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One of their information gate keepers
That's because, when you read the evidence, that is exactly what they are doing.jeez, the MSM just don't give up.
The election has not even been had, but already they are accusing Trump os stealing it.
Mick
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I don't have to, because you just provided it for me.That's because, when you read the evidence, that is exactly what they are doing.
Trump has learned from 2020 that if you want to make sure the election results favour you he needs to do a lot more preparation. In this case it is placing officials in charge of vote counting who will not certify results they don't like. That stops the whole process.
It's shame you didn't offer a connection that could fully explain what is happening.
What can one say ?I don't have to, because you just provided it for me.
Placing officials in charge of voting who will make sure the results go your way.
pretty much what Trump said the Dems did.
If you can't beat em, join em.
Mick
It's only fair when they do it Mick.I don't have to, because you just provided it for me.
Placing officials in charge of voting who will make sure the results go your way.
pretty much what Trump said the Dems did.
If you can't beat em, join em.
Mick
No Bas, its not my fault you lack the ability to see both sides of any story.What can one say ?
Donald Trump can't open his mouth without spewing lies. Donald Trump destroyed public confidence in the electoral system with his repeated big lies about rigged voting. In 60 court cases he never provided any evidence for these lies.
He has now convinced many people that if says the election results arn't right then they should believe him and not the counted votes. And these people are now election officials who now have the power to not certify results based purely on their view that "something is not right"
And you think this is OK ? Really ? Is that who you really are Mick ?
Mick there is no "two sides" to the election fraud story. I can see grey where there is grey. I can discuss how Trump has been treated.No Bas, its not my fault you lack the ability to see both sides of any story.
Everything is black and white for you, no shades of grey.
Just because I think Trump has been treated poorly by the MSM and the elites does not make me a Trump supporter.
Just because I don't like trump does not then by default make me an acolyte of Biden or Harris.
Lighten up.
Mick
Just finished listening, vintage Trump.I'm just listening to Elon and theDonald on X.com live on Spaces.
Good free electioneering for Trump.
I don't know how long its going for. Check it out it is great entertainment. He's in good form and motoring, the usual stuff, accusing Kamahl of being more left wing than Bernie.
gg
There are always people who believe elections are fraudulent and that the government of the United States is illegitimate. (See Timothy McVeigh and the long history of American militias.)
What is different today is that at no point in living memory has the defeated president of the United States, along with the majority of his party, proclaimed that a national election was fraudulent and that the incoming president is illegitimate. In all prior instances, they did exactly the opposite: They testified to the legitimacy of the new government in an effort to tamp down the conspiratorial falsehoods which always exist in small numbers.
Today, the president and his party are the wellspring of these falsehoods.
And here is the point which you must understand:
Nothing can get better in American politics until this lie is repudiated by the main body of the Republican party in the public square, with enough force and repetition that the majority of Republican voters cease to believe it.
Even if armed insurrection is not a weekly occurrence, a government cannot function when a third of the citizens believe it is literally, not rhetorically, illegitimate. It is not be possible to legislate or build consensus or even enforce the laws when you begin with a substantial minority who literally believe that the government is the product of a coup.
What the Republican party has done over the last two months is akin to having dropped polonium into America’s political groundwater.
And the radiation from their lie has poisoned everything.
The above illustrates the point, as sadly in so many cases that you are not dealing with rational people .The article I posted on the American Politics thread was pretty incendiary. And The Bulwark, believe it or not, is a conservative leaning website. There were a couple of choice observations I thought were worth highlighting here.
This is why I am white hot about any pretenses on Donald Trumps behaviour in relation to electoral issues.
The Bulwark (website) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
I want to leave you today with a single thought that illustrates how the Republican party has ceased to be a functioning political party and become an authoritarian institution.
Why has the “stolen 2020 election” become dogma for Republicans? There is only one reason: Because Trump said so.
Imagine that, the day after the 2020 election, Trump had said, “It was close and if things had broken differently we would have won. But don’t worry: I’ll be back in 2024 and I’m going to beat Sleepy Joe like a drum.”
In that alternate reality no one in Republican politics would have said that the election was stolen because there was no evidence that it was stolen.
No serious person in Republican politics would have even thought to suggest that the election had been “stolen” absent that command from Trump.
We are where we are because the Republican party is an autocracy and the maximum leader declared an idea to be true; adherence to this falsehood became a loyalty test.
And anyone who failed this loyalty test has been read out of the party.
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Here is something I wrote shortly after January 6th:
jeez, the MSM just don't give up.
The election has not even been had, but already they are accusing Trump os stealing it.
Mick
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No I did a duck duck go about the topic.I
I was reflecting on the rather heated exchange I had with Mick today with regard to the post he made (above) and his subsequent defence of it.
I may be wrong but I suspect that Mick saw this post on a website he was visiting. Essentially, someone clipped 3 articles from different sources on the same topic (electoral malfeasance) and framed it as MSM attacking Donald Trump for election rigging even before the election ! Wow it's off to the races if your starting position is that Trump is unfairly maligned by MSM.
I can recognize that sort of propaganda. Instead of actually addressing the issue raised by the reporters just reject them in total as the usual MSM attack. The fact that the clippings never went beyond the headlines reinforces the fact that there was never any intention to allow readers to understand what was happening. It was all about trashing the reporting of what was happening across electoral offices across the US.
What is happening ? Many 2020 election denying Trump supporters are gaining positions of power in these electoral offices and they are getting powers to stop certification that they didn't have previously. What could possibly go wrong
Just saying.
Georgia election board proposes an ‘inquiry’ before certifying results
Republicans on local election boards have voted against certifying recent results
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State Election Board members Sara Tindall Ghazal, Ed Lindsey, John Fervier and Janice Johnston, along with Executive Director Mike Coan, center, are seen at an election board meeting Tuesday at the Capitol in Atlanta. The board is working on a proposed rule that would make changes to the certification process for elections. (Arvin Temkar / AJC)
By Mark Niesse
May 9, 2024
The State Election Board started writing a new rule Wednesday that would require a “reasonable inquiry” before certifying Georgia elections, granting a request from a Republican county election board member who refused to sign off on this year’s presidential primary.
If certification rules are changed, local election board members could use them as a justification for voting against approving the results of upcoming elections, state board member Sara Tindall Ghazal said.
Georgia election board proposes an ‘inquiry’ before certifying results
The State Election Board started writing a new rule Wednesday that would require a “reasonable inquiry” before certifying Georgia elections, granting a request from a Republican county election board member who refused to sign off on this year’s presidential primary.www.ajc.com
Fine. So what did you make of substance of the story ?No I did a duck duck go about the topic.
You assume to much.
Mick
Struggled to find much in the way of substance.Fine. So what did you make of substance of the story ?
Why you can't trust the USA propaganda media
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