The latest chapter in America’s ongoing hostage situation with a man who cannot emotionally survive the concept of losing arrived in Georgia this week, where federal agents raided a Fulton County election office and hauled out boxes of 2020 ballots like they were recovering ancient relics from a tomb. And because this regime never misses an opportunity to crank the authoritarian dial a little further, DNI Tulsi Gabbard - whose job has absolutely nothing to do with rummaging through county election storage room - was right there on site, hovering around the operation like she was auditioning for a reboot of 24 that nobody asked for. The official line is that this was a “court‑authorized law enforcement action,” but the unofficial line is the one everyone can see with their own eyes: the Trump regime is once again trying to exhume the corpse of the 2020 election and scream “MURDER!” into its empty ribcage.
And why? Because the man has spent at least 14 straight years telling his followers that American elections are rigged unless they crown him king. This didn’t start in 2020. It didn’t even start in 2016. It started in 2012, when he began bleating on Twitter that Obama only won because the system was corrupt, because millions of imaginary people voted illegally, because the universe itself was conspiring against him. He wasn’t even running for anything. He just needed attention. But the seed was planted: elections are only legitimate if they produce the outcome he wants. By 2016, he was pre‑gaming the narrative months before Election Day, telling crowds that if he lost, it would be because the system was rigged. Then he won, and suddenly the system was perfect—until it wasn’t again.
Fast‑forward to 2020, when he lost by millions of votes, lost the Electoral College, lost recounts, lost audits, lost hand recounts, lost machine recounts, lost signature audits, lost investigations, lost appeals, and lost over 60 court cases, including in front of judges he appointed. His own Department of Homeland Security declared the 2020 election “the most secure in American history.” His own Attorney General said there was no evidence of widespread fraud. His own lawyers admitted in court filings that their claims were not based on actual evidence. His own campaign paid for recounts in Wisconsin that ended up increasing Biden’s margin. And yet here we are, six years later, watching federal agents seize ballots from an election that has been litigated, relitigated, autopsied, and certified more times than any election in modern history.
But the cult? Oh, the cult is still doing Cirque du Soleil‑level mental gymnastics to keep the fantasy alive. They’ve bent themselves into pretzels, then into Möbius strips, then into quantum‑entangled origami swans trying to reconcile the fact that every institution, every court, every audit, every Republican election official, every Trump‑appointed judge, every shred of evidence says he lost. They can’t accept it, so they invent new layers of conspiracy to explain why the old layers didn’t pan out. It’s like watching people build a house of cards on a trampoline during an earthquake, insisting the problem is the cards, not the trampoline or the earthquake or the fact that they’re doing this in the first place.
And now, as if the Big Lie needed more tentacles, the regime is tying it directly to its war on immigrants. For years, Trump has insisted—without evidence, without data, without anything resembling reality—that undocumented immigrants vote “by the millions,” that they vote “repeatedly,” that they are the secret engine of Democratic victories. Never mind that study after study has shown non‑citizen voting is statistically nonexistent. Never mind that Republican‑led investigations have repeatedly found no evidence of widespread illegal voting. Never mind that the only people ever caught voting illegally in recent years have overwhelmingly been Trump supporters. The cult needs a villain, and immigrants—especially Black and brown immigrants—are the perfect scapegoat.
Which brings us to the next phase of this nightmare: ICE at polling places. The same ICE that has been unleashed on blue states, the same ICE that has been conducting raids with a political edge, the same ICE that has become a paramilitary cosplay unit for the regime’s white‑knuckled fantasies of control. Imagine them stationed outside voting locations under the guise of “election integrity,” staring down Black voters, Latino voters, immigrant communities, anyone who looks like they might not be on Team MAGA. Imagine the chilling effect. Imagine the intimidation. Imagine the message: vote at your own risk. And imagine how perfectly this fits into the Big Lie’s architecture—if turnout drops in communities the regime wants to suppress, they’ll call it “proof” that immigrants were voting illegally before. If turnout doesn’t drop, they’ll say ICE prevented fraud. Heads they win, tails democracy loses.
And then there’s Trump himself, now openly calling for Republicans to “take over” voting and “nationalize” elections, as if the Constitution is just a suggestion and states’ rights are something he can toss in the trash whenever they inconvenience him. He’s said the quiet part out loud so many times the quiet part has filed a noise complaint. He wants control. He wants power. He wants to decide which votes count and which don’t. He wants to cancel midterms or delegitimize them or pre‑emptively declare them fraudulent. He wants to wind up his followers for another January 6 if the results don’t go his way. And the cult will follow him right off that cliff, because at this point, believing him is easier than admitting they’ve been conned for over a decade by a man who can’t even spell “tap” correctly.
So yes, the Georgia raid is about ballots. But it’s also about 2026. And 2028. And the long game of dismantling trust in elections so thoroughly that the only acceptable outcome is the one he declares legitimate. It’s about using federal power to intimidate, to distort, to rewrite, to erase. It’s about turning ICE into an election‑season shock troop. It’s about weaponizing fear. It’s about manufacturing chaos. It’s about ensuring that if he loses again - and he knows he can - his followers will be primed, loaded, and ready to explode.
Because the Big Lie was never about 2020. It was always about the future. And the future he’s building is one where democracy is optional, truth is irrelevant, and the only votes that count are the ones cast for him.
Unfugginbelievable doesn’t even begin to cover it.
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