(Jun 28, 2021 06:52 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: Just thinking Syne....if I had to chose between Trump being screwed on an election and some loose metallic hinged door in the depths of some derelict building being a poltergeist at work, I think the more plausible story would be the voting fiasco. I mean they could both be fictional but one is more believable than the other.
I have to admit that I believe that election fraud did take place. There were
many anecdotal reports of electoral irregularities. Many people aren't aware of that, because the legacy media and much of the new social media carefully deleted those reports and banned those who made them. (Trump himself was banned from twitter.)
What I don't know is whether that election fraud happened on a scale that could turn the election. But it seems to me that just the possibility that the election might have been tainted would justify a bi-partisan commission of investigation, perhaps even the appointment of a special prosecutor like Mueller. The future of American democracy might depend on it.
Things that worry me include:
How electoral laws were changed wholesale in 2020, supposedly on account of covid. How on electoral night Trump seemed to be headed for victory in various swing states. Then in subsequent days all these... additional votes... appeared from... somewhere..., overwhelmingly for Biden, putting him over the top. It's only credible to those who trust the system, and I most emphatically don't.
How here in California (and in many states I'd guess) ballots were simply mailed to every registered voter, even in counties with more registered voters than US citizens of voting age. Voters were just supposed to fill out the ballots and mail them back. But what often happens is that when people move, they just re-register at their new address but never cancel their registration at their old address. So many buildings with large transient populations like those around universities probably received all kinds of ballots addressed to people who no longer live at that particular address. And who knows whether somebody filled them out and mailed them?
Courts have forbidden local electoral authorities from pruning voters from the rolls that no longer live at the addresses given. (That's supposedly "voter suppression".) And when Arizona proposed to send out electoral inspectors to check out addresses with lots of voters registered, the Biden justice department halted it shrieking about "racism" or something.
It's also telling how the democrats are universally against voter ID laws. Again, they insist that it's "voter suppression" despite the fact that you have to have an ID to fly in a plane, cash a check or drive a car. Just about every country in the European Union has voter ID, and it seems to work well for them.
So I'd say that doubts about election integrity in 2020 are more substantial and better justified than all that "Russian" bullshit in 2016. Yet the latter powered all sorts of investigations and frantic and hysterical headlines in the press. Today they try to silence anyone who even expresses doubts.
Quote:I also think anyone who posts about door banging poltergeists shouldn’t be making fun of people who think Trump got screwed.
MR isn't particularly strong on consistency.
Jun 29, 2021 06:25 PM
(This post was last modified: Jun 29, 2021 08:06 PM by Syne.)
