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CNN had an article (cnn.com/2023/07/31/poli…) about how every charge just increases Trump's power. They can't seem to wrap their heads around it. But *this* is the reason why. People are angry. They know about this, and they know not only is no one going to do anything about it, the media are treating their viewers like idiots, just tell…
CNN had an article (https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/31/politics/trump-legal-bills-what-matters/index.html) about how every charge just increases Trump's power. They can't seem to wrap their heads around it. But *this* is the reason why. People are angry. They know about this, and they know not only is no one going to do anything about it, the media are treating their viewers like idiots, just telling them to ignore this. Something is going to have to break soon. The disparity in treatment and concern between the trivial things Trump has done and the level of corruption of Joe Biden and how they're gunning for Trump and covering for Biden are just too much to bear for too long.
Plus more and more people now follow the alternate media with people like Tucker, Tulsi, Elon, Vivek, Sasha and so many more like them who are rapidly eroding the credibility of the Woke left. This is simply unsustainable. At some point we will arrive at a tipping point where things could very quickly change in our favor but then I can’t see them just giving up either.
"At some point we will arrive at a tipping point where things could very quickly change in our favor but then I can’t see them just giving up either." That's what I'm afraid of, them not giving up. They could put this country in a very bad place trying to hang on to power.
The Democrats will win the election. It doesn't matter how many vote fir Trump. The illegal migrants will vote in their tens of thousands for ... the hand that feeds them...
And this is the exact problem I'm trying to demonstrate to MLB Fan. What happens when a bunch of people decide there is no way to "win" which means there is no way to effect change but they are determined to 'effect change" anyway. That's where the Democrats are taking us.
And they don't need immigrants to vote. They just need dirty voter rolls, a media that's nearly all propaganda, and crooked voting machines and a small amount of very carefully placed cheating. Is it happening? I don't know. But I do know they freak out when you start asking questions, which is a pretty good indicator that it is at least to some extent.
Or attempting to federalize elections so that states lose control of their elections like the donkeys have been trying to do since they found out during COVID how easy it is to "manipulate" an election if you have mass mail in voting and use voter rolls that have never been cleaned up because "racism"?
And by the way, even by the standards of NBC, you're misrepresenting the Texas law (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/texas-senate-passes-bill-allowing-secretary-state-overturn-elections-h-rcna82631).
Quote: The Republican-controlled Senate passed the bill Tuesday and sent it to the state House. If it is enacted, it would allow the secretary of state to toss out election results in the state's largest county and call a new vote if there is "good cause" to believe that at least 2% of polling places ran out of usable ballots during voting hours.
The bill would apply only to counties with populations greater than 2.7 million, effectively singling out Harris County, which is home to Houston and has by far the largest population in the state, at nearly 5 million. In recent decades, Harris County has become more Democratic. /End Quote
The answer seems simple. Make sure you have enough ballots. *shrug*
The NBC article isn't fact now? You misrepresented the Texas law and you accuse me of partisanship.
It seems a simple thing for a county to have enough ballots, and I doubt that Houston is the only city in Texas turning "blue."
It is very easy to cheat in urban areas, and even a little cheating in an urban area by sheer numbers can disenfranchise large numbers of rural voters. Do their voices not count?
Also, Republicans tend to be in person, election day voters, so if Houston is "running out" of ballots, one could construe it as a deliberate attempt to disenfranchise Republican voters. I'm guessing that's what the legislature thought. Much like the whole "oops the voting machines don't work" trick in Maircopa in 2022, this was a deliberate attempt to sabotage Republican chances. It's a valid conclusion as these things have a tendency of only going one way.
As for what happens? I don't know. What happens when you call the integrity of any election into question, either by throwing out all the votes or making the election so chaotic and so untrustworthy (2020, fighting ID requirements for voting or cleaning up voter rolls because somehow you think black people are incapable of following directions or having IDs, which suggests a strong bit of racism on your part) that large numbers of people start to believe that elections are no longer a method to voice their displeasure or to create change and no longer a true measure of what the citizenry thinks? I think I'd worry more about that then getting my tighty whities in wad over a very narrow law in Texas that seems quite easy to comply with.
Seva, I always find your posts honest and direct. But I respectfully disagree. Let’s be realistic here. What difference does it make that a few hundred thousand read Substack and get to the truth mass media does not cover? The power belongs to them. On all levels. Why will they give it up? The corruption, the lies, the immoral and illegal actions have been exposed, but nothing changed. Nobody has been held accountable. That should be most alarming to sane people. We were always the country of law, but seems we no longer are. The legal system appears to be corrupted too, with many recent facts pointing to it. Can we still trust that we will overcome it by simply casting ballots in the next election for the right person? Seems a little naive.
Perhaps it’s time to go our separate ways. We’ll find out in about 18 months.