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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums*BREAKING NEWS* -- The Election Was Not Stolen
Does it need to be repeated? It was a lie.
America needs to come to grips with the facts of the last election. The lies are corrosive. They are not good for our country.
It is unpatriotic to say that the last election was stolen. It divides the country. People that care about this country care about the truth.
It is sad and unfortunate that there are still people that believe the last election was stolen.
They were propagated to believe it. There was no evidence to suggest that the election was stolen. There was a huge turnout for both sides during the pandemic. There was very little evidence of fraud in the election.
Yet, some people felt the need to lie about it and to divide our country along political lines. It has hurt our country immensely.
How many times does it have to be said? The election was not stolen.
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)The Former Asshole is not EVER going to say otherwise, and his followers will FOREVER believe that it was a fraudulent election.
There is no proof, no argument, no facts, that will change their minds.
It doesn't matter whether it's said 1 time, or 100,000 times. So the question of how many times it has to be said is one that can be answered, because that # would be infinity.
Frasier Balzov
(2,676 posts)That regret may give the stolen election story safe harbor.
Skittles
(153,258 posts)but then, the fact that Donald Fucking Trump was "president" proves just how many stupid people are around us
Skittles
(153,258 posts)the Big Lie is what they use to enact voter suppression laws and manipulate their ignorant base
kentuck
(111,110 posts)Since "you-know-who" will be re-enforcing the Big Lie all week long. It's a reminder to them that some Americans will never forget.
Novara
(5,866 posts)... this is all because the orange motherfucker is a sore loser.
Democracy is being destroyed all because one childish motherfucking asshole can't admit that he lost.
That's what this all boils down to. And the fact that one spoiled child can destroy democracy scares me to death. We are really that fragile.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)...especially a democracy as diverse as ours, with our history. We have to work doubly hard to make it work.
Mr. Ected
(9,675 posts)Same premise, same result.
Stealing a page out of the Soviet's playbook. Right wingers eager to hate Dems and liberals chant anti-truths to piss us off royally. They'll cry foul when our very real courtrooms hear very real litigation and put their chosen ones in very real prisons.
But, yeah, it's all fake and the election was stolen. Uh huh.
ecstatic
(32,777 posts)Republicans are all about projection. Lindsey Graham and others felt confident enough to call Georgia and other states to DEMAND that the counts be tweaked in tfg's favor. Apparently that technique works in some places. Could it have worked in South Carolina where Lindsey was on the chopping block?
The problem is they never anticipated that Georgia would truly be in play. They believed their own lies. Georgia did not become a red State until they installed the electronic voting machines back in 2000. And it reverted back to a blue state in 2020 when Democrats discovered absentee voting and our shady voting machines were replaced with machines that produced paper receipts (an abrupt change to prevent investigators from inspecting the old machines after the stolen 2018 election between kkkemp and Abrams). It might revert again now that brad raffensberger has once again changed out the voting software, so who knows.