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Steven Bannon Calls for American ‘Patriots’ to Fight and Die for Donald Trump

Get ready to be scared again in our daily loop de loop, back-forth, in fear versus laughter, worry against a waive of the hand.  Everyone here knows how seriously we take the threat Trump poses in overturning this election and how he’d do it, how critical the mid-west might be, and particular mid-west legislatures.

Well, now we have Steven Bannon with a warning wrapped in language that ought to lead to a bit of fear because his message is specifically sent to people in the states we worry most about and in language that can’t be ignored.

It wasn’t the impeachment that was really going to cause a constitutional crisis, right? You could see how that was going to kind of play out. But it was this vote in 2020 and particularly as you saw the Democrats go to this mail-in vote — ladies and gentlemen we’re hurtling towards a real constitutional crisis and it’s going to start — this prairie fire is going to burn right up to the first week of December. And you’re going to see some very interesting things. We’re going to need a couple profiles in courage. We’re going to need a couple of Horatius at the gate in the first week of December — places like Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia. It’s all coming. 

Right. The impeachment wasn’t going to cause a constitutional crisis because it’s in the fcking constitution and you knew you’d win even though the “constitutional crisis” it did cause was procedural. Trump prohibited McConnell from calling witnesses, which is backasswards.

Next, notice the states he picked out, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia – states with major power in the electoral college and major state legislators, calling for profiles in courage – ignoring the vote, even if certified.

We also point you to the timing, the first week of December is when the legislatures would confirm who the states will send to the Electoral college, which until Trump (even Bush v. Gore) was always a formality, never in question, and will these legislatures pick the Trump electors (even though their states voted for Biden) for the Electoral college vote on December 14th.

But you can’t really understand what Bannon meant by “profiles in courage” until you hear what Bannon heard in the intro to the radio show:

OK, we’re cold opening here with Horatius at the gate and I’m going to give it to you from memory.

Then out spake brave Horatius,

The Captain of the Gate:

To every man upon this earth

Death cometh soon or late.

And how can man die better

Than facing fearful odds,

For the ashes of his fathers,

And the temples of his gods.

So what Bannon meant when “profiles in courage” and fighting was a willingness to die to keep Trump in office.

This is somewhat ironic because the entire point of the United States Constitution and the country, in general, was so that people got to vote and pick their president and leaders without having to fight to the death when your guy didn’t win. Now Bannon seems to be saying we’re way past that. It is now time to fight to the death to keep a Republican president no matter what the election says. Ballots can be ignored because it was stolen, they say with no proof at all. They have “decided” they lost unfairly and it’s now time to throw out due process, proof, ballots, all that, and be prepared to put lives on the line to keep the president that the minority wants. No one disputes Biden won the popular vote by five million.

We have been doing mail-in ballots forever. We voted that way in Washington for six years. So it got expanded. So you got beat. There’s no constitutional crisis. Prove to us that there was fraud somewhere and not by saying “but we didn’t get what we wanted when we asked to move closer to observe).  According to Bannon, now it’s time to throw away democracy to keep the cult in power? Yes, says Bannon – who has no conflict of interest here, given he’s under indictment and will go to jail unless someone like Trump pardons him. Bannon calls for war.

This country could be in its last throes. Unless Biden is truly one of the best presidents ever, and we mean that.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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