@AgentSelf99B Man, do I ever. Just imagine what America might be like today if our founders had named it the Bill of Responsibilities instead of the Bill of Rights?
As someone who has had to live in the shadow of the "loud obnoxious American" paradigm as I traveled the globe, I wholeheartedly agree that a little more humility could benefit every American.
This might be hard for Americans to hear, but the USA getting humiliated by its abject failure as a power during this Iran War might be the best thing possible at this time. The country needs to understand there are consequences for electing a crook.
@PhilKlay MAGA exists solely because deeply insecure, half-assed people hate being judged for being half-assed while insisting that they're peak performers being nit-picked by jealous losers.
@Kompressor_btc You mean like the president using billions of tax dollars to fund his son and son-in-law's company for mining tungsten in a foreign nation? Is that the fraud you're talking about?
@michaeldweiss@RadioFreeTom Iran just keeps reeling him in little by little. It's like fighting a swordfish until it's tired enough to jump on the boat for you. Their timeline is a lot more favorable to them than it is to Trump.
@Kompressor_btc You mean like the president using billions of tax dollars to fund his son and son-in-law's company for mining tungsten in a foreign nation? Is that the fraud you're talking about?
@TheWarMonitor Many people think that those in the Middle East are dumb, tribal, simpletons. No. They know exactly what they're doing & they're going to push him until electoral defeat is imminent and he's willing to give them anything just to claim a victory, just to shut off the news cycle.
@RadioFreeTom I think he is gaming or being used to game the markets. Both the stock and prediction markets are being used to enrich MAGA at a scale we probably will never fully comprehend. MAGA's entire purpose has become the enrichment of those at the top.
When Obama released his long form Hawaii birth certificate in 2011 and extra-definitively disproved Trump's birther idiocy, Trump didn't abandon the conspiracy theory; he just expanded that conspiracy theory to cram in the contradicting facts, pivoting to claims that the birth certificate was a forgery.
It's a time-tested conspiracist tactic. And he’s now using it again when trying to explain why Steve Hilton succeeded in the California primary elections Trump had baselessly declared were a fraud and were being rigged against Hilton: https://t.co/l8yf1SFm7c
It’s not about arguments. It’s about facts.
I know one great fact about American elections, and I know it because the Republican Party has proved it to me:
There is no election fraud of any consequence anywhere in the United States.
The Republican Party and its allies, FOR DECADES, have been searching high and low, in every corner of our country, for evidence of election fraud.
This effort has been made with vast sums of money and other resources, and with some of the greatest powers in our nation at the party’s disposal:
A presidential commission under President Donald Trump.
The Department of Justice under President Donald Trump, armed with the resources of the FBI, and the powers of subpoena.
Committees of Congress under Republican control, also armed with the powers of subpoena and the investigative resources of the first branch of government.
State legislatures under Republican control, also with subpoena powers, have launched similar efforts to find evidence of election fraud.
Republican-controlled states have set up special commissions and task forces, some with subpoena powers, all well-funded and with access to the state’s electoral systems.
Conservative academics and think tanks have launched projects seeking out evidence of election fraud.
Fox News and the rest of MAGA media have dedicated significant resources to finding evidence of election fraud.
What is the result of this enormous Republican effort to find election fraud?
Ask The Heritage Foundation.
For nearly a decade, Heritage has maintained an “Election Fraud Database.”
The database contains “proven instances of election fraud.”
It covers elections going back nearly fifty years.
That’s billions and billions of American votes.
Right now, the total number of proven instances of election fraud that Heritage can document is:
1620.
That’s an infinitesimal number, vanishingly small, and it is solid proof of two things:
1. Some individuals commit election fraud.
2. There is no evidence at all of systemic or even widespread election fraud anywhere in the USA.
The election-fraud panic is the Big Lie of our time.
It is peddled by people who know better. Their own investigations over decades demonstrate that.
Stop trying to subvert our democracy.
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@miglet35 Around the world, when anybody says "the West" what they mean is the lifestyle created by the United States and emulated by half the globe. They're not talking about Greece, Chile, Finland, or Colombia. Nothing dishonest there.