Comments by "wily wascal" (@wilywascal2024) on "How Trump laid groundwork for election result mayhem" video.

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities” ~ Voltaire
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A vibrant democracy??? Whatever happened to Harry Truman, "The buck stops here?" Whatever happened to George Washington not telling a lie? Whatever happened to my country? In less than four years, Putin's puppet-pie pawn, Toxic Trump, and the Republican cult have turned America into a proto-fascist banana republic. Which demonstrates just how fragile democracy really is.
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Trump refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the election! Traitor-'n-Thief Toxic Trump: "Get rid of the ballots and we'll have a very peaceful — there won't be a transfer, frankly, there'll be a continuation." WTF?!? Get rid of the ballots means getting rid of ALL the votes--absentee, mail-in, and in-person ballots! It means a Toxic Trump coup, an illegal seizure of power, a dictator, ignoring citizen's votes, no more democracy!!! "This is how democracy dies. A president so desperate to cling to power that he won't commit to a peaceful transition of power. That he seeks to throw out millions of votes. And a Republican Party too craven to say a word," Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff "In case anyone is unclear on the concept, in the United States of America, we do not "get rid of" ballots. We count them. Counting the ballots — all the ballots — is the way we determine who leads our country after our elections. The only way," Ellen Weintraub, a commissioner of the Federal Elections Commission, tweeted. Weintraub has previously debunked Trump's claims about mail-in voting fraud. Trump has a long history of making unsubstantiated claims about electoral fraud, dating back to his allegations that he lost the popular vote in 2016 only because "millions" of people voted illegally. He has also been waging legal battles in multiple states in an attempt to stop the expansion of vote-by-mail and has admitted to using the USPS to sabotage those efforts. Over the years, multiple extensive studies have found that widespread voter fraud is virtually nonexistent, difficult to successfully pull off, and discouraged through steep criminal penalties. The US has had successful peaceful transitions of power in every single election since its inception in 1776, including following a contested election between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, during the US Civil War, and on multiple occasions when the electoral college vote has diverged from the popular vote.
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GOP has lost the popular vote in six of the last seven elections and yet appointed 15 out of the last 19 justices. Barrett would make that 16 out of 20 seats. The reason the president forgot to mention that (a) his judges cannot be permitted to be independent; and (b) that his judges tend to be wildly out of step with public opinion on so many of the topics he holds dear is that it would highlight what minority rule looks like, and why he cannot, in fact “let the people” decide with their votes in his upcoming election. A court determined to impose minority rule is in fact the playbook. It benefits big business, it benefits secret donors with considerable war chests, it benefits white supremacy, and it benefits Trump’s trailing electoral campaign. Quite simply, locking in the power of a minority through the courts is the political project of Trump and the Republican Senators who are equally eager to jam this nominee through before the election. Trump Kept the Quiet Part Quiet About Amy Coney Barrett The president introduced his Supreme Court pick—but stayed mum about the real reason he needs her. By DAHLIA LITHWICK https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/trump-amy-coney-barrett-introduced-election-minority-rule.html
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The Republican cult listens to and follows false GOP prophets, worships a false golden Toxic Trump God whom they place upon a pedestal. “The mark is always the last to know.” Except the Republican cult are willfully ignorant sheep blissfully fleeced and slaughtered. It isn’t that they don’t know Toxic Trump is a treasonous grifter, an inveterate liar, a despicable selfish, soulless, slimy slug filled with hate. It’s that they don’t care! Which is what makes them so dangerous.
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You just KNEW the nation would become a raging, blazing inferno when corrupt GOP installed Putin’s pawn, President Nero, to be their Dear Leader. Real shame that we all must suffer the evil which they sowed and nourished to fruition.
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The Republican-Russian wrecking-ball fascist racist racket…a violent smash-and-grab affair leaving a trail of American corpses, broken families and nation, suffering, and tears.
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