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Here’s a quick summary of what I think he is gonna do.
He doesn't need Russ Vought for any of this.
For the #1, I think "Iran" will attack Los Angeles and San Diego.
Also Republicans will replace the clerk with a MAGA person and he will refuse call new winners in January.
Since this is Vough this is definitively one of things he planned.
And banned International elections oversight. Oh, ice handed voter rolls to thiel... Oh ya. I have Russian levels of trust in your elections.
even beforehand voting machines weren't audited and their software is very bad. and decades before that people just bought votes. it's a shit mountain built into a different, older, more respectable shit mountain
Good write up, but you left out the false flag terrorist attack that will allow him to declare a state of emergency.
Or, the speaker of the house appoints a different House Clerk and he/she doesn't call the newly elected members to order due to " fraudulent elections"
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hmmmmmm I wonder who they are going to frame?
Is this a south park episode
You are correct I forgot that part!
Yeah. Wouldn't want a foot-gun.
You forgot about Elon. He was just hired back. I expect him to play a major role again.
Yes definitely, I think he will play a part in step 2.
he's the loser nobody wanted along but he's paying for everything so they let him come too.
The important point: Republicans aren't leaving office regardless of what happens.
Well, not willingly perhaps.
It would make my fuckin year if they don't.
Yes.
I genuinely don't see him invading Iran. It's a guaranteed belly-flop. Much more likely he continues pretending the US already won.
Bibi will wave the tape, and then he will.
I don't think so. It's not as if longstanding, bipartisan US policy isn't antagonistic towards Iran for its own reasons. I do think Bibi helped coax Trump into actually bombing Iran by giving him a rosy assessment, but even Trump won't fall for that twice.
I hope you are right, ofcourse. But things are getting so unpredictable and illogical that I really don't know what to expect.
I hear ya. What actually worries me is if Europe decides to involve itself militarily. I think the chance is slim, but that's the only way I could see any attempted invasion of Iran. They are in a very tight spot with energy, and they seem to be 100% against negotiating with Russia, while also 100% unable (or unwilling) to influence Trump regarding Iran. Hard to imagine they could dedicate any military resources towards Iran though, considering what they already send to Ukraine, or want to deter Russia with. Still, as winter comes and fuel costs rise, something will have to give.
No, Iran invasion is pure fantasy. Europe can't change that equation, not enough troops to spare and they're not really built to fight outside of Europe in large numbers. Iran will need millions of soldiers committed. The US barely has 400,000 combat soldiers.
For instance how are they even going to get the border of Iran? They can't go in from Pakistan or Central Asia and the US Navy is a hollowed out enshitified joke, so doing a naval invasion is even more absurd.
So they'll have to invade and secure Iraq just to set the stage for an invasion of Iran. And that's assuming they could defeat a combined Iran-Iraqi force. But how are they going to build up an invasion force? 2003 Iraq Invasion force took a year to build and that was in peaceful conditions with full control of the gulf and had intact bases.
The most that they can hope for is trying to take and hold the Islands in the strait. Which will fail and fail hard because Iran has had months and months prepare for it where as the US hasn't committed a single soldier to combat and yet it's logistics are at the breaking point and it's defensive munitions are already spent! Trillion dollars a year well spent!
Militarily, the US is a barely a shadow of what it was just 20 years ago. It's been thoroughly Russified.
I agree with pretty much everything you say here, but the last sentence.
I think we are safe there, as they will need at least 20 years to decide on that.
Don't underestimate the power of cholesterol.
He's gonna live to be at least 102