Finally . . . Somone Actually Said It!

For the third week in a row Rachel Maddow has done a piece on the plans to disrupt the election certification at the state level. She had Mark Elias from Democracy Docket on last week; this week it was Noah Bookbinder from CREW, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. But honestly, it doesn’t matter how many lawyers she has on her show, until someone connects the dots to the supreme court, none of it is going to make any sense. And that was perfectly evident on Monday. She shrugs and wrinkles her brow, and just can’t seem to figure out what the end game is. Sure, these corrupt election-deniers are going to refuse to certify the results in their counties and states, and both lawyers have assured her that this is quite illegal. So . . . what the hell’s the point of all this? It’s maddening to watch. For the past six weeks I’ve been screaming into the void trying to tell the world what the real goal is, and no one seems to care. In addition to writing to Rachel—twice—I’ve written to Elias, Brian Tyler Cohen, Glen Kirchner, and my local newspaper, but to no avail. Everyone seems quite alarmed about the prospect, but with absolutely no clue about what the end game is.

But all of that changed last week, in an editorial on a popular cable channel. The speaker finally made the connection that I’ve been warning about and delivered the truth of the matter to a national televised audience:

          The GOP is already planning on how to steal the election by having corrupt state officials refuse to
          certify the results, getting corrupt judges to back them up, before the whole thing goes to the corrupt
          supreme court that’s already anointed Donald Trump a king, so now they can overturn the results of
          the election to declare him the winner.

The speaker? Charlamagne the God. The cable channel? Comedy Central. Yeah, quite a disappointment. A writer for the Daily Show figured it out before anyone at MSNBC. (CNN's a lost cause.) What are the chances? But . . . I’m happy to report, things have finally turned. The emphasis is still on the election interference at the county and state level, but at last someone has spoken out loud on a major news network, and made clear what the real goal of the refusal to certify actually is. Joy Reid last night—better late than never—had Bookbinder on again, but this time prefaced her interview with him by articulating exactly what the purpose is behind all of this. The wrangling at the state level is just the prelude.

          Or it ends up in court, right, we end up with litigation? Let’s say that Georgia ends up in huge litigation
          and then, somehow or other, nobody gets 270 because one state can’t get their votes in in time. That,
          then, goes to the House of Representatives. Republicans control 26 states, Democrats control 23,
          they just vote 26-23 and make Trump the president. Kamala Harris could win by twelve-million votes
          and it wouldn’t matter, Congress would just decide. And then the other option is it goes to the supreme
          court, and we all know what John Roberts will do. He and his five friends will make Donald Trump the
          president. So, six people could make Trump president, or 26 states.

So there it is, the exact scenario I’ve been warning about for the last month and a half. Finally, MSNBC pulled their collective heads out of the sand and made it public on something other than a comedy show. Took them long enough. Hopefully next Monday Rachel will be able to make that final conclusion herself, but until then this needs to get lots and lots of airtime on all of the news programs in the country.