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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Everyone "contested" it in the sense that they reminded Trump that he lost the popular vote and only work because of the bullshit that is the Electoral College. Nobody tried arguing that he didn't legally win the election.
Contrast with Republicans who decided they would spend 8 years rejecting everything about Obama.
Looks like the kraken has been released?
But it sure looks to have a number of typos, among the usual crazy allegations.
The big difference with 2016 is that the relevant parties actually conceded immediately. Not just Hillary, Obama had Trump in the White House within days to start the transition. people complained about it on twitter and such, but it's not like Hillary started a wave of lawsuits to contest the election or Obama denied the outcome.
And the russian meddling was always more about influencing voters (releasing the emails in a maximum damage way, meeting with don Jr, bots and false information) than literally stealing votes.
Edited by devak on Nov 25th 2020 at 8:47:23 PM
There was a "not my President" push shortly after the election that largely centered around the electoral college and how Trump won election while losing the popular vote by millions, but that was it, aside from the always-hopeless dialogue around faithless electors. As far as I know, there were no allegations of fraud - in fact, people said that the electoral college system worked as it had been designed to, and that was the real problem.
It's been fun.So let me see if I've got her legal argument right.
There is overwhelming fraud, so overwhelming it is invisible and there is no evidence to support her claims because the fraudsters are so competent and dangerous they have left no evidence...but she's alleging it without evidence just...because she thinks it's right.
I am not a lawyer but I think this is not a winning legal strategy.
Supreme Court votes 5-4 to bar New York state from reimposing limits on religious gatherings.
This is the kind of thing we can expect from now on with Barrett on the bench.
Do you think the Flynn pardon was partly done to shut her up specifically?
Like, it's clear for everyone involved in Trumpland it's better that she never steps foot into a courthouse, but as Flynn's lawyer that's exactly what she will be doing. So a pardon gets around that particular problem fairly neatly.
Sounds like the mistake was specifically in banning religious gathering of more than X, right?
I think the best way would be banning all gatherings and then adding exceptions (including, if one so fancies, one for "religious gathering of up to X people").
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."

Speaking of acknowledging that Trump lost the election, You Tube is still automatically posting a fact check banner with a link to the bottom of all videos talking about the election, saying that AP has called Biden as winner. Two weeks after it was called. Did something like this happen after the 2016 election? I can't remember it.