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JAMES Carville is right-trump will have to cheat to stay in office (Original Post) Gothmog Apr 2020 OP
Is Carville just figuring that out now? Miguelito Loveless Apr 2020 #1
shithole cheated getting in . . . . Iliyah Apr 2020 #2
well, he will. Does anyone really doubt that? MissMillie Apr 2020 #3
The question now becomes: HOW do we STOP it? lastlib Apr 2020 #13
Five polling sites for all of Milwaukee exboyfil Apr 2020 #4
Rec. That's what I said yesterday, WI was the preview of the plan. MerryBlooms Apr 2020 #16
That's been the case for 30 years. It was once thought Hortensis Apr 2020 #5
The GOP is the biggest threat to our democracy. Hermit-The-Prog Apr 2020 #17
Absolutely! Democrats are the main to blame, and after Hortensis Apr 2020 #18
Even more than the first time...nt Wounded Bear Apr 2020 #6
Did you also catch him say that the Republicans would literally kill to keep their power? Frustratedlady Apr 2020 #7
The GOP will kill people to stay in power Gothmog Apr 2020 #8
Thanks for the video. Frustratedlady Apr 2020 #9
The Republican Party has always been crawling in the dirt. It's in their blood. Firestorm49 Apr 2020 #10
Time to take out your welding torches, people. Gothmog Apr 2020 #11
+1 2naSalit Apr 2020 #14
If there is one thing that Trump is really good at Chainfire Apr 2020 #12
Takes an awful lot of help... 2naSalit Apr 2020 #15

MissMillie

(38,553 posts)
3. well, he will. Does anyone really doubt that?
Thu Apr 9, 2020, 09:40 AM
Apr 2020

Outside help in 2016...

has done it before, will do it again.

Today, the role of Captain Obvious is played by James Carville.

lastlib

(23,224 posts)
13. The question now becomes: HOW do we STOP it?
Thu Apr 9, 2020, 11:39 AM
Apr 2020

I'm not entirely sure that just getting a massive vote in our favor will be enough, given GOPher vote suppression tricks; will there also be a fair counting of those votes? and an accurate reporting thereof?

We gotta watch like hawks over these bastards! Monitor them on every front, anticipate every move they make. We cannot let them out of our sights!

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
5. That's been the case for 30 years. It was once thought
Thu Apr 9, 2020, 10:00 AM
Apr 2020

the demographic progression, including women's equality as well, would force the Republican Party to become more inclusive and less segregated.

Instead they chose another way: Overset representative democracy and take power permanently.

With massive corruption of voters, press and government, culminating in the election of Trump and instillation as thousands of political agents, including the latest appellate and SCOTUS appointments (all of which Sanders was so helpful in enabling), they're now close to being able to take over. We're seeing a series of rulings assisting election theft.

Their RW fascistic, authoritarian, nativist government would probably keep a faux democracy as a front, like Russia's or Iran's. That way those inclined can deny the enormity of what we've lost, and no doubt continue the RW's tactic of blaming Democrats when people are unhappy about something. By the time that didn't work any more, it'd be far too late to wake up.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,337 posts)
17. The GOP is the biggest threat to our democracy.
Thu Apr 9, 2020, 12:45 PM
Apr 2020

It should be clear to everyone by now, but it isn't. There are millions who believe the face that propaganda paints instead of the facts.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
18. Absolutely! Democrats are the main to blame, and after
Thu Apr 9, 2020, 02:00 PM
Apr 2020

Trump's gone, the anti-Democrat left and the Republicans will amplify their synergistic outrage at corrupt Democrats who blocked action. They're already doing it.

But what the Republicans have done on their watch is far too huge to just make disappear with their usual confuse-the-citizenry tactic. A real risk is that Trump will survive, and if he does that means the the right will have taken a giant step toward full-blown fascism with support of the current genocide.

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
7. Did you also catch him say that the Republicans would literally kill to keep their power?
Thu Apr 9, 2020, 10:18 AM
Apr 2020

Dead silence (no pun intended). I don't think Brian or Steele knew how to respond.

That's one thing about Carville, he doesn't hesitate to speak his mind.

Firestorm49

(4,032 posts)
10. The Republican Party has always been crawling in the dirt. It's in their blood.
Thu Apr 9, 2020, 10:56 AM
Apr 2020

The only problem now is, we’re the ones who are alive to witness the absurdities.

My deceased mother-in-law, God bless her soul, always said they were a slippery party. Today is no exception. We’ve had a preview of their next playbook chapter; How To Stop Mail-In Voting 101

This battle is yet to go full swing, but I have no doubt Republicans will twist, mold and distort any non-factual basis for mail in voting to their favor. Add to that our old friends Putin, Moscow Mitch, Billy Bob Barr, What’s His Name in the Oval Office, and the entire crap bag of Republican legislators, and we can visualize the tsunami about to roll in.

Hang on kids. This ones going to be a doozie. All of us, right now, should start our own election plans by getting non-voters to see the light, spread the word daily about factual absurdities of this administration, as the press is too afraid to call a spade a spade, use signage, social media up to the next three levels, and act, not sit, when we need the largest turnout in our country’s history.

2naSalit

(86,579 posts)
15. Takes an awful lot of help...
Thu Apr 9, 2020, 12:23 PM
Apr 2020

And the only thing he's a grand master of is being a total evil fuckhead.

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