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But oh no! Everything last night was squeaky clean! The same exact BS happened that went down in November. Perdue was about 130,000 votes ahead at one point, Loeffler was 84,000 votes or so ahead. The vote somehow mysteriously stalled at 95%. Then, of course, the overwhelmingly Democrat counties started seeping in all night, so that Warnock \u201cwon\u201d by \u201c1.2%.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Now Ossoff is \u201cahead\u201d the next morning by \u201c0.4%\u201d, with \u201c1%\u201d [of the dead and imaginary \u201cvote\u201d] still being \u201ccounted.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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You liberals can rant and call me a conspiracy theorist all you like. I\u2019m not a damned fool; nor is about half the country who can see that this is obviously cheating and illegality.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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6 January 2021, 9:52 AM ET:<\/span><\/div>\n*<\/div>\n
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Democrats will have hell to pay. I keep telling my wife that. No one wants to be widely perceived as being a card cheat or one who rigged the World Series with organized crime (the 1919 \u201cBlack Sox\u201d scandal) or a steroid user, in order to get an unfair and unethical advantage, to \u201cwin\u201d at sports (Barry Bonds, Lance Armstrong, etc.).<\/div>\n
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How does the general public regard people like that? They utterly despise them.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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So this does
not<\/em><\/strong> help Democrats at all. In fact, it\u2019ll probably be 20 years before they lose this impression half the country has of them that they can only win by cheating, and that they offer no substance in policies (heaven forbid!).<\/div>\n*<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Bible says that \u201cyour sin will find you out.\u201d God is still in heaven, observing everything. He\u2019s not fooled or mocked. And He is still in control in His providence.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Again, this is
not<\/strong><\/em> good for Democrats, flush with \u201cvictory\u201d today (even from a Machiavellian \u201crealpolitik\u201d standpoint). It\u2019s not in their interest. Mark my words.<\/div>\n*<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And in two years, after 22 more months of ever-dripping revelations about all the cheating and voter \/ election fraud that has occurred, the public will have their opportunity to send a very clear message, by retaking both the House and Senate in a massive wave of resistance to the attempted destruction of democracy and the rule of law and \u201cone man one vote.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It\u2019ll be here before we know it. Don\u2019t despair. We conservatives and all honest, conscientious people (including a good percentage of Democrat voters: at the very least, 16%, and one-third of already-suspicious independents) don\u2019t have to torture our conscience and our principles of ethics and fair play in order to win elections.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cCrime doesn\u2019t pay\u201d is as true of a proverb now as it ever was.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It\u2019s in the interest of
all<\/strong><\/em>: the entire country<\/em><\/strong>, to investigate all of this. The Democrats (I guarantee you) don\u2019t want to be perceived as a bunch of cheaters and liars: as if they won only by \u201cBanana Republic\u201d tactics. So it\u2019s also very much in their<\/em> interest to cooperate in a fair and impartial investigation.<\/div>\n*<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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If it finds nothing, then they are vindicated. But if significant fraud is established, then they ought to join with Republicans in condemning it wholesale and helping to make sure it never happens again. That\u2019s for the good of
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It does the country no good for about 40-50% of it to believe a government is illegitimate. This stuff
has<\/em> to have some kind of serious investigation (and\/or a high-level court case devoted to it), or there will be no end of trouble and tragedy.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n*
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I think VP Pence should declare the need for a ten-day serious investigation before he certifies.<\/div>\n
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Let me clarify one more thing about the Georgia run-off Senate elections: I am not asserting that we have
absolute proof<\/em> of present fraud (i.e., in the run-off). My post was in the form of a \u201cdisgusted jeremiad.\u201d Its logical structure is the following:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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1. There is massive<\/strong> <\/em>evidence of [ignored \/ ridiculed] election \/ voter fraud in the November presidential election, including in Georgia itself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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2. Certain significant patterns are eerily similar in this Georgia run-off election, to what happened in November: especially the aspect of things going along great for both GOP candidates, then the vote count \u201cstopping\u201d at a certain point in the night (around 11 PM ET), then a trickling of Democrat votes all the way to a 1 point or less victory for the Dems.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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3. This is highly suspicious: not based on nothing, but the precedent already set, and so we are cynical and suspicious of the result. It stinks to high heaven. Democrats prattled on endlessly about supposed Trump collusion with Russia based on
absolutely nothing<\/strong><\/em>; no evidence whatsoever. Mueller \u2014 thank God \u2014 was honest enough to admit this after four years and $48 million of our money wasted. But we are not allowed to have an informed opinion about fraud after 1000 affidavits and scores and scores of irregularities? What gives<\/em>? It\u2019s the old double standard.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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4. So I and many others like me are of the opinion that there very well may be fraud in the run-off as well, but we are not asserting proof. That can only come \u201cbeyond a reasonable doubt\u201d in a court trial or a serious hearing \/ investigation.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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5. Such an investigation
must<\/em><\/strong> occur for the good of the country. But so far the Dems have no interest in it whatsoever, and no interest in clearing themselves of what is now massive suspicion in the country at large (including by some reputable surveys, 16% of Democrats and 33% of independents).<\/div>\n*<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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6. I have contended that it is in the Democrats\u2019 interest as well as that of the nation to get to the bottom of this. Nothing good can come from not doing so, and as long as the Dems play the game of complete denial \/ mockery (as they always do with Republicans), it will primarily hurt
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7. In sociology (my major) and psychology, they talk about \u201cperceptions having the same effects as reality.\u201d Even if fraud didn\u2019t happen, many many people
perceive<\/em> that it did, and that\u2019s really bad news for Democrats. If they were being wise about this, they would say, \u201cinvestigate away! We have nothing to hide and we\u2019ll be vindicated. We don\u2019t want to be subject to all these suspicions. They\u2019re unjust and unfair. Have at it!\u201d They sure wanted to have a major, front-page-news-for-four-years, delirious media crap-in investigation against Trump, based on a now totally discredited fictional dossier by a British spy, which talked about prostitutes in Moscow peeing, etc. That was their<\/em> \u201cevidence\u201d . . .<\/div>\n*<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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8. #6 and #7 being the case (if so), it\u2019s actually an act of
charity<\/em> to seek to persuade the Democrats to cooperate in such an investigation. But they show no signs whatsoever of any such willingness. They think this present tactic and strategy of mockery and charged conspiratorialism (and nothing else) will work for them. It will not<\/em> in the long run. And when it doesn\u2019t, folks will know where they heard the prediction and warning first . . .<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n*<\/div>\n
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[title of Facebook post] Right-wing fanatic kooks (+ Antifa infiltrators?) storm the Capitol; the election reform cause is now essentially dead.<\/p>\n
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For the record, I am utterly opposed to extremists on the GOP side, being unruly outside the Capitol building and breaking into it and wreaking havoc. Peaceful protest is fine. Of course, even any
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I\u2019m talking about
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Of course, in my opinion, if fanatics appear in the protests, such things are only bolstered by continued Democrat intransigence against any and all investigation of voter and election fraud. It\u2019ll only get worse.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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This nonsense will foster right-wing extremists and nuts, whom the liberals will then use as supposedly representative of
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Things are about to get more ugly and troubling than they have been in my entire 62-year life. It\u2019s beyond sad.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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If I wasn\u2019t a Christian with a perpetually strong faith and an eternally optimistic spirit I\u2019d certainly be in despair. But I\u2019m still very saddened about what this does to our great country. That\u2019s proper no matter how much faith one has that God is always in ultimate control.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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These are extremist kooks. President Trump doesn\u2019t bear any responsibility at all for the riot and looting. In his speech, he called for peaceful protests by the capital building: just as there have been scores of such protests in the history of our country. That has nothing to do with the nuts and fanatics and extremists. But of course he will be blamed for it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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This incident has no logical relation to whether investigations should take place. But it will be endlessly spun that way, and this is essentially the end of all efforts to get a serious investigation underway. This plays right into both Democrat and RINO hands.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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When right-wing nuts do something, we hear about it
forever<\/em><\/strong>, and all conservatives are broad-brushed with it. So now we\u2019re violent terrorists in addition to being women-haters, homophobes, racists, etc. Isn\u2019t life wonderful?<\/div>\n*<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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But when left-wing nuts get violent (Antifa, BLM, Portland, Minneapolis
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SCOTUS had a chance to take an appropriately serious case and make an authoritative proclamation. In my opinion, that alone would have ended the controversy and now growing conspiratorialism that will result from nothing at all being done to redress legitimate grievances.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We have to achieve serious election reform. But it just got ten times harder after today. I know how crowds operate (my sociology background) and I know how politics works (40 years of being a political junkie).<\/div>\n
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Facebook friend Patti Sheffield wisely observed:<\/div>\n
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I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s right to do what\u2019s going on in DC today, but the seeds for it were not sown by Trump or Republicans in Congress. They were sown by leftists who lectured us that this violent behavior (when done by BLM and Antifa) was fully justified and a fine way to express dissatisfaction with our country.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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