The Chaos Commences
I’m keeping it short, since almost all news today is about the election, and most of that is polls predicting the outcome. I have little to no interest in such often grossly wrong polls. What I am interested in is whether or not the chaos I’ve believed will be the defining characteristic of this year will break out during and especially after the election due to the division lines between Left and Right having become so intensified under both Biden and Trump. My claim, of course, has been that, no matter which side loses, the losing side is ready to burn it all down.
So, just a quick take of the headlines in the pre-election-closing news of threats around the country:
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A Georgia State polling station was shut down briefly due to “non-credible” bomb threats that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said originated out of Russia. Five bomb threats were called in to Fulton County. Raffensperger previously blamed the Russians for a cyberattack on his department’s website Oct. 14.
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The FBI said it is “aware of bomb threats to polling locations in several states, many of which originated from Russian email domains.” (None credible so far.)
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A video shows chaos breaking out inside a Cambria County, Pennsylvania, polling station as ballot machines broke down throughout this Republican stronghold on Election Day.
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Just ahead of Election Day, the FBI arrested two men in Michigan for threats against Trump and a political-action committee. One had driver’s licenses from both of the nation’s liberal corner states—Washington and New York. The geniuses made themselves a little too obvious by using a “PlanningToKillTrump” account on Reddit.
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The White House has been barricaded, as has the Vice President’s house, in anticipation of possible capital violence and some D.C. shops have been boarded up. While much of the press talks only about violence coming from the Right if Trump loses, police and guardsmen are on standby for election chaos in Portland, Oregon, with its record of Antifa violence. Governor Inslee has called up the National Guard in Washington State, which has also seen far more violence in recent years from BLM and Antifa than from the Right. Of course, if Kamala wins and BLM tries to burn it all down, the elected officials in those states will probably order the police to stand down and let them burn it all down.
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We’ve already had, of course, an attempted assassination of Donald Trump and what certainly looked like a second attempt.
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A man was arrested at the Capitol Visitor Center because he smelled of fuel and was holding a torch and a flare gun. Police didn’t say if they thought self-immolation was the goal or setting a building on fire.
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Some MAGA supporters working as election observers were accused of terrorizing people at the polls in Shasta County, causing one Shasta County junior election official to quit, saying, “I don’t need to be here when someone drops a bomb or starts a mass shooting.”
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Republicans have brought back legally indicted “fake electors” from 2020 in some battleground areas, indicating preparation for a replay in the electoral college if Trump loses.
Of the 93 Republicans designated as prospective presidential electors for Trump from the seven battleground states, eight are facing felony charges for signing false Electoral College certificates in 2020,
After years of intensifying division and endless lies from both sides, this may be what we’ve come down to:
Trump supporter Bill Robinson, 65, of North Carolina, says some kind of violence now looks likely.
‘It’s a horrendous possibility, because it looks like there’s no other option than some kind of extreme unrest,’ Robinson told USA Today.
Looks like.