“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity.
“You are not numbers or case files.
“You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV
My mayor Muslim
My bagel Jewish
My stepfather once told me that if I ever told anyone that I saw him holding hands with his executive assistant Gary at the Cinnabon two towns over he’d dig a hole in the backyard and bury me alive
Knicks in five
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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The moral of the boy who cried wolf is that the boy’s dishonesty was deadly to him, not that people were wrong to disbelieve him. If anyone with a hard earned reputation for honesty alleged fraud, they’d deserve a hearing. At this point that excludes the entire Republican Party.
Never forget - inflation was TRENDING DOWNWARDS, trending towards the Fed’s target rate of 2%, and THE US ECONOMY WAS TRENDING TOWARDS NORMALIZATION FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2019
And the dumbest fucking people in the world voted for a guy who has completely single-handedly reversed those trends thru his own domestic and foreign policy decisions
Destroying confidence in the electoral system and other pillars of democracy (media, courts) is their goal, it’s not just pathetic whining. Then they use that lack of confidence to push strongman powers, restrictive voter suppression laws, and other crackdowns.
We are ten years into allegations of widespread election fraud - only for elections Trump or republicans lose, mind you - for which Trump and allies have either not produced evidence, or claimed evidence which was subsequently debunked. And blatant contradictions - such as celebrating wins under the same laws and practices while confidently declaring theft for any losses - are now the norm.
I’ll say it again, I don’t know how we can function as a country when half of the voters think a Republican losing the mayoral race in LA is evidence of a conspiracy or widespread corruption.
Would anybody on the left respond this way if e.g. AOC lost the gubernatorial race in Oklahoma?
We can’t function in a world where one of the major parties thinks elections are only legitimate when they win.
According to documents related to the defamation case filed by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News Sean Hannity said if he thought the 2020 election was stolen.
"I did not believe it for one second."
Let's talk about a 'dishonest press,' Sean Hannity.
Hillary Clinton conceded the election immediately. Al Gore challenged Florida's recounting process but accepted SCOTUS' ruling. Neither alleged election fraud. Republicans desperately want you to be as stupid and forgetful as they are.
Reupping:
"Those who engaged in the attacks last week will be brought to justice."
---Trump on 1/13/21, after the House impeached him but before the Senate had voted on whether to convict.
@ESPNFANSUPPORT ESPN has now added the points under Mason Barnett that were not included for last Friday but the points are still not showing up in the team point totals. Please correct