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comment by am_Unition
am_Unition  ·  23 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 23, 2024

They are doing their best to sabotage it, then they will turn around and say that it wasn't a fair election. Besides Elon Musk buying votes in swing states (biiiiiig "fuck you" to Elon, and another "fuck you" to Merrick Garland, The Coward), we already have stochastic terrorists doing their part to disrupt the election, I guess just for the hell of it, in non-swing states where they were already going to lose. Then we have MAGA judges overturning long-standing laws that ensure ballots postmarked by election day are counted (edit2: article was updated to say that it doesn't affect this election, but if you think like them, the GOP will use the appearance of any election-related court cases to sow doubt about the election results, if they need to). Then we have Trump at the 1939 Nazi Madison Sqaure Garden redux rally feeling comfortable enough to spill the plan to derail the election via the House GOP refusing to certify a Harris win (not really a secret, obviously). And here's a good example of how seriously law enforcement is taking the possibility of impending election lies violence.

I could go on and on, surely to no one's surprise, but I'll spare you. Chaos benefits the GOP. They will escalate the chaos between now and January 20th. Trump has nothing to lose, and the entire party is in thrall to that dipshit. Everything has to go right for Harris to take the white house. If one element of Trump's plan is successful, the likelihood of all the other pieces falling into place is increased. And if he legit wins? Obviously that's it. No one will be organizing en masse to prevent a Trump certification. It's asymmetrical warfare.

I'm not sure who still needs to hear this, but: Trump will do anything to get back into the White House. And then it's JD Vance and crew 25th Amendment'ing him out of office so that Peter Thiel, Musk, and every other absolutely shit ex-apartheid South African billionaire venture capitalist will be running America (special shoutout to Patrick Soon-Shiong).

Btw, Elon Musk is a fucking Nazi.

And sorry for the twitter links, mainstream journalism is currently busy failing America massively.

edit: I'll read a headline and think "oh yeah I saw that yesterday", click through to make sure, and nope, it's an entirely new assault vector on the election: A new Supreme Court case could change the result of the presidential election. It is all coming down to Pennsylvania, and maybe Michigan. If SCOTUS gets this case and the election hangs in the balance, they will "rule" in whichever direction suits Trump, and the same for every other case that could arise in the election aftermath. Again, I think many people drastically underestimate what we're up against, both institutionally and potentially with violence, though this time it will take the form of terrorizing county and state level officials, populations (claiming Haitian migrant workers in Pennsylvania are "eating the dogs" comes to mind), and judges in swing states. Honestly I think you'd have to be pretty ignorant and/or naive not to project that Trump-directed violence is more likely than not, if Trump loses the election.