Posted on 10/24/2024 12:37:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
As we approach Election Day, I’m cautiously optimistic — not so much about the outcome of the election (it’s way too close for either side to feel confident), but rather about the durability and integrity of the process itself. The legal arguments Donald Trump used to try to reverse the election outcome in 2020 have been decisively rejected, and the legal loopholes he tried to open have been closed.
I’m not arguing that we should be complacent. We should expect MAGA lawyers to bombard courts and state legislatures with frivolous arguments to try to reverse the outcome if Trump loses — and we shouldn’t be shocked or surprised if MAGA ultimately resorts to violence like it did on Jan. 6 — but I don’t think most Americans know how well our election system has been fortified against Trump’s legal schemes. He can’t run the same playbook he ran in 2020.
To understand how we’ve changed our system, it’s necessary to understand the Trump team’s strategy leading up to Jan. 6. As I’ve explained before, it had two key components: the conspiracy theory and the coup theory.
The conspiracy theory was the election lie itself, that Trump had been cheated out of an electoral victory that was rightly his. This required him to essentially commandeer a compliant and corrupt right-wing media establishment to broadcast his election lies to tens of millions of angry and disappointed Republicans.
The conspiracy theory created the demand for the coup. Without right-wing rage, there would be no appetite to try to overturn the election. And stealing the election required a legal plan.
And that brings us to the coup theory, the actual legal mechanism for overturning the election. The core plan was called operation “Green Bay Sweep.” It was named after an...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
OBAMA 2008
69,000,000 votes
Wins 873 Counties
Wins 18 of 19 Bellwether counties
Wins Florida, Ohio, and Iowa
Wins House seats
WINS ELECTION
TRUMP 2020
74,000,000 votes
Wins 2497 Counties
Wins 18 of 19 Bellwether counties
Wins Florida, Ohio, and Iowa
Wins House seats
LOSES ELECTION
BIDEN 2020
81,000,000 votes
Wins 477 Counties
LOSES 18 of 19 Bellwether counties
LOSES Florida, Ohio, and Iowa
LOSES House seats
WINS ELECTION
Every time I see that chart, I want CW II to start in earnest. We’re not reversing and saving the country at the ballot box.
Why do post articles written by such a poor excuse of a human being as the evil David French?
NYT October 2024 — “We have successfully guarded our elections. They cannot be overturned. We are safe.”
NYT November 2024 — “These results will not stand. We can overturn this. We have endless legal options. We must fight.”
“We got away with it.”
And such people need to be exposed repeatedly to what he is to believe it.
If you are not such a one and have no contact with such people you can skip by merrily on your way to happier things.
Fact
No way voting stops tyranny. Rifles and bayonets do.
It’s easy to spot demonic pedos. They look like spineless jellyfish like this goober.
So that we don’t live in an echo chamber the way the Left does.
I ran all these using Wisconsin's return data.
More proof that the New York Times is GARBAGE!!!
We have a lot of judges in this nation who need to be sent to prison.
I want investigations and arrests. Raffensperger needs to go to prison. Katie Hobbs needs to go to prison. That Judge in Arizona that would not allow evidence to be heard, he needs to go to prison.
I confess I am totally baffled about what it means in terms of your charts.
French and the rest of the cuckian “conservatives” believe if Trump is defeated, MAGA goes down and the republican party will return to his favored iteration of affable losers. I can’t see Trump’s (presumed) conversion of black men and hispanics, along with many new, formerly uninterest voters, ever “returning” to support the likes of French, Kristol, and similar erstwhile Republicans.
IIRC - that analysis is used to evaluate a data set for potential manipulation & uses the frequency of the leading digit distribution as an indicator. It’s been a minute since I was exposed to that so I might not be as informational as you require for a full understanding.
I remember it well, unfortunately. What a black night that was. Damn them.
I’d like to know what happened on Election Night when the most incredible miracle occurred. What we know is that they sent the ballot counting staff away with silly excuses.
Then the boxes started arriving at those centers.
But what happened? Did the Democrats already have the boxes ready knowing the debacle that was coming, or did they start filling out ballots at a forced pace?
Is it suspicious that the ballots only had the box for president marked?
ought to clean his beard better-— little protein bits from the last puffing fest. R. Lee Ermey— RIP for his inauguration of a “peter puffer”. Here’s one in this photo.
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