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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,174 posts)
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 10:26 AM Oct 2016

They keep on saying the election is "rigged".

They keep using that word.

I do not think it means what they think it means.

In their little minds, they somehow think that "rigging an election" equates to "the media not giving their candidate fawning, unquestioning love in its reporting in the lead up to the election".

Yeah, I don't get it, either.

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They keep on saying the election is "rigged". (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2016 OP
The media has been kissing their candidates ass and NOT reporting very onecaliberal Oct 2016 #1
The impulse to control people often involves saltpoint Oct 2016 #2
Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2016 #3
Who? nt Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2016 #4
the election could not possible be rigged! that would be... unblock Oct 2016 #5

onecaliberal

(32,826 posts)
1. The media has been kissing their candidates ass and NOT reporting very
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 10:29 AM
Oct 2016

Important information about that maggot for over a year. They could have avoided all of this, but chose not to because money. I despise what passes for media in this country.

saltpoint

(50,986 posts)
2. The impulse to control people often involves
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 10:30 AM
Oct 2016

making them fearful of something.

Or someone. Or a group of people.

This impulse has marked the Trump-Pence campaign from the very beginning.

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