Not many talking about the rotation of SecDef.

Can’t help but wonder if someone refused to do something icky and was replaced with someone who would just follow orders.

75 days left and this is the move?

Dangerously sus.
Jokes aside, pair this with the rumor McConnell met with Barr to detail the Senate refusing to certify the election and the SecDef rotation gets even creepier.
I can’t believe they are really gonna do it.

I don’t want to believe it.
Madness.
Let’s watch how this goes. https://twitter.com/nbcnews/status/1326012538748809216
The death march continues https://twitter.com/rabrowne75/status/1326284851268489217
The greatest taboo in American civics is the prohibition of the use of the military against domestic populations.

It is that very act which started the Revolutionary War, itself.
Who was the first to die in the American Revolution?

A black man. Crispus Attucks.

History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme.
Talk about missing the obvious. https://twitter.com/BadLegalTakes/status/1326300319609876481
The KPD and the SPD were opposition to Hitler in Germany. They were communists and socialists which formed the first Antifa.

Sturmabteilung, known as "Brown Shirts", were the para-military which was organized to fight them, started by a cigarette company. https://twitter.com/TheRealCoryElia/status/1326299785012240384
Antifa factions were wiped out by the Brown Shirts... and then the Brown Shirts were wiped out by the SS in an event known as Night of the Long Knives.
Once more for the folks in the back...

History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme.
Learning from History moment:

Antifa shouldn't have gone out to fight the Brown Shirts.

They should have stayed home and let the military put them down due to public outcry.

If they really do try to go through with this, watch what happens.
Here's the rules determined in 2016 by which electoral votes would be certified. This has not been done for this year IIRC.

TL;DR: Governors certify their state by Dec 19th -> Send certification to President of the Senate and National Archive by Dec 28

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL32717.pdf
The President of the Senate is Mike Pence.

The next step would be a joint session of the House and Senate to count the certified electoral votes.

Notice that Electoral Votes are not the popular vote.

Objecting to those votes has *nothing* to do with the popular vote, per se.
Georgia is also such a state.

What we can see is a series of procedural motions to audit the ballot in states such as PA and GA where the results are very, very close.

Hence that "legal vote" nonsense I warned about a few days ago.
"Auditing the ballot" means disenfranchising voters based on non-compliance with state law for what constitutes a "vote".

The goal then is to belittle the American public as much as possible and mute their voices in the hopes Their Side will win.
Why all of the fears around a reshuffle of top civilian commanders and election officials in the 11th hour?

Why am I even documenting things in this thread?

Because all of these movements are THEATER.

It is to *encourage* civilians to act out in favor of the incumbent.
If civilians interrupt the audits then Congress is in a pickle: the procedural motions to certify the elections cannot continue and we dropped into crisis.
State executives would be forced to act to secure the facilities, as would the DOJ and their state security forces

This is mind bending based on the current discourse, as it would be Trumpers taking tear gas and perhaps live rounds from state security forces

Antifa. Stay. Home.
This is the Worst Case Scenario.

It is not a "coup" per se.

There's no direct coordination involved like there was when Hitler literally took command of the Brown Shirts.

This is more subtle but has the same effect in the social media era.
If you read this entire thread and absorb the facts suddenly we are a long way from any sort of armed crisis or civil war or any such nonsense and it isn't even inevitable.

But it is *possible* and that's shocking enough.
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