Arizona election audit finds nothing. Sen. Wendy Rogers disagrees - "A trio of technology experts overseen by former Republican Rep. John Shadegg – the $500-an-hour special master agreed upon by the county and the Senate – found no evidence of an internet connection to the ballot tabulation equipment. They also found no evidence that any election data was deleted, purged, overwritten or destroyed, or that there was any attempt to obstruct the Senate’s audit. Their conclusions, of course, were not at all shocking, given that the Republican-run Maricopa County early on assured us the tabulation equipment wasn’t connected to the internet... A hand count of the paper ballots showed that Biden got more votes. So now, it’s over, right? The Great Arizona Hunt for Election Fraud has, at long last concluded, right? Riiiiight."
Meme - Jo @JoJoFromJerz: "Trump essentially stole the presidency." - 3 Jan 2019
Jo @JoJoFromJerz: "I'm so fucking sick of election deniers." - 21 Aug 2022
Meme Jo @JoJoFromJerz: @realDonaldTrump: "I won an election"... no- you STOLE one. You sold your country out in the process. #TrumpResign"
Jo @JoJoFromJerz: "Any political party which refuses to accept election results unless THEY win, shouldn't be in charge of jack shit."
Starbucks Makes Surprising Admission About Mail-In Ballots - "Since the 2020 election there's been much debate over how America's elections are conducted, especially when it comes to absentee and early voting via ballots sent through the mail. Now, as the midterms approach, Starbucks has decided that mail-in ballots are not good — at least when it comes to union elections among its franchise employees. Apparently, Starbucks has discovered that mail-in ballots are susceptible to fraud and misconduct — according to a letter the coffee giant sent to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)... However, what's good for Starbucks is apparently not what Starbucks thinks is good for the rest of America's voters. In a predictably ironic twist, Starbucks was one of many corporate entities that signed onto a statement opposing election integrity laws in Georgia and other states being pursued by Republican legislators and governors... So Starbucks opposes legislation that would put restrictions on the ability of fraud-prone voting methods, but wants to enact restrictions on fraud-prone voting methods for its own employees who are decided whether to join unions."
Facebook - "A consortium of 4 private groups worked w the departments of Homeland Security (DHS) & State to censor massive numbers of social media posts...during the 2020 election, and its members then got rewarded with millions of federal dollars from the Biden administration afterwards"
BREAKING: CEO of US election software firm Konnech arrested for storing data on servers in China - "The New York Times ran an article claiming that "election deniers" had made Konnech the center of a "conspiracy theory." The article claimed that these "election deniers" had used "threadbare evidence" to suggest that Konnech "had secret ties to the Chinese Communist Party and had given the Chinese government back door access to personal data about two million poll workers in the United States." The Times claimed that these allegations against Konnech "demonstrate how far-right election deniers are also giving more attention to new and more secondary companies and groups."... "Konnech," the Times stated, "said none of the accusations were true. It said that all the data for its American customers were stored on services in the United States and that it had no ties to the Chinese government." The Times lameneted the damage done to Konnech's reputation by these "election deniers" who claimed that the company had ties to the CCP."
Democrats Spent $43 Million Helping Election Deniers Win Their Primaries - "The Democrats are trying to beat the Republicans at their own game this midterm cycle, meddling in a number of GOP primaries with the hope that it'll improve their odds in November. But the strategy has required the party to spend tens of millions of dollars boosting election deniers, and if it backfires, the Democrats will have to shoulder some of the blame for helping those far-right candidates into office... Robert Lieberman, author of Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy and political scientist at Johns Hopkins University, said it's "really risky" when political elites act as if winning is the most important thing. "If they're willing to throw those things out in order to win elections, then that spells trouble"... Partisanship has become the core of most Americans' political identity, so more people are willing to tolerate these tactics when it's their party that's behaving in that way. Yet, experts still say it's a hypocritical move from a party that has touted themselves as upholding the rules and norms of democracy. They say that using strategies designed to win at any cost reduces the Democrats' long-held claim to America's moral high ground... Meijer slammed the political trick, telling Politico that he's "sick and tired of hearing the sanctimonious bulls–t about the Democrats being the pro-democracy party." In an essay posted online, the freshman congressman said that if the Democrats are successful at ousting him, "Republican voters will be blamed" but that ultimately, "there is no doubt Democrats' fingerprints will be on the weapon."... "Don't keep coming to me, asking where are all the good Republicans that defend democracy, and then take your donors' money and spend half a million dollars promoting one of the worst election deniers that's out there"... A number of congressional Democrats have also publicly criticized the move, calling the use of campaign funds to help election deniers "unconscionable" and an "egregious misuse of Democratic resources.""
From 2020. So much for all the liberals raging about election deniers.
Meme - Rep. Anne V. Eskamani @AnnaForFlorida: ""Rigged witch hunt"... the only thing rigged in this was the 2016 presidential election. #sayfie #flapol"
Rep. Anne V. Eskamani @AnnaForFlorida: "More Than 1 In 2 Americans Will Have An Election Denier On The Ballot This Fall. This isn't funny - it's dangerous."
Debate moderator just another hostile interrogator - "Two on one is Democrat fun, and that’s what the president was up against last night. He even said so in the early going, telling Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, “I guess I’m debating you, not him. But that’s okay.” Wallace was reading right off the DNC talking points — climate change, the Charlottesville canard, election “integrity” — even right down to The New York Times’ latest rehash of the president’s tax returns."
REVEALED: Democrat operatives including Lincoln Project spread disinformation to suppress the conservative vote - "The suspect behind the right-wing Twitter troll account "Ricky Vaughn" was arrested by federal authorities Wednesday for spreading "disinformation" through memes during the 2016 presidential race in an alleged "election interference" scheme to limit black voter turnout. 31-year-old Douglass Mackey is accused of conspiring with others to encourage black voters through social media to cast their ballots via text message... Twitter-verified comedian Kristina Wong's political sketch from the same election year remains online and posted to Twitter with over 680,000 views. Wong—in the iconic red "Make America Great Again" hat—told Trump supporters to also skip the poll lines and text in their votes. "Text votes are legit. Or vote tomorrow on Super Wednesday!" she tweeted on Nov. 8, 2016. "Why would you go back and vote in another rigged election?" Project Lincoln, the anti-Trump group of Democratic operatives disguised as disaffected GOP members, blasted across social media platforms at the beginning of January. The Lincoln Project told their followers "#DontVote for #RINOs" like Republican incumbent Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in the Georgia runoffs on Jan. 5... The organization added #StopTheSteal, a widespread right-wing hashtag that claims that Democrats stole the 2020 presidential election. "Will @TheJusticeDept prosecute the Lincoln Project for their paid voter suppression disinformation campaign in the Georgia special election?" questioned One America News Network's Jack Posobiec, adding that even Facebook took the advertisement down after the propaganda was sent to hundreds of thousands of potential voters"
Georgia Voting Bungled: Hand Recount Drops Democrat Winner to 3rd Place - "A shocking new report lays bare the anxiety many voters continue to feel about ballot integrity following the 2020 elections. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Democratic primary for a county in Georgia has been called into question after a hand count revealed that voting machines were off by thousands of ballots. Democratic DeKalb County School Board member Marshall Orson, who is running for the county commission, asked the local election board on Thursday not to certify results as it was scheduled to do because of “numerous errors” with the local race"
Damn Democratic election denier!
Georgia election board dismisses claims of ‘ballot harvesting’ in 2020 election - "The board, comprised of three Republicans and one Democratic appointee, agreed to accept a state investigator’s recommendation to not pursue claims against three Gwinnett County residents erroneously suspected of illegally dropping off multiple absentee ballots into drop boxes. Investigators with the secretary of state’s office determined the ballots were from voters themselves and family members living in the same households."
John Rich🇺🇸 on Twitter - "They caught the Idaho killer using cell phone ping data, the exact same method used to track the #2000Mules One's praised as "brilliant detective work", the other has been vilified as "not credible." See how this works? We live in a mirrored fun house where every image is bent."
A lot of stupid people think that showing that people were within 5m (or more) of a dropbox proves that they were stuffing ballot boxes, and that Bryan Kohberger was charged solely based on cellphone location data and that DNA evidence, repeatedly visiting the victims' homes and video surveillance of his car had nothing to do with it. Not to mention how someone being around a known murder scene at the time of the murder is very different from people being near dropboxes. And apparently you can stuff a ballot box from 5m away.
New York Times Op-ed: Challenging Election Results Makes Trump Hitler - "The New York Times published an op-ed Monday that suggested President Donald Trump is like Nazi dictator and mass murderer Adolf Hitler because he is challenging election results in court... Bittner acknowledges that comparing Trump to Hitler is “absurd,” then proceeds to do exactly that... The Times has never apologized for its Russia coverage."
The Democrats May Not Be Able to Concede - The Atlantic - "Liberals had enough trouble accepting the results of the 2016 election. In some sense, they never really came to terms with it. The past four years have witnessed the continuous urge to explain away the inexplicable, to find solace in the fact that the voters betrayed them. How could so many of their fellow Americans side with a racist and a fabulist, someone so callous and seemingly without empathy? It was easier to think that those Americans had been lackeys, manipulated and deceived, or that they simply hadn’t understood what was best for them. Moreover, the Russians had interfered, and tipped the balance in an extremely close election through propaganda, fake news, and collusion with the Trump campaign. Perhaps, as former Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid suggested, the Russians had even tampered with the vote itself.
From 2020
Washington Post slammed, changes headline after op-ed calls for 'elites' to have 'bigger say in choosing the president' - "As part of a series on "how to improve the presidential nominating process," Marquette University associate professor Julia Azari said the "flawed" 2020 Democratic nominating process has had a "rocky start," pointing to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., having won the "popular vote" while former Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg led the delegate count in the Iowa caucuses. The headline, which originally read, "It's time to give the elites a bigger say in choosing the president," was changed to "It's time to switch to preference primaries" without any editor's note after the op-ed was blasted on social media... She pointed to the election of President Trump as "proof that nominations shouldn’t be too democratic"... Many people linked the op-ed to Sanders' recent surge in the polls, including Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir... Shakir told Vanity Fair that Fox News has been "more fair than MSNBC." "That’s saying something,” he added. “Fox is often yelling about Bernie Sanders’ socialism, but they’re still giving our campaign the opportunity to make our case in a fair manner, unlike MSNBC, which has credibility with the left and is constantly undermining the Bernie Sanders campaign.”"
From 2020
Meme - Jesse Singal: "A $30 million DNC commission trying to figure out what went wrong with the Latino vote will produce a widely read memo proposing the party shift from 'Latinx' to the more inclusive 'Lxtinx'"
Gad Saad - Posts | Facebook - "A lot of the folks who HATED the electoral college following the 2016 results (and wanted it abolished) do not seem to mind it now. It’s as if blind tribalism leads to breathtaking hypocrisy. Idea pathogens parasitize the capacity for cognitive and intellectual consistency."
From 2020
Mentally Seceding from the Union - "When polls found seven in ten Republicans refusing to accept that Biden genuinely won the election, they were seen mainly as evidence of President Trump’s pre- and post-election efforts to delegitimize the election itself. But they also suggest a larger trend of delegitimizing election results. One in three Democrats disbelieved Trump’s own victory in 2016. Still earlier, George Bush’s and Barack Obama’s legitimacy was long challenged by small but vocal groups of partisans... Mental secession results from the way we live. We increasingly segregate ourselves geographically into communities of shared values, as Bill Bishop documented a decade ago in The Big Sort. And we segregate ourselves intellectually, relying heavily on politically or culturally inbred sources of information. No wonder a presidential election’s losing side sees the winners like foreign occupiers—the two sides live in different worlds. Mental secession is worsened by the way we govern ourselves. Our Constitution originally entrusted lawmaking to Congress, so that our laws would be enacted through a checked-and-balanced process of deliberation and compromise, sometimes over the course of years or decades. Today, however, our government’s center of gravity is the administrative state, which makes law much more swiftly and unilaterally, and thus less moderately; groups not part of the president’s political coalition have no substantial voice in governance, except when they sue to block the agencies’ work. Institutions that might dampen these problems are reinforcing them. Detachment from our federal government would be less significant if we channeled our energies into other attachments: state and local governments, charities, churches, or others. But today even our civic and private institutions serve often as components of the red and blue confederacies into which we’ve seceded—either proxies for, or tools to be wielded in, the national power struggle."
Of course, the hopes of the author for Biden to promote unity were dashed
Election Science Stakes: Medicine and Public Health - Scientific American - ""COVID is the big one. And it’s going to be affected by this election because we have the current Trump administration, which has a record that we can look at. And that record is of handling the coronavirus poorly—ignoring a lot of public health advice. And the results are sadly obvious to most of the country: we’ve got cases going up in 38 states. And the reasons for this are the administration’s ongoing refusal to develop a robust contact tracing force, to develop tests and a testing program that will enable public health authorities to quickly identify hotspots and isolate people. So step one would be to get the virus under control. And the Biden campaign actually has announced a plan to do that by increasing the number of contact tracers, by starting up a national testing board with the ability and the resources to ramp up testing. So at least we could get a handle on who’s infected, where infections are spreading rapidly. And we’ll be able to direct resources to isolating that, not letting it spread. So I think that that is the starkest and most important contrast.”... "it’s hard to see how spending too much money on health is really too much money.”"
Biden’s plan for an army of disease trackers faces long odds
This whole series was just nakedly political
The US spends the most money in the world on health. But clearly it's not too much money
Election Science Stakes: Climate - Scientific American - ""former vice president Biden has made it clear that he understands and respects climate science and that he thinks that climate change is a really existential threat. “In specifics, so one of the key things that President Trump did was: last year he put in a request to remove the United States from the Paris climate agreement, which is the global agreement for countries to gradually reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. If Biden wins, he has said he will immediately bring us back into that agreement.
Clearly the US all on its own can reverse climate change
Not believing in the end of the world (which goes against the IPCC's assessments, even) means you're a Science Denier
Election Science Stakes: Environment - Scientific American - ""there were protections that were taken down for wetlands that basically allow for dumping of pesticides and other pollutants into the waterways. “There were regulations on emissions from power plants, not just about carbon dioxide but also about heavy metals. So there’s actually less restriction on mercury that power plants could emit. I mean, mercury is a horrible toxin. And then in the whole coal-fired arena, there’s regulations about disposal of toxic waste that have been rolled back, too, which will add levels of lead and arsenic and other contaminants like that into the environment. So these are long-standing toxins and other compounds that we know are bad for people and the environment. And those things are being rolled back as well.” Well, that’s a key thing is the health aspect. Because, you know, even if you don’t care that there will ever be another tree or another bird, human health is at stake with these things as well.
If you believe in cost-benefit analysis, you hate the environment
Election Science Stakes: Energy - Scientific American - "I would add that, you know, there are still subsidies to this day for oil and natural gas. They're hardly new technologies. It really does change the equation because there are plenty of studies that show purely on cost and energy delivery that renewables—wind and solar—are actually cheaper than many fossil fuels, but they don't stay cheaper if fossil fuels have subsidies."
"Science" means pretending that the cost per unit of installed capacity is the true cost of renewables
2020 election was ‘bought by Zuckerberg’, researcher claims, citing $420mn turnout-boosting work funded by Facebook CEO & allies - "Two nonprofits funded by Mark Zuckerberg and his allies spent $419.5 million to boost turnout in the 2020 presidential election – and “likely” secured a victory for Joe Biden, according to a study of the national vote. The NGOs called the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) and The Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) claim they are working to make democracy stronger, more secure, and better at engaging civic participation in polling. A new analysis of the 2020 election argues that the nonprofits are partisan vehicles to pump private money into the election system, a phenomenon previously unknown in the country’s politics. Their impact may have flipped the election for Joe Biden and potentially created fertile ground for manipulating election outcomes in favor of the Democratic Party... While both NGOs insisted they were acting in a non-partisan way, Doyle says the effect of their actions was staggeringly in favor of the Democratic candidate. “Of the 26 grants CTCL provided to cities and counties in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia that were $1 million or larger, 25 went to areas Biden won in 2020,” he wrote. “The only county on this list won by Donald Trump (Brown County, Wisconsin) received about $1.1 million – less than 1.3 percent of the $85.5 million that CTCL provided to these top 26 recipients.”"
Corporate involvement in politics is only bad when it hurts liberals
Smartmatic implicated in alleged bribery scheme involving top Filipino election official - "Smartmatic, the voting technology company suing Fox News and former President Donald Trump’s top allies over their false claims that its machines rigged the 2020 election, was implicated in an alleged bribery scheme involving the former top election official in the Philippines... Smartmatic filed massive defamation suits against Fox News, Newsmax, OAN, several individual Fox hosts, ex-Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and others. They all deny wrongdoing. Some of these pro-Trump figures have tried to push back against the defamation suits by highlighting Smartmatic’s ties to Venezuela and its involvement in foreign elections."
Meme - Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson: "BREAKING: Fulton County DA Fani Willis regularly questioned election results & used her office to push unfounded election conspiracies. On the eve of Trump's arrest in Georgia for "challenging" an election - a deep dive into the prosecutor's history of doing the *same* thing"
"Fan Willis is feeling annoyed:. Georgia could determine who is our next president. A TEAM of lawyers needs to watch them count every single VOTE. They can start in Fulton where we are having water leaks. What ballots are they throwing out? Georgia lets give an honest accounting. No stunts!"
The left just got crushed - "So much for the Democratic fantasy — the one that seemingly never dies — of unobstructed rule. Democrats didn't just want to win and govern in the name of a deeply divided nation's fractured sense of the common good. No, they wanted to lead a moral revolution, to transform the country — not only enacting a long list of new policies, but making a series of institutional changes that would entrench their power far into the future. Pack the Supreme Court. Add left-leaning states. Break up others to give the left huge margins in the Senate. Get rid of the Electoral College. Abolish the police. Rewrite the nation's history, with white supremacy and racism placed "at the very center." Ensure "equity" not just in opportunity but in outcomes. Hell, maybe they'd even establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to teach everyone who voted for or supported the 45th president just how evil they really are. No wonder so many Republicans turned out to vote. Democrats proved to be the most effective GOTV operation for the GOP imaginable... So please, Democrats, look in the mirror and show a little humility. You're not nearly as self-evidently wonderful or widely loved as you'd like to believe. You are not destined to prevail anywhere. You share a country with a large group of people who hate your guts, and who aren't going to submit to your rule or go along with your giddy plans to remake the nation in your image. It's time to start acting like you understand this implacable fact and all it implies about the limits of your power and the parameters of the possible."
Of course, they didn't learn
Biden & Trump -- Democrats' Election 'War Games' Delegitimize November’s Election - "A recent deep dive in the Washington Post’s Outlook section, “What’s the Worst That Could Happen?” exploring various potential outcomes of the 2020 presidential election, found that in “every scenario except a Biden landslide, our simulation ended catastrophically.” According to the Post, any other outcome is destined to spark “violence” and a “constitutional crisis.” Or, in other words, nice country you got there . . . Every assumption in the article, written by Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown University law professor and co-founder of the Transition Integrity Project, is awash in the conspiratorial paranoia that’s infected the modern Democratic Party. It’s a world where Trump officials — played, quite implausibly, by Joe Biden partisans Michael Steele and Bill Kristol — are “ruthless and unconstrained right out of the gate” but the genteel statesmen of Team Biden “struggled to get out of reaction mode.” It is a place where Republicans aren’t only reflexively seditious and autocratic, but a “highly politicized” Supreme Court tries to steal the election. In their “war game” scenarios, however, it’s the Democrats who refuse to accept the will of courts to adhere to the constitutionally prescribed system rather than hysteria, and it’s the Democrats who wishcast the wholly imaginary “popular vote” into existence... In the fictional war game, however, John Podesta, playing the role of Biden, contends that his party won’t let him concede the race, and instead alleges “voter suppression” — the catch-all go-to every time a Democrat loses — and persuades the Democratic governors of Trump-won states such as Wisconsin and Michigan to send pro-Biden electors to the Electoral College. In the meantime, California, Oregon, and Washington threaten to secede from the union if Trump takes office. The Democratic House unilaterally names Biden president. “At that point in the scenario,” the New York Times’ Ben Smith explains, “the nation stopped looking to the media for cues, and waited to see what the military would do.” This scenario is what a real-life “coup” might resemble. It is, needless to say, utterly insane that Democrats would destroy the nation’s long-standing and peaceful transition because they refuse to accept the mandated process of electing the president. All of which is to say the proactive — and retroactive — delegitimization of the Trump presidency has been a successful four-year project. It permeates the entire Democratic Party’s information complex. First, Democrats convinced millions of Americans that a handful of inept and puerile social-media ads were enough to overturn a presidential election in the most powerful nation on earth. By 2017, a majority of Democrats believed that vote tallies had been tampered with by Russians, somehow without a trace of evidence... 28 percent of Biden’s supporters say they aren’t prepared to accept a Trump victory as “fairly won,” and 19 percent of President Trump’s supporters say the same about a potential Biden victory."
From September 2020. Ironic, given what happened didn't match the predictions
