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No Republican Can Be Elected President. Ever Again.
I enjoy the political back-and-forth in the primaries, but after the last Presidential election, and last year, I consider almost all of it unimportant. The only issue that matters is election integrity. The fact is, the way things are now, no Republican can possibly be elected President.
Here are the numbers. Savor Trump’s Electoral Landslide — Until the Phantoms Vote – American Thinker
The Democrat far left used COVID to greatly expand their usual methods of stealing an election: universal mail-in ballots, extended counting periods, you name it. Molly Hemingway’s excellent book Rigged spells it out in detail. If you don’t want to bother with the deep dive, consider one simple fact: Joe Biden couldn’t raise a crowd of more than “dozens” of supporters, yet got more votes than Obama did either time he ran.
Once they got in power, they did their best to make all those lovely techniques legal. They came up with new ones, like ranked-choice voting, which elected a Democrat in Alaska although Republicans got far more votes. They did it systematically, state by swing state, with Democrat prosecutors and state Supreme Courts to back it up. Georgia, Florida and Texas are the only states a Republican can win in the Presidential election.
Unless we change this before November 2024, it doesn’t matter who is running, we’re getting the Democrat.
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Republicans when someone tries to explain how the election system is rigged to ensure no Republican is ever elected president again.
Meh. They said the same stuff after Hoover and Obama.
What troubles me is that nobody against the Deep State will ever win again. Sometime around October 2001 we switched from being a Republic to an Empire. Elections have not been meaningful since.
We learned today that a whistleblower brought to the FBI the Biden-Ukraine bribery evidence before Trump was first impeached. That stayed hidden for 5 years.
Here’s an experiment worth trying: try nominating someone younger and less polarizing than Trump for 2024, and see if that person wins or not. The GOP has a decent field of candidates. My guess? Someone younger, with a broader base of appeal – DeSantis, Haley, Scott, etc. – wins against Biden.
“Shh! You can’t talk about election integrity or people will doubt election integrity! Questioning our elections is what harms our elections, you conspiracy theorist!” — Con, Inc.™
How does “someone younger and less polarizing” overcome junkmail ballot harvesting in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, and Nevada?
By having a legal team with the smarts to actually win legal challenges to questionable practices? Trump has already shown that he doesn’t have such a team.
Wrong. Read the American Thinker article linked above. It does not matter what candidate the GOP runs. The democrat election fraud machine will manufacture the number of phantom votes needed in each of the battleground states to put even a brain-damaged Joe Biden in the WH again.
Doesn’t matter how smart your legal team is if the judges don’t want to get involved and risk having BLM/Antifa/etc show up at their homes, their childrens’ schools, etc.
Then why would any of you bother to vote at all?
Where’s the proof that that is what happened with all of Trump’s legal actions which went nowhere?
That is my take of it.
I figured it was over when Trump ran. HRC had it in the bag, every Democrat knows it. Trump pulled it over and the Democrats KNEW it was he cheated. Why? Because they knew in their heart they had it and it was a done deal. Trump’s crew figured a way they did not and thus it was cheating. That side knows cheating and know how to do it well. So the next time under Biden they fixed the issue and now its a done deal. I do not expect to see GOP POTUS again in my lifetime. Most likely not for a couple hundred years or so. POTUS is done. What surprised me was the Senate. But I suspect that side is gone now too. Every election will have fewer and fewer GOP Senate until they their 60 maybe 75 mark is taken over. Something similar will happen to the House in time. I suspect a match that will be on the Federal level the same as the City levels have. Think California everywhere.
How does one overcome the “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” process of challenges to procedures in court. We repeatedly saw challenges before elections tossed due to lack of standing (“You haven’t suffered a harm yet.”). Then after elections procedural challenges were tossed because of “latches” (“You should have brought this challenge before the election.”).
Most of the challenges in 2020, regardless of whether they were brought by Trump’s team or a GOP candidate down ballot were tossed for one of these two reasons.
That’s not what I’ve read, but it’s not worth arguing – the question I asked earlier still applies: if you believe this, then why do you vote at all?
Exactly.
Notice how neither of of these is an impediment to Democrats demanding before an election that signature verification requirements be removed, or after an election that ballots mailed after election day be counted.
Doesn’t matter when courts won’t hear the cases.
Indeed. Why vote?
If you could think outside of your Trump hatred for just a second, . . .
. . . oh, wait. You can’t.
Then I’ll ask again: those of you who believe this, why would you bother to vote at all?
Right. Why bother? Maybe Republicans might want to start getting serious about election fraud. That is, if they want to win.
But they don’t want to win. If they win, they’d have to show some effort. Better to remain the minority party, collect the graft, and do nothing.
So, since the GOP isn’t interested in winning, why should I vote for them?
Time for a real opposition party.
What I said at #4 is absolutely true. Con, Inc. isn’t interested in addressing election fraud. They want to pretend it doesn’t exist. And their excuse is that if they talk about it, people will doubt our elections. Well that ship has already sailed. If they want people to turn out and vote for them again, they’re going to have to treat it with the seriousness it requires. It’s too bad that their (and your) hatred for Donald Trump keeps them from acting. Trump sure did expose the Uniparty, didn’t he?
A legitimate question. The Republican Party just reelected the same leader who has guided them in through five losing election cycles. It’s like they don’t even want to win.
Boeing announced at its last shareholders meeting that they weren’t even going to try to beat Airbus anymore. On fact, they don’t plan on developing any new aircraft on this century. They’re going to just make as much money as they can with a 30-40% market share . I think the Republican Party has embraced the same strategy.
I figure the Dims were already cheating in 2016, which is one reason why they figured Hillary had it locked, but they didn’t cheat ENOUGH and so Trump was able to overcome it. Likely no other Republican nominee would have even come close, so the Dims didn’t think they needed to cheat very much. They were wrong.
By 2020 they had their cheating machine oiled up and supercharged.
So you won’t be voting, then, in the 2024 election, since you believe there’s no way a Republican can win?
If you do a search online for “states that have changed election laws since 2020” you will find articles aplenty about numerous states that have made reforms lately. This article for instance is from June, 2021, so there are probably more by now than the 17 states mentioned in the title. As we know, of course, laws aren’t always followed, but I’m not prepared to throw in the towel and declare that we will be perpetual losers.
Ah, but who was on Obama’s ticket? That’s right, Joe Biden. See people really wanted Biden but turned out to vote for him and Obama. When given the opportunity to vote for Biden at the top of the ticket, even more of those enthusiastic voters turned out for Joe. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
I think the reason for Biden’s numbers is that people were voting against Trump. Biden was the recipient of those votes, but I doubt it would have made much difference who the Democratic nominee was.
If that’s the issue with voting, then I agree with you: don’t vote. But there’s more for people to see in the process of running for election, voting, being cheated out of a win, and people experiencing it than just voting.
This is a bit of a myth. You can find summaries of the various decisions which lay out what the cases were, what the results were and why.
Some did have procedural defects, but not all. If I recall correctly, for the ones dismissed on the doctrine of laches, that doctrine didn’t apply because they should have brought the case before the election. It applied, rather, because they waited to challenge the rule changes they thought were improper until after the general election, despite the same rules having been followed in the primary. In other words, they waited until they got an election result they didn’t like.
But again, laches was a minor issue in looking at the cases as a whole. See here, for example: https://electioncases.osu.edu/case-tracker/?sortby=filing_date_desc&keywords=&status=all&state=all&topic=25. A summary of those can be found here: https://campaignlegal.org/results-lawsuits-regarding-2020-elections
Seems to me there might have been different plaintiffs for a primary challenge vs the general election. Since the primaries are just for the party candidates, etc.
I don’t recall off the top of my head, but the plaintiff was likely the trump campaign or the state GOP or something like that – someone who obviously would have had a stake in both.