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If Hunter Biden’s work is looked at, can we look at Don Jr & Erik’s work in Indonesia? What about Jared’s deals with Qatar and Saudi deals? What about an investigation into Princess Ivy’s patents, trademarks and copyrights from China? Or her money laundering real estate deals?https://twitter.com/reuters/status/1223723950921830400 …

10. Anyway, there you have it: watch for a growing wave of stories from the RW swamp that Dems are cheating. It will rise to a crescendo as the election approaches. Dems will be caught flat-footed, the media will fall for it, & it'll probably work. Sigh. </fin>

9. This election has existential stakes for the current configuration of conservatism. Their demographic is shrinking & their hold on power requires increasingly anti-democratic measures. They will do *anything* to win this one -- more than Dems are prepared for, I suspect.

8. And if they do win in 2020, they can spend the next 4 years dismantling whatever checks remain on their cheating, so that there will be no more embarrassing revelations. This is likely the last election in which institutions have any power to restrain them.

7. They don't care if, months or years later, people look back and conclude, "oh, yeah, they were cheating." I mean, it's pretty obvious by now that they stole the 2000 presidential election, but what do they care? They got the power when it mattered.

6. Remember, their case doesn't need to be plausible, any more than Trump's Ukraine defense was plausible. They won't mind looking silly or being "fact-checked" by the MSM. They just need to keep both-sides chaff in the air long enough for them to get away with it.

5. And more importantly, putting accusations in the air early means that when their own cheating & fraud are pointed out, the media will cover it as a "both sides are accusing each other of cheating, isn't partisanship terrible" story.

4. They are going to start these accusations early & aggressively, which offers two advantages. First, when Dems start pointing out *actual* examples of cheating & election fraud, cons will say they're just doing it in response, trying to wriggle out of something.

3. Put 1 & 2 together & you get my prediction: starting pretty soon, conservatives are going to start accusing Dems of cheating & election fraud. They might find some half- or quasi-truth to hang it on, but that's not necessary. The bubble can just invent stuff these days.

2. Now, what do we know about the reactionary mind? When it is contemplating or planning some offense, it must convince itself that its opponents are *already doing* whatever the offense is -- so that it has "no choice" but to do it to. Projection. Predictable as clockwork.

1. This is an obvious prediction, but I want to get it on record. The GOP just released Trump from any accountability for trying to cheat in the upcoming election. That's one sign of many that they are going to try to rig the election, in a range of illegal & semi-legal ways.

It’s telling that Trump is obsessed with height. I guess it’s because he knows—if he were ever honest with himself—how small a man he is.

Serious question. I would like 1M replies or RT. I got my health insurance in August. I asked if it covers my wife's insulin. T3 $70 copay. Just found out as of January 1st they no longer cover the insulin. 90 supply cost $40,000. I feel I got bait and switch. Or scammed? WDUT?

He is just soooooooo stupid.https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1224170024572723200 …

I feel like @MalcolmNance and I are running down the hall with our hair on fire, and everyone is like, “We’ll just have to vote.” Huh? WTF? Really? With a president & Senate that is now legally allowed to rig the election in plain sight? WTF is everyone smoking?

I just changed, online, my party affiliation to Democrat, having been registered as a Republican since I was 18 and then an Independent since 2016. I have seen the light! F$&K the GOP! @ewarren for president!

There’s little more frustrating than the arrogance of know-nothings handed power based on nepotism.https://twitter.com/billkristol/status/1223779395606806529 …

75% of all Americans want to see witnesses in the impeachment trial. Over 90% of us want simple background checks for people purchasing guns. We are getting neither. The Senate is not representing the people. The term ‘civil servant’ does not apply to those who refuse to serve.