And now it’s very, very bad. Hang in there. I’m seeing deep-fake videos with fake statements from Biden, and the RNC is using pictures of fires from a street protest in Spain, and pictures of bleeding Australian cops. Just for starters.
Breaking via NYT: The Justice Department secretly took steps in 2017 to narrow the Russia investigation, according to former law enforcement officials, keeping investigators from completing an examination of Trump’s personal and business ties to Russia.https://t.co/67m7IOsB40
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 30, 2020
Dark forces in America drove crises in the 1850s, 1890s and 1930s as reactionary elites fought to remain atop a world passing away. A wipeout election this year could set them back a generation and “push America into the future.” https://t.co/PjfzS11SsJ @digby56
— Tom Sullivan (@BloggersRUs) August 30, 2020
“When we talk about election security I want to reassure the American people it’ll be difficult for anyone — China, Russia, Iran — to change actual vote tallies” — Ratcliffe (this downplays others types of interference, such as Russia’s anti-Clinton propaganda campaign in ’16) pic.twitter.com/jY7eKjPwIP
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 30, 2020
Democracy is dying in the dark: ODNI cancels future election security briefings for Congress – Axios @ODNIgov #Election2020 https://t.co/kBB1Sc9SAe
— Frank Figliuzzi (@FrankFigliuzzi1) August 30, 2020
We’re living through an attempted authoritarian take over of America. We can’t afford not to call it what it is because we’re afraid of sounding alarmist or alienating swing voters. More people need to understand what’s at stake in 2020 and they only will if we say it clearly.
— Evan McMullin (@EvanMcMullin) August 30, 2020
A U.S. diplomat was repeatedly harassed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents.
— B. Allen-Ebrahimian (@BethanyAllenEbr) August 30, 2020
She writes: "I’ve done a lot of thinking… about whether it was the harassment by CBP or the lack of response from the State Department that was the most damaging."https://t.co/GzCEos91W7
Putin, like Trump and Lushenko, is losing his grip on power.
He’s dropping like a rock in the polls, so he’s poisoning his opponents, threatening to use force in Belarus, ramming US military vehicles (which shouldn’t be there in the first place) in Syria, flying fighter jets within 100 feet of US fighter jets, etc.
Putin is scared to death that if the people of Belarus are able to kick the dictator Lushenko out of office he may be next.
Trump has similar problems, so he’s embracing gullible and not so gullible far right reactionaries, the “last vestige of scoundrels,” to help him secure his reelection.
This is a no-holds bar political battle and the Democrats need to act that way.
The political class has 64 days to dispose of Trump and take control of the armed and paranoid right wing militias.
If they fail to do that then the political class as it is currently configured will cease to exist.
For example Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) is a Fascist warmonger who supports right wing militias and needs to be retired.