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Also, Bidet got 16 million more votes in 2020 than Shrillary in 2016.
And ... Biden did it while it was obvious that he had dementia.

So the guy with dementia and a 4.5 year old thread documenting that fact STILL holds the record for the most votes of all time ... by a lot.

So do Americans hate the idea of a female president that much, OR are Americans stupid enough to overwhelmingly vote for a handicapped person by 7-million votes?

Election-denier-deniers gotta to pick one.
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The Kraken said:

Stat Monitor Repairman said:



When you finally realize they unleashed a biological weapon on the planet to keep Trump from cruising to reelection in 2020, and then he goes on to win by a landslide in 2024.

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!


They??



They are legion for they are many.
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BCG Disciple said:

Are we done with the count yet? I'm seeing Trump at 76.4mm and Kamala at 73.8mm. Trump up over 2020, and Kamala down.

I'm guessing we'll never see the misleading 65mm charts again.


First time on the internet?
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aggiehawg said:

HTownAg98 said:

aggiehawg said:

I thought 2020 total was north of 158 million?

Those numbers are correct if you're looking at D vs. R. Total votes cast including third parties was over 158 MM.
But total votes including third party votes can be telling as well. To me anyway. Did the thrd parties perform better or worse than in 2020?



Libertarians got 1.8 mil in 2020. 635K so far in 2024. (So looks like they were cheating their ass off in 2020 too I guess).

Green Party got 400K in 2020. 763K so far in 2024.

Kanye got 70 K in 2020. RFK has 739K so far in 2024.

Strangely enough, the number of Democrat voters didn't really decrease that much in the swing states (PA, GA, WI, MI, AZ) in 2024, so seems like Dems were cheating in the Deep South, New York, Texas, and California in 2020 since that is where most of the "missing" 7 million democrat votes are located. Silly Dems.
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Hilarious that people now crawled out of the wood-pile taking the position that the scope of the fraud in 2020 has been exaggerated.
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I got your answer right here about the votes……. Wait for it…. The illegal voters checked the wrong box!!!
“A drunkard’s dream if I ever did see one”
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captkirk said:

HTownAg98 said:

BadMoonRisin said:

HTownAg98 said:

You don't "cheat" a 15 million delta in votes. The manpower that would take is hard to fathom. What did happen in 2020 is the rules were changed to allow people that had never voted before vote in 2020 because it was super easy to do so, and those people didn't show up in 2024. If you want to call that cheating, fine, but the votes were legitimate.

Voter apathy, drastic reductions in mail-in voting, and a seismic shift in the hispanic vote due to illegal immigration is why Harris lost.



The manpower it would take isn't so unfathomable considering Mark Zuckerberg dropped half a billion dollars into the election system to "help," count the votes, buddy.

Pull your head out. It was stolen. Period

Nah, I'm good. Some of us choose to live in the reality that there will always be some amount of fraud by bad actors, while also acknowledging that forging millions of ballots is next to impossible.
Biden won by about 50,000 votes in three swing states. No need to forge millions of votes
So there should be a separate thread to talk about the small number of important votes in swing states.
This particular thread consists of people claiming 18 million votes were forged in 2020. If all it took was 50,000 votes in three states, why commit a massive forgery of 15% of the votes in the nation - which would absolutely leave some legally-actionable evidence. And yet, there has been none, despite multiple lawsuits and investigations desperately hunting for it.
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HowdyTexasAggies said:

AgLA06 said:

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uneedastraw said:

My opinion is 2020 the Dems harvested votes by going door to door in areas they knew would not go vote. T they were well funded and had a perfect plan for that environment . It went unchecked in 2020 because the republicans were lazy and caught off guard. Notice the Latino and black vote differences? That wasn't going to fly this election cycle so it could not happen at near the level that it did.

Agree on all this, but they didn't have to go door to door, all they had to do was create them, send them in. There was zero chain of custody.
Or people could have voted. It's really sad when people talk about what could have happened.
15 million people just decided not to vote this year? Sure OK.

Such a weird thread. Thousands of TexAgs post over decades talking about the impending Idiocracy of all the lazy democrats and minorities who sit at home in their Section 8 housing talking on free Obamaphones and having a permanent case of the "gibsmedats". And then suddenly it's inconceivable this same laziness played a huge part of the 2020 election when 300 million people were literally sitting at home with nothing to do except scroll their social platforms and get organized by their party handlers -- or were in the streets protesting.
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Stat Monitor Repairman said:



When you finally realize they unleashed a biological weapon on the planet to keep Trump from cruising to reelection in 2020, and then he goes on to win by a landslide in 2024.

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!
Actually, I think this theory is MORE reasonable than 18 million forged votes that not a single investigation or lawsuit has found any legally-actionable proof for.

In January/February of 2020 all the momentum was with Trump, and Democrats were bemoaning their poor chances. I wouldn't go so far as to say it was deliberately "Let's release a virus to upset Trump's re-election" because a global pandemic is not a shaped demolition charge you can control; it's a stick of dynamite tossed into a pile of rocks. But I do think the Democrats perfectly exploited it and amplified the fear/danger of it as a means of castrating Trump's biggest weapon -- the media buzz.

Trump sucks at communicating clear policy details and consistent messaging, but he knows how to keep people focused on him. If you're talking about Trump even if it's to hate him, he's winning. It was a perfect chance to suddenly appeal to all the LIVs and centrists with "When disaster strikes, we need the government to save us, feed us, send us money, give us test kits and develop vaccines, etc..." People suddenly decided they wanted a big nanny government. Trump, the person, tumbled from the top of the news cycle. The Presidency itself seemed less important. Suddenly CDC scientists, federal agency heads, county commissioners/judges , and bureaucrats up and down the chain were our rulers. That's not a time for people to turn to conservative principles of small government and self reliance if they don't already believe firmly in those principles.
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wannaggie said:

Stat Monitor Repairman said:



When you finally realize they unleashed a biological weapon on the planet to keep Trump from cruising to reelection in 2020, and then he goes on to win by a landslide in 2024.

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!
Actually, I think this theory is MORE reasonable than 18 million forged votes that not a single investigation or lawsuit has found any legally-actionable proof for.

In January/February of 2020 all the momentum was with Trump, and Democrats were bemoaning their poor chances. I wouldn't go so far as to say it was deliberately "Let's release a virus to upset Trump's re-election" because a global pandemic is not a shaped demolition charge you can control; it's a stick of dynamite tossed into a pile of rocks. But I do think the Democrats perfectly exploited it and amplified the fear/danger of it as a means of castrating Trump's biggest weapon -- the media buzz.

Trump sucks at communicating clear policy details and consistent messaging, but he knows how to keep people focused on him. If you're talking about Trump even if it's to hate him, he's winning. It was a perfect chance to suddenly appeal to all the LIVs and centrists with "When disaster strikes, we need the government to save us, feed us, send us money, give us test kits and develop vaccines, etc..." People suddenly decided they wanted a big nanny government. Trump, the person, tumbled from the top of the news cycle. The Presidency itself seemed less important. Suddenly CDC scientists, federal agency heads, county commissioners/judges , and bureaucrats up and down the chain were our rulers. That's not a time for people to turn to conservative principles of small government and self reliance if they don't already believe firmly in those principles.


I think his policies are very clear. He's just very abrasive in his communication style, same as Saban at Bama. Great coach, but not the most likable person. Get around that, and he's pretty good at what he does.
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OdessaAg said:

Just checked fox to get a vote update and noticed Kamala only has 66M votes. How on earth did Brandon get 81M?????
We know the answer to this but to suggest it is to make you a denier.
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nu awlins ag said:

wannaggie said:

Stat Monitor Repairman said:



When you finally realize they unleashed a biological weapon on the planet to keep Trump from cruising to reelection in 2020, and then he goes on to win by a landslide in 2024.

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!
Actually, I think this theory is MORE reasonable than 18 million forged votes that not a single investigation or lawsuit has found any legally-actionable proof for.

In January/February of 2020 all the momentum was with Trump, and Democrats were bemoaning their poor chances. I wouldn't go so far as to say it was deliberately "Let's release a virus to upset Trump's re-election" because a global pandemic is not a shaped demolition charge you can control; it's a stick of dynamite tossed into a pile of rocks. But I do think the Democrats perfectly exploited it and amplified the fear/danger of it as a means of castrating Trump's biggest weapon -- the media buzz.

Trump sucks at communicating clear policy details and consistent messaging, but he knows how to keep people focused on him. If you're talking about Trump even if it's to hate him, he's winning. It was a perfect chance to suddenly appeal to all the LIVs and centrists with "When disaster strikes, we need the government to save us, feed us, send us money, give us test kits and develop vaccines, etc..." People suddenly decided they wanted a big nanny government. Trump, the person, tumbled from the top of the news cycle. The Presidency itself seemed less important. Suddenly CDC scientists, federal agency heads, county commissioners/judges , and bureaucrats up and down the chain were our rulers. That's not a time for people to turn to conservative principles of small government and self reliance if they don't already believe firmly in those principles.


I think his policies are very clear. He's just very abrasive in his communication style, same as Saban at Bama. Great coach, but not the most likable person. Get around that, and he's pretty good at what he does.
I'd like to suggest that his policies are very clear to you because you are predisposed to excuse the vagaries and seeming contradictions to listen for the overall message, and it also helps that the tribal in-group identity and overall message is one you are more comfortable with, so your brain spackles over the lumps and bumps with the big picture as you see it.

To the ~70 million voters who voted against him, his policies are not clear.
Those people are not predisposed to listen for the overall message.
They hear vagaries and assume it mean's he's lying or making it up as he goes along.
They hear seeming contradictions, and those seem like actual contradictions.
It also worsens things that his tribal identity and overall message is one they are not comfortable with, so their brain fills in the lumps and bumps with all the terrible possibilities as they see them.
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OdessaAg said:

Just checked fox to get a vote update and noticed Kamala only has 66M votes. How on earth did Brandon get 81M?????


Bigger question - Kamala now has 73-ish million votes. How did that happen in the span of 14 days? She's now 3 million votes behind Trump.
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wannaggie said:

nu awlins ag said:

wannaggie said:

Stat Monitor Repairman said:



When you finally realize they unleashed a biological weapon on the planet to keep Trump from cruising to reelection in 2020, and then he goes on to win by a landslide in 2024.

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!
Actually, I think this theory is MORE reasonable than 18 million forged votes that not a single investigation or lawsuit has found any legally-actionable proof for.

In January/February of 2020 all the momentum was with Trump, and Democrats were bemoaning their poor chances. I wouldn't go so far as to say it was deliberately "Let's release a virus to upset Trump's re-election" because a global pandemic is not a shaped demolition charge you can control; it's a stick of dynamite tossed into a pile of rocks. But I do think the Democrats perfectly exploited it and amplified the fear/danger of it as a means of castrating Trump's biggest weapon -- the media buzz.

Trump sucks at communicating clear policy details and consistent messaging, but he knows how to keep people focused on him. If you're talking about Trump even if it's to hate him, he's winning. It was a perfect chance to suddenly appeal to all the LIVs and centrists with "When disaster strikes, we need the government to save us, feed us, send us money, give us test kits and develop vaccines, etc..." People suddenly decided they wanted a big nanny government. Trump, the person, tumbled from the top of the news cycle. The Presidency itself seemed less important. Suddenly CDC scientists, federal agency heads, county commissioners/judges , and bureaucrats up and down the chain were our rulers. That's not a time for people to turn to conservative principles of small government and self reliance if they don't already believe firmly in those principles.


I think his policies are very clear. He's just very abrasive in his communication style, same as Saban at Bama. Great coach, but not the most likable person. Get around that, and he's pretty good at what he does.
I'd like to suggest that his policies are very clear to you because you are predisposed to excuse the vagaries and seeming contradictions to listen for the overall message, and it also helps that the tribal in-group identity and overall message is one you are more comfortable with, so your brain spackles over the lumps and bumps with the big picture as you see it.

To the ~70 million voters who voted against him, his policies are not clear.
Those people are not predisposed to listen for the overall message.
They hear vagaries and assume it mean's he's lying or making it up as he goes along.
They hear seeming contradictions, and those seem like actual contradictions.
It also worsens things that his tribal identity and overall message is one they are not comfortable with, so their brain fills in the lumps and bumps with all the terrible possibilities as they see them.


Wow. You have some mental issues. Get over it or get help. He has clear policies you just don't agree with them.
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Don't get help. Keep posting here.
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I get what you are trying to say, and you're near the target. The opposition to trump doesn't listen to him, that is all you need to know, and you sort of say that.

They only way they engage with trump is through a distorted lens presented by media influencers, so the vagueness is highlighted for people that already don't listen to trump


This does not mean his policies aren't clear. They are... if you listen
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California bringing up the fraudulent rear

The overall population, coupled by corrupt one-party state, and insane number of illegal immigrants is the best environment to bend rules and vacuum up votes

They have the institutional support to harvest votes, but also they boost their electoral college weight with immigrant populations

Voter ID and deportation will help a lot, but it's only a start
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Kamala is down 1.7 points from Trump. She has 7 million less votes than Biden fraudulently gathered 4 years ago.
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WestAustinAg said:

Kamala is down 1.7 points from Trump. She has 7 million less votes than Biden fraudulently gathered 4 years ago.


The data doesn't lie.
Democrats are sexist and racist. They came out in numbers for the old white man, but didn't give a **** about a black woman.
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I'll never understand how anyone actually believes the "drop off" was apathy for Kamala. BS, you'd have to be a fool to look at the bar charts and convince yourself that Biden drew such an overwhelmingly increased vote in 2020. A true fool to the core.
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With 98.7% of votes counted, Donald Trump received 76,688,251 votes, and Kamala Harris received 74,114,822 votes. Trump received 2,454,276 votes more than the 74,223,975 votes he received in 2020, but Harris received 7,168,679 fewer votes than the 81,283,501 votes Joe Biden received in 2020. This time, a lot more independents voted against Harris after voting against Trump in the previous election.
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Wild that 740K voted for RFK Jr' who is now Trump's Secretary of HHS.

So how do you account for those votes? People that hated Kamala but couldn't bear to pull the lever for Trump out of moral superiority?

Are RFK voters just Trump voters who have Mormon soaking style sex?

How do you account for 740k RFK votes in all this?
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The problem is the 81mm crowd continues to look stupid when they show bar graphs that jump the gun. 81mm to 65mm??? Oh wait, we mean 75mm.

Now it's no party can drop 8% in the election cycle! Clearly cheating in 2020!

Obama dropped 5% from 08 to 12.
HW dropped 20% from 88 to 92.

Just saying that it's not crazy when the administration is not particularly popular.
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That they are still having to count votes on the 20th isn't enough fraud for some of you?
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wannaggie said:

captkirk said:

HTownAg98 said:

BadMoonRisin said:

HTownAg98 said:

You don't "cheat" a 15 million delta in votes. The manpower that would take is hard to fathom. What did happen in 2020 is the rules were changed to allow people that had never voted before vote in 2020 because it was super easy to do so, and those people didn't show up in 2024. If you want to call that cheating, fine, but the votes were legitimate.

Voter apathy, drastic reductions in mail-in voting, and a seismic shift in the hispanic vote due to illegal immigration is why Harris lost.



The manpower it would take isn't so unfathomable considering Mark Zuckerberg dropped half a billion dollars into the election system to "help," count the votes, buddy.

Pull your head out. It was stolen. Period

Nah, I'm good. Some of us choose to live in the reality that there will always be some amount of fraud by bad actors, while also acknowledging that forging millions of ballots is next to impossible.
Biden won by about 50,000 votes in three swing states. No need to forge millions of votes
So there should be a separate thread to talk about the small number of important votes in swing states.
This particular thread consists of people claiming 18 million votes were forged in 2020. If all it took was 50,000 votes in three states, why commit a massive forgery of 15% of the votes in the nation - which would absolutely leave some legally-actionable evidence. And yet, there has been none, despite multiple lawsuits and investigations desperately hunting for it.


What investigations? You have me excited that the FBI actually got off their butts and did something about election fraud...However, I bet you can't point to one real investigation...

Those multiple lawsuits were dropped for no standing, no evidence was even heard in the lawsuits...
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BCG Disciple said:

The problem is the 81mm crowd continues to look stupid when they show bar graphs that jump the gun. 81mm to 65mm??? Oh wait, we mean 75mm.

Now it's no party can drop 8% in the election cycle! Clearly cheating in 2020!

Obama dropped 5% from 08 to 12.
HW dropped 20% from 88 to 92.

Just saying that it's not crazy when the administration is not particularly popular.
Most of HW's issue was Ross Perot. That's how we got Slick Willie.
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BCG Disciple said:

The problem is the 81mm crowd continues to look stupid when they show bar graphs that jump the gun. 81mm to 65mm??? Oh wait, we mean 75mm.

Now it's no party can drop 8% in the election cycle! Clearly cheating in 2020!

Obama dropped 5% from 08 to 12.
HW dropped 20% from 88 to 92.

Just saying that it's not crazy when the administration is not particularly popular.


It's far less about the drop than the jump compared to what King Obama got.
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nu awlins ag said:

wannaggie said:

nu awlins ag said:

wannaggie said:

Stat Monitor Repairman said:



When you finally realize they unleashed a biological weapon on the planet to keep Trump from cruising to reelection in 2020, and then he goes on to win by a landslide in 2024.

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!
Actually, I think this theory is MORE reasonable than 18 million forged votes that not a single investigation or lawsuit has found any legally-actionable proof for.

In January/February of 2020 all the momentum was with Trump, and Democrats were bemoaning their poor chances. I wouldn't go so far as to say it was deliberately "Let's release a virus to upset Trump's re-election" because a global pandemic is not a shaped demolition charge you can control; it's a stick of dynamite tossed into a pile of rocks. But I do think the Democrats perfectly exploited it and amplified the fear/danger of it as a means of castrating Trump's biggest weapon -- the media buzz.

Trump sucks at communicating clear policy details and consistent messaging, but he knows how to keep people focused on him. If you're talking about Trump even if it's to hate him, he's winning. It was a perfect chance to suddenly appeal to all the LIVs and centrists with "When disaster strikes, we need the government to save us, feed us, send us money, give us test kits and develop vaccines, etc..." People suddenly decided they wanted a big nanny government. Trump, the person, tumbled from the top of the news cycle. The Presidency itself seemed less important. Suddenly CDC scientists, federal agency heads, county commissioners/judges , and bureaucrats up and down the chain were our rulers. That's not a time for people to turn to conservative principles of small government and self reliance if they don't already believe firmly in those principles.


I think his policies are very clear. He's just very abrasive in his communication style, same as Saban at Bama. Great coach, but not the most likable person. Get around that, and he's pretty good at what he does.
I'd like to suggest that his policies are very clear to you because you are predisposed to excuse the vagaries and seeming contradictions to listen for the overall message, and it also helps that the tribal in-group identity and overall message is one you are more comfortable with, so your brain spackles over the lumps and bumps with the big picture as you see it.

To the ~70 million voters who voted against him, his policies are not clear.
Those people are not predisposed to listen for the overall message.
They hear vagaries and assume it mean's he's lying or making it up as he goes along.
They hear seeming contradictions, and those seem like actual contradictions.
It also worsens things that his tribal identity and overall message is one they are not comfortable with, so their brain fills in the lumps and bumps with all the terrible possibilities as they see them.


Wow. You have some mental issues. Get over it or get help. He has clear policies you just don't agree with them.
Do go ahead and itemize the clear policies he has stated and my statements disagreeing with those policies.
Of course, we both know you can't do that because your personal attack was manufactured based on nothing.
If you insist on seeing enemies everywhere, your vision will distort to give you that which you desire.

Instead, you could re-read the post and see that all I have done is to describe the process by which different people can hear the same words and have opposite reactions based on who they themselves are.... just as you, because of who you are, have read my post and you have been triggered to believe I must be someone who disagrees with Trump, even though nowhere in my post did I mention a specific policy or make any statement about whether Trump is wrong or right about anything. Conversely, just two posts below yours someone else understood that I am pointing out the psychology of how people hear what they want, and Truth is secondary. Ironic, yes?

To the contrary of what you were triggered into assuming, I think Trump's actual intentions are significantly more banal and benign than is portrayed in the media. Indeed, from 2016-2020 I spent a good bit of effort Trumpsplaining to people how what they heard wasn't the awful thing they think he meant. Trump is not the CTO or CFO who comes in and delivers the 50-slide 8-bullets-per-slide analysis of the organization's physical asset depreciation/refresh cycle. I don't know him personally, so I can't say whether or not he CAN be that guy. But I suspect it's moot because I don't think he has any interest in being that guy. He doesn't want to be your accountant or your systems analyst. I think that would bore the **** out of him. And it's good that people like him exist, because in the body are many parts, and we all have different gifts.

But since you choose to bring it up out of nowhere, I admit I am curious if "mental issues" is your go-to method for re-centering yourself and your feelings/opinions every time you encounter an expression of an idea outside your own comfort one, or is that subject perhaps something closer to home and weighing on your heart? Since you introduced the subject of mental issues to this thread, I know you'll recognize that it opens the door to questioning your mental triggers as well, if someone were - like you - curiously fixated on mental health.
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OMB100GAS said:

I get what you are trying to say, and you're near the target. The opposition to trump doesn't listen to him, that is all you need to know, and you sort of say that.

They only way they engage with trump is through a distorted lens presented by media influencers, so the vagueness is highlighted for people that already don't listen to trump


This does not mean his policies aren't clear. They are... if you listen
Communication always involves at least two minds - the person who transmits and the person who receives.

If you spent time watching some of the scrambled adult channels on cable TV in the 1980s and 1990s, you often could clearly tell there were boobies in the scene, but that doesn't mean the displayed image itself was clear. You could train an algorithm to interpolate and extrapolate the signals and reproduce the scene -- and indeed algorithms exactly like that are now used by all major public media platforms like Youtube and Instagram to automatically flag nudity and sexual content. But it was trained to do that by the data it was fed. It can get better or worse at that, depending on how it is trained.

Inside each of us is a mind which operates its own recognition algorithms. The data we are fed (by our upbringing, our cultural context, our families and friends and social interactions such as TexAgs or MSNBC or QAnon, etc.) trains us to be better or worse at interpreting the communications of other people. If we perceive someone as having more affinity to us and our beliefs, then we pay more attention to (and are more prejudicially trusting of) their intent even when their words are semantically/syntactically conflicted and vague. If we perceive someone as having more affinity to people we dislike/disagree with, then we pay more attention to their mistakes and look for reasons to confirm our prejudicial mistrust of them -- conflicted and vague statements become evidence that the person is lying or crazy.
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wannaggie said:

nu awlins ag said:

wannaggie said:

nu awlins ag said:

wannaggie said:

Stat Monitor Repairman said:



When you finally realize they unleashed a biological weapon on the planet to keep Trump from cruising to reelection in 2020, and then he goes on to win by a landslide in 2024.

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!
Actually, I think this theory is MORE reasonable than 18 million forged votes that not a single investigation or lawsuit has found any legally-actionable proof for.

In January/February of 2020 all the momentum was with Trump, and Democrats were bemoaning their poor chances. I wouldn't go so far as to say it was deliberately "Let's release a virus to upset Trump's re-election" because a global pandemic is not a shaped demolition charge you can control; it's a stick of dynamite tossed into a pile of rocks. But I do think the Democrats perfectly exploited it and amplified the fear/danger of it as a means of castrating Trump's biggest weapon -- the media buzz.

Trump sucks at communicating clear policy details and consistent messaging, but he knows how to keep people focused on him. If you're talking about Trump even if it's to hate him, he's winning. It was a perfect chance to suddenly appeal to all the LIVs and centrists with "When disaster strikes, we need the government to save us, feed us, send us money, give us test kits and develop vaccines, etc..." People suddenly decided they wanted a big nanny government. Trump, the person, tumbled from the top of the news cycle. The Presidency itself seemed less important. Suddenly CDC scientists, federal agency heads, county commissioners/judges , and bureaucrats up and down the chain were our rulers. That's not a time for people to turn to conservative principles of small government and self reliance if they don't already believe firmly in those principles.


I think his policies are very clear. He's just very abrasive in his communication style, same as Saban at Bama. Great coach, but not the most likable person. Get around that, and he's pretty good at what he does.
I'd like to suggest that his policies are very clear to you because you are predisposed to excuse the vagaries and seeming contradictions to listen for the overall message, and it also helps that the tribal in-group identity and overall message is one you are more comfortable with, so your brain spackles over the lumps and bumps with the big picture as you see it.

To the ~70 million voters who voted against him, his policies are not clear.
Those people are not predisposed to listen for the overall message.
They hear vagaries and assume it mean's he's lying or making it up as he goes along.
They hear seeming contradictions, and those seem like actual contradictions.
It also worsens things that his tribal identity and overall message is one they are not comfortable with, so their brain fills in the lumps and bumps with all the terrible possibilities as they see them.


Wow. You have some mental issues. Get over it or get help. He has clear policies you just don't agree with them.
Do go ahead and itemize the clear policies he has stated and my statements disagreeing with those policies.
Of course, we both know you can't do that because your personal attack was manufactured based on nothing.
If you insist on seeing enemies everywhere, your vision will distort to give you that which you desire.

Instead, you could re-read the post and see that all I have done is to describe the process by which different people can hear the same words and have opposite reactions based on who they themselves are.... just as you, because of who you are, have read my post and you have been triggered to believe I must be someone who disagrees with Trump, even though nowhere in my post did I mention a specific policy or make any statement about whether Trump is wrong or right about anything. Conversely, just two posts below yours someone else understood that I am pointing out the psychology of how people hear what they want, and Truth is secondary. Ironic, yes?

To the contrary of what you were triggered into assuming, I think Trump's actual intentions are significantly more banal and benign than is portrayed in the media. Indeed, from 2016-2020 I spent a good bit of effort Trumpsplaining to people how what they heard wasn't the awful thing they think he meant. Trump is not the CTO or CFO who comes in and delivers the 50-slide 8-bullets-per-slide analysis of the organization's physical asset depreciation/refresh cycle. I don't know him personally, so I can't say whether or not he CAN be that guy. But I suspect it's moot because I don't think he has any interest in being that guy. He doesn't want to be your accountant or your systems analyst. I think that would bore the **** out of him. And it's good that people like him exist, because in the body are many parts, and we all have different gifts.

But since you choose to bring it up out of nowhere, I admit I am curious if "mental issues" is your go-to method for re-centering yourself and your feelings/opinions every time you encounter an expression of an idea outside your own comfort one, or is that subject perhaps something closer to home and weighing on your heart? Since you introduced the subject of mental issues to this thread, I know you'll recognize that it opens the door to questioning your mental triggers as well, if someone were - like you - curiously fixated on mental health.



Nice essay. You love to hear yourself write. I'm triggered? Again, your thesis says otherwise.
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Does anyone really think Joe got more votes than Obama, a lot more votes? No f'ing way.
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Yeah you right. Obama got 69m in 2008

The shine wore off and he got only 65m in 2012.

Hillary, which was the second worst candidate of all time gets 65m.

and 4-years later Joe Biden gets 81 MILLION.
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StillNotAnAggie said:

Does anyone really think Joe got more votes than Obama, a lot more votes? No f'ing way.


Harris got a lot more votes than Obama too and she may have been the worst candidate of all time (didn't even win a primary, campaigned for only 3 months, extremely unlikable, etc)
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Some people gonna get paid big money to create a plausible explanation for what we just saw.

Did 7-million people really vote for the first time, and only time in 2020?

Who are these voters and in what areas was it most prevalent?

7-million is a massive discrepancy.

It's also a massive discrepancy that the seven bellwether counties magically are back on track.

They they put people in jail over it, and tried like hell to put Trump in jail over it.

An unbelievable course of events.
 
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