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What’s the worst that could happen?
Washington Post  ^
 | By Rosa Brooks SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
Posted on 09/04/2020 10:16:37 PM PDT by 11th_VA
We wanted to know: Whats the worst thing that could happen to our country during the presidential election? President Trump has broken countless norms and ignored countless laws during his time in office, and while my colleagues and I at the Transition Integrity Project didnt want to lie awake at night contemplating the ways the American experiment could fail, we realized that identifying the most serious risks to our democracy might be the best way to avert a November disaster. So we built a series of war games, sought out some of the most accomplished Republicans, Democrats, civil servants, media experts, pollsters and strategists around, and asked them to imagine what theyd do in a range of election and transition scenarios...
 Picture This:
 Trump refuses to concede, alleging on Twitter that MILLIONS of illegal ALIENS and DEAD PEOPLE have voted in large numbers and that the uncounted ballots are all FAKE VOTES!!! ... 
 For obvious reasons, we couldnt ask Trump or Biden  or their campaign aides  to play themselves in these exercises, so we did the next best thing: We recruited participants with similar backgrounds. On the GOP side, our players included former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele, conservative commentator Bill Kristol and former Kentucky secretary of state Trey Grayson...
 (ROFLMAO ...)
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TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: countlesslaws; countlessnorms; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election; fakenews; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; rosabrooks; smearmachine; tds; washingtoncompost
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    I couldnt keep reading ...
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posted on 
09/04/2020 10:16:37 PM PDT
by 
11th_VA
 
To: 11th_VA
    Never got past the by line. No point.
 
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posted on 
09/04/2020 10:20:25 PM PDT
by 
EagleUSA
 
To: 11th_VA
    Without the Billionaire Globslists pouring cash into these propaganda outlets they would have turned belly up long ago.
Real people don’t buy this crap.
 
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posted on 
09/04/2020 10:21:36 PM PDT
by 
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
 
To: 11th_VA
    Millions of children in CA and across the United States are not in school this fall, and are not learning. No sports, no music, no drama, no friends.
They are isolated in their lonely dark rooms in front of a screen. Even 5-6 year olds, crying and resistant.
And it appears indefinite.
 
To: 11th_VA
    "and ignored countless laws" 
 
 I mean, what's the point of naming any of them specifically?
    So far, this guy on Twitter seems to be the whistleblower he claims to be. His following posts are dated July 31 and I think he answers the rhetorical question, "What's the worst thing that could happen? [Note: Scott Adams tweeted about this recently so it's known, and surely President Trump and his adminstration are prepared]
  
 
 
  
  
 John
  
  
   
  
John
   
    @Johnheretohelp
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They do not have access like they did when Obama was in power. Their control over the fraudulent voting mechanisms, satellites, rigged voting machines, mail in voting, etc. Is Much less than in 2016/18. Pres.Trump is doing a great job at cutting off their schemes
 
     
    
    
So they intend to just "take the election". On election Day and night if their comrades in the mainstream media are going to report that they won. They are just going to flat-out report incorrect numbers to solidify in everyone's mind that the Dems won.
      
John
@Johnheretohelp
20m 
    They will use every means of illegal voting scams to back this up. They intend to intimidate and destroy Republican votes anywhere they possibly can. They want to rush their "newly elected" people into office with very fast local swearing in ceremonies. Just like Obama's BS
     
    
     
    "office of the president elect" stunt. They will officially Not acknowledge any results that doesn't benefit them and challenge anything else they can
     
    John
    @Johnheretohelp
     
    And they will support and encourage riding [rnote: rioting] as a means to enforce there newly elected officials. They also intend to declare the presidential election for themselves, with the MSM backing it up on every channel 24/7. And they will lead a massive march,protest,riot
     
    John
    @Johnheretohelp
    
     
To the White House to remove President Trump. If he would not be removed they intend to have their president address the nation from Congress. And their president will run the country from Congress. 
    
   John
@Johnheretohelp
   
    
   The MSM will not allow President Trump any air time and will block everything possible from being communicated from the rightful president.
    
   John
   @Johnheretohelp
   
    
   This is bad. The riots, the taking over of police stations, shutting down and ceiling off federal buildings, this is their practice run for what happens the day after the election.
    
   John
   @Johnheretohelp
   
    
   The riots have quieted down right now but that is by design. Untold millions are flowing into these groups and they are stockpiling right now. Round two is coming, bigger, more violent, more focused, and able to hold out for months.
    
   John
   @Johnheretohelp
   
    
   They are being directed and supported by hostile foreign governments and leftover Deep State players within our own government.
    
   John
   @Johnheretohelp
   
    
   They do not care if the economy is crashed, if people are out of work, they welcome the violence. They want the violence, that is part of their plan. If there is a great deal of violence their new president or ask foreign Govs to help establish order.
   
   
  
 
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posted on 
09/04/2020 10:24:06 PM PDT
by 
ransomnote
(IN GOD WE TRUST)
 
To: Telepathic Intruder
     I mean, what's the point of naming any of them specifically? Sure, if you don't know what laws he's talking about, you must be stupid.
 
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posted on 
09/04/2020 10:28:05 PM PDT
by 
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
 
To: 11th_VA
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posted on 
09/04/2020 10:36:24 PM PDT
by 
Bullish
(CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
 
To: 11th_VA
    They are trying to get you prepared for the next coup attempt
Vote in person
 
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posted on 
09/04/2020 10:48:55 PM PDT
by 
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
 
To: 11th_VA
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posted on 
09/04/2020 10:53:54 PM PDT
by 
Dick Bachert
(THE DEEP STATE HATES YOU!)
 
To: All
    the antifa that i keep seeing on youtube do not seem to be in the habit of taking the advice to be peaceful at all seriously. they don’t have enough guns and they are concentrated in non-farming areas separated from each other. the only way they could prevail over a fraudulent election is imho by a military coup. so perhaps the question boils down to which side the military would choose in such a situation, trump or biden? i don’t know the answer but i would hope it is trump since if it is biden it would be military versus most of the rest of the country. again, however, i wonder if the military would be outgunned by civilian militia. and with all due respect to the air force and navy, one needs boots on the ground to hold territory.
 
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posted on 
09/04/2020 11:04:53 PM PDT
by 
SteveH
 
To: EagleUSA
    Members of the Transition Integrity Project include: Michael Steele, a former chair of the Republican National Committee; John Podesta, former White House Chief of Staff to former President of the United States Bill Clinton; former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, former Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson, former Democratic National Committee Acting Chair Donna Brazile, and journalists William Kristol, Edward Luce, Max Boot and David Frum, as well as approximately seventy other individuals.With friends like these...
 
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posted on 
09/04/2020 11:08:25 PM PDT
by 
DoodleBob
(Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
 
To: DoodleBob
    Looks like a list of suspects who inadvertently offered their names up for further investigation/scrutiny.
 
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posted on 
09/04/2020 11:17:57 PM PDT
by 
KJC1
(A vote for Biden-Harris is a vote for Antifa-BLM)
 
To: 11th_VA; EagleUSA; American in Israel; olivia3boys; ransomnote; Steely Tom; Bullish; Nifster; ...
    Rosa Brooks is a seditious POS whose husband is a retired Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel, and an 0bama @sslicker.
 This POS is making a REAL threat.
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posted on 
09/04/2020 11:19:17 PM PDT
by 
kiryandil
(Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
 
To: 11th_VA
    when the author claims we are a “Democracy” I start yelling liar liar liar. Not now nor for one single minute has our nation ever been a democracy.
The author of this is a LIAR.
 
To: SteveH
    ANTIFA ARE VIOLENT LEFT WING DEMOCRAT ASSOCIATED DOMESTIC TERRORISTS.
ACCORDING TO THE US ARMY WAR COLLEGE THE ONLY WAY TO STOP A TERRORIST IS TO KILL THEM.
I’m good with that.
 
To: 11th_VA
     President Trump has broken countless norms and ignored countless laws during his time in office
 Why couldnt the RATs find any of these during their phony impeachment process? Not a single one.
 
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posted on 
09/04/2020 11:43:00 PM PDT
by 
immadashell
(Save Innocent Lives - ban Gun Free Zones)
 
To: American in Israel
    keep lock-downs going, amazon profits increase...WAPO continues with their disinformation :(
 
To: 11th_VA
    “Whats the worst that could happen?”
I could flush the toilet and being too hungover, fail to save your life...
 
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posted on 
09/05/2020 12:48:52 AM PDT
by 
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me  https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
 
To: 11th_VA
    broken countless norms and ignored countless laws during his time in office, talking about obama right? pukes all of them
 
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posted on 
09/05/2020 3:23:29 AM PDT
by 
ronnie raygun
( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
 
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