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Giuliani’s attempts to overturn 2020 election partly thwarted by wrong number
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2024
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It’s a mild relief that the most incompetent dipshits in Washington are the ones who tried to overthrow democracy.
I’m worried they won’t be as incompetent next time.
A lot of red states have put laws into place to make usurping the election all but a certainty.
This may very well be the last democratic election that we'll have in our lifetime if we're not careful.
Raising my children, I got painfully aware of how "lasts" work.
The last time your baby asks you to pick them up. The last time they ask you to take them trick-or-treating. The last time you read a bedtime story.
The one thing that is common to all the lasts is you never know it was the last time until it's too late. It's always already a memory. At the time it seemed like every other time so you didn't even savor it.
What I'm trying to say is, if they manage to usurp the election this time, then 2024 won't be the last democratic election. The last democratic election would be the previous one.
My tinfoil hat theory is the Rs have progressively put increasingly stupid people into the party to see how much the nation will tolerate. This started with Bush Jr., then tried with the tea party, backed off a bit, and let it bake for a while.
Then, once they got their ducks in a row, they got behind Trump. Someone so fucking stupid that anything he tried, they would just chalk up to insanity. When they saw it worked, they went all in, now with a fucking plan in Project 2025. Now ANYONE they put in ANY leadership role knows exactly what to do to burn it all to the ground.