spaceghoti @ spaceghoti @lemmy.one

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Only while Republicans hold the majority.

Not to mention "grab 'em by the pussy" and bragging about walking in on teen beauty contestants while they were changing because "they let you do that when you're a star."

I will never say that she deserves the abuse she receives. But I will point out she knew what she was getting into.

Let's game this out the way some of the comments are saying.

Scenario 1: Proud Boys and other right wing militant groups stand around polling places with open carry weapons to intimidate Democrat-leaning districts. Maybe it doesn't chase everyone away, but we know a lot of election officials are complaining about threats and have quit. So it's going to have some effect. Enough to swing the vote? I don't think that matters. It's still election interference.

Scenario 2: right wing militants show up, and so do various antifa groups to counter them. Maybe antifa show up armed, maybe not. Either way, it's an escalation. Escalating tensions with guns present significantly increases the chances that someone uses their gun, regardless of who shoots first. The first shots in a civil war? Then the right wing militants win, because they've been agitating for this for years. Who wins is immaterial to the millions of people who will suffer as a result.

Scenario 3: polling places are reinforced with police and National Guards as necessary to prevent any election interference. They can be present to "observe" but they're not allowed to intimidate anyone. This is the only scenario I can see where democracy is defended and preserved.

Agree or disagree? What am I missing? Where am I wrong?

Not in 2017. I had to look it up, but the U.S. median home price in 2017 was $235,000.

I get that. This is another nothingburger from Republicans to create the illusion that they've found criminal activity on the part of the President. They're very conspicuously not mentioning how this took place in 2018 while Biden was a private citizen and hadn't announced his candidacy for President.

But if they really want to follow evidence of clear influence peddling with breathtaking bribes, they could look closer at Jared and Ivanka during their tenure in the White House.

Probably not intentionally.

Okay. If this was an example of influence peddling, let's pursue it. Let's also investigate the billions of dollars the Saudis invested into Kushner while he was operating from the White House.

Who could have predicted that?

Apparently, neither does posting comments intended to provoke angry or indignant responses.

I feel like there's a word for that.

The media didn't portray him as a joke. They reported on him soberly and treated commentary from the far right (like that infamous interview with Newt Gingrich) as if it were legitimate analysis. They didn't paint a clown face on him to go with his act.

Amazing rebuttal. Thank you for posting it.

They weren't mocking him, whatever he said. They just repeated what he was saying. If someone had actually, publicly laughed at him and mocked him the way he was mocking everyone else, maybe things would be different. We'll never know.

It's the part where he wants those same people to go out and intimidate or attack anyone not voting "correctly" (read: Republican).

"Enlightened centrism" once again appears to promote right wing agendas.

You are seen and recognized.

Instead, hiding the downvotes makes troll comments look reasonable and even popular as they brigade a community to upvote their narrative. The average user has no way to combat or discourage it.

This isn't reddit, where the interface hides comments with too many downvotes.

It didn't help that America's top cop (AG Merrick Garland) deliberately held back on the investigations. It's not just my opinion. Multiple observers came to the same conclusion.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Merrick+garland+slow+walk+January+6+investigations

Why are we enabling and feeding trolls?

They're saying democracy in the US is over. The slow walk of prosecutions against the Jan. 6th insurgents, particularly its organizers, has given the fascists the confidence to do it again at a national level. We'll either have to fight back with equal violence, flee, or submit to their dictatorship.