(11-13-2022, 10:21 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(11-13-2022, 08:44 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: .

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You know... there isn't a single person on this board that wouldn't feel cheated if they were in the exact same position as Kari Lake. If you can't look at that situation and recognize that something is seriously broken, that speaks to your own cognitive bias or ability. Yet, not enough people are willing to speak out about it, because they are afraid of being called an election denier. It's all rhetoric. People like you are just a tool to keep them in line. Great job, tool.

I would feel cheated if I was her.  It's not hard to make me feel frustrated. I would feel very frustrated.  But just because a person feels a certain way doesn't mean he or she has a point about anything.

If we think this situation is unacceptable, nothing can be done now.  Kari Lake agreed to play the game under these rules.  You don't change the rules in the middle of the game.  

Like Marty suggested, we could make a rule that a state's SoS can't run for office while in office, and that would prevent this from happening again, but it would not solve this particular case.  And it would be pretty ridiculous,  as Marty said.

Thank you. This should be the national sentiment. It should have been the national sentiment LAST election. However, democrats were too busy calling people election deniers. Why? Most likely because they don't actually want to fix these problems. People need to stop being afraid of being called names. This narrative is ridiculous on its face. 

Personally, I think the democrats are cheating. I spent a good amount of time looking at the numbers last election, and I posted what I thought were OBVIOUS cases of fraud in swing states. This election, I did the same and I couldn't find it. I still believed they cheated, based on the fact that they blew away the polls and republican turnout was HUGE this year except in a few key blue counties, but they did it well if they did it. I was resigned to just accept the results, because if it's that clean, what can you do about it?

Then there is AZ and all the seats that are slowly turning to Dems days after the election. The odds of them winning all these toss up elections was astronomically low. This kind of failure deserves nationwide scrutiny.

I think it's fair that we can't do anything about it after the fact... especially if nothing has been proven. My complaint is that the sentiment that there is the appearance of fraud should not only be acceptable, but it should also be mainstream. Instead, the talking heads and prevailing powers say you can't even mention it or you're an election denier. That's just absurd. Even more so, are the people that carry their water for them. WE need to make THEM do our bidding. I just can't get over how short sighted we are as a species.

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