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Fiendish Thingy

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6. That's where your certainty is seriously flawed
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 10:57 AM
23 hrs ago

As the special elections have shown, it’s getting harder and harder to predict which precincts will be reliably blue or red.

They could target a solid blue district, reducing the margin of the Dem victory, and ignore a red district, where the Dem will have a narrow win.

And not every polling site. They can target a few critical sites that have large Democratic support and concentrate in districts where the election will be close.


You continue to presume they will be successful in their attempts to use violence and intimidation, without pushback from the states or the people in the affected communities.

And you continue to show poor math skills- just how many “critical sites” would have to be disrupted to change the outcome of an election that some are predicting will result in 40-50 seats flipping from red to blue? How many ICE agents would it take to successfully disrupt each precinct in each of those districts? (there would be tens of thousands of precincts involved).

What about Governors/Secs of State who respond to such intimidation by keeping the polls open for hours longer, and allowing voters to vote at any precinct in their district? (This has been done in the past in response to bomb threats, power outages and ballot shortages)

That’s the trouble with fear mongering defeatist Doomers- they never think through the logistics or apply the laws of physics to their dystopian fantasies, they just proclaim “he will just do it”, as if it were an unquestionable fait accompli.

If the strength and solidarity of the people of Minneapolis is any indicator, they will fail.

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