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    • #9283
      AvatarBeyondThunderdome
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      conservative ’brown shirts’ gearing up for some intimation at the polls:

      https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/technology/telegram-right-wing-groups-election.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XU4.aIhN.z2LRwJRXWwCv

      NO MALARKEY

    • #9288
      Avatarrogpodge
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      *shrug*  The NY Times trots this out every election.  To be clear, voter intimidation is a crime.  What the Democrats do is much more subtle (but still illegal), making voting as painful as possible.

      https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/30/us/politics/trump-lawsuit-pennsylvania-mail-in-ballot-voting-bucks-county.html

      What is happening in Pennsylvania is bureaucrats (and “voter protection” workers who have no status but official looking badges) are telling people that due to failures of machines, officials showing up with paperwork, etc., you can’t vote and should go home.  This happened during early voting, the RNC sued, and won.  Jonathan Capehart of WaPo tried to link the Bucks County suit to Trump lawfare to interfere with the election, causing Hugh Hewitt to correct him (that the RNC won), and Capehart basically said he didn’t appreciate being told TO DO HIS JOB and objectively report facts, causing Hugh Hewitt to storm off.

      https://x.com/Brash_1/status/1853769840911118505

      It’s one report, from a normie, not a journalist.  But still unacceptable for something that should have been ready weeks in advance.  We’ll see how Maricopa County does. Bottom line, the brownshirts thing is speculative nonsense that they trot out every election cycle.  It’s meant to cause fear, and a pretense for counter-claims of stolen elections.  If it does happen, there are plenty of poll watchers, and the DNC can file lawsuits and the DOJ will press charges.  Unless it won’t.

      https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/07/us/07rights.html

    • #9290
      johnnyo53johnnyo53
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      THE SKY IS ALWAYS FALLING FOR CHICKEN LITTLES AND DEMTARDS, LET ALONE SO CALLED INDEPENDENTS.

      “I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to tell me," I said. "I'm off the team, aren't I?" "Well," said Coach, "you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times." It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I

    • #9291
      Avatarrogpodge
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    • #9293
      Mick1Mick1
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      Sounds pretty familiar. There’s a loooooooooong history of Democrats calling Republicans Nazis/Fascists.

      Governor Brown of California, Jackie Robinson and Dr. Martin Luther King called Barry Goldwater — a pilot in WWII — on the American side — a Nazi. Many Dems called Nixon a Nazi, the ACLU called Ford a Fascist, William Clay (D-Mo) called Reagan a Nazi and said his ideas came from Mein Kampf, Bush and Romney were called Nazis and Fascists by literally hundreds of Dems. Gore called Bush’s supporters brownshirts.

      In a debate, leftist Gore Vidal called William F. Buckley a “crypto-Nazi.”

      Reductio ad Hitlerum: 60 years of Democrats falsely calling the Republican nominee a fascist – Washington Examiner

      Comparing Republicans To Nazis—Who Started It? | Investor’s Business Daily

      On CNN, Scott Jennings Lists Republicans Who Democrats Compared To Hitler In The Past

      Basically, it’s Godwin’s Law: the first person to compare the other to Hitler loses the argument:

      Godwin’s law – Wikipedia

       

      • This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by Mick1Mick1.

      Audaces fortuna iuvat

    • #9295
      cardcrimsoncardcrimson
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      “More than 4,000 of their posts went further by encouraging members to act by attending local election meetings, joining protest rallies and making financial donations, the analysis found.”

      Unthinkable actions that the right is encouraging. Thank heavens that the NYT has uncovered them.

      On a side note, I voted this morning in person. No ID required, just provide a name. On the list of registered voters to select from on the computer screen, my mom’s name was just below mine and my daughters. Sadly she died five years ago.

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      Avatarrogpodge
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