Tuesday, March 26, 2024

I'm sure there's nothing to worry about

Alex Jones's InfoWars can be as unhinged as Jones himself is, so it's not a source I dip into very often. It's like the right's version of MSNBC. But in this case, the InfoWars article in question is largely quoting from a reliably leftie source: Rolling Stone Magazine.

Headline:

Rolling Stone: Biden Building ‘Superstructure’ to Stop Trump From ‘Stealing the Election’
Democrats apparently very worried Trump working to overturn "democracy" — as they plotted to remove Biden’s political opponent from ballot, prosecuted him in 5 cases, and are threatening to seize his assets to deny campaign funding.

Rolling Stone published an article Sunday titled, “Biden Is Building a ‘Superstructure’ to Stop Trump From Stealing the Election,” describing how Joe Biden and his allies are “creating a legal network” designed to challenge a close election finish.

From Rolling Stone:

Over the past year, Team Biden has been conducting war games, crafting complex legal strategies, and devoting extensive resources to prepare for, as one former senior Biden administration official puts it, “all-hell-breaks-loose” scenarios. The preparations include planning for a contingency in which Biden’s margin of victory is so razor-thin that Trump and the GOP launch a tidal wave of legal challenges and political maneuvers to rerun his 2020 election strategy: declare victory anyways, and try to will it into existence.

“President Biden has been worried, for a while now, that Donald Trump is going to try to steal the election, if it’s very close on Election Day,” says a source familiar with Biden’s thinking. “If that ends up being the case, we are… also expecting the Republican Party to go into overdrive to help him steal it. We are continuing to build out the infrastructure to ensure that doesn’t happen — again — if President Biden wins and Trump and MAGA Republicans try to confuse [everyone] and sow chaos.”

Let's skip to the endgame, shall we? The right has proved overly tolerant and very wimpy when it comes to acting out violently, and the left loves to accuse the right of being the violent ones. Leftists project, after all. It's their stock in trade. Assume Trump loses and the right finally gets all apeshit-civil-war-let's-go-motherfucker. We'll finally have our long-simmering hot war, the left will cry "See? See? We've been saying this since forever!"—and in the end, the side with more guns will win. The left naively assumes the military will support it if there's any such violence, and while there's a chance of that, what's just as likely is that elements within the military, tired of all the woke bullshit, will side with the right. But let's assume Trump wins this November. The left will definitely go apeshit and try to burn things, but the right might be ready for looting and destruction this time, so again, the side with more guns is likely to win.

Civil war aside, let's review some chronology.

1. Before the 2016 election, Trump was asked whether he'd accept an electoral loss. He responded with something cagey like, "I have to think about it." The left went nuts and screamed that the electoral process was solid, inviolable, immune to cheating and fraud.

2. Then Trump won. The left immediately did a 180 and screamed (thanks to prompting by Hillary) that Trump had won with help from the Russians. During Trump's presidency, at least three Democrat-led investigations found no evidence of a Trump-Russia collusion, but wild-eyed left-Dems still cling to that narrative even now.

It was hilarious to watch the left turn on a dime like that. But they'll never again make the mistake of claiming the electoral process is trustworthy and inviolable. It probably hasn't been for a long time... which kind of makes you think.

I'm open to suggestions, sci-fi scenarios, etc., that show how it's possible to minimize rigging, cheating, and fraud from both sides. At this point, trust in the electoral system is broken. Conservatives bitterly joke that you can't vote your way out of a corrupted system. Left-Dems, meanwhile, have their rosters of the dead, the illegal, etc. to pad their voter rolls.

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election; the people who count the votes do.
—Stalin (one of several versions of this quote)



2 comments:

  1. Sounds like there is going to be a bloodbath.

    Easy solution, paper ballots, voter ID, only vote at the polls (with exception for military and overseas citizens).

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  2. I have commenters here who will call you delusional and naïve for thinking any of this. You might even know one of them.

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