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Re:Venezuela's Supreme Court certifies Maduro's claims he wo... by RIMR on Thursday August 22, 2024 @02:35PM (#41323177)
The days between 11/5 and 1/20 are are going to be wild in America.
Re:Venezuela's Supreme Court certifies Maduro's claims he wo... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday August 22, 2024 @03:01PM (#41323413)
I'm afraid so. Trump is in "total war" mode because if he loses the election, the court cases are no longer going to be delayed, and he's going to be destroyed. So he's going to claim "voter fraud!" in every state he loses, maybe even in every precinct he loses, and he's going to file a blizzard of cases. It's not going to be 60 cases this time; it's going to be a lot more. Most of them are going to be dismissed, like last time, due to lack of anything that looks like evidence.

But he also may have some state election people who are willing to march to his orders. That part concerns me a lot. And he probably has a fair number of people who will take to the streets to "stop the second steal". And I fear that he's going to try to use them.

Re:Venezuela's Supreme Court certifies Maduro's claims he wo... by mindslight on Thursday August 22, 2024 @03:58PM (#41323885)
TBH if that's the totality of the battle plan, that's fantastic news. It only came so close to working last time because he had his hands on the levers of executive power, and could thus disable/sideline all of the usual law enforcement while the barrage of baseless court cases were being used to swing public opinion.

But really the only way we're going to get out of this shitfuck of a mess is for Trumpism to be resoundingly rebuked at the ballot box. The Republican party needs to choke on the disastrous results of this festering radical populist destruction that they had been stoking but containing for decades (eg rush Limbaugh), until it finally escaped.

And please don't read my comment thinking I'm sitting here positively pro-Democrat or pro-system. As a libertarian, I've got many indictments of the current corporatist anti-individual-freedom system, the two party duopoly, the "deep state", etc. But staring down the choice of the destruction of the American bureaucracy in favor of cult of personality autocracy, I've begrudgingly had to choose the solidly conservative choice of bureaucracy. And I'm willing to admit that it had been far too easy to take it for granted.

Re:Venezuela's Supreme Court certifies Maduro's claims he wo... by bastardoperator on Thursday August 22, 2024 @03:18PM (#41323559)
We deserve everything coming to us if we elect trump again.
Re:Venezuela's Supreme Court certifies Maduro's claims he wo... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday August 22, 2024 @03:23PM (#41323598)
I think it's going to be "wild" even if we don't.