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DCPetterson.bsky.social Profile picture
@dcpetterson
Sep 24, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Here are four recent news stories that show just how desperate Trump is, how terrified he is, how certain he is that he will lose.

These stories don't mean what you think they mean. I'll get back to that. Don't listen to the spin. It means we're winning.

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The first is a story you've all heard, how the Trump Reich is screwing with the Post Office in an attempt to 1) slow delivery of ballots, and 2) question the legitimacy of vote-by-mail. You all knew this. Keep it in mind.

2/9
 vanityfair.com/news/2020/08/d…
The second story: The Trump Reich, with the cooperation of the entire Fascist Party, is recruiting an army of
"poll watchers"--thugs, really--whose purpose is to intimidate voters and feloniously interfere directly with attempts to vote.

3/9
 nbcnews.com/politics/donal…
The third story: Trump is mounting a legal challenge in an attempt to force federal courts to declare a winner on election night, before all the mailed ballots can be counted. (Many states are counting them already, because they're already arriving.)

4/9
 huffpost.com/entry/trump-wa…
And the fourth story: Trump wants state legislatures to pick Electors, bypassing voters completely, in effect nullifying any votes for president cast in those states, whether mailed in or even at the polling sites.

5/9
 vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/t…
On this last matter, the Constitution says State legislatures get to decide how Electors are picked. Every State has opted to let citizens select them by voting. Trump wants to do away with voting, and have legislators pick them.

Yes, Trump wants to end presidential voting.

6/9
All of these are desperate measures. All are fascist measures. All are signs that TrumPublicans know the odds of Trump winning are very, very poor.

There are some pundidiots who want you to panic and wave your arms and run in fear--and just give up.

7/9
No. The meaning of these moves is that Trump Reich, and the Fascist Party, are terrified. They know they're in deep trouble. They know even the vote suppression efforts they've been building for decades won't stop us from unseating them.

They know our votes will stop them.

8/9
These acts of desperation aren't going to work. That doesn't mean we can be complacent. It means we must redouble our commitment to get our ballots cast, and to make fucking sure everyone we know casts a ballot.

#VoteBlue, or fascism wins. It's that simple.

9/9

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Sep 22, 2025
Y'know how Democrats warned y'all that Republicans were gonna take away all your rights and crash the economy and end education and science research, and "leftists" said that wasn't a good enough reason to vote for Democrats because ya gotta be FOR something not just AGAINST
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something and so "leftists" opposed Democrats and so helped give Republicans ALL THE POWER and now Republicans are taking away all your rights and crashing the economy and ending education and science research and "leftists" are mad as hell at Democrats for
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not stopping Republicans even though "leftists" helped to give Republicans ALL THE POWER and also even though "leftists" are only AGAINST what's happening and not FOR anything.

Y'know about all that?

Yeah, that's where we are.

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Aug 20, 2025
Do you know what a "motte-and-bailey fallacy" is?

I will give you a definition from Wikipedia. The definition is accurate, but may be difficult to understand. So I will then give you an example.

Wikipedia says:

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"The motte-and-bailey fallacy (named after the motte-and-bailey castle) is a form of argument and an informal fallacy where an arguer conflates two positions that share similarities: one modest and easy to defend (the "motte") and one much more controversial...

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... and harder to defend (the "bailey")..."

Okay, here's a concrete example:

Transphobes hate trans people. They've elected a transphobe president, who signed an Executive Order, on his first day in office, that erases trans people from American law.

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Jul 27, 2025
I remember growing up hearing my grammar school teachers talk about the importance of the "peaceful transfer of power." It thought it was silly to worry about that. Elections happen, the one elected is sworn into office. What's the big deal?

1/11
We now know the answer. It's a very big deal.

Before America, no nation had peaceful transfers of power other than hereditary transfers from a newly-dead monarch to a relative. Never before did leaders voluntarily, peacefully and under the rule of law hand power to rivals.

2/11
George Washington stepped down willingly after two terms. He didn't want a third term. He stepped down partly to prove it was possible for a Head of State to do that. It shocked the world when he did.

That mattered.

What mattered more was what happened four years later.

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Jul 21, 2025
We used to have nightly news, and daily newspapers, that sought to inform America with accurate facts about real events.

Then networks decided to make "news" into a profit center rather than a public service. To do that, it had to be entertaining, not necessarily accurate.

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Rupert Murdock decided to create a propaganda station on cable, that pretended to be a news network. He had to go to court to defend telling outright lies. His defense was that Fox isn't "news", it's "entertainment," so no one should take it seriously. That defense worked.

2/6
Fox--and the other "news" channels--are now, legally and officially, not news at all.

To compete, broadcast networks took the same stance. Let's shovel shit, and call it news, and get people riled up. Who cares? No one is supposed to believe any of it anyway.

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Jul 19, 2025
I want to remind you of something Trump did in his first term.

When running for president in 2016, Trump declared he was smarter than all the Generals, and he had a secret plan to end the war in Afghanistan, much better than plan the Generals could come up with.

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After being elected, Trump revealed his secret plan to end the war in Afghanistan.

His plan was:

He ordered the Generals to come up with a plan to end the war in Afghanistan, and have it on his desk in ninety days.

I'm serious. That was his secret plan.

2/7
Of course, we heard nothing else about any plan to end the war in Afghanistan. But Trump invited the leaders of the Taliban to Camp David, and released 5000(!) Afghani terrorist prisoners, one of whom went on to become the leader of the Taliban.

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Jul 19, 2025
I'm suspect Trump is creating the Epstein Files controversy on purpose. It's a distraction from his rapid mental decline, and the incompetence of entire administration, and the horrors of ICE, and the stupid tariffs, and the wars he hasn't ended, and his constant criming.

1/6
He pushed the Epstein thing for years as a campaign issue, as a club to beat up Democrats, and just as a conspiracy theory to rile his base.

Remember, Epstein died in 2019, while Trump was still president, and Bill Barr was Attorney General.

2/6
If there were things embarrassing to Democrats in Epstein's files or in anything held by the FBI, Trump could have released it then--and didn't.

Is there Bad Stuff about Trump in those files? Maybe. If so, Trump is really stoopid for having made a big deal out of it...

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