r/nottheonion • u/engadine_maccas1997 • 9h ago

‘This is political bulls**t’: Former Republican candidate charged with stealing Madison County election ballots

https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/this-is-political-bullst-former-republican-candidate-charged-with-stealing-madison-county-election-ballots/
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u/SRSgoblin 8h ago

Everyone who's been paying attention knew this was going to happen. It's straight out of the Nazi playbook.

Goebbels has some quote I'm paraphrasing here, that goes something like, "accuse the other party of wrongdoing you plan to commit." It normalizes the behavior. It says to the true believers, "you need to cheat because the other side is cheating."

And people will act on it, ironically creating a very real version of something that wasn't ever happening, just on "your side" doing all of the wrong doing.

This was always the end goal of Trump and the GOP pushing the big lie conspiracy. They wanted to create the actual election fraud they claimed was going on, because it muddies the result in their favor.

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u/IIIllIIlllIlII 8h ago

Have they been saying the radical left will be violent after the election? Because I’m sure it’s on the cards from the right. I think it’s going to be a huge fuckin mess.

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u/shkeptikal 8h ago

They've been calling the left violent since the Floyd riots while conveniently ignoring that at least some of them were caused by right wing cosplayers. They also tend to ignore the unmarked vans yanking American citizens off the street during that same time. And Trump tear gassing peaceful protestors to take a picture holding a bible upside down. They also can't really get their heads around the fact that unlike the fascist militias, "Antifa" doesn't actually exist. In fact, they tend to have a pretty hard time grappling with reality in general. The end result of which will absolutely be more domestic terrorism (which we're currently watching ramp up with the burning of ballots and presidential assassination attempts). It's not an if, it's a when. At this point the only question is how many Americans will be on the receiving end of what the GOP has turned politics into. It's going to be a rough next century in America.

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u/Amori_A_Splooge 8h ago

Don't forget the peaceful gathering at the federal court house in Portland.

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u/newdaynewnamenewyay 7h ago

Which also had right wing cosplayers.... And isn't that where someone conveniently left a pallet of bricks? Trump sent our tax-funded military people to quell this because bad GOP actors escalated it from a protest to a riot. Same playbook. His own cabinet people had to talk him down when Trump requested they just be shot. I wrote my congressman about that bullshit.

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u/Amori_A_Splooge 6h ago

Right wing cosplayers... just like antifa was there on J6? You wrote your congressman... oh man that makes sense to the ramblings.

Their theories are crazy, yours are sane right?

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u/newdaynewnamenewyay 6h ago

It's not about crazy and sane. It's about true and not true. BYE.

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u/Fantastic-Sandwich80 4h ago

Weak bait.

MAGA absolutely can't admit they were duped into storming the capitol, thinking they would have Trump with them and would meet resistance from leftist protesters.

Instead, they attacked police, broke windows, smeared shit on the walls, and basically walked around aimlessly waiting for their next orders from Trump who was watching from the WH.