Here is how things are going to go. Pay close attention.

1. During the next two months Trump will increasingly claim that there is a widespread conspiracy to steal the election from him. (He& #39;s already doing this, so there& #39;s no reason to doubt it will continue.)

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2. A week, possibly two weeks before the election, the Justice Department will announce that they have launched an investigation of the Biden campaign and the Democratic party for illegal election tampering, citing undisclosed evidence.

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3. With less than 48 hours to go before the election, Trump will sign an executive order postponing the election. IT DOES NOT MATTER THAT HE HAS NO LEGAL AUTHORITY TO DO THIS, OR THAT MOST STATES WILL NOT COMPLY. The point isn& #39;t to make it happen but to *say* he is.

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4. At least one Republican governor in a swing state will postpone the election in compliance with Trump& #39;s order. My money is on DeSantis but it could be be Abbot or Ducey. Maybe all three.

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Voters in that state (or states) will show up to vote on election day but polling places will be closed by the governor& #39;s Executive Order. There will be protests. That& #39;s part of the plan.

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Most likely, Trump loses by a MASSIVE margin in the states that actually have voting. That night he announces that this is just further evidence that the election was rigged, as even his opponents in the fake news expected it to be a close race.

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He will say that since the election was supposed to be have been postponed by his Executive Order, all results from in-person voting on Election Day are illegitimate, and refuse to accept the results. He will promise to hold the election again in "a couple of weeks".

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Please keep in mind that IT DOES NOT MATTER THAT HE HAS NO CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO DO ANY OF THIS. If you focus on what is legal and what is illegal you are not paying attention to what is happening in front of your eyes.

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There will, of course, be massive protests in all major cities. Trump will send in DHS thugs to fire tear gas, pepper balls, and all of the other violent means at their disposal. The protests will continue.

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At some point, Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity (who have been talking incessantly about "violent rioters" and "antifa terrorists") will ask: "Where are the loyal patriots who are willing to stand up and defend Law and Order and the Second Amendment?"

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At this point expect THOUSANDS of Kyle Rittenhouses, all around the country, to head to the protests, armed with their AR-15s, looking for protestors to kill. There will be a lot of deaths.

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The police will NOT PROTECT THE PROTESTORS. They will view the protestors as the same people who have been calling to defund the police - their enemies. They& #39;ve already made it clear in city after city that they view armed white militia members as the "good guys".

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At some point the electors will attempt to meet to vote, or the House will convene an emergency session to appoint a president, or something else that& #39;s in accordance with the Constitution will happen. It will be too late.

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Trump will declare all such efforts an attempt at an illegal coup. Barr will arrest Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and anybody else who takes on a prominent role, alleging that they are all part of a nationwide deep state conspiracy to steal the election.

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Trump is not playing 5th dimensional chess. He is not playing any game at all. Rather than look for loopholes in the rulebook he can exploit, he is burning the board and eating the pieces, like Saturn devouring his children.

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I honestly don& #39;t know how to end this thread. I don& #39;t see a way out of this trajectory. All of the usual responses -- vote in overwhelming numbers, take to the streets -- just feed the twin narratives "rigged election" and "violent anarchists".

It& #39;s going to get bad.

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