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    Skimmed the article. There’s some stuff that stinks and is definitely worth investigating, but I wouldn’t call it a bombshell; there’s no hard evidence outlined in the article that the voting machines were altered to tamper with results. Tbh, I remain surprised that the Harris campaign backed down so quick and easy instead of running the usual week or two of spaghetti plate legal challenges to the results. They really just took them at face value, threw their hands in the air, and said “okay, guess we’re done here.”

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      They couldnt, because they already went all in saying voting machines being secure when trump claimed he lost because of it.

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      They really just took them at face value, threw their hands in the air, and said “okay, guess we’re done here.”

      At the end of the day, now they can get a lot of racist and classist policies passed by the Trump admin with the support of some “centrist” Democrats. They get to serve the oligarchy and Trump gets the blame. When the Democrats are at it again, they will roll back a small fraction of these policies and keep the majority of them. Rinse and repeat.

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          Or they just don’t care as much, as it doesn’t matter to their long term political goals.

          Before the election they were up in arms rhetorically how Trump will be the end to Democracy. And then they went after “moderate” Republicans like Cheney, who is a mass murderer war criminal. Now the Democrats continue helping to pass Trump bills. Blue states crack down on anti war and anti ICE protests…

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      It was pretty much a landslide victory after all, not much space to second guess these results

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        A “landslide” (which it wasnt even lmao) propped up by 10-100x the normal percentage of bullet ballots? For the first time ever in the history of our electoral system.

        Bullet ballots normally are 0.1-1% of all ballots cast in any given district. In many key districts in swing states they made up 10% of the ballots cast. 10%! That is a statistically impossible increase without some kind of explanation. Like if there had been an entire movement pushing for people to only vote trump and not for the party at large.

        But hold on, there was supposed to be a “mandate” given to the republican party. Then why would so many trump voters only vote for trump and nobody else? Because it was bullshit.

        It would be relatively simple to manipulate the machines to scan a ballot, then wipe all of the selections, and fill in only one selection for the presidential ballot. The presidential ballot is the only election that is ubiquitous across all districts. They couldnt make something complicated enough to properly fill in every ballot, so they went with the hack and slash version. The end result is 10-100x the normal number of bullet ballots that we would normally see anywhere.

        Logical proof? Who the fuck bothers to wait in line to vote and then only votes for President and nothing else? The role that arguably has the least direct impact on anyones daily life, in comparison to local and state government

        Or how about the fact that every runoff race so far in places that went to Trump, based heavily on bullet ballots, has consistently resulted in a democratic candidate being elected? Does that not seem odd? Supposedly trump loving country like Iowa voting for democrats? Looks a lot like those expert polls showing Iowa would go blue were 100% on the money. Foul play has never been so mathematically obvious

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          I’m not an American and I have pretty much zero understading of how your electoral system works, but I what I do understand is that you have electoral college in which electoral bodies voted 312 to 226 which I’d definitely call a landslide, despite much smaller difference is popular votes, where Trump still won anyways.

          So yeah, sorry, it IS only fair to call it a landslide, no matter how bitter of a pill it is to swallow.