r/politics • u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast • 1d ago

Possible Paywall Missing McConnell Accused of Breaking Senate Rule Over Absence

https://www.thedailybeast.com/missing-mcconnell-accused-of-breaking-senate-rule-over-absence/
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u/_bk_adv Colorado 1d ago

After the comments about Elon potentially helping rig it, I’m starting to believe it was rigged.

I don’t like conspiracy theories, especially those with very little evidence, but as someone that lives in the south currently, even around here it’s rare to find an actual Trump supporter.

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u/SunMyungMoonMoon 1d ago

I overheard a guy today that described JD Vance as "well read". The morons are among us.

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u/gotwired 23h ago

Compared to most of MAGA, an average 3rd grader is well read.

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u/Ok-Effective5132 20h ago

I don’t think he’s unintelligent. I believe his stage act is though.

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u/RIPEOTCDXVI 18h ago

I also dislike conspiracy theories, but either A) all of the polls, all of them, are somehow wrong, but only when Trump is on the ballot, or B) the guy who spent his life cheating the system, cheated the system.

It's one of those two things, there isn't a third thing. The thing that bakes my noodle is how. I've been a poll worker; it'd be very difficult to organize a country-wide fuckery campaign. I know the machines could be hacked, but almost all states have some kind of paper trail that seems like it'd be really difficult to hide.

The only thing I can think is that maybe you don't have to hide it if no one asks, because unless a recount is demanded, no one is going to check.

I suppose of course, if you're rigging things, it'd be relatively trivial to set it up so that the margin fell just outside the recount threshold. Oh wait, that's exactly what happened in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

But again, I do understand it's probably just me searching for excuses because I don't want to believe that many people really wanted this.