Posted on 09/04/2020 9:20:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
A recent deep dive in The Washington Post's Outlook section, "What's the Worst That Could Happen?" exploring various potential outcomes of the 2020 presidential election, found that in "every scenario except a Biden landslide, our simulation ended catastrophically." According to the Post, any other outcome is destined to spark "violence" and a "constitutional crisis."
Or, in other words, nice country you got there...
Every assumption in the article, written by Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown University law professor and co-founder of the Transition Integrity Project, is awash in the conspiratorial paranoia that's infected the modern Democratic Party. It's a world where Trump officials -- played, quite implausibly, by Joe Biden partisans Michael Steele and Bill Kristol -- are "ruthless and unconstrained right out of the gate" but the genteel statesmen of Team Biden "struggled to get out of reaction mode." It is a place where Republicans aren't only reflexively seditious and autocratic, but a "highly politicized" Supreme Court tries to steal the election.
In their "war game" scenarios, however, it's the Democrats who refuse to accept the will of courts to adhere to the constitutionally prescribed system rather than hysteria, and it's the Democrats who wishcast the wholly imaginary "popular vote" into existence.
One of the scenarios, we learn, "doesn't look that different from 2016" -- a contest in which, it must be pointed out, not one vote has been proven to be uncounted or altered. In that outcome, America is confronted with "a big popular win for Mr. Biden, and a narrow electoral defeat."
In the real world, incidentally, that scenario is called a "Trump victory."
In the fictional war game, however, John Podesta, playing the role of Biden, contends that his party won't let him concede the race, and instead alleges "voter suppression" -- the catchall go-to every time a Democrat loses -- and persuades the Democratic governors of Trump-won states such as Wisconsin and Michigan to send pro-Biden electors to the Electoral College. In the meantime, California, Oregon, and Washington threaten to secede from the union if Trump takes office. The Democratic House unilaterally names Biden president. "At that point in the scenario," The New York Times' Ben Smith explains, "the nation stopped looking to the media for cues, and waited to see what the military would do."
This scenario is what a real-life "coup" might resemble. It is, needless to say, utterly insane that Democrats would destroy the nation's longstanding and peaceful transition because they refuse to accept the mandated process of electing the president. All of which is to say the proactive -- and retroactive -- delegitimization of the Trump presidency has been a successful four-year project. It permeates the entire Democratic Party's information complex.
First, Democrats convinced millions of Americans that a handful of inept and puerile social media ads were enough to overturn a presidential election in the most powerful nation on earth. By 2017, a majority of Democrats believed that vote tallies had been tampered with by Russians, somehow without a trace of evidence.
Since then, Democrats have been working to convince themselves there is no legitimate way in which Trump could win the election again. A large number of high-profile left-wing columnists have laid the groundwork to make this case and high-profile politicians have joined them. Hillary Clinton's advice to Biden not long ago was to not concede defeat on the night of the Nov. 3 election no matter what happens. In January, during the impeachment trial, Representative Adam Schiff said, "The President's misconduct cannot be decided at the ballot box, for we cannot be assured that the vote will be fairly won." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has noted that "Let the election decide'" is a "dangerous position" position because Trump is already "jeopardizing the integrity of the 2020 elections."
It's worth pointing out as well that the dynamics of the presidential election would be completely different if the popular vote actually existed. But candidates do not compete for the popular vote, so they can neither "win" nor "lose" it. If they did try to win the popular vote, they would cater to the largest population centers, and no one else, and elections would look very different. I'm not sure that that setup would work out for Democrats exactly as they imagine, but it doesn't matter. A popular vote undercuts federalism, one of the foundational ideas of the founding. And that's the point.
A recent USA Today poll found that 28 percent of Biden's supporters say they aren't prepared to accept a Trump victory as "fairly won," and 19 percent of Trump's supporters say the same about a potential Biden victory. So a significant minority of American voters don't believe the next election will be legitimate before it has even been conducted. What happens when every long line at the polls and every Facebook meme and every delayed mail-in ballot is turned into a nefarious plot by the enemy to snatch democracy from the rightful winner? It's going to be ugly, indeed. If their "war games" are to be believed, then that's what Democrats are counting on.
That was my thought this morning...That they would actually create discrepancies in “close” states so they could sneak Ballots in and out.
They have already gotten away with several election frauds where they create chaos and then “Count till they win”
Whinin Biden and cryin Clinton will do anything to regain power. Including destroying this Republic.
The Rats will attempt massive fraud. Warrants capital consequences.
This shite has got to stop. We need a national voter ID and we need it now. Stock up on ammo otherwise.
Why are we the the only democracy in the world that has voting problems? The others require mandatory ID.
They have already done this for several elections. AND they ‘war-gamed’ a pandemic last autumn. so they have shown that they are willing to implement their plans. Get ready!
Mexico and India have voter ID. Mierda piles outside of DF that people pick through or washing clothes in the same water that dead people float down, but by golly you have a voter ID.
But we don’t.
I rest my case.
If they don't, their votes won't count and the remaining appointed Electors will decide the election without them.
-PJ
This only appears to be a Democrat operation but it is a much larger coalition of intelligence people and globalist activists like George Soros that are really driving the coup.
The playbook is the same that has been used by the US intelligence agencies and state department to foment “color” revolutions in foreign countries to delegitimize and remove regimes they oppose like Yanuckovych in Ukraine without using military force. This was labelled the “Orange Revolution”.
They are using BLM as the “movement” to foment civil unrest and provoke an armed response by the “oppressive” democratic government. This is then exploited through the media to delegitimize the ruling government and replace it with their own power structure.
Just remember this. “Black Lives Matter” is the new “Orange”.
The Democrats don’t have elections,see Russia and Iran...........
Worse than disrupting one election, long term corruption of the main tenet of the US of A: fair and free elections.
Undermining elections will lead to devastating consequences.
DjT must hit this point bigly. Even his comment about mailing and then in-person voting should emphasize voting integrity. He should clarify the followup in-person vote should not be cast if the mail-in is verified. We don’t cheat, we don’t need to cheat.
YEHOVAH is in charge! Psalm 2: HE laughs at them...
Only 19 percent of our side? That's pathetic.
But we have failed none the less. We failed not because we don't cheat but because we did not punish those who do. Democrats have been stealing elections and using mass vote fraud for decades and we have done nothing. Bottom line, there has been no consequences for stealing elections.
Now we are seeing the result when corrupt law breakers are not held accountable. I have my doubts that this can be fixed. It's probably too late.
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Maybe he is laughing at us because the Bible certainly predicts that the whole world will come against Israel in the final battle, we don't know when or how but we are cautioned to be watchful of, Signs and Seasons.
Shortly after 2016, efforts began to clean up voter rolls, which is the main source of voter fraud. We’ve only failed in that judges have stymied many of the attempts to purge invalid voters.
I foresee a clean sweep which will enable an election fix once and for all. Including:
No mail-in, voter ID, purging of old / inactive / deceased voters, and prohibition of ballot harvesting....ON A NATIONAL SCALE.
Vote integrity is job #1 and must, MUST be fixed.
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