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twocoach wrote: ↑Thu Sep 03, 2020 11:27 am Everything Trump accuses others of doing is likely something he has either done already, is doing right now, or wants to do in the future.

jfish26 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 03, 2020 11:32 am

twocoach wrote: ↑Thu Sep 03, 2020 11:27 am Everything Trump accuses others of doing is likely something he has either done already, is doing right now, or wants to do in the future.

Yes. It's important to remember at all times that he's further away from eight-dimensional chess than he is from eating the Candyland pieces.

sdoyel wrote: ↑Thu Sep 03, 2020 11:57 pm https://www.wired.com/story/trump-elect ... -doj-odni/

jfish26 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 03, 2020 10:23 am

IllinoisJayhawk wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2020 12:34 pm

NiceDC wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2020 12:30 pm

My assumption is it's a destabilizing effort.

Kind of what i thought...i still think it is true info being leaked, but it is probably being leaked for a reason.

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=864&p=128025&hilit=caught#p128025

The playbook is telegraphed. The in-person vote will likely be a narrow Trump loss. Then the remote results will reveal a historic landslide.

At some point through all this, foreign actors will be "caught" manipulating the remote voting process, setting up an attempt to discredit all remote votes.

It's right here in front of you.

[Conspiracy theories] thrive in part because they are unfalsifiable. No one can prove or disprove a hypothetical. That’s the beauty of them. Just because you’ve never seen the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, or a tactical Antifa force unit on a plane doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

All Trump and Barr need is a friend to produce some evidence for their conspiracy theory. Maybe, oh, in the form of a classified report that just so happens to leak to Sean Hannity. You don’t need a crystal ball to predict where this will go: No need to worry much about Russia interfering in the election; China is the real problem. You know—that country already flooding America with counterfeit goods. First, they came for electronic products and designer purses. Then, our ballots.

The good news is that Trump, Barr, and company are like cartoon villains who, in a slow-rolling monologue, reveal their evil plan to anyone watching the show. Election watchers already know to prepare for the possibility of a contested election. One that rests on Trump’s idea alleging the presence of counterfeit Chinese ballots has to be put into that mix.

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He could demand a congressional investigation. Or demand that the new Biden administration face the scrutiny of a special prosecutor. He could call for the election results to be overturned, even when the process is long over and no mechanism for such an overturning exists. What would stop him? Remember, this kind of evidence-free demand for investigations of a sitting Democratic president is what Trump’s 2016 campaign was based upon. It’s what made him the most powerful man on Earth. It’s what he does. It’s who he is. And it would keep him relevant, especially to his Fox News-InfoWars base, through Biden’s presidency.

All of this only sounds crazy if you haven’t been paying attention.

IllinoisJayhawk wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2020 6:57 pm What if China really does interfere in the election? It has already been reported by CNN that they are (to what extent wasn't specified, but my guess is some sort of targeted disinformation campaigns)....does it matter or is it okay as long as it helps Biden?

I don't ask that to be a total smart ass. I just see huge differences is how some people respond and/or how they seem to be more skeptical when it helps their candidate...and that is not just a subliminal shot at the left at all, i see the same people from the right who blindly professed "russia hoax" instantly jump on the "china is interfering" outrage bandwagon with no questions asked. It is just very transparent looking in from the outside. It seems like a lot of people don't care what their side does only what the other side does. And that's not saying both side do it or both sides do it the same, it is more about how some people are just unwaveringly loyal to their party at all costs right now, which i think is ridiculous.

IllinoisJayhawk wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2020 6:57 pm What if China really does interfere in the election? It has already been reported by CNN that they are (to what extent wasn't specified, but my guess is some sort of targeted disinformation campaigns)....does it matter or is it okay as long as it helps Biden?

I don't ask that to be a total smart ass. I just see huge differences is how some people respond and/or how they seem to be more skeptical when it helps their candidate...and that is not just a subliminal shot at the left at all, i see the same people from the right who blindly professed "russia hoax" instantly jump on the "china is interfering" outrage bandwagon with no questions asked. It is just very transparent looking in from the outside. It seems like a lot of people don't care what their side does only what the other side does. And that's not saying both side do it or both sides do it the same, it is more about how some people are just unwaveringly loyal to their party at all costs right now, which i think is ridiculous.

ousdahl wrote: ↑Wed Sep 09, 2020 8:40 am if Biden were to receive "help" from foreign interference in the election, I imagine he would express more concern about it than dismissing it over and over as "a Republican witch hunt"

jfish26 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 09, 2020 9:06 am Biden also doesn't need help. Not in the way Trump does (and did, in 2016).