The election fraud lawsuits have started again.

But Trump chose to stoke the flames Wednesday morning, posting on Truth Social that “Pennsylvania is cheating, and getting caught, at large scale levels rarely seen before.”

“Law enforcement must act, NOW!” he added.

Bucks County officials confirmed to NBC Philadelphia that they had been notified of the lawsuit, but did not provide further comment. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, meanwhile, shot back at the Republican presidential nominee, highlighting that Trump and his allies have spent the last four years actively corroding public trust in U.S. elections—and that they are currently warming up their second conspiracy to undermine the 2024 election results.

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      Kamala is in a similar situation, if she loses PA she will have to win multiple swing states.

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        It kind of sucks that out of 50 states only a few “matter”. It also seems to be that every election year now there is at least one state that doesn’t have their shit together and we have to wait a week for results.

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          “Doesn’t have their shit together”?

          Those states voting systems are broken by design, by republicans who broke them, who then turn and immediately complain they are “broken”.

          Are you really that uninformed?

          Here’s a conveniently illustrative example of the whole concept, acted out in a small contained incident, including the traitorous idiot clumsily tripping over his own bullshit as he gets caught. https://lawandcrime.com/crime/theyre-coming-after-us-patriots-former-maga-candidate-for-congress-caught-stealing-election-ballots-charged-with-felony-police-say/?origin=serp_auto

          One state just “Doesn’t have their shit together” huh? Fucking joke.

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          It also seems to be that every election year now there is at least one state that doesn’t have their shit together and we have to wait a week for results.

          This has been part of the Republican long game. Like in Georgia when they wanted mandatory hand counts of every district and then try and compare those against the machine numbers to call count differences out as “obvious ballet tampering”, when by the very nature of being human, hand counts are less accurate (especially on that scale). Just doing stuff that at a quick glance and no thought could maybe be perceived as “voting integrity” but is really all about voter suppression and disenfranchisement.

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      It is, but it’s part of their plan to make the election seem rigged. It’s part of the whole ‘repeat a lie enough and people will believe it’ strategy. Unfortunately, if it wasn’t working this race wouldn’t be so close.

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    but county officials had observed that there were complaints on social media (shared by the Trump campaign) about long lines to obtain mail-in ballots on Tuesday, the last day of their availability

    This is all about allowing people to vote by mail in ballot??? What the fuck was his 2020 complaints all about???

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      Entire states vote by mail and they work out fine. It’s a paper record. He should like that after all the voting machine conspiracy crap he’s been floating.

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        It’s not about what he likes, it’s about what can erode public trust in the process enough that people will reject the entire system and Trump can declare himself president without having to worry about the will of the people.

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      You ain’t fucking kidding. Cities are about to get raided by hillbillies & rednecks with guns on trucks. I wish I was exaggerating.

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        You don’t even know how many inner city black folks love Trump, huh?

        Ain’t just white trash that’s gonna try putting him in power

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            I was just listening to some interview talking about how, while it was Dems’ efforts that pushed the pandemic stimulus checks through Congress, it was Trump’s signature on the check, and that was believed to have had a big impression on demographics no one would ever expect to go with the party of billionaires.

            Edit: I should add that I only expect the votes coming from more diverse sources than what might be intuitive, not that all of those voters would be persuaded to go all-out “proud boys”.

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        Cities are about to get raided by hillbillies & rednecks

        I’ve got some terrible news for you, about the political contingent common to plenty of big cities. It won’t be hillbillies and rednecks tearing shit up. It’ll be city cops, state troopers, and the deranged failsons of used car dealers.

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        No. Remember after Jan 6 when the badass freedom-fighters promised ominous “actions” in state capitals on Biden’s inauguration day? That day came and went, and at the few “actions” that did happen attendance was in the dozens. When those chickenshit couch farts saw their revolutionary heroes getting methodically tracked down and arrested by the FBI, they stayed home and shook their tiny fists at their TVs. That pathetic bunch of cowards love to talk badass, but when faced with actual personal risk they couldn’t civil war their way out of a Walmart.

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          I’d caution this sentiment. I don’t expect highly organized violence and I don’t think anyone else here should either. What you’re going to get is basically random acts of domestic terrorism. We’ve already see several ballot boxes set on fire and that’s the kind of thing this crowd will perform.

          Well that and I really do think that polling places are in danger and so do a lot of cities. Again I doubt they’ll face organized attacks but look at the election in 2020. Several polling places were attacked and formed large crowds demanding the voting be stopped. It’s not unreasonable to think those crowds get violent this time around and maybe even attack lines of voters.

          But the ultimate thing is that people should expect the absolute worst. The people in 2020 did not feel like an election had been stolen. Their extremist groups had no time to organize. Now they have that time. And now their beliefs are stronger than ever. Do not underestimate how awful the US will be from now till January.

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    Quite a lot of the misinformation out of PA stems from a willful ignorance of how all this stuff works.

    For example… the voter registration drives turning in invalid registrations:

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/voter-registration-probes-launched-crucial-keystone-state-counties-amid-claims-potential-fraud

    “District attorneys and election officials in both Lancaster County and York County are looking into potential election-related fraud after authorities received large batches of voter registration materials from a “third-party organization.” Both York and Lancaster counties have more registered Republican voters than Democrats, according to state data, with York Republicans holding a 63% majority in the area and Lancaster Republicans at a 61% majority.”

    When you do a voter registration drive, you are legally obligated to submit all registrations, valid or not. The only entity with the legal authority to reject registrations as valid is the State Secretary of State office.

    This is because, back in the day, parties would do registration drives and just shit-can any registration for opposing parties.

    Now, even if some dumbass fills out a registration for “Mickey Mouse” or “Superman”, it STILL has to be submitted to the Secretary of State for rejection.

    That’s not “voter fraud”.

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      Y’all need to unify your federal election into an actual federal election. Not 50 separate ones.

      It would be a lot harder to pick and choose battleground states for lawsuits if you 1. Change the voting system yes, but also and importantly 2. Have consistent rules and voting infrastructure across the whole country.

      Having to understand 50 separate election rules makes it way easier to sow doubt.

      I am aware there are also some federal laws on voting, but still.

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      Look how much time and text it took to refute a few tiny bullshit utterances. Its impossible even if it was desireable, which its not. He needs to be in custody and in 24/7 solitary with zero internet access. He’s a goddamn terrorist

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      While prima facie, that’s true, your reply doesn’t mention that anything has been uncovered coupled with the fact that Trump has a history with frivolous and vexatious litigation kinda makes me think this is nothing more than pretext. Though the boy that cried wolf is a parable for a reason. So one shouldn’t drop their guard. It’s just a shame one man can clog up the court to this extent. There are remedies that courts can take against vexatious litigants, though.

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    Pennsylvania is cheating

    How?

    and getting caught

    Where?

    at large scale levels rarely seen before.

    When?

    “Law enforcement must act, NOW!”

    By doing what exactly?

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        They have concepts of evidence. Many people said so, and the orange utan saw it on tv, or read it online. He’s just reporting what people are saying

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        So this proof of election cheating is in Hunter Biden’s laptop? Makes about as much sense as any of this.

        He’s likely shitting himself beyond the usual for not understanding Puerto Rican citizenship and voting.

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      The only actual election interference I have heard about and people actually being charged is by the Republicans.

      A lawsuit filed is not proof, I could file a lawsuit saying my neighbor stole my house. My house is still where it was but I could claim it’s not and bring a lawsuit. I would lose but it’s the principal of the fact that there is a suit that looks official and people think lawsuits means it’s real.

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        Anyone can sue anyone for anything in this country. It may get tossed out right away but you can still file the lawsuit.

        The general talk is that since being shot at he’s even more impulsive than prior.

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        didn’t scientology win their religionship status because they flooded individuals at the IRS with thousands upon thousands of bullshit lawsuits? saying “this can all stop. it’s up to you”

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          Operation Snow White was a criminal conspiracy by the Church of Scientology during the 1970s to purge unfavorable records about Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. This project included a series of infiltrations into and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private organizations critical of Scientology, carried out by Church members in more than 30 countries. It was one of the largest infiltrations of the United States government in history, with up to 5,000 covert agents. This operation also exposed the Scientology plot “Operation Freakout”, because Operation Snow White was the case that initiated the U.S. government’s investigation of the Church.

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      “Gish Gallop.”

      It’s a debate technique. You overwhelm the opposition with an endless stream of half truths, exaggeration’s, lies, and tangents that make it impossible for them to get their point across.

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        Sealioning is the layman’s unmoderated form. If you don’t let the other person speak or respond you always get to ‘win’.

        It’s interesting how adversarial the nature of some people is.

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        We see Trump consistently make an outright lie, and in the same breath pivot to a personal attack such as “she’s a nasty woman.” This is another technique that adds something controversial after the lie so that the focus is on the controversial topic instead of the lie.

        It makes it harder to peel what he says apart and puts space between the current point of conversation and the lie

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          The most fucked up thing is that Trump isn’t doing this necessarily intentionally. He’s just so crazy, that this is how his brain works.

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            I absolutely believe he is doing it intentionally. He will lie and promote violence any time he thinks it will help him do as he pleases or avoid consequences.

            Yes, it’s in his very nature, but let’s be honest: he knows exactly what he’s doing

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              I just can’t believe that he’s that intelligent or in control of the things coming out of his mouth.

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                He can be a stupid, racist, sexist miser and evil at the same time. And there’s a 200% chance he’s not the smart one strategizing everything. He’s, as you say, not that smart. But smart enough to follow simple directions and regurgitate his hateful shit on cue.

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              He isn’t required to understand his behaviors in order to perform them. All his behaviors could have been shaped through early trial and error. Behaviors that got him a desired result became reinforced. He could’ve tried a lie+insult combo as a kid and got exactly what he wanted.

              Repeated enough, the behavior could become second nature.

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            Trump once said that his personality hasn’t changed since was a child.

            He talks like a little kid; words just spew out without any rhyme or reason.

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        Bannon during Trump’s term referred to this as “flood the zone with shit”. Essentially just putting out such a large volume of nonsense that people just give up, you break their will to vote/argue/oppose you/fight back/correct the record.

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          The thing that sucks is that it’s so effective. It literally lead to Biden dropping out of the race. Trump spewed a bunch of bullshit really fast in their debate and Biden just froze up because it was so much.

          I liked how Kamala handled it in their debate by basically saying “Look, I told you this guy was going to spout a bunch of nonsense.” You’ve gotta call out the technique when you see it.

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              Barely. It’s almost impossible to fact check against the gish gallop technique, because Trump just spits out a dozen lies a minute.

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                You just call it for what it is, bullshit. Just call it out right there. “You may Gish Gallop as much as you wish, but I am going to talk policy to the people.” Its fucken crazy anyone entertains that sewage.

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            Trump made Biden scream “we beat Medicare” over and over? Biden didn’t face pressure to step down because he “froze up.” Don’t believe your lying eyes, I guess?

            I legitimately can’t imagine why anyone would think the election would be going better right now if Biden hadn’t stepped down.

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              He didn’t “scream” it, and he said it one time, clearly tripping two thoughts together.

              Whatever else you might think about him or what that says about him, at least get that much right, lying about him “screaming” that “over and over” does nothing to help your point

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                The clip I saw might have had a bad audio quality or something or I might just be misremembering, it sounded like yelling when I watched it the last time it was relevant (months ago, when he was still running). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

                Either way, pretending it didn’t happen by way of downplaying it is ridiculous.

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                  “I stated a patently false thing that can be easily refuted as a fact, but you… YOU are being ridiculous!”

                  That’s you. That’s what you sound like right now.

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    Ironic that the qons always bitch and whine about “lawfare”.

    More like the typical qon MO, I guess, and not at all ironic at this point…