In order to survive the virus, and to survive the election, we need to plan ahead a little bit. This starts with taking stock of what we know and what we don’t know.
Similarly, the Arizona governor has proven himself incapable of telling the truth about the problem, much less solving it.
Similarly, a gubernatorial recall election cannot be arranged quickly enough. This is a matter of life and death on an epic scale, and there just isn’t enough time.
By way of analogy: The wrongful response to the virus outbreak is more deadly than drunk driving, gun violence, and police brutality combined ... and just as needless.
To protect the lives of store clerks as well as shoppers, it is important for businesses to require everyone in the place to wear masks. They are not obliged to do this, but they have the option. We should insist that they do. This goes double for “essential” businesses. We should organize boycotts against businesses that don’t require masks. Maybe even picket lines.
It is very unlikely that he can win re-election except by cheating. We need to defend the electoral process against massive attack.
This is why he is so fixated on preventing vote-by-mail.
He may start by sending Brownshirts into the streets to create violent unrest, and then send government troops to “solve the problem”.
State and local officials (whether or not they are on the ballot) are not going to sit around and let him deflect the blame onto them. They will push back, hard.
With any luck, this sort of pushback could create a positive-feedback loop, weakening him, making him more vulerable to additional short-term pushback, and making him more certain to lose the election.
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Picking one or two action-items from the list is not acceptable. Everything on the list is needed. It’s a package deal, as discussed in reference 1.
We need to analyze things from #Bljadimir #Putain’s point of view. He’s not an idiot. He plans for the long term. It’s in his interest to keep his poodle in the white house.