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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Carpian ✶🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Do You Really Think???
Date: 01/29/26 2:34 PM
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What would the path be? There are no competitive races in Georgia this year. At all. Cook Political Report, as an example, has every race as either Solid D or Solid R:

I'm thinking that regardless of polling, wouldn't the calculus of the outcomes change if the feds took over the counting of the votes--and let's just say, for the sake of argument, that the feds are corrupt and crooked? (Far-fetched, I know.) Or if the feds aren't directly counting the votes, what if there's someone at the State in charge who, when Trump calls them and says "I need you to find me 10,000 more votes", instead of saying "Sorry, they're not there", says "Sure, no problem"? This could also be about 2028 if not 2026.

The bottom line is if the feds seize the 2020 ballots and then come out with a significantly different count than what the State did, that creates more chaos and lack of trust in the institution of our elections. This, to go along with their existing efforts to erode trust in our courts, law enforcement, the Fed, the medical community, the scientific community, rewriting of history, international relations, et al.

Which then gives them (our current Administration) a pretext--law or no law--to exert still more control over our institutions to bend them to their own ends. I'd like to think that we have laws in place to prevent that, but our laws seem to be turning out to be only as good as the people in charge of enforcing them are, and that's where I have a lot of concerns right now, to put it mildly. There are wildly different interpretations of laws happening these days from what they have been previously, and basic humanity ("Do the right thing") seems to have been thrown out the window.
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