Friday, November 01, 2024

The Quandary

This week we are going to the polls and many voters are in a quandary when it comes time to vote…
  • “I’m not voting for a women!” = Trump wins.
  • “I’m not voting for a president who supports Israeli!” = Trump wins.
  • “I’m not voting for a president, there is no differences between the parties!” = Trump wins.
Whatever your excuse is for not voting you are allowing four more years of Trump!

Vote! Vote as if a life depends upon it because the life of a trans person does.
For me, I’m voted for the woman with Integrity, Honor, & Character.
 
 
 

Like many of us I am worried about November 5th if Trump loses it and sends in his "Shock Troops" like he did back in 2020.
October 31, 2024
 
 
Before Election Day has even arrived, the “Stop the Steal” movement has reemerged in force, with some of the same activists who tried to overturn former President Donald Trump’s 2020 loss outlining a step-by-step guide to undermine the results if he falls short again.

For months, those activists – who have been priming Trump supporters to believe the only way the former president can lose in 2024 is through fraud – have laid out proposals to thwart a potential Kamala Harris victory. Their plans include challenging results in court, pressuring lawmakers to block election certification, and encouraging protests – culminating on January 6, 2025, the day Congress will once again certify the results.

“I have a plan and strategy,” Ivan Raiklin, a former Green Beret and political operative who has close ties to associates of Trump, told a group of Pennsylvania activists earlier this month. “And then January 6th is going to be pretty fun.”
This rhetoric is what is getting people nervous! Some worry that Jan 6 2020 was a dress rehearsal for Jan 2025.
Trump’s allies – and the former president himself – are increasingly pushing debunked claims of voter fraud, spreading their rhetoric through podcasts with massive audiences, megachurch sermons and political rallies in key states. Some Trump backers, including pastors associated with Christian nationalist ideas, have described the election as a fight between good and evil, describing Harris as the antichrist or suggesting that God has anointed Trump as the victor.

[...]

Unfounded claims about malign forces conspiring to cheat Trump out of an otherwise inevitable election win have been increasing in recent weeks from influential members of the MAGA movement.

“Yes, the steal is happening again,” Emerald Robinson, a right-wing broadcaster with nearly 800,000 followers on X, declared in a blog post earlier this month, criticizing the fact that votes may take days to count in some states. “It doesn’t take days to get election results. It takes days to cheat.”
This seems to me to be "Incitement to riot" and he is stirring up a lynch mob.
AP News
By  GARY FIELDS, ALI SWENSON and LINLEY SANDERS
October 28, 2024
 
 
American voters are approaching the presidential election with deep unease about what could follow, including the potential for political violence, attempts to overturn the election results and its broader implications for democracy, according to a new poll.

The findings of the survey, conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, speak to persistent concerns about the fragility of the world’s oldest democracy, nearly four years after former President Donald Trump’s refusal to accept the 2020 election results inspired a mob of his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol in a violent attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power.

About 4 in 10 registered voters say they are “extremely” or “very” concerned about violent attempts to overturn the results after the November election. A similar share is worried about legal efforts to do so. And about 1 in 3 voters say they are “extremely” or “very” concerned about attempts by local or state election officials to stop the results from being finalized.
This is something that happens in a dictatorship... not in a Democratic Republic!
 
I'm going to say it again... vote Blue to save our nation from a tyrant!

THIS IS WRONG!

Threatening the life of a person is wrong!

Trump wants to stand her in front of seven rifles pointed at her…
In an onstage interview in Arizona with Tucker Carlson, former President Donald J. Trump slammed a top Republican critic as he criticized U.S. involvement in foreign conflicts.
The New York Times
By Michael Gold
November 1, 2024


At his final campaign event in Arizona, former President Donald J. Trump on Thursday night insulted Liz Cheney, one of his most outspoken Republican critics, and used menacing imagery to suggest she should be sent into the line of fire.

During an onstage interview with Tucker Carlson, a former Fox News host and a top Trump ally, Mr. Trump hurled personal attacks at Ms. Cheney, who is campaigning with Vice President Kamala Harris. Then, taking issue with her foreign policy approach, he suggested she should be put in a war zone.

“She’s a radical war hawk,” Mr. Trump said, in front of thousands at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Ariz. “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face.”

He continued by expressing disdain for those in Washington who wanted to see the United States involved in foreign conflicts. “You know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building, saying, ‘Oh, gee, well, let’s send, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.’”
This is not what any sane person would say.

Every single president since Reagan have attacked or sent troops into battle… including Trump. He ordered missile strikes on Syria in 2017 and 2018.

We need to stop this mad man by voting… voting for Harris/Walz ticket.
 

 
Update: 11/1 @ 11AM
Liz Cheney hits back at Trump's violent rhetoric: 'This is how dictators destroy free nations'
The Harris campaign said Trump suggested Cheney should face a "firing squad."
ABC News
ByAlexandra Hutzler
November 1, 2024
 
 
Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney is firing back at Donald Trump after the former president darkly suggested Cheney be put in the line of fire as he criticized her as a "war hawk."

"This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death," Cheney posted Friday on X. "We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant."

[...]

The former president doubled down on his "enemy from within" language after he previously suggested Democrats are more of a threat to the U.S. than top foreign adversaries such as China and Russia when it comes to the 2024 election.

"We do have an enemy from within," he told Carlson on Thursday. "We have some very bad people, and those people are also very dangerous. They would like to take down our country. They'd like to have our country be a nice communist country or a fascist in any way they can. And we have to be careful of that."