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Date: February 26, 2024 at 10:07:49
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: new Maga plans to steal the next election |
URL: https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-new-over-the-top-secret-plan-518 |
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This might be behind a subscription wall, but the
subscription is "free"...I'm reprinting entire article
here, however:
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The New "Over the Top" Secret Plan on How Fascists
Could Win in 2024
Here’s what I’m hearing Republicans are planning in the
event Joe Biden wins re-election & Democrats hold the
Senate and take the House this November…
THOM HARTMANN
FEB 26, 2024
Back on March 13, 2020 — almost exactly four years ago
— I wrote an article that was published at alternet.org
laying out how Republicans were then, ten months before
January 6th, planning to partially repeat the debacle
of the election of 1876 by having Vice President Pence
refuse to certify swing state votes and thus throw the
election to the House to keep Trump in office, no
matter how the election went.
When I published the article ten months before January
6th, I received concerned and even alarmed
communications from several Democratic strategists and
a few elected officials who basically said they didn’t
think there was any way Trump would try such an
audacious move and, if he did, he wouldn’t get away
with it.
But I was right and that was exactly what Trump had up
his sleeve. We saw it play out on January 6th. The only
thing that stopped him was Pence’s unwillingness to go
along with stealing an election.
Now I’m hearing a new story from those same GOP
insiders (as well as other commentators) about Trump’s
schemes for 2024. Here’s what I’m hearing Republicans
are planning in the event Joe Biden wins re-election
and Democrats hold the Senate and take the House this
November:
First, Republicans need to make sure they’re in control
of the House of Representatives on January 6th, 2024,
when the new president will be certified.
To do that, even though Democrats might have won enough
seats to take back the House in the 2024 election,
Speaker Johnson will refuse to swear into Congress on
January 3rd a handful of those Democrats, claiming
there are “irregularities” in their elections that must
be first investigated.
Consider that Johnson is still refusing to swear in Tom
Suozzi (who recently won George Santos’ old seat),
something Johnson apparently did to maintain enough
Republican-majority votes to impeach Alejandro
Mayorkas. (Johnson says they’ll swear him in this
coming Thursday, but nobody’s holding their breath.)
Like Mitch McConnell withholding Merrick Garland’s
nomination to the Supreme Court for over a year,
withholding certification of a handful of Democrats
would be easy, legal, and completely immoral. There’s
nothing Democrats can legally do to stop Speaker
Johnson from pulling this off: he can postpone swearing
a member in for as long as he wants.
That keeps Speaker “MAGA Moscow Mike” Johnson in charge
of the House, so they can also refuse to accept the
Electoral College certificates of election from a
handful of states where they claim there are
“problems.”
Keep in mind, Johnson was the guy who organized the
wave of 138 House members who voted not to certify Joe
Biden’s election in January of 2020. That’s why Trump
wanted him as speaker.
Elise Stefanik, the number 3 person in House Republican
leadership, has already refused to say whether she’d
vote to certify the presidential election results this
November.
Others, like Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas
Massie, are repeatedly mentioning their belief that the
House gets to decide who’s president, not the people or
even the Electoral College. As Massie posted on X:
“Maine, Colorado, and other states that might try to
bureaucratically deny ballot access to any Republican
nominee should remember the U.S. House of
Representatives is the ultimate arbiter of whether to
certify electors from those states.”
In response, Elon Musk posted a one-word comment:
“Interesting.”
Then, regardless of how many votes Biden won by,
electoral or popular, the House simply refuses to
certify the electoral college votes of enough states
that the minimum of 270 isn’t reached. Under the 12th
Amendment, like with the election of 1876, that throws
the election to the House, where each state has one
vote.
While a majority of Americans live in a state run by
Democrats, a majority of the states themselves are run
by Republicans. Each state gets one vote for president
in the House, and right now 26 state delegations are
GOP-controlled, meaning that a majority of the House
would simply vote to put Trump back into the White
House, 26-23 (Pennsylvania’s delegation is 50/50). All
totally legal.
The Putin/Trump caucus in the House — led by Speaker
Johnson — has largely given up on democracy when
elections don’t give them power. As outrageous as this
scenario sounds, they justify it to themselves as being
essential to “save America” from “woke” Democrats.
Johnson has repeatedly said he thinks God Himself put
Johnson into the speakership to fulfill some great
destiny, comparing himself with Moses: stealing a
presidential race “for the greater good” almost
certainly qualifies as that. And, although Congress in
2022 raised the number of congressional objectors
necessary to stop the certification of a presidential
vote, Johnson himself was able to round up more than
that number in 2020. This is eminently do-able.
Finally, the Supreme Court long ago ruled that they and
the entire US court system have no jurisdiction over
“political issues” that the Constitution says must be
resolved by Congress. This issue of Congress’
certification of electoral college votes certainly
qualifies, so, no matter what the courts might want to
say or do, there’s probably no legal tool they can use
to block a second Trump presidency under these
circumstances.
Rightwing billionaires and neofascists within the GOP
are salivating at this prospect. Steve Bannon and
Stephen Miller must be giddy.
In one fell swoop they’ll “take back” the government,
putting an end to that pesky problem of democracy and
voters wanting nice things.
President Trump issues a new Schedule F executive order
and suddenly 20,000 or so of the top management of
every federal agency find themselves out of a job,
being replaced by conservative ideologues who are being
vetted by Heritage and other conservative think tanks
as you’re reading these words.
Once they have control of both the political and the
“deep state” or administrative government, these
conservatives intend to set about making the changes
they’ve been pushing for years:
— End gay marriage and criminalize being trans.
— Outlaw abortion and most forms of birth control.
— End the teaching of Black history.
— Outlaw DEI and affirmative action of any sort.
— Shut down most functions of the EPA so the fossil
fuel and chemical industries can do whatever they want
to our air and water.
— End enforcement of our anti-monopoly laws.
— Fire thousands of IRS investigators to make America
safe for morbidly rich tax cheats.
— Shut down all “green” initiatives and instead “drill,
baby drill.”
— Sell off public lands and parks to the highest
bidders.
— Privatize Social Security and end traditional
Medicare.
— End federal funding for public schools and colleges.
— Outlaw unions.
It’s truly breathtaking. They’re committed to
abandoning America’s historic embrace of democracy, the
“radical new form of government” that our nation’s
Founders brought back into the world after it had
vanished for almost 3000 years.
But, as Americans have figured out the GOP’s priorities
and are disgusted by their obeisance to great wealth
and Vladimir Putin, Republicans have decided that
winning free and fair elections is for suckers.
Stealing them is so much easier.
I don’t see any legal way such a strategy can be
stopped, because it’s all based on “legal”
technicalities. Like the legal technicality that George
W. Bush and Donald Trump both lost the national popular
vote but became president anyway (without significant
protest from the American people).
When I wrote that article laying out Trump’s plan to
have phony electors, et al, back in 2020, people were
upset I was “giving him ideas.” Some may similarly say
about this article, “Don’t tell them how to do it!”
But this has already been written about extensively by
Newsweek’s editor-at-large Tom Rogers, Mark Medish &
Joel McCleary for the Washington Spectator, and covered
last Friday night an an opening monologue by Joy Reid.
It’s public knowledge, although the media seems
unwilling to discuss it.
The best way to prevent this from happening is to
widely publicize their scheme so public opinion will
become so intense that they fear the consequences.
It’s a thin thread holding our republic together, but
at least it’s something.
Pass it along.
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Date: February 26, 2024 at 11:36:07
From: Mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: new Maga plans to steal the next election |
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Consider the source. Thom Hartman.
Impeccable.
So I'm surprised you put this on WOW.
Thank you for the heads up.
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Date: February 26, 2024 at 12:06:09
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: new Maga plans to steal the next election |
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well, I'm trying to be consistent. I agree, I think he's
a good source. He's in a "group" of broadcasters that
sometimes have failed fact cks, however and it causes him
to come up "mixed" credibility as being part of that
larger group.
Rather than sit on national and argue about it, I'm
posting it here so the "message" can get out there.
Eventually, other sources will back up the claims (or
debunk).
It was too important to not post anywhere, however.
Fore warned is fore-armed.
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Date: February 26, 2024 at 18:59:33
From: Mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: new Maga plans to steal the next election |
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Thom has been more correct than most, and he has a good
heart.
This time I hope he is wrong.
The combination of this and Nazis at CPAC?
No words.
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Date: February 27, 2024 at 10:54:45
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: new Maga plans to steal the next election |
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Date: February 26, 2024 at 14:49:22
From: blindhog 6th sense, [DNS_Address]
Subject: LOL, So Much For Your Fact Check Crap(NT) |
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Date: February 27, 2024 at 10:50:20
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: LOL, So Much For Your Fact Check Crap(NT) |
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Well, your aversion to fact checks makes total sense
considering what total crap I've seen you post. lol
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Date: February 26, 2024 at 10:20:23
From: blindhog 6th sense, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Sad, Left Never Wanted to Hear Evidence Re the Theft of 2020 Election |
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Yet, now that the electorate has woken up to
the clearly obvious corruption in this Biden
administration, such that the Jewish community
even realizes this woke Democrat Party doesn't
have their back, your side wants to accuse the
right of something they didn't do in 2020, and
won't need to do in 2024.
Sad.
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Date: February 26, 2024 at 10:39:28
From: The Heirophant, [DNS_Address]
Subject: No, what IS sad |
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is that in SPITE of ALL the legal reviews and numerous
investigations and court cases, some cases which were
even presented to judges appointed by Trump himself, NONE
and noone was able to provide clear and undisputed
EVIDENCE of any 2020 election wrong doing.
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Date: February 26, 2024 at 14:46:53
From: blindhog 6th sense, [DNS_Address]
Subject: You're Awfully Thickheaded, I Told I Couldn't Care Less What You Think(NT) |
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