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Edited on Thu Apr-07-11 09:53 PM by LoZoccolo
Someone excerpted a column on here a while ago theorizing that Walker was acting like someone who didn't care about getting re-elected, and that probably meant that whatever he was up to was more important to him than keeping his job. They went on to theorize that he was trying to act so outrageously in an effort to provoke a few people to violence, which could be used to discredit unions nationwide and further attack them. The theory proposed that this would be worthwhile enough for the Republicans to sacrifice a gubernatorial seat in order to accomplish.
I haven't decided yet if I really think that the found ballots are fake or not, but I do think it would be difficult to pull something like that off. We'll see over the next few days whether the idea of these ballots being lost and found is easily found to be logically impossible or statistically improbable in some way, and even after that, people will and well should keep investigating.
What I find interesting is that Nickolaus would not have to fake ballots in order to be a part of the outrage conspiracy that I mention in the first paragraph. If she simply made it look like the election was stolen by withholding and finding the ballots in one county that has more Republicans, it could be part of a conspiracy to get someone so pissed off that they do something stupid and discredit the unions. Even if the ballots didn't go her way, there'd be no risk to just trying and seeing if it works.
Now if you're thinking of doing violence, let me suggest that you instead do a little violence to yourself by sticking an electric lemon reamer up your ass and plugging it into a 220 volt socket which would be twice the intended voltage. This is playing into the Republicans' hands and won't solve anything anyways. Just because I wonder if they are trying to provoke violence doesn't mean that I think it's justified or even useful. You could instead consider signing up as an election judge and not getting all buddy-buddy with the Republicans like I think happens when people sit around together all day at the polls. Or be part of some NGO election oversight. Our country has a legal, systematic revolution decreed every two years; do what you can to win that one, and/or make it fair.
I obviously don't have enough evidence to believe this myself, but I wonder what someone would find if they investigated it from this angle.
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