How The Right Branded A Mock Election Exercise As A Dry Run For A Lefty Coup | Talking Points Memo

SNL had a skit like this for when W was up for re-election. They need to bring back Will Ferrell to do an update.

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Love the little hands!

"They intend to really have a coup and keep President Trump from taking the oath of office for a second term,” well, democrats really do have a nefarious plan to prevent a 2nd inauguration of the dump - we plan to overwhelmingly VOTE the mutha-fer OUT!

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I’ve never seen so much projection about their true intents in all my life. Every last word they speak regarding the Dem’s determination to steal the election is deflection away from their own intents to do just that. Blame them for that which you are guilty.

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Like Big Brother - now they’ll finally be under the public scrutiny they’ve always dreaded.

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And the mainstream media NEVER calls them out on it.

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My in-laws were just over as always on Saturday mornings. Conversation turned to Covid-19, and i was stunned by the complete divergence from reality my sis-in-law exhibited. She was adamant that we’re doing everything we can given that the CDC doesn’t even know what to do. The CDC keeps changing their minds, so how are we supposed to know what’s safe and what’s not? Yes, she deeply believes in the supernatural (god), so that pretty much explains why she’ll never believe actual science. Faith is the way to go, as demonstrated by the stupid scientists who keep changing their minds about everything, thus risking the future of civilization.

I had to politely leave the room.

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You’re very gracious.

I’d have slapped her into the middle of next week.

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As an epidemiologist, i concur

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I’m not at all scared by all this bullshit, and I doubt whether very many people are.

First, if Trump loses incontrovertibly by a wide margin, then all these conspiracy idiots will just have to come up with another conspiracy or two, and they wlll, of course.

Second, in all this hub bub, there’s little if any real inclusion of the court system here, at least that I can see. As with Florida in Bush v. Gore, irregularities are going to go to the courts, which will provide a kind of buffer to cool down whatever flames these idiots want to fan.

Perhaps. I will not argue what came first.

“For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”

1 Timothy 6:10

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I talked with a politically unengaged person last month. I brought up the removal of all the post office sorting machines.
She brightly said “But they do that every 12 years anyway!”

Now, I have to work with her again, so I could not challenge her on where she got that info. I have never heard that before. And somehow, that ‘regular replacement’ has never been right before an election.

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Not that hard and not that vexed.

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“How dare you try to predict how we might fuck up Democracy?!!”

You can smell the hysteria.

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“They” being the Voters…

There’s so much determined and stubborn ignorance, so much distrust of Democrats and progressives and our motives and policy goals, so much hatred … perhaps a 2 - country solution is what we’re heading for and need to think about in coming years. I know it sounds a bit outrageous, but continuing on what’s becoming a parallel universe trajectory might be just as untenable.

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Someone should tell him about the nice young men in their clean white coats …

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And we thought it was an exercise. The right is running headlong into the trap, this was the plan after all.


The article forgot another point.

Add to all of those stories this lovely article on another contentious topic:


and

We are all being played.

Behold the power of wingnut mantra.

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