• would_be_appreciated@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours ago

    With the now-totally-legal-thanks-to-SCOTUS voter purging, theft and destruction of ballots, aggressive voter suppression tactics, and polling that indicates an electoral college but not population vote win for Trump, they might not have to ‘Stop the Steal’ at all. They’ve “legally” pre-stolen it themselves.

    Instead of being concerned what the Republicans might do if they lose, it might be worth wondering if everybody else should really take it lying down like they did the 2000 election.

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      Last time, “stop the steal” failed because there wasn’t any actual election fraud to be found. This time, there will be actual election fraud to find, and plenty of it, because they will have committed it themselves. They will then use their own crimes as an excuse to claim the vote tallies are unreliable and throw out entire precincts worth of results in Democrat-leaning areas. This will result in a claimed Trump win of both the electoral college and the popular vote in a landslide, and the MAGA SCOTUS will rubber-stamp it.

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    12 hours ago

    One of the many myriad things I hate about Trump is that he’s made presidential election season even longer with this sort of shit.

    Usually this ends and I can enjoy the holidays, but no, I have to hear abiut this shit until fucking January.

    Fuck him.

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    14 hours ago

    “Leave the door open”? It’s literally their spoken and strategized plan for the election. How are things the Republicans have been loudly and obviously preparing for and putting in place for literally years “breaking news” days from the election? Democrats are so fucked.

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      13 hours ago

      I sure hope so. After all of this, if they are still sticking to crimes, and treason, they deserve a nice ‘shady vacation’.

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    13 hours ago

    I mean, Kamala runs the senate. They really don’t have any option to try the same scheme again. I do worry though, what new tricks they might try.

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      They’ll call for her to recuse herself or whatever, and Democrats have a history of caving to ridiculous demands of Republicans like that.