At least the Rs are trying to check IDs and reduce the avenues for fraud in mail voting. The Ds seem hellbent on running elections as janky as possible, and pissing in the face of anyone who objects. Are they trying to provoke an angry response that they can use as a pretext for a crackdown?
Much too dismissive of the "conspiracy theory" of elections. There is credible evidence to support a lot of the controversaries and there always has been. Obama was not the first President to have a birther controversary. That would be Chester Arthur who may have been Canadian by birth. Americans tend to disbelieve this while Canadians believe. Better evidence for this than for the Obama case. The 1876 Commission was constitutionally questionable and tainted by the Republican legislature of Illinois electing a Democrat to the Senate and switching the balance of the Commission and further tainted by a deal to end Reconstruction. The saying of it is who counts the votes that matter was not coined by Stalin but by Boss Tweed. In 1960, Texas was clearly won by fraud which was the reason LBJ was on the ticket in the first place. The question in Illinois was only whether the Chicago machine's fraud was matched by downstate Republican fraud. 1800 was so questionable that it took a constitutional amendment to fix the process. The slogan of Jackson's campaign was "We was robbed". The previous election unlike 1876 had followed the constitutional process but there was a question of a quid pro quo. Even if there was no fraud in 2020 (there was), the election was still illegitimate because of the Supreme Courts decision that the Texas lawsuit had no standing. Apparently, Texas was supposed to secede.
What a betrayal of the responsibility AC has to its subscribers, and to something larger than narrow self-interest. There is no analogue to Don’s insurrection, nor to his incessant election lies that continue to this day. The whataboutism of this piece is shameful. Like JD, Little Marco, R senators and congressman, business leaders, and think tank “leaders”, AC and this author know the truth. JD et al once proudly uttered it publicly, at least while it seemed advantageous politically. Read their comments on the public record. Read the public comments of Don’s first-term cabinet and staff. Read their sworn testimony. But most elites soon capitulated when it actually cost them something-political power for officeholders, access to people in power for business and think tank “leaders”, fundraising for both. How small can our elites shrink?
No one is being asked to land on Anzio Beach, merely to muster the courage to utter the truth they know and once stated. Shame on y’all.
At least the Rs are trying to check IDs and reduce the avenues for fraud in mail voting. The Ds seem hellbent on running elections as janky as possible, and pissing in the face of anyone who objects. Are they trying to provoke an angry response that they can use as a pretext for a crackdown?
Much too dismissive of the "conspiracy theory" of elections. There is credible evidence to support a lot of the controversaries and there always has been. Obama was not the first President to have a birther controversary. That would be Chester Arthur who may have been Canadian by birth. Americans tend to disbelieve this while Canadians believe. Better evidence for this than for the Obama case. The 1876 Commission was constitutionally questionable and tainted by the Republican legislature of Illinois electing a Democrat to the Senate and switching the balance of the Commission and further tainted by a deal to end Reconstruction. The saying of it is who counts the votes that matter was not coined by Stalin but by Boss Tweed. In 1960, Texas was clearly won by fraud which was the reason LBJ was on the ticket in the first place. The question in Illinois was only whether the Chicago machine's fraud was matched by downstate Republican fraud. 1800 was so questionable that it took a constitutional amendment to fix the process. The slogan of Jackson's campaign was "We was robbed". The previous election unlike 1876 had followed the constitutional process but there was a question of a quid pro quo. Even if there was no fraud in 2020 (there was), the election was still illegitimate because of the Supreme Courts decision that the Texas lawsuit had no standing. Apparently, Texas was supposed to secede.
What a betrayal of the responsibility AC has to its subscribers, and to something larger than narrow self-interest. There is no analogue to Don’s insurrection, nor to his incessant election lies that continue to this day. The whataboutism of this piece is shameful. Like JD, Little Marco, R senators and congressman, business leaders, and think tank “leaders”, AC and this author know the truth. JD et al once proudly uttered it publicly, at least while it seemed advantageous politically. Read their comments on the public record. Read the public comments of Don’s first-term cabinet and staff. Read their sworn testimony. But most elites soon capitulated when it actually cost them something-political power for officeholders, access to people in power for business and think tank “leaders”, fundraising for both. How small can our elites shrink?
No one is being asked to land on Anzio Beach, merely to muster the courage to utter the truth they know and once stated. Shame on y’all.