It’s begun. Believing Biden won has become a “fake news fact” for conservatives
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feel like things will get worse. the right wing media is teaching Americans to distrust the process. and many right wing radicals are flat out teasing taking up arms if the courts fail.
Yep. Putin got everything he wanted out of 2016. They don't even need to do anything else.
I haven't seen the four conservative people on my Facebook feed in a week now. I'm curious if they unfriended me.
edit: Nope, they just haven't posted anything.
edit: Nope, they just haven't posted anything.
I've seen this sceeenshot floating around
As if this isn't a horrible strawman (Russian interference isn't the same thing as questioning the integrity of our own procedure, for the dim witted who don't immediately see the issue with this logic)
These people think that democrats would rig the election for Biden but decide to lose the senate and, hey what the hell, lose some ground in the house too
gonna be interesting to see them campaigning in georgia on "the election was a fraud but also vote for us" lmao
Bet these people had no issue with Trump declaring himself the winner after like 50% of votes were counted.
Gotta give it to them though, they have some strong coping mechanisms.
Gotta give it to them though, they have some strong coping mechanisms.
If they end up suppressing their own vote it will be a beautiful cherry on top.
My in-laws are the same, but maybe not quite as bad as yours, OP. I rub this shit in their faces every chance I get.
In the weeks leading up to the election, I opened up a few Twitter tabs of conservatives hoping to laugh at their meltdowns. But instead, every singe fucking one of them has completely deluded themselves into believing they haven't lost. It's honestly just pathetic.
I have a plan for that, the vaccine.I will be living proof my Moms wrong.Check and Mate
Blows my mind. If they truly believe there was fraud, then surely their god king will find it and the republican courts will prosecute it?
Therefore, if there actually was fraud, Trump will win. No need for them to be so salty and defensive!
Therefore, if there actually was fraud, Trump will win. No need for them to be so salty and defensive!
Fuck. I am so sorry, man..
My nightmare is like finding out my elderly mother finds a way to get into that shit. Shes really into facebook and has a lot of conservative friends.
Blast from the post holy shit these last four years felt like an eternity....
That's the most common shit I seem to be seeing right now in my extended circle and it makes no sense
OH SO 2016 WAS FRAUDULENT BUT 2020 IS FAIR HUH?
Which nobody said in the first place. Fucking idiots. In that regard, nothing has changed between 2016 and 2020. We remain consistent in our support for american electoral integrity, unlike them who sway with the wind depending on which way it blows.
2016 to 2020: Still disliking the russian propaganda, still annoyed by the electoral college system, but still respecting our election results.
The american political consciousness is still under attack by foreign powers, confirmed by the FBI.
But while we take issue with this attack on the integrity of american politics, we still respect the results of our own electoral system.
Despite winning the popular vote, Hillary conceded the same day it was called. She didn't wait for certification, she respected the visible results. Republicans pissed and moaned about how long she took anyway.
Trump is currently losing harder than Hillary did. He's doing equally bad with the electoral college as Hillary was when she conceded, except that he also lost the popular vote by 4 million. All paths back to victory are now well out of reach. But he refuses to show any respect, instead opting for sad tweet storms and flaccid court cases. Judges are exasperated by him, and not even Fox News will defend him anymore.
If these losers mean to highlight hypocrisy, maybe they should start with why we accepted the results of both elections but they only accept them when they win.
But of course that attitude comes down from the top. That's literally what Trump said at a recent rally. That he would accept the results without question if he won, and refuse them if he lost. Zero integrity. Weak.
Well, "fairly" aside from Comey's October surprise, announcing a re-opening of an investigation into Clinton, while keeping secret the investigation into the Trump campaign's Russia ties. And aside from the illegally obtained DNC data, which was being released in an illegal coordination with the Trump campaign. And aside from the illegally obtained Facebook data that allowed Trump's campaign and its partners to specifically target its disinformation/voter suppression effect.
And that's on top of the usual GOP voter suppression tactics like ensuring minorities have a harder time getting IDs, purging voter registrations, disallowing ID types for demographics that don't favor them (like college IDs) but allowing those that do (like gun licenses), etc.
And of course, the Electoral College itself, which allows low population states a disproportionate say in elections.
But yeah, other than that, Trump won fair and square.
Ah yes we rigged the election but for some reason didn't rig those senate seats we were thought we had a good chance of winning and lost 7 seats in the house..
The thing is, I think it was inevitable that conservatives would throw all their weight behind the first charismatic, openly racist demagogue that came along. It just happened to be Trump. It's no coincidence that the Tea Party movement was birthed seemingly moments after we elected the first black man into the White House. Obama winning in 2008 and again in 2012 just fundamentally broke the majority of cis white people in this country, and as a result, the Republican party became a powder keg of suppressed racism. That political cartoon of Trump being the match and his supporters being bombs is spot-on.
Conservatives know that Trump is a once-in-a-generation political force. As far as I can tell, he's viewed as the last stand of the cis, white, Boomer conservative that was birthed during the Reagan years. Plus, he really, really, pisses of liberals - those same liberals who spent the entirety of Obama's presidency wagging their fingers at Republicans and chastizing them for being racist and xenophobic. I'm convinced at least 80% of the reason most R's worship Trump is straight-up just how much he angers progressives. It's why, seemingly, the modern GOP platform under Trump is just a blanket "Do whatever you can to own the libs".
I've yet to find a conservative who accepts the results, and I've been putting feelers out to acquaintances and family. Pretty pitiful example of not being able to use your own wits.
I've started moving to outlandishly pushing them. "Do you think Hilary won the popular vote in '16? Or might the fraud go 4 million deep or so?" To which the misdirection response has been "Biden probably won popular vote.. I say probably because I cannot prove it decisively".
I've started moving to outlandishly pushing them. "Do you think Hilary won the popular vote in '16? Or might the fraud go 4 million deep or so?" To which the misdirection response has been "Biden probably won popular vote.. I say probably because I cannot prove it decisively".
I don't care about their politics. What they suggest is an affront to fact and reality.
I don't think he was. He said buzz off not fuck off. But it sure does sound like fuck off.
People really don't want progress in this country.
What the fuck are conservatives so afraid of?
What the fuck are conservatives so afraid of?
Colbert was right a decade ago with his word "truthiness" -- the idea that people prefer to believe what they FEEL is right, rather than the actual truth. This wasn't always the case in America, but the GOP has done much work on this front in the last 20 years. Truthiness foreshadowed what became Trumpism, and I wish the country had taken this idea more seriously. It has become a serious national disease that plagues our nation.
I have a feeling a t-shirt with that slogan is already in production.
Wait so are you saying all Trump supporters are actually Japanese
My mom believes all the boogeyman shit AM radio/OANN fed her, that "we elected a socialist pedophile and that we're gonna end up like Venezuela."
So she's mentally fucked beyond all recognition.
So she's mentally fucked beyond all recognition.
Then these people are moving to Parler and then when you tell them why they say they're leaving for something that isn't censoring anything and has biased fact-checking.
Also some people will say not people there are racists/nazis/etc but when you tell them most of the people there are then they'll tell you who is the racist now
Also some people will say not people there are racists/nazis/etc but when you tell them most of the people there are then they'll tell you who is the racist now
It really was absolutely unfathomable to them that the President could be so unpopular that 7 million more people voted against him than for him.
The goal posts have moved and will continue to move from fraud to the mail-in ballot scheme and ballot harvesting is the only way Dems could beat Trump