On election night, as the results looked to be in Trump’s favor, the baseless conspiracy theories about fraud began tapering off.
Gosh, so they aren’t going to organize a “stop the steal” that is designed to specifically steal an election?
Let’s move on. This is what the American people wanted. Let them burn it all down. The adults will pick up the pieces when it’s all over.
“The adults” can’t restore lost lives, and depending on how much “the adults” think they should take the moral high ground, they may only undo some of the damage, while normalize the rest.
I’m well aware. I’m not making light of the things that will happen.
And yet I still have Facebook friends posting about how “all the states Kamala won are the ones that don’t require photo ID…”
Those aren’t your friends. Those are Nazis.
Of fucking course. These people really should try breathing through their noses.
What about the 100 or so lawsuits? Will they be making the next election count even more relia… oh you don’t know what I’m talking about? Oh…
Its almost as if, I don’t know, every single thing out of their mouth is completely fucking bullshit
My co-worker and I were talking about that last night. I told her that it’s amazing that not one fucking republican as uttered those two words, “voters fraud”, since Tuesday night. Isn’t it amazing how that is no longer a problem??? The fucking hypocrites!!!
I told her that it’s amazing that not one fucking republican as uttered those two words, “voters fraud”, since Tuesday night.
Oh, I’ve heard them use those words, mostly in context of claiming that their watchful eyes prevented those evil Democrats from being able to do it this time. You know, because the party that can’t win without voter suppression and gerrymandering believes that they are the party that can’t lose without voter fraud.
It’s always projection. ALWAYS.
Oh for fucks sake, I escaped from the left wing cesspool that is Reddit and came here after being told it’s free from left wing cancer. Obviously not…
Reddit isn’t Left Wing, it’s Tankie SJW nonsense
This is Left Wing, where Facts don’t care about your feelings.
Sounds like you belong more on truth social…
Where the facts don’t matter
Imagine actually thinking MSNBC is left. Scamper back off to Reddit now.
Also, Lemmy was founded and is run by communists. Lol
Obviously ‘did their research’ hahahhahahahh
you were misinformed.
No, the narrative just changed. Good luck convincing anyone the 2020 election wasn’t stolen ever again.
“I told you. In 2020 we won all 50 states. Voter fraud by the millions. I was saying it all along. But we worked hard, we passed laws for election integrity, we watched the polls and they couldn’t cram their 10, 15 million votes into the boxes again. And look what happened. Instead of winning by 8 million votes, she lost by 6 million votes. Which is what should have happened last time.”
This is the narrative I’ve been hearing. The voters that just stayed home simply never existed in the first place, as far as they’re concerned. He’s going to use this victory as proof of his claim that he should have won last time, voter fraud was rampant, and Democrats are cheaters. And it’s going to work.
And it’s going to work.
Well, let’s face it - the target audience for such stupid narratives are his base, and they are dumb as a box of rocks.
Please don’t insult them. Boxes of rocks can still serve a purpose and don’t deserve to be denigrated like that.
No box of rocks ever called me a ______. Insert a slur!
No box of rocks ever had his picture taken with Jeffrey Epstein!
Remember that half of the population is below average.
I’m assuming that other 2% had other motivations.
That’s honestly now how averages work. Most of the population is roughly average.
If roughly is within one standard deviation from average then most of the population is roughly average and half are below and half are above
Below average? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Should we tell him who was president in 2020 and who was president in 2024? Oh right, it doesn’t matter to them as long as they repeat it a million times.
And used to support the claim to change voting in some way, or do away with it at least for Federal level.
No worries, they’ll claim voter fraud next set of elections and by 2028 there won’t be elections to claim fraud on.
Nah I’m pretty sure this was our last real presidential election. The rest will be pure spectacle and will be used for fund raising and entertainment purposes only.
Does that mean we’re handing candidates swords instead of doing debates?
They’ll use proxies, unfortunately. Hire out of work Democrats to do the actual fighting.
they accomplished their goal no need to keep up the tale
Schrödinger’s voter fraud
“Too big to rig” was a clear indication that this was always the plan.
Who would have thought that complaining the vote was rigged would disenfranchise the democrats from voting instead of, you know, motivating them? It’s kind of a sad state of affairs.
Wait so I can’t just tweet, without context anymore just…
RIGGED!
We know they’ve tried electoral interference before, what are the chances they did it again this and it worked this time?
The GOP winning at all means it worked, just as it has in the past. Gerrymandering, voter purges, limiting access, corrupt judiciary, prisons, dark money groups, etc. That is how the GOP has won for several decades. They have NEVER been able to win a fair democratic election on a national level.
Now they also control the social media platform that liberals and leftists used for organizing.
And good luck getting most people off of social media controlled by conservatives. Facebook/Twitter is digital heroin to A LOT of people.
It’ll go in waves. Currently both the Fediverse and BlueSky are cozy places, and as they continue to further decay, both are going to gain more and more users. I’m less on these kinds of platforms, but I started to instead doomscroll way less and either watch more videos or are more productive. We maybe even should call this movement “social media detox”.
Half the country not showing up to the polls didn’t help
Absolutely. I place most of the blame here on voters. Even with all those GOP shenanigans in place, a majority of Americans made a choice. I’m well aware the Democratic Party didn’t do itself any favors but the people ultimately decided that this is what they wanted. It wasn’t win or lose, it was a choice between two clear outcomes and they picked authoritarianism.
Traitors, every one of them.
I know that most progressives are just crying in their beer and looking for someone in their party or an adjacent political group to blame, but why isn’t more attention being brought to the many many efforts by Republicans and their overseas allies to corrupt the election and disenfranchise Democrats? I’m disgusted by the institutionalism that leads our leaders to call and congratulate the fascists rather than holding our own rallies to demand accountability for election irregularities.
It’s really odd to me that they just quietly conceded and moved straight to complaining about the loss. Conservatives have been screaming about election fraud for years and every accusation is a confession with them…I would not be surprised if the numbers are fictional
Because it doesn’t matter anymore. Elections are over and won’t be happening again.
Ye! I hate how many people are talking about trump as if his reign will only be 4 years. They’ll martyr him, and Vance will take the over dictatorship, then before elections happen again, some “emergency” will arise to let him declare martial law and cancel elections.
Folks, we’re living in Nazi Germany now. Go read up on it. The people at the top of maga certainly have.
We need to start being more French about these things.
I mean, if you’re talking about fake ass twitter accounts and grifting, they did that in plain sight.
But these strategies should be well known by the democrats by now and they aren’t invulnerable to counteracting. It’s simply the case that less people showed up to vote this election than previous ones, I guess.
How common was voter purge this time around? Could it have impacted people who voted early?
My grandmother’s doctor was told his mail-in vote wasn’t counted, then he came in person to vote and they arrested him for “fraud”
It’s going to join the great migrant caravan in the sky.
