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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI have no doubt he thinks he already has stolen the election
The way he is acting and the things he is doing tells me he has a serious plan to steal the election. Nobody would act this way unless they knew that it was in the bag and it reminds me of the way McConnell acted with denying Garland a vote.
Insane as he is, he is also one that seeks power and has to know that his actions will not play well with the majority of Americans. Election night 2016 I remember him saying we need a miracle to win and that was like a gut punch to me. I knew at that moment his showmanship was telling too much. He was setting it up as though a miracle from God put him in office. Now he is being so outlandishly ridiculous with his displays of power and cruelty that I again think that he knows the fix is in... abd he is SUPER CONFIDENT.
I am very worried and we need to figure out exactly what his plans are to stop him as soon as possible.
monmouth4
(9,705 posts)manipulation of the voting machines like last time. The electoral college is another concern we must attend to.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)But if Dan Kelly loses here, expect a thorough investigation.
WI has been trying disenfranchisement and Apartheid since Walker in 2010. That's why Reince Priebus got the job in Der Fuehrer's White House.
lark
(23,099 posts)You can 100% guarantee that is exactly what he intends to do and doesn't think we can stop him when he has RW Russian Repug SCOTUS who are behind him in destroying our liberal democracy and implementing the rw fascist state they've always wanted.
SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)if not an all out civil war I fear that will lead effectively to a civil split in the country.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)The seeds were planted in 1980.
Quemado
(1,262 posts)Think about it...
If Trump is re-elected by stealing the election through the Electoral College, wouldn't it be more beneficial to voters in California just to pick up and leave and go independent?
California, a blue state, has 55 electoral votes for 39.5 million residents, or .0000013 electoral votes per resident.
North Dakota, a red state, has 3 electoral votes for 762K residents, or .0000039 electoral votes per resident, 3 times as many as California.
South Dakota, a red state, has 3 electoral votes for 884K residents, or .0000035 electoral votes per resident, almost 3 times as many as California.
Per the Associated Press (https://apnews.com/2f83c72de1bd440d92cdbc0d3b6bc08c):
High-tax, traditionally Democratic states (blue), subsidize low-tax, traditionally Republican states (red) in a big way.
In fact, most high-tax states send more money to Washington than they get back in federal spending. Most low-tax states make a profit from the federal governments system of taxing and spending.
THE FACTS:
Connecticut (blue state) residents paid an average of $15,643 per person in federal taxes in 2015, according to a report by the Rockefeller Institute of Government. Massachusetts paid $13,582 per person, New Jersey paid $13,137 and New York paid $12,820.
California (blue state) residents paid an average of $10,510.
At the other end, Mississippi (red state) residents paid an average of $5,740 per person, while West Virginia (red state) paid $6,349, Kentucky (red state) paid $6,626 and South Carolina (red state) paid $6,665.
Low-tax red states also fare better when you take into account federal spending.
Mississippi received $2.13 for every tax dollar the state sent to Washington in 2015, according to the Rockefeller study. West Virginia received $2.07, Kentucky got $1.90 and South Carolina got $1.71.
Meanwhile, New Jersey received 74 cents in federal spending for tax every dollar the state sent to Washington. New York received 81 cents, Connecticut received 82 cents and Massachusetts received 83 cents.
gab13by13
(21,337 posts)Trump has the money, he has voter suppression, he has voting machines who we don't even know who owns them, he has Russia.
I took a flying leap and watched a little bit of Alex Jones and his guest Dr. Steve Pieczernik. They revealed the game plan that Trump is going to use on Joe. Joe has dementia, has had a 2nd stroke, can't remember what city he is in. I had to quit watching after 2 minutes.
Republicans will do this, they are evil, look what they did to Hillary. She has a hole in her tongue, she fell and has brain damage, she only has 6 months left to live.
Wait folks, the smear campaign is going to get disgusting, these people are pure evil.
MerryBlooms
(11,769 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,709 posts)Just wondering how much power he has to influence elections.
But I do think we should do the opposite of what he wants to do. And he is deathly afraid of those mail-in ballots. So there's something in those machines that he's counting on.