Elections Republicans in key battleground states won't say they'll accept 2022 results.

[Hollywood Jack]

Well, I mean... Yeah?

Jamie Raskin in 2016:

""I would love to challenge the Electoral College vote because our election was badly tainted by everything from cyber-sabotage by Vladimir Putin, to deliberate voter suppression by Republicans in numerous swing states,""

Blatant election denial - and there were lots of them. Contrast that to Jamie Raskin in 2020:

""The 12th Amendment obligates each and every one of us to count the electoral votes, to recognize the will of the people in the 2020 presidential election," Raskin said. "We are not here, Madam Speaker, to vote for the candidate we want. We are here to recognize the candidate the people actually voted for in the states. Madam Speaker, the 2020 election is over, and the people have spoken.""


House Dems who challenged 2016 election results escalate fight with Republicans behind 2020 challenges | Fox News

Part of that sameness is ignoring it when your side does it to score political points... Which is what you're doing with this thread. It's not good though, and unfortunately people like you just keep sledgehammering that wedge in further with this one-sideism. Pretending that a party which parades around figures like Hillary Clinton and Stacey Abrams like they were worthy of admiration isn't perfectly happy to deny elections while lambasting the other side for it is disingenuous bullshit that just makes the situation worse.

Bull fucking shit! You're the one who's disingenuous here. A MAJORITY of Republicans, 12/19, wouldn't commit to accepting election results. 100% of Democrats did. Both sides my ass!

Of the 19 GOP candidates questioned by the Washington Post, a dozen declined to answer or refused to commit. Democrats all said they would respect the results.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/18/republicans-refuse-accept-results/

 

[So Fresh]

HOw about this guy

Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".[9]

He sort of had it right, but its all brown people combined with culture wars is enough to keep the Rubes motivated.

So that’s what Trump was doing.

 

[Midget Boxer]

Hillary conceded the next day....

 

[44nutman]

You think they just came up with that strategy in 1997? Lol, that's been their strategy for like 100 years. Did you think the woke horse shit and BLM shit just fell from the fucking sky? They started infecting universities over 70 years ago.

So why does MAGA attract racist weirdos?

 

[K1levelgrappler]

Hmmm you don’t say

 

[Jack V Savage]

Bull fucking shit! You're the one who's disingenuous here. A MAJORITY of Republicans, 12/19, wouldn't commit to accepting election results. 100% of Democrats did. Both sides my ass!

Of the 19 GOP candidates questioned by the Washington Post, a dozen declined to answer or refused to commit. Democrats all said they would respect the results.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/18/republicans-refuse-accept-results/

These people are just utterly shameless. Complaining about specific improper actions and taking those complaints to the appropriate channels (like Gore challenging Bush in court) is fine. That's not even close to what's going on now, where Trump refused to concede the election, filed a bunch of frivolous lawsuits hoping that he'd get a biased judge, came up with a crazy legal theory (the VP can just reject the election? WTF?), organized an attack on the Capitol, etc. Nothing like that has happened in America, though people gripe about various things after every election.

 

[44nutman]

Hmmm you don’t say

You need to remember, a lot of right-wing social media became rich fostering the fraud claims. Some unknowns became famous, and since they have seen you can steal from the Rubes like Bannon and still make money off the Rubes, then they know the Rubes wont dump you for being a liar. That grift train will just keep chugging along.

 

[KnightTemplar]

Didn’t a protester actually get shot and died? Ashlee Babbit?

I bet she wished she had been wearing a helmet and a vest.

Not all Heroes wear Capes. Some of them shoot 100lb unarmed female Air Force veterans.

 

[ocfightfan]

And Democrats resorted to political violence over it when..?

One relevant example were the riots during Trumps inauguration. And this isn't even getting into all the other violent actions like race riots and attacks on federal facilities while Trump was President. But thanks for playing.