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How will 2024 be remembered?
So Trump got endorsed by Joe Rogan, and people have already made comments on that, what I am wondering is, in case Trump loses and you catch actual voter fraud on camera, enough to convince people that elections are not as legitimate as they think they are, will there even be any consequences at all?
What surprised me was Elon publicly talking about demographics where he admits that you can simply flip states by adding a bunch of immigrants, I never expected anyone famous to ever admit this. This is one of the richest people on the planet who gets government contracts, this is extremely ballsy (which I think he is and I wish to be like that).
Think about it, plenty of people on frog Twitter were voting without American citizenship, at what point will the burden of evidence be enough if it even exists for the Supreme Court to acknowledge anything? I think Harris will win and the west will keep taking in migrants by the boatful but I would like to see Trump win.
This video titled the year 4chan won is a good little throwback to 2016 and what that looked like. Ofc 4chan has been neutered now and Trump is not as fringe as he once was. In 2020 Trump was not someone would touch with a 10-foot pole, in 2024, he has a whole lot more support from the mercantile class. Not sure why that is. Maybe this is thermidor, a temporary one.
My recollections of 2016 are clouded. I was barely 16 at the time, and though I was aware of the American culture war, I was fairly sure Trump would lose and did not care much either. I was 16 and not American. I woke up one morning and saw Trump winning, not knowing how much more I would be into this as a spectator during 2020 and 2024.
The misinformation in your post and on twitter in general is reaching insane levels. People were voting without American citizenship?Really? Is there any proof of that actually happening? The answer is no , unless of course you pay attention to twitter nonsense too much. Voter fraud is extremely rare. I am waiting for any proof that supports the contrary.
This guy from China voted and only got caught because he brought attention to it.
There is no reason to believe that this is "very rare" when there is no meaningful process to catch it. No one knows what the rate of non-citizen voting is because there is no meaningful source of truth database to reference against.
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