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I'm not your google monkey. If you have a point, make it.

junkmail says

Chuckle.

You think a democratic process really exists?

Electoral college

Gerrymandering districts

Backroom deals

Lobbyists

Capitalism

Privatization

Corruption

Entitlements

State Secrets

Plausible Deniability

Populism

Super Delegates

Super Pacs

Mob Rule

Bundling

Campaign Committees

Shell Companies

Slush Funds

You are a dimmer bulb than I though...

Are you actually stating that the existence of all of these things means that Trump should not accept the results of the election and should instigate a revolt?

Tampajoe says

Not really--there were way more Romney signs than Obama.

And Bernie wasn't robbed. He just never got the minority vote he needed.

You're missing the point. Whether it was a red state or a blue state - you'd always see support for candidates in the past - Bush/Gore/Kerry/Obama - no matter who was winning or losing. ALWAYS.

I don't know where you live, but I haven't seen any Hillary swag at all - except for one sign on a liberal college campus in Nashville, and a bumper sticker TAPED to the inside of a car window just outside Philadelphia. That's it.

Whereas, I see Trump bumper stickers, yard signs, billboards and all sorts of swag for this guy on a daily basis. This is across the 5 states I've visited over the last 2 months.

If I flew in from another country, and didn't know the election candidates, I'd have zero idea Hillary was even running.

Another Troll Thread.
Bush v Gore
Forgot to mention the activist Rep/Con SCOTUS
not requiring a full recount or another vote to make sure every Republican
vote was counted in Red State wingnut Florida.
Now that there is some major rigging.

Trolling with facts is fun.

I think I get your point, but I just don't see the relevance. Just look at ironman's post-he saw much more Bernie swag but he still lost pretty decisively.

By Saturday, Clinton's average-of-all-polls/national survey lead will be down to + 4 points max. The margin of error will be +/-3.

But much more importantly, Trump will have made critical gains in key battleground states such as Ohio, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, and especially, Pennsylvania, which I predict will turn "leaning Trump" within a week.

Trump did much better last night than the lame stream media is collectively suggesting today; he not only stemmed the bleeding, but REGAINED MOMENTUM on economic issues, security concerns, and re-shifted the spotlight to the long-standing pattern of corruption of Hillary, her acquaintances, and the Clinton Foundation, too (this is Hillary's Achilles heel, for very good reasons).

On a sidenote, and on a more subjective basis, Hillary looked somewhat feeble physically at the 3rd debate. She lacks physical gravitas, which whether some people want to accept or not (e.g. Maco Rubio), still matters at a deep, psychological level to many voters.

Tampajoe says

Just look at ironman's post-he saw much more Bernie swag but he still lost pretty decisively.

He lost, but look at all the shit the DNC had to go through to ensure a hillary victory. I mean really, Bernie got screwed, and a lot of people lost faith in the DNC party, since they rigged the entire thing in her favor.

Now what? The DNC has a candidate who is largely unpopular, and alienated half the DNC base because of how Bernie was screwed. No one likes her.

And I only know of one person in my workplace of hundreds who'd even consider voting for the hag.

(Disclaimer: I voted Dem in the last two elections)

Meanwhile, Bill's getting a bj in the back of hillary's campaign jet.

How many times do Fat Birther's cocksuckers have to claim that the ferret-haired mollusc is qualified? Will they ever convince themselves he is?

Is the process rigged?
Ask Bernie.

For someone who hates the rotten-and-corrupt, parasitic too-big-to-fail banks, DBOAPD, with good reason -

- it's a mystery to me as to how you seem very much anti-Trump and slightly pro-Hillary.

Hillary's literal fund-raising foundation (not to mention 23 million earned in bank speaking fees - nice payday), is generated by the likes of BofA, Goldman, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, et al.

She is THE banks' candidate, by a galactic distance.

How many times do bankster-backed, catheter wearing, diazepam injecting, grandma's carpet-munchers' have to claim that the bleached-hair, exoskeletonwearing vermin is qualified? Will they ever convince themselves she is?

Brexit

I didn't know that the statement that Gore accepted the results was controversial. Do I really need to back that up?

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/algore2000concessionspeech.html

HEY YOU says

Forgot to mention the activist Rep/Con SCOTUS

not requiring a full recount or another vote to make sure every Republican

vote was counted in Red State wingnut Florida.

Now that there is some major rigging.

What about stooopid Dem voters?

U biased, bro?

Both sides same!

Hillary has stolen elections, sexually assaulted women, left Ivana for Marla Maples, & evaded taxes.

Trump will fall in line. He made a big mistake in the debate last night out of ignorance, but once the election is certified, #LoserDonald will accept the results.

You can despise every single thing about Trump and still recognize that the media has been ridiculously biased and unfair in reporting on him. They fucking hate him and can’t hide it. Even the goons at Fox.
It is not hard to see that from his point of view he has not had fair treatment and that the “system” is “rigged” against him.

The comments on patnet are an exhibit of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

What happened to the Trump is a master at manipulating the media narrative? Did he suddenly lose his Svengali powers over them?

Red Hats come out Facebook and Twitter goes Ghost town, and Gab informs everyone where to meet next.
We're going to organize like Hillary apparantly legally did for all of 2015 and 1016, it's our turn to be a Dick.
I don't think you kids will like it when we're the Dicks. You better hope Trump wins. Because Republicans are even better at being Dicks than Liberals. We don't do petty shit.

A left wing Marxist agenda... = Deflationary collapse

Terrible thesis because American demographics are going to be the best in modern world for a mature country of size

The extreme right have their hyperinflation non sense and the extreme left has probably the single worst economic theory I have ever seen in my life.

Only if we were all high school drop outs on substance abuse with a 77 million prime age future labor force growth tagged to it... could this happen

All I need is time to destroy the left wing in this country... the right wing got smashed in this cycle. it's time for the left to get a lesson on demographic economics

The best is you all time stamped your non sense here ....

Wrong country to bet against, we aren't a bunch of Anti American Trolls hiding behind fake names

The next recession will look more like 2000 than 2007

Don't say I didn't warn you all...

Hillary Clinton, 2002: How's this for an example of questioning the legitimacy of elections?

Newsweek: Hillary Clinton to Crowd at Fund-Raiser in Los Angeles: Bush Was 'Selected' President, Not Elected; Says Bush's Machine Has Raised Far More Money to 'Ruin the Reputations of Our Candidates'

Mother Jones on Ohio's Diebold electronic voting machines.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2004/03/diebolds-political-machine

Elizabeth Warren thinks the whole process is rigged,salutes Jon Stewart for his efforts in raising awareness.

An Emmy Nominated Film for Journalism, "Hacking Democracy", produced by Viacom's HBO:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Democracy

2012 Voter Purges in Florida:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/floridas-voter-purge-explained/2012/06/18/gJQAhvcNlV_blog.html

There's a whole Wikipedia page of 2004 Election Controversies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_election_voting_controversies

Vox: Elections can't be rigged, except when white people do it. (Apparently Hillary is Black). Articles appear within 24 hours of each other.

This was 5 minutes of Google Searches, there's a whole lot more than this.

Thundercheck: Questioning the Voting Process is far from Unprecedented. Quite the opposite- so far in this 21st Century, it's a perennial issue

Verdict: Claim is Mostly False Media Hoax.

YesYNot All Pussy are Rigged says

once the election is certified, #LoserDonald will accept the results.

You mean he's gonna be a sell out just like Bernie? Asshole! He better be ready to have his pussy grabbed.

Remember folks, Hillary's aides were marking "CF" and "Friends of WJC" on State Department Applications for Projects for no reason whatsoever.

Certainly not to indicate they merited different treatment on those grounds. That's a Russian Lie! Except, these documents were released from State Itself, via the FBI.

Maybe Putin has infiltrated the FBI.

YesYNot All Pussy are Rigged says

#LoserDonald claiming that the whole election process is rigged is certainly unprecedented

Again, that's not the case. Many have declared the election process rigged.

What is the case is that No Major Candidate in US History has accused her opponent of being an outright Agent of a Foreign Power.

Even if she wins, she's caused serious diplomatic damage and thrown fire on an already volatile situation. It's absolutely irresponsible.

What's even more scary is the Clinton Total Control of the Democratic Party AND her advisors are supporting this dangerous, unhinged sort of talk.

It totally disqualifies her from the Presidency, and it shows we got off lucky when she was Secretary of State.

#TrollingDebtSuckers

Here we go, a thread for the debt owners to gush about their only-on-paper, never-to-be-realized profits. A chance to stick their heads more firmly in the sand, and forget for a moment about how fast that weight of debt around their necks will sink them when the economy implodes. Dive into the government sponsored charts, and forget about all the money and time you're losing with maintenance costs, all the cash you could have invested into something that would give you a realized return that wouldn't depend on some other poor sap paying half a million for your crapshacks in South Central, or some sucker paying $4,000 in rent for a 2/1 in the middle of the desert.

Now hold hands and jiz simultaneously on your home-debtor deeds piled on the table.

(Scrolling up to catch up on the thread. Oh jesus. The graphs are here. Hi Logan.)

YesYNot All Pussy are Rigged says

I tend to agree that Trump want's to lose. The only other explanation is that he is a complete moron

It's both, evidently.

Thunderlips Russian Agent 0069 says

No Major Candidate in US History has accused her opponent of being an outright Agent of a Foreign Power.

Trump did it last night... 'no, you're the puppet... You're the puppet'Thunderlips Russian Agent 0069 says

Did Al Gore not retract his concession on Election Night? Yes or No.

Did Wallace ask Donald if he would concede when the MSM called the election, but before the results were certified? No. He asked him if he would accept the results. He prefaced it by explaining that #LoserDonald talk about the rigged election is why he was asking. Everyone took this to mean 'would he accept the certified results.'

Plus Japan is much older than we are too and so is Germany

Not all of the people intrigued with the potential of a candidate who rose without any support from the status quo are deluded, self-immolating Republicans. The fact is that the Democratic party has been completely coopted by what former President Carter calls the American Oligarchy, and now represents them exclusively.
Some of us are desperate to vote against the interests of Gollum Sachs and the Perpetual Warfare Industries. Hillary represents exactly and completely those power bases.
I personally think this was our last shot at thwarting the corporate coup d’etat and restoring democracy and a chance for a humane future.
Or possibly any future at all.
I think we are now well and truly fucked.

You're forgetting that the M's are bigger than the boomers

Robert Sproul says

I personally think this was our last shot at thwarting the corporate coup d’etat and restoring democracy and a chance for a humane future.

Or possibly any future at all.

I think we are now well and truly fucked.

No. I agree about the oligarchy, but the corporations are ultimately collections of good people, so positive change can come from corporations. Not that I'm defending the corporatocracy, or that I think their having as much power as they do is a good thing.

I'm only saying that I do not believe that things are as hopeless as you suggest.

marcus says

but the corporations are ultimately collections of good people, so positive change can come from corporations

You are not very clear on the concept, are you?

Dollar gets stronger, imports get cheaper, service inflation always rises here

Nothing has changed here much... cheaper goods = consumption

If you were to have a deflationary collapsed, it would need to come from massive inflation, the likes we have never seen post 1900

Rigged elections was a left-liberal cottage industry since 2000, declining (but not wholly disappearing) after Obama's 2008 victory.

Ken Blackwell, Ohio Secretary of State, Accused of Rigging 2004 Election against Kerry
2012 Article
https://www.thenation.com/article/ohios-secretary-state-subverts-voting-rights/

http://www.benzinga.com/news/11/07/1789905/forget-anonymous-evidence-suggests-gop-hacked-stole-2004-election

2015 Article - Absentee Ballot concerns
http://www.ohio.com/editorial/your-ballot-is-in-the-mail-uh-oh-1.644907

Michael Connell Hacking and Assassination Conspiracy Theory
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/12/death_of_republican_computer_s.html

"Right wing election myths" (We don't need ID to vote, dead people voting, manipulated absentee/mail ballots, etc.)
http://www.salon.com/2012/11/14/10_right_wing_election_myths_debunked_by_reality/

It is a suspect accusation coming from the mouth of an ignorant candidate. Trump doesn't understand much other than how to use money he was born into to pressure people to submit to his whim. Media bias, meh, he's pleased as punch to get coverage of any kind. As he spirals down what you're going to hear more and more is not what would originate from Trump's mouth but what would originate from Stephen Bannon's poisoned brain. Trump doesn't know how to utilize this latest tantrum in a tactic or strategy. It's without value to a campaign: that's as obvious as this thread. But for someone with larger fish to fry and a longer future to meddle with, this has practical value. Forget about Trump: this isn't about him.

What's the central legacy of Bush v. Gore, which has its 10th anniversary next Sunday? Republicans see the Supreme Court stopping a lawless recount, while Democrats see a lawless court stopping a legitimate recount. Ten years later, commentators like Jeffrey Toobin protest that Bush v. Gore brought dishonor on the Court. But the Supreme Court's public legitimacy has not suffered.

The real lesson of the Florida fiasco (not merely Bush v. Gore) is about something else: the undermining of the public's faith in the fairness of American elections. This has triggered an ongoing war over their administration.

A straight line runs from Bush v. Gore through a series of election controversies in the past decade. We can walk it from the 2003 California gubernatorial recall circus with its 21 lawsuits to the "armies of lawyers" dispatched to battleground states in the elections of 2004 to the controversies over voter-identification laws. Next, bogus organizations made unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud. When the Department of Justice investigated, they found virtually none. Still, in 2008 John McCain ranted that the group ACORN was "maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history." That election also featured the interminable Coleman-Franken election recount. This time around, disputes about how to spell "Lisa Murkowski" on write-in ballots are playing out in Alaska's recount of its Senate race.

I forgot about the Franken vs. Coleman litigation.

SO, nothing new under the sun here, other than the 'reasonable, experienced' major party Presidential Candidate accusing the other of being an outright agent of a Foreign Power for the first time in US History.