REPUBLICANS:...They're Out To Play "The Big Lie" Card... Coup, Baby, Coup...Will Not Accept Defeat In 2024...Elise Stefanik Is Sick Party's Poster Child...

 

By DUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ

McALLEN, Texas |...They tried in 2020 and they'll take it one step farther in 2024. Dry runs take on a certain look and that insurrection at the U.S. Capitol serves as a ready model for what's to come. The election will take place, only Republicans will not accept a defeat. Not in the presidential race.

America is staring at a wilder coup attempt.

We all keep reading about it, and it appears the message is settling-in. Nicely, I'd say. Perhaps that's what it means to always be ready to fight for our freedoms. Military veterans know of those occasional, ever-gnawing setbacks; this one will have to be dealt with accordingly.

When a Republican is being looked-at as a potential vice-president, well, we expect smart and useful dialogue, not talk of coups and political disarray. There's New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, for example. She's said to be at - or near - the top of reptilian Republican Donald J. Trump's second-banana list.

Is she up to the job? Maybe politically, but certainly not civilly.

This from newrepublic.com: [ Elise Stefanik (shown at left) is ready and willing to put Donald Trump before country and state. On Thursday, the MAGA lawmaker all but admitted she would definitely have done a coup and not certified the 2020 presidential election results on January 6 if she were in former Vice President Mike Pence’s shoes.

"Had you been vice president on January 6, 2021, what would you have done?" asked CNN’s Kaitlin Collins.

"I would not have done what Mike Pence did, I don’t think that was the right approach. I specifically stand by what I said on the House floor, and I stand by my statement, which was that there was unconstitutional overreach, there was unconstitutional overreach in states like Pennsylvania," Stefanik responded.

"I think it’s very important that we continue to stand up for the Constitution and have legal and secure elections, which we did not have in 2020, and tens of millions of Americans agree with me," she added. ]

As noted in the write-up, Stefanik's throwaway line of claiming to stand for the protection of the U.S. Constitution contradicts Pence’s own defense of his decision to certify the votes, effectively making Joe Biden the next president.

As Pence put it in an interview with the Des Moines Register, "By God’s grace, I did my duty that day. I had no right to overturn the election. And the American people deserve to know that the president asked me to choose him over keeping my oath to the Constitution, but I chose the Constitution. And I always will."

And it's not just Stefanik. Dozens of other Republicans - most all in Congress - have lined-up behind Trump's current campaign for the White House - even as he lugs four criminal cases and 91 felonies on his hefty back.

It's no longer an idle political threat.

Republicans are the lesser grouping in our national political contests. They know it. And they have little else to fight with at the ballot box. Noise and bellicose posturing is their game.

Fatty Stefanik, an unaccomplished, run-of-the-mill congressional hag up until now, has seen her profile grow in stature.

Putting out wild shit will do that in our stormy political climate...

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