This election and transition period is going to be unlike any other in 150 years. So I hope that Joe Biden is preparing not for the worst, but for the most outlandish worst-case scenarios he can come up with. We can’t survive another failure of imagination, and the Orange-Stained Shitgibbon has shown us over and over that there is no bottom to his depravity and penchant for wanton destruction.
According to a NY Times article, some Democrats and non-Trumpist Rs are planning for election nightmare scenarios. Like the O-S S declaring states of emergency in swing-states and closing polling places. Or announcing a criminal investigation of Joe Biden a week before the election.
“In the eight to 10 months I’ve been yapping at people about this stuff, the reactions have gone from, ‘Don’t be silly, that won’t happen,’ to an increasing sense of, ‘You know, that could happen,’” said Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown University law professor. Earlier this year, Professor Brooks convened an informal group of Democrats and never-Trump Republicans to brainstorm about ways the Trump administration could disrupt the election and to think about ways to prevent it.
It seems like the Biden campaign is thinking about it, as well.
Mr. Biden, for his part, has suggested more than once that Mr. Trump might try to disrupt or delay the election. And his campaign grew very concerned this month when it was announced that election security briefings, which in past cycles had been delivered to candidates by the F.B.I. and the Department of Homeland Security, would now be the province of the director of national intelligence. That post is currently held by John Ratcliffe, a Trump ally who was confirmed to the position on Thursday.
And I have been thinking about nightmare scenarios for the transition, too. I hope Biden’s team is assuming that:
1. Every single computer system in our Federal Government has been compromised by foreign agents and probably includes hidden traps and back doors that will need to be secured;
2. Every single person appointed or hired by the Orange Unclothed Emperor is compromised and must be replaced or isolated so that they can’t continue to do damage
3. President Biden will have to hire double (triple, who knows how many) the usual number of people to re-staff the areas that have been gutted. He’ll have to triage for the most critical areas, but honestly: every single department is in critical condition right now, from the State Department, USDA research agencies, to the CDC and the Intelligence community.
4. President Biden must cancel the passports of every single member of the Orange Moron’s extended mob family (whether their last name is Kushner, Barr, Nunes, Mnuchin, Drumpf or what-have-you) to try to prevent them from fleeing the jurisdiction and ending up as “guests” of a hostile foreign country. Clamp some electronic ankle bracelets on them, too.
5. President Biden will have to be prepared for violent opposition that erupts after (maybe before?) the election and continuing — not a war, just acts of violence and terrorism.
And 1 minute after Biden is inaugurated, I hope there are bulldozers ready to tear up the helicopter landing pad that was installed at Mar-a-Lago.
