• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    There are supposed to be millions of them, so many that HitlerPig even won EVERY battleground state (an exceptionally unlikely outcome), but I’ve never heard one actual voter claim they voted a straight Democratic ticket, except HitlerPig for president.

    If you look at the actual vote counts

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election_in_Michigan

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_Senate_election_in_Michigan

    Trump | 2,816,636

    Harris | 2,736,533

    Slotkin | 2,712,686

    Rogers | 2,693,680

    Harris and Slotkin net out almost perfectly. Trump outran Rogers by over 3% of the vote, which suggests people were showing up to support Mr Cheeto and then leaving the rest of the ballot blank.

    That is… not unbelievable. The Trump Cult is strong, while the GOP as a party lags Trump’s personality cult substantially.

    Polling gets even worse in other Midwestern states, with Harris outright underwater to her down ballot Dems. But there’s nobody in the GOP Trump doesn’t outpace. The idea that people are voting Trump + Dem is far less likely than voting Trump + Nobody.

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      Citing the vote counts to prove the point that the election was “fair & square” is like using the Bible to prove that God is real. Of course they prove HitlerPig won, they’re rigged! We’re supposed to believe he won EVERY swing state? No Republican has won the popular vote since 1988, but we’re supposed to believe the least popular Republican president in decades, one who actually LOST his reelection by a wide margin, is the guy to break that streak? Ridiculous.

      What makes more sense to me, and is supported by the evidence and personal statements by the players themselves, is that they rigged the election, especially in the swing states, assisted by the richest man in the world (and his army of some of the best tech experts in the world), and Putin, who we know has been actively pursuing cyber-espionage for years.

      When will people internalize that the two biggest FOREIGN Sociopathic Oligarchs, one with a government superpower at his disposal, another with the largest fortune on the planet, neither with any loyalty or patriotism toward America, have partnered up with the most prolific traitor in American history, to exploit our country in every way possible? None of them care about history or legacy or reputation, they see America as a rich, fat, lazy target, ripe for exploitation and looting.

      • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
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        2 days ago
        • The case the election is rigged is also based on citing the purportedly fraudulent election results.

        • Republicans won the popular vote in 2024.

        • The swing state results are not independent variables. They usually swing together.

        Is it possible the election was rigged? Sure. But the evidence so far is pretty weak.