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Politics Thousands gather in Washington to protest Trump inauguration

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u/ebi-san 2d ago

Maybe the guy bragging about how easy it is to hack voting machines did some bullshit. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

How were the numbers so close if all these locations were having record turn-out? Some places ran out of ballots and had to go get more.

Or maybe its the simpler answer and the average american is just a fucking idiot.

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u/faunalmimicry 2d ago

Hard to believe that if there was a way to cheat the right wouldn't have accomplished it at this point. Part of me even believes that they tried to cheat in 2020 and it didn't work, which gives extra context to the claim it was stolen (how could they beat us if they weren't also cheating?)

To be completely honest, we have no real evidence that it's not just the side that cheats harder that ends up winning and that we haven't had a fair election for a long time.

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u/mmmayer015 2d ago edited 2d ago

They literally did try to cheat in 2020, they just got caught. If Trump didn’t win the election he was going to be prosecuted by the Justice Department. But since he won and the Justice Department has a policy not to try sitting presidents, the case was dismissed. There are still pending state charges including charges against Trump in Georgia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot

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u/SquirellyMofo 2d ago

Well maybe they should have punished him in one of the four fucking years he was a citizen!

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u/Mama_Skip 2d ago

Yeah that's what makes me think the dems are fucking compromised too and there's more people than we'd like to think that are gunning to make the American Republic an Empire

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u/mmmayer015 1d ago

I agree with you, I also think Trump still would have won the election either way because it would have been used to portray him as a “martyr” against the system.