Posted on 10/17/2016 8:35:59 PM PDT by RC one
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has aroused new controversy by declaring that the 2016 presidential election is “rigged.” On the one hand, that is both an irresponsible statement, and also a potentially self-destructive one. On the other hand, it may be true.
It is irresponsible to claim the election is “rigged” for the reason most of Trump’s media critics have suggested — namely, that by casting the result as illegitimate, Trump is ensuring it will be harder to unify the country afterwards.
Moreover, it is politically questionable to call an election “rigged” while it is still ongoing, because it suggests the candidate making that statement expects to lose. Alternatively, declaring an election “rigged” could be a way of motivating supporters to flock to the polls: that is how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mobilized support in 2015, when he warned that foreign-funded organizations were frantically busing Arab voters to the polls. (He later apologized — after he won, of course.) What we do know is that important parts of the election have, in fact, been “rigged,” both in the literal and figurative sense. The Democratic Party primary was certainly rigged against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), both openly and secretly: openly, in the sense that the Democrats’ undemocratic superdelegate system is designed to thwart insurgent candidacies; secretly, in that the Democratic National Committee and parts of the media were colluding with Hillary Clinton, as revealed by Wikileaks.
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Me too, I absolutely refuse to recognize a felon as our President, and she is a felon, a multiple felon who should be serving hardcore time. Just because we have an extremely corrupt justice dept. does NOT mean she is innocent. The evidence was overwhelming against her. She is a FELON, we don’t allow felons to even vote!
half a million votes in 5 swing states in 2012 and Romney would be running for re-election this year.
I want someone to convince me that Democrats didn’t cheat in that one when we had precincts in those states with more votes than voters and voting 115% for the little Kenyan boy
How does that work though?
How exactly does a private citizen “not recognize her as President”? I’ll be onboard too if I can figure out how to do it.
When Trump says the election is rigged by the enemedia and the Uniparty D.C. insiders, he’s ridiculed; when Hillary says the election is rigged by KGB and Putin, she’s applauded.
Go figure ...
We have been smothered with the legal opinion that we can NOT require photo ID to vote.
There is NO other reason to preclude photo ID for voting, than to perpetuate VOTE FRAUD!
Setting up that dynamic creates a “RIGGED ELECTION”, because the only party with no sense of negative consequence for lawless behavior is the Democrat Party.
It seems to me they are skirting the issue of voter fraud, which by indications may be massive. I don't see how tut-tuting, and saying "Oh, no." can allay these suspicions.
How many times have we had to observe foreign leaders interfering with our Democratic process by undermining Donald Trump? Now we’re supposed to give a damn about Russia? I don’t think so.
It is rigged. No two ways about it.
When you have courts stopping states from purging their voter rolls of dead folks.
http://redstatevirginia.com/2012/08/virginia-to-purge-voter-rolls-of-the-dead-democrats-to-sue/
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/06/01/doj_to_florida_dont_you_dare_clean_up_your_voter_rolls
When you have the Left, only the Left, constantly suing against Voter ID laws and winning with Liberal judges, doing their bidding.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article92595012.html
http://jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2016-09-14/story/lawsuit-georgia-voter-registration-process-violates-law
When you have massive investigations in Texas and Indiana over fraud, both of which are expanding.
http://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2016/10/04/state-police-raid-indy-office-growing-voter-fraud-case/91540816/
http://www.empowertexans.com/around-texas/largest-voter-fraud-investigation-in-texas-history-underway-in-tarrant-county/
When you have places like California giving illegals driver’s licenses and registering them to vote at the same time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/us/california-law-will-automatically-register-drivers-to-vote.html?_r=0
Sure, it ain’t rigged
I've never presented a voter ID in my life. I state my name, and they look me up in the registration role, and tear it out, and that's me, that's my vote. So to me, the issue is registration, and of course the poll officials. I can only imagine
do you know why it happens? because we allow it to happen.
Ask Hosni Mubarik how it works.
I have no intention of ever “unifying” behind a DNC brand scumbag. Especially the worst of the lot.
I have never heard such ridiculous analysis as recently offered on this subject. You may have heard today that a professor opined that 31 out of the past billion votes cast in U.S. presidential elections were fraudulent.
That number again is 31.
I would say that’s the over-under for one thousand votes, not one billion. That being the case, the right answer would have been 31 million. And about half of those were probably in Democrat-controlled cities.
The legitimacy of any globalist candidate is severely compromised in this age of brainwashing and groupthink. We need to go back to a much more restricted electorate with higher age limits, longer residency requirements and possibly even a gender separation, otherwise we are going to get one loser after another (in all western countries) and we will soon lose everything as a result. Our enemies have noticed, the door is unlocked and swinging wide open.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY&ab_channel=ProjectVeritasAction
hell, they firebombed the Republican HQ in North Carolina. I guess it’s all good as long as you don’t go around chasing pussy though.
“It is irresponsible to claim the election is “rigged” for the reason most of Trump’s media critics have suggested — namely, that by casting the result as illegitimate, Trump is ensuring it will be harder to unify the country afterwards.”
The author lost me right there. Why is it necessary, or even beneficial for the country to be “unified”? If you want an example of a country that was unified, take a good look at Iraq under Saddam. Or Russia under the soviets.
It’s healthy for a country to have vigorous political opposition. And our country has suffered terribly as a result of the gop’s insistence that we be “unified” with the rats. Moreover it’s a recipe for extreme corruption. Arms length is good. Football field length is better.
I would no more expect the US to be “unified” under DJT than I would expect to see the tooth fairy. And under hitlery, the thought of the country being “unified” is downright laughable.
That one made me laugh. Yes, Hillary will actually be president if she wins a fair election, unlike Barack the Usurper. However, I will never in any way support her. I will assume that everything she does is intended to consolidate power and to crush her opponents (because that will be the reason for everything). I will assume that her supporters are my deadly enemies. Unify? Not happening!
hell, they firebombed the Republican HQ in North Carolina. I guess it’s all good as long as you don’t go around chasing pussy though.
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Any prog can chase all he wants. No R or I can mention pussy chasing them.
Vice is a resume enhancer on the Left because it gives the PTB a leash on the perpetrator.
If the Dems didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all.
Do you not see the dialectic truth in contradictions of unity in diversity and solidarity in pluralism?
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