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In reply to the discussion: Former US Army statistician finds 2024 election win by Trump is off the charts improbable. [View all]groundloop
(13,554 posts)18. These conspiracy theories do nobody any good unless someone can find absolute PROOF.
I have my own theories about this election, and they're not very complicated:
Many many Americans are stupid (backed up by the fact that 54% of adults in the US read at a 6th grade level or below).
Many Americans have a short memory and therefore forgot about the disasters from tRumps' first time occupying the White House, how he totally botched the Covid response, etc. etc.
Right wing media (including internet "influencers" ) were very persistent in telling us lies about how bad things were under Biden.
Democrats spent more time doing actual governing and improving the lives of Americans than they spent doing PR work (imo we need to get much better at PR).
The GQP did a superb job targeting Democratic areas in swing states to suppress votes by challenging voters, purging voter rolls, moving polling places at the last minute, and generally making it more difficult for people to vote in these areas. Then for good luck throw in a few well placed bomb threats on election day.
Elmo aided tRump immensely by taking over twitter and turning it into a right wing platform. Elmo also spread a ton of lies on facebook, such as the ones about the FAA not allowing relief supplies to get into the Carolinas after the hurricane.
Russian trolls and bots were hyper active on facebook.
Many male voters weren't going to vote for a woman, not even if she's well educated, well spoken, and highly qualified. Kamala absolutely kicked tRumps' ass in their debate, yet that didn't seem to change many minds.
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Former US Army statistician finds 2024 election win by Trump is off the charts improbable. [View all]
magicarpet
Feb 2025
OP
Please don't patronize me or lecture me. I respect others, regardless of gender or skin color. Do you?
Doodley
Feb 2025
#47
You know nothing about me other than I have said I am a white male. You have no idea what I have done to support women's
Doodley
Feb 2025
#65
Thought experiment: if white males were raptured, would the world be a better place? Sorry, but yes, it would.
rainin
Feb 2025
#76
I don't accept stereotyping, including derogatory race or gender-based generalizations.
Doodley
Feb 2025
#77
Is that your opinion of Pete Buttigieg, Tim Walz, or Gavin Newsom ? A cancer destroying the country ?
MichMan
Feb 2025
#80
Thank you for saying so. There should be no place for hate speech that holds all white men accountable for
Doodley
Feb 2025
#85
Very good points against the demonization of folks, based race, gender, or even geography. Thank you.
Doodley
Feb 2025
#84
" I don't know how they did but they did". I think musk had a hand in doing some computer wiz bang voodoo.
mitch96
Feb 2025
#38
The tabulation devices. Democrats had been so worried about touch screens that they totally forgot
LiberalArkie
Feb 2025
#45
lol at glaring error, you really had to deep dive to find something to "blast "
questionseverything
Feb 2025
#52
We'll keep looking for an explanation other than the fact that voters didn't like Democratic message in Nov.
Silent Type
Feb 2025
#6
True, they did not like what we were selling.. I think it's gonna come back and bite them in the ass..nt
mitch96
Feb 2025
#39
If the election results are legit, you are asking me to believe the following:
ScratchCat
Feb 2025
#8
Swing state NC elected Democrats to the top offices, broke the Repuke supermajority in the legislature
ms liberty
Feb 2025
#15
Indeed. Many of us on this forum who have questioned the legitimacy of the election
yellow dahlia
Feb 2025
#25
These conspiracy theories do nobody any good unless someone can find absolute PROOF.
groundloop
Feb 2025
#18
The only way to have "proof " is to hand count the votes under full public view
questionseverything
Feb 2025
#48
One doesn't spend over 250 million dollars not to get results they wanted.
Butterflylady
Feb 2025
#21
More Eloon"s little kid X yapping about Daady helping trDRUMP win the election.
magicarpet
Feb 2025
#70
One of the worst arguments is that there is no way Trump could win all 7 swing states
Wiz Imp
Feb 2025
#35
I don't agree with the premise of this thread atleast until someone produces proof
standingtall
Feb 2025
#43