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goosecat wrote on Sep 12 th, 2024 at 5:31pm: John Smith wrote on Sep 12 th, 2024 at 2:23pm: SadKangaroo wrote on Sep 12 th, 2024 at 1:25pm: It appears 70% of this forum is the same. nah, i don't think it's quite that much. It's just the same hysterical few who's constant screeching make it seem like there are more of them. Baron, Frank, Nails, Bobby and morty are the worst and then there maybe 2 or three others who might jump in when they feel safe enough to do so. People forget that in the USA, the Democrat vote is massively increased by the stereotypical African American vote support of almost 90%. It is a stereotypical reality when those figures are repeated over again historically. Thanks to Zuck: Hemingway provides a very good overview of the forces working against Donald Trump’s presidency and re-election: an unhinged Left, a seemingly interminable Russiagate investigation based largely on cooked information, a coronavirus pandemic, race riots welcomed (if not fomented) by Trump’s adversaries, a mainstream media that acted as an adjunct of the Democratic Party, social media curators who picked favorites and censored conservative opinions, biased debate organizers and moderators, a massive get-out-the-vote drive funded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and aimed at Democratic voters, and an unprecedented legal push by Democrats and their allies to revise election rules radically in their own favor. ... Also boosting turnout, especially among Democrats, was the $400 million in grants given through Mark Zuckerberg’s Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), ostensibly for the purpose of facilitating neutral election administration. There was little fanfare about the “Zuck Buck” grants at the time, and important facts have dribbled out only gradually. To assuage concerns about this privatization of elections, Americans were initially told that Democratic- and Republican-leaning jurisdictions were equally likely to receive a CTCL grant. This left out two central features of the program. First, as Hemingway notes, “[highlight]Democratic areas regularly received massively more funding than Republican counties, whether in terms of total dollar amounts or per capita”—Biden states received 88.4% of the funding. Second, the grants typically came with strings attached, such as requiring the election office to partner with particular “approved” organizations, invariably left-wing activist groups. In some cases, representatives of these organizations actually became the de facto heads of the election office, illegally taking over responsibilities and decision-making authority. Fund and von Spakovsky conclude that “[i]n essence, Democrats were using local government as their get-out-the-vote program for the presidential election.” [/highlight] https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/are-fair-elections-possible/What's the word for this? Oh, yes - rigged.
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