Re: Elon wants to follow Kamala
You are also wheeling out the counterfactual suggestion that, had Trump won in 2016, the US would have been subject to riots. Well, as can be inferred from your statement, you accept that he lost, so there is no limit to suggestions as to what would have happened. Maybe the sky would have fallen in. We will never know.
Um.. Trump did win in 2016, and there were riots. Remember those 'fiery. but mostly peaceful protests'?-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_photo_op_at_St._John%27s_Church#
On June 1, 2020, amid the George Floyd protests in Washington, D.C., law enforcement officers used tear gas and other riot control tactics to forcefully clear peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square...
...On May 29, hundreds of protesters gathered outside the White House. Shortly after 7:00 p.m., multiple protesters crossed temporary barricades near the Treasury Department, about 350 feet (110 m) from the East Wing. More than sixty Secret Service agents were injured, and eleven were transported to the hospital, as protesters threw objects at them and pulled down temporary fencing. The Secret Service placed the White House on lockdown.
As just one example. There were plenty more, eg the Capitol Hill insurrection in Seattle and the attempts to create a breakaway independent nation of CHAZ. Those riots may have been started by BLM, but were also hijacked by far-left rioters who wanted Trump out because he'd somehow stolen the election from Clinton.
It doesn't matter what was "supposed" to happen on January 6th 2021, what happened was an invasion of the Capitol by a mob. Legal procedures against the elections, all state matters, had been resolved by then, therefore, all attempts to disrupt Congress' recognition of the vote were unconstitutional.
A mob that mostly wandered around aimlessly. One unarmed protestor was, of course executed by a Capitol Hill police officer. Then over a thousand of those peaceful protestors were locked up and held on remand. But legal proceedings against the elections and 'all state matters' most certainly had not been resolved. For example, this strange case-
https://atlantaciviccircle.org/2024/02/08/judge-to-decide-voting-with-paper-ballots-in-georgia/
A federal trial lasting nearly three weeks in a longstanding lawsuit over the constitutionality of Georgia’s voting machines has ended with the state’s defense centered on costs and logistics, not cybersecurity – the core of the case for the plaintiffs. The trial, which was six years in the making, pits an election integrity nonprofit and a handful of Georgia voters against the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office, which oversees elections. The plaintiffs claim that the state’s computerized voting machines face an unacceptable risk of being hacked, which infringes on the constitutional rights of voters.
And I call that one strange because despite asking much the same questions, Fox was landed with an $800m fine. And even more strangely, from a quick search, I can't find Judge Amy Totenberg ruling. And perhaps even more strangely, there is not even a mention of this case here-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Totenberg
Which is rather.. weird. And just to make things even weirder-
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/09/politics/smartmatic-philippines-charges/index.html
Three current and former executives from Smartmatic, the voting technology company suing right-wing media outlets over their 2020 election coverage, have been charged in the US in connection with an alleged bribery scheme in the Philippines.
Among the Smartmatic executives facing charges is the company’s president, Roger Piñate, according to a Justice Department release.
And then of course there were the recent Venezualan elections, where the US claims that election was rigged and the election stolen..
Biting the hand that feeds IT
