I'll be surprised if we _don't_ see mayhem, intimidation, and violence at election offices around the country. And also, if the orange criminal can't manage to steal the election that way and through the corrupt courts (looking at you, SCOTUS), a reprise of Jan 6, except larger and better organized and more violent.
The orange criminal is desperate and flailing; he knows his goose is cooked if he can't get back into the WH. The christo-fascist white supremacists will stop at nothing, including the use of force if need be and the electoral process and laws and the Constitution be damned, to seize power and keep it for a very long time.
Homeland Security has already declared the vote certification in Jan 2025 as a national special security event. If governors aren't preparing analogously in their respective states, they're either MAGAts or severely derelict in their duties.
Barring a landslide Harris-Walz/Dem win, it's gonna be an ugly time fighting off a coup d'état. Buckle up.
This is one of my biggest fears. I hope at least the Dem admins in PA, MI and WI are ready for attempts at major disruption in urban polling places. I do T think you mentioned that THREE current SCOTUS members cut their teeth at or around d the BBR.
I just scheduled a post to Substack (due Monday morning) on the way the media misled the public about the Brooks Brothers riot, mainly by failing to point out that Miami-Dade wasn't following Florida election law that day (IX 102.166).. The law required the canvassing board to count all the ballots (Miami-Dade was focusing only on undervotes) and do so in a manner "open to the public."
The rioters were in their Brooks Brothers finery because they were election observers. They had easy access to the interior of the building because the old counting room where they had observed the manual recount was one floor below the smaller room to which the canvassing board had repaired. When the Board announced it was returning to the larger room (even without a commitment to count all the ballots), those present let out a cheer.
The recount was canceled in Miami-Dade because it could not be completed by the deadline. That's what the Board said, and there's no good reason to doubt it. Board chairman David Leahy had originally expected the full recount to take until Dec. 1, 2000, well after the court-determined deadline.
I still remember the Brooks Brothers Riot, too. I've never understood why the Dems didn't do more in response at the time, in the immediate aftermath, or ever since.
I'll be surprised if we _don't_ see mayhem, intimidation, and violence at election offices around the country. And also, if the orange criminal can't manage to steal the election that way and through the corrupt courts (looking at you, SCOTUS), a reprise of Jan 6, except larger and better organized and more violent.
The orange criminal is desperate and flailing; he knows his goose is cooked if he can't get back into the WH. The christo-fascist white supremacists will stop at nothing, including the use of force if need be and the electoral process and laws and the Constitution be damned, to seize power and keep it for a very long time.
Homeland Security has already declared the vote certification in Jan 2025 as a national special security event. If governors aren't preparing analogously in their respective states, they're either MAGAts or severely derelict in their duties.
Barring a landslide Harris-Walz/Dem win, it's gonna be an ugly time fighting off a coup d'état. Buckle up.
This is one of my biggest fears. I hope at least the Dem admins in PA, MI and WI are ready for attempts at major disruption in urban polling places. I do T think you mentioned that THREE current SCOTUS members cut their teeth at or around d the BBR.
I wish this election was over and done with.
I just scheduled a post to Substack (due Monday morning) on the way the media misled the public about the Brooks Brothers riot, mainly by failing to point out that Miami-Dade wasn't following Florida election law that day (IX 102.166).. The law required the canvassing board to count all the ballots (Miami-Dade was focusing only on undervotes) and do so in a manner "open to the public."
The rioters were in their Brooks Brothers finery because they were election observers. They had easy access to the interior of the building because the old counting room where they had observed the manual recount was one floor below the smaller room to which the canvassing board had repaired. When the Board announced it was returning to the larger room (even without a commitment to count all the ballots), those present let out a cheer.
The recount was canceled in Miami-Dade because it could not be completed by the deadline. That's what the Board said, and there's no good reason to doubt it. Board chairman David Leahy had originally expected the full recount to take until Dec. 1, 2000, well after the court-determined deadline.
I still remember the Brooks Brothers Riot, too. I've never understood why the Dems didn't do more in response at the time, in the immediate aftermath, or ever since.