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I saw #Recount2024 trending and ... yeah. Blue MAGA everyone.

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[–] Rom@hexbear.net 67 points 3 days ago

Did that single voting machine cause Harris to lose all seven swing states?

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 53 points 3 days ago (2 children)

i-cant embarrassing. They'll do anything but admit they were too right-wing

[–] AutoVomBizMarkee@hexbear.net 42 points 3 days ago

Doubly embarrassing because we know exactly what they would do if they legitimately should question an election’s results, because we saw it 24 years ago. Roll over

[–] urmums401k@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm okay with this one though. This one is funny and potentially productive.

The lib brain literally cannot cope with this having happened. Like, there is no lib solution to this problem. Stay tuned!

[–] micnd90@hexbear.net 40 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

True hallmark of a failstate is when the ruling parties waste everyone's time and resources, investigating and litigating each other instead of improving people's lives

[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 26 points 2 days ago

It's the AmeriKKKan way™️ vivian-shrug

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 41 points 3 days ago (2 children)

LIB JANUARY 6

LIB JANUARY 6

LIB JANUARY 6

[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago

lathe-of-heaven PUSSY HAT VIA GETTY LET'S GOOOOOOO

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Trump dies during a lib Jan 6th and a civil war breaks out is on someone's parlay somewhere out there as a 1:1,000,000 payout and they put $10,000 on it.

[–] HomoSexualTransStalinist@hexbear.net 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

tbh its hardly unthinkable that the republicans would do mass voter fraud, like i haven't seen any proper evidence that they did but its not unbelievable

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 28 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Even if they did, the election was not remotely close. To suggest that such a relatively huge portion of the vote is fake (if you are thereby contesting the results) seems silly.

[–] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

believing it to manifest a liberal January 6th

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

Yeah where they show up outside the capital with signs that say "shame" and go home

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

Even if they did, the election was not remotely close

Funniest outcome tbh. reps doing mass voter fraud but it turns out it literally did not matter because of how hard the Dems ate shit

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[–] Deadend@hexbear.net 42 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not even on the actual shit.

The Dems should demand everyone who took part in musks vote buying should have their ballots tossed out. And put musk in jail.

They won’t do that.

[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And put musk in jail.

Or just obama-drone him. SCOTUS said it's totally cool.

[–] Deadend@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But it would be funnier if he makes a dramatic stand and attempts to flee arrest by flying into space.

[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

anakin-padme-2 You mean like the Spanish Space Program, right?

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

access to connectivity was improved

Ridiculous that these machines are connected to the internet at all. Or that there are machines involved in this process in the first place. USA is such a funny little country.

edit, nevermind, it isn't the voting machines directly connected to the net: https://xcancel.com/jennycohn1/status/1855679445212029200 gonna leave my smarmy comment as is though. electronic voting machines just for the sake of it has been a shit decision since they were first introduced and it's very strange to me that the process hasn't reverted to purely paper ballots at some point since then.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago

it's very strange to me that the process hasn't reverted to purely paper ballots at some point since then.

It's not strange if you imagine a scenario in which they would want to manipulate something, but have so far chosen not to.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago

Voting doesn't need machines.

Voting machines doesn't need internet connection.

Reject modern bazinga voting, retvrn to hand counted paper ballots.

[–] SSJ3Marx@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

It would be fucking hilarious if they did.

Like, we know that all of the most egregious forms of voter fraud in the past few elections have been from right wingers trying to do what right wing media has been telling them liberals do - voting on behalf of dead relatives, voting in multiple polling stations, etc.

So what if that shit goes all the way to the top, and the reality is that voter turnout is even lower than we thought, because Trump spoofed himself millions of votes?

(I don't think this is likely or even necessarily possible, just that it would be funny)

[–] urmums401k@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm pretty sure thats what they're doing, not because we constantly caught them like twice a day for the month leading up to the election, but because they're so god damn loud accusing everyone else of it.

I'd also believe they won fair or by the rigged-but-agreed rules, and kept cheating anyway. Kinda hoping that's what happened, and also the dems push it.

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

shrug-outta-hecks they did it in 2004, but that was only in one state

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Start the steal!

Start the steal!

Start the steal!

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago

Unironically this was a top comment on the election megapost the night trump won on r/neoliberal

[–] AnarchoAnarchist@hexbear.net 35 points 3 days ago (4 children)

BlueAnon is certain to be more dangerous and less entertaining Q-anon.

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[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 31 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I have lib friends who believe that stuff. It's hard to know what to say in response because like it's obviously not true but I guess it's how they're coping. Fortunately I'm not the only one in the group pushing back on it.

Kamala Harris is so not worth doing a conspiracy theory over.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Why didn't they rig the house and Senate races too? Who cares if its "to obvious" of they had 100% Republicans in congress, who's going to investigate them? Themselves?

The clear answer is that enough dems showed up to the polls to vote down ballot but not for kamala. They either left it blank or voted 3rd party.

[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

You're right, but the real answer is they didn't rig the senate races because the libs aren't emotionally invested in the senate races, so it's not as compelling as a story.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago

Yeah I’ve got a friend leaning into this shit, I think they were just so convinced Trump was going to lose they can’t process the results.

[–] M68040@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Mirroring behavior's become a lot more common lately, sometimes in a naked tit-for-tat fashion. I was ahead of the curve.

Regrettably, though, mere imitation will never succeed - As the dems fail by chasing right wing policy and discarded neocons, so too will the directionless adoption of belligerence for belligerence's sake. Shit, that's how I ended up here.

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[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 19 points 3 days ago

Yeah I have some family who believe this. They’re kind of young so I just chalk it up as copium.

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 18 points 3 days ago

Vice President, a question: What is your message to progressive voters looking for change?volcel-kamala

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 18 points 3 days ago

They're just going to get extra smarmy about getting beat

Nothing more Lib than a Doomed Moral Victor™️

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 18 points 3 days ago
[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

~~Italian satellites and bamboo~~

Musk satellites and... [to be determined]

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Arizona Republicans hunt for bamboo-laced China ballots in 2020 "audit" effort | Arizona | The Guardian

Thu 6 May 2021

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[–] Speaker@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

I could believe Elon tried this and just fucked it up so completely that Kamala got most of the affected votes.

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

I was looking for Tragedy and Farce in all the wrong places!

[–] sloth@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

same as it ever was :david-byrne-in-a-big-suit:

[–] mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Okay, so here’s what I don’t get:

Democrats say half the country is racist and misogynist. Republicans say Democrats are trying to force “woke DEI” on them

Democrats then proceed to run a black or Indian woman who lost her first primary and didn’t even have one this time on a platform of “If you don’t vote for me you’re a nazi”

How the fuck did they think they would win a national election? Why would you choose a candidate you know half of people won’t vote for?

[–] axont@hexbear.net 30 points 3 days ago (2 children)

First, I legit believe that Biden chose Harris as his VP as a pure accident. Biden had made a claim he was going to put a black woman on the Supreme Court, but when asked about his VP, he said something to the effect of "Yeah that too." Since there weren't exactly a lot of national level black women Democrats to choose from, he was basically stuck with Harris.

Then they were stuck with Harris running for President because of something about how campaign finance laws are worded. Or something about how advertising on TV and billboards work. Kamala's name was already registered on all the forms. I believe the deadline for even registering to run for president had passed them by as well.

I truly believe the Democrats didn't want to run her at all, but were stuck because Biden has a massive ego. By extension it's Obama's fault as well for manipulating the 2020 Democratic primaries to get Biden the nomination. Thanks Obama.

[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Could have had the first indigenous VP, but nooooo warren-snake-green

[–] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Say what you will, but I don't think Liz Warren would have fumbled the bag this hard.

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago

Not at all. She's a competent speaker (not a good one, but WAY ahead of Holocaust Harris), and she actually has some progressive-ish policies that she actually believes in. Harris isn't even platitudes, her word salad is too confusing to be described as such.

[–] Dingus_Khan@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

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

Believe it or not, a century late to that claim

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[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago
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