Don't Turn Us Into Belarus

[Celerity]

A letter to the secret police defending the White House after Election Day

https://thebanter.substack.com/p/dont-turn-us-into-belarus



There are less than 90 days until the election and Donald Trump is losing. Badly. There is no “silent majority”. There is no “secret Trump voter.” The polls are not rigged. He’s losing because he is the most corrupt, incompetent, and, let’s be honest, stupid president in American history. It would be great if, when he tries to illegally steal the election, you would refuse to defend the White House when we come for him. I know that’s a tall order but you swore an oath to the Constitution, not the president. You swore to defend the law of the land and the people of the United States. When (not if) Trump tries to cheat his way to a second term, we’re going to come to the White House and demand he leave. And if he does not leave of his own accord, we’re going to make him leave, one way or the other. We will not stand for another 4 years of a stolen presidency. I strongly urge you to not to stand between the people and the reclamation of the People's House.

Don’t Turn Us Into Belarus

If you can’t find Belarus on the map, don’t feel bad, it’s not exactly the most high-profile country in Eastern Europe. But you should know that it’s had an “elected” dictator for the last 26 years and he just declared a “landslide victory” this past weekend with 80.23% of the vote. This is worth taking note of because that is not at all what exit polls showed. Alexander Lukashenko is extremely unpopular and everyone knew the election was rigged. Lukashenko had members of his opponent Svetlana Tikhanovskaya’s staff arrested and she had to go into hiding. Stop me if you’ve heard any of this before: Polling stations were closed early, preventing an untold number of people from voting. The police have been using pepper spray, smoke bombs, and violence to chase protesters away. At least one reporter was beaten unconscious.

Oh, and then there’s this:

“There are armoured cars on the highway, there are people not even in uniform, in jeans and T-shirts with rifles in their hands,” said Vladimir, a local businessman who came to the polling station with his wife and young son. “It’s scary when you don’t know if someone is a bandit or a member of law enforcement. I’m voting against being afraid.”

Just swap out “jeans and T-shirts” with “unmarked camouflage” and he’s talking about you. Because we both know Trump is going to order you into certain cities to “stand guard” around certain voting precincts on election day. Ostensibly, you’ll be there to “protect” the polling station from “violence” but we both know you’ll be there, in full military gear with the biggest gun you can carry, for the explicit purpose of scaring the shit out of voters. Maybe a few will go home instead of casting a ballot. And that will be the point. Feel like you are defending the Constitution yet? But if you think Belarus is a shit show, wait until Trump declares that late mail in ballots won’t count.

Mail Fraud

We all see it happening right in front of us in real time. Trump’s handpicked Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, is deliberately slowing down the mail. This is causing a backlog to pile up and that backlog will grow over time from a few days to well over a week by election day. Naturally, Trump will demand that ballots not postmarked until after the election not be counted. That would mean millions of ballots mailed a week or so before the election will be tossed because Trump made sure they wouldn’t be processed on time. And wouldn’t you know it? The five Republican Justices on the Supreme Court will just happen to agree that we simply can’t count those ballots. Except in Florida. And maybe Texas. But nowhere else. Since Democratic voters are overwhelmingly voting by mail compared to Republican voters, gee whiz!, Trump will insist that he won the election and anyone who says otherwise is an enemy of the state. That’s when we’ll march on the White House and Trump will order you to “defend” him.

How Far Will You Go?

Even though the average person on the street can’t tell the difference between a National Guardsman in camo and one of you guys in camo, there is a difference. The National Guard tends to have limits on what it will do and you apparently do not. We know this because Trump couldn’t order the military to “dominate” cities the way he wanted. The National Guard does not go into a city to incite riots. Your secret police force does exactly that. We see you and we know what your purpose is. You’re not a new innovation. Dictators have used unaccountable thugs to terrorize the people before. You’re just the latest version of Germany’s Gestapo. This begs the question: How far will you go? We already saw you attack unarmed and peaceful protesters in Portland in order to give Trump his campaign ads. You beat up middle-aged women standing in a line with their arms linked so let’s skip the “they were violent” excuses. Clearly, you’re willing to violate civil rights on a massive scale. But just how far will you take it? When 10,000 of us show up, you’ll spray us with pepper balls and tear gas and start smashing us with your batons. What about when 100,000 of us show up? 200,000? 500,000?

All of your chemical weapons and steroid-induced rampages won’t stop us. What then? Will you open fire with live ammunition? Will you obey the inevitable order from Chad Wolf and Bill Barr to murder your fellow Americans to defend a man who rigged an election? How many will you be willing to kill? 10 of us? 100? 1000? Will you open fire on the National Guard if they refuse to obey such an illegal order? While you’re contemplating that, think about what comes next. Do you really think the Oval Office can be held by force indefinitely? Will you start arresting Democrats and declare one party rule in the name of “freedom?” Will you declare a moratorium on the First Amendment while still claiming the Second is sacred? How long do you think Trump’s regime will last before it collapses and he flees the country, leaving you to face the music? Do you really think he’ll be able to install a government that will outlast him? He can barely maintain the government he has. Are you planning on a paramilitary coup? Good luck with that.

These must be heady days for you there in the secret police force. Most of you were pulled from Border Patrol and ICE, meaning you are the most racist, depraved, and sadistic people in the employ of the United States government. You appear to be quite eager to do Trump’s bidding and maybe you think the good times will never end. But Trump is not going to be emperor and you will be held accountable for your actions in the coming months. There will be no pardons in your future and no blanket immunities. Remember, “I was only following orders!” didn’t work for the last group of men who tried to avoid the consequences of their crimes. It will not work for you, either.

See you in D.C. after the election. Sic semper tyrannis.

[SWBTATTReg]

1. I suspect that if elections are stolen here in the US, the protests would be magnitudes greater ...

what we've seen so far. If trump and his thugs thought things were bad then (which they are on the opposite side of two thirds of all Americans who support the protests (BLM)), then barr, trump, and all of their cronies are going to see what true anger really is, in this country.

And, by the way, where is the republican-controlled Senate with regards to rump's new idiotic series of executive orders, where he bypasses his own republican-controlled Senate?

[Celerity]

2. the Rethug Senate loves it, as they can always cliam it was all Rump's fault, whilst secretly

approving of the tyranny.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Very possible. However, I think rump is going to drag down the entire ballot in Nov. 2020. Serves

them (the senate republican thugs) right.

Take care!

[Celerity]

4. you too, and GOTV!

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Thanks!!