Posted on 08/30/2024 6:50:36 AM PDT by MtnClimber
I used to be agnostic on the victor in the 2020 presidential election.
I simply didn’t know since our system is so botched and riddled with holes in almost every state it’s difficult to determine the winner in any of our elections that are even relatively close.
I still remain somewhat agnostic, but the tenacity, resembling monomania, with which our Torquemada-like special prosecutor Jack Smith seeks to indict and convict Donald Trump leads me to believe Mr. Trump actually won.
Many may also feel that way because of the manner in which Mr. Trump’s poll numbers tend to grow the more he is indicted.
I admit my reaction is to some extent psychological/emotional, but it does have a factual basis.
It is not for no reason that the French abandoned voting machines in 2008 in favor of verifiable paper ballots. They feared, as have Americans of both parties in the past, the machines were too open to sabotage.
A number of examples have been put forward indicating that occurred in 2020. They have been “debunked” by various supposedly knowledgable parties, including then Attorney General William Barr who, with questionable credibility because only three weeks past election day, shut the door on investigation, declaring there was, as always, some cheating but it was insufficient to affect the election.
The word “debunked” itself at this point should be debunked.
Meanwhile, the reason for the persistence of these computerized voting machines, despite this possibility of technological flummery, is that they are a staggeringly successful business with many opportunities for one hand to wash the other.
A May 2019 article at the PA Post tells us that 18 Pennsylvania counties chose the company ES & S for their machines at an estimated total cost of $48 million.
That’s just one state—in only 18 of 67 its counties.
“When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s….” Well, you know the rest.
The opportunities for corruption abound. And that’s not to mention the early voting (before debates are held), ubiquitous mail-in ballots (something even Barack Obama originally opposed), pervasive ballot harvesting with reams of envelopes dumped anonymously in the middle of the night, non-citizens automatically registered to vote when they get driver’s licenses, no ID necessary in various states, no real signature verification in various states, people voting from non-existent addresses, people voting in the wrong state, dead people voting and so forth.
I could go on, but, in sum, our election system is a national disgrace that our officials, local and national, have allowed, even here in supposedly conservative Tennessee.
Some purported Republicans pay lip service to fixing this, but they are being, in the parlance, largely performative. Nothing much has happened to improve the situation and Donald Trump has had to resort, against his professed beliefs and those of many of us, to acquiesce to an inherently unsound early voting/mail-in voting system....SNIP
What will they try after failing to kill President Trump?
BTTT
“I simply didn’t know since our system is so botched and riddled with holes in almost every state it’s difficult to determine the winner in any of our elections that are even relatively close.”
Roger.... you need to develop some common sense.
It’ll be something. If they lack creativity they’ll just try the same thing again. There weren’t any real consequences the first time. Hell, the American public forgot that already.
He needs to build a strong team.
The opportunities for voter fraud abound.
<><>early voting (before debates are held),
<><>ubiquitous mail-in ballots (even Obama originally opposed them),
<><>pervasive ballot harvesting
<><>reams of envelopes dumped anonymously in the middle of the night,
<><>non-citizens automatically registered to vote
<><>illegals given vote-enabling driver’s licenses,
<><>no ID necessary in various states,
<><>no real signature verification in various states,
<><>people voting from non-existent addresses,
<><>people voting in the wrong state,
<><>dead people voting
<><>and so on and so forth, ad infinitum, ad nauseaum
That’s what they’re trying hide , The Big Steal . If Trump gets elected he’ll find out everything
“Jack Smith Makes Me Think Trump Won in 2020”
He certainly confirms it. But you weren’t the least bit convinced by the boatload of mounting evidence screaming “fraud?”
This is the money line.
Related: Venezuela’s proof that Smartmatic stole at least around a million votes from Gonzalez in order to steal the election for Maduro.
This is in a place with even more supposed checks to make sure that fraud can’t happen. But it could and did because of Smartmatic, and Smartmatic is used here, and other systems operate the same way. Democrat donor Reid Hoffman is funding Smartmatic’s legal persecution of Fox News, Newsmax, OAN, Mike Lindell, Sidney Powell, Rudy Guiliani, etc.
This absolutely needs to be exposed and investigated, stat. And the means that Maduro has used to poo-pooh the whole issue in spite of international knowledge of the steal and refusal to recognize the Maduro regime’s legitimacy... very closely resembles what the bad guys are doing here. Those bad guys - at local, state, and federal levels - need to be thrown into Gitmo. Reid Hoffman needs to be questioned as to what he knows about Smartmatic’s theft of the Venezuela election, and strongly pressured legally to give up his financial support unless he wants to be indicted on conspiracy charges.
See more on my thread at https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4261661/posts
Anyone that believes 2x loser Joe Biden towingHarris got 81 million votes, most votes in US history, needs their head examined.
Welcome to the party pal. Was it just a coincidence that vote counting stopped at 10 PM in swing states and Republican observers were sent home? Was it a coincidence that huge mail in vote dumps that favored Biden 9-1 occurred after midnight in swing states? Was it a coincidence that Trump was winning before midnight? No. It is obvious that the election stealers stopped to figure how many fake votes Democrats needed to win and ordered up the necessary ballots to stay within the margin of cheating.
The fake news will never show it.
In 2020 it was the wrong king, wrong mother, wrong baby that won...
The baby was sliced in half and so were our lives and fortunes...
Took him four years to figure that out?
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There is knowing it was stolen and proving it was stolen.
In order to know it, all you need is a pair of eyes and a bit of common sense.
In order to prove it, you need an audit trail that has not been erased and a court system that will hear the case.
If people think the 2020 election was fair, open and honest stand by for a 2024 repeat.
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