In the final minute of Tuesday night’s presidential debate, President Donald Trump laid out something of an order for supporters of his: “I’m urging my supporters to go in to the polls and watch very carefully.”
Putin must be very proud of Putin’s puppy…
Who’s a good boy?
“Why? The President hasn’t left Americans to wonder: He wants that sweet, elusive “evidence” of widespread voter fraud he’s always talking about.”
NO!!! His primary reason seems clearly to be that he wants his folks out there to intimidate voters and reduce the likelihood of those who don’t support him to vote.
This is first and foremost a voter suppression move.
Not that this took the clairvoyance of Nostradamus, but I’ve been predicting that this is how they’d go about it for a long long time now. It’s been pretty obvious. Send 'em in and then have 'em run to Faux News et al. with story after story after story, and deluge the authorities with false, wild-eyed conspiratorial complaints for which they have no evidence but which nobody can disprove either. Meanwhile, nobody will get arrested for their false reports because that would just make it all worse in the long run and the police have better things to be doing (and support Trump anyway), so there will be a mountain of fakery to scoop through.
“See, Justice Barrett? We just can’t trust these results!!! We had to just appoint our own electors!!!”
LOL…and #wherestheriver trended all day I belive.
People with more credibility than the President at this point:
On the other hand, all this Trump-inspired voting intimidation will be a powerful argument that vote-by-mail was not just legal but essential.
L. Ron Hubbard, Joseph Smith Jr. and every woman who’s ever uttered the words “don’t be silly, honey, it’s the perfect size” too.
One of the reasons Republicans limit the number of places where one can actual go to the polls is, no doubt, to make it easier for their limited supply of poll watchers to find places to intimidate suppress confuse monitor voters at democratic polling places.
For sure…and to create huge lines and waits as a deterrent, to create huge lines and waits to make limiting polling hours more effective, to create huge lines and waits to make further limiting the number of days more effective, etc. etc. etc.
One of the reasons Republicans limit the number of places where one can actual go to the polls is, no doubt, to make it easier for their accomplices to hack votes at democratic polling places.
FIFY
I’m just hoping we get a good story or two about some minding his business normal dude who’s buttons get pushed and just absolutely fucking snaps and gives some Proud Boy toughguy type the surprisingest beatdown curbstomping of the century, jail time be damned.
“The propaganda that’s being generated by the other side is just that, chaos is the objective,” Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) said on CNN Sunday, noting that the state didn’t experience any voter fraud or other significant issues during its primary elections this year.
“People in Pennsylvania need to understand that that’s all it is: Noise and distraction, propagated by an organization whose lone objective during this campaign season is to sow chaos, to create diversions away from an outcome they very well may not like,” Fetterman added.
I really like our Lt. Governor John Fetterman. He’s young, and I hope he has a long and productive career.
Some disobedience is less civil than others. Thankfully, I’m mailing in my ballot.
I have a pretty strong suspicion that the river the Fascist Carnival Barker claimed ballots were being dumped into flows between his ears.
But I’m curious about the ballots postmen in–was it West Virginia?–were supposed to be selling.
Were they getting a good price?
As reported today on the Onan network, the following exchange was overheard between a self-acknowledged Republican poll watcher and our esteemed journalistic colleagues, Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl.
“Well, Mister President Trump hisself asked me to, uh, go to the poles and watch reeel care-full like in order ta MAGA, so here I yam, watchin’ these pole dancers. An’ y’see them two rats over thar? I caught them on cam’ra fuckin’ each other not too long ago. Some reeel furry horny rat-fuckers, fer shur. Gotta r’port back to HQ purty soon ‘bout all th’ rat-fuckin’ goin’ on near th’ poles. Yessirree.”
Mine goes in the drop box, just like it has for years
Pole dancers and rat-fuckers, a winning combination!
The pattern is there: Make up s**t, throw it against the wall and see if it sticks.
My question is how can these people sleep at night? Especially the great blond haired cheer leader (Kayleigh McEnany).
legitimate poll watching in Pennsylvania occurs only on Election Day.
I was a poll watcher and election judge for the 2016 general election. Poll watching started the same day as early voting, election judging on election day.