Re: <nettime> why is it so quiet (in the US)

[lizvlx <liz@ubermorgen.com>]

Hi Felix

Yeah, same same.

I cant write much more, I up too upset today with how shit is hitting
the fan here in Austria and having a kid in senior year (jeez I really 
hope she won’t have to repeat this year)

I also think democrats are taking it too lightly again. OK, white Dems.
I am not saying that I really believe that a coup has a great chance, but
it does have A chance and that is fuckin mental.

But then everything is fuckin mental in 2020, so anything is possible.
Maybe there comes the vaccine and Pelosi will miraculously understand
that she is not the person to reform the party and we will build green
cities on mars and climate change will give us all a pass and say, no
humans, just kidding.

Or, shit hits the fan.
The Austrian in me says, shit will hit fan.
Coz that’s how the world is.
The American in me says, we can do this.
A crisis is a chance.

Today I am an Austrian, I hope I will feel a bit more American tomorrow.

Liz



> On 13.11.2020, at 10:10, Felix Stalder <felix@openflows.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I must admit, amidst post-terror assault on civil liberties and covid
> cases spiraling out of control here in Austria, the US election drama
> has moved a bit lower in my attention, but not that much.
> 
>> From what I understand, the numbers show that Trump lost. Period. No
> recount will change that.
> 
> But, the game of the Republicans is to create so much doubt about the
> fairness of the elections (without any evidence) to make it impossible
> to certify them in time. Frivolous lawsuits are great at gumming things
> up. This would then allow the Republican dominated legislatures in swing
> states to appoint their own electors which would bring Trump the
> majority. In the mean time, the minister of defense, who previously
> refused to send in troops against mostly peaceful protestors, has been
> fired and replaced with a loyalist. Apparently, similar moves are in the
> wings for the FBI and CIA.
> 
> I know, Trump is often portrayed as an incompetent child, and the
> strategy is totally outlandish, but the Republican party has shown to be
> a pretty ruthless and successful power machine playing both a short and
> a long game, and it's exactly the outlandishness of the strategy that is
> its strongest point.
> 
> In the mean time, the democrats pretend all of this to be irrelevant (an
> 'embarrassment' at worst) and happily appoint a transition team full of
> corporate insiders like it's 1992.
> 
> Am I totally misreading the situation?
> 
> Felix
> 
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