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The “heads I win, tails you lose” crowd are frantically digging deeper into the anti-logic of their grievance/persecution fantasies.

1000000%. This is a dry run.

They can't take the fact nobody wants to vote for their shit this time.

Thats been the modus operandi of reactionaries since before the Civil War.

They are so unpopular right now it’s their only option. It’s all or nothing.

Oh, absolutely. Even though Pratt never had a sliver of a chance of winning. It's just pretext to call the midterm wipeout rigged.

asserting federal control over state electoral procedures based on manufactured "voter fraud" concerns is and has always been The Plan, yes.

They're ruining their chances at the midterms.

Correct. We saw this in 2020 election and the same MO is how this regime operates. Use novel legal theories or declare emergencies to do what you want and count on the courts being too late to stop it/pray SCOTUS saves you.

I mean it is pretty ominous that there's any kind of outrage that Los Angeles didn't choose Pratt, when they've only had one Republican-registered mayor since 1961

i mean yes

Why is o.k. for billionaires not to ever give us cost of living pay increases, as we fund their tax cuts to make them exponentially richer?😕hhs

We need someone, anyone, to start asking “you’re saying that counting the mail in ballots takes too long and we should limit for that reason, how long would it take the country to count all the paper ballots trump wants us to move to?”

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Or because it's what they do and what they've done for every single election they've lost (and a few they've won) since 2016

They’ve overplayed their hand. They overplayed it in 2020 too, but now they don’t have the flimsiest of evidence other than “vibes.”

Yes that’s called an Accusation in a Mirror.

You are correct.

the churn and the puffery is the point, flood the zone with shit

This is exactly my fear. They are going to the mat WAY too hard over a race they were never, ever in a million years going to win.

The Rethugs are setting it up!

I think it's just reflex at this point.

It took a week or two to know how badly the r's lost in 2018. They see an opportunity to do bad shit, and Johnson is fully in on it.

That’s 100% what it is, and honestly it’s why they spent so long contesting the 2020 election. They knew that if they cheated in 2024, elected Democrats would be afraid of “stooping to their level” and wouldn’t investigate it. Seeing how well that worked, they’re trying it again.

it is the same playbook: convince others it was stolen point to polls of clapping seals that believe it was stolen as proof it was stolen the controversy becomes the story

Oh for sure, they've been setting it up for a while now.

Anyone who believes that elections are only valid if their candidate or party wins, does not believe in democracy. In fact, they are a threat to democracy.

Guaranteed, Trump & GOP will attempt block of Midterm elections. An aspiring dictator (Trump) who has been deconstructing our democratic institutions does not then allow elections. National strike now & demand this Autocratic regime be ended or abusive wealth class will be financially ruined.

I do think some of them are dumb enough that they thought a republican would win in LA. Though I don’t disagree it’s them testing the waters

Not cancel but not allow any mail in ballots and only do same day polling with ICE at every booth

I think that implies long term thinking and intent which I'm suspicious of. I think it's more that they've created a terminally online bubble for themselves distinct from reality.

100% without a doubt

Oh 100%, they want to prime the pump and get everyone used to the idea

50/50 Ignorance and Malice born of racism. Any election in which a person darker than them votes for the candidate of their choice, that was a fraud.

I'm pretty convinced they'll say this about any Democrat win anywhere forever

Even for those who aren’t actively trying to push election denial as an agenda to undermine election legitimacy, it’s just extremely easy for their base to believe and parrot. The line now is “every Democrat institution is corrupt and cheats to work against Republicans”.

So another approach would be to give NO preliminary vote information until all the ballots are counted. But the Liar Rightwinger Wingnuts would bitch about that, too. Thereʻs no way to shut them up.

Rigged by having more dem voters than rep voters that live in the constituency

Manufacturing consent.

They got to spicy up their inbred voters

For the last decade, every GOP accusation has been a confession. This is the only accusation we haven’t found any substantial evidence that they’re once again engaging in projection, but I think it’d be foolish to think this is the only one they haven’t done

What if that was always the point of him running?

Why is votes counted on Election Day more trustworthy than counting over multiple weeks? These cynics are relying on the feeling that existing institutions are not legit, the specific process of voting is irrelevant.

That’s been the plan for a couple years now. If they don’t choose that as their issue to rally behind, it will just be something else. They are looking for things to be outraged by.

Probably. That sounds like something that the post truth liars would do.

Well, duh... 😁

Yeah I mean it’s only been their playbook for the last decade

EXACTLY! This is all about workshopping the best approaches to render a good chunk of the public passive and confused while the fascists institute martial law and cancel the “rigged” 2026 elections.

That's why they challenge every election that doesn't go their way. They're priming people to believe in election fraud, allowing them to both overturn elections and crack down on who can vote. That, and because they're whiny little supremacist babies who always cry when they don't get their way.

They're already rigging certain elections anyway

Yes, because California and LA and widely known to be majority conservative. Fuck these dipshit cucks.

Well in their defense it's unfathomable that the largest city in the largest blue state is also blue

“Accuse your opponent of what you yourself are doing.”

1000%

In a city that’s 15-19% Rs 🤣

The people whining about this are the same people who just rigged a bunch of southern elections after those elections had already started.

oh 100%

They have to say the incantations to stay in the cult and be viewed as a pure member

They know they won’t win the 2026 midterms. So they have to cancel it in order to maintain power

Long term planning or just copying how the biggest baby is acting? Because I don’t think many of them are long term planning… it’s just going to be poopie diaper season until the baby is replaced by someone with some rudimentary potty training.

That’s the plan, Stan. And, if it was not what you expected, you’re not paying attention. It was always the prelude.

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These are the morons who think "vibes" count as evidence. They're so stuck in a bubble that every loss feels like fowl play to them, what the fuck do they expect

The problem is they're staking their shot on trying to argue that a Republican would have won a race for governor or mayor in one of the "bluest" states. It risks making their inevitable bleating later this year as just more noise. They'll never admit election losses again, in any case

its a save face tactic from admitting they were wrong about Pratt

Holding elections has strong bipartisan support, though. At the peak of his popularity in the wake of 9/11, Giuliani floated the idea of an “emergency” extension of his mayoral term and Everybody told him to fuck off

Yeah, its been explicitly clear that midterms aren't happening, and pretending they will turn out normal or that the peaceful transfer of power is going to happen at all is a death sentence that's inflicted to us all. You have time to learn and prepare now that you will not have later, use it wisely

i mean that’s exactly what’s happening? and it’s not that veiled?

What’s helpful is they’re gonna keep on doing this until everybody gets tired of hearing about it, boy cried wolf at scale

there's genuinely no other possible explanation

Everytime they lose, it's rigged. Bunch of snowflakes

California needs to sue. Even if case law will rule against them. Sue and appeal. Make these trolls sweat a subpoena.

Exactly…

They're acting so shocked that a Republican lost in a city where not even 1/5 of the population is Republican. This is like if Dems said an election in Wyoming was rigged against them.

Monkey did, they saw. No one locked up the monkey. The precedent of election fraud being a real thing, perpetuated by the leaders of the country, has been set and is here to plague every single election for the foreseeable future. This is par for the course now.

Yup. They think there are more of them than there are us too. I look forward to proving them wrong on whatever terms they see fit.