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Another revision:
Looks like Trump goes down to 74.4 million votes, and Biden goes up to 81.4 million votes, for a difference of 7 million votes. |
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Yes, yes. I know you're right, but would it hurt you to actually provide some information? |
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Anger because now Trump & co are also threatening "real Americans"?
I mean, the "lock her up", "2nd amendment solutions", "treason" talk, have been going on for years. Now he's angry? Now he sees that's not OK. Better this guy than the sycophants who still follow Trump (yes, Ted Cruz, you too), but really, nothing Trump and co are doing now should come as surprise to anyone. |
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As I understand it, that is exactly what Dominion does. You vote electronically but the result is a paper ballet. That way, there are no smudge marks, sloppy filling in of ovals, etc. The voter gets to check that the paper ballot does, in fact, represent his/her vote before it is turned in. It's the best of modern electronics with the verification ability by paper.
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Many of us, even some who are not even Americans, predicted all this over two years ago, and we were roundly mocked at the time by the forum's Trumpistas.
Not that predicting any of this was a very high bar to get over - everything happening now was easy to see coming for anyone who was actually paying attention to what the GOP and Trump were doing. Instead, they spent their time contorting themselves with pretzel logic to defend Dear Leader and his disciples. |
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Trump retweeted
The Epoch Times @EpochTimes The #Nevada Native Vote Project posted photos on #Facebook on #ElectionDay of smiling #Voters holding $25 gift cards after handing over their #Ballots. The posts have since been deleted but not before they were archived |
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Trump Tweets
The Fake News refuses to report this! Quote Tweet Catherine Herridge @CBS_Herridge #Election2020results From a DOJ spokesperson: “Some media outlets have incorrectly reported that the Department has concluded its investigation of election fraud and announced an affirmative finding of no fraud in the election. That is not what the Associated Press reported nor what the Attorney General stated. The Department will continue to receive and vigorously pursue all specific and credible allegations of fraud as expeditiously as possible.” @ClareHymes22 @CBSNews |
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Trump Tweets
Rigged Election. Show signatures and envelopes. Expose the massive voter fraud in Georgia. What is Secretary of State and @BrianKempGA afraid of. They know what we’ll find!!! Quote Tweet Brendan Keefe @BrendanKeefe "It. Has. All. Gone. Too. Far," says @GabrielSterling with Georgia Sec of State after a Dominion tech's life was threatened with a noose. "Mr. President, you have not condemned these actions or this language....all of you who have not said a damn word are complicit in this." |
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Trump Retweeted
Matt Braynard @MattBraynard As I said on @LouDobbs, if the issues we raised are not resolved, the nation cannot have confidence that @JoeBiden is the deserved winner. If he is inaugurated under these circumstances, he cannot be considered "president" but instead referred to as the #presidentialoccupant. Lou Dobbs @LouDobbs Illegal Votes: Former @realDonaldTrump data strategist @mattbraynard discovers thousands of illegally cast mail-in ballots and hands over evidence of electoral fraud to the FBI. #MAGA #AmericaFirst #Dobb |
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If we are worried about the psychological effect of performing executions, instead of trying to get around it, we should confront whether it is a good idea in the first place.
I'll echo a sentiment from above--whether someone deserves death is a different question than whether it's a good idea to empower the government to order it, and task someone with performing it. |
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Indeed. It is not too hard to find some that don't seem to deserve to live, but that is not the real question. The real question is, do they deserve that society gets their blood on our hands? Do they deserve the we occasionally execute someone who did NOT deserve it? (And you know that this will happen).
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Gotta love the way they assume the right to speak for "the nation" in demanding that the issues they themselves raise be resolved to a satisfaction that won't have any more defined a standard than their satisfaction. There's just something so CT about that- "prove to me that two steel skyscrapers could collapse due to nothing but fire!" by people who would never accept any reasonable rebuttal to such silliness.
But you go ahead, Matt and Lou- you refer to Biden after Jan 20 as "presidential occupant" instead of "President" as if that will make any real world difference, because, newsflash- it won't. |
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Trump Tweets
Big voter fraud hearings today in the Great State of Michigan. This election is a far bigger scandal (FRAUD!) than anyone would have thought - not even close. Watch today! |
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Trump Retweets
PlayTheTrumpCard High voltage sign Legal Votes Only Please @PlaysTrumpCard Without 1 shred of actual evidence that @realDonaldTrump did anything wrong, the DOJ went ballistic on him. Did a Normandy invasion on Roger Stone. Collected every byte of data from anyone associated. Now 100's of witnesses detailing vote fraud, & DOJ sees nothing. get it? |
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Ohh don't leave it hanging:
"...until I get blisters, or I can think of something even more unpleasant to do!" |
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As human right is always something given, it always in reality reduces to the right which men give, "concede," to each other. If the right to existence is conceded to new-born children, then they have the right; if it is not conceded to them, as was the case among the Spartans and ancient Romans, then they do not have it. For only society can give or concede it to them; they themselves cannot take it, or give it to themselves. |
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As human right is always something given, it always in reality reduces to the right which men give, "concede," to each other. If the right to existence is conceded to new-born children, then they have the right; if it is not conceded to them, as was the case among the Spartans and ancient Romans, then they do not have it. For only society can give or concede it to them; they themselves cannot take it, or give it to themselves. |
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Yep. "Hearings" implies legal stuff, like witnesses testifying under oath, and lawyers doing lawyer things, both in a venue that can impose penalties for shortcomings in either area. These "hearings" are, as you say, more like press conferences- there's no penalty for inaccuracies, incompetence, or lack of evidence, which is probably the reason for the preference for a setting where show is valued over substance. If you don't actually have any evidence, it's usually best to perform where it's not required.
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As human right is always something given, it always in reality reduces to the right which men give, "concede," to each other. If the right to existence is conceded to new-born children, then they have the right; if it is not conceded to them, as was the case among the Spartans and ancient Romans, then they do not have it. For only society can give or concede it to them; they themselves cannot take it, or give it to themselves. |
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I suppose a disembodied head would cease to be punctilious, yes. Wouldn't pay taxes, serve on juries, or do anything a conscientious citizen would.
ETA: Didn't see this if it has been raised in the thread, but Sidney Powell's charged in a lawsuit that extensive voter fraud can be absolutely proved in the case of Edison County, Michigan. There is one problem with that. |
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I know this was days ago, but I'm wondering if there will be more lawsuits from donors.
Not like the one linked, where he is just pissing about the results and access, but by those who donated to help investigate claims of fraud only to find out later that Trump (and those running the PACs) knew all along that there was no voter fraud. |
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There is some absolute comedy gold in the Michigan "hearing". Rhinestones. 85 degrees. Obama's reign of destruction.
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I think of them more as happeningsWP than hearings. They're basically malignant performance art.
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Trump Tweets
In Arizona, it turns out that 3% of the votes cast in the 100 count vote sampling were tainted or worse. This would be, if carried forward, approximately 90,000 votes more than we would need to win the State. Now we were granted a much larger sample to work with. Wow! HAPPENING NOW! @OANN Quote Tweet One America News @OANN #TODAY: President Trump's legal team is set to hold a hearing in Mich. on election integrity. @OANN will provide full coverage starting at 6 p.m. EST / 3 p.m PST! #OANN |
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Trump Retweeted
Arizona Republican Party @AZGOP In today's update, Chairwoman @kelliwardaz announces the findings from our investigation of 100 duplicate ballots, in which TWO votes were discovered to have been altered and removed from President @realDonaldTrump's total. |
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