you’re now accusing me of being a GOP shill

Nope, I’m stating a fact: you’re using the same talking points the GOP uses

you are now arguing in bad faith

Bad faith arguments are when you lie about what could be done to pretend dems didn’t do enough.

Just know the gaslighting is why the actual left will push most of the libs out of the Dem party, then break and leave them high and dry when the time comes.

Wow you speak for “the actual left”? Are they in the room right now?

When Dems refuse to use the same tactics as the gop to aggressively fight and get their way, they will always lose.

So you feel dems should commit an insurrection to stay in power turning this country into a dictatorship? Dems should promise tax cuts to billionares like Elon Musk so they pay voters to vote for their party? Dems should claim election fraud when there is none to degrade the integrity of our election system? Dems should try to throw out votes that aren’t for them? Dems should remove regulations for the fossil fuel industry and many others to get access to their propaganda machine? Dems should make it harder to vote for the voters that don’t agree with them so they can win without the support of the people?

“If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy”

This is what you think Dems should emulate while you claim to speak on behalf of “the actual left”.

But you clutch your pearls when I point out that you’re saying the same shit as the GOP.

I want to you take a long and hard look at Schumer, Manchin, Pelosi, Jeffries and their ilk, and see what they’re up to nowadays. Tell me with a straight face they’re fighting for their constituents. Explain to me how they ever cared about leftism or progressivism.

I want you to take a long and hard look at Sinema, Fetterman, Cotham, Gabbard, Adam’s and their ilk, and see what they’re up to nowadays. Tell me with a straight face they’re fighting for their constituents. Explain to me how they ever cared about leftism or progressivism.

By cherry picking the actions of the individual like you are I can use your bad faith argument to claim that progressives are doing the same things you blame the entire Democratic Party for.

Because you’re arguing in bad faith.

They could easily pushed to ban him from running again via simply majority.

This take isn’t based in reality. Trump still had enough voters to win another election and the support of the Supreme Court.

They needed more than 7 Republican for the 2/3rd majority.

They failed to enact section 3 of the 14th amendment, which they had the ability to do, and lost the opportunity when the Supreme Court ruled on Trump vs. Anderson.

You said it yourself the Supreme Court ruled that section 3 of 14th amendment couldn’t be used so obviously it never would’ve made it past the Supreme Court. Especially since Trump was able to delay the insurrection charge using Judges that he put into place. So there was never an insurrection charge to use for the section 3.

For you to lie and claim that these things are possible despite the proof otherwise shows your intent to blame dems for the actions of Trump and the GOP. A common GOP shill tactic.

They chose not to steamroll the investigation proceedings, as they didn’t want to be seen as “partisan.” The “Olive branch” strategy is the dumbest strategy against an opponent who is will to go scorched earth, and punish their opposition, once they gain power.

Using propaganda Trump convinced the majority of voters that every attempt to hold him accountable has been a partisan witch hunt. It has been successful enough to get him reelected even with felony charges.

There are still people who think Covid was made up just to hurt Trump.

Again, for you to pretend otherwise shows your true intention. To redirect blame for GOPs actions onto democrats. A common GOP bot tactic.

To top it all off, the party’s message of “Trump sucks vote for us,” without addressing the real economic frustrations at the time was one of the biggest failures.

This wasn’t the message at all. Matter of fact Harris campaigning to tax billionares is what caused Elon Musk to start paying people to vote GOP.

Progressive platforms turn out voters, polls show they’re consistently popular with a majority of voters.

Elections results showed any poll you might be referring to was wrong.

That’s not the message Dems were selling.

Why would the dems sell the message “progressive platforms turn out voters” when progressives can’t win enough elections or even have enough candidates to support the claim. Who would this message be directed to? It isn’t the dems jobs to tell voters who is popular. It is their job to try and win the elections. Something progressive haven’t been able to do on a nationwide scale. But democrats have.

they did a really lousy job of making it be known

It was literally the main talking point against Trump. It didn’t work because the majority of voters don’t know economics so when the GOP propaganda machine blamed Biden who was in office at the time, for the lingering economic fallout of Trump’s Covid response, voters didn’t know any better.

who had the power to convict all the traitors after the 2020 election when this was initially suspected and why wasn’t it done?

Congress had the power but Republicans supported the traitors so Democrats couldn’t get the 2/3rds need to impeach.

Why were there no real repercussions for any of it?

Because republicans loaded the jusdicial system with crooked judges that helped buy Trump time to get reelected and avoid consequences.

Key Evidence and Methods of Russian election interference:

• Cyber Hacking: Russian military intelligence (the GRU) hacked the computer networks of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), and key campaign officials like John Podesta, subsequently releasing stolen data via outlets like WikiLeaks, DCLeaks, and Guccifer 2.0. [1, 2]
• Social Media Disinformation: The St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency (IRA) used hundreds of fake social media personas, bot networks, and purchased advertisements to amplify divisive political and social issues, masquerading as U.S. citizens to sway public discourse. [1, 2]
• Targeting Election Infrastructure: Russian cyber actors scanned and probed state voter registration databases and election systems across multiple states ahead of the 2016 election, though vote tallies were not altered. [1, 2]
• Criminal Indictments: Federal grand juries indicted dozens of Russian nationals and military intelligence officers for computer hacking, identity theft, and conspiracy against the United States. [1, 2]

Official Findings

• Intelligence Community Assessments: Concluded that the Russian leadership developed a clear preference for Donald Trump and aimed to denigrate Hillary Clinton while undermining public faith in the American democratic process. [1, 2]
• Bipartisan Senate Findings: Confirmed the extensive nature of these foreign cyber and influence operations, noting coordination between online Russian fronts and active distribution channels

“Both sides are the same so I’m not voting”

-Leftists

Tater

Biden locking up the coup leaders on day one without the support of voters would be the move of a dictator and would require Biden to pull off a coup first because the president otherwise doesn’t have the ability to do what you are suggesting.

Trump is only able to get away with his crimes because of the support he has from voters, billionares, Russia, the GOP and all the corrupt judges and Judicial roles he has filled with loyalist (just to name a few examples).

Biden never had that kind of support.

The point was that in the example of the terrorist attacks that there wasn’t anyone to hold accountable because as far as the majority was concerned there was nothing to be held accountable for.

With the example of Jan 6th U.S. tried to hold Trump accountable but was prevented by Trump himself with the help of a majority of the voting populous.

In a democracy it’s the voters that decide if there is something to be held accountable for. In both examples the voters decided there was nothing to be held accountable for.

In addition to that there are plenty examples of the U.S. holding the powerful to account. Here’s what I found in just a few seconds:

• George Santos: The former New York Republican Congressman was arrested and indicted on a 13-count federal indictment in May 2023 for charges including wire fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds, and making false statements.

• Chris Collins: The New York Representative was indicted and arrested in 2018 for tipping off his son to confidential corporate information regarding an Australian biotechnology company. He resigned and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud and lying to law enforcement.

• Duncan Hunter: The California Representative was indicted in 2018 and eventually pleaded guilty to misusing over \(\$150,000\) in campaign funds for personal expenses, including family vacations, movie tickets, and extramarital affairs.

• Larry Householder: The former Ohio Speaker of the House was arrested and convicted in March 2023 in a \(\$60\) million federal racketeering and bribery scheme—one of the largest public corruption cases in state history.

• Steve Watkins: The former Kansas Republican congressional candidate and Representative was charged with three felony counts and one misdemeanor regarding voter fraud and illegally registering his residence at a UPS store ahead of the 2019 election.

• David Rivera: The former Florida Representative was arrested in Atlanta in December 2022 and indicted for federal charges including acting as an unregistered foreign agent for a Venezuelan national and conspiracy to launder money.

MAGA is made up of people with systemic power like judges, cops, military leaders, the billionaire class.

The occupy Wall Street movement never had members with that much power. Or anywhere near the same numbers.

The majority of Americans were ok with the reactions to 2001 terrorist attacks.

It took that long because Merrick did things by the book. Because any other way would increase Trump’s chances of winning.

In the end the timing didn’t matter because U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon permanently blocked the Department of Justice from publicly releasing Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final investigative report regarding Donald Trump’s retention of classified documents.

Starting earlier would not change that outcome.

In the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attack the court of public opinion was in agreement that it was justified as exigent circumstances. No Americans were defending the terrorist.

In the aftermath of the nation’s democratic institutions being attacked, it was a large portion of the voting populous that was actively contributing, primarily due to psyop campaigns from Russia and the Trump administration that convinced a large amount of the populous that the election was stolen. The people that were victims of this campaign were judges, politicians, military leaders and many other roles that allowed them to do things like Judge Cannon when she dismissed the 40-count federal indictment against Donald Trump and two aides, ruling that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s appointment violated the Appointments Clause of the Constitution.

The difference between these two scenarios are so obvious they shouldn’t need explaining.

The January 6th insurrection involved tens of thousands of people that had to be interviewed, interrogated and investigated. It involved people from across the country and mountains of evidence to be processed. Everything from social media posts to surveillance footage. To top it all off there was no room for error because Trump has always used corruption to escape consequence.

Trump loyalist that were involved did everything they could to help Trump by slowing the process.

When you attack someone for trying to hold Trump accountable you discourage others from trying to hold Trump accountable.

Trump is old as fuck and a lifelong criminal pedophile felon rapist that has never been held accountable and that has nothing to do with Biden or Merrick Garland or Obama.

Trump stalled the trials until he became president. That is why Merrick Garland had the same success as everyone else that has tried to hold Trump accountable.

This is how “election rigging” works. Your feelings don’t change that

In this context a “rigged election” just means trying to prevent anti-GOP voters from voting.

If you don’t try to vote you are willfully giving the GOP what they want without them having to rig the elections.

Don’t try moving the goalpost. Especially to promote your blog…

The fact of the matter is if the polls are wrong for Hillary then they are wrong for Bernie.

Wrong doesn’t mean that averaging them out gives you an indicator of what the real election results would be.

It means that the polls are wrong and will skew one way or another depending on the group polled.

Your sources are your own blog. Hopefully I don’t need to explain why that isn’t a credible source. Especially when they start off with this red flag: “First off, Jill Stein and the Green Party were not a spoiler in this election”

If the polls are inaccurate then it doesn’t matter what the polls say…

The polls weren’t really saying that on any regular basis. A few said she’d squeak by, some said she’d lose,

The exact same is true for Bernie. That’s the fact that I am pointing out while reminding you of your bias.

Your argument is ‘the polls are wrong when they say what I don’t want to hear but they are accurate when they say what I want to hear’