December 20, 2020: The MyPillow Guy Wants to Send in the Troops

 

12/20/20: One month until Inauguration Day, when most Americans bid a fond farewell to Donald J. Trump. 

A senior administration official captures the mood inside the White House. With Trump “retweeting threats of putting politicians in jail,” spending “time talking to conspiracy nuts who openly say declaring martial law is no big deal…it’s impossible not to start getting anxious about how this ends.” 

Will the president exit the White House with a whiff of class? Or will Secret Service agents have to pry his fingers from the Oval Office doorknob, and usher him out into the real world again?

 

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“These are people who have endured arguably more insanity and mayhem than any administration officials in history.” 

Senior administration official, unnamed

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Even worse, the source warns that Trump has been toying with Gen. Flynn’s idea of sending troops into several states and ordering new elections. 

Why not just say, the hell with democracy, and declare himself “President for Life?”

 

The President-for-One-More-Month has also been floating the idea of appointing Sidney Powell, of crazy-stolen-election-Kraken-claim-fame, as a Special Counsel, so she can examine all the rigged voting machines. “People who are concerned and nervous aren’t the weak-kneed bureaucrats that we loathe,” the source tells a reporter. “These are people who have endured arguably more insanity and mayhem than any administration officials in history.” 

In keeping with the insanity, Mike Lindell, the MyPillow guy, tweeted and then deleted a call for his Orange God to declare martial law in seven states. Lindell thought it might be cool to send in the troops, overturn the vote, and maybe shoot any citizens who insisted that Joe Biden was in fact the next President of the United States.

 

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SINCE OUR TOPIC is folly and psychosis, we should note that this weekend Fox News was forced to air a rebuttal of “the-election-was-stolen-narrative” that multiple hosts and guests (Lou Dobbs, Sidney Powell, et al.) have been peddling since November 3. Smartmatic, which supplies software for voting machines that hosts like Dobbs have adamantly insisted were rigged, had threatened legal action. 

Fox lawyers, knowing Dobbs and the rest of their stable of hosts had no legitimate evidence to support such claims, decided to air a point-by-point response by Eddie Perez, a voting technology expert. Mr. Perez quickly debunked all the nonsense Lou and company had been spewing. 

Dobbs received the first legal wedgie, with the Perez segment aired during his Friday show. Saturday night, honors went to Judge Jeanine Pirro. This morning, Maria Bartiromo had her panties yanked. 

Lou’s reaction said it all. After the Perez piece aired, the host who can work himself into a frenzy talking about which Girl Scout cookies are best, decided not to respond. 

He cut to a commercial.

 

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LAST BUT NOT LEAST, what post is complete without another Trump administration scandal? 

Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie is under pressure to resign. An investigation found that he worked to discredit a female veteran who had filed a sexual harassment claim, rather than pursue the matter. 

If you love Donald Trump more than vanilla ice cream, you will decide that the six top veterans’ organizations are now part of the “Deep State.” All six have called for Wilkie to be fired. 

Those six: 

The American Legion

Veterans of Foreign Wars

Disabled American Veterans

AMVETS

Vietnam Veterans of America 

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 Paralyzed Veterans of America

 

In a joint letter, they write: “[Wilkie’s] actions not only threaten to deter veterans from seeking care at VA, but also undermine the efforts of VA staff who have been working to bring an end to sexual harassment throughout the department.” 

Wilkie says he’s not going to step down. Because…sexual harassment…what’s the big deal?

 

It probably won’t matter in the end. Mr. Trump’s attention (what little he still devotes to his job) is focused on firing F.B.I. Director Christopher Wray. Wray’s sin? He refused to announce ahead of the election that there was some kind, any kind, even an imaginary kind, of investigation into Hunter and Joe Biden. Trump would have liked something along the lines of: “The F.B.I. is closing in on the top man on ‘America’s Most Wanted List,’ longtime fugitive, Hunter Biden and his dad, number #2 on the list, ‘Amtrak Joe’ Biden.” 

 

POSTSCRIPT: If you’d like to get a sense of what work at Fox News has been like over the years, and the level of ethics expected of their on-air commentators, I suggest you watch the movie Bombshell.