Rigged! Satan! 2016 Like No Other Election Before

Donald Trump has claimed that there is a possibility of the US presidential election being “rigged” as he tried to divert attention away from a disastrous week for his campaign by also labelling his rival Hillary Clinton as “the devil” and praising the primary opponent of Republican speaker Paul Ryan.

  Guardian

All US presidential elections are rigged. Rigged every way from Supreme Court interference to Superdelegates to winner take all voting to two-party only debates to voter ID laws to Citizens United to electronic voting to gerrymandered districts. But Trump's fans will be left madder and more crazed when he loses the election because of his claiming a rigged system.

“I’m afraid the election is going to be rigged, I have to be honest,” he told the crowd [at a campaign town hall in Columbus, Ohio].

He did not elaborate but later repeated the charge on Monday night with Sean Hannity on Fox News, saying: “November 8th, we’d better be careful, because that election is going to be rigged. And I hope the Republicans are watching closely or it’s going to be taken away from us.”

Roger Stone, a long time confidante of Trump, amplified these concerns in an interview with a far right wing radio show.

Stone said: “I think we have widespread voter fraud, but the first thing that Trump needs to do is begin talking about it constantly.”

So that's his plan. I guess it's as good as anything he's got.

Laying out a strategy for Trump to adopt, Stone added: “He needs to say for example, today would be a perfect example: ‘I am leading in Florida. The polls all show it. If I lose Florida, we will know that there’s voter fraud. If there’s voter fraud, this election will be illegitimate, the election of the winner will be illegitimate, we will have a constitutional crisis, widespread civil disobedience, and the government will no longer be the government.’”

He also promised a “bloodbath” if the Democrats attempted to “steal” the election.

There you go. A call out to his rabid racist gun-toting fans to hit the streets.  Perhaps the militarized police will be necessary after all.  On the other hand, do they not realize that if they go that far, the president currently in office would be the one to call for a state of emergency and suspend the constitution?  No, you're right.  Their reasoning powers are not strong.

Surely, Stone didn't "promise" a bloodbath.  Would that not be considered an incitement to riot?  But I suppose if arrested, they could really rile up the crazies to fight back.  They'd probably need to spring that Bundy bunch in Oregon and Nevada.  I'm sure they'd like to help.

[On Monday night in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania,] Trump reiterated a frequent allegation of his on the campaign trail in recent days, that in endorsing the former secretary of state, Bernie Sanders made a deal with the devil. He went further this time, explicitly saying: “She’s the devil.”

This is going to be fun, isn't it?

He also reiterated his praise for waterboarding to cheers. Trump complained of Isis: “They can chop off heads, they can drown people, they can bury you in sand and we can’t waterboard.” In the opinion of the Republican presidential nominee, “we’re not playing on a level playing field”.

And who's the anti-christ?

Trump announced Monday that he had raised $35m in July, which he claimed was “unheard of for Republicans”.

Campaigns are not due to file reports to the Federal Election Commission until 20 August. However, if accurate, that figure would represent a decrease of $66m on the total raised by Mitt Romney in July 2012.

Well, unheard of by him. Or did he mean that the figure was amazingly low for Republicans?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE: