Posted on 09/28/2020 9:09:35 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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Imagine: It’s midnight, and the electoral map looks quite red. But news networks and election officials aren't calling the swing states, as this year’s record numbers of mail-in and absentee ballots have yet to be fully counted. Mr. Trump, leading in the popular vote, decides he’s seen enough. He takes to his social media platforms and declares that he has won re-election and will accept no other result. He tells his tens of millions of followers that the Democrats and the press will try to change the result and steal the election. The door to unrest and constitutional crisis swings wide open.
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have all pledged to crack down on misinformation around voting and electoral outcomes. Perhaps in the above scenario they append a label to the president’s posts saying that the information is disputed and that the results are not in. They could introduce friction into the algorithms to slow the reach of the posts.
But pro-Trump lawmakers and pundits most likely would have picked up the argument by then, amplifying the president’s message. What started as one prominent piece of voter disinformation easily could become widespread in the Republican Party and among a large segment of Americans. What would the platforms do then?
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That so called Blue Shift is Dem cheating
Sadly, you are very likely correct. That is probably how this will play out.
and a “dignified, statesmanlike boilerplate response” is not in his vocabulary.....THAT is why I voted for him. He’s not a statesman (whatever the hell THAT means) he’s a businessman.
NYT and the social media monopolies now dictate actual election results. In their imaginary delusional world, Hitlery was actually coronated......
My plan? Celebration time. Drinks are on me. :-)
Have you been listening to what that idiot has been saying. If elected, he will “follow the science” and attempt to make us all wear masks outdoors, and if he things the science leads him there, implement a nationwide lockdown.
Lovely. Just what the Rollerball Megacorps and the socialists need to foster economic collapse so that they can build their new socialist order from the rubble.
This is definitely priming the public not to accept the results of the election if Trump wins.
>> he will “follow the science”
Fauci has already flip flopped once (against masks and then for them) and has shown he does not wear the mask himself except for show at public events.
If Fauci says we can stop wearing mask, done.
Or maybe keep wearing masks but now you can go to events and the office.
Gee I guess it might be F’ing Free Speech, do ya think?
I mean, how dare a candidate declare victory? /s
For God’s sake we need a new GOP to defeat these communists. They are a true threat. President Trump is doing this alone.
The next lockdown on liberty and travel will be the Green New Deal.
They wanted to ground airplanes with that one.
Your car has been in their sights for over a decade now.
And cast, and cast, and cast ...
These people. They talk like we never communicated before Facebook. What's to stop Trump from appearing on OAN or Newsmax TV to declare he's won? Which will spread all over the internet like wildfire. The tech giants can go take a jump.
California is allowing ballots to be counted up to SEVENTEEN days after the election.
Just posted at whitehouse.gov:
Next Live Event: 3:30PM EDT
President Trump Gives an Update on the Nation’s Coronavirus Testing Strategy
Maybe he’s about to call B.S. on the testing scam?
Bedwetters.....
After the ballots on election day have been cast, the Democrats will do what it takes to manufacture a victory by mail and in the courts.
We’ve seen Senator, Governor, and other offices stolen this way. The Democrats have been working on the tactic. Especially after their manufactured “dimpled” ballots gave them problems.
Also in 2000 the Rats lost Florida to the Green Party and various other Socialist Left Communist parties. Even without the Green Party votes, the other Communist parties took away enough votes that would’ve given Gore the victory.
So this time around they are fighting to keep these parties off the ballots and playing up to the Communist Left.
I’m expecting that all of social media immediately shuts down any communication of any conservative. When you go to physical war, you first hit lines of communications.
We’re at war, folks. Prepare for the coup.
Why does the press's election night opinion of who won have anything to do with the election? The only results that matter are what the actual election officials declare as the results.
What happens if the Democrats, and leftist election officials report fraudulent results?
Each candidate and party is welcome to say whatever they want. But the losers have to understand that challenging a legitimate election, like the Democrats did in 2016 and 2000, and more recently in some state elections is damaging to our nation.
Old what's his name's internet goes down world wide.
I think Trump tipped his hand in the PA rally on Saturday on what he will do.
He hinted that he might take the decision to the House of Representatives. There each state DELEGATION gets one vote, and the GOP would control the outcome.
Of course that would give the Dems a “selected not elected” narrative that they’d use to run four more years of resistance.
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