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Trump's 'rigged election' rhetoric could inspire voter intimidation, say experts

Patrickt said:
Nonsense. We learned from the Democrats that men in uniforms carrying clubs and threatening people at the polling station aren't intimidating voters.
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Where did you learn that?
 
Cardinal said:
I hate being the only one not to know a secret. Where did you first come across it?
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A. I don't believe you. Lying is unbecoming even for a liberal.
B. Since it was eight years ago, the election that began the reign of the present ruler, I don't remember where I first heard of it.
 
Patrickt said:
A. I don't believe you. Lying is unbecoming even for a liberal.
B. Since it was eight years ago, the election that began the reign of the present ruler, I don't remember where I first heard of it.
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Well why don't you first tell me what you're even referring to.
 
Cardinal said:
Well why don't you first tell me what you're even referring to.
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Sorry, I'm not playing any longer. If you don't know what I'm referring to then your political interest is too limited for a discussion. Good-bye
 
Patrickt said:
Sorry, I'm not playing any longer. If you don't know what I'm referring to then your political interest is too limited for a discussion. Good-bye
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No, I don't know what you're referring to, and neither, it seems, do you. Buh bye.
 
Chillfolks said:
I think the possibility of a Trump supporter riot is about the same as a Clinton supporter riot. Those are about the same as the possibility that Obama will dissolve congress and instal himself as president for life.


What I think will actually happen is people will go vote for one of the two worst candidates to ever run in my life time. The country will be worse off no matter Who wins. Power will transfer peacefully and everyone will debate how better or worse life would be if only the other turd won.
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You are wise beyond your brief tenure here ...

(and with an appropriate nick) ;)
 
Patrickt said:
Nonsense. We learned from the Democrats that men in uniforms carrying clubs and threatening people at the polling station aren't intimidating voters.
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Cardinal said:
Where did you learn that?
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Patrickt said:
It wasn't a secret.
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Cardinal said:
I hate being the only one not to know a secret. Where did you first come across it?
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Patrickt said:
A. I don't believe you. Lying is unbecoming even for a liberal.
B. Since it was eight years ago, the election that began the reign of the present ruler, I don't remember where I first heard of it.
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Cardinal said:
Well why don't you first tell me what you're even referring to.
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Patrickt said:
Sorry, I'm not playing any longer. If you don't know what I'm referring to then your political interest is too limited for a discussion. Good-bye
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Cardinal said:
No, I don't know what you're referring to, and neither, it seems, do you. Buh bye.
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:lamo

It just don't get any better than this!
 
ocean515 said:
Assuming Hilary does win, No, there will be no violence.

Thugs, criminals, terrorists, chronic law breakers, and violent people are members of the Democratic Party, so I can't see why they would have anything to complain about.
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Which is why the ten states with the highest homicide rates are blue states, right?

Oh, wait:

Top ten states by homicides per 100,000:

Louisiana 10.3
Mississippi 8.6
Missouri 6.6
South Carolina 6.4
Maryland 6.1
Nevada 6.0
Delaware 5.8
Florida 5.8
Alabama 5.7
Georgia 5.7
Tennessee 5.7
 
Somerville said:
and Trump supporters would never, ever do any such thing because they are such civilised folks :roll:

WATCH: Trump Supporters Attack Two Men For Quietly Sitting with Protest Signs

Video: Trump protester sucker-punched at rally in North Carolina

Trump protester sucker-punched by supporter in brutal video of Tucson rally

here's an example from a 'radical leftie' web site (that's sarcasm by the way, just saying clearly as some can be a bit clueless)
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Those examples are laughable, if you're trying to draw an equivalency. You're comparing onesies and twosies to getting frustrated at their own event and being violent to giant mobs of people at someone else's event that are so bad that it takes riot police to keep them in check and the candidate has to sneak into the building through a back door.

Please, that's utterly ridiculous.

Give me one, just one single example, of a Hillary or Bernie rally that had mobs of violent people showing up and needing riot police to keep them in check. Do that, and you'll have an equivalency.
 
Opopanax said:
On the other hand, the Tea Party has a lot of power. They have backers giving them tens of millions of dollars and they hold lots of high positions in the government, which they have used to obstruct legislation for the stated purpose of obstruction.
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Because BLM being backed by George Soros is nothing, right?
 
Chomsky said:
:lamo

It just don't get any better than this!
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One thing I've learned on debate forums is this: most people don't know why they believe the things they believe.
 
Cardinal said:
One thing I've learned on debate forums is this: most people don't know why they believe the things they believe.
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Well, I do *believe* you handily won that exchange! ;)

(FYI - you can't receive PMs due to having no space)
 
In the primary season, Trump said again and again that the system was rigged. Well, that rigged system produced the winner Trump. Now the race is still going, and he is saying that if he loses, it's only due to "rigged election". Who has ever seen such a sore loser? :lol:
 
Fishking said:
Because BLM being backed by George Soros is nothing, right?
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Reality: it helps to know about it:

No, George Soros Didn?t Give $33 Million to #BlackLivesMatter - The Daily Beast

George Soros: 'I'm Going to Bring Down the U.S. by Funding Black Hate Groups' : snopes.com


But what else is there to expect from conservatives anymore except to give lie to a rumor or half-truth? It's your stock and trade now. Start the rumor, see if it sticks. If it does, great; if not, think of a new one. Throw out enough and eventually something will get around to enough rubes who are willing to swallow anything that feeds their empty-headed need for bright line boundaries--the world is full of good and bad; nothing in between.

And what if Soros' organization or a sub-organization did get around to giving some money to some people in the BLM movement? They may have. How does that compare in any way to elected officials who are really just part and parcel of the GOP and whose successful campaigns for office have actually been funded by the likes of the Koch brothers and Sheldon Adelson? That is, they've helped put Congress-people and Senators in office. That's real power. No one in BLM is voting on anything in the House, the Senate, by appointment thereof, as any Governor, or as far as I know, in any state legislature, nor as any mayor of any town in the U.S.

Maybe there are some--probably are some BLM members on a city council somewhere. Maybe somewhere there are a few on a ballot for Congress or for Senate.

Are there any BLM billionaires or even millionaires? Are any of them in high (or even midlevel) places in any powerful corporations?

So, if they're not in elected office, have no money of their own, and are not present in any major corporations, how much power and influence do they have?

Here's the answer: the only power they have is due to your irrational fear and ignorance of facts.

Meanwhile, a spineless TPIR (Tea Partier In Reality) is the Speaker of the House; just behind the VP in terms of succession to the Presidency.
 
Chomsky said:
Well, I do *believe* you handily won that exchange! ;)

(FYI - you can't receive PMs due to having no space)
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Mailbox deleted. I never expected I ever would have filled that thing up.
 
Cardinal said:
Mailbox deleted. I never expected I ever would have filled that thing up.
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Happened to me too, and I wouldn't have known it until another member informed me in the same manner i just did.
 
Somerville said:
Will his inflammatory rhetoric inspire violence the day following Hillary's victory at the polls?
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So Trump is going to scare the Democrats away from the polls? Really?
 
Fishking said:
Golly, you'd have made a point if what I said had anything to do with your supposed fact check. The one for snopes is about a particular quote, which I never said anything about. Soros backed groups fund BLM.
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I can't help it if you can't get the point, but here it is:

False equivalency.

Go look it up. Learn it; understand it.
 
Opopanax said:
I can't help it if you can't get the point, but here it is:

False equivalency.

Go look it up. Learn it; understand it.
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False equivalency because, in your eyes, any funding happening from leftists is A-OK and from rightise it's evil. Gotcha.

-edit- Go look up strawman and maybe your last post will be there as an example.
 
chuckiechan said:
I can't understand why we can't develop a fool proof ballot counting system.

They say the Russians might tamper with the election, so what? If we don't care, why should they?
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I find it interesting that Democrats are worried about election integrity all of a sudden.
 
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