And so it starts.
New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has asked if anyone is keeping a record of “Trump sycophants” who were “complicit” in his administration, predicting that those who were would try cover up their tracks after Donald Trump leaves office.
“Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future?” Ms Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Friday afternoon. “I foresee decent probability of many deleted Tweets, writings, photos in the future”.
One of the underpinning principles of democracy is that of losers’ consent. Another is that the winner accepts that not everyone voted for them or agrees with their policies. In other words, if a democratic system is to function, both sides need to accept that the other not only exists, but to continue in peace without, er making lists. After all, we have seen where that takes us.
AOC is objectively an evil woman. She is taking her playbook from the despots of the past. I’m sure Beria would have been proud to have her on his team with her list of dissidents. Whether you like Trump or loathe him makes no difference, his administration was of its time and another is set to take its place. Engaging in petty vengeance against those who served in the previous administration is a nasty precedent. But, then AOC isn’t very bright. It would never occur to her that one day the boot might find itself on the other foot as indeed, Beria found out.
As always happens those who make lists tend to be surprised when they are executed because they were on their successors lists. The various waves of the French revolution illustrated this in spades.
It also illustrates that those “shy Trumpers” who expressed their support for Don only in the secrecy of the ballot box (and nowhere else) weren’t being paranoid because they (or at least OA-C) are out to get you.
Never mind. The Democrats stole the 1960 election, tried (and failed) to steal the 2000 and hit success again with 2020 as everyone predicted they would try.
Whether it succeeds this time remains to be seen.
Have you heard that Owen Jones has just been given the push from the Guardian? It seems like he’s the first of the useful idiots to be getting the push. Whatever next?
I hadn’t heard that.
Yes LR. This 31 year old woman is a very nasty piece of work indeed.
Nasty combined with stupid.
Unfortunately that’s untrue, Owen Jones is still at the Grauniad. Good news really, as it’s better to have him where you’d expect, than popping up randomly elsewhere.
Meanwhile, it looks like Trump is making a list also:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/white-house-department-of-defense-pentagon-jim-anderson-b1721307.html
Wouldn’t it be funny if it was discovered that the Demrats did submit fraud ballot papers, Biden is disqualified for that fraud, and Trump brings out a list of those complicit in that fraud. I can just imagine Absence of Occasional Cortex complaining. Sadly, justice doesn’t always win and civil war will surely take place.
Someone has already been charged. This one was in Texas.
https://youtu.be/S8JK8ju7gUs
Perhaps if you had been subjected to some of the direct, in your face abuse from Republican senators that Ms Ocasio-Cortez has been subjected to you might feel the same about some of them as she does. You can look it up.
The thing about electoral fraud is that it doesn’t seem to be treated as a serious crime at all. I can remember that, in the dying days of the last labour administration, they kept getting hammered in by elections but got a surprise win in Scotland. There seem to have been some irregularities and, when it came to checking over the ballot papers again, it was discovered that the whole lot had been “lost”. I don’t recall there having been any kind of investigation into the matter or anybody being prosecuted. The reaction seems to have been a resigned shrug and, well you know this stuff happens. Then there were students who were registered at home as well as at their uni residence who voted for Corbyn twice. What happened to them? Nothing as far as I’m aware. We have been doing elections for a long time now, you would think that we could get the process a bit more watertight. We used to laugh at backward countries where the incumbent got more votes than there were people. It seems that the west is no longer in a position to mock.
Agreed, look at Trump’s 2016 victory and the amount of technology experts who pointed to.massive fraud via online ballots. They lobbied Clinton to start an investigation.
2000? Same again.
That is because the winners decide they would rather brush it away than look too closely at their win. The losers are usually browbeaten, as Trump is now, into shutting up. Trump, not being a politician, isn’t following the rules.