The 2024 Election

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  1. Piobaire

    Piobaire Village Idiot

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    Trump isn't trying to win this election in any normal sense; he's not even campaigning in critical "swing" states, and his grand finale, Madison Square Gardens, is in New York, where he's trailing Harris by 16%. Instead of winning the election, they're planning on stealing it. At his hate rally at Madison Square Gardens, Trump coquettishly kept referring to "a little secret" between himself and MAGA traitor and election denier Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House (Johnson is one of the 147 member "sedition caucus" that participated in Trump's failed coup d'etat in 2021). Remember all of those election officials who quit after the last election due to a tsunami of death threats? About 70 of them have been replaced with election-denying MAGA cultists, which during the primaries refused to certify results at least 25 times. Trump doesn't have to win. Instead, they're planning on loosing by a close enough margin that he can simply unilaterally declare himself emperor, enough counties will refuse to certify the results as to make it impossible for states to certify their Electoral College slates, and the election will be remanded to the MAGA-controlled House of Representatives, where the sedition caucus will gleefully rubber-stamp it for Trump.
    Game over.
    Thanks for playing.
     
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  2. Bazz888

    Bazz888 Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    I hope you're wrong. However the blame for any capability to create such an outcome as you describe rests with the GOP and its senior people / top people over the past years, especially lead-up to 2016.
    When I say senior, I don't mean old. Obviously the term 'top' is doing much heavy lifting because they have failed abysmally to protect America from an enemy within
    They have failed to protect democracy.

    The Dems are little better, in that regard. They carried on in office such that the upsurge in extremes, such as the Tea party, initially, were ignored. The potential consequences ignored as if it were someone else's problem. Well it is. Its the problem for the whole US, not just KH, who incidentally, is as much a Dem as those who ignored the move to extremism
     
  3. newo

    newo Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    In such a scenario I don't think it would be game over, there would be an uprising that dwarfs January 6!
     
  4. scratcho

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    IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE.

    OOPS---yes it can! :mad:
     
  5. Bazz888

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    Ive listened to very historically knowledgeable people suggest similar. Not bigger than jan6 but more of them, smaller, in each contentious state. That to be followed potentially by a split in military and potentially becoming a civil war. I'm not ready to believe that fully but numerous small jan6's, yes, I can envisage those.
     
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    scratcho Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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  7. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    They were just talking about that scenario, on NPR.
    Seems Trump has made the statement that he has a surprise in store.
     
  8. Bazz888

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    Seems simple enough to fix. Don't announce results, until all are counted and then announce them alternately , red result, blue result.
    Or
    Make sure its explained to everybody, so there's no ignorance or suspicions/fears are allayed.

    Imv, it's incumbent on every elected rep and state official to make sure the public understands the systems and procedures. Had they been doing that properly, we wouldn't be in this potential mess.
     
  9. Twogigahz

    Twogigahz Senior Member

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    It's just that he has his bully pulpit, X, that he'll announce victory at 9:01pm election night, and when it doesn't go his way, he'll condemn the election, cry fraud, wha wha wha why.... What ever happened to fake electors? Nothing.
     
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    Thank You President Biden for setting up uncertainty in elections by inviting millions of Undocumented ; having your surrogates press for granting voting rights to the recent arrivals.
     
  11. Piobaire

    Piobaire Village Idiot

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    (Edit)that is a lie, start to finish. Biden is not "inviting millions of undocumented", and there is no "grant of voting rights". That is 100% fact-free MAGA propaganda, priming the cult for next week when their Führer loses the popular vote and they'll desperately need some powerless minority to blame.
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    Illegal crossings at U.S. southern border reach lowest point of Biden presidency
     
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  12. Timsk

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    Wow Piobaire, you need to wake up.
     
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  13. scratcho

    scratcho Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    It's against the law to vote or even TRY to vote in our elections and you fuckin' know it, (Edit)!:mad:
     
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    It's against the law the for a lot of things but our prisons are overflowing so I suppose some people vote illegally too.

    And why do old people feel the need to call other people names when replying to a post?
     
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  16. scratcho

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    I can't speak for anyone but myself, but anyone that's republican or at this point admires that useless son of a bitch trump, deserves anything they get from me! Don't forget--I've been around from 1939 and --I KNOW--REPEAT--I KNOW what republicans think--how they vote , who they are for--who they are against--and NOW I know what kind of a prick trump is. I don't like liars and I don't like crooks---therefore those who now seem to be fine with such--get no respect from me. I was actually very willing to give the guy a chance when I first saw him. I didn't know anything about him. But I knew IMMEDIATELY that he was lacking in basic character when he made fun of that disabled man that asked him a question. That was low. AS low as one can get.:rage:
     
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  17. Twogigahz

    Twogigahz Senior Member

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    Boys, fight nice now.
     
  18. scratcho

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    If you feel that anything I said is wrong--please point that out to me. Thank you.
     
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    You are so funny for your age but blind as a bat. (I don't like liars and I don't like crooks).
    You all have a great time on election day.
     
  20. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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