It’s one message for MAGA-land and the opposite one for Jill Stein voters. And they just might get away with it.
Steve Bannon no doubt thought he was being deviously clever. Speaking with The New York Times this week, he elaborated on a sophisticated plan that Donald Trump’s allies have developed for boosting third-party candidates, so they siphon votes from President Biden.
A key part of this scheme, Bannon noted, entails boosting expected Green Party candidate Jill Stein by highlighting oil production under Biden to pull environmentally concerned voters away from him. As Bannon put it:
No Republican knows that oil production under Biden is higher than ever. But Jill Stein’s people do. … Stein is furious about the oil drilling. The college kids are furious about it. The more exposure these [third-party candidates] get, the better it is for us.
Whoa, that’s some serious 11-dimensional chess, Steve! Except for one thing. If you think for a second about Bannon’s quote—that “oil production under Biden is higher than ever”—it entirely undermines one of Trump’s biggest lies: the claim that Biden’s effort to transition the United States to a decarbonized economy has destroyed the nation’s “energy independence,” leaving us weak and hollow to our very core.
I don’t think he cares…they’re doing the Russia thing where they just flood the zone with info and disinfo to make it difficult to discern reality.
I’m sure a lot of these people have taken seminars in Moscow on how to do just this. Paid for by Putin, of course. Travel expenses and nice dinners included. Gift basket and duffle bags of money on the way home.
Maybe the seminar was held on July 4, 2018.
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/04/625980917/gop-congressmen-visit-moscow-thaw-icy-relations-before-trump-putin-talks
russian stooges fly to moscow on the 4th of July.
It’s like the swallows to Capistrano.