By the week after the 2020 election, former Trump national security official Rich Higgins had some ideas about what was going on.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1403774
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1403774
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Higgins, once described by Frank Gaffney as “one of our nation’s most astute and skilled political warfare specialists,” [. . .]
Well. If Gaffney said that, why are we even bothering thinking Higgins’ plan might be a wee bit suspect?
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How can someone with a passion about being a complete nut job keep their day job?
Just asking, because you might think someone would notice and try to get them some help.
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Ah Bull Shit. The voting machine I used had Tin Foil wrapped around it to prevent such things.
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I think these guys just like to throw around phrases like Quick Reaction Force, Color Revolution, Hammer and Scorecard programs. It’s boss.
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OK, I’m ready for the Jan. 6th Committee to hold televised hearings. This guy Higgins would make a good one to put before the American people. So be it if he pleads the 5th. Let’s watch his face when he’s asked about what he did. It’s time for hearings. Not just one. And not all of them in a single shot or a week. Hold one and see how it goes, and then recalibrate the way they’re held, who did the best at asking cogent, revealing questions (and, by contrast, who was a just trying to get sound bites with their questions), etc.
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During the transition period, archived tweets from Higgins’s now-deleted account show him promoting the idea, advanced by Sidney Powell, that the election results were the product of an international communist conspiracy involving Hugo Chavez. He made room for Italy as well in the baroque world of the theory.
Is this some sort of chicken or egg thingy? Who influenced who here? Would Powell have the slightest knowledge of these whacko concepts to weave them into some nefarious plot to steal an election?
I mean I would hope that someone didn’t get their hands on a Dan Brown rough draft and think that it was a real plot.
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Between Italian military satellites and Jewish space lasers, how is America even standing?
How scary is it that a hack like Higgins was in the NSC? And I thought they didn’t see color. Now every color represents a revolution?
What the hell did I just read?
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conspiracy: noun: 1 : a secret plan made by two or more people to do something that is harmful or illegal, example: “The CIA uncovered a conspiracy against the government.”
2 : the act of secretly planning to do something that is harmful or illegal, example: “They were accused of conspiracy to commit murder.”
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Italian Jewish space lasers!
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Jewish space lasers and Italian space hackers. Goes good together, like pizza bagels.
That theory holds that the 2020 election results were in part the product of an Italian defense contractor using military-grade satellites to beam different vote totals into American voting machines, thus depriving Trump of his victory
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Like minds!
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Mutually Assured Wanking!
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That’s just so silly … … Now let me tell you what you can do with Maseratis … …
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Gafney & Higgins are a clear ‘signal’ that the White House had reached peak cray-cray. Meadows was a uniquely stupid gatekeeper. I have to marvel at the spectacle.
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I don’t think this committee has members going for sound bites to aggrandize themselves. I think they have a plan to lay it all out in an easily understandable manner. The detail will be excruciating for some. Bring it on.
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It’s incredible the lengths these people will go to rather than applying Occam’s Razor: a wildly unpopular president who got impeached twice got, unsurprisingly, fewer votes than his opponent.
But instead, let’s dream up some nonsense, throw some code names on it, maybe some acronyms, and ask for raw intel where we can maybe find some bamboo or space lasers. It’s like freaking Iraqi WMD all over again, only even dumber.
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I had locs and cream cheese sushi for lunch yesterday. It was not bad really.
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Oh, OK, so this guy is from the “Delusional Fascist Lunatics” workgroup within the POTUS45 WH?
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These people are certifiable. For four years, the country was being run by no-shit, honest-to-dog, off-their-meds lunatics.
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