Trump's Martial Plan

By Hubie and Bertie

A few years back, journalist Sarah Kendzior warned that if Benedict Donald lost the 2020 election, the weeks between Election Day and Inauguration Day would be the most dangerous period in American history. Sorry to say, but she was right.

Word is surfacing of a Oval Office meeting that took place yesterday, in which Benedict Donald hosted a wackier-than-usual group of right-wing nutjobs: Sidney Powell, Rudolph Giuliani and Michael Flynn. A few regular administration officials were toddling in and out. Apparently one of the toddlers was alarmed enough to tip off Axios and The New York Times about it. Ideas discussed included:

• Declaring martial law to overturn the election. This is favored by Flynn, who has gone even further off the deep end since Trump pardoned him.
  

• Telling the Department of Homeland Security to seize voting machines (presumably, Dominion's). Giuliani even called Ken Cuccinelli about it. Cootchy, who is in his position at DHS illegally, thought it a bridge too far, even for him.

• Naming Sidney Powell some sort of a special counsel to investigate the 2020 voter fraud that didn't exist. (Now that, actually, might have some entertainment value.)
  

Still and all, none of this is funny. "I’ve been covering Donald Trump for a while," tweeted Jonathan Swan of Axios. "I can’t recall hearing more intense concern from senior officials who are actually Trump people. The Sidney Powell-Michael Flynn ideas are finding an enthusiastic audience at the top."

So, are we going to wake up tomorrow to hear tanks rolling through the streets? Don't bet on it, says government ethics guru Walter Shaub — career civil servants will save the day.

"Their allegiance is to this nation and not to some politician temporarily residing in government housing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue," he explains. "The career civilian and uniformed public servants would refuse to carry out the orders to facilitate his coup." (Of course, it's not very reassuring that Shaub also says, "God help us all if I'm wrong.")

You know whose fault this is? The Republican Party's. They're the ones who nominated this tinpot dictator in 2016. They're the ones who have enabled him ever since.

It's also the fault of the 17 state attorneys general and the 126 Republican House members who recently threw their weight behind Ken Paxton's ridiculous Texas lawsuit — including our own Congresswoman, who disgusts us. And it's the fault of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who was one of the 126. And let's not forget Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who stayed silent on the Presidential election for far too long. 

Are you freaked out that we're even having a martial-law conversation in the first place? Blame the GOP. We cats HISS.

(PHOTO: The Lincoln Memorial on June 2, one day after Trump tear-gassed George Floyd demonstrators so he could march across Lafayette Park and hold up a Bible. Win Mcnamee/Getty Images)