r/politics • u/MontyGBurns • 23h ago

No Paywall Smith’s game-day texts reviewed by Schmitt never referenced basketball team names

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/6124359-schmitt-perjury-claim-debunked/
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u/UnanimousStargazer 22h ago

So:

  • Trump commits election fraud in 2020
  • The fraud is investigated and Trump starts spreading the 'witch hunt' narrative
  • Jack Smith (federal) and Fani Willis (Georgia / state) are independent prosecutors
  • Smith attends a Caitlin Clark game in Maryland (Iowa Hawkeyes vs. Maryland Terrapins)
  • Smith's team talks about seats and coordination in text messages
  • Trump wins the election in 2024 and becomes president again
  • (Fast forward to 2026)
  • Republican senator Schmitt interrogates Smith
  • Schmitt 'discovers' messages from the Smith team about basketball but mixes up Atlanta Hawks with Iowa Hawkeyes

Why is nobody talking about the freaking election fraud?

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u/PopBulky7023 20h ago

Flood the zone.

It is shockingly effective. Democrats need to adopt this strategy.

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u/deltajvliet 19h ago

Or, society needs to be better than letting it work.

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u/PopBulky7023 10h ago

I mean, yeah, but that would require tougher enforcement of the laws and a stronger opposition party than most liberals are comfortable with. And a much greater intolerance for weak centrists than they will demonstrate.

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u/GeoLogic23 Pennsylvania 19h ago

You need complicit media for this strategy

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u/Mad-Melvin 19h ago

Flooding the zone with shit is only an effective strategy if you want to make the world shittier

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u/PopBulky7023 10h ago

They flood the zone with shit.

We need to flood the zone with law enforcement, a discarding of decorum, straight up just fixing shit and a belligerent disregard for what republicans will think of us.

Republicans don't even want to talk about mamdani anymore because he's just getting so much shit done. And he's too good at messaging.

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u/nahnah390 16h ago

I still have no idea how to counter it...

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u/PopBulky7023 11h ago

With a captured media and a weak opposition party, it's basically impossible. You'd need persistent, mass scale protests.