{"id":4082,"date":"2020-12-28T20:11:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T20:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=144174"},"modified":"2020-12-28T20:11:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T20:11:10","slug":"jumping-the-shark-with-stalin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/28\/jumping-the-shark-with-stalin\/","title":{"rendered":"Jumping the Shark with Stalin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jumping the line. Photo by Doug Mills\/Getty<\/em><\/p>\n

Well huh. The GOP has now tilted so beyond our earthly sphere they’ve turned to intrepid Dumbest<\/a> Guy in Congress Louie Gohmert to lead a small band of brave GOP rebels in yet another<\/em> effort to overturn the election because they don’t like how it turned out and Reality Bites. In the latest flying-by-the-desperate-seat-of-their-pants scheme, <\/a>Texas’ Gohmert and 11 eminent Arizona plaintiffs – head of Students for Trump, Second Vice-Chair of Maricopa County Republicans etc – are suing Vice-President Mike Pence, asking Trump-appointed judge Jeremy Kernodle to declare Pence has “the exclusive authority and sole discretion\u201d to decide which electoral votes from a given state should be counted under the arcane-until-right-now 1887 Electoral Count Act; under this scenario, when Pence appears on Jan. 6 to formally certify Biden’s Electoral College win, he will throw out <\/a>the already-cast electoral college votes in swing states and appoint his own slate of pro-Trump electors so we can suffer through four more years of unspeakable carnage. The idea was eagerly taken up<\/a> by right-wing pollsters Rasmussen, who quoted <\/a>– checks notes – democratic icon Joseph Stalin on the subject: \u201cThose who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.” Legal scholars and other functioning adults swiftly dismissed the notion<\/a> one guy can suddenly come in Jan. 6 and decide who’s president as hopelessly far-fetched, as in, “This is insane,<\/a>” “They are lunatics, <\/a>“This is NUTS,” and, in one final, rude twist <\/a>of reason, “When you’re down to Goober Gohmert, you’re out of ammo.”<\/p>\n

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Another problem with the plan: As COVID rages<\/a> with no end in sight, having killed<\/a> 1 in 1,000 Americans and infected 1 in 17, Pence, the alleged head of Trump’s “Coronavirus Task Force,” is quietly hiding, <\/a>aka on a two-week ski vacation, <\/em><\/a>hitting the rich slopes of Vail CO <\/a>in defiance of CDC guidelines<\/a> and accompanied by an entourage <\/a>of up to 50 Secret Service agents who’ve all booked <\/a>rooms at rates starting at $730 a night and soaring to $1,200, and yes that’s our money,<\/a> and don’t forget the $1,000 a day for ski instructors. Since his arrival, Pence has been blasted <\/a>online by State Sen. Kerry Donovan: She’s reminded him he’s in a mandatory mask zone and that, <\/span>thanks to his failures in leadership, <\/span><\/span>their food bank is serving four times more people, their <\/span>crisis centers calls are up 48%, and “we just lost our 11th neighbor to death by suicide.” She’s not the only one pissed, <\/a>especially given that last month he vacationed <\/a>in Florida, he just got the vaccine as frontline workers haven’t, and he perpetually touts his Christian faith – “What would Jesus do? Not<\/em> go skiing”-  even as millions of little people get sick, await vaccines, die solitary ungodly deaths, face eviction, stand in food lines, labor overtime in hospitals, home-school their kids, juggle rent and meds, live in terror of white domestic terroristm by RV bomb and otherwise stagger through the rubble. But hey, have a good day on the slopes like your murderous lord and master on the links. The <\/span><\/span>Lincoln Project <\/a><\/span><\/span>on these two soulless losers: “The end is coming.” Damn straight, says an impatient America:  “Trump and Pence. Golfing and skiing. Fuckers.” <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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