Pretty weak

1. There aren't "endless streams" of posts about the election being "handed to Trump." There are lots of posts by people rationally worried about the rapid proliferation of red flags indicating that the process itself is being interfered with, partially based on alarm bells being sounded by really bright people in a position to know more than us: Leon Panetta, McCaffrey, Timothy Snyder, Esper, Malcolm Nance, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Bolton, Dr. Bandy Lee, etc.. The real issue is how much collateral damage will be done to our nation's institutions, norms, customs, credibility and reputation between now and January 20.

2. You can never tell by how someone conducts himself during a period like this what is transpiring in their minds. That isn't how we behave. Didn't you read Sun Tzu in college? This does not even rise to the level of human psychology 101.

Straw man argument, overwrought and undercooked IMO. This post falls somewhere next to your defense of the GSA for delaying transition funds and assistance to Biden and Harris.

Watch out for Stephen Miller's immigration agenda

That's one that worries me. Also: deregulation, environmental policy ("Heck, let's sell off the national parks!&quot

If I ran an agency affected by this "flurry" of changes, I might tell my people to "sit tight", like Mattis used to do at DoD. Just slow roll it until Trump is gone.

I know we knew this was coming, but it still pisses me off enormously. It demonstrates utter contempt for norms, and for our new President and VP.

I really hope John Yoo isn't involved in this, because his whole raison d'etre is that he can craft Executive Orders that are very difficult to undo. That is how he caught the White House's attention in the first place.

Shit gets real when you're looking a pair of F.B.I. agents in the eyes.

Many of these bogus witnesses to voter fraud are going to see things differently in an interrogation room.

Trained agents are really good at dislodging the truth. It's one thing to watch an interrogation on YouTube and think, "Heck, I can fool these idiots" and another entirely to spend a couple of hours under the scrutiny of experts in questioning witnesses.

This will be a disaster for our HUMINT in Eastern Europe (Russia), and it also makes

me more fearful that Chris Wray's firing is going to happen, because it's clear from Peter Strzok's book that the FBI has much still-classified casework on Russian interference. But it could also expose counterintelligence investigations into some well-known Trump allies that have not yet been made public.

That opening scene in Strzok's book (and reiterated later in the book) highly suggests we don't know many of the investigations that were opened in early 2017.

State Department contact form

If any of you want to voice your indignation (I just did, and will send another later), here is a contact form for the State Dept.

https://register.state.gov/contactus/ContactUsForm

EDIT:

Here's a contact form for the General Services Administration (GSA):

https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/contact-us

Emily Murphy's business email address is floating around DU and Twitter too, but I can't locate it at the moment.

Well done! K&R

We should observe how Europe handles their outbursts of demagogic populism and see if we can learn any tricks.

This is not a problem we face alone, but it's a difficult one to solve.

The dictator playbook is ancient, yet the old tricks work like magic. We need to educate our people to recognize the signs of fascism.

I couldn't have said it better.

I've never said the "coup" would succeed. My question all along is: How much damage to American credibility, stability, customs, norms and institutions are we willing to accept by pretending this isn't happening?

If the outcome is acceptable, did nothing happen? A lot is happening. I'm not waiting for something to happen. I'm watching something happen.

It's also terribly unfair to Biden and Harris.

I just watched Malcolm Nance's take.

It's quite interesting, and less terrifying (but his theory is still intensely annoying). He believes these people won't have time to accomplish much, are "title jumping" and that the two guys moving from Devin Nunes' office to the DoD are likely to be arrested "within a year." He also believes if they try to pull Intel on the Russian investigation it will be reported instantaneously by a major news organization. He also said, paraphrasing, "nobody in DoD will talk to these people."

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017619066

I'm not saying he's right or wrong, but it is quite fascinating.

I 100% agree with you this needs to be watched.

Biden is very smart. And he's probably getting advice from mental health professionals

on how to handle trump. Mike Bloomberg used psychiatrists to help him deal with Trump and I'm sure Joe is doing something along the same lines.

Yesterday, Frank Figliuzzi said Biden was handling everything perfectly, the way an experienced FBI agent would handle an irrational barricaded subject.

IMO he is exuding the calm and power that is most appropriate for this situation. He has set his course and that course makes Trump irrelevant, which will make Trump angrier than direct confrontation, which is futile.

This article looks better than the one I posted earlier