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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn my fucked up brain I still just can't buy that the election was legitimate.
?s. How many democrats were removed from voting rolls?
How many votes were flipped and or not counted?
Explain to me the 600,000 bullet ballots that Trump got?
What was Musk doing compiling a d-base list of votes that could be brought in
as needed that could effect the outcome of the election?
Did Musks Star Link connections to central tabulators have anything to do with the outcome?
How come in every election post the overturning of Roe v Wade voters overwhelmingly supported
a womans right to control her own body but not that one?
Why was Trump acting like he already had it in the bag when he said on Sept. 4th, we dont need
anymore votes, masturbated a mic stand and then acted like he was giving a blow job to the
microphone, or when he went to Latrobe, PA and talked about the size of Arnold Palmers dick?
How come not one time (or at least to my weak mind and faulty memory) did the media
mention that the price of eggs was higher because we have lost > 100,000,00 chickens because
of Avian influenza (bird flu)?
And how many racist, sexist, and mouth breathing dumb fucks does this country really have?
We have people who have been so brain washed they really think Anthony Fauci paid for a
lab in Wuhan, China to develop the C-19 corona virus even though evolutionary biologists who
looked at the virus genome (RNA for those playing @ home) and traced it back to the wet markets
in Wuhan.
How did Trump win the Native American vote even though nobody has done more for Native
Americans then Joe Biden or has been more hostile to them then Donald Trump.
How did the voters of Arizona vote for Trump President but then vote for a democrat as US Senator?
(I know Lake is a no good shit bag.)
Sorry to
How come the whole thing doesnt pass my smell test? Or does botany =
BlueTsunami2018
(4,107 posts)Sad to say.
This piece of trash will be sworn in on the 20th.
OnionPatch
(6,246 posts)It matters to know how it was done so we can avoid it happening again.
BlueTsunami2018
(4,107 posts)Who is going to discover the method? Who would do anything about it should this actually be true? These fucks will just legalize it.
HereForTheParty
(383 posts)If the things you talked about had happened, I'm sure the Harris team would have pursued it.
KPN
(16,208 posts)you sure?
Just wondering because I really would like to be sure.
OnionPatch
(6,246 posts)whether or not we could prove it, we need to know if there was a way they could have done it. Officially, she lost and has no proof to contest, and that makes sense that she doesn't. But that doesn't mean we, the Democrats, shouldn't be examining any way in the system in which they could have done it, (because if there was a way, I have not a shred of doubt they would) and fix it so our system is safer for next time.
Charging Triceratops
(377 posts)Especially the part of the incompetent, compromised media and its grocery prices obsession.
They never mentioned grocery companies' record profits.
Never.
AllaN01Bear
(23,535 posts)onecaliberal
(36,594 posts)Wuddles440
(1,461 posts)the obscene profits being generated yearly by the petroleum industry.
rasputin1952
(83,348 posts)Emile
(31,291 posts)an election.
yellow dahlia
(396 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(51,706 posts)whopis01
(3,752 posts)People have had 4 years since then to figure out how to get him back in office as a chaos creating, babbling, empty figurehead. The perfect distraction and enabler for them to do whatever they want for the next four years.
He is a bumbling, incompetent fool. He is also an incredibly valuable, powerful tool for those that are wielding him.
I dont know if the election was legitimate or not. It doesnt matter at this point.
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,706 posts)The Grand Illuminist
(1,719 posts)If you own a business, deny them service. Demand voter registration cards be at ready. There is a start.
Meadowoak
(6,318 posts)Emmanuel Macron says they have evidence that he meddled in elections all over the world. I'm really hoping that Germany has figured out exactly what he did there, so maybe we can look to see if that same thing was done here, all before inauguration.
liberalla
(10,127 posts)That would be most helpful for other countries to know....
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,706 posts)... compared to what he is claimed to have said? And perhaps some evidence of actual instances (beyond Muck simply making tweets).
Wiz Imp
(2,619 posts)French President Macron Accuses Elon Musk Of Meddling In Europe ElectionsMacron warned of the dangerous consequences of concentrating unchecked power in the hands of a few wealthy individuals.
French President Emmanuel Macron has lambasted Elon Musk for his involvement in European politics, accusing the tech mogul of intervening directly in elections across the continent, including next month's snap federal polls in Germany.
During an address on foreign policy in Paris, Macron didn't name Musk but made a pointed reference to the billionaire's actions, highlighting concerns over his alleged support for Germany's far-right AfD party. "Who could have imagined, 10 years ago, that the owner of one of the world's largest social networks would intervene directly in elections, including in Germany?" Macron said, according to the Associated Press.
The French President targeted Musk, accusing the X owner of promoting a "new reactionary international" movement. Macron warned of the dangerous consequences of concentrating unchecked power in the hands of a few wealthy individuals, stressing the destabilising effect such power could have on democratic systems.
According to the AP report, Macron also perceived Musk's actions as a challenge to Europe's democratic values and unity, advocating for greater resilience in the face of external threats to the continent's stability. ---(snip)----
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,706 posts)Making direct statements and using censorship and account control is "interference".
"Rigging" as commonly defined means to alter, create, or destroy actual votes in the recording, tabulating or transmission phases.
I thought this was commonly understood. But people have been throwing around "rigging" as if it covers both kinds of influence.
Wiz Imp
(2,619 posts)Did it influence the results? No question. Is it illegal? When done by a foreign government, it may be. The problem is it is very hard to prove and prosecute as the 2016 election showed since a lot of the influence is designed to be subliminal (disinformation & conspiracy theories posted on social media). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_electoral_intervention . But note, Russia (along with many other countries) has been engaged in trying to interfere and influence elections, particularly throughout Europe, for decades. And make no mistake, the US has been engaged in doing this in other countries as well. What Musk is doing in Europe now is underhanded and unethical and maybe even illegal at some levels, but he is not "rigging" elections, just trying to ensure the results are to his liking. It needs to be called out when it happens which is why Macron is speaking out but it is very hard to prevent altogether.
Wiz Imp
(2,619 posts)He was accused of interfering in the election by trying to influence the results by posting far right conspiracy theories.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/01/08/elon-musk-european-politics/77503561007/
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/30/europe/germany-elon-musk-election-influence/index.html
dem4decades
(12,059 posts)Botany
(72,785 posts)But not his teachings.
The 50 + year dumbing down of America by Republican controlled media has its costs.
In Columbus, OH in a town about 40 miles west of here there is a Fox affiliated classic
rock station that ran ads all the time that had something like Is Bidenomics hurting you
even though a huge chip manufacturing plant is going in right there that is bringing in
thousands of good paying jobs including the construction workers thanks to Bidens Chip
Act.
Ohioboy
(3,535 posts)Botany
(72,785 posts). and both he and the Republican Governor showed up to the ground breaking.
rubbersole
(8,783 posts)...and tsf is is ripped and mentally sharp. You wouldn't believe how healthy he is until you see him in his Superman outfit on the nft cards. That red tie is hiding how good he looks...naked.
(Sorry for those who just ate breakfast. )
cadoman
(1,009 posts)The founding fathers limited the use of democracy in our republic to the act of selecting executives, representatives, and judges.
The people aren't given any direct power because it would place too much power directly in the hands of folks as you describe, and worse.
So yeah we're stuck with TFG for four years, but we have two years to ramp up Senate and House campaigns that block what he can do. That 2026 election is critical to focus on.
whathehell
(29,911 posts)Self- hatred....THAT will work.
Sorry, but I don't think the citizens of any country are innately more inclined to racism, stupidity, or selfishness than others. .As I'd guess most here know, an attempt to broadbrush the people of another country this way would be hidden for bigotry...Just sayin'.
Think. Again.
(19,697 posts)...but our position on this election is an unwinnable battle.
That being said we must continue to challenge the faults in our election systems in the hope that some day we will be able to elect leaders that the majority of the American public actually want to elect.
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Kaleva
(38,712 posts)You'll have to find them yourself.
Harris conceded. Dems in Congress accepted the EC vote.
One can decide that a diagnosis of cancer isn't legit and refuse to accept it but that won't change anything. It might even hasten one's death as they won't take the necessary measures that might put the cancer in remission.
malaise
(279,414 posts)Doubting malaise
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,706 posts)In my view, stolen is possible but highly unlikely given what little I know. But I also know there are things I don't know.
For the time being there is nothing to be done about it until real evidence comes forward of theft if it was actually stolen.
Blue_Tires
(57,208 posts)Which led me to believe the fix was in all along. Sadly all I have is circumstantial stuff and nothing concrete; but when you start piecing together all this circumstantial stuff, it adds up to a very ugly picture... 😔
yellow dahlia
(396 posts)I am glad some of us are putting the info out there, and discussing it.
KS Toronado
(19,906 posts)for information on how TSF/Musk stole the election and make the reward and other benefits so
great someone would bite at having a luxury hide-a-way with secret service protection for life .
Maybe we still can, what would it hurt to try?
ScratchCat
(2,506 posts)Too many coincidences and inconsistencies. I have pointed out time and time again that both Rick Scott and Corey Simon won their races in Florida with 57% when no poll had them winning in such a landslide. "Coincidentally", both ballot initiatives that Governor DeSantis illegally campaigned against fell short at.... 57%. Not to mention CNN's own exit poll showed a third of Harris voters were "voting against the other candidate rather than for their own" which means the bulk of that third were Republicans not voting for Trump.
One can sit here all day and blame "sexism", "bigotry" or whatever as why certain people didn't vote for Harris. I can accept some of that. But it doesn't explain away all the votes Trump allegedly got from people who voting for him would make no sense.
I reluctantly conclude they switched enough votes with software hacks to change the outcome.
yellow dahlia
(396 posts)DENVERPOPS
(10,301 posts)ever since the 2000 and 2004 elections. Remember when the CEO of EIS voting machines came out and stated that he guaranteed WBush was going to win??????????
His machines and the compilers were highly suspect of blatant fraud.......
One of Hitler's henchman once stated: It's not the Voting, it's who ever COUNTS the votes that matters......
Every point raised, every question asked in the comment was true.........
yellow dahlia
(396 posts)fucked up at all. What if it's only the election that was fucked up?
I am asking the same questions...over and over.
There are so many examples of down ballots that went Democratic, but the grifter won the state. It is not believable.
To me the comments about not needing votes amounts to a confession. And Musk's involvement with data!!!??? They're doing it all in plain sight.
And on election day - there were bomb scares at polling places, in certain precincts. Talk about election interference! Some of those polling places didn't reopen.
There are a lot of variables. None of it adds up. None of it is logical.
I also think that the grifter used Musk's capabilities with data to make sure he got "the popular vote", because of his fragile ego.
Your brain sounds logical to me.
spapeggy
(130 posts)Trump wanted to shove it in the faces of his detractors. Its why hes trying to get people to dc for his coronation.
Callie1979
(389 posts)Trump lost but BOTH Senate seats were won by the GOP candidates (before the runoffs; which trump himself lost)
Same thing happened in Wisconsin; Ron Johnson explained it on video when he didnt know he was being recorded.
People voted AGAINST trump but FOR their senator & reps
live love laugh
(14,633 posts)Botany
(72,785 posts)Just saying.
Callie1979
(389 posts)And even if it HAD been the numbers wouldnt match up with the records taken by the polling precincts.
Botany
(72,785 posts)I know that voting machines are not connected to the internet but security flaws in
them do really exist and that was proven in rigorous testing. Those flaws might have
been fixed by now. However in contesting the 2020 vote some of Trumps supports
got a hold of voting machines hardware and software what they did with it is an unknown.
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/22486-document-05-jennifer-l-brunner-ohio-secretary
Callie1979
(389 posts)IbogaProject
(3,896 posts)But I think there is distracting misinformation to deflect from the actual theft. There were bomb threats in blue precincts including some voting tech areas briefly vacated. Some funny stuff w a tabulator in State College PA. 100K ballots not tabulated in a very blue precinct in Wisconsin. And his final swing state edge was ~280k. But then we had a Billionaire, Mark Cuban pulling Kamala to the center with our strategy to court moderate GOP women. The fact is we didn't even try and fail to reverse or even talk about the 2017 tax "cuts", which have actually been a middle class tax hike. Our tax code has become mostly regressive over 40 years but our reps and Senators rarely speak of it and never try to fix it. Our social security payroll tax has been mismanaged and left the majority of America worse off. I get angered when all that is offered on health care are publicity stunts. Top ten medicare meds get their prices negoiated. Cap on insulin for medicare but not elsewhere and so on. Having said that Joe was amazing his first year and while below his ask and what should have been passed was still huge, transformative and will continue to help. But it was like a large bandaid on a festering infection. Problem is our Senators and Reps get paid several times the median wages and have other benefits that pull them away from our daily struggles and the the fundraising, lobbying and angling for jobs after all dilute many hopeful voices. We are so doomed if one or more catastrophic events happen the next two years. Big trouble even withbout those just with these fools running wild.
AllaN01Bear
(23,535 posts)liberalla
(10,127 posts)Ray Bruns
(4,781 posts)Too many.
BonnieJW
(2,628 posts)I always will. We won they cheated as usual. This time they had more advanced tech and maybe joe was told there was nothing to be done.
Callie1979
(389 posts)Irish_Dem
(60,612 posts)rubbersole
(8,783 posts)It's only going to get worse. tsf is out getting all the media attention while the oligarchs are backing up the semis to Ft. Knox. It's going to be hard to stop.
bonniebgood
(951 posts)yellow dahlia
(396 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(51,706 posts)magicarpet
(17,209 posts)..... we are handing it to them on a sterling silver platter while wearing our fancy tuxedo and white butler's gloves.
magicarpet
(17,209 posts)yellow dahlia
(396 posts)Painful to watch.
bucolic_frolic
(47,896 posts)Big Oligarch Spheres of Influence? And little old Democrats and Harris were not important enough to participate?
I wouldn't say it's impossible.
Farmer-Rick
(11,579 posts)There is no doubt about it. But who cares? Aside from people here, there isn't a peep from anyone else.
Really, the Dems seem fine with it. The American voters aren't protesting, and our corporate owned "news" media is business as usual. It seems this is the new way to win elections. Much like when Putin wins every election.
We are no longer a democracy. The American experiment is done, finished, over. We are a dictator led collection of oligarchs or poligarchs commonly known as a kleptocracy. The US is an autocratic and nepotist based government in which external oversight does not exist.
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,706 posts)Farmer-Rick
(11,579 posts)But no investigations. So, it allows for plausible deniability and ignoring the problem.
What evidence do we have that Venezuela's presidential election was rigged? What evidence do we have that Putin rigged most all his elections? What evidence is there of Ferdinand Marcos rigged elections?
None of those fraudulent elections had much in the way of evidence. It's mostly statistically weird results and rumors. Rarely is it a smoking gun or obviously direct evidence. Dictators all over the world have been rigging elections with no repercussion because it is so easy to hide when you never investigate or do audits of actual elections.
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,706 posts)Farmer-Rick
(11,579 posts)Of any dictator's rigged elections?
If you don't investigate, you have no evidence. If you don't do audits by outside sources, you get no evidence. Every dictator in the world knows this.
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,706 posts)No government of integrity launches high profile high consequence investigations on just say-so and innuendo and speculation. That's all there is so far.
Until you post your plentiful and credible evidence that you are withholding from us because ... because it is too credible?
Farmer-Rick
(11,579 posts)And investigate concerns of rigged elections. It's very common especially with computerized voting.
That's how most fraudulent elections are discovered. There is plenty of probable cause for investigation into the 2025 presidential election. Probable cause is a type of evidence and is very credible. It is used regularly in police work.
Probable cause is the basis for most police investigations. To get more direct evidence an investigation has to be done. If an investigation were ever to be completed, there would be plenty of evidence for prosecution.
Here is probable cause, which is a form of evidence, for investigation into the rigged 2025 presidential election:
Russian initiated bomb threats at polls, uptick in rejected ballots, group of prominent computer scientists and election security experts raised alarm over breaches of voting system software, and everything the original poster has explained.
There is evidence and creditable evidence to initiate an investigation.
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,706 posts)Speculation without any evidence is not probable cause.
Probable cause is not evidence. Evidence makes for determinations of probable cause.
For there to be probable cause, there has to be something that went wrong. You haven't posted any evidence that anything went wrong. There will always be a few things here and there that go wrong, but without evidence of numbers of votes that credibly might have been affected by a specific incident and/or other evidence, then there is no validity to the claim that even something went wrong, let alone that there was malfeasance.
1) A couple of bomb threats slow things down and make barely a ripple on results. Maybe a few dozen people didn't wait or didn't come back.
2) There have been general alarms about breaches or breachable voting system software, but no evidence of it happening much or of it affecting votes much.
3) You have posted no evidence of uptick in reject ballots. You don't even say how significant it is.
You have only posted allegations here, not evidence. No numbers, no places, no people, no sources, no dates, no companies. Nothing.
Farmer-Rick
(11,579 posts)Probable cause is considered a legal standard that refers to a level of evidence sufficient to lead a reasonable person to believe that a crime has been committed, meaning it is essentially a type of evidence, but it falls between "reasonable suspicion" and the level of evidence needed for a conviction.
The evidence mentioned in the original post can also be considered allegations of sort.
You seem to think probable cause has to be equal to evidence presented to convict a person of a crime. They are different standards.
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,706 posts)And yes, there are only allegations in the Original Post. Are you trying to pull the "SEE THEY DO IT TOO" gambit?
There is no evidence in the OP.
And you think incorrectly about what I think because you make illogical leaps which is why we still have not see any evidence from you, despite your claim the evidence is "plentiful".
I do not think probable cause is equal to evidence presented to convict some one. Just stop that shit.
The evidence required for probable cause is a lower standard, but it still requires evidence.
You have nothing.
Farmer-Rick
(11,579 posts)So, I'm done with your baseless arguments. I can not make sense out of half of what you write.
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,706 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(51,706 posts)Moreover, the grand jury uses the probable cause standard to determine whether or not to issue a criminal indictment. The principle behind the probable cause standard is to limit the power of authorities to conduct unlawful search and seizure of person and property, and to promote formal, forensic procedures for gathering lawful evidence for the prosecution of the arrested criminal.[3] In the case of Berger v. New York (1967), the Supreme Court said that the purpose of the probable-cause requirement of the Fourth Amendment is to keep the state out of Constitutionally protected areas until the state has reason to believe that a specific crime is being committed or has been committed.[4] The term of criminal law, the probable cause standard is stipulated in the text of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Moreover, in U.S. immigration law, the term reason to believe is equivalent to the probable cause standard of criminal law,[5] and should not be confused with reasonable suspicion, which is the legal criterion required to perform a Terry stop in the U.S.
You have provide no facts, no evidence, no oaths, no affirmations and no reason to believe.
You have only asserted allegations, innuendo, and speculation.
You have given nothing because you have nothing. No numbers, no places, no people, no sources, no dates, no companies. Nothing.
Farmer-Rick
(11,579 posts)Fair and square. The thought that Trump rigged the elections really seems to upset you. Do all his other lies and frauds upset you as much?
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,706 posts)Farmer-Rick
(11,579 posts)Here's another thing about what I know about Trump that will make you angry.
Trump is a pedophile and always has been.
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,706 posts)145. You really, really want to believe Trump won
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Wed Jan 8, 2025, 07:51 PM
Fair and square. The thought that Trump rigged the elections really seems to upset you. Do all his other lies and frauds upset you as much?
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Bernardo de La Paz
(51,706 posts)Evidence first and then the conclusion.
You have presented no evidence.
Farmer-Rick
(11,579 posts)Posting the most words. You are wrong.
There is probably cause to investigate the election.
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,706 posts)Farmer-Rick
(11,579 posts)The post you keep replying to also lists probable causes for an investigation into the election.
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,706 posts)Farmer-Rick
(11,579 posts)No one will ever hold pedo Trump accountable for any of his frauds. He'll go crazy before any investigation into all of his election fraud is ever completed.
yellow dahlia
(396 posts)Deductive reasoning is logic.
Don't feel like going back and forth with someone in an argument, but got your back.
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,706 posts)And even circumstantial evidence may or may not be sufficient to meet the three levels: suspicion, probable cause, or conviction.
So far we only have allegations and innuendo.
If you got the poster's back, you would have provided some names or numbers or companies or locations. Crickets.
Farmer-Rick
(11,579 posts)But you refuse to see it. I'm not going to argue every bit of evidence with you, one by one. There is enough to start an investigation. You won't get smoking gun evidence, the kind that can never be explained except by the crime itself, if you don't investigate.
And that's the standard you want to set for the investigation. And it's how Trump gets away with everything. People claim no matter what the evidence is, that it's not enough to convict the pedophile. Well, if you never do an investigation, you never get enough evidence to convict.
And yeah, I get it, you alerted on me.
Unladen Swallow
(491 posts)but you literally cannot name one single shred.
Farmer-Rick
(11,579 posts)I think the original poster did a fine job of listening most all the probable cause to initiate a full investigation. But it will never be enough evidence for an investigation in your mind. So I'm not going to argue with you over it piece by piece.
The evidence you want can only be obtained by a full investigation. Of course the Nazis in control aren't going to allow that.
It's not that I can't list all the probable cause evidence, it's that I won't.
Abnredleg
(1,016 posts)Farmer-Rick
(11,579 posts)They audit to certify machines or systems but not to ensure accuracy.
But it is good that some amount of auditing is done.
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,706 posts)Abnredleg
(1,016 posts)By hand counting batches of paper ballots and comparing the count to the tabulator counts. This is a fairly recent trend as more states adopt paper ballots.
Farmer-Rick
(11,579 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(51,706 posts)Abnredleg
(1,016 posts)Its called a risk limiting audit.
https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dos/newsroom/department-of-state-begins-risk-limiting-audit-of-2024-general-e.html
https://www.michigan.gov/sos/resources/news/2021/01/11/statewide-risk-limiting-election-audit-process-to-begin-at-11-a-m-
https://www.ncsbe.gov/news/press-releases/2021/11/23/state-board-certifies-november-municipal-elections
https://sos.ga.gov/news/georgias-2024-statewide-risk-limiting-audit-confirms-voting-system-accuracy
https://informingdemocracy.substack.com/p/the-auditing-processes-in-az-ga-mi
DaveDuhRave
(18 posts)Last edited Wed Jan 8, 2025, 05:04 PM - Edit history (1)
With all the capital Musk and the rest had available they just flooded Tik-Tok, Facebook, X, etc with disinformation targeting the MAGA easily enough to swing the vote. They bought it and all the billionaires are now ponying up to him to take advantage of it.
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,706 posts)yellow dahlia
(396 posts)Wish more were listening.
Chicagogrl1
(486 posts)I dont understand why the Dem leadership didnt question this outcome more. I agree. It seems like he was acting as though we had it in the bag months prior to the election. It just doesnt pass the smell test in my opinion. unless the Democrats start acting like fighters, nothing will improve
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,706 posts)I don't know, but since I don't think there is credible evidence my best guess is that "the Dem leadership" don't have credible evidence either.
Wiz Imp
(2,619 posts)Last edited Wed Jan 8, 2025, 11:14 PM - Edit history (1)
Bottom line is that most people here who are so sure that the election was stolen believe so primarily because they didn't like the result. They can't believe that there would be so many people supporting Trump, etc., therefore it must have been stolen. Basically the same arguments MAGA made about 2020. Feeling something wasn't right about the election is perfectly natural, and an opinion shared by millions. But until one can present evidence of something illegal or nefarious being done to change the results, that is all it is - a feeling. I probably shouldn't be surprised, but I am, that so many here continue to insist that there is plenty of evidence that shows it was stolen, yet when pressed to show that evidence are unable to do so (because it doesn't actually exist).
hadEnuf
(2,842 posts)Festivito
(13,624 posts)How many
were given the wrong date?
were told to return to clerk's office to prove you provisional valid?
were not told the above?
were dismayed by memes?
were dismayed by targeted memes?
were upset by text messages from Dems, only it wasn't Dems sending texts.
and on and on and on.
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,706 posts)In the long run, the real answer might be kind of unknowable or come out years/decades later. Spinning the hamster wheel all that time is not healthy.
Evidence might surface before then, one way or the other, so keep an open and alert mind. Those two things are definitely healthy.
Botany
(72,785 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(51,706 posts)By your experience you have good reason to be alert, but not much reason at this point to be alarmed or convinced. The severity of the consequences of it being stolen (extremely severe in my view), if it were the case, do not increase the weight of possible evidence or tip the balance at all.
So, continue to be alert, but fret not because fretting is not healthy.
DV1
(95 posts)then there are people who know about it in detail and will exact justice at the proper time. This is the way it's always been done. Those are the people that Trump and Musk will always be concerned about.
By the way, your brain is not messed up for thinking such.
travelingthrulife
(1,083 posts)Seems like votes were added or deleted all across the board with every voting group.
Kid Berwyn
(18,587 posts)The Tech Bro billionaires and Putins GRU hacked it seamlessly, as they say.
Botany
(72,785 posts)N/t
Kid Berwyn
(18,587 posts)
to usher in the Turd Reich.
Hope22
(3,239 posts)That being said We have been told from day one to stop the thinking. The fact that T said he was certain PA was rigged for weeks before the election and we didnt count it post election is irresponsible. Obviously people dont remember when the Rs stole Ohio and the election. Why have we stopped looking. It isnt bad to re-count the votes its in that counting that elections stay true. I too think Harris or whoever was in charge was not a good steward of our election. The man said he didnt need any more votes that he had plenty and that was before Election Day!
hadEnuf
(2,842 posts)I have some serious doubts about the neat little election package we were all handed on November 6th. The whole thing was basically wrapped up by midnight. The worst POTUS in the nation's history just sails to victory for an unprecedented 2nd time after being thrown out by a landslide 4 years earlier, all during a current roaring economy set up by the current POTUS?
I'm just not buying it. Something really stinks about this whole thing.
Hope22
(3,239 posts)People just werent ready and some say she was black!! So many convenient rationalizations while throwing minorities and women under the bus!! I cant count the times that people out here said no women next time they lose every time!!! Disgusting!
Andy823
(11,535 posts)I don't buy it either!
yourout
(8,165 posts)Clouds Passing
(3,085 posts)It was bought and stolen by autocratic billionaires and trillionaire wannbes.
Oopsie Daisy
(4,646 posts)Enough said?
Abnredleg
(1,016 posts)Given voting equipment is not connected to the Internet. The story concerning Starlink that was posted on this site referred to using it to connect to voter registration systems - the election officials in that jurisdiction confirmed in a follow up story that the voting equipment is air gapped.
questionseverything
(10,313 posts)They have gotten into the nsa, treasury, the government admits they dont know the extent of the problem
But according to you election boards have better cybersecurity than the nsa or treasury
🤷♀️
Abnredleg
(1,016 posts)All government agencies have different networks, with public facing networks being proven vulnerable to hacking. Thats why these agencies keep their most sensitive information on very tightly controlled networks or on air gapped computers. Its the same reason election equipment is not connected to the Internet , and that certified election equipment do not have modems to prevent inadvertent access. All the examples of Chinese hacking were done by gaining access over networks - voting equipment that is not connected to a network has to be physically accessed, and thus you cant compare the two.
Its not that election boards are necessarily better at security than the NSA, only that election best practices ensure that this equipment is air-gapped. Together with stringent physical security, it makes gaining access to voting equipment next to impossible. And given that there are over 3,700 different counties, all of which are independently run, gaining to access to enough voting machines to perpetuate a wide scale fraud is very problematic. And any fraud was to occur, the widespread use of paper ballots and new auditing procedures will reveal it.
questionseverything
(10,313 posts)You are a hoot!🦉
Abnredleg
(1,016 posts)The votes are tabulated at the precinct level, OKd by the election officials and the observers from all the political parties, and are then uploaded to the States BOE reporting system. Any discrepancies will be immediately apparent because all the election officials at the precincts have to do is compare their numbers with what is reported. Not to mention that all numbers reported by the State BOEs are unofficial until certification is complete, something that entails multiple types of audits.
Southern_gent
(53 posts)Saying my router rewrote my email.. Starlink doesnt work the way you think it does.
ananda
(31,040 posts)Totally agree.
INdemo
(7,021 posts)I think somehow the 250 mill from Musk wond the electio
relayerbob
(7,073 posts)There was not a legit vote count. Someday, someone will write a book about it and make a mint.
Initech
(102,774 posts)We know Elon and Putin schemed to flip the election, like theyve been flipping so many around the world. Its truly frightening what they are up to.
JohnSJ
(96,894 posts)is prevalent in the country, and there you have it.
In all probability a lot of people are going to pay a very heavy price for their idiocy.
We lost over a million people in 2016 because of their ignorance, and because of their STUPIDITY on November 5, 2020 it very likely this will be a lot worse.
P. T. Barnum said best about the American populace, "A sucker is born every minute".
kimbutgar
(23,777 posts)I saw this meme yesterday and I cant get it out of my mind. This election stinks to high heaven.
https://postimg.cc/dh155QNS
Im thinking about making a t shirt NMLP ( Not my legitimate president ) to wear slyly for those in the know,
Mr.Bee
(447 posts)I remember someone saying this after vthe election and was called a conspiracy theorist!
Oh yeah, that was me...
Bengus81
(7,558 posts)Get real...if it was truly rigged Trump would have wanted a major victory,not some dinky squeak by win by a little over 2M votes. She didn't get the women voters in enough numbers and I still don't get that. Biden had a better women turnout.
Hope22
(3,239 posts)Thats one more than I need. Hes not an idiot. They knew what they needed. Also, about your logic ..rigged elections are not new. Many of us have lived through multiple stolen elections. Also no we arent just like them. So far I havent heard tapes of Harris or threatening election officials. I have seen evidence of state government making it harder and harder to vote though. I suspect this may be where part of the problem is. But recounts are not unpatriotic by any means.
ZRB
(264 posts)But lose we did, and across the board in all the swing states, many run by Democrats. I trust that those state-level Democrats enforced fair elections; we just fucking lost. This conspiracy crap just sounds like their side four years ago. It's a whole lot of cringe...
Omnipresent
(6,539 posts)So it did indeed, turn out to be a close race. Republicans used fear mongering while we used hope.
In the end, the public werent feeling hopeful.
TBF
(34,838 posts)whether it was out & out cheating or fiascos like bomb threats being called in IDK - but I don't believe that many people actually voted for him. If they did we are more fucked than we realize.
Wiz Imp
(2,619 posts)I assume that number comes from Charlie Spoonamore's Duty to Warn Letter where he said "Approximately 600,000 votes are for Donald Trump but with no down ballot choices." Part of the problem with his claims is he cited numbers but never provided actual raw data that proved the numbers he cited were accurate. Well, in reality the numbers he cited were garbage. He cited in that same letter the number of Trump only ballots were 7.2% of Trump's total votes. In reality, they were at most 2.3% of his total votes. He said in Nevada they were 5.5% of his total votes. In reality they were at most 2.7% of his total. He cited Utah as a non-swing state where there were less than 1000 "bullet ballots", yet there were 25000 more votes for President than there were for Senate in that state, so it looks like there were a significantly higher level of bullet ballots there than he claimed.
When these claims of bullet ballots first popped up, they were intriguing. But even with the limited amount of data Spoonamore actually shared publicly, it was very simple to prove his claims were total Bull Shit.
EdmondDantes_
(142 posts)The clown pushing the theory apparently failed basic addition and subtraction as his claim of 300,000 in North Carolina alone had the minor problem of there only being about 88,000 fewer votes for Governor than for President. You can do the math yourself.
https://apps.npr.org/2024-election-results/north-carolina.html?section=key-races
But there's also the question of how the guy got to the number of ballots that he (obviously inaccurately) claimed only had a vote for Trump. We have secret ballots. He had no way to know what he claimed.
Anther problem with your claim is that if someone went to the trouble of stealing the election, it would benefit Trump to have larger majorities. Why exactly wouldn't they have stolen down ticket elections? Instead you use Democrats winning elections as "evidence" that the presidential election was stolen. It's a theory that makes no sense.
You offered no reason to connect a lack of knowledge about egg prices and the election being stolen. It wouldn't make any votes change from what the voter intended. But then again a search turns up examples of the media pointing that out exactly.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/09/25/egg-prices-bird-flu/75385643007/
NJCher
(38,413 posts)there are so many aberrations that even if the one you're citing is mistaken, there are plenty of other table legs to hold up suspicions.
EdmondDantes_
(142 posts)I disproved the only thing that could be factually demonstrated. Just because someone has "suspicions" doesn't mean it's true. Lots of people think the world is flat, that the moon landing was fake, and Bigfoot is real. Do you give those suspicions any credence given the lack of evidence?
Look at this thread. There are people asking why audits weren't done, when they were done just like in 2020 and 2016 etc. People still claiming that Starlink was used to transmit votes while ignoring that no it wasn't and even if it was, it would require that all the election officials not checking the data. This would also require that a bunch of Democratic officials in states being either stupid or complicit.
NJCher
(38,413 posts)You just lost your argument right there. You never argue in absolutes, which you did with the use of "only."
You're no judge of what the body of literature, so to speak is. You have no idea how many sites are out there or how many arguments or scenarios are out there. I have an idea because I peruse them regularly and new ones pop up every day.
I didn't even bother reading your second paragraph because there's no redeeming what you did in the first.
NJCher
(38,413 posts)Thats a propagandist tactic.
Didnt you learn how to make an argument in English class? Apparently not.
dlilafae
(121 posts)I agree, the convict, thief, adulterer, etc. found a way to float back to the top. And, the Dems let him.
Grumpy Old Guy
(3,635 posts)I find it difficult to believe that Harris lost every swing state.
suegeo
(2,840 posts)He cheated in 2016 and Putin helped. Remember Hilliary Clinton calling him Putin's puppet?
Remember Bob Mueller's investigation, which pointed out some of the Russian assistance that the known liar and cheat took?
Recently, governments all over the planet are calling Elon Musk a shit head, election thief.
This was not a free and fair election. I say this as a woman, who is now a second class citizen in this county.
suegeo
(2,840 posts)His bro Jeb and the corrupt supreme court put that dumbass into the white house.
The second time shrub got elected, I think he cheated again. GovTech, some election guy's plane fell out of the sky.
I also think they fucked up with security around Sept 11th too. They Made it happen or let it happen.
Then, after we're traumatized, we really behind "the leader" who was not capable of keeping the population safe.
Unladen Swallow
(491 posts)that the government was responsible for Sept 11?
NJCher
(38,413 posts)effed up brain, you should have used the instead of the
Botany
(72,785 posts)and I should know.
Upthevibe
(9,329 posts)How did he "win" all of the swing states!?!?!
I 100% agree with you. I don't think he won...
stillcool
(32,839 posts)of sh*t the U.S. government denies, regardless of how incredulous it is, and the people who continue to believe it.
Bonx
(2,246 posts)or something!
Lokee11
(254 posts)You and I share the same affliction!
✊FDT!
Escape
(80 posts)Trump will eventually tell us.
Stealing the presidency of the United States would be his greatest achievement and he would consider it the greatest "business deal" of his life. (his daddy would be so proud)
His ego and vanity would dictate that he get credit for it.
vankuria
(942 posts)I wouldnt put anything past Musk, he bankrolled the entire election fiasco and wasnt gonna lose. That being said I think yes, there are that many stupid people around this country who voted for the felon. I read one of the most common questions googled on Election Day was, is Joe Biden running for president?, you mix that with Kamala not having the name recognition trump has, the ugly racist, misogynistic culture we live in and the media who let trump get away with talking like a bumbling moron and the much higher standards required for Democrats and in particular women of color, there you have it, were drowning in the stupid.
Linda ladeewolf
(516 posts)Youll find quite a few stories about it. People need to have more curiosity and less complacency.
Botany
(72,785 posts)Thanx for the tip about France.
bluestarone
(18,459 posts)From this day on I will NOT trust elections in America. ( i just cannot trust them) I do not know who has standing to request a COMPLETE election recount especially in BATTLEGROUND states. Our country needs this to take place. (donations could be made to pay for these recounts?) I not saying one way or another, BUT THIS needs to happen before the next election. I do wish Kamala would have just request one, just for the purpose of clearing the air. There i've said it. Scream if you choose, but that's how I feel.
yellow dahlia
(396 posts)Some of us were jumping up and down, and calling for paper ballot recounts, just after the election.
tritsofme
(18,736 posts)Or they are complete fools.
Do they know about it and choose to do or say nothing?
Or are random internet conspiracy theorists just better informed than they are?
sarisataka
(21,340 posts)remember those polls we ignored? They were warning us of what was coming. But we didn't like them, so we called them outliers, made up excuses and blamed the media.
When what they were warning us came to pass we were shocked, "How could this happen". Well it happened. Again.
totodeinhere
(13,410 posts)When a poll comes out that shows a Democrat losing, some people at DU, not all but some, instinctively throw shade at that poll. They call it an outlier, or they question the neutrality of the pollster, or they question the pollster's methodology or whatever. They just refuse to believe that a Democrat might be losing. Yet we know that Democrats lose elections all the time. That dynamic is inherent in a two-party system.
Aussie105
(6,542 posts)Throw in smear campaigns, attack ads, triggering low level mental fear and panic responses from low information voters, vote buying and rigging, and it is impossible.
Like the result? Nope.
Difficult to prove the results are questionable? Definitely.
Can you reverse the result or declare the election null-and-void? Nope.
Do you have to live with it? Well, what choice do you have?
valleyrogue
(1,263 posts)That in a nutshell is what happened.
H2O Man
(75,906 posts)I agree with you on everything except about Native Americans. First, among presidents, it was actually Richard Nixon who did the most for them. Second, they did not vote for the felon, they were voting for RFK Jr. If one takes an objective look at Robert's career, he has done more for Native People in north, central, and south America than any president or non-Native individual. While I do have lingering doubts about the election, I am also aware that there are areas where many Democrats are blinded by emotion. There have been OPs claiming that the Native American votes must have been stolen, because the choice was between a good president and a convicted felon. But that highlights the risks of taking shortcuts to the truth.
alittlelark
(18,932 posts)Its about distraction and showmanship. We will eventually find out how they did it - I hope its not too late.
Joinfortmill
(16,777 posts)90-percent
(6,910 posts)Did a great video about local republican officials disenfranchising dems throughout the country. Just vaporized legit voters by the millions. Each operative nuked maybe 30000 or 40000 dems all over the country. Voter disenfranchisement blown and on 98% nitromethane.
-90% jimmy
Hassler
(3,818 posts)Raising questions isn't a convincing argument.
OldBaldy1701E
(6,793 posts)It may be too late to worry about it, but I would not be the slightest bit surprised if, down the road, it is discovered that there were major shenanigans in this election. I have said before that the January 6th insurrection incident was more than what it appeared. It was a test. And, they learned more than we wanted them to.
Botany
(72,785 posts)How many republicans were willing to become phony electors and how many election deniers
went onto being voted into various government positions too?
hadEnuf
(2,842 posts)It's their M.O.
But it also gives us clues as to what they are up to. We should preemptively call them out every time they start pointing their shitty fingers.
yellow dahlia
(396 posts)"I know you are, but what am I?"
gopiscrap
(24,254 posts)DingleBerryNW
(16 posts)For me, results of this election didnt pass the smell test. However, at this point in time, the subject is moot. Now, we must fight.
ibegurpard
(16,889 posts)Including those in full control of some of the swing states.
Occams Razor: people are stupid and easily propagandized and we've ignored right wing dominance of online political and politically adjacent spaces.
Bluethroughu
(6,138 posts)B.See
(4,002 posts)and other maga passed laws that would have allowed them to even refuse and or reject results THEY didn't like...
it wasn't (legitimate).
It was pre-rigged in their favour and they knew it.
yankee87
(2,428 posts)No way he won. Now North Caroliana.
Evolve Dammit
(19,314 posts)It's a really daunting future with what was laughable in Bush/Cheney about "creating our own reality" to Kellyanne Conway's "alternate facts." There's 25 years (minimally) of intensive brainwashing which sadly has taken hold of over half the electorate.
tazcat
(37 posts)On tape at Madison sq center nazi rally and the dems aren't fighting for us so...
DET
(1,764 posts)What I dont understand is why no one is doing anything about it. No recounts, no investigations - absolutely nothing. There are enough credible red flags - including his previous coup attempt - to postpone the inauguration until a full investigation is conducted. Presidential oath
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
How can we possibly install an obvious traitor - again?
yellow dahlia
(396 posts)I too ask - how can this be? I copied and pasted my post from about ten days ago.
We are screaming the same refrain. I too ask - what can we do?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219856975
the nelm
(9 posts)can't stop myself from thinking about how after the 2020 election and all the hoopla about the "stolen" election and the reaction that followed. They've been scheming and planning since that time. They've taken over the election apparatus, by hook or by crook, in many states, they've managed to change election laws in their favor and lord knows what else that is unseen to the public eye. I just cannot trust these SOBs to not try and game the system. It's what they do and have been doing for years. And gotten away with it. I wouldn't trust these SOBs as far as I could throw them.
hadEnuf
(2,842 posts)n/t
The Wizard
(12,982 posts)Trump told his cult that voting by mail was illegitimate. In 24 he encouraged them to vote by mail. His Postmaster General could have sent operatives into swing state Democratic districts to "collect" the mail in ballots. What happened after that is a mystery. Did swing state Democratic districts have a reduced number of mail in ballots? Trump won every swing state by razor thin margins.
DetroitLegalBeagle
(2,228 posts)That would be one thing. But that's not what happened. Every state shifted towards trump. Red, purple, and blue. NY and NJ shifted 10pts right. Both had a closer margin then Texas this election. CA shifted nearly 10pts towards trump. 90% of the counties in the US shifted right.
If voters are shifting 10pts towards trump in deep blue states, why is shocking that he swept the very close swing states?
Kaleva
(38,712 posts)AdamGG
(1,536 posts)Through multiple elections, polls have consistently underestimated Trump's vote. I'm from Boston and I could definitely understand the concept of Trump voters possibly being hesitant to acknowledge their support for him. In Mass., there's a good chance that Trump supporters might be negatively judged.
But, the polls in Mass. pretty accurately predicted Trump's margin. Why is it that the same methodology that resulted in accurate polls in Mass. significantly underestimate Trump's support in Iowa? The Trump voters would have more cause to be shy in Mass. than in Iowa.
My theory is that it could be that the polls were right and that it's the vote count that's altered.
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,706 posts)AdamGG
(1,536 posts)That could be it. I've been suspicious of the vote counts since the shenanigans that happened in Ohio with the Bush/Kerry election in 2004.
yellow dahlia
(396 posts)I wrote something about the Ann Selzer poll several weeks ago.
EdmondDantes_
(142 posts)You name an extreme outlier poll, but the polls almost all showed a very tight race which is what happened. There was a small underestimate of Trump's support, but less than in 2016 and 2020.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4999776-polls-accuracy-2024-election/
"The biggest miss in the swing states was Arizona, where the poll average missed by 2.7. In four of the seven swing states, the difference between the average poll margin and the vote count was 1.7 points even better than the national results."
Meowmee
(6,444 posts)And even worse, nothing is being done to investigate any of this.
Control-Z
(15,685 posts)I still just can't buy that the election was legitimate.
3catwoman3
(25,835 posts)WTF people? Why did you stay home?
And it would not be in the least surprising if things were in the bag before any votes were formally cast.
Groundhawg
(1,043 posts)Unladen Swallow
(491 posts)vapor2
(1,658 posts)58Sunliner
(5,013 posts)Putin doesn't have half measures. Add to your list of comments was Trump saying Russia and Saudi Arabia were working together to insure something, but he seemed to realize he should not be talking about it and suddenly changed the subject during one of his speeches. It may have been the same speech where he says he doesn't need the votes.
samplegirl
(12,282 posts)watching on TV Kamala rallies were packed.
Then you would see Trump rallies the same old thing
bussed in goons with MAGA hats. Sparse.
So how just how?
Something was pulled!
Hekate
(95,562 posts)William769
(56,098 posts)To do anything else is well...
Patton French
(1,219 posts)Well said.
Vinca
(51,344 posts)._.
(1,166 posts)"What was Musk doing compiling a d-base list of votes that could be brought in
as needed that could effect the outcome of the election?"
Botany
(72,785 posts)
or data mined the names of people who are registered but most likely will not vote so that his
THE BIG STEAL 24 operation found the # of votes Trump needed to win that state. Something
just screams @ me that Team Trump, Musk, Crypto Boys, and the GRU were in on the Hack. Or
I could be wrong. Botany = Btw I have done election work for 20 years too.
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Botany
(72,785 posts)All my mind can see is flashes around the edges of the current accepted outcome. Just look
@ what Musk and the GRU are doing right now in France to their elections.
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Jose Garcia
(2,966 posts)Botany
(72,785 posts)totodeinhere
(13,410 posts)could have won. But there is no proof whatsoever that the election was stolen. Everything you said is just conjecture. The Democrats had scores of lawyers ready to pounce at any improprieties. But they found none. And when the election was certified on Monday not one Democrat objected. Trump won. I don't understand why so many chose to vote for him but they did. You need to accept that sad fact.
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