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13th June 2022, 02:29 PM | #1 |
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Trump election conspiracy theories - the RETURN
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14th June 2022, 07:11 AM | #2 |
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Meanwhile, Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota combined have 142 counties and 2.2 million.
If Biden got only 60% of the votes in Cook and LA counties, and didn't get any votes in Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota, he would have only won 2/144 counties and would have 800 000 more votes. I can't believe we even need to have this conversation. The "question" is so completely infantile that it is beneath a grade schooler. How hard is it to recognize that not all counties are equal and votes are not spread equally? |
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15th June 2022, 09:56 AM | #3 |
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Epoch Times is a propaganda organization funded by a cult and devoted to eroding democracy in America in order to further far right wing causes.
I posted on another thread how seditionist crackpot Lin Wood turned out to be a Moon landing denier. He posted the old stupid meme about how there was no “trunk” for the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the LM, although about two minutes of checking could have set him straight. It looks like the poster who regurgitated the “invalid ballots” lie did exactly as much checking to verify this claim, i.e., none. But that’s what happens when you belong to a cult that wants to overthrow a democracy for which so many have fought, worked, and died. I wonder why he hates America so much? |
15th June 2022, 10:50 AM | #4 |
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21st June 2022, 11:40 PM | #5 |
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Not sure where the current discussion of Dominion lawsuit is going, this seems a good thread for this. Dominion found the deep pockets they need to get 'billions':
Judge says Fox News's parent company must face Dominion's defamation lawsuit because of Rupert Murdoch's alleged role in pushing election lies
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And: OAN can't dodge Smartmatic's DC lawsuit over election conspiracy theories just because its headquarters is in California, judge rules
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22nd June 2022, 12:15 AM | #6 |
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The right -wing grift will never stop unless it stops paying so well.
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22nd June 2022, 01:03 PM | #7 |
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22nd June 2022, 04:31 PM | #8 |
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1. Justthenews is not a reliable news source. It deals in conspiracy theories, lies and misinformation, and promotes "The Big Lie"
2. A friend of mine once told me that John Solomon is not a journalist's **********... but I jumped to John's defence and said that he is. 3. The alleged 19,000 invalid ballots is pure fiction. This was product of the laughable "Cyber Ninjas" so called "election audit" - an audit carried out by a partisan Trump supporting group of conspiracy theorists who spent much of their time looking for bamboo fibres in a lame effort to prove that fake ballot papers came from China This bunch of morons, even with their obvious partisan bias, even though they kicked out any observers to monitor what they were doing, still managed to find that Biden had won 360 more votes than the county had awarded him in the official count!! The claim about the alleged 19,000 invalid votes comes from Cyber Ninjas' complete ignorance. Their first claim was that so-called invalid mail-in ballots had come from people who had moved. They had drawn that conclusion after analyzing names and years of birth, with the help of a third-party commercial database. Yes, you read that correctly - they didn't use the electoral rolls, they used a commercial advertising database. These idiots failed to understand that Maricopa is Arizona's most populous county. They ignored the reality that in such a large county, there will be multiple people with the same name, born in the same year. When county officials reviewed their findings, they used more data, including full names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, state-issued IDs, presidential election voting histories, signatures and, in some cases, parents' last names and voters' occupations. They ended up with a different number..... three. Three invalid ballots were counted. Their second claim was that late arriving ballots were counted that should not have been. Again, this comes from complete ignorance of how elections are run, in this case based on a total lack of knowledge or understanding of Arizona's early-voting laws and how ballot envelopes had been scanned. Under Arizona election laws, ballot requests must be received by 5pm, eleven days before Election Day, and the voted ballots must be received back by 7pm on Election Day. They are NOT scanned until some time after 7pm election day. The Cyber Ninjas morons thought that they had to be scanned on election day, so they declared any ballots not scanned by midnight on election day "invalid", even though they were still counting votes well into the next day!! There is a lesson for you here, which you will, of course, ignore. You conspiracy theorists talk a big game about "doing your own research"... but it seems you haven't done any at all. It took me about five minutes to find the information I needed to debunk your bull-**** |
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23rd June 2022, 09:36 AM | #9 |
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24th June 2022, 01:12 AM | #10 |
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24th June 2022, 02:57 PM | #11 |
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Biden-won counties are home to 67 million more Americans than Trump-won counties
Didn't take long to find that. |
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24th June 2022, 03:23 PM | #12 |
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And you can BS with phony statistics, just like you can with anything else.
I think these lame attempts to prove a a stolen election by using bad stastics just show the truth of Mark Twain's famous statement, about there being liars, damned liars, and statisticians.... |
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27th June 2022, 10:13 AM | #13 |
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The whole number of counties vs number of voters can be summed up thusly:
Land doesn't vote. People do (there's even a handy GIF). |
28th June 2022, 12:09 PM | #14 |
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28th June 2022, 04:25 PM | #15 |
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28th June 2022, 05:27 PM | #16 |
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29th June 2022, 12:15 AM | #17 |
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29th June 2022, 03:24 AM | #18 |
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I see Scott Adams is doing his best to be named as a co-respondent in the Dominion lawsuit this week.
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29th June 2022, 04:27 AM | #19 |
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1st July 2022, 10:27 AM | #20 |
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Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦
@RonFilipkowski Mike Lindell testified before a LA Senate Committee on voting. He claims one piece of evidence he has that there was fraud is that he investigated votes from overseas military and their families from 2020 and so far 100% of them were tallied for Biden. https://mobile.twitter.com/ronfilipk...33877806419969 |
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3rd July 2022, 02:36 PM | #21 |
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3rd July 2022, 03:25 PM | #22 |
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And every Republican on that committee totally believes him.
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8th July 2022, 06:16 AM | #23 |
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"Australian newspapers are reporting that the 2020 US election was overturned weeks ago!"
Man these people are something else. Omg guys it’s habbening!!! (reddit.com) |
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8th July 2022, 02:19 PM | #24 |
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10th July 2022, 06:18 AM | #25 |
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See new Tweets
Conversation Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski Mike Lindell has a new date now to get Trump reinstated: “Aug 20-21. The biggest event in this country in our lifetimes. I believe it’s the most important event ever! .. Live-streamed to the world.” https://mobile.twitter.com/RonFilipk...81277232025600 |
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10th July 2022, 06:35 AM | #26 |
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I'm willing to take that bet - is Lindell?
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10th July 2022, 07:28 AM | #27 |
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Gotta keep that grift going...
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10th July 2022, 08:16 AM | #28 |
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If he's lucky he'll have a pillow left to face-plant into.
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10th July 2022, 11:50 AM | #29 |
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10th July 2022, 01:04 PM | #30 |
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10th July 2022, 01:06 PM | #31 |
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10th July 2022, 01:40 PM | #32 |
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I would suggest that since secret balloting is the rule, anyone who claims to know who voted what way should be considered either a liar or a criminal. It is true, of course, as usual, that there is no explicit Constitutional guarantee of voting secrecy, but it is a pretty well established principle, and is the law in many states and situations.
Not, of course, that it's any news that Lindell is a raging *******, but he ought to be vilified as an invader too. |
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17th July 2022, 09:18 AM | #33 |
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James O'Keefe continues to face-plant in court.
Project Veritas Must Face Defamation Suit Alleging It Ran ‘Fabricated’ Voter Fraud Claims in Pennsylvania, Judge Rules (lawandcrime.com)
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3rd August 2022, 08:44 PM | #34 |
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To poke at another consequence here...
Pro-Trump activists swamp election officials with sprawling records requests |
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19th August 2022, 06:26 AM | #35 |
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After two years and who knows how many millions spent Florida Desantis cultists proudly announce they have found …. 20 cases of voter fraud….all of them hard-case felons who registered not know there were exceptions to allowing felons to vote.
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19th August 2022, 07:17 AM | #36 |
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Plot twist: they all voted for Trump.
Also: HERE WE GO AGAIN: Mike Lindell is hosting a two-day summit about 2020 voter fraud (reddit.com) |
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19th August 2022, 10:01 PM | #37 |
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20th August 2022, 07:33 AM | #38 |
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And here we are, on August the 20th, has Trump been somehow reinstated as President yet?
I realize there's still another 38 and a half hours (Central Daylight Time) until the end of August 21st, but I'm really not seeing this unprecedented event re-Presidenting Trump before the weekends close. |
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20th August 2022, 08:39 AM | #39 |
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20th August 2022, 04:45 PM | #40 |
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