1. Some great reporting here by @erinmdouglas23 that I'd like to see on @Morning_Joe @MSNBC bc if these far-right mega donors are hiring PIs to stalk & potential kidnap people on the basis of these voter fraud conspiracies, lives are in danger, right now. If its happening in TX https://twitter.com/erinmdouglas23/status/1339014409310658560
2. it may well be happening elsewhere too. It is, of course, the logical byproduct of the EXTREME irresponsibility of a PRESIDENT of the US, someone using the legitimacy that is bestowed on them from that office, to make up, to completely & knowingly fabricate a story of voter
3. of voter fraud. The way the media phrases it- "they have yet to find evidence of" is misleading bc the fact is, the story that Giuliani and Trump settled on in the end, after months of plotting, the one about thousands of fake ballots being carted in to polling locations that
4. is the one that 75% of Republican voters are settling on in a democracy-damaging permanent way ARE COMPETELY MADE UP. It literally just fell out of Trump's mouth at random! So you can't find evidence of it. BC its a random lie! Yet, between Trump, his Republican's allies in
5. Congress (who have now shown all of us just how much they really do love America and esp her Constitution), and right wing media these spur of the moment lies, launched at random at a presser after their previous lawsuits failed, have now become accepted wisdom on the Right.
6. So how many of these crazy PI's do we have running around looking for ballots? You know what happens to a bad cop if they are fired? They become PIs! Are innocent election workers being surveilled right now bc nutty GOP mega donors are funding ops like this?
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