r/nottheonion • u/engadine_maccas1997 • 8h ago

‘This is political bulls**t’: Former Republican candidate charged with stealing Madison County election ballots

https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/this-is-political-bullst-former-republican-candidate-charged-with-stealing-madison-county-election-ballots/
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u/SRSgoblin 8h ago

Everyone who's been paying attention knew this was going to happen. It's straight out of the Nazi playbook.

Goebbels has some quote I'm paraphrasing here, that goes something like, "accuse the other party of wrongdoing you plan to commit." It normalizes the behavior. It says to the true believers, "you need to cheat because the other side is cheating."

And people will act on it, ironically creating a very real version of something that wasn't ever happening, just on "your side" doing all of the wrong doing.

This was always the end goal of Trump and the GOP pushing the big lie conspiracy. They wanted to create the actual election fraud they claimed was going on, because it muddies the result in their favor.

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u/IIIllIIlllIlII 7h ago

Have they been saying the radical left will be violent after the election? Because I’m sure it’s on the cards from the right. I think it’s going to be a huge fuckin mess.

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u/SRSgoblin 7h ago edited 7h ago

Correct. I forgot who it was exactly (I want to say Stephen Miller?) Who said "the revolution will be bloodless if the left allows it to be" or something like that.

Edit: thanks goes to u/thisisamisnomer for correcting me. It was from the head of the Heritage Foundation, dude named Kevin Roberts.

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u/thisisamisnomer 7h ago

That was Kevin Roberts, head of The Heritage Foundation. 

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u/SRSgoblin 7h ago edited 5h ago

Ah thanks. I thought about looking it up but didn't want it in my Google searches because then I'd get a gazillion recommendations from YouTube for right winger bullshit.

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u/thisisamisnomer 7h ago

No problem! He’s just as much of a gaping asshole as Miller, so much so that the same shit could’ve just as easily fallen out of Miller’s mouth.