This is the most unhinged Trump rant about the 2020 election yet

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large

Donald Trump has set a pretty high bar for himself when it comes to wild rants. And yet, over the weekend in a speech to Turning Point Action in Arizona, he managed to outdo himself.

Words -- or at least my words -- can't do it justice. So, here's the former President of the United States:

"The county has, for whatever reason, also refused to produce the network routers. We want the routers, Sonny, Wendy, we got to get those routers, please. The routers. Come on, Kelly, we can get those routers. Those routers. You know what? We're so beyond the routers, there's so many fraudulent votes without the routers. But if you got those routers, what that will show, and they don't want to give up the routers. They don't want to give them. They are fighting like hell. Why are these commissioners fighting not to give the routers?"

Yup. Literally unhinged. I mean, he says the word "routers" 11 times in that rant.

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[woodsprite]

1. Because he thinks it makes him sound like a tech guru.

I wish they'd get the routers from Trump Tower to perform forensics on them. Pretty sure they'd prove to be much more enlightening.

[Paper Roses]

2. Blather, Blather, what a disgusting jerk! My cat had a higher IQ!

[CurtEastPoint]

3. He is just mental. Take him away.

[Midnight Writer]

4. Reminds me of my old boss who had one of those word of the day calendars.

He wanted to increase his vocabulary. Every time he learned a new word, he would use it over and over and over all that day.

I recall a day when he used the word "proboscis" about twenty times in a meeting, even though it had nothing to do with what we were talking about.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

5. This is at least his third time on this sort of tip ... 1st it was Hillary's email server/phones

Then it was the DNC servers wrt the break-in by Russian Intelligence.

Now it's routers in the Big Lie.

It's a recurring theme, and it works for the purpose he means it for ... because his audience are gullible rubes.

Routers aren't going to tell you shit but the knuckle-draggers of Cult45 don't know that. 'Withholding the Routers' sounds nefarious, and that's all they need to hear.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. The router in his head is broken and he knows it. /nt

[orwell]

7. I don't understand the fixation with routers...

...and I work on computers and networks.

What the hell are they talking about?

Also, why would you ever allow an untrusted outside agent to handle any of your physical network architecture for security reasons?

I guess all this "TFG techy talk" is impressive when you are a tech moron...

[sboatcar]

8. Apparently they think there would be something in the internal logs that might tell them?

I mean, possibly, if you took the routers off the network like within a day or two, but those logs, if its anything with any level of traffic, recycle after a couple of days tops. There wouldn't be any useful information there, unless they were hoping to find a secret VPN tunnel or something.

[brush]

9. Apparently he heard a bit of conversation about routers and communication...

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networks and without understanding their function at all decided he'd used them in a speech and pretend he knows something about what they do. He also probably thinks it makes him sound knowledgeable.

[Ray Bruns]

11. He did the same thing with the "injecting bleach"

and "UV" lights. If you ever have seen the press conference when Donnie Dimwit suggested those things, it was the previous speaker who was speaking of using them to disinfect surfaces.

But Donnie Dimwit is so stupid, and typically not listening, that he suggested using them in the body.

He just spouts off whatever his miniscule brain can spout out.

[brush]

12. Heehee! Yes, I remember that.

[LuvLoogie]

13. People are saying the routers blocked and deleted trump votes.

It's disgusting. And they say the routers are Chinese.

[orwell]

18. The old...

..."people are saying" canard.

Well "people are saying" that morons shouldn't opine about technology they don't understand.

So how is this supposed to work, secret Chinese firmware that can packet sniff for only TFG votes? That's not how ballots are counted or how election totals are communicated. What is it, Denial of Service algorithms that are secretly switched to Denial of TFG votes algorithms? Special port forwarding, QOS, or NAT routing for only TFG votes? And if you were going to try to do anything you wouldn't be sophisticated enough to erase your logs or reset your firmware after you were done.

The only reason this got any traction is that a moron conveyed it to other morons.

It is so easy to lie when you are lying to a moron who doesn't understand how stupid they are.

[LuvLoogie]

20. All he has to do is create doubt. He does not have to know

what he is talking about. All he has to do is convince people that "election integrity' isn't election rigging.

He has to convince people that voting in greater numbers than his supporters is cheating, that your existence is illegal. He is most of the way there.

[SarcasticSatyr]

17. Wasn't that orange idiot obsessed with dishwashers for awhile?

He latches onto a word and just can't let it go ... he's mental

[Chainfire]

10. Tell the lie, make it a whopper and repeat it over and over.

That play has been in the books at least since the 1930s. You can go to conservative forums today and they will be talking about "routers."
Propaganda works.

[SCantiGOP]

14. "Mr President, Sir, what is a router?"

“Uh, they are what we need to show the biggest election fraud in history. Very smart people say they are what rout the votes.”

[chriscan64]

15. This would be like witholding satellite dishes

to see what you watched on TV.

[heckles65]

16. I'm not sure what a router is either...

but I do know that an election steal like Republicans describe would take thousands, if not tens of thousands of people working together in close coordination. No way would a secret like that stay under wraps.

[orwell]

19. All a router is...

...is a device that translates TCP/IP packets from one subnet to another. The more expensive and sophisticated they are the faster and more configurable they are.

Almost everyone who is on the internet with a home network has a router in their home. Routers are the backbone of getting the internet protocol to work.

They can cost less than 10 dollars for a used one off Ebay to hundreds of thousands of dollars for something like a top end Cisco backbone router.

Basically a router is like a really fast traffic cop that can send information on the fly from one network to another.

[Oneironaut]

21. His pseudo-techno babble sounds like an episode of CSI

Quick! Activate Microsoft Paint and draw a GUI prototype so that we can examine the MAC address on the router to check for vote tampering!