Posted on 11/28/2022 10:38:43 AM PST by bitt
According to the political website FiveThirtyEight, “the vast majority of election-denying candidates who lost their races have conceded.” They no more deserve applause than would arsonists who, at the last minute, decide to fight the fire that they had set.
But unlike these candidates, Kari Lake, the two-fisted, election-denying Republican nominee for governor of Arizona, adamantly refuses to concede even though the Associated Press declared that she lost the election by 17,000 votes. No surprise there because Lake had vowed during the campaign only to accept a result in which she was the winner — in other words, “heads I win, tails the election was rigged.” To emphasize her election-denying grit, Lake’s campaign recently began playing on social media the late Tom Petty’s song, “I won’t back down.”
Time will tell whether the 2022 midterms were the Gettysburg of election denial, the kind of battlefield defeat that in hindsight was a turning point. But, as the midterms demonstrated, election denial is certainly losing traction. Its adherents’ most realistic hope of a revival depends on a replay of 2020 in which Donald Trump, as the Republican nominee, loses the 2024 general election in a tight race and then uses election denial to rouse his MAGA mercenaries, at least those no longer serving prison terms, and the lunatic conspiracy theorists, to stop the electoral certification. It will be harder in 2024 since Trump won’t be rabble-rousing from a presidential perch and President Biden will have considerable means available to prevent a Jan. 6 replay.
Without Trump, election denial has no future as a political strategy. Other prominent Republicans simply can’t conjure upon fake realities the way he can, as evidenced by the flop of Kari Lake’s one-woman election denial show.
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Election Deniers are the filthy rotten Uniparty RATS who are denying us Americans our right to honest elections.
Gropin’ Joe Biden, for example, is an Election Denier.
Dont tell the Hill but Cochise County just told Hobbs to Foff.
They won’t certify until something is done about the obvious voter suppression in Maricopa county/.
What fraction of the population knows perfectly damned well beyond the slightest shadow of a doubt that our so-called "elections" are rigged?
The “losers” always claim cheat narrative, right out of the DNC war room. Well l happened to be in AZ during the election and they cheated big time. So take your rat propaganda and shove it.
They could try to have a safe election if they want people to accept the results .
The other half think it’s rigged too but in their favor so they don’t mind
After 30 years of propagandist, who would trust Ass. Press for anything?
Kari Lake: Stop what you are doing and WATCH THIS!
We have an opaque government and election system. Just like in the USSR. In this informationally restricted environment, the only way to figure out the truth is to make suppositions and try to find BEHAVIOR that backs it up.
Example: I think elections are rigged.
Behavior indicating this is false:
Behavior indicating this is true:
Anyone capable of logical thinking can know, with P=0.99999999999999999... probability that some, maybe even most, of our elections are rigged.
Here’s the thing. The collective we ( the establishment ) can pretend that this new way of voting and counting votes, which now takes weeks, is a system working flalessly. But those observing ths USA from outside, many our allies, see things for what they are. And our allies are scared because the USA is a failed democracy. Nothing says failed democracy like rigged elections.
Couldn’t agree more. As Winston Churchill once said, “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing”...no more. We elect ineligible candidates, (obama and harris) and trample the Constitution. We have become a third world country. No, 4th world. Third world countries have borders.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are about to elect an election-denier as House Minority Leader.
The hill is nothing but a pile of dog doo
Did the thieves certify the election today?
84% of election poll workers in Maricopa County the election was a disaster. Rasmussen poll, cited by a person who spoke at the Maricopa County BOS meeting today.
“even though the Associated Press declared that she lost “
WELL THEN. If AP calls an election it is as if the Burning Bush has spoken. Never mind the broken printers. Never mind the broken counters. Never mind the sloppy ballot keeping. The AP called it, therefore ELECTION DENIAL!
The progressives have always been excellent propagandists. It is hard to eliminate a fellow human being. But, as marxist dogma shows, remove their humanity, and call them things like “Cockroaches” Deniers, homophobes, etc and you’re not eliminating a person. It becomes the good progressive’s duty to eliminate their enemies. After all, they aren’t human and they are purifying the future for their utopian dreams.
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