Trump Only Needs Six Votes!!!

I continue to be thoroughly disgusted by the corporate news media—though I don’t know why I should still be so. Even “left-wing” news outlet MSNBC has become more and more difficult to watch as they continue to pretend they don’t know what Trump is doing. It really is infuriating. Either they are incredibly stupid, or utterly disingenuous. I hope, for their sake—certainly not ours—that it’s the latter. After colluding with Russia to interfere in our election, trying to extort Ukraine, stealing and disseminating classified documents, inciting an insurrection to stay in power, as well as other assorted crimes like rape and fraud, the media continues to frame Trump’s actions as though he is a “normal” candidate. It really is incomprehensible. In interviews all day long, the talking heads continue to be mystified by why Trump is doing this, or why Trump is doing that. And yet HE HAS ALREADY TOLD THEM, AND THEY ARE IGNORING THE TRUTH. The latest has been his attacks on the Georgia governor and secretary of state at his most recent rally. They can’t understand why he would do that. Everything he does seems to be damaging his chances in the election, they opine breathlessly. Why would he do that? Do I need to say it again? Apparently so. Donald Trump DOES NOT CARE ABOUT THE ELECTION!

He doesn’t care about the negative response to J.D. Vance. Why? Because he doesn’t care about the election. He doesn’t want to debate Kamala Harris. Why? Because he doesn’t care about the election. He tells his followers that he doesn’t need their votes. Why? Because he doesn’t care about the election. He doesn’t seem interested in courting new voters. Why? Because he doesn’t care about the election. Donald Trump doesn’t care about any of these things because he only needs six votes. That’s right. Only six votes and he is certain he will be handed the presidency regardless what the people do on election day. His election-denying officials in the election offices of all the swing states will refuse to certify the election. The next step in the process will then be lawsuits that attempt to compel those officials to certify. Because of the urgency of the cases, they will move immediately to state supreme courts, which will order them to certify the votes, then Trump’s legal team will appeal to the supreme court where the six votes of Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch and Barrett will hand the presidency to Trump and there won’t be a damned thing the rest of us can do about it.

Once again, tonight, Rachel Maddow followed up on her piece from last week about election officials in swing states refusing to certify elections. She tiptoed right up to the answer, suggesting that one possible reason for this is that it will work as propaganda. No, no, no, no, no! Trump doesn’t need any more propaganda. All he has to do is say the election was rigged, and his followers believe him. There is absolutely no propaganda value in what these election officials are doing. Second, she throws up her hands and says, “It prevents the normal counting of votes.” Right. WHY, RACHEL, WHY? And yet she still seems completely unable to connect the dots and has absolutely no answer for the goal of all this. And I even wrote to her last week to give her the answer. But no, at the end she weakly suggests that this “throws it into the courts?” with a why-the-hell-would-they-want-to-do-that shrug. But she’s so dismissive of this suggestion that she completely undercuts the fact that YES, THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT THEY’RE TRYING TO DO. It’s such a sinking feeling to realize that none of these idiots are going to realize what the real reason for this is until it finally gets to the supreme court.

The reason Trump doesn’t care about the election, is because he has already stuffed the ballot box with six supremely corrupt justices who he fully expects to make him president and defy the will of the people. That’s it. The only mysterious thing to me, is why he even bothers to campaign at all. I suppose it’s to continue to instill in his followers that he will deliver on his promise to take away their rights, take away their money, and take away their freedoms, while he installs himself as permanent dictator and destroys the U.S. government in the process. Apparently, that’s what all of them really want. The judicial branch has already been trashed, so that only leaves the legislative, which he no doubt plans to render impotent on day one. To paraphrase a popular cliché, “It’s the supreme court, stupid!” Why the media can’t see that, or is unwilling to report it, is just another of the tragedies that un-regulated capitalism has brought upon this nation. All this energy that is going into defeating Trump on election day may be a complete waste of time if the supreme court does what he expects. But that is the only play he has, and all of us are kidding ourselves if we don’t think he’ll make it.