Cause otherwise midterms discussion will be scattered around a bunch of separate Culture War thread posts. And it's nice to have more off-the-cuff rapid reactions in a dedicated megathread.
The first thing I've noticed so far: if the exit polls are correct, Americans are very pessimistic about AI.
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The Gateway Pundit is reporting that there is a legibly fraudulent pattern of statistical anomalies in this election’s results. They posted the math for anyone to see. The original reporting comes from TruthIsFreedom on X.
Like any good epistemologist, they basically call it predictive: pick a county, apply their formula, and see that the result matches.
Although I’m a minarchist libertarian Republican, I’m probably one of the few remaining advocates for Trump on The Motte, from what I see in these threads. I’m not here to argue that point, FYI. I’m here to ask people not to simply disregard it out of hand because Trump reposted it or because it has LLM speech hallmarks. The allegation is so monstrous that, for the sake of the perceived legitimacy of our democratic republic, the mechanism needs to be explained by literally anything besides malfeasance.
Excerpts posted here from GWP so you don’t have to give them ad revenue if you don’t want:
So, what’s the benign mechanism that explains this?
If there was fraud, and I don't believe there was, then they deserve to have the election stolen from them. Every election they say there's fraud and it's stolen, yet they do nothing about it. If that is true, then they are so incompetent and weak that they just take it every two years. Nobody who does that deserves to rule.
They tried to have cases heard in 2020, but judges kept throwing them out for procedural reasons before evidence could even be presented.
The national GOP is, honestly, trash for being embarrassed of its voters.
The suits they filed never alleged actual fraud, just procedural violations that they pretended were some kind of cheat code to get election results thrown out. Nothing that was actually alleged had any bearing on the results. Furthermore, even if they had alleged fraud, they would have needed to have the evidence ready to go. It's not like they had six months to conduct discovery. Nothing new has come out in six years.
pointing out an election was done in an illegal manner and counted illegal votes, which you've chosen to describe here as "just procedural violations," is in fact evidence and should, and does, in regular times, result in election results being thrown out and requiring new elections if the effected votes are larger than the difference in an election
Right, instead election contests, like the one filed in Georgia, have a tight schedule to file an election contest and are supposed to get an immediate hearing required by law. Instead, the court just refused to put it on the schedule, it went up to a higher court, the lower court was ordered to put it on the schedule, the lower court didn't do it, and then Jan6 happened and the lower court just decided everything was moot anyway.
woah guys, we're not talking about "actual fraud," just that states conducted an illegal election and counted illegal votes which affected the outcome and then committed crimes in handling of the election, the election records, and votes, including ignoring court orders about intermixing ballots
the legal system just told Trump and other people who cared about the major issues with the 2020 election to screw off and ignored laws and precedents to do it
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