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by Beau Cadiyo
If Republicans are the party of idiots, Democrats are the party of the gullible.
If they weren't the party of the gullible, they would see what should be blatantly obvious to everyone watching American politics from abroad right now: Donald Trump is doing what he has done so many times before by accusing his opponents of doing in secret what he himself is doing in plain sight. Whether he is breaking tax laws, sexually assaulting women, pandering to foreign despots against America's interests, or trying to steal an election, he is pointing an accusatory finger with his right hand while his left commits a crime. Whoever he is accusing professes innocence, and is so busy defending themselves that they don't think to attack back. Meanwhile, Trump gets away with whatever he wants. Nothing has changed on his part and, sadly, the Democrats show every sign of being taken by it again.
Biden is the perfect victim. He is nice. He wants to give everyone a hug and a pat on the back. He wants to forgive the people who want him dead. He is, in other words, weak; he is an Omega dog, rolling on his back. He is nothing to fear.
As George W. Bush once said, "Fool me twice, shame on you."
Trump is, I hate to say, actually smart here. He is reading the situation correctly. He knows that the rules are there for the suckers, for the ignorant, and for him, the rules are made to be broken. He is stacking the necessary government officials in a way that might actually allow him to stay in power illegitimately. For his legion of faults, he knows how to play the amoral and immoral game of power at a professional level; for all their years in Washington, Biden et al are mere apprentices here.
If they weren't apprentices, they - and every other freedom-loving American, and perhaps world citizen, would be going full Machiavelli on Trump and his goons. They would be organizing shifts of volunteers who would videotape everyone going in and out of any Trump property, and the White House, the same way Trump supporters harassed voters. They would block roads in Washington and near the Trump golf courses; they would storm the greens and fill the fairways with holes, making them unusable. Heck, these freedom fighters would be following Trump's lackeys home and setting up surveillance on them from the street. They would track Trump's simpering gimps and follow their children to school. They would blast music at the White House, Noriega-style, day and night. They would shut down the ability of Trump's organization to function by destroying his minions' basic human sense of security, attacking their hierarchy of needs.
And they would investigate the claims that the Russians hacked the vote in Ohio, and the Chinese hacked the vote in Texas, that the Florida vote was also supplemented by undocumented Cubans who boated over in late October to stuff ballots and then boated back. There are videotapes of this happening on YouTube. Look it up, sheeple.
The Democrats would seize the initiative.
But then again, I am just a simple sandwich blogger. What do I know about complex political manoeuvring? I am probably misreading the situation, and the transfer of power in America will go off without a hitch and without any need to, say, battle over control of the military on January 21 because two people are claiming to be Commander in Chief and trying to get the military to take out their opponent.
Speaking about taking out one's opponent, I have one final fantasy. William Consovoy, one of Trump's attorneys, once argued that Trump could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and get away with it. If Biden was to get into office, I have this recurring dream that he would ask Consovoy and his family to the White House, then have Consovoy repeat his argument. Then, Biden would give a signal and Consovoy and his family would all be trussed up like Christmas turkeys. Biden would take a couple of pistols from the Secret Service and ask Consovoy to make his argument one last time, with his family in danger.
Then, Biden would let them all go, and shake Consovoy's hand as they left. Because Biden is a good man.
And the burgers at Hungry Wolf are good, too. I hope that this place survives the pandemic, because really, everyone should eat here.
