The incitement and preparation for post-election conflict coming from Donald Trump and his merry band of billionaire bootlickers was on display for all to see over the past weekend.
The peril being overlooked in the delirium over Trump’s Madison Square Garden “little secret” is that too few are actually DOING anything to counter the “electoral coup” it forebodes – when in fact it is in our control as citizens to thwart if we don’t merely “vote like zombies.” Voters need to know that the offices which will prevent a Trump “electoral coup” go beyond the common misconception that “just taking back the House” will prevent the presidential race from being thrown into the hands of Mike Johnson (and far, FAR worse – keep reading).
“I think the secret yesterday that he [Donald Trump] referenced very likely may relate to his compact with Mike Johnson to—as a back-up plan for when he loses—to overturn this election on January 6,” New York Representative Dan Goldman said … “Why did Donald Trump come to New York nine days before the election? The state is going to go to Kamala Harris … The answer is that [control of] the House really runs through New York, which will likely determine the majority” [that would select a president in a contingent election.]”
But Goldman is thinking about this as though the post-election electoral process is going to proceed “legally” and in any kind of normal way.
One of Trump’s two “aces” to get to a contingent election is “delay.” Trump in November is going to use the same “delay” tactics in the electoral arena that he has been using in the legal arena to slow down being being sentenced to prison. And if Trump is successful in slowing down the electoral process enough he doesn’t need to win ANY of the legal challenges he will raise during that electoral process – he just needs to make sure that Kamala Harris doesn’t get to 270 electoral votes by January 6 and “bingo!” the selection of the president will be thrown into the House, which could then just install Trump as president – and even more alarmingly: with almost no way to remove him from power (and if you don’t believe this last, see The War After the Election in Safeguard to understand why not).
The starting point of such delay would come at the county and other local level offices that are too overlooked by the over 30% of voters who routinely cast incomplete ballots – and which are CRITICAL to keeping the electoral process running smoothly.
Why would Trump telegraph this to the world? Perhaps he was actually reinforcing a message to Mike Johnson personally (whom he was looking at and directly addressing when he made their “little secret” so public): “I have a (second) little secret that I have been blackmailing you with, Mike. We both know what it is, and I could reveal it to the world before an audience like this one. So stay loyal and remain obedient.”
I don’t want to waste your time with speculation. What I just wrote about Trump regarding Johnson IS a “conspiracy theory.” But Trump and others in his network are indeed today on trial for “conspiring” to overthrow the 2020 election. After the electoral fraud that culminated in the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack, why would any thinking person not believe this is not only well within the realm of possibility, but probability? The fact that such an electoral coup is even possible again in 2024 should send shivers down your spine.
Trump’s second “ace” is lawlessness. Why would any thinking person believe that Trump would obey the “new law” that supposedly “fixed” all of this (the Electoral Count Reform Act) when there is no law he obeys if it’s in his self-interest not to – especially now when he is fighting not just to win an election, but for his very freedom (and where “just one more crime on top of all the other crimes” would only add years on to what is already a life sentence if he loses)?
Safeguard has been warning about the dangers surrounding a contingent election since 2020. Trump’s Madison Garden remarks have merely brought the problem into a clearer focus.
#VoteBlueDownBallot warned in 2022 that voters haven’t been made aware of the need to vote a COMPLETE ballot, and if they split their tickets to vote STRATEGICALLY for several low ballot offices. It has been updated for THIS election regarding what you need to know as a voter, and what you can do beyond that as an activist to make others aware of what they can do. There are numerous resources in Safeguard that you can use as a private citizen to amplify the power of your vote with the power of your voice in order to help win some of these lower level offices as well as the House seats in play (some of which were decided by as few as 500 votes in the last election).
Safeguard is free. Use it to inform yourself regarding the full extent of the dangers we face – and what you can do about it. And share it with others.
The Real Danger of “Trump’s TWO Little Secrets”
The peril being overlooked in the delirium over Trump’s Madison Square Garden “little secret” is that too few are actually DOING anything to counter the “electoral coup” it forebodes – when in fact it is in our control as citizens to thwart if we don’t merely “vote like zombies.” Voters need to know that the offices which will prevent a Trump “electoral coup” go beyond the common misconception that “just taking back the House” will prevent the presidential race from being thrown into the hands of Mike Johnson (and far, FAR worse – keep reading).
“I think the secret yesterday that he [Donald Trump] referenced very likely may relate to his compact with Mike Johnson to—as a back-up plan for when he loses—to overturn this election on January 6,” New York Representative Dan Goldman said … “Why did Donald Trump come to New York nine days before the election? The state is going to go to Kamala Harris … The answer is that [control of] the House really runs through New York, which will likely determine the majority” [that would select a president in a contingent election.]”
But Goldman is thinking about this as though the post-election electoral process is going to proceed “legally” and in any kind of normal way.
One of Trump’s two “aces” to get to a contingent election is “delay.” Trump in November is going to use the same “delay” tactics in the electoral arena that he has been using in the legal arena to slow down being being sentenced to prison. And if Trump is successful in slowing down the electoral process enough he doesn’t need to win ANY of the legal challenges he will raise during that electoral process – he just needs to make sure that Kamala Harris doesn’t get to 270 electoral votes by January 6 and “bingo!” the selection of the president will be thrown into the House, which could then just install Trump as president – and even more alarmingly: with almost no way to remove him from power (and if you don’t believe this last, see The War After the Election in Safeguard to understand why not).
The starting point of such delay would come at the county and other local level offices that are too overlooked by the over 30% of voters who routinely cast incomplete ballots – and which are CRITICAL to keeping the electoral process running smoothly.
Why would Trump telegraph this to the world? Perhaps he was actually reinforcing a message to Mike Johnson personally (whom he was looking at and directly addressing when he made their “little secret” so public): “I have a (second) little secret that I have been blackmailing you with, Mike. We both know what it is, and I could reveal it to the world before an audience like this one. So stay loyal and remain obedient.”
I don’t want to waste your time with speculation. What I just wrote about Trump regarding Johnson IS a “conspiracy theory.” But Trump and others in his network are indeed today on trial for “conspiring” to overthrow the 2020 election. After the electoral fraud that culminated in the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack, why would any thinking person not believe this is not only well within the realm of possibility, but probability? The fact that such an electoral coup is even possible again in 2024 should send shivers down your spine.
Trump’s second “ace” is lawlessness. Why would any thinking person believe that Trump would obey the “new law” that supposedly “fixed” all of this (the Electoral Count Reform Act) when there is no law he obeys if it’s in his self-interest not to – especially now when he is fighting not just to win an election, but for his very freedom (and where “just one more crime on top of all the other crimes” would only add years on to what is already a life sentence if he loses)?
Safeguard has been warning about the dangers surrounding a contingent election since 2020. Trump’s Madison Garden remarks have merely brought the problem into a clearer focus.
#VoteBlueDownBallot warned in 2022 that voters haven’t been made aware of the need to vote a COMPLETE ballot, and if they split their tickets to vote STRATEGICALLY for several low ballot offices. It has been updated for THIS election regarding what you need to know as a voter, and what you can do beyond that as an activist to make others aware of what they can do. There are numerous resources in Safeguard that you can use as a private citizen to amplify the power of your vote with the power of your voice in order to help win some of these lower level offices as well as the House seats in play (some of which were decided by as few as 500 votes in the last election).
Safeguard is free. Use it to inform yourself regarding the full extent of the dangers we face – and what you can do about it. And share it with others.
https://crisafulli.substack.com/p/vote-blue-down-ballot-or-house-may-elect-trump