“Stop the Steal” has been all over the right-wing blogs and Facebook after Trump’s loss to Joe Biden. One would think this was a slogan and movement just started in response to the 2020 loss by Trump. If so, you would be wrong.
From CNN:
But while Stop the Steal may sound like a new 2020 political slogan to many, it did not emerge organically over widespread concerns about voting fraud in President Donald Trump's race against Joe Biden. It has been in the works for years.
Its origin traces to Roger Stone, a veteran Republican operative and self-described "dirty trickster" whose 40-month prison sentence for seven felonies was cut short by Trump's commutation in July.
Stone's political action committee launched a "Stop the Steal" website in 2016 to fundraise ahead of that election, asking for $10,000 donations by saying, "If this election is close, THEY WILL STEAL IT."
So basically, what we are seeing is the same scam that was ready to launch in 2016 to make a quick buck and to be a thorn in the side of Hillary while dragging down democracy.
Hilariously, it also isn’t the first attempt at reviving this scam either.
Stop the Steal briefly resurfaced around the midterms in 2018 -- with Republicans employing the hashtag during a recount in a neck-and-neck Florida race for U.S. Senate -- but it wasn't until 2020 that it really caught fire
How much of a mark or rube do you need to be to fall for this con-job and scam on its third iteration? I guess it is true that “the third time’s the charm”.
How sick is it that this is from the criminal, Roger Stone, who should still be in jail but is out on a commutation from Trump? How embarrassing is it that my fellow Americans are falling for it, hook, line and sinker?