• Cruxifux@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Wait, actually? What the hell is the reasoning behind that? How did Americans vote him back in after that?

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      8 months ago

      How did Americans Kentuckians vote him back in after that?

      Voter suppression and some interesting statistical anomalies between the official results and exit polling, favoring the Republicans (that Democrats didn’t have much interest in calling attention to, for fear of lending credence to Trump’s claims of the election being stolen).

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        8 months ago

        +17 point swing in several Republican elections. McConnell, that super obviously gay guy from South Caroline (Graham, I remembered!), that milquetoast hag in Maine. All +17 point swings to clinch the win. Something that’s statistically less likely to happen than my hand phase shifting through a table. Sure, it’s technically possible, but we all know Republicans can’t win without cheating. Why do you think they scream voter fraud nonstop? Because if they’re doing it, then the Democrats HAVE to be doing it?

        It’s telling, all I’m saying. When someone tells you who they are …believe them.

        Gaslight

        Obstruct

        Project

        The GOP, by their own admission= Domestic Terrorists.

        The Pentagon warned before the Supreme Court that Citizens United passing would open up our politicians to overwhelming external influenc, compromising them. Republicans stole the white house in 2000, pushed Citizens thru once Dubya set his court to proper, and that set up today’s final shit spiral.

        I’d bet everything I own that America doesn’t survive the greed of its rich. Oh wait, we all are betting that…whether we realize it or not.

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      https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/24/580171396/biden-mcconnell-refused-to-sign-bipartisan-statement-on-russian-interference

      Speaking on Tuesday at the Council on Foreign Relations, Biden said the Obama administration sought a united front to dispel concerns that going public with such accusations would be seen as an effort to undermine the legitimacy of the election.

      However, McConnell "wanted no part of having a bipartisan commitment saying, essentially, ‘Russia’s doing this. Stop,’ " he said.

      At that point, Biden added, he felt that “the die had been cast” and that “this was all about the political play.”

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        “Had we known what we knew three weeks later, we may have done something more,” Biden added.

        One would hope.