AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>This is a short (14 minute) segment from The Humanist Report that covers a lot of the same ground I was writing about concerning Trump's very serious plan to violate the US Constitution and serve a 3rd term as president, and also his executive order designed, quite obviously, to rig elections. I've always been a person who needs to read words on a page or screen to really absorb analysis, but I know some of you learn better with the videos, so that's why I periodically share the good ones.</p><p>Like myself, the host is adamant that the mainstream establishment is fooling itself and engaging in wishcasting when it ignores the obvious reality that Trump, who just admitted he wasn't joking, fully means to do this. What he adds that I was trying to get at in my analysis but might not have made explicit enough if the pedantic pushback I heard from weird liberals is any indication, is that if Trump is working on illegally violating the constitution to run again, in an election he intends to rig, that means the regime is *already* attempting another insurrection (although technically, I think it would be another autogolpe.) Furthermore, if the regime were to hold such an election under those circumstances, it would obviously not be an election at all, but the consolidation of fascist regime change in the United States of America.</p><p>The Humanist Report: Trump is Dead Serious About Becoming a Dictator</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Hcygb30Yw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=I-Hcygb30Y</span><span class="invisible">w</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elections</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/SteveBannon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SteveBannon</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Rigged" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rigged</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Video</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/OnePartyRule" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnePartyRule</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/VoterFraudIsntReal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoterFraudIsntReal</span></a> <br><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/MikeFigueredo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MikeFigueredo</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/TheHumanistReport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheHumanistReport</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
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AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>Whether it's acceptable to mention it in polite discourse or not, the fascist GOP's plan to formalize national targeted voter suppression based on fascist conspiracy theories designed to explain why a bloviating reality TV show nazi lost the 2020 US presidential election, is a form of election rigging. We've already discussed Der Führer's recent (blatantly illegal) executive order to do just that, but the Republican plan to fuck elections and create their own permanent Pork Reich is a multi-pronged assault. One of the key spearheads in this quest to, again, rig elections by disenfranchising millions of voters who are statistically more likely to support the opposition party, is the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or Save Act, currently being cooked up in a GOP fascist-controlled Congress.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/31/congress-republicans-save-act-voting-rights" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/mar/31/congress-republicans-save-act-voting-rights</span></a></p><p>Republicans are quietly trying to disenfranchise millions of voters</p><p>"According to research by the Brennan Center for Justice, more than 21 million US citizens of voting age don’t have easy access to proof of citizenship documents, and only about half of American adults have a passport, while millions do not have access to paper copies of their birth certificates. Married women whose legal names do not match their birth certificates could be disenfranchised by the Save Act, and folks looking to obtain lost or misplaced birth certificates would face financial and logistical hurdles.</p><p>The Save Act would restrict voters’ ability to register to vote online and through the mail while also severely limiting the ability of non-partisan civic organizations to conduct voter registration drives, which have been crucial to civic engagement for more than a century. That’s because, despite voters’ ability to register to vote at the DMV and registration efforts by political parties, data shows that voter registration drives from non-partisan organizations can account for about one-fifth of voter registration applicants – roughly equal to the political power of California, Florida and Texas combined. We simply cannot sit back and allow Congress or the White House to destroy the infrastructure of our elections by disenfranchising so many voters."</p><p>Look, I know Trump's unhinged fascist conspiracy theories about the 2020 election make most liberals very leery about uttering the words "rigging elections" but at some point you have to accept that you can't stop reality from being real, just because naming the beast makes you squeamish. Targeted voter suppression by the GOP has become so normalized that in a recent(ish) battle over election maps that clearly sought to minimize the political power of African American voters, GOP operatives defended themselves from charges of racial bias by saying they weren't restricting voters because they're Black, but rather because they vote Democrat. This is election rigging, by a fascist regime, headed up by a would-be King who keeps musing about violating the Constitution to seek a third term, and it's probably time to be honest with ourselves about what that actually means - an attempt to permanently install the US Republican brand of fascism in our society by preventing free and fair elections (such as those exist, in America.) </p><p>I mean let's cut the crap here for a second okay? The Save Act specifically targets voter registrations drives because the fascist GOP is openly arguing that registering people to vote, is somehow rigging elections. Let that sink in for a minute folks; a fascist regime is trying to rig elections through nationalized voter suppression because, and they essentially admit this, if everyone gets to vote they might lose power. The fact that this type of thinking and rhetoric is considered "normal" for the right wing party in America doesn't prove these guys aren't fascist, just that America has been embracing, normalizing, and ignoring fascism for a very long time before Donald Trump ran for office. </p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elections</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicanParty</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/MikeJohnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MikeJohnson</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/SaveAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaveAct</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Rigged" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rigged</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/OnePartyRule" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnePartyRule</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/VoterSuppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoterSuppression</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/USCongress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USCongress</span></a></p>
Brad Solari<p>It’s good to see <a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/Goose" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Goose</span></a> fans still suck at Goose. <a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/JOTY" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JOTY</span></a> <a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/RIGGED" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RIGGED</span></a> <a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/RealJOTYneverwins" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RealJOTYneverwins</span></a></p>
BeefyJoe<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@thelinuxcast" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>thelinuxcast</span></a></span> NFL <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/rigged" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rigged</span></a> 4 Chiefs lmao</p>
LaetSgo :unverified:<p>Je ne saurais trop conseiller la lecture du billet de <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> hier <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/07/broccoli-hair-brownshirts/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2025/02/07/bro</span><span class="invisible">ccoli-hair-brownshirts/</span></a><br>il décrypte la stratégie du rat muské et de ses sbires en s'appuyant sur un paquet de liens intéressants <br>En particulier celui de Maureen Tkacik <a href="https://prospect.org/power/2025-02-06-private-equity-hatchet-man-leading-lost-boys-of-doge/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">prospect.org/power/2025-02-06-</span><span class="invisible">private-equity-hatchet-man-leading-lost-boys-of-doge/</span></a> qui vous présentera l'ignoble Tom Krause.<br>🤮 <br><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/rigged" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rigged</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/broligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>broligarchy</span></a></p>
Tom Joad<p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Rigged" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rigged</span></a></p>
CM Thiede<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>DemocracyMattersALot</span></a></span> this crap got kicked into high gear, at least for WI, around 2011. Since these kinds love to stick together, I'm sure the process was rolled out anywhere across the nation in states with similar legislative control.</p><p>The pubs locked themselves in a room playing MoneyBall with census numbers and continued ratcheting them in their favor. Until, recently, when they were actually allowed to be moved into some semblance of impartiality, and you know what, seats actually flipped! </p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/MoneyBall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MoneyBall</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/rigged" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rigged</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vote</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.wpr.org/shows/mappedout/how-2011-political-district-map-changed-game-wisconsin" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wpr.org/shows/mappedout/how-20</span><span class="invisible">11-political-district-map-changed-game-wisconsin</span></a></p>
AG3rD<p><a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/Goose" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Goose</span></a> <a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/Bingo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bingo</span></a> <a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/Rigged" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rigged</span></a> thoughts and ranks:<br />N1S1: 0% rigged <br />N1S2: 10% rigged (Kashmir)<br />N2S1: 10% rigged (Slip sliding)<br />N2S2: 80% (All but Creatures and Atlas Dogs)<br />N2E: 100% rigged (Dripfield was rigged too)</p>
SPQR<p>Few people are exceptional across a range of skills or professions. The moneyed elite on Wall St. believe, because they figured out a way to legally rip off people, they are geniuses. They are incredibly mediocre, if not incompetent, on other matters. Bill Ackman is a prime example.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plutocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rigged" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rigged</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/finance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>finance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WallStreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WallStreet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/intellect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intellect</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a></p>
Sassinake! - ⊃∪∩⪽<p>Maddow points out frightening truth about Trump's lack of concern about votes <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-points-out-frightening-truth-about-trump-s-lack-of-concern-about-votes-215958085917" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/</span><span class="invisible">maddow-points-out-frightening-truth-about-trump-s-lack-of-concern-about-votes-215958085917</span></a> </p><p>They <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rigged" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rigged</span></a> it</p>
GG<p>👀 BREAKING - Widespread delivery problems with the US mail could disrupt voting in the presidential election, officials say. - AP</p><p>(A reminder that Trump appointee & supporter, Louis DeJoy, is STILL in charge of the US Postal system.)</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/cheat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cheat</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/rigged" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rigged</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>In <a href="https://c.im/tags/Montana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Montana</span></a>, Trump repeatedly mentioned what he still <a href="https://c.im/tags/falsely" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>falsely</span></a> says was a “<a href="https://c.im/tags/rigged" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rigged</span></a> election” in 2020</p><p>and said the Republican National Committee was working at an effort to <a href="https://c.im/tags/repeat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>repeat</span></a> those efforts this year.</p><p>He made <a href="https://c.im/tags/xenophobic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xenophobic</span></a> comments about migrants coming to the U.S. illegally, <br>🌟falsely said Harris was letting some “roam free” to assault, <a href="https://c.im/tags/rape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rape</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/murder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>murder</span></a> Americans, <br>🌟and falsely claimed she would give undocumented immigrants all the benefits Americans enjoy.</p><p>“It’s going to be called a <a href="https://c.im/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/mass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mass</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a>, because we have no choice. We have no choice. If Harris wins, a never-ending stream of illegal alien <a href="https://c.im/tags/rapists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rapists</span></a>,” Trump said, ironically.</p><p>He also made snide comments about Senator <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tester" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tester</span></a>’s appearance, chided his support for the Inflation Reduction Act, <br>-- which has brought hundreds of millions of dollars to Montana, and called Tester a “big slob.”😨</p><p>Trump brought Rep. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ronny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ronny</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jackson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jackson</span></a>, R-Texas, a former physician to the president, on stage to air his animus for Tester<br> six years after Tester helped tank Trump’s effort to put Jackson in as the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in 2018 by bringing to light complaints Jackson had <a href="https://c.im/tags/overprescribed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>overprescribed</span></a> certain medications and was <a href="https://c.im/tags/drinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drinking</span></a> on the job.</p><p>“This man tried to destroy me. He tried to destroy my family. I’ve been waiting for six years to get back here for this night, to be with this man right here, to come after (Tester),” Jackson said, calling Tester a “Swamp hippopotamus😂</p><p><a href="https://dailymontanan.com/2024/08/10/trump-rallies-thousands-in-bozeman-in-support-of-gop-senate-candidate-sheehy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dailymontanan.com/2024/08/10/t</span><span class="invisible">rump-rallies-thousands-in-bozeman-in-support-of-gop-senate-candidate-sheehy/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://jontester.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">jontester.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Republicans also made concerns about the election a formal part of their <a href="https://c.im/tags/platform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>platform</span></a>. </p><p>“We will implement measures to secure our elections, <br>including voter ID, <br>highly sophisticated paper ballots, <br>proof of citizenship and same-day voting. </p><p>We will not allow the Democrats to give voting rights to illegal aliens,” the document says.</p><p>Republicans say they are building an army of poll watchers and observers<br> to watch over the vote this year. </p><p>They’ve also appointed <a href="https://c.im/tags/Christina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christina</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bobb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bobb</span></a>, <br>a lawyer facing criminal charges in Arizona for her involvement in the <a href="https://c.im/tags/fake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fake</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/electors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>electors</span></a> scheme, <br>to head the party’s litigation efforts.</p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lara" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lara</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Logan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Logan</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conspiracy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/die" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>die</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/convention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>convention</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jim</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hoft</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Gateway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gateway</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pundit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pundit</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/misinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>misinformation</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/bankruptcy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bankruptcy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Georgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Georgia</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dominion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dominion</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/libelous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libelous</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/stolen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stolen</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/YMCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YMCA</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/non" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>non</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/citizen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>citizen</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/rare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rare</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/messaging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>messaging</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/doubt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>doubt</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/debunked" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>debunked</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/rescan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rescan</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/confirmed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>confirmed</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/rigged" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rigged</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jr</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/cheating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cheating</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/believe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>believe</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kari</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lake</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Election denialism front and center at Republican national convention </p><p>“Don’t fuck us,” <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lara" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lara</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Logan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Logan</span></a>, the former CBS News anchor turned to me and said. <br>“If you use the word <a href="https://c.im/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conspiracy</span></a> theorist in your story, I’m going to haunt you when I <a href="https://c.im/tags/die" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>die</span></a>.”</p><p>It was the third day of the Republican national <a href="https://c.im/tags/convention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>convention</span></a> and Logan was standing in the atrium of a hotel that was once the old Pabst Brewery in Milwaukee. <br>She was there to moderate a presentation by <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jim</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hoft</span></a>, <br>the founder of the far-right website <a href="https://c.im/tags/Gateway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gateway</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pundit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pundit</span></a>, and his twin brother, Joe, who is also a contributor to the site.</p><p>The site, which has become a launchpad for <a href="https://c.im/tags/misinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>misinformation</span></a>, <br>has been in hot water recently. <br>The site declared <a href="https://c.im/tags/bankruptcy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bankruptcy</span></a> in April in order to delay civil suits from two <a href="https://c.im/tags/Georgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Georgia</span></a> election workers and a former <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dominion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dominion</span></a> Voting Systems employee who say the site defamed them. <br>The site denies publishing <a href="https://c.im/tags/libelous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libelous</span></a> claims against the women.</p><p>The event billed as a “blockbuster interview” on the site’s “legal challenges and new beginnings” underscored how doubts about the outcome of the 2020 election continue to grip Republicans<br> (a PRRI poll from January found that 63% of Republicans believe the 2020 election was <a href="https://c.im/tags/stolen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stolen</span></a>).</p><p>Inside and outside of the convention hall, it was clear in speeches and interviews with attendees throughout the week that doubts about the 2020 election remain, <br>and the possibility of another “stolen” vote looms.</p><p>The most direct reference to a stolen election in 2020 came in a pre-recorded video from Donald Trump <br>that aired on the jumbotron each night. <br>It was only one of two videos that repeated <br>(the other was a goofy video of Trump doing a wiggle-type dance to the song <a href="https://c.im/tags/YMCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YMCA</span></a>).</p><p>“The most important thing we have to do is protect the vote. <br>You have to keep your eyes open because these people want to cheat <br>and they do cheat, and, frankly, it’s the only thing they do well,” Trump said in the video.</p><p>Republican speakers steered clear of the 2020 election results directly, <br>and instead repeatedly emphasized the threat of <a href="https://c.im/tags/non" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>non</span></a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/citizen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>citizen</span></a> voting, <br>which is exceedingly <a href="https://c.im/tags/rare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rare</span></a> and yet nonetheless has become a central part of the party’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/messaging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>messaging</span></a> around elections. </p><p>Just as Trump pointed to mail-in ballots to seed <a href="https://c.im/tags/doubt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>doubt</span></a> about the 2020 election, <br>experts believe that the emphasis on non-citizen voting is an effort to seed doubt about the election results in 2024.</p><p>At the Gateway Pundit event, there was little new information. <br>Jim Hoft walked the 20 or so attendees <br>– the event was also livestreamed on X <br>– through video footage that purported to show Georgia election workers running ballots through tabulator machines several times. </p><p>“We think this is important because in my world anyway where I grew up, you kind of count ballots two or three times,” Jim Hoft said. <br>He insisted that nothing the site had published had been disproven.</p><p>The claim that ballots were scanned multiple times in Georgia has been <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/debunked" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>debunked</span></a> repeatedly <br>and the women have both been cleared of any wrongdoing. </p><p>If there’s an issue scanning a single ballot within a batch <br>– a jam or a smudge on a ballot <br>– it’s common practice for election workers to delete the incomplete batch to <a href="https://c.im/tags/rescan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rescan</span></a> the entire group until they have the correct total. </p><p>The state also conducted a hand recount of every single vote cast in the presidential race in Georgia that <a href="https://c.im/tags/confirmed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>confirmed</span></a> Joe Biden’s win there.</p><p>At the convention, there was little doubt that the next election could be <a href="https://c.im/tags/rigged" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rigged</span></a>. <br>The struggle of the Biden campaign and Trump’s strong standing in the polls only increased the belief that any Democratic victory would be illegitimate. <br>Speaking at an Axios event on the sidelines of the convention, Donald Trump <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jr</span></a> said that if Trump lost it would be because of “<a href="https://c.im/tags/cheating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cheating</span></a>”.<br>“We’re going to have to make sure we have people watching [the election] very closely,” he said at the event. <br>“I don’t think that Joe Biden over-performed only in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee <br>– I just don’t <a href="https://c.im/tags/believe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>believe</span></a> that’s real,” he said.</p><p>As part of their messaging around non-citizen voting, Republicans recently passed legislation in the US House that would <br>require anyone who registers to vote to show proof of citizenship. <br>Speakers at the convention picked up the mantle by suggesting that Democrats had opened the borders to allow non-citizens to vote.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Kari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kari</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lake</span></a>, who is running for a US Senate seat in Arizona, <br>falsely accused her opponent, Representative Ruben Gallego, <br>of voting to “let the millions of people who poured into our country illegally cast a ballot in this upcoming election”.</p><p>Imagining a second Biden term, Senator Rick Scott of Florida said: “It was easy for Democrats to rig the elections – they simply allowed all the non-citizens to vote.”</p><p>“[Democrats] want illegals to vote now that they opened the border,” Steve Scalise, a top Republican in the US House, said in his speech.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/19/election-denialism-republican-convention?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/articl</span><span class="invisible">e/2024/jul/19/election-denialism-republican-convention?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>
healyn<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://monads.online/@zorotl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>zorotl</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://octodon.social/@Taweret" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Taweret</span></a></span> wow, dead heat between "yes" and "spiderman"</p><p><a href="https://normal.style/tags/rigged" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rigged</span></a></p>
SueDiOh<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toad.social/@wdlindsy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wdlindsy</span></a></span> Trump won the debate when CNN said they wouldn't fact check. It was <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RIGGED" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIGGED</span></a></p>
beSpacific<p>Programme created by former president <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/JimmyCarter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JimmyCarter</span></a> to support elections in <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/fragile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fragile</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/democracies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracies</span></a> is increasing <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>election</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/monitoring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>monitoring</span></a> in US as <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/political" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>political</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/polarisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>polarisation</span></a> and voter distrust grow ahead of Nov 2024 presidential contest. The pledge comes as <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> and his supporters continue to cast doubt on the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/integrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>integrity</span></a> of US <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ballots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ballots</span></a> following the ex-president’s claim that he would have won the #2020 poll if it had not been <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/rigged" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rigged</span></a>. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> Read Free FT.com <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/70efc1c9-4299-49f1-9b35-d18ffbca17b3?accessToken=zwAAAZDmJ1HZkc9w78HJQplJ8dObNdGP-8oXswE.MEQCIGX1k0P6C_FknRmrOk-l628S_32TXQHpAkg4Drd8CMW2AiAvu7HDWT93PzVkvJ6G_seTW8o7N-84_p1etDW8tGY_4w&segmentId=70efc1c9-4299-49f1-9b35-d18ffbca17b3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ft.com/content/70efc1c9-4299-4</span><span class="invisible">9f1-9b35-d18ffbca17b3?accessToken=zwAAAZDmJ1HZkc9w78HJQplJ8dObNdGP-8oXswE.MEQCIGX1k0P6C_FknRmrOk-l628S_32TXQHpAkg4Drd8CMW2AiAvu7HDWT93PzVkvJ6G_seTW8o7N-84_p1etDW8tGY_4w&segmentId=70efc1c9-4299-49f1-9b35-d18ffbca17b3</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>As Trump has continued to <a href="https://c.im/tags/lie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lie</span></a> that the 2020 election was “<a href="https://c.im/tags/stolen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stolen</span></a>” and “<a href="https://c.im/tags/rigged" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rigged</span></a>” , <br>the GOP Supreme Leader and his supporters have been making concrete, step-by-step progress in shaping electoral processes to his benefit. </p><p>Across the state, MAGA die-hards are devoting considerable resources to purging voter rolls, intimidating election officials, employing legal dirty tricks, and ousting Republican officials and election appointees who haven’t been initiated into the cult of Trump.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/@cdarwin/112588090034404110" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">c.im/@cdarwin/1125880900344041</span><span class="invisible">10</span></a></p>
Ramesh #NotGoingBack<p>⬆️ <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@StephenRamirez" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>StephenRamirez</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> Elected representatives — </p><p>Alleging <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/corruptJusticeSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruptJusticeSystem</span></a>, ignoring <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/corruptSCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruptSCOTUS</span></a></p><p>Alleging <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rigged" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rigged</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Election2020" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Election2020</span></a>, while basking in their OWN victories in SAME election</p><p>And via @Nonilex ➡️ <a href="https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/112542019657464532" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">masto.ai/@Nonilex/112542019657</span><span class="invisible">464532</span></a></p>
SLCW💥<p>Everything is <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/rigged" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rigged</span></a>. Of course, he's never done anything wrong, and the nearly 100 <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/felonyIndictments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>felonyIndictments</span></a> against him are just evidence of what a poor, persecuted victim he is. It's all just one obscenely enormous <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/witchHunt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>witchHunt</span></a> involving thousands of public servants led by <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/JoeBiden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JoeBiden</span></a> (from his basement coma suite). This is the abject bullshit <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> is hoping you believe, which is why he repeats it everytime a camera is nearby. Persuasion through repetition.</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/TrumpLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpLies</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/rigged-lara-trump-is-already-claiming-the-debates-her-father-in-law-agreed-to-are-fixed/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mediaite.com/tv/rigged-lara-tr</span><span class="invisible">ump-is-already-claiming-the-debates-her-father-in-law-agreed-to-are-fixed/</span></a></p>
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