Comments by "wily wascal" (@wilywascal2024) on "'Chilling to hear': Tapper reacts to Pompeo's refusal to acknowledge Biden win" video.

  1. Republicans: “Democracy is great…only so long as we can subvert it to gain power and maintain our corrupt, plutocratic, minority fascist rule!”
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  2. Republicans: “We’re killing democracy, America, and ourselves…so we can keep it great!”
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  3. “After the destruction of the Trump era, the nation is desperate for a parental figure to cultivate renewal amid ruin.” ~ Franklin Foer
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  4.  Heather V  ~ Republican cult morons rail against the very "elite" they keep voting for, who give tax cuts to the rich and have created the greatest income inequality and wealth disparity in American history. Why? They are driven by the divisive fear and bigotry programmed into them 24/7 by the Reich-wing media and propaganda owned or funded by the plutocracy. It's absolutely Orwellian, and it began around 1984 in America. What is witnessed now is just the rotten results from the poisoned tree bearing fruition. It's the disease killing America that existed long before COVID-19, and which is likely to persist long after.
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  5.  @johnmartin4233  ~ Mueller couldn't establish enough evidence for a legal charge of conspiracy because of witnesses refusing to testify and destruction of evidence by Trump and his campaign. However, he did find plenty of evidence of collusion, which is very different from being able to bring a legal charge of conspiracy. The REPUBLICAN Senate Intelligence Committee's 1,000 page report reaffirmed the circumstances of the Russian collusion with the Trump campaign outlined in the Mueller Report, even expanding upon it. Investigations of Russian interference into American affairs began well before Trump considered running for office, and were predicated upon well-established evidence. The investigation of Trump's collusion with Russia was folded into that ongoing investigation, and was not predicated upon the Steel dossier, but from other sources preceding the FBI receiving that raw intelligence material from Steel. Unlike investigations into Russian interference and collusion, there is no credible evidence of voter fraud or irregularities to predicate an investigation of the 2020 election. If there was such evidence, the Trump campaign would have already produced it. That they have not tells us all one needs to know. The most Trump can do is demand recounts in those few states where the election was close enough that state law permits it (in some states that is automatic, anyway). However, be advised that recounts seldom differ from the original counts by more than a few hundred votes, and because Biden leads Trump by thousands in all the closely contested states, a recount will do Trump little good. Moreover, the recounts would have to overturn the results of several states, not just one, to gain him an electoral advantage--something which just isn't going to happen.
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  6.  @johnmartin4233  ~ Proof? You're just spewing the same B.S. you've been fed, because that's what you like to eat. REPEAT: If Trump had any REAL evidence, he would have already laid it all out to the public, put it into court filings. That hasn't been done, which tells us all one needs to know. And, sorry, vague allegations are not evidence of wrongdoing; investigations aren't started just because LOSERS don't like the way an election turned out, start fabricating false allegations and crackpot conspiracy theories.
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  7.  @johnmartin4233  ~ Reich-wing sites are twisting what happened, you're just spewing out the B.S. you're fed, because that's what you like to eat. The TRUTH and the REAL, ACTUAL facts: No, There Isn't a ‘Glitch’ in Michigan Election Software That Flipped Thousands of Trump Votes FAKES Dispelling every bullshit election conspiracy that’s inundated the internet this week would be a full-time job in and of itself, but one particularly insidious theory has blown up to such a ridiculous degree that it deserves to be set straight. Michigan GOP Chairwoman Laura Cox claimed at a press conference Friday that an election software “glitch” in one Michigan county switched thousands of votes for President Donald Trump to votes for Democratic challenger (now President-Elect) Joe Biden. Sounds like a pretty big scandal, right? Well, it very well might be if any portion of that statement was true. But though this conspiracy theory has been thoroughly debunked by Michigan election officials, that hasn’t stopped Trump supporters from sounding alarms about supposed voter fraud in many of the 28 states where the software’s manufacturer, Dominion Voting Systems, supplies election tech. The theory, which has “no merit” according to a statement from Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, claims that an Antrim County clerk reported a glitch in the county’s ballot tabulating software that miscounted 6,000 Trump votes as Biden votes, resulting in officials having to recount all ballots by hand. Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel later parroted this theory along with several other unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud in her call for recounts in several battleground states. ... https://gizmodo.com/no-theres-isnt-a-glitch-in-michigan-election-softwar-1845607896 RUMOR ALERT: Dominion Voting Systems Fraud Claims Isolated incidents that were quickly rectified were used to imply widespread voter fraud was occurring in 2020. Various rumors alleging voter fraud focused on the Electronic voting company Dominion Voting Systems. On Nov. 7, 2020, the Associated Press, the New York Times, Fox News, and several other major news outlets called the 2020 presidential election and projected that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had defeated U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. As news of President-elect Biden’s victory spread on social media, so did unsupported claims alleging voter fraud. Many of these claims were centered around Dominion Voting Systems, a company that sells voting machines and software in the United States and Canada. We will examine a few of these claims below. Did a software glitch cause thousands of Republican votes to be marked for Democrats in Michigan? A human error resulted in a temporary miscalculation in Antrim County, Michigan, but this issue was quickly remedied. One of the most prevalent voter fraud claims to emerge in the days following the election was the accusation that a computer glitch in a software program from Dominion Voting Systems had mistakenly counted thousands of votes for President Trump as votes for President Biden. This claim was based on a half-truth: a tabulation error did occur in Antrim County, but the problem was a result of a human error, and the mistake was quickly caught and corrected. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson disputed claims of deliberate election fraud in a statement: In response to the false claims made by Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, the Michigan Department of State issues the following statements of fact: --Michigan’s elections were conducted fairly, effectively and transparently and are an accurate reflection of the will of Michigan voters. --The erroneous reporting of unofficial results from Antrim county was a result of accidental error on the part of the Antrim County Clerk. The equipment and software did not malfunction and all ballots were properly tabulated. However, the clerk accidentally did not update the software used to collect voting machine data and report unofficial results. --Like many counties in Michigan, Antrim County uses the Dominion Voting Systems election management system and voting machines (ballot tabulators.) The county receives programming support from Election Source. Tabulators are programmed to scan hand marked, paper ballots. When machines are finished scanning the ballots, the paper ballots are retained and a totals tape showing the number of votes for each candidate in each race is printed from the machine. --In order to report unofficial results, county clerks use election management system software to combine the electronic totals from tabulators and submit a report of unofficial results. Because the clerk did not update software, even though the tabulators counted all the ballots correctly, those accurate results were not combined properly when the clerk reported unofficial results. --The correct results always were and continue to be reflected on the tabulator totals tape and on the ballots themselves. Even if the error in the reported unofficial results had not been quickly noticed, it would have been identified during the county canvass. Boards of County Canvassers, which are composed of 2 Democrats and 2 Republicans, review the printed totals tape from each tabulator during the canvass to verify the reported vote totals are correct. --The software did not cause a misallocation of votes; it was a result of user human error. Even when human error occurs, it is caught during county canvasses. --It is also completely false that the county had to or will have to hand count all their ballots. The ballots were properly counted by the tabulators. The county had to review the printed tabulator results from each precinct, not each individual ballot. --As with other unofficial results reporting errors, this was an honest mistake and did not affect any actual vote totals. Election clerks work extremely hard and do their work with integrity. They are human beings, and sometimes make mistakes. However, there are many checks and balances that ensure mistakes can be caught and corrected. On a related note, Benson also disputed claims that Republicans weren’t allowed to observe the vote count, asserting that “hundreds of challengers from both parties were inside their absent voter counting board all afternoon and evening.” https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rumor-alert-dominion-voting-systems-fraud-claims/
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  8.  @daverodgers779  ~ Republican cult going to believe what the Republican cult wants to believe, whatever the truth, whatever proof, whatever anybody says. "Healing" the country means deprogramming the 30-40% of Americans deep in cultdom. That needs to be recognized, acknowledged, and acted upon if we truly wish to revive the patient, America, and restore it to glory.
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  9.  zhuull1  ~ Me three! Report all links lacking title, source, and description--or that falsify any of that. YouTube should be shutting down those accounts for repeated infractions, but apparently the money is more important to them than the integrity of their site and the welfare of their clients.
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  10. We'll see you later, confabulator...in prison! Bye-bye, Traitor-'n-Thief Trump, Pompeo.
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  11. Republicans: "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the biggest loser of them all, who's the hypocrite with shameless gall, who's the reprobate that can't stand tall, who's the miscreant fumbling the ball?"
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