Rachel Maddow: What Worries Me Most About Election Night
Rachel Maddow: What Worries Me Most About Election Night
Georgia Republicans have empowered local election officials to delay certifying the vote.
If the Republicans steal the election according to that nightmare house vote scenario, it will not end well for the country.
Democrats have taken the L on the presidency too many times despite having the popular vote. They will not take winning the popular vote AND winning the electoral college, but having it stolen by electors intentionally corrupting the process. There will be riots, in almost every city.
The lack of faith in the electoral system federally would collapse, and you'd see a lot more talk and probably even some action towards independence in certain states.
USSR 2.0
Why do you think they keep saying "the transfer of power will be bloodless if the left lets it be"?
They're not even hiding it.
I agree. And I guarantee that the Republicans will pull some false equivalency bullshit in response: “oh, so January 6 was sooo bad, but it’s fine when the Dems do it?”
Do you really think there will be an uprising? I feel like the age of revolution is over in the west. Protests yes, but those will ultimately be fruitless. I fear they will actually get away with it if it goes to House vote - the only way out is to win by enough of a margin that they can't bring Harris below 270.
I've thought for years now that the US will fracture during my lifetime. It's something that multiple state actors (like China, Russia, and Iran) are expending significant resources on achieving. Having the US break up would be massively beneficial for these countries.
Unfortunately it's working really well, the political divide in the US is absolutely massive right now. There really just needs to be a spark, and an election where the rest of the modern world actually considers it stolen would definitely fit into that category of possible ignition sources.
It probably won't matter though, having Georgia be the deciding factor has only a low chance of happening. So this may just be something that gets added to the pile of tinder, rather than being the spark.
When peaceful change becomes impossible. Violent change becomes inevitable.
Damn the peacocks!
Every state needs to help make Harris a clear winner.
Like GA, a battleground state, where they just made it legal for the elections board (3 Republicans and 2 Democrats) to refuse to certify the election results for absolutely no reason, indefinitely, without any burden of proof? Even if 100% of people in GA voted for Harris, they'd find some bullshit reason to refuse to certify the state's results. Kemp is too much of a fickle piece of shit to stand up against it, so we've already lost the state in November.
she'd be guaranteed to win if would say something small and simple like: we should stop bombing defenseless palestinians.
No she wouldn't. I 100% agree we shouldn't be doing it mind you. But thats ignoring the reality of the situation and just seeing what you want to see.
Morally Israel should have been harshly rebuked decades ago, as well as today. There would be a lot of push back unfortunately. A lot of money, resources, and votes taken from any candidate that pushed back too hard. So it unfortunately becomes an either or choice. And not a simple do it and get everyone to vote for you type of situation.
The problem is ideologues and authoritarians don't understand the need for diplomacy or how it works. They simply jail and Slaughter those who disagree with them. Which in and of itself evolves to immorality. Unfortunately wherever humanity is involved you can have either power or Purity but not both.
Since Republicans are using the law to dismantle the law, I fear that we're at a point where it is necessary for Biden and Democrats to break the law in order to save it. I don't have a lot of faith in that happening, but seeing Biden step aside for Harris makes me hope that they see the GOP as the existential threat that they are and weighing every option.
Regardless, we have to lend legitimacy to whatever they try to do, and we do that by running up the score in November. Harris has to win in dominating fashion, and if Republicans try to ratfuck their way into power, we cannot go quietly.
Republicunts should understand that they have no monopoly on violence.
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