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"Should the government censor speech it doesn't like? Of course not. The FCC doesn't have a roving mandate to police speech in the name of the \"public interest\"." -- Brendan Carr 2019

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Same party thats says they are against new wars.

So much of the last four years was watching fools and dishonest people pretend that the government was coming to take away your free speech and you'd better elect [people who routinely lied about everything and clearly had no principles] to protect you.

Every accusation is an admission from the people running the united states right now

I think it's something they're doing consciously, accusing the opposition of doing what they're doing. It puts opposition on the back foot, muddies the water, and provides justification for doing something you shouldn't be since "the other side already did it". This us partly why politics has become like a Choose Your Own Adventure book (more than it was before anyway).

Which is why we need to watch the polls closely this year. They’ve repeatedly accused everyone of massive voter fraud so they will most certainly try it themselves.

Slight tangent but the thought has crossed my mind that (the potential of) retaliation by Iran could be a pretense for taking broad executive action which normally wouldn't be permitted, perhaps under the guise of securing the election. They may even do something which will be ruled illegal after the fact by courts, but it could take months after the election to reach a verdict and there's really no precedent in America for broadly declaring a federal election invalid.

To be clear I don't really expect this to happen but at this point I honestly wouldn't even be surprised.

I think they were hoping to provoke riots with ICE but since they didn’t happen they’re using Iran. If there’s a “terrorist” strike in November followed by a suspension of elections that’s likely what’s happening.

Accusation in a mirror, a strategy that is pretty much as you describe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusation_in_a_mirror

Thanks, I had not heard of this.

Roy Cohn taught the man child well

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