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I predict riots regardless of who wins.
The only way to avoid it is if either side wins with a landslide, showing that the majority of the country is for the elected winner.
I doubt it. trump appears to have lost a lot of persuasive power.
If Harris wins, I'm pretty sure all the conservatives are going to slink back under rocks for the next few years.
If Harris wins, a lot of places where Trump "should have" won are going to falsely claim fraud and refuse to certify their votes, leading to another Jan 6.
The damage Trump and his ilk have done to this country by undermining the public trust in some of the best run elections in the world is incalculable. It will be decades if ever before that damage is undone.
Yep. Guaranteed they've already figured out the specific people they need to put pressure on when the time comes.
Here in Georgia, I've got a front-row seat:
(12 days ago) American Oversight Files Emergency Motion to Prevent Illegal Georgia State Election Board Rules From Taking Effect
(yesterday) New Georgia rules let local boards withhold election certification
(Reminder: Georgia is the state that not only went blue in 2020, but also saved the Democratic majority in the Senate.)
What. The. Fuck.
So they just don't certify results they don't like.
This smells like corruption.
"The snozzberries taste like snozzberries!"
Tap for spoiler
In other words, yes, the corruption smells like itself.That isn't even the only ratfucking tactic in play, BTW. They've also streamlined the process for challenging voter eligibility, such that even out-of-state right-wing traitors can try to disenfranchise an unlimited number of GA voters (especially "urban" ones). And that's on top of the usual shortening early voting, limiting polling places, etc.
Frankly, at this point I think it's even odds Georgia's popular vote doesn't get counted, unless non-traitors wake up to the danger and start a massive poll-watching (etc.) effort.
I would respectfully disagree with that assessment.
Even if 2024 is a huge enough electoral wipe out that Trump and his MAGA base are embarrassed to follow through on the violence they’ve been promising for years. Yes, Republicans might slink away and hide.
But they will rebrand and be back within a few months. We’ve seen this before at the start of the Obama Presidency’, when the fall out from the G.W. Presidency showed that Republicans had shit the bed sooo hard, even hard core Republicans that I knew denied they ever supported W. (Even though a few had fucking pictures of the asshat on their office walls for years.)
But the useful idiots that make up the core of the Republican base were back in a few months as “Tea Party” Republicans. Fully funded and promoted Koch and other billionaires. All those hard core W. supporters suddenly got angry and jumped on that band wagon.
Make no mistake they will be back, even in the best case scenario. (Which I very much doubt will happen.)
Well, guess I better Pokemon Go to the polls.
That is still so fucking cringe, even all these years later.
Ironically it's the most memorable thing Hillary Clinton has said aside from "it takes a village".
A landslide will convince people it was rigged.
Anything less than a 60/40 win (either way) and it's gonna get crazy.