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

Josh writes:
" The Law Is Coming"

Goddamn I sure hope so. I wanna see trump “twist in the wind”.

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I worked in a medical school and taught med students. I taught “Do no harm” as a central theme. And then taught them the biochemistry of steroids as part of a team taught course. This Florida governor is actively courting a major disaster. To all at TPM… It is my advice to avoid the state entirely. If you were going to visit, cancel your trip. If you live there …please consider moving if at all possible. It’s gonna be getting ugly in St Pete. Save your life, do not visit the state,

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Who paid for Bannon’s bail? Putin or Kim Jong-Un?

If Republicans spent half as much time working on real problems instead of trying to project their own corruption on others, they might be able to figure out why the virus, hurricanes and wildfires or the economy are out of control.

Or why they are losing both the Senate and the White House.

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Oh I so hope the GOPers will lose the senate and the White House. I hope Mitch gets tossed out on his ear.

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While some results of TIP’s experiment were legitimately alarming — in one scenario, for example, “Trump” invoked the Insurrection Act — others were outlandish.

Does anyone really believe, for instance, that Joe Biden, having lost the Electoral College this November, will encourage western states to secede and form a new political entity, “Cascadia,” unless Republicans agree to grant statehood to Puerto Rico and D.C, divide California up five ways, abolish the Electoral College and institute a retirement age of 70 at the Supreme Court?

Well, if the article hadn’t already stated so, we’d have known from the above that some of the TIP participants were Republicans.

It’s pretty clear that we as a nation blew a saving throw back in 2016.

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The shorter the time to Nov3rd, the more crazy trumper will get.
He knows he has lost and doesn’t want to go to jail!
Throwing crazy stuff at the wall is all he has left for hope of a way out.

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Pivot time!

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He’s been out on bail.

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The endless projection of the Trump family, Bannon, et al can be turned into a series of right-wing themed movie theaters replacing bankrupt anchor stores in remaining malls across America once the pandemic ends, or even if it doesn’t.

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We are persisting!

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This Bannon effort seems very sinister, except that I recall two things. One is that Bannon’s really been discredited among Americans with a functioning brain who are not gangsters. It’s no longer fun to see how far he’ll go, knowing what he’s done already. Second, assuming Democrats win big in the election and it is widely reported and believed among people in the real world, this counterstory about Dems stealing anything is going to fall flat. We’ll of course wait to see if Bannon gets Trump to call out the Border Patrol to seize the capital, but I don’t think that would be as easy a move as this simple poisoning of the minds of the Trump base.

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Maybe just re-create Biosphere and put Bannon, Barr, Miller, Manafort, Stone, and all the rest in there. Seal it, and just let them out for their trials. The ones that survive, that is.

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Wait until the 6G towers begin broadcasting … on OAN, that’s a two-hour special.

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Money, the root of all evil.

Most definitely a critical hit.

With live public video surveillance. Now that would be Must See Reality TV! Just think of the ratings.

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We have been reduced to this by the Republican Party:

‘I Feel Sorry for Americans’: A Baffled World Watches the U.S.

By Hannah Beech

From Myanmar to Canada, people are asking: How did a superpower allow itself to be felled by a virus? And why won’t the president commit to a peaceful transition of power?

This is the ad we should be running in every purple and red state. The rest of us already knew it was coming as long as Trump was allowed to stay in office after the impeachment.

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I’d buy that for a dollar.

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The love of money is the root of all evil.
Not money itself.

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