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I do not believe the election was rigged, but I was genuinely shocked when Harris lost. Trump's half-empty rallies, lack of small-dollar donors, and absent ground game pointed to a Harris blowout. I haven't been able to square those things with a Trump win, let alone a popular vote win. I wouldn't be surprised if it were rigged, but I think the likelier explanation is our information environment.

Please excuse my tenth rant about this topic. Our media and social media ecosystems are owned by billionaires with a vested interest in Republican politics. Local news is dead. Community spaces are gone. Most of our political journos are megalomaniacs who are more concerned with the horse race and keeping things "fresh and exciting" than communicating the life and death stakes.

The results are plain for all to see.

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TheSameIdiot said:
I do not believe the election was rigged, but I was genuinely shocked when Harris lost. Trump's half-empty rallies, lack of small-dollar donors, and absent ground game pointed to a Harris blowout. I haven't been able to square those things with a Trump win, let alone a popular vote win. I wouldn't be surprised if it were rigged, but I think the likelier explanation is our information environment.
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I think that was part of the problem people assumed Harris capable and Trump was the worst decision let their guard down and many didn't vote. Also some didn't vote because they didn't like either.

F YOU Duffy! It's been mass chaos since Trump took office in January
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More O'Hare flights delayed as US Transportation Secretary warns of 'mass chaos' if shutdown continues

"You will see mass flight delays. You'll see mass cancelations, and you may see us close certain parts of the airspace because we just cannot manage it because we don't have the air traffic controllers."
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so an invisible man driving?
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Teacher pulled out of Chicago daycare by armed ICE agents, alderman says

Federal agents arrested a Chicago daycare worker just after the center opened Wednesday in a scene city officials said unfolded in front of teachers, parents and children.
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totally kidnapping people
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Feds drive off with 1-year-old girl after arresting her father in Los Angeles

Federal immigration agents arrested a U.S. citizen in Los Angeles and drove off with his car, which had his one-year-old daughter inside
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Republican is synonymous with Trump so yes you were on the ballot
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Trump says choice is between 'communism or common sense' after Tuesday's elections

President Trump has tried to dismiss election losses but admitted it wasn't good for Republicans.
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still ignorant on what communism is
 
Part of me WANTS to believe they rigged the election, but the larger part of me is more convinced that we are set up in a way that enables the worst people in the world to have a greater influence and that we also grossly underestimated how large a percentage of people are just cruel, selfish, and willing to chew off their own nose to spite their face. I really don't know what feels worse: living in a rigged society or facing the fact that a far larger percentage of the people we have to share this rock hurtling through space with really want the worst for other people, and for themselves.
 
docsilence said:
Part of me WANTS to believe they rigged the election, but the larger part of me is more convinced that we are set up in a way that enables the worst people in the world to have a greater influence and that we also grossly underestimated how large a percentage of people are just cruel, selfish, and willing to chew off their own nose to spite their face.
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Both can be true.
You can only successfully rig an election in a place like the US if you have, at the very least, a large enough minority for having a majority to be believable.
 
TheSameIdiot said:
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FWIW, MTG has one deficit Trump doesn't and it makes a huge difference with that crowd (and, unfortunately, America in general). Like, if there's anything we've learned in the past 15 years it's that America is just about as sexist as it is racist (though it's a photo finish).

The paper signs are... sure something. And yeah, it sure does feel like dementia sign posting. I had that thought earlier. I really wonder how much he's being held together with spit and baling wire.
 
May be an image of text that says 'NEWS ACECO Engineering & Construction, the firm in charge of the White House East Wing demolition, has called out President Donald Trump over unpaid balances for their services in demolishing the historic building. Published 3 hours ago on November 4, 2025 By Melinda Holbert ACICO ACECO ACERO ACECO'
 
Ru1977 said:
There was a story in Wiseguy, the book Goodfellas was based on, about how Paulie (Paul Sorvino's character in the movie) LOVED taking his wife out to dinner and paying with stolen credit cards. I feel like Trump totally gets off on stiffing construction companies.
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It's because he views construction workers as beneath him. He's a 'real estate guy.' Real estate guys view construction guys as the people that always, universally, work for them. And if Trump has any actual core belief in his entire being, it's a belief in the caste system.
 
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