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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

“Do you really believe you’re going to convince a majority of Americans, and sufficient majorities in Congress, to actually overturn the election and install Trump into office before the 2024 election?”

Tried of this stupid strawman argument. No, Trump is not going to be president before 2024! Never said that. But the election was stolen, the country is being destroyed by a demented old man’s handlers. And I don’t think it should be left unsaid.

Do you really believe that we shouldn’t talk about election fraud because it makes you and the establishment uncomfortable? Stealing the Presidency is not a little thing. Millions of people are suffering because of this theft.


83 posted on 02/14/2022 8:09:42 AM PST by BushCountry (Jeffery Toobin is the only person at CNN that keeps his hands to himself.)
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To: BushCountry
Tried of this stupid strawman argument. No, Trump is not going to be president before 2024! Never said that. But the election was stolen, the country is being destroyed by a demented old man’s handlers. And I don’t think it should be left unsaid.

Biden's performance is ongoing, so of course there is every reason to talk about that every day between now and the elections. But do you really think that the argument that "the election was stolen" has been "left unsaid"??? Are you out of your mind? We have been bombarded with that as the primary theme from Trump for more than 16 months. Far from being "left unsaid", we have been subjected to endless repetition of the exact same points and arguments for more than a year.

People have either accepted that the election was stolen, or they haven't. Repeating the same points and arguments ad nauseum doesn't change those opinions. And just to clue you in, a whole hell of a lot of people have just tuned that whole topic out completely at this point. All the repetition actually accomplishes at this point is to convince people that you're more concerned with talking about a past even that you admittedly can't change, rather than how to fix things moving forward.

It has become an Ahab-like obsession, except Ahab at least believed he could kill Moby Dick. You've acknowledged that the election isn't going to be overturned anyway, but still want to obsess over it. It is utterly and completely pointless. It accomplishes nothing other than venting that you find emotionally satisfying.

FWIW, I think the whole argument about the election being stolen was made very poorly by the Trump campaign. Way too much focus on red herrings and conspiracy theories rather than solid and verifiable criticisms of the perils of large-scale absentee voting. But...you don't get a second chance to make a first impression, and unfortunately, the misplaced focus on the conspiracy stuff caused too many people to tune out, and not listen to the rest of it. No way to regain that level of attention by the public. The chance to make a good, convincing case was lost, and it isn't coming back.

87 posted on 02/14/2022 8:51:16 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin ( .)
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