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terrifying report in the atlantic. quote, the next attempt to overthrow a national election may not qualify as a coup. it will rely on subversion more than violence. if the plot succeeds, the ballots cast by american voters will not decide the presidency in 2024. thousands of votes will be thrown away, or millions, to produce the required effect. the winner will be declared the loser. the loser will be certified president elect. barton gelman is with us now. your piece is fascinating. it is a huge warning. as you point out in it, you say donald trump may have lost the election, but right now, the balance of power is shifting towards him. you say this very much could result in him being elect ed, a you see at the state level these weaknesses being exploited. what are you expecting? what i m expecting, and what i m seeing, is that republican
well be that the virus has increased transmissibility, but it doesn t necessarily mean it is more pathogenic. we just don t know. you can have both. you can have increased transmi transmissibility, in other words, it spreads faster, but could be less severe? absolutely. we have a number of viruses that are highly transmissible, but they don t cause very severe disease. that s what we d like to see here if this virus persists. of course, for all of us, we d like to end this pandemic and eliminate this virus, but unders understo fundamentally, if it mutates to a state where it is highly transmissible but, rather, you know, poorly pathogenic and doesn t cause much disease, or severe disease, we ll be fine with that. how many variants are there? yeah, there are lots of variants. we ve been tracking variants since the beginning of the pandemic. we do that by sequencing, by
those who make it all the way to the state capitol find little sanctuary. some of the main roads have been turned into waterways. car res placed by canoes. just a mile further, the ghostly remains of what was once a commercial hub. this used to be the central shopping area in town. as you can see, completely destroyed. according to authorities, 90% of unity state has been impacted by these floods. here the effects of climate changeerant a hypothetical problem in the future but rath arreal disaster in the present. we re fighting not to reach here? we re unable to scope with
operatives around the country, at the state and local level, are changing the rules of how you count election votes. in such a way that the politicians will be in charge. the politicians who are running for these positions, from all the way down to precinct levels and county levels and state levels, secretaries of state, election officials, are participating in the big lie. that says that donald trump really won the last election and was deprived of the white house by fraud. and some of them are explicitly saying they would not have certified biden s victory, despite the votes of the voters in the last election. they are signaling that they would not certify a democratic victory in the next election. you put that on top of a growing, mass political movement