We’re going to have to see what happens
David Smith at the Guardian on Trump’s prelude to dictatorship performance yesterday:
Trump careered from touting miracle vaccines to building supreme court suspense, from insulting a female member of the British royal family to abruptly departing for a mysterious “emergency” phone call. But first, there was the small matter of kneecapping American democracy.
Perhaps it was not chance that the president, ever eager to generate media outrage, gave the first question to Brian Karem, who describes himself on Twitter as a “Loud Mouth” senior White House reporter at Playboy. “Will you commit to make sure there’s a peaceful transferral of power after the election?” Karem asked.
And the answer was no, not unless I win.
“Get rid of the ballots and you’ll have a very peaceful — there won’t be a transfer, frankly. There will be a continuation. The ballots are out of control. You know it. And you know who knows it better than anybody else? The Democrats know it better than anybody else.”
Later, Karem remarked on Twitter: “This is the most frightening answer I have ever received to any question I have ever asked. I’ve interviewed convicted killers with more empathy. @realDonaldTrump is advocating Civil War.”
And Julian Castro, who served in Barack Obama’s cabinet, tweeted: “In one day, Trump refused a peaceful transition of power and urged the confirmation of a Supreme Court justice to hand him an election if the results are contested. This is fascism, alive and well in the Republican Party.”
No joke.
It is terrifying to be living through this century’s equivalent of the 1930s.
With nukes.
Good grief, yes. With nukes. Yikes.
“urged the confirmation of a Supreme Court justice to hand him an election if the results are contested.”
The precedent for this was set in 2000. That was a constitutional crisis that everyone ignored.
I received another absentee ballot application in the mail, this time by the GOP. This makes three so far. I can only speculate that the corrupt elements in the Dipshit administration want me to vote by mail so they can “eliminate the ballots”. I really do think they are laying the groundwork for stealing the election. I think everyone who is able should vote in person (using Covid precautions), that’s how I’ll be voting.