The kinds of ballot and election fraud and incompetence we are seeing in jurisdiction after jurisdiction: "oops, look, here's 2500 more ballots!" "ballots were wheeled in in the dark of night through the back door", "dead guys still voting", "nursing home ballot roundup campaigns", "Gift cards for voting? Nothing to see here.", etc., have been going on forever. Likely more of a factor in a lot of local and statewide races, let there be no doubt, political operatives, community activists, and election officials have put their thumb on the scale many, many times in elections across our country, going back further than any of us would even hazard to guess, and right on up to 2018 and 2020.
So what was different in 2020? Two things: 1) Trump was the target of most of these mom and pop up to larger organized efforts to take the presidency, and the bastard unexpectedly and inexplicably 9from their perspective) got so many votes that extraordinary measures were necessary. And in doing so, they got sloppy. 2) Trump is assembling all these reports, an avalanche or reports, many of them in isolation either weakly explainable on their own, but even if not, small enough to be dismissively brushed aside as not impacting the larger outcome. He's also assembled a team of aggressive lawyers who WILL fight the corrupt system and it's good old boys and girls who normally pull this kind of shit with impunity. And in ones and twos, looked at in isolation, apologists look at each of these goings on, as they happened in other years, and conveniently say, "No big deal. There's no significant election fraud or ballot fraud in the U.S."
If you ask me, this stuff's been dirty from the get-go, not just this go-round. But it's been their swept out of sight, their 'dirty little secret'. In 2020, a dirty little secret wasn't going to beat 73 million (or more) votes, so they had to take far more drastic action, AND Donald J. Trump isn't going to let people pull that stuff, even if it turns out it doesn't make the difference in the election, and go down without throwing the people who did this to him a full on shit grenade.
Even if Trump's challenges aren't successful, I presently only give him a 15-20% chance maximum, I hope at a minimum the end result is ample election reform that eliminates all the dirty little secrets that apologists tell us didn't really matter for once and for all. Because the way we do this is an embarrassment. A full-on, undeniable, total, national embarrassment.
I agree with your assessment of Trumps chances. I cant see the outcome in his favor. I have read all of the "keep your chin up" "here is how Trump can still win" articles. I am certainly trying to maintain that positive attitude. However, the planning that went into this election deceit didn't happen over the summer. This has been a well planned and orchestrated undertaking. Could outside governmental organizations hostile to the US be at work/involved? The truth is always stranger than fiction. The country we grew up in Matty is dying a slow and painful death. Pride in our nation is dwindling. You're laughed at or belittled if you believe in America or American exceptionalism. I feel for my grandson. At this pace he will only read about how America used to be and I am sure it will be how bad it was until Socialism overcame Capitalism. The history of our country decades from now will read like the history of North Korea or the Soviet Union. We are living in a time where we will be faced with a mandatory vaccine for a virus that has a 99% recovery rate. We are living in a time where those the fought slavery are vilified. We are living in a time where not working and collecting money from the government is more acceptable than having a job. Where is Patrick Henry? Where are the patriots that want nay DEMAND freedom? I could continue to rant.....My advice is to pray, pray hard and pray often. Keep your powder dry. May God bless us all.
ReplyDeleteWell said, Bob!
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