AP - Barr OKs election probes despite little evidence of fraud
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What are you worried about? There is nothing that they can do. Nothing but throw shit at the wall and watch it slowly slide down for 74 days.
There's a difference between being "too calm" and not being whipped into a frenzy of doom every time these chucklefucks follow the next obvious step of "How 2 Fascist 101" and do it in the most incompetent blundery way possible.
As the posters above me said, this is a fight for your mind. This is why I think you can be both concerned and amused. The bully only has power when you give it to him. We, as a country, need to tell him to shut up and no one cares. We've moved on. Celebration, joy, laughing at his clowns, are all a part of not giving him power. It doesn't mean you don't take it seriously.
Come on man, you don't find all this shit worrying? Yeah Biden will still be President but look at all this shit!
The bully has institutional power over me by controlling the executive and judicial branches of the government along with the cops and army, all of which he can use however he wants with no consequences.
Fetterman is someone who would recognize fascism, yes. But he is a government representative, and the best strategy anyone with power can take right now is to not allow it any sort of legitimacy. It's a response to the threat, it doesn't mean the threat doesn't exist.
This is not true. If the power of the executive were unlimited, Trump would have already used it.
Again, these people are far less competent than you give them credit for.
I will say this...Republicans are pretty good at pushing a narrative...even if it's false. Look at Trump and after all he's done...he still got over 70 million people to vote for him. People also were not a huge fan of Hilary...why? Because of years of piling false narratives on her...it's what allowed Trump to win in the first place. The thing is Republicans are sort of "forced" to either agree with Trump or not speak against it. There are runoff races in Georgia coming up that will determine who controls the Senate. We also have midterms in less than 2 years and Republicans have many seats up for grabs. Trump meanwhile is basically the "leader" of the Republican party right now with 93 percent of their party approving of him. If they lash out against him then they risk fracturing a huge portion of their voters. How effective will this disinformation campaign be? For Trump's base, very effective. For Republicans, pretty effective (considering the high approval of Trump). For independents? Right now not very effective but if this gains any traction you'll be hearing about a "stolen" election for the next 4 years.
When are we supposed to start worrying? What's the next line that needs to be crossed first?
They can run out the clock and have Congress decide, at which point Trump's chances of being selected to be president greatly increase.
It's not the attempt that worries me, it's fairly sad and pathetic. It's that they're attempting.
And I never said the threat doesn't exist. I said that the average person treating Biden as the future president, celebrating, and treating these moves as stupid and brainless is also part of delegitimization. You can do that and still take it seriously.
Imagine if he actually did something positive. He could have actually done something worthwhile instead of destroying everything he touched.
No they cannot. This can only happen if a majority has not been established. It will have been established but challenged at that point. In order for a majority to have been overturned, the litigation must have been actually won by those bringing the claims. If not, the majority stands as established by the vote counting process.
What did you mean about tone policing? And I'm sorry, I replied without seeing your next post.
I got yelled at for saying I can both laugh at their antics and be worried.
If one or these cases or investigation gets taken seriously which still hasn't happened. Trump is 0-11 in court cases in the past week and some of those are because they couldn't even file the suit paperwork properly. They've been getting laughed at by judges and Barr has authorized the DOJ to do something they were going to do anyway after the counting. People are panicking about hypotheticals and should slow done until something substantial actually occurs. Like the election guy in the DoJ resigning is something but we don't know enough details about it to go either way so we should wait for more concrete details.
Best of both worlds. Don't have to actually investigate something that will obviously yield fruitless results, but you get to put out a statement that you know undermines the election to your base.
The follow-up is important, but I don't think we should dismiss the absolute GOP fuckery going on.
What's the old anarchist slogan? "If voting changed anything they'd make it illegal"
Well...
This is what I'm worried about who can hold them accountable?? I'm fucking terrified
Barr will be the first to be fired. But I agree, these fascist are definitely riling up his brain dead base.
It's pathetic, but also unsettling as hell.
On social media right now, conservatives are in a while different reality. They have completely lost the ability to think critically and weigh the veracity of information.
I wonder if all they find is evidence of the attempts of Trump supporters trying their harebrained schemes of fraud that they accuse the Dems of doing, ultimately further proving that the Republicans are the party of projection and our election system is secure enough to have prevented that stupidity.
So far it feels like most of Trump's attempts have either fell flat in court or backfired on them embarrassingly.
So far it feels like most of Trump's attempts have either fell flat in court or backfired on them embarrassingly.
I am worried by this, all these 'checks and balances' haven't stopped Trump from doing what he wants in the past so why would they now?
Trump didn't want this election to happen at all. How did that go for him?
He's not a magician, or an all-powerful rulebreaker. He's been able to run through the unwritten conventions of US politics, but he can't do shit about the written one, and all of this falls firmly in that bucket.
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Is this a parody account?
POTUS was tweeting there was 100 mil mail in votes cast in Philadelphia alone. It takes half of a brain cell to debunk these claims. Whats wrong with these people.
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So it is not completely toothless and they have to pick up two frivolous cases on the taxpayer dollar.
These aren't real people!!] I spent a good amount of time on Twitter and these people aren't from the US. They're fake Twitter accounts trying to pass of as MAGA people from the US.
If you go further down into the profile you'll see they liked roman players in Roman football teams and retweeted it. Several people have posted the same stuff like this one.
This is the stuff the media and everyone has warned about. Russian and Europeans trying to influence the election with misinformation. Shits scary!!
Fundraising dollars, motivated base, groundwork for more voter suppression laws and Congressional obstruction.
