On election night, as the results looked to be in Trump’s favor, the baseless conspiracy theories about fraud began tapering off.

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    And yet I still have Facebook friends posting about how “all the states Kamala won are the ones that don’t require photo ID…”

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    Given their penchant for projection, has anyone considered that the fraud was coming from inside the house?

    I believe we have one of the most secure elections in the world. I don’t believe in conspiratorial bullshit. I’m just saying, anything the Republicans accuse others with is frankly evidence that they are doing it themselves.

    They tell me immigrants are eating pets? Yeah I’m going to say there’s definitely a non-zero chance that republicans are out there picking up roadkill cats and dogs. I mean Kennedy has probably done that 100 times himself.

    So if the Republicans accuse Democrats of creating millions of fake votes I doubt it’s possible to do, but let’s double check anyway because now they’ve made me suspicious.

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      Can we also consider that intentionally making it harder to vote in Democrat leaning counties in otherwise Republican States is electoral fraud? Because it kinda is.

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      They literally had their supporters burn drop-off ballot boxes and destroy ballots. They literally intimidated other voters. They harassed poll workers and volunteers whose entire purpose is to ensure everyone who is eligible to vote has everything they need in order to do so. Yet no one is batting a fucking eye. THESE FUCKERS STOLE THE ELECTION. 15 million less votes than what Biden got and Trump got about the same as he did when he ran before. This stinks of interference.

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        I don’t think that the physical interference would have been enough to turn this one. The interference in the media/social media however was definitely the root cause to this. Along with Democrats shifting more right than they have in decades

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    Isn’t that weird?

    It’s almost like they didn’t believe in their own claims.

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    No, the narrative just changed. Good luck convincing anyone the 2020 election wasn’t stolen ever again.

    “I told you. In 2020 we won all 50 states. Voter fraud by the millions. I was saying it all along. But we worked hard, we passed laws for election integrity, we watched the polls and they couldn’t cram their 10, 15 million votes into the boxes again. And look what happened. Instead of winning by 8 million votes, she lost by 6 million votes. Which is what should have happened last time.”

    This is the narrative I’ve been hearing. The voters that just stayed home simply never existed in the first place, as far as they’re concerned. He’s going to use this victory as proof of his claim that he should have won last time, voter fraud was rampant, and Democrats are cheaters. And it’s going to work.

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      And it’s going to work.

      Well, let’s face it - the target audience for such stupid narratives are his base, and they are dumb as a box of rocks.

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        Please don’t insult them. Boxes of rocks can still serve a purpose and don’t deserve to be denigrated like that.

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          No box of rocks ever called me a ______. Insert a slur!

          No box of rocks ever had his picture taken with Jeffrey Epstein!

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        Remember that half of the population is below average.

        I’m assuming that other 2% had other motivations.

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          That’s honestly now how averages work. Most of the population is roughly average.

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      Should we tell him who was president in 2020 and who was president in 2024? Oh right, it doesn’t matter to them as long as they repeat it a million times.

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      And used to support the claim to change voting in some way, or do away with it at least for Federal level.

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    Wait so I can’t just tweet, without context anymore just…

    RIGGED!

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      Nah I’m pretty sure this was our last real presidential election. The rest will be pure spectacle and will be used for fund raising and entertainment purposes only.

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    Don’t worry, they’ll still have Biden, Clintons, and Kamala to blame for all of Donnie’s mistakes.

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    Gosh, so they aren’t going to organize a “stop the steal” that is designed to specifically steal an election?