Seriously important read. 7 Hours in November

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https://jasonstanford.substack.com/p/7-hours-in-november?

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Having seen what played out on caucus night in Iowa, I am convinced that the greatest danger to the future of the United States is posed by a period of about seven hours in November.

As news networks try and fail to deal with the reality of an unclear outcome, on an election night after four years of Trump and near the end of the worst year most of us have experienced in our lives, at the end of what will definitely be a hugely chaotic day, the information vacuum we saw on caucus night in Iowa will repeat itself at scale. So, too, will the panicked struggle to fill it, until at least 2 AM or so, when everyone will give up and call it a night.

This is the moment these grifters have been waiting for, the chance these devastators have dreamed of. If the willful mismanagement of the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic doesn’t prove it to you, consider the kids in cages. If the attempt to kill the ACA during a public health crisis doesn’t sufficiently make the case, consider the violent deployment of the United States military on American soil against peaceful protestors. If the active and open disinformation campaign against vote by mail isn’t enough, think through the administration’s corrupt pillaging and institutional deconstruction of the Justice Department. I can reach back farther than 24 months, but these examples should be enough.

This is the moment they’ve been rehearsing for, the direct players and all their surrogates throughout the federal and state and local governments, those who cook the books and hide the number of deaths and close the polling places in Black neighborhoods and put kids in cages and uphold no-knock warrants and chokeholds and qualified immunity and always, without fail, make the worst possible decision, with malice and glee.

I regret to inform you that it is also the moment in which we will be at our weakest, our most tired, our most vulnerable. If there’s a time when it could all slip away, this is it.

However bad you think it is -- however horrific the scenarios are that keep you up at night -- you are lowballing it.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. What I have been screaming for months...

Our job is to imagine the worst, most unlawful, most anti Democratic and most violent thing they could do...

They will do that.

And if it doesnt work, he tells his sycophants to start shooting.

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2. We let them steal and lie continuously and they will not hesitate to do their worst

We need to prepare like never before.

[Funtatlaguy]

4. We need a War Room to anticipate everything.

I’d invite some of the Never Trumpers Lincoln Project people.
They know how Republicans think.
Karl Rove has now joined the Trump re-elect team.
We need people like him on our team.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. A big fat K&R!

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5. It's a long read, but, damn!

Need it in every precinct.

[FM123]

6. We too must be rehearsing for that moment, like a fire drill.

This is the moment they’ve been rehearsing for, the direct players and all their surrogates throughout the federal and state and local governments, those who cook the books and hide the number of deaths and close the polling places in Black neighborhoods and put kids in cages and uphold no-knock warrants and chokeholds and qualified immunity and always, without fail, make the worst possible decision, with malice and glee.[

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7. They'll be tired too, and when you're tired you make mistakes.

Our side is not trying to steal and fool people. They are and if they screw up, like Rove didn't on election night in 2012 on national TV, it'll all blow up in their faces.

The repugs and trump are making so many mistakes now, I don't think the election will be that close.

trump might be forced out before then over this bounty for American troop deaths. This story has legs as it came out that Bolton told trump or the bounty months ago and he hasn't done anything.