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It is very strange that the swing state votes take so long to count

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Strict mail-in voting rules maintained by foreign nations,
new report finds
Strict mail-in voting rules maintained by foreign nations, new report finds
Most countries of the world ban mail-in voting due to fraud & vote buying

'If concern about vote fraud with mail-in ballots is delusional,
it is a delusion shared by most of the world': report

Have you actually read the cited report in question? It appears to be an unreviewed paper produced by right-wing thinktank with a history of questionable fact-checking: Why Do Most Countries Ban Mail-In Ballots?: They Have Seen Massive Vote Fraud Problems by John R. Lott :: SSRN

Further, just going through some of the report's details, it doesn't even appear to support its own titular claim.

(This explains why it doesn't seem particularly widely cited by many media outlets.)
 
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Interestingly, I recently read an article in The Atlantic that basically said that:
America’s Next Authoritarian Will Be Much More Competent

Now, The Atlantic really hates Trumps so the whole thing is basically framed as a warning of how a future "smart Trump" could destroy America, but setting aside its obvious biases, it does nevertheless have a point that Trump could have managed considerable success, including re-election, if he had been a smarter administrator.

Trump could have done all sorts of things, he had every opportunity to show us how good he was at the job and even every opportunity to show any other virtue he wished.

What he actually did was undermine the system and try to win with a personality cult.
 
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“We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” —Joe Biden in a colossal “political gaffe” — when a politician unintentionally tells the truth

 
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“We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” —Joe Biden in a colossal “political gaffe” — when a politician unintentionally tells the truth

Yeah, I think I'd like to see that in it's "entire context", etc...

God Bless!
 
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“We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” —Joe Biden in a colossal “political gaffe” — when a politician unintentionally tells the truth

But in all truth and honesty, probably not his best move right now, and might be one of his first mistakes yet, but I'm also betting there is some part of him that just "could not help himself" either, so I think I'll forgive that, but I bet it's going to drive all the "conspiracy theorists" nuts though...

God Bless!
 
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Oh, well, if Fox News and the "Independent Sentinel" say so then it must be true!! LOL

So I guess Trump should have worked on this terrible problem that we have in this country at some point during his entire 4 years, huh.... I mean, he gets things done, doesn't he?

Oh yeah, it wasn't a big problem until the last couple of months. Of course, I'm sure you raised concerns about this before the last couple of months, right? Can you link to those posts where you brought it up before the last couple of months?

What a load of horse manure.

We knew the Democrats were going to cheat and we did absolutely nothing about it except complain after the fact!

Either they're incompetent or they're lying.
 
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“We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” —Joe Biden in a colossal “political gaffe” — when a politician unintentionally tells the truth

To the surprise of no one, yes, this is taken out of context.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/04/bogus-vote-fraud-claims-proliferate-social-media/

Get ready, folks, this is what the next four years are going to be like. Republicans throwing poop at the wall, trying to make it stick.
 
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Interestingly, I recently read an article in The Atlantic that basically said that:
America’s Next Authoritarian Will Be Much More Competent

Now, The Atlantic really hates Trumps so the whole thing is basically framed as a warning of how a future "smart Trump" could destroy America, but setting aside its obvious biases, it does nevertheless have a point that Trump could have managed considerable success, including re-election, if he had been a smarter administrator.
I honestly believe he'd have won if he hadn't screwed up the COVID-19 response to such a degree.

It was his moment to show what he could do in a real crisis. People hated Bush, too, but he did a good job of bringing the country together after 9/11 and his approval ratings skyrocketed. Yeah, they did go back down after a few years, but by the time the next election rolled around he still had enough good will left to beat the block of wood he was running against.
 
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I honestly believe he'd have won if he hadn't screwed up the COVID-19 response to such a degree.

It was his moment to show what he could do in a real crisis. People hated Bush, too, but he did a good job of bringing the country together after 9/11 and his approval ratings skyrocketed. Yeah, they did go back down after a few years, but by the time the next election rolled around he still had enough good will left to beat the block of wood he was running against.
Trump could’ve had. 70% approval rating and 400 electoral votes if he had anything resembling a set of guiding moral principles.
 
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To the surprise of no one, yes, this is taken out of context.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/04/bogus-vote-fraud-claims-proliferate-social-media/

Get ready, folks, this is what the next four years are going to be like. Republicans throwing poop at the wall, trying to make it stick.
Thanks for that link, I can see clearly now, though I had to view the part containing the whole clip a couple times, that not only was he not saying what we were trying to be misled into believing what it/he was saying, taken out of it's context of course, etc, but that he was actually talking about their efforts against voter fraud, or protecting us against voter fraud, etc, and was not even joking or being mocking of president Trump at all, or taking a "poke" at him, like I thought he might have been being, etc...

Thanks for clearing that up, etc...

Those sneaky Republicans though, or at least the all still yet, still yet, still die hard Trump people, etc, my bet is though, that there will still be many people saying or claiming that he (Biden) was actually confessing to the Dems or the government actually admitting to committing to mass voter fraud though, when they were actually talking about their efforts against it, etc... Very, very sneaky, slick, deceptive, on the Trump peoples part, etc... Touche...

God Bless!
 
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