I saw this headline in the news, and I had to wonder
Trump campaign planning to deploy 100K attorneys, volunteers to monitor vote counts
by Brett Samuels - 04/19/24 9:47 AM ET
The Trump campaign and Republican National Committee (RNC) said Friday it planned to have more than 100,000 attorneys and volunteers in battleground states to monitor vote counting in November’s election.
The campaign announced it would offer training sessions every month on monitoring voting sites and tabulation centers. Poll watchers would be observing and reporting any irregularities, and lawyers would be prepared to respond to any potential issues.
Where the fuck Agolf Twittler would find 100,000 attorneys that would be stupid enough to work for Bozo the Orange clown in the first place.
However enough on that, what I am concerned about is, how many of those people will claim to be an attorney and a poll watcher and then go to a polling place (not of course a MAGA infested poll) and start claiming the are ‘shutting the place down and taking names’ to stop the ‘wrong voters’ from voting, so they can scare those who are not certain and don’t want to be known to the public.
Now, I do not know about other states, though I am quite confident that have laws and such in place, that if you don’t register with the County office of register of Voters, then you ain’t no “poll watcher’ and nothing you say or do will affect the actual polling place. However, the average public does not always know this, and I am also sure if someone shows up with “Vote Trump or Else” regalia and starts causing shit, it will cause a lot of people to think twice before going in. And I will be more than willing to bet that each of those attorneys will have a MAGhAt with weapon, standing near by to ensure sufficient fear of the people they are targeting, in those Deep red states.
And once again, I think on Hannah Arendt’s views on Gaue are still happening here,
With a fantastic thoroughness, the Nazis made sure that every function of the state administration would be duplicated by some party organ:18
18 ‘For those positions of state power which the National Socialists could not occupy with their own people, they created corresponding “shadow offices” in their own party organization, in this way setting up a second state beside the state …’ (Konrad Heiden, Der Fuehrer: Hitler’s Rise to Power, Boston, 1944, p. 616).
The Origins of Totalitarianism, Chapter Twelve — Totalitarianism in Power — I: The So-called Totalitarian State — page 348
Hannah Arendt
the idea being to keep the American public from knowing who is the actual and who is the ostensible government:
The inhabitant of Hitler’s Third Reich lived not only under the simultaneous and often conflicting authorities of competing powers, such as the civil services, the party, the SA, and the SS; he could never be sure and was never explicitly told whose authority he was supposed to place above all others. He had to develop a kind of sixth sense to know at a given moment whom to obey and whom to disregard.
Ibid, page 351
Those who are unsure will not vote, it happens nearly every time the Republicans come up with ‘Poll watchers” aka the American Version of the SA.
The only think that has me worried and I admit for now it’s not a big worry but, “How many people in areas where there the Republican party has utter control will not vote because they are concerned and worried about retaliation, and why is only like three news media outlets covering this. We are back to day one of the 2016 debacle. Three steps forward, 10 steps back.