Ds made no effort to assess the legitimacy of the GOP’s poll-defying & otherwise dubious wins in 2020.
By contrast, Trump claimed w/o proof that the election was rigged against HIM, even tho he outperformed the polls & his own party had blocked efforts to secure the election.1/
13/Again, the GOP won all 27 House races that were rated as tossups, and flipped three supposedly safe blue House seats. The Democrats flipped no red House seats. This was the blue wave that wasn’t.
14/ The screenshot in post 1 is from an article I’m working on.
16/ “I was struck…that the Republicans will accept no— repeat, no —cybersecurity standards. And I pointed out that right now…you can have a voting machine with an open connection to the internet…And the Rs objected and then sat down..” - @RonWyden, 2020 link.medium.com/qhfOF0L9Ejb
17/. If we have a repeat in 2022, it’s over.
18/ So how do we stop the Democrats from conceding our democracy—without even conducting meaningful audits—in the next election? Seriously, how? The new voting rights bill has many good things, but it does not require audits in 2022. Rather, it phases them in starting in 2024.
Leonard Leo sits on the board of the Catholic Information Center whose former head, John McCloskey, once said that it’s “not possible” to peacefully coexist w/ supporters of abortion rights & LGBTQ rights & implied it cld take a “relatively bloodless” civil war to resolve this. By Charles Pierce, 1/10/19 1/ esquire.com/news-politics/…
“When The New York Times disclosed the existence of a new multipronged right-wing project, the Rockbridge Network, backed by multibillionaire Peter Thiel in April, the paper named only one person with an official position in the new organization: its founder, Chris Buskirk.” 1/ mediamatters.org/january-6-insu…
2/ Peter Thiel, Chris Buskirk, JD Vance, Rockbridge, 1789 Capital, Tucker
“Peter Thiel Explains the New 'National Conservatism' *** In short, it's using the power of the state to punish his enemies and make the world the way he wants it to be.” 7/17/19 (It was Thiel who spent $10 million to get JD Vance elected in 2022.) 1/ reason.com/2019/07/17/pet…
Peter Thiel founded PayPal, which “continued to grow through mergers with Elon Musk’s financial services company, in 2000…” (JD Vance is the latest Thiel/Musk joint venture.) 1/ X.com immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entries/peter-…
Peter Thiel has implied that giving women the right to vote was a mistake. He’s also a billionaire, self-professed “Christian,” & longtime critic of “multiculturalism” who bankrolled JD Vance in 2022. Some Christian extremists thus embrace him despite his homosexuality (he was outed by Gawker). 1/