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Very nice Brian. Actually, the MAGA crowd played this perfectly. 'Too big to rig' was the absolute right play. Even our midwits should have noticed that what they were positing about 'election deniers' didn't match the actual behavior of the deniers.

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"...one of twitter’s most engagement-savvy centrist mid-wits last week." Such a perfect description of that account. Thank you for the laugh!

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The number of missing votes is probably gonna end up being closer to 8 to 10,000,000 based on changes at the time I am writing this post. I think there's a good chance that those votes can be explained by a large percentage of Democrats choosing not to vote. I think linking arms with the Cheneys and other neocons may have been a bridge too far for old school Democrats who still think Cheney and Bush should be tried for war crimes.

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Nov 8·edited Nov 8Author

Depends on which states and cities. And is it 8 million changed minds based on inflation/migrants, or is it 8 million farmed votes that fell through the cracks due to ejecting Biden? If it's the latter then it remains that the 2020 count was still essentially cooked. *edit: That wasn't really an answer to the suggestion about pre-Trump leftists changing their mind. Hard to say as far as those, since it was already clear in 2018 that Trump was essentially a Bush-era Democrat's model anti-war president; so why would they have gone for Biden in 2020.

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"Well, because 5 is more than 4, morons."

Yeah. I was partly skeptical of the claim that fraud was not significant just because I have seen so many seemingly independent little people reporting of different sorts of shenanigans from the sites back then (but no idea how much it mattered in total). Then people pointed me to the Ginsburg thing, claiming "no widespread fraud", and "from their own people" no less (Ginsburg did stuff for the Bushes? I was not familar with him, but those are not the same people to me), which seemed like a red herring, as targeted, precise fraud where it turned out to be necessary last-minute (with anticipatory preparation & waiting for go), to flip something that's on the razor's edge, seems a more expectable MO of somewhat competend fraudsters who minimize risk & cost, plus the little extra of ideologically motivated independent groups perhaps. I'm not sure The Experts even asked all the little guys who were reporting, wondering how they determined their verdict.

That this time around, people would have their eagle eyes on the things which pere preceived as ways of cheating last time, and thus possibly diminishing the likelihood of the same tricks succeeding, should have been expected. And even just the attitude frequently seen among vocal conservatives' attitude w.r.t. the election of "when they're cheating, we need to push _even stronger_" was observable, to be expected, and demonstrates your math.

So indeed, there were people who find this surprising? Wow ^^

"perhaps they should band together to put out a call for same-day, in-person voting with ID, to remove all these uncertainties?"

That's "racist", somehow. (is the insistence on nonsense like that some sort of Freudian Slip? Who can defend this ting that should go even without saying in non-crazy times, without really deep down wanting fraud to happen, and feeling whose side will likely be doing this... o_O)

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One funny logical correlate to the voter-ID-disenfranchisement argument is that the "best" system is to have voter ID, but automatically count a certain number of Democrat votes based on population of Blacks. After all, the only substantive consequence of making voting harder in the US is fewer Black votes for Democrats. Oops, that's basically zombie 3/5ths-rule-ism - "woke more correct" as they say

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This tells you all you need to know about Trump aka The Messiah.... aka The Father of the Covid Vaccines....

The barnyard animals will make up excuses ... but the reality is he is in The Club...

It's all fake... all of it

But hey - ya'll need a messiah right hahaha Idiots

Let's take a look at Donald Trump's Ear

Seemingly No Injury...

Fast Eddy

Aug 06, 2024

Recent photos of Trump have raised eyebrows, particularly given his former doctor, Ronny Jackson's statements. The medical practitioner had previously stated that a bullet had severely damaged the ex-president's ear during the assassination attempt.

Despite Jackson's claims that the bullet had blown off part of Trump's ear, the new images of Trump meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu show no visible scarring or damage.

https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/lets-take-a-look-at-donald-trumps

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Joe Rogan said there's a visible scar on Trump's ear that he saw himself when he sat across the desk from him last week. People behind Trump in the audience were seriously injured or died in the shooting. Talk about TDS.

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Trump calls himself ‘father of the vaccine’ and claims he deserves credit for coronavirus shots

Former US president Donald Trump has claimed that he is “the father of the vaccine” for coronavirus, attacking his successor Joe Biden for taking credit for the much-improved US response to the crisis.

Mr Trump was speaking to Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business in response to Mr Biden’s address to Congress on Wednesday evening marking his first 100 days in the White House.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-father-vaccine-covid-fox-interview-b1839555.html

The Father of the Vaccine --- hahahaha.... but ... but ... he's your Messiah... your Saviour...

Remember when he promised to drain the swamp????

hahahahaha ...

Villains and Heroes

What if US presidents are nothing more than actors?

What if Trump was tipped to play the role of raging blowhard with the odd hair and spray on tan?

What if Biden, who sometimes appears to not know where he is and shakes hands with ghosts or tries to sit on a chair that does not exist, yet at other times is perfectly lucid, is faking dementia?

Why have we not seen Trump or Hunter in jail? Is this all Potemkin Theatre? Is it a political version of the World Wrestling Federation for the purpose of inciting mass demoralization using the Operation Clown World strategy (Tranny Freaks flashing their ball sacks in primary schools while parents clap and sing along is also part of Operation Clown World). A demoralized herd is more likely to accept extermination. It is also very effective in keeping the mob of imbeciles from the truth.

What if corrupt politicians are not a flaw in the system rather a feature? Might The Club encourage venal idiots to seek office because they will do what they are told and are only interested in enriching themselves.

It’s not hard to imagine that if a POTUS was to oppose The Club, he’d be ushered into the private cinema at the White House and shown the Zapruder Film. No doubt The Club’s directors prefer not to blow out the brains of its members (again).

Trudeau was a drama teacher. Ardern was a DJ with PR certificate (and bad habit?)

https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/what-if

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Ronny Jackson's statements. The medical practitioner had previously stated that a bullet had severely damaged the ex-president's ear during the assassination attempt.

Severely damaged ... but healed in two weeks - no scar.... no scar.... no scar... no scar...

Healed two weeks... two weeks... no scar ... no scar

Duh

https://www.tmz.com/2024/07/26/donald-trump-seen-no-bandage-first-time-since-shooting-injury/

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Constantly discussing a large group of voters who dispute the results of the election also seems like a good way to create a large group of voters who dispute the results of the election. "Speak of the devil..."

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This would seem right - but with the "voodoo doll" expectation that this large group of voters won't vote again, which Trump just proved wrong

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Nov 8·edited Nov 8

I recall some government research effort that determined the media is ineffective at controlling HOW people think about an issue, but can be very effective at controlling WHAT issues people think about. If I ever dig it up again I'll link it.

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I'm not entirely clear about this argument that 20 million Democratic votes vanished.

Isn't it possible that in 2020 so many people had raging TDS that they voted for Biden?

And then in 2024 they had gotten disillusioned with the obviously insane Democrats and voted for *anybody else*?

I'm not going anywhere near the intellectual-voodoo section of the article. My mind reading skills are weak at best.

Aside #1: in the Crusade Against the Machines tweet, I just want to point out that

"65 million Democrats voted" does not equal "65 million votes cast for the Democrat"

Aside #2: your answers are never simple, but that's probably just my pea brain 😵‍💫

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The answer to "why vote if believe there was fraud" is "if we vote we might win," which is simple - not this post itself though.

TDS is real, and still going strong in the "very online." But by 2020 Trump had banked some number of hostile minds who saw his rule was essentially anti-war populism with fun optics, as well as anti-lockdown and anti-Floyd-worship (like me). If adjusting for the boost from mail-in pseudo-voting I think the Biden totals should have been about a wash at 65-70m.

But what do I know - There's no raw data to ultimately to check or verify, except district totals which are supposedly impossibly high.

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I suffered from at least five years of severe TDS myself, and then recovered (Covid's silver lining), which provides a helpful perspective.

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I think this set of numbers does indicate something sketchy:

https://substack.com/@kevinbass/note/c-75909790?

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