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They can respond by just trashing ALL of the ballots - remember the ruling a month or so ago saying they weren’t liable for shit if they did?
They can. But will they? These post offices are run by the same people doing the voting, after all.
It's one thing to tell a post office in Utah to trash all the ballots and just hand the keys of state off to the local Mormon Bishopry. Very much another to give the order in Washington State.
All it takes is a few traitors at key points.
That cuts both ways.
Except Dems always play by the rules, to their detriment. I liked Michelle Obama but that “they go low, we go high” shit has been causing problems for far too long.
No they don't!
They say they do, but they routinely break conventions and norms and laws and constitutional amendments when it's convenient for them and their donor base.
More often than not, they wait for a Republican to do it first and then just keep on keeping on.
But they don't follow the rules. They use the rules to excuse why they refuse to enact popular policies. They deflect and defer and soccer-flop.
Obama did drone strikes on children.
Good point - “Dems don’t break the rules FIRST” is probably a better way for me to phrase it. But that gets us to the same place. They wouldn’t trash the ballots here until they’d seen proof Repubs did it, and by then it would likely too late to respond tit for tat. Election over; world fucked. But the NEXT time election (in what, 50, 60!years of we’re lucky) we might get something.
Yep. They'll sure as fuck break the rules when it comes to preventing a progressive candidate from winning a Democratic primary race.
Wrong Obama, but let's put things in perspective here...Trump bombed a girls school in a remote village. Then came back and bombed the rescue effort.
I really wonder what a generation of boys who grow up in a remote village with a shortage of female peers will end up like.
"Hey, listen, we're only talking about John Wayne Gacy here. He's no Green River Killer."