Trump calls on supporters to 'guard the vote' in Democratic-run US cities

One can only hope...

Edit: I feel compelled to make it clear that I don't want anyone to die due to political violence. However, if someone has to die I would prefer it be those who seem hell-bent on undermining the democratic process.

Probably. But for every Trump fascist getting arrested or making a video "patrolling" a ballot box drop-off, for every fascist getting killed, those are huge news stories that will make voters reconsider if it's even safe to vote. It'll have a massive chilling effect on voters who aren't obvious Trump supporters. Which is the point: fear.

Should their vote count if they voted early, but die before their vote counted?

What a funny thing to do right after a judge announces he does NOT have immunity.

And with all you said, and the evidence we have of Trump being a fascist, people will still not vote Biden as a "symbolic act". We may have a hellish few years coming ahead of us.

Fascism and dictatorships are not good for business. International trading partners won't want anything to do with businesses located in the United States if this happens. A democracy provides a trustable and reassuring legal framework to ensure stability of contracts. International complaints are not going to be upheld under a Trump government.

This is why everyone knows you don't do business with China.

Although if you have to have a dictator I suppose Donald Trump is probably the best dictator since he and his staff are regularly outwit by squirrels and things found growing under stones.

It's "sounds like he's hoping" they will the same way he was "hoping" they would assault the Capitol. He told them to do it in thinly veiled language.

I think its more heckling poll station workers and brown people, but yeah.

To this day, Trump claims that he actually won in New York and California, among other safe blue states. Fit the record, the last time NY went red was 1984 and the last time California went red was 1988.

Trump's convinced that there was "voter fraud" that turned those states blue, when they've been blue for over 30 years. He thinks that, if you removed all the "voter fraud," he really won in every state.

My guess is that he thinks voting for a Democrat is voter fraud and wants his violent mobs to make sure no "voter fraud" takes place. If he's elected President, I fear that we'll still have elections, but in the way Russia holds elections. "Do you want to vote for Trump or do you want to be sent to prison?"

So it's allowed to harass people who want to vote, but not allowed to hand out water to people who are in line waiting to vote?

It's not that simple. Swing states have a divide between cities and rural counties. If you scare enough voters away in cities, those swing states become easier to win. It has nothing to do with the states he will lose, and everything to do with the ones he needs to win.

Then they're fucking idiots too.

Consider using a dropbox- that's more secure in chain-of-custody terms.

Depends on your state's laws. But peaceful dudes in red caps are not what people are worried about. They are groups of aggressive people, potentially visibly armed, near to polling places or mail-in boxes that will scare voters away. If you have to walk past a line of lifted pick-up trucks, all with huge Trump flags in the backed, filled with angry redcaps with assault rifles, you might rethink voting. Which is the goal of the facists.

look, I know, you find annoying them with pictures of fake grand kids amusing... but really... could you at least maybe make the stories more interesting, since, you know. it's gonna be slow...

asking for everyone else.

I guarantee this, what will happen is people with guns will show up at polling places, they will threaten staff, and they will not be able to get police to get them to leave until it's time for the polls to close. Kind of like how the police just stood there and did nothing when people got into the capital on January 6th, just like how the military was never deployed. The people who are trying to steal power for themselves, are the people who already have power, they just want more

Don't assume he can't win. Vote like democracy depends on it because if he wins our country loses.

Trump will never see the inside of a jail cell. FFS, he was immune to prosecution while he was president. I'm sure somehow he's immune to incarceration as an ex-president.

Not by election day, 0% chance. The only Federal case expected to wrap and sentence by that time is the Jan 6 case, and he'll appeal that to federal appeals court and again to Supreme Court. Documents case doesn't even start until August. State cases are yielding to the federal case schedules.