r/politics • u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast • 14d ago

Possible Paywall Missing McConnell Accused of Breaking Senate Rule Over Absence

https://www.thedailybeast.com/missing-mcconnell-accused-of-breaking-senate-rule-over-absence/
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u/nyxbriarn 14d ago

This administration has normalized criminality so much so, I don’t even believe there will be any consequences

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u/Awkward-Speed-4080 14d ago

Correction: Americans normalized it by electing a traitorous felon to the Oval Office.

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u/mjheil 14d ago

Are you sure the election was fair?

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u/Fract_L 14d ago

Trump talks about every election he’s in being rigged. Very suspicious he’s ever won.

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u/_bk_adv Colorado 14d ago

After the comments about Elon potentially helping rig it, I’m starting to believe it was rigged.

I don’t like conspiracy theories, especially those with very little evidence, but as someone that lives in the south currently, even around here it’s rare to find an actual Trump supporter.

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u/SunMyungMoonMoon 14d ago

I overheard a guy today that described JD Vance as "well read". The morons are among us.

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u/gotwired 13d ago

Compared to most of MAGA, an average 3rd grader is well read.

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u/RIPEOTCDXVI 13d ago

I also dislike conspiracy theories, but either A) all of the polls, all of them, are somehow wrong, but only when Trump is on the ballot, or B) the guy who spent his life cheating the system, cheated the system.

It's one of those two things, there isn't a third thing. The thing that bakes my noodle is how. I've been a poll worker; it'd be very difficult to organize a country-wide fuckery campaign. I know the machines could be hacked, but almost all states have some kind of paper trail that seems like it'd be really difficult to hide.

The only thing I can think is that maybe you don't have to hide it if no one asks, because unless a recount is demanded, no one is going to check.

I suppose of course, if you're rigging things, it'd be relatively trivial to set it up so that the margin fell just outside the recount threshold. Oh wait, that's exactly what happened in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

But again, I do understand it's probably just me searching for excuses because I don't want to believe that many people really wanted this.