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A TROUBLING SIGN FOR 2024

Kind of terrifying in its implications that we may be headed for more violence in the next election:

https://theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/03/maricopa-county-arizona-election-officials-stop-the-steal/673235/

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  • Agree. Intimidation of public officials should never be acceptable in this country.
  • edited March 2023
    Aside from the fact that the election official Gates repeatedly has to get police protection and go into hiding, this part has disturbing broader implications:
    When we spoke, Kari Lake was still contesting her loss in Arizona’s gubernatorial election. Months later, she is still anointing herself “the real governor” and saying that election officials who certified her defeat are “crooks” who “need to be locked up.” She reserves special venom for Gates. Speaking to thousands of raucous supporters in Phoenix on December 18, beneath clouds of confetti, Lake denounced “sham elections … run by fraudsters” and singled him out as the figurehead of a corrupt “house of cards.”

    “They are daring us to do something about it,” she said. “We’re going to burn it to the ground.” Then she lowered her mic and appeared to mouth, with exaggerated enunciation, “Burn the fucker to the ground.” To uproarious applause, she went on to invoke the Second Amendment and the bloody American Revolution against a tyrant. “I think we’re right there right now, aren’t we?” she said.
  • It is a sad state of affair that our election officials are harassed and their families threatened when there is no evidence of fraud. Kari Lake and other election deniers are positioned themselves to be VP candidates to the 2024 election.
  • Well I'll be hoping that all the rats will be on the same sinking boat when the time comes.
  • A pox on them all. Violent, childish vermin. Like rats on that sinking ship, let them all just drown. Go away. Forever. Spoiled brats who just want what they want. We must keep them from it. We who are civilized and have a stake in the society in which we live. THEY clearly do not.
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