That's the headline at NPR for a piece by political reporter Stephen Fowler.
What does "primed" even mean? It seems to admit that Trump never said he has "no chance of losing," but he said something that has caused a belief. And then what's the evidence that Trump supporters believe that? No chance of losing — who believes that? And then to ding these people for "falsely" believing this thing Trump never said... well, the "falsely" ought to be appended to this NPR article: NPR political reporter falsely believes Trump somehow caused his supporters to believe he has no chance of losing.
Am I being unfair to Fowler? As Shakespeare put it: "Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air."
Okay, let's hover. Fowler writes:
The final days of the campaign have seen a barrage of baseless claims about voting rules, possible election outcomes and Trump’s chances to win from a constellation of his family, friends and faithful associates. Social media site X has been home to a proliferation of false fraud claims about the election, and the site’s owner, billionaire Elon Musk, has used his considerable platform to amplify conspiracy theories.... Trump himself has posted online that “Pennsylvania is cheating” and often dedicates parts of his rambling rallies to accuse his opponents of cheating while bragging about often-overinflated poll numbers....
I'd say it's not so much that Trump supporters believe he has "no chance of losing." It's that they are cranked up into a high state of vigilance, so that if a loss is announced, they will support the challenges and litigation that will follow. I hope that works as a strong deterrence to any cheating, that everything's conducted on the up and up. And I see no reason to disparage people who are creating pressure to handle the voting process accurately and honestly. I don't know why Joe Biden did not use his presidency to bring us together by working to make the voting process as transparent and squeaky clean. He knew half (or at least a third) of the country had doubts. Why didn't he work to dispel those doubts? Did he want all this discord? Was he hiding malfeasance?
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And I see no reason to disparage people who are creating pressure to do handle the voting process accurately and honestly
I see one big reason….
We all know the solution: paper ballots, same day voting, photo ID. The refusal to solve this issue is proof of the cheating.
Why didn't he work to dispel those doubts? Did he want all this discord? Was he hiding malfeasance?
a) Because he despises Trump and his supporters, and so wasn't about to give them any sort of grace.
b) Because the activists in his party view voter ID checks and other security measures as evil.
c) Because any attempt to dispel those doubts would have exposed just how mismanaged elections actually are.
The latter is the big one, IMHO: it's not that there's always rampant cheating, but that a lot of local elections offices are run by hacks and incompetents who don't know their own rules, procedures, and have been skimming money for years. You can't clean it up without cleaning out a lot of rot, and no one wants to deal with the fallout of that unless they have to.
as a Trump supporter, i believe that he has NO CHANCE of Winning..
because: it's not who votes that counts, it Who Counts the votes
nothing in the last 4 years has changed my mind
Fair is foul, and foul is fair
…just like the referees in hockey!
Why didn't the Republican Party, the press, the "elites" not demand a "National Conversation" to reform the voting process? (rhetorical question).
You can say that 1/3 of the country is wrong about what appears to be undeniable (that there are very serious problems with the integrity of the voting/election process), but you can't ignore the concerns of that many people--at least not without consequences, of which the principle consequence is massive distrust of the validity of the election results.
Shouting Thomas already nailed it of course. Some concessions for absentee ballots naturally, but in general, this is it.
The final days of the campaign have seen a barrage of baseless claims …
Fowler writes without evidence.
That's bullshit. Every appearance he says it looks good "but we need to vote vote vote." And every conservative commentator says (like Insty) "Don't get cocky. Get busy helping." There is no guarantee Trump gets beyond the margin of cheat because that's a moving target. NPR has really embraced disinformation spreading of late.
If there were a verb meaning `to believe falsely', it would not have any significant first person present indicative. - Wittgenstein
Am I being unfair to Fowler?
No heaps of serision aren't enough for this unnecessary agitprop. This does follow a theme in DNC Media though, because they really want to lay the groundwork for civil unrest no matter who wins. The usual suspects will riot if Trump prevails. Some Fed-infested group (Proud Boys? TBD?) will create a distractionary pseudo-event if Harris wins. It will be their excuse to round up as many "MAGA" as they can, just like they abused J6 to do so.
I will remain pessimistic up until the last Fake Ballot is counted ... and probably beyond that as the lawyers begin to do their thing.
No he knows. It was all his favorite sources making them: CNN, MSNBC, Politico, NYT, WaPo...
Dang it. "Derision" not whatever that 4th word is.
My hunch is we will know tonight. The late counting states either won't matter (CA) or will be so far from a tie they can't fake their way to a Harris squeaker.
The Nazis seized power by blaming their opponents for the Reichstag Fire, they threw out freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and the rights of the accused. This is how the Gestapo was formed, and opposition newspapers were banned.
They also used to send thugs to opposition rallies whose sole purpose was to create an air of violence around their opponents, because Germany was a liberal democracy, and had to be carefully taught how to turn into a fascist totalitarian state. Any similarities between what the Nazis did, and what the Democrats are currently doing is strictly coincidental though. As a "Good American," you must believe that.
The first thing that a government in the process of stealing an election does is accuse the other side of trying to steal the election, it's also helpful to draw in the dupes and rubes to blame the Russians.
We are seeing it right now in Moldova, where the president, who is not even Moldovan, but was born in France and was once the French ambassador to Moldova has put up all kinds of difficulties for certain ethnic groups to vote, for instance sending 10% of the number of ballots required to Moldovans living in Russia, and instead of having 17 polling stations available to them, as in past elections, there were only two. And Transnistians had to actually leave their region, as they were not allowed to vote in their home areas.
All of this to the blaring tune of "Russia is trying to steal the election!!!!" We even heard that from Dr Weevil here, who seems amazingly tuned in to EU propaganda.
Not off topic, has anybody seen Epstein's client list?
Remember in PA, where in a heavily Trump voting precinct, not enough ballots were provided? That happened in 2020. We already know that the election process in PA is hopelessly corrupt. The DoJ has refused to identify judges who rule on issues of Election Day ballot scrutineering who are known to them to have been elected by ballot stuffing.
There is no reason for honest people to be intimidated by the very accusations that people stealing an election make, as part of the playbook for stealing elections. If that is what happens. The first rule of election theft is "First. Lie. Wins."
NPR spews an amazing amount of casual misinformation on a daily basis.
They have all of that in Europe. They instead cheat by manipulating the candidates. Running straw candidates to split opposition, or they subvert opposition parties. For instance the German right of center party is run by people who will only make coalitions with the left. The way that the people leading these right of center parties took them over is that the press manipulates coverage to ensure that only elite approved candidates get anywhere near power. This has led Germany into a downward economic spiral, which they will not be able to climb out of until this leadership is somehow shaken off by the German people, and there is no easy way for them to do that until the whole thing collapses.
NPR has it's faults, to be sure, but it's the only way I can feel the pain of what it's like to be a 16 year old girl in Gaza uncertain she'll be able to get into Med School.
For some reason, I believe the 'swing' states will not be done counting for days, if not weeks. I wonder why that might be...
They have all of that in Europe. They instead cheat by manipulating the candidates. Running straw candidates to split opposition, or they subvert opposition parties.
And we have THAT here: how else do we explain Harris?
I would consider a return to paper ballots and same-day voting with ID to be a good start, wouldn't you? Trump has shown that it's possible - though certainly not easy - to overcome the influence of the "ruling elites."
My husband and I have a running argument going about why so many are saying this is "the most important election of our lifetime." I happen to agree with that statement, because this is the first presidential election in which we know, with evidence, how heavy the thumb on the scale of the media (I'm including social media here) has been. If we don't push back strongly against it (thank you again, Musk), then we are sleepy, complacent dupes of (I generally eschew this term, but... without it I don't have a good way to explain McCain, Romney, what was done to Sanders, the elevation of Biden...) the Uniparty.
(My husband thinks the 2026 midterms will be more important, because that's where we permanently lose Congress and become a one-party nation. I don't think he's wrong - but I stand by my belief that this election is currently the most important.)
Not only a refusal, but adamant that the existing system is secure and anyone who says otherwise must be silenced or persecuted.
"Often. Over. Inflated. " Skewed biased insinuation, much? How much inflation, dilution, adulteration, corruption is allowed before it's over-inflated, etc, in any system of measure? How many times in a week do we see such excessive, over-the-top, hysterical sequences before we can use the word 'often'?
Battlefield preparation for the position that any legal challenge to any aspect of the election by Republicans will be per se illegitimate. “Why Of course they are falsely claiming there were irregularities, just yesterday they falsely believed they had no chance of losing. “
“serision” is when you’re employing serious derision!
Social media site X has been home to a proliferation of false fraud claims about the election - all except the ones the courts determined to be true, and sided with the GOP law suits. See Buxton County, PA. Virginia and non-citizens on voting rolls. Cobb County, GA wanting to count votes received after election day.
Even this morning same old shit. Philly and other blue counties are denying GOP poll watchers access. Seem Trump is well lawyered up this time.
Side note: Does Josh Shapiro REALLY want Kamala to win PA and snuff out his desired 2028 run. Is he willing to sit behind this dingbat and wait until 2032??
Well whatever happens you guys will get what you wanted. If Trump wins you get four years of celebration. If Trump loses you guys get a lifetime of being a jilted victim giving license to unceasing whining and complaining.
ASSUMING, for the sake of argument, that Trump (somehow) manages to win;
beyond the margin of fraud..
What will be the reaction of the left?
Will they say; "well, there's NO WAY to rig an election; so Trump is no President"..
or will they say something more akin to what they've said EVERY TIME a republican has won?
Jim Eagle 2.0
its not supposedly
its happened
many many times
Time for that 55 gallon jug of Ripple.
Your post reads a lot like "whining and complaining," actually. I am sticking to my position that we are living in the prequel to the world of 1984, and I think that the forces of history are inexorable, given human nature, but I still like to try my best to find the truth of any given situation. If that strikes you as "whining and complaining," I can't help you.
Lol. Only one side is proclaiming there's a secret wife vote. My guess is they're the ones that are going to be shocked.
You know that the judges making those decisions, many of them, were elected by ballot stuffing. This is per the US Department of Justice. They just won't identify which ones.
Hee hee hee... OMG
This is similar to "Trump incited an insurrection on January 6." Fact-free but truthy.
I am kind of honored that the 'spam filter' sees fit to suppress so many of my comments. It says I am on track with the stuff they don't want you to think about. Definitely it is political in nature. I know Althouse will restore the comments eventually, but to me, it's a kind of validation to have Google suppressing my comments.
I don't comment at Neocon Central... err I mean Instapundit anymore, because once those comments are deleted by the thought police, they aren't coming back.
Provide another reasonable explanation for suing to prevent voter ID, forwarding of universal mail-in balloting, and acceptance of un-postmarked, undated* ballots days after the election, Inga.
* Yes, I know the PA court ruled that dates are in fact required on mailed ballots. But who was trying to see to it that they were not? Twelve years in the Philadelphia area made it abundantly clear to me that Philadelphia can produce just about as many ballots as necessary. By any means necessary. And I'm sure the Philadelphia machine has analogs in every city.
Primed and cranked up garbage is the best garbage.
The Democrats are trying to MURDER Donald Trump. He has every chance of losing because our government is a massive threat to the freedoms we enjoy (thus, why we should eliminate it and find new guards for the defense of our liberties, as our forefathers did.)
And even if he is allowed by the Democrats to "win" the election, they have no intention of letting him govern. They'll kill him somehow and failing that, join with NeverTrumpers to jail him for the duration of his term.
Winning isn't the win Democrats are attempting to paint it as.
I don't know why Joe Biden did not use his presidency to bring us together by working to make the voting process as transparent and squeaky clean.
I think you're being disingenuous here, Ms. A.
Biden's handlers and supporters have shown by their behavior every time election clean-up is mentioned that they know that they would lose a fair election by a substantial amount.
The only response they have when voter ID is mentioned is that is it Racist!
We all know that the Racist thing is to suggest that BIPOC are too stupid or lazy to go to the trouble to get ID. We all know that they all have ID anyway. We all know that they have yet to show a single person who was eligible to vote but was prevented from voting due to lack of ID.
We all know that, don't we?
What we also know is that Democrats are unlikely to win a national fairly run election.
It's all politics, it's all power.
They want to tread on me, and you, Ms. A.
"....And I see no reason to disparage people who are creating pressure to handle the voting process accurately and honestly. "
Anybody that gets their news from NPR would drink their own bathwater.
When the election is stolen, we get the war we've been wanting for the last 50 years.
Pollsters haven't been releasing their internals .... that's how you know they are fake polls.
NPR no longer provides comprehensive or unbiased reporting, resorting to promote progressive-liberal talking-points 24/7. NPR programming now resorts to lecturing its primarily white-collar white professional listening-audience, on how racist they are, on how privileged they are, on how AWFL they are. And that small remaining NPR audience politely accepts their listening-pleasure "medicine", spoonful by spoonful, of boring op-ed pieces. Facts be damned; let Mao's Little Red Book proceed.
Mostly listen to podcasts now, but listened to 30 minutes of NPR last Friday morning, to be told that Trump intends to "fight" election results, which NPR already presumed with show Harris as alleged victor. Given how close polls supposedly are, it seems premature to anticipate Harris as winner. Given that Marc Elias is super-funded and fully-mobilized to full challenge results on state-by-state basis, clearly even national Democratic Party leadership is uncertain electoral victory is assured.
I was puzzled in 2020. Why didn't the D's just audit the votes, show us all they won fair and square. Assauge all our fears, and make Trump and those shouting "Election fraud" look like chumps.
But they didnt. They refused to admit any invalid votes were cast. They didn't one Goddamn inch. They shouted "election denier" and called everyone names and refused to cooperate or go along with any attempt to audit the votes. Look at Democrats in Mariposa County in Arz. They destroyed evidence, stonewalled, obstructed and did everything they could to stop an independent firm from auditing the 2020 votes.
And there's doing it again. The R's have been forced to go to court to get the D's in Pennsyvannia and VA to clean up voter rolls and obey the election laws. The D's WANT foreigners to vote. They WANT election fraud. They WANT voting machines that mysteriously "Switch votes". The D's actually passed a law in Michagan that you can't change a vote after its been counted (tabulated). And so, an illegal immigrant was able to vote in October and his vote stands.
Look for Trump to behead in the swing states this PM. And then a repeat of 2020 to happen. All the D election vote counters will stop counting votes. Because they'll have to figure out how much they need to cheat to win.
Netflix "The Diplomat" season 2, VP storyline is interesting.
If you remember 2020, you had the D's and people like Mittens going TV and shouting there was no election fraud - 4 days after the election! They had no idea that was true. And when Trump raised the facts and all the problems with the vote, they just shouted "You have no evidence". And people bringing up the facts started to get banned on Youtube, twitter, and facebook.
This all culminated in the J6 protest, ashli babbitt getting murdered by the capital hill police, and the MSM and Establishment hysterically shouting it was "an insurrection" and Trump needed to be impeached.
P-Inga, the lunatic lefty conspiracy cultist, to this very day, STILL believes Putin colluded with Trump to install Trump as President in 2016 and STILL believes the hillary hoax dossier was proven true.
Discuss.
NPR is just more Democrat Party Media - hacktitude
if Kommie wins, I get to laugh at you in the future.
Win/win
cant wait for those unrealized gains taxes.
Not worth our time. She is a diseased mosquito.
Already live reports of voting machines down in rural PA.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said Friday that the Democrats will support the peaceful transfer of power in January, but only “If it’s a free and fair election.” Raskin was on "Real Time with Bill Maher" on Friday, where he said, "When I say we will support a free and fair election, no we we're not going to allow them to steal it in the states, steal it with the Department of Justice or steal it with any other election official in the country. If it's a free and fair election, we will do what we've always done: Honor it."
The funny thing is that after Trump won, the Democrats went after him over Hillary Clinton's campaign lies for two years, before they finally admitted that they had nothing. Remember Inga's famous catchphrase? "Nobody knows what Mueller knows!" It turned out that Mueller had leaked everything they had right up front, and it was not even enough to get Inga worked up. She assumed that there *had to be* more.
Primed is the precursor to triggered.
Before Trump humiliated the ruling class in 2016, I had never seen the word triggered applied to a human being -- traps were triggered, guns were triggered, not people, at least, not sane people. Triggered came out of the woodwork in the last eight or nine years as a means to shift the agency of iniquitous deeds from the doer of the deed to someone else thusly: "Sally set fire to the 9th Street McDonalds because she was triggered by Trump's french fries stunt." IOW, Blame Trump for Sally's evil.
By using the word primed, NPR is preparing the absolution for the arson, looting, and vandalism that will follow the defeat of Kamala Harris.
Ann says:
" I don't know why Joe Biden did not use his presidency to bring us together by working to make the voting process as transparent and squeaky clean. He knew half (or at least a third) of the country had doubts. Why didn't he work to dispel those doubts? Did he want all this discord? Was he hiding malfeasance? "
We all know the answer. Lying liars who lie - are fine with cheating that benefits the lying liars who lie.
In the computer world we call it "Garbage in, Harris/Walz out".
Who audits the voting software, the CCP?
Why didn't he work to dispel those doubts? - Simple. Because he accepted his installation to his lifelong dream of being President via 2020 absentee voter fraud. Democrats had no interest in fixing their fraudulent modus operandi.
Althouse asks: "Did he want all this discord? Was he hiding malfeasance?" The answer to both questions is yes. I just hope the electoral college doesn't come down to Pennsylvania. Philadelphia (like Chicago) has a long storied history of vote fraud and there are already signs of it this year. A couple of suburban counties have caught a democratic outfit submitting fake voter registrations, do you think it didn't happen in Philly as well? But in the Philly tradition they weren't looking for them, won't look for them, and probably encouraged them.
Trump's losing will be a function of the Ds' ability to cheat on a massive scale. They're up for it.
Ann, he's a democrat. Get used to that behavior. This isn't the 60s.
If we eliminated the dems opportunities to cheat they would never win another election.
One day, in person with id, paper ballots. Minimum exceptions.
It would be stupid to encourage overconfidence, and I doubt the Trump circle are doing that. They are encouraging vigilance and skepticism, and that is justified.
Biden wasn't going to clean up the electoral system and he wasn't going to bring us together. He was going to bring in hundreds of thousands (millions?) of illegals to illegally vote for his reelection. And it would have worked too, if it weren't for that darned debate.
Why is Raskin talking about the election being "stolen with the Department of Justice"? His party controls the Department of Justice. Merrick Garland has to be the most partisan attorney general ever. Was this a slip on Raskin's part, like Biden's "most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics”? Was it an unintentional signal that something is brewing at the DOJ to put Harris over the top?
Trump is by every measure in a far strong position right now as the last votes are cast than he was in 2016 and 2020- one of which he won and one of which he lost by a combined 100,000 votes. Without mail-in-ballots I would judge his chances of winning right now at close to 100%. The only question I have is how desperate are the Democrats to win? Are the desperate enough to not care about how corrupt the election looks if they dump in more Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia ballots than there are residents of those cities? I personally think they are that desperate- they will do it and dare anyone to stop it- and the Biden DoJ will be arrest and imprison anyone who dares challenge it. This is why I am pessimistic.
NB: Chaos from discord is Weapon#1 of all Marxist activests. Riots are bought and paid for under the Soros funded local DAs that refuse to enforce laws and the Secy of States that refuse to run honest elections both covered up by Fake Media.
musk and their mighty men.
Well it’s not working anymore thanks to Trump and
Invert last 2 lines please
If Trump does win tonight or tomorrow morning, I expect the Democrats to challenge everything everywhere. I would expect Fowler will write in support of all the challenges no matter how ridiculous they might be. And if the Democrats hold the House in January, I fully expect them to deny certification unless Trump's win is overwhelming that do so is too dangerous. If Trump's win is by less than 20 electoral votes, I expect a full court press to buy them off- to literally bribe them to vote for Harris.
Have any pets Inga?
Trump is going after them you know.
Or kill him. Which they have repeatedly been trying to do. There's more than one way for them to "win" the election. Sure, they're going to try to cheat if we let them (for example, boarding up windows to the counting room without being attacked physically for cheating so blatantly). But they can always just kill him.
They're going to be with him 24x7x365. He's going to have to live in Washington DC surrounded by their killers.
He is in mortal danger, even today.
Remember, the Secret Service let Crooks get off 8 shots before they took him out. Even though they had him in their sniper scopes the WHOLE TIME he was trying to kill our candidate.
Just another pundit getting in his last-ditch 'I tried' bonafides.
Side note: Musk says he'll cut $2 billion. I know Federal funding for NPR is a drop in the bucket. But it IS a start. Eat that elephant one bite at a time.
Democrat CHEATING is already starting to be reported by the national media. Here, the NY Post shows Democrats in Pennsylvania sabotaging Dominion voting machines ... but ONLY in Republican strongholds.
https://nypost.com/2024/11/05/us-news/widespread-voting-problems-reported-in-2-heavily-republican-pennsylvania-counties/
Republicans have been funding NPR and other Democrat initiatives which funnel taxpayer dollars back to the Democrat Party for the last 3.5 years and all throughout the Obama years.
Musk CANNOT stop any of this. Our enemies are in our OWN PARTY. Starting with the Speaker of the House traitor.
If Trump wins, Harris supporters must accept his victory peacefully and without rancor. And if Harris wins, Harris supporters must be understanding about Trump supporters’ violence and rioting.
Forget it Jake. It's National Propaganda Radio. One of my law partners arrived for our regular Saturday morning golf game--he had about a 45 minute drive from his home to the course. He usually listened to NPR on the drive in. He was dumber on Saturday mornings than he was on Friday afternoon. Listening to NPR will have that effect.
That's what Trump said, almost word for word including the prominent "if," and the CNN panel all headed for the fainting couch. Just more of "it's (D)ifferent when we do it."
Defund ALL the NGOs. If your "charity" or "non-profit" can't raise money from the willing donations of individuals then fuck off. It's just another "teachers union circle jerk donation wheel" like every other scheme Democrats and Rhinos have allowed our Federal government to fund instead of taking care of their constitutional responsibilities.
News that Trump is far ahead gives normals permission to stay home, and encourages crazies to vote
Do you utilize self-employed electric shock therapy to "forget" the entire last decade?
More "good news" for the New Soviet Democraticals at Georgetown university:
"Students at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy will have access to Legos, cocoa, and coloring books in a post-Election Day “Self-Care Suite.”
“In an email to McCourt students,” reports the Free Press, “Jaclyn Clevenger, the school’s director of student engagement, introduced the school’s post-election ‘Self-Care Suite.’”
“In recognition of these stressful times,” she adds, “all McCourt community members are welcome to gather. . . in the 3rd floor Commons to take a much-needed break, joining us for mindfulness activities and snacks throughout the day.”
Here’s the list of activities, and the Free Press assures us this is not made up:
10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.: Tea, Cocoa, and Self-Care
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.: Legos Station
12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.: Healthy Treats and Healthy Habits
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.: Coloring and Mindfulness Exercises
2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.: Milk and Cookies
4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.: Legos and Coloring
5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.: Snacks and Self-Guided Meditation"
A "powerful" statement regarding the mental "health" of the typical democrat.
How 'bout a little humor while we wait it out?
JUST NOW - REPORTER TO TRUMP: "Do you have any regrets about your campaign?"
TRUMP: "To use Kamala's expression, 'I can't think of any.'"
Dude has a knack.
Trump is only "far ahead" if the normals continue to come out and vote in the record numbers they are apparently delivering in terms of concrete numbers related to early vote, VBM, party registration switchers and early election day voting.
Final Guam numbers are in:
Harris +3.3
2020: Biden +13.5
Harris running almost 10 points behind Biden 2020
I've heard my whole life that Democrats cheat. They used to brag about getting Kennedy over the line in 1960. (An election when Kennedy's team selected their own slate of electors for HI to dispute that result if needed. Sound familiar?) Then from the Bush years on we had to hear Democrats whine about losing. Gore, Kerry, Hillary! Hugh Hewitt wrote his book "If It's Not Close They Can't Cheat" way back at the turn of this century.
It's not a new idea. It's not unique to Trump. Your complaint is based on one specific fact: Trump is the first Republican to try and do something about it. Topping it off, he refuses to repeat your phony catechism of "2020 was the fairest most pure election ever!" so it inflames your hatred for him even more.
He's already won (most with GOP help) dozens of court challenges to safeguard this election, including eight today alone (so far). Conversely Marc Elias won a few. I'm laying the marker down now so we can preempt your "he never won a case" bullshit that isn't true about 2020 and won't be true this time. Few make it to trial, which is disappointing but judges are weak creatures generally. However when they do, our side has a pretty good record.
This is why I keep coming back to this blog. The press relentless assault on common sense is enough to cause (me at least) to miss the obvious incongruity of their propaganda. 😶🌫️
Thanks.
You should bold that last sentence.
Why do environmental bureaucrats have an armed response team? I think the unreality of that fact is part of what gives the P'nut story legs.
I don't know why Joe Biden did not use his presidency to bring us together by working to make the voting process as transparent and squeaky clean
Because we've got that, in Florida. Where as a result DeSantis won re-election by 20%
Every place Democrats get power, they use it to make elections less secure and honest. They would not do that if they thought they were favored in honest elections
Soooo much projection from Comrade Drago 🤣
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^^ What an idiot. Republicans over performed Democrats in early voting for decades. Early voting programs were the crown jewels of RNC, NRSC, NRCC (you can have someone google those for you, Drago.)
Last cycle, stable genius Trump told Republicans not to vote early. The Republicans responded on cue.
Prior to 2020, there were many elections in which Republicans led early voting and lost. In Pennsylvania, it routinely happened given the Collar county Republican political machines that no longer exist. In fact it happened in every presidential election between 1988 and 2016. Republicans lead in Pennsylvania early voting and lost.
On one level, it’s amusing to see Drago displaying a 7th grade understanding of American politics. Doesn’t Drago realize people can read his comments?
Why would Biden want to make the election process honest and transparent? That’s ridiculous.
Which is the side that has been primed to falsely believe things?
There was an attempt at cheating in Pennsylvania, but it was caught and stopped.
Believing that there was no cheating in Pennsylvania, and that Trump was making the whole thing up, is a false belief.
Voting machines down all over deep red Cambria County in PA. Now, instead of ballot issues in Maricopa red precincts, we have ink problems there!
Couldnt be more obvious.
"not even wondering about the skewed polls."
Most of the people here have been relying on the RCP poll averages, which is a very accurate way to read the polls.
You're the one who believes skewed polls, like the ones from the New York Times.
Atlas/Intel had the most accurate poll of the 2020 election and they currently have Trump +1 in the popular vote.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/docs/2024/Atlas-Poll-US-Elections-National-04-Nov-2024.pdf
Remember how in 2016, the Democrats in congress tried to challenge the state's election results and Biden kept shutting them down? Democrats don't remember that.
$ 2 trillion
I would be curious what you think projection is, Rich. And then maybe explain how what he wrote could fit that definition. Answer on a postcard.
Trump said yesterday that: "The only way we’re going to lose this election is if the election is rigged." So if he loses, it's because the election was stolen. There is no other way in his mind or that of his supporters that this could possibly happen.
I don't know why Joe Biden did not use his presidency to bring us together by working to make the voting process as transparent and squeaky clean.
Brandon, like many Democrats, needs to hate somebody. He never wanted to be a uniter. The Moloch speech in '22 was pure him.
Tim: Be patient, nobody knows what (Rich) knows
LOL! Russia!
Oh, dear....
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”How Trump used the ‘red mirage’ in vote counting to deny his 2020 loss
“Shortly after Election Day came and went in 2020 with no presidential decision, then-president Donald Trump declared himself the winner, even though millions of votes had yet to be counted. A little more than three days later, the tally would show that he had lost.
As Trump saw his early leads dwindle in some battleground states, he publicly called for officials to stop counting votes and falsely claimed that the remaining uncounted ballots were fraudulent.
Despite Trump’s rhetoric, it’s not unusual for a candidate’s lead in a tight race to disappear when more votes are counted. That’s called a “shift,” and it’s not a sign of wrongdoing or voter fraud, which is extremely rare, but the reality that elections officials count some batches of ballots earlier than others.
In 2020, the earliest votes counted in some key states leaned Republican, causing a “red mirage”; the later ones leaned Democratic, leading to a “blue shift.”
Blue shifts were especially noticeable in swing states during the 2020 presidential election, when Joe Biden’s margin of victory came down to thousands of votes among the millions cast.“
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=147076
I don't know why Joe Biden did not use his presidency to bring us together by working to make the voting process as transparent and squeaky clean.
Neither side wants "transparent and squeaky clean", because they both believe they can work the current system in their favour.
If Trump wins who here thinks Inga will still be claiming it is a Red Mirage in January?
Yes P-Inga. They are actually running the Russia Russia Russia collusion hoax again because they know moronic know-nothings such as yourself need your Mueller fix at least 3 times a day, every day.
Plus, they are using it as a backup plan in the case of a Trump win so that they can attempt to keep him from assuming office which the New Soviet Democraticals (irony, no?) have been openly bragging about doing.
Yes indeed, Raffensperger was one of the very select Zuckerbucks compatriots that took Zucks tens of millions of dollars in 2020, out of $419M Zuck put into his phony "non-partisan" PACs to help "Fortify" the elections in Georgia which were targeted at boosting dem turnout.
Raffensperger was actually STILL working with these leftist groups, The Center for Tech and Civic Life, a Chicago-based nonprofit and The Center for Election Innovation and Research, which is based in Washington, over the last 4 years!
Poor P-Inga. Even though she has spent a decade claiming she can read minds, she can never quite seem to get to the bottom of what is actually happening....even though the information is readily available.
Might just be a learning defect.
I think that someone has opened their box of wine early today. (For good reason.)
China's take on the race.
What we have seen worldwide in elections is that when officials start claiming Russian interference, the steal is on. Which is what we are seeing right now out of Georgia. Where does Putin find the time?
P-Inga: "So when a woman expresses or shares opinions that are different than yours you accuse her of being drunk on box wine."
When Tulsi Gabbard expressed an opinion different than the New Soviet Democraticals, the P-Inga's in government put her on a terrorist watch list.
Discuss.
"Was he hiding malfeasance?"
To ask the question is to answer it.
I agree with Shouting Thomas. The French, of all people, use in person voting on election day with paper ballots that are counted by hand and the results released the day of the election.
https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-france-elections-europe-96859198666d51b2c4482c3cdb0eb6aa
If the generally incompetent fuckin French can do this, why can't we?
But the problem remains for today's election. Trump and his supporters have provided us with just a binary solution: If Trump wins, then the election was fair. If Trump loses, then the election was rigged/stolen. You can imagine what this means for all future elections if this is what people and candidates really believe. There will be very real insurrections, not like the last one.
Trump knows he is losing Pennsylvania, so the election lies begin...
/A lot of talk about massive CHEATING in Philadelphia. Law Enforcement coming!!! ~ Donald J Trump @realDonaldTrump/
LOL
Lots of shenanigans in PA under Shapiro.....what a surprise. Isn't it amazing. No issues reported in NY, or NJ, or West Virginia, or Ohio..but as soon as you cross over into New Soviet Democratical controlled PA, "problems" galore!
I guess we'll have to have 51 National Intelligence agents come out and assure us all the problems are make believe and russki disinformation.....just like Hunter's laptop.
CNN. Mario Mendoza had a better batting average.
and how many London Bridges do you own?
False belief there’s no chance of losing? Sounds like Hillary Clinton in 2016 — how else do you explain the Russian collusion hoax?
"Trump is serving up “Stop the Steal” 2.0. This isn’t 2020 anymore, it won’t work any better now than it did then."
Russia Russia Russia Collusion hoax girl speaks!.....AND she STILL believes Putin installed Trump in 2016!
For P-Inga: The Hoax Is Coming From Inside The New Soviet Democratical House!!!!!!..........
"how else do you explain the Russian collusion hoax?"
Tread carefully. Remember, the cult moron P-Inga claimed to know the minds of all the key players in the Russia Collusion Hoax and that's how she knows, to this very day, that its all "true".
Just for the record: I have not been "primed" by Pres. Trump to believe that there is "no way" he could lose this election. On the contrary.
The Democrats control the mainstream media which have conducted a relentless propaganda campaign against Trump during the last two Presidential elections, and so far have a 50-50 record; a significant number of voters will be persuaded. Moreover, the Democrats managed to effect a last-minute switch of their Presidential nomination to someone that "no one knows", and to conduct a campaign that prevents potentially uncommitted voters from learning anything about her (other than that she is not-Trump). That's even better than Biden's "basement campaign" -- WHICH WORKED.
In an "ideal world" would Trump win? In an "ideal world" Trump wouldn't even run! There would have been no threat of a Hillary! presidency, no reality of a Biden presidency, and no one outside of California would ever have heard of "call me KAmala".
Oh, well. If the Philadelphia Police Dept. hasn't heard anything about it, it must not be true.
Discus - no point in killing trump now. If they kill trump between now the result is that JD Vance becomes President with a Trump Matyr and an angry MAGA base.
Why don't you just read everyone's mind and let us know what's going on?
Looks like Inga has taken her bat & ball and gone home. Did something happen today?
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