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Just The Right Amount of Fretting

From Greg Fallis:

We're two weeks out from election day and there's a whole lot of OMG OMG Trump's gonna try to steal the election if he loses OMG WTF do we do now?! floating around in social media. And it's making some folks downright frantic.

Yeah, Trump is absolutely going to try to steal the election when he loses. That's just a fact. We all know it. We saw him try to do it four years ago. Of course, he's going to try it again. This time he's better prepared for it. This time he knows what he did wrong last time. (Okay, that's not entirely true; Trump is just a bone-ignorant as he was last time, but now he's got a cadre of feral GOP fascists who are far more skilled at ratfucking.) This time the stakes are higher…both for the nation and for Trump his ownself. He loses, and he's looking at prison.

So yeah, it's understandable that folks are worried. EXCEPT for this: the Dems are also better prepared than last time. We've had four years to put as many safeguards in place as possible. We've had four years to anticipate Trump's moves. Things look better for us than they did four years ago. For example:

        • We've changed the Electoral Count Act to make it far more difficult for state legislatures to reverse the results of an election.
        • We have hundreds of lawyers, lawyers in every state, ready to counter the GOP's attempts to ratfuck the votes, and they've got dozens of briefs already written and ready to file, tailored to each state.
        • The governors of five of the seven so-called 'swing' states are Democrats. The two GOP-led states includes Georgia, where Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger both resisted Trump's efforts four years ago.
        • Of the 60+ lawsuits brought by Trump four years ago, all but one was shot down. Many of the judges in those cases were Republicans, some appointed by Trump his ownself. They're no more likely to agree with him this time.
        • Four years ago Trump had the Department of Justice and the Attorney General in his pocket to help him. Now, the DOJ and the AG are more independent.

This isn't to say that your anxiety isn't warranted. It's not to say there's nothing to fret about. Trump, his Nazgûl lawyers, and his angry supporters are willing to use any corrupt means that might give them a chance to obtain power, including violence. We HAVE to be concerned and vigilant.

But remember, Trump failed last time. He'll almost certainly fail again. Failure is Trump's true brand. Trump is all make-up and weird hair. His strength is mostly an illusion. So yeah, there's reason to fret. It's right and proper to fret about the election.

Fret enough to get out to vote. Fret enough to encourage your friends and fam to vote. Fret enough to put up a yard sign or cough up some coin to donate to your local candidates. Ain't nothing wrong with fretting about this election.

But don't fret too much.

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"I love the poorly educated." ~ The Mango Mussolini

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No. We Will Not.

Guys, being called weird is getting under Mango Mooselini's weird, thin, orange skin:

Democrats attacking Donald Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance as "weird" is still getting under the former president's skin, and had Trump arguing on Monday that he and Vance are "extremely normal people" during an event intended to tout his plan for the economy in York, Pennylvania.

"You can see it a little bit by this whack job," Trump said, apparently referring to vice presidential candidate Tim Walz. "He said we're weird, that J.D. and I are weird. I think we're extremely normal people. Like you, exactly like … He's weird."

[…] The "I know you are, but what am I" approach hasn't seemed to work very well for Trump and Vance. "So far, at least, Trump-Vance has been incapable of finding an effective response," David Karpf, a strategic communication professor at George Washington University, told the Associated Press last month.

The ol' You're The Puppet maneuver, is—to put it bluntly—weird.

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Are You Optimistic About The Election?

From Fleabag:

Not only am I optimistic, I am fired up and excited as hell. I haven't felt the joy, the enthusiasm, or the optimism like this since 2008.

I almost — almost, not quite because we're all still recovering from the Trump traumas — want to believe that this feeling, shared by so many other people, represents a fever breaking in America, a rejection and repudiation of the people who did their best to lead us into a dystopian, fascist, nightmare.

We have a huge fight ahead of us. They aren't running a campaign as much as they are preparing for another coup, and we will have to turn out an incredible number of voters to account for all the places they have people in place to deny and contest when he loses.

Before the debate, I was concerned. After the debate, I was despondent.

But now, I am fired up and excited as hell. Kamala Harris is going to be an incredible president, and there's a good chance she pulls the House and Senate with her. If that happens, we get SCOTUS reform, Trump faces the music for his crimes without interference, (and maybe some of his co-conspirators go with him, Mark Meadows), and we push the demons Trump unleashed back into the darkness where they belong.

But it only happens when ALL OF US turn out to vote. It only happens when we get all of our friends and family to vote. It only happens when we volunteer, stay involved, and SHOW UP.

We can do this.

We have to do this.

We are not going back.

VOTE BLUE!