"I believe we have the Most Dishonest Election of any Country, anywhere in the World President DONALD J. TRUMP"
Truth Social post, June 4, 2028 at 11:52 AM
But will we survive obedient and frightened Republicans in positions of power if Trump insists they do as he demands?
Can we trust any Republican in local, state, or federal office if he or she comes under the demanding gaze of Trump.
Can I trust gubernatorial candidate Christine Drazen or state Senate candidate Brad Hicks to be honorable and truthful if Trump insists they do the opposite? Maybe Drazen and Hicks do not intend to be corrupt; I hope they don't. If elected, they will be under enormous pressure to produce what is necessary for a result that pleases Trump on any issue that interests Trump. There can always be a pretext. It need not be true or even plausible. What is necessary is the result: Give Trump what he demands.
What issues?
--- Certify an election where Trump or any other Republican candidate loses.
--- Certify any election done the way Oregon votes, with mail-in voting.
--- Support Trump in ending health insurance subsidies that allow tens of thousands of Oregonians to afford health insurance that protects them and keeps rural Oregon hospitals solvent.
Drazen was a chief sponsor of a bill to end mail-in voting.
The only clarity in the website is the ease and prominence of making a donation: https://www.hicksforsenate.com I consider such a website worthless, but it is a strategy that may work: Say nothing and bury the district in paid ads.
James Madison presumed that the ambition of others would counter the ambition of an autocrat. That is an error in this era of political factions. Ambition requires they ratify the ambition of an autocrat. Trump has already announced that the California election in which his recommended candidate came in third, not second, was totally rigged and corrupt. It does not matter that the election results in Los Angeles are consistent with pre-election polls. Trump does not need to be accurate or even plausible. He has a fixed result: If he or his preferred candidate loses, the election is rigged.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson falls into line, a signal to House Republicans. Johnson doesn't need evidence. He acts on "instinct" to conclude that Trump's desired result is the correct one.
Some of these efforts are so diabolical and so far upstream it is impossible to prove. But think everybody knows instinctively something is wrong here.
Trump ignores recounts and audits, even when done by Republicans. The Meet the Press interview with Kristen Welker is the latest iteration. She pushed back on Trump's claims about the 2020 election and the California vote. What evidence, she asked?
All I have to do is look, and I listen.
She said that isn't evidence, and Trump switched to accusations and insults.
You’re either crooked or you’re stupid. You play right into their hands with this crap. You know that these elections are rigged. Your network knows that they’re rigged.
Then Trump walked out of the interview.
Must a Republican governor or state senator succumb to pressure, insults, and accusations of being a RINO traitor? We saw what happened to Senators John Cornyn and Bill Cassidy and Rep. Thomas Massie. We see what Trump is saying now about Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who is being "weak" on California by claiming incompetence, not fraud.Cheating is something, obviously, you have to prove. I would characterize a lot of the way California does things, including elections, as incompetence.
Thune is in the doghouse because the Senate is not ending the filibuster and Thune has not fired the Senate Parliamentarian who issued rulings that impede Trump's agenda.
Republican South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Nancy Mace, currently a U.S. representative, insisted on opening up the Epstein files. She wrote on Twitter/X,
I know I put the likelihood of an endorsement on the line when I demanded transparency on the Epstein files. I demanded it because you deserve the truth -- ALL OF IT
Trump has endorsed Mace's opponent.
There is a test to see if one's local Republican candidates have the courage to resist Trump: See what they say and do now. Twice over a two week period I have contacted my Republican Congressman Cliff Bentz to see if he has any comment or criticism on the $1.776 billion giveaway from Trump's own IRS. Isn't this outrageously corrupt? No response from Bentz.
Has either Drazen or Hicks said one word in opposition to anything whatever that Trump demands?
If they cannot show independence of Trump's influence, we cannot expect them to resist Trump if he tells them to ignore the Oregon votes in the 2028 election and to refuse to certify any election in which the Republican loses. Or anything else Trump demands.
Either we are electing those state and local officials, who will exercise independent judgment, or we are electing puppets taking orders from Trump.
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9 comments:
Republicans = corruption until Trump is gone for good. I don’t think there is such a thing as a good Republican even if they want to be good. Trump doesn’t allow honesty. I hope the American people understand that.
Yes, we can trust Republicans to support Trump no matter how illegal or bizarre his whims may be. Case in point: In January 2021, the Oregon Republican Party issued a resolution declaring the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol a “false flag” operation, intended to make Trump and Republicans look bad. As if they needed any help.
The arguments for the idea that our federal elections are rigged will remain after President Trump is gone. Many of these arguments focus on vote-by-mail and especially the rule that ballots count if the postmark date is election day. Listen to KMED and you'll hear these arguments, if you're not conversant with them. Some of these arguments stick with people. Whether or not any of these arguments are valid is a separate issue from whether the arguments are powerful. Blaming Trump is the ad hominem fallacy. Maybe the time has come to take a fresh look at laws such as "motor voter," if only to decide whether or not the American public can reach consensus that our federal elections are fair and square.
It is just idiotic to accept ballots by their postmarked date. All that does is cause delays that give credence to claims of election fraud.
Oregon had a sensible policy until recently, that ballots had to be in by 8:00 PM on election day in order to be counted. I do not understand why we changed that. I think we would improve the quality of our electoral decisions by excluding ballots from voters who couldn’t manage to get their ballots in on time.
(I would support an exception for overseas military voters.)
Isn’t it ironic that the man in office disputes the very system that put him there? If it’s corrupt, then is he suggesting he is illegitimate too? I’d love to hear a GOP lackey reply to a question as to whether Trump won the election with “he was sworn into office” watch his or her career end.
Americans demand instant gratification.
No argument here! I agree the ballot, to be counted, must be in by the same time the polls close on election day...period.
Instant would be unreasonable in this connection. Timely and secure are not.
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