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1. Coolidge
   kedavis

   @kedavis

   9:06 PM EDT ⋅ May 10, 2023

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   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.

    

   I used to think your cynicism and negativity was just an act and, honestly, it ticked me off at times. Today, I’m not sure you’re cynical and negative enough.

   It has never been an act. And you are probably right that I am not cynical enough. I have too much optimism in me to be cynical enough. But I was raised by a Grandfather and Father that were very realist about things and showed me things. They also got us involved in local politics that let me see too much of how that world work. I usually feel that many on Ricochet live life with rose colors glasses. But that side of the world is showing people enough that the color is fading from the eyes. My greatest fear is that I am not realistic enough for what is coming.

    

   Maybe so, but I figure the Dimocrat voters are in for an even bigger shock.

   What shock? They will keep not getting what they are promised or actually just a bit of it and be told the GOP are the reason why they are not getting what they deserve because it was promised.

   I can see my benighted mother falling for that, but I hope not many people are THAT dumb.

   Maybe they are, though.

2. Coolidge
   CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill

   @CarolJoy

   9:11 PM EDT ⋅ May 10, 2023

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   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.

   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?

   Doesn’t matter when courts won’t hear the cases.

   Then I’ll ask again: those of you who believe this, why would you bother to vote at all?

   Good question. Maybe hope. But it is getting harder to see hope with the reality of the situation. Many of my friends already do not. The figure it really does not matter who wins anyway since the powers are going to do what they will. They may be right.

   You point out yet another reason for why the 2020 election situation needs re-examination.

   Typically only half of all registered Americans vote in the Pres election.

   In 2020, some 20 million more people voted than were registered. Additionally, to arrive at the sum total of Trump and Biden’s vote count, there was nary a soul who stayed at home rather than mailing in the ballot or arriving at the polling place on election day.

3. Coolidge
   Headedwest

   @Headedwest

   9:15 PM EDT ⋅ May 10, 2023

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   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.

   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.

   Then why would any of you bother to vote at all?

   It may not matter any more.