ache. As a result of the very subsequent day — Tuesday the seventeenth of December 2024 — is the day that the Electoral School ‘meets’ to forged the precise votes that can make Donald Trump President for a second — and maniacally harmful — time.
Attempting to get these ideas the place they is perhaps acted upon has been futile, after all. The Democratic Celebration political and punditry clans are frantically circling their wagons to fend off accountability for his or her incompetent blunders. Above all, any thought Not Invented Right here is to be met with savage repression.
Specifically, any point out of the Electoral School prompts shrugs and sighs, regardless that a number of previous elections have tilted this fashion or that (relying in your view) with both patriotic acts of braveness or shenanigans.
Effectively, effectively.
With at some point left, I have to admit I was straying exterior my lane.
Nonetheless, listed here are the 2 EC notions that I attempted to convey.
And another that occurred to me simply yesterday!
… Plus one which Joe Biden would possibly nonetheless pull off, throughout his remaining month in workplace, and be recognized for it, perpetually.
== Two now-forlorn methods to shift the Electoral School… and another that would work, even now ==
Okay, it is too late for these first two. In reality, it is as a result of it is too late that I am telling you the second, now.
* Second thought: I solely hinted at this one, in hopes that I’d be capable to pitch it on to Kamala Harris.
Solely her.
It could have assured her a spot of amazed remembrance throughout U.S. historical past!
Alas, her layers of not-invented-here factotums have been too thick.
Boiled right down to essence, I instructed that she may declare:
“Look, I misplaced the election! That is on me. By slim margins however in essential states, the individuals selected for the following Senate, Home and Presidency to be managed by Republicans.
“However does it must be THIS Republican? A capering, frothing madman whose each chosen appointee brazenly and gleefully declares open conflict towards each fact-using ingredient in American life? Just like the Roman Emperor Caligula, who made his horse Consul of Rome, Trump is appointing an entire herd of utter crazies!”
Neglect idiocies like “proper” or “left.” That is now about all-out conflict vs all reality utilizing professions! From science and instructing, medication and regulation and civil service to the heroes of the FBI/Intel/Army officer corps who gained the Chilly Conflict and the Conflict on terror. And so she might need continued:
“Already it is clear that a lot of those that supported Donald Trump — maybe as a result of they feared or disliked me — are having consumers’ regret. So let me ask this.
“If we’re to be led by Republicans, can it at the least be grownup ones? Anyway the very last thing I ought to do is stand in the way in which of the ruling celebration making their very own selection on the matter.
“And therefore I’m stepping out of the way in which.
“I now ask all the U.S. Electoral School members who’re pledged to me NOT to vote for me on December 17!
“As a substitute, I ask that every one of them… each single one… vote for the present head of the Republican Celebration and Majority Chief within the U.S. Senate, the honorable John Thune.”
Amid that second of shock, she may level out that Thune and she or he have cancelled every others votes any variety of occasions. They help vastly completely different insurance policies. Furthermore —
“If this works, I’ll oppose him at most ranges of sensible politics.
“However, not like Donald Trump, John Thune is an honorable individual, a sane individual, an individual of real psychological capability and above all, an American patriot.”
Look, this is the deal: If each Democratic elector voted for Thune, the 312 Republican electors would then have a selection. An opportunity to again out of their monstrous take care of the satan. Simply 15% of them may make the distinction and switch a madman from all that energy. Simply 40 or so may as a substitute make an honest human being President!
After which, in a spirit of bipartisan peace-making, possibly vote to make Tim Walz Vice President?
“Simply 15% of GOP electors may do that. And do not let these sappy state legal guidelines towards ‘faithless electors’ intimidate you! They don’t have any worth towards the Founders’ clear intent for Elector sovereignty.
“And so I urge you Democratic electors who’re pledged to me, to comply with my lead on this, one final time. Allow us to lay a problem earlier than our Republican neighbors. Inform them YOU WIN! Now present us that you just plan to make use of your victory towards an America that’s at the least not-insane.”
== Brin’s gone mad? ==
So, okay, it isn’t gonna occur. I by no means shared this with all of you on the market, in forlorn hope that she would possibly ponder it. Ponder appearing as Alexander Hamilton did, within the combined up election of 1800. Rising above celebration to select decency over corruption.
Is the concept at the least authentic?
Positive. It is what I am paid for…
… and it is why many DP hacks cry “Shields up!” towards something like authentic pondering.
Okay. Possibly I am a idiot. However at the least an entertaining one!
== Tonight’s final thought! ==
Okay then, if it is too late for these two concepts, then why am I hurrying to publish this weblog, on the final of all doable days?
However that is not tonight’s featured thought!
Right here it comes.
This one ain’t gonna work, both! But it surely is associated to the Biden vs. Blackmail idea. And I might be incorrect to not at the least point out it…
…and I promise it’s WAY unconventional. Although it will make an important idea for a thriller novel!
Okay, right here goes.
Donald Trump has made it clear how a lot he hates modernity and each smartypants career — it’s the shared hate that acquired him help from many former democrats and all the MAGAs who now pour spite on the universities and nerdy civil servants and scientists and FBI/Intel/navy officers and all the remaining who are actually hated-on nightly by Fox.
Above all, Trump was traumatized when practically all the adults-in-the-room he appointed in 2017 later turned and denounced him! Nearly 100 of them. Two secretaries of state, two of protection, two chiefs of employees and so forth and so forth. And Don swore by no means to let it occur once more!
The one widespread trait of ALL of his new appointees is that there’s not a single grownup amongst them. Not one who desires to do a great job. All are meant – above all – to spite each grownup in America and world wide. All of them are Caligula’s horses.
However that is not sufficient. Private loyalty is paramount to Trump. It’s the ONLY factor that issues. And there may be a technique to make sure loyalty, that he discovered from Vladimir Putin.
No, it isn’t poison tea or higher story home windows. Not but.
Somewhat, the factor that works.
The one factor that works nearly all the time and nearly completely is blackmail.
(I can simply hear a lot of you: “Once more, Brin, with the blackmail factor?”
(Hell yeah! As a result of everybody who merely shrugs it off is a pure dunce.
(And I’m YOU, proper now, my pal.)
However… however Trump is making a whole lot of appointments!
So how may he acquire blackmail on all of them?
And even the highest fifty or so?
That is ridiculous, Brin!
Ah, I see the sunshine in a few of your eyes.
You might be beginning to see.
You start to image a set of rooms, in a again nook of Mar-a-Lago…
== The irony of the donkey ==
Okay, we actually are down a rabbit gap, now! A few of you might be storming off, in a huff, declaring that I’ve misplaced all credibility, if not my marbles.
The remainder of you might be staying, to see how far down it goes.
Dangle in there. It will not take lengthy.
LOOK on the execrable high quality of the women and men Donald Trump is appointing! That is their one likelihood in in any other case depressing lives, envying and hating all these snooty, smartypants reality individuals who really know stuff and may suppose.
These moronic appointees need aboard!
They may do something Trump asks of them…
… together with going into these again rooms at Mar-a-Lago and — in entrance of cameras — giving Don all of the leverage and kompromat he may ever need…
…so he can really feel safe of their loyalty, perpetually.
And sure, how pretty – if kinky – the symbolism, if a number of the acts contain the image animal of the opposite celebration?
Earlier than you sniff and roll your eyes… think about. The motive, means and alternative are all there, together with the experience.
The strategy has been normal in Russian secret companies ever since czarist occasions!
The Oprichina, the Okrhana, the NKVD and KGB, the present Kremlin all used it… and fairly a number of western oligarchs, as effectively.
Are you able to give me one good purpose why Donald Trump would NOT do that? Given motive, means and alternative… and the flunkies’ determined want to get aboard? And his personal determined want to hold private loyalty secured, perpetually and ever and ever?
== And so, one final forlorn hope ==
If any of you on the market occurs to know anybody who is aware of any of Trump’s menagerie of jibbering losers (and I’m intentionally excluding a few massively sensible winners), you MIGHT cross alongside phrase about this. Particularly in the present day.
Inform them there is a doable manner out of this entice:
– For those who reveal it on Monday December 17, you might need the perpetual respect and gratitude of the nation! A nation you simply might need helped to avoid wasting! And the donkey factor will not matter.
– in case you reveal it to Biden and/or the FBI earlier than January 20, you’ll possible get a pardon. And nonetheless be thanked for arming us to guard towards the worst.
– and in case you miss these dates, however ever step up and assist us all to topple the insanity, I promise that I – at the least – will struggle for you.
Okay then, there’s my final gasp of a “Brin’s Autumn Daydreams” about the mad election of 2024…
… adopted by a technology of wretched rule by merciless theocrats…
… adopted by a restoration of each sanity and enlightenment…
… and resumption of our fantastic climb out of darkness…
…to the celebrities.
