{"id":6844,"date":"2016-10-19T07:31:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T11:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/?p=6844"},"modified":"2016-10-19T07:31:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T11:31:21","slug":"why-talking-about-rigged-elections-is-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/10\/why-talking-about-rigged-elections-is-dangerous.html","title":{"rendered":"Why talking about rigged elections is dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Is looked at <a href=\"http:\/\/freepress.org\/columns\/display\/3\/2004\/995\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>. \u00a0 Oh, I mean <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/10\/18\/politics\/donald-trump-rigged-election\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>. \u00a0 Because apparently talk of rigged and corrupt elections has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/amid-talk-of-rigged-election-experts-say-fraud-is-rare\/2016\/10\/18\/ff0bbbda-9504-11e6-9cae-2a3574e296a6_story.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">slightly exaggerated<\/a>. \u00a0One thing about this election, I\u2019ve learned a lot. \u00a0I\u2019ve learned my company was wrong when it said exposing sensitive emails could lead to termination. \u00a0Apparently while it isn\u2019t a good thing, it\u2019s not that important. \u00a0Certainly nothing that should reflect on job performance. \u00a0I\u2019ve learned that sexual morality and ethics actually matter. \u00a0That just because the press doesn\u2019t produce stories doesn\u2019t mean they don\u2019t exist. \u00a0And now that all those months of claims\u00a0and stories about the corruption and rigging of elections in the first years of the 00s turned out to be nothing at all. \u00a0No matter what the results, I admit this election has\u00a0been very, very educational.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is looked at here. \u00a0 Oh, I mean here. \u00a0 Because apparently talk of rigged and corrupt elections has been slightly exaggerated. \u00a0One thing about this election, I\u2019ve learned a lot. \u00a0I\u2019ve learned my company was wrong when it said exposing sensitive emails could lead to termination. \u00a0Apparently while it isn\u2019t a good thing, it\u2019s 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