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mtnsnake

(22,236 posts)
Mon Nov 30, 2020, 05:25 PM Nov 2020

I think Team Democrats should consider approaching this election fraud stuff from a different angle

All that our people have done so far is made efforts on TV and elsewhere to humiliate GOP senators into standing up to Trump and telling him it's time to move on. We've all seen how that's turned out. Meanwhile, Trump just goes on forever, lying as usual, lying continuously about it because he knows that his lies will eventually stick with the less intelligent segment of the population.

Maybe our people should turn the tables and make claims on TV how it's Trump who rigged the election...but how he didn't rig it quite enough in the states where Trump is disputing the results. Maybe we should start claiming that if anyone needs a recount, it should be us, not them, and suggest that recounts should be done in Florida, Texas, and North Carolina where Trump's efforts to rig the election were actually successful.

Maybe it isn't feasible to do that, I don't know, but instead of sitting by the wayside waiting for Republicans to do something that we know they will never do, shouldn't we instead do something to turn the tables on them for a change? Got any ideas?

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I think Team Democrats should consider approaching this election fraud stuff from a different angle (Original Post) mtnsnake Nov 2020 OP
it would be completely irresponsible. drray23 Nov 2020 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Freelancer Nov 2020 #2
We think alike superpatriotman Nov 2020 #3
He's a transparently terrible liar. maxsolomon Nov 2020 #7
This message was self-deleted by its author Freelancer Nov 2020 #4
He tried to disenfranchise voters TheFarseer Nov 2020 #5
I only go there if the person I am talking to says "fake news" TheRealNorth Nov 2020 #6

drray23

(7,627 posts)
1. it would be completely irresponsible.
Mon Nov 30, 2020, 05:33 PM
Nov 2020

We should aim at building trust back into the voting process by making constructive arguments, not peddle conspiracy theories of our own. For example, push an all paper ballot initiative, make it easier to register, expand early vote, reestablish parts of the voting right act that were gutted.

Response to mtnsnake (Original post)

superpatriotman

(6,247 posts)
3. We think alike
Mon Nov 30, 2020, 05:34 PM
Nov 2020

He is a projector. Always has been.

He is a world-class liar, too. That cannot be stressed enough.

Response to mtnsnake (Original post)

TheRealNorth

(9,474 posts)
6. I only go there if the person I am talking to says "fake news"
Mon Nov 30, 2020, 06:14 PM
Nov 2020

When I point out that Trump has not proven that there has been any election fraud.

If an individual is not honest and/or not dealing with realty, the best bet to throw them is to go on the attack with whatever BS you can think of. That's what Republicans do all the time. Even better if you can pull off a gish-gallop.

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