The election fraud lawsuits have started again.

But Trump chose to stoke the flames Wednesday morning, posting on Truth Social that “Pennsylvania is cheating, and getting caught, at large scale levels rarely seen before.”

“Law enforcement must act, NOW!” he added.

Bucks County officials confirmed to NBC Philadelphia that they had been notified of the lawsuit, but did not provide further comment. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, meanwhile, shot back at the Republican presidential nominee, highlighting that Trump and his allies have spent the last four years actively corroding public trust in U.S. elections—and that they are currently warming up their second conspiracy to undermine the 2024 election results.

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    Ok, I am officially done with US election news and will apply filters on my app.

    The way american law enforcement and the judiciary works there is absolutely idiotic.

    Here you have a convicted felon who keeps spewing libellous and damaging lies aimed at destabilizing the political system and the election process and even when rare prosecutors get a judge to hear out the case, the judge cowls and refuses to apply the law just because the guy is a presidential candidate. But then Trump files suit after suit and can bog down the judiciary to the point of actually interfering in the election process and somehow this is allowed in the USA?

    On the other hand there is a billionaire (Musk) who does the same, even breaking state law in addition to federal law, and then the judge also refuses to take action - even if some of the offences were squarely under state jurisdiction - presumably because the billionaire is too rich (on the PA case, Musk laywers argued that “Musk is an extremely busy man” and could not show up - if it was a non-billionaire, the judge would definitely issue an arrest warrant to bring the poor soul’s ass back into court).

    If America elects Trumps and the world descends into unmitigated chaos, that’s because America’s weak-ass institutions and laws were completely ineffective to those with either money or power. No wonder MAGA and non-MAGA alike resort into extremism, since institutions and laws are applied so differently to people with money.

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    Hasn’t even lost yet and he is already being a sore loser.

    Imagine idolizing this loser.

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    He wants SCOTUS to give him a gift in a state that matters. Virginia was nice but not necessary for Democrats.

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    Nice of him to get all the denial stuff started early so both sides have a nice heads start.

    /s

    On a serious note though, dems can weapons this

    “Trump is a sore loser even before people vote”

    But they won’t.

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      dems can weapons this

      The thing about wrestling in the mud with a pig is that the pig likes it.

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        I dunno, when she said at the debate that people were getting bored and leaving his rallys early, that was straight out of the trump playbook, and he did not seem to like it at all

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          She should challenge him to a duel. His pro guns strong man fans will have to watch him give excuses as to why he can’t show up. Could be legal in Washington and Texas I think as fair fights are considered legal there if supervised.

          /Joking in case it wasn’t obvious.

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        High road allll the way to losing. Yeeehaw!

        Just learned to fucking wrangle a pig in the mud. It’s been done.

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        If the democrats hadn’t been pussies for two decades before Trump and effectively welded power, we wouldn’t have had Trump.

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        The thing about wrestling in the mud with a pig is that the pig likes it.

        Pig tends to not like it as much if the end result is you cook some bacon.

        Also, the thing about not wrestling in the mud with a pig is, you’re bitch-made.

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    Its so weird to see this unfold now where they know they can’t win in any legitimate manner so they are doing stuff like this before the election is even over. Its like, hey guys we only need the election to have a pretense that cheating is going on, which we all know is happening, but we blame it on the other side and seize power.

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      There was already an instance I read about yesterday where some former representative was caught on camera stealing ballots from a test machine and then telling someone else that the counts were fucked up (because he stole the ballots) so they want to create their own reality where the election is rigged…

      I honestly think it’s going to work… They’re either going to get lucky and hate wins the day outright, or they’ll force a win through ratfuckery… :(

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        I honestly think it’s going to work

        I don’t pretend to be able to predict the future, but Trump tried this same thing four years ago and couldn’t pull it off - and he was actually still the President at that time. Seems like it would be even more difficult for him to do it this time as an ex-president, especially considering that he’s now so old and senile that he can’t even paint himself orange properly any more.

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          It’s not up to him to install himself, but to have people work on his behalf at the state level. That is what failed the first time, but they’ve since “corrected” by having as many “election deniers” work in the departments necessary to mess with the states/counties vote counting. If they can get enough people gum up the works and to push enough lawsuits to drag this out they can then go to the SCOTUS to ask for them to essentially say “it’s been long enough, you have to stop counting.” in an event similar to Bush V Gore. :(

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        I saw that one too. Even if the media reports on it truthfully with headlines that don’t ragebait readers by withholding the fact that it was a R stealing R test ballots, MAGAots are just going to cherry pick “R ballot stolen” and raise their pitchforks.

        Objectivity and truth doesn’t matter to the Qult of bigots, unfortunately.

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          that it was a R stealing R test ballots,

          For clarification, he and a number of other voters were pre-selected to test the functionality of the ballots and voting machines to ensure no glitches happen on November 5. And while they were not the final draft of the ballots that were actually used, they were legitimate ballots by actual voters who voted early, and those ballots were just as valid as the final drafts.

          So yeah, the guy stole 3 votes.

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            Thanks for clarifying that, I misunderstood. Given what you said, it sounds like somebody needs the book thrown at them.

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            It’s not even the stealing of votes that was the point of his actions, he stole them and then pointed to the machine as the issue telling someone “fucked count.” He is trying to get people to believe that the voting machines can’t be trusted to properly count which is exactly the point. If/when they lose they’ll point to things like this as an example of how the election was “stolen” to justify them stealing the election…

            God I hate these people…

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      And with the usual ambiguous word salad too.

      Hey, you heard about all this incredible cheating? Cheating. Cheating! Vote cheating is bad, it’s so bad. Never seen anything so bad I tell you. But the police does nothing. Nothing! You think vote cheating is ok? I don’t think people should be allowed to get away with it!

      Etc etc etc ad nauseam.

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          The election is RIGGED. Votes are being STOLEN from PROUD AMERICANS. You go to the poles and they throw away YOUR vote. But not when your vote is for BIDEN, no. The IMMIGRANTS are voting illegally and he counts their votes. But not for hardworking AMERICANS. And NOBODY stopped him. We WON’T let that happen again! HILLARY stole the vote! GO OUT THERE. COUNT THE VOTES. THE TRUTH WILL WIN.

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    Pennsylvania is cheating

    How?

    and getting caught

    Where?

    at large scale levels rarely seen before.

    When?

    “Law enforcement must act, NOW!”

    By doing what exactly?

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      “Gish Gallop.”

      It’s a debate technique. You overwhelm the opposition with an endless stream of half truths, exaggeration’s, lies, and tangents that make it impossible for them to get their point across.

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        Bannon during Trump’s term referred to this as “flood the zone with shit”. Essentially just putting out such a large volume of nonsense that people just give up, you break their will to vote/argue/oppose you/fight back/correct the record.

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          The thing that sucks is that it’s so effective. It literally lead to Biden dropping out of the race. Trump spewed a bunch of bullshit really fast in their debate and Biden just froze up because it was so much.

          I liked how Kamala handled it in their debate by basically saying “Look, I told you this guy was going to spout a bunch of nonsense.” You’ve gotta call out the technique when you see it.

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            Trump made Biden scream “we beat Medicare” over and over? Biden didn’t face pressure to step down because he “froze up.” Don’t believe your lying eyes, I guess?

            I legitimately can’t imagine why anyone would think the election would be going better right now if Biden hadn’t stepped down.

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        We see Trump consistently make an outright lie, and in the same breath pivot to a personal attack such as “she’s a nasty woman.” This is another technique that adds something controversial after the lie so that the focus is on the controversial topic instead of the lie.

        It makes it harder to peel what he says apart and puts space between the current point of conversation and the lie

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          The most fucked up thing is that Trump isn’t doing this necessarily intentionally. He’s just so crazy, that this is how his brain works.

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            Trump once said that his personality hasn’t changed since was a child.

            He talks like a little kid; words just spew out without any rhyme or reason.

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            I absolutely believe he is doing it intentionally. He will lie and promote violence any time he thinks it will help him do as he pleases or avoid consequences.

            Yes, it’s in his very nature, but let’s be honest: he knows exactly what he’s doing

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              He isn’t required to understand his behaviors in order to perform them. All his behaviors could have been shaped through early trial and error. Behaviors that got him a desired result became reinforced. He could’ve tried a lie+insult combo as a kid and got exactly what he wanted.

              Repeated enough, the behavior could become second nature.

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              I just can’t believe that he’s that intelligent or in control of the things coming out of his mouth.

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                He can be a stupid, racist, sexist miser and evil at the same time. And there’s a 200% chance he’s not the smart one strategizing everything. He’s, as you say, not that smart. But smart enough to follow simple directions and regurgitate his hateful shit on cue.

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        Sealioning is the layman’s unmoderated form. If you don’t let the other person speak or respond you always get to ‘win’.

        It’s interesting how adversarial the nature of some people is.

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      The only actual election interference I have heard about and people actually being charged is by the Republicans.

      A lawsuit filed is not proof, I could file a lawsuit saying my neighbor stole my house. My house is still where it was but I could claim it’s not and bring a lawsuit. I would lose but it’s the principal of the fact that there is a suit that looks official and people think lawsuits means it’s real.

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        Anyone can sue anyone for anything in this country. It may get tossed out right away but you can still file the lawsuit.

        The general talk is that since being shot at he’s even more impulsive than prior.

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        didn’t scientology win their religionship status because they flooded individuals at the IRS with thousands upon thousands of bullshit lawsuits? saying “this can all stop. it’s up to you”

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          Operation Snow White was a criminal conspiracy by the Church of Scientology during the 1970s to purge unfavorable records about Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. This project included a series of infiltrations into and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private organizations critical of Scientology, carried out by Church members in more than 30 countries. It was one of the largest infiltrations of the United States government in history, with up to 5,000 covert agents. This operation also exposed the Scientology plot “Operation Freakout”, because Operation Snow White was the case that initiated the U.S. government’s investigation of the Church.

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        They have concepts of evidence. Many people said so, and the orange utan saw it on tv, or read it online. He’s just reporting what people are saying

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        So this proof of election cheating is in Hunter Biden’s laptop? Makes about as much sense as any of this.

        He’s likely shitting himself beyond the usual for not understanding Puerto Rican citizenship and voting.

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    The campaign did not point to any instance in particular that led it to believe that voters had been treated unfairly in Bucks County, but county officials had observed that there were complaints on social media (shared by the Trump campaign) about long lines to obtain mail-in ballots on Tuesday, the last day of their availability.

    If you wait until the last minute you might have to wait in line with the other procrastinators. This is not cheating or fraud it’s just common sense. But it tracks for Boomers to throw a tantrum if the world doesn’t magically accommodate them and they have to wait for anything.

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      They did not have any facts to present but they feel like cheating is occurring. That’s enough for a lawsuit right?

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    From The Guardian:

    The queues for late mail ballots were a result of Pennsylvania not having an early on-site voting system at designated spots, as is the case in some other states. Instead, voters can apply for ballots on demand at election offices before filling them out and submitting them on the spot, a procedure that takes about 10 minutes.

    The flood of late applicants overwhelmed electoral workers in Bucks county’s administration building in Doylestown, leading to a long queue, which was cut off at about 2.45pm on Tuesday

    I went to drop off my ballot on Saturday and when I got there, not to the main office in Doylestown, but one of the smaller remote offices, and there was a huge line all the way across the front of the building and I was wondering what the heck was going on.

    As I was getting to the end of the line, a person came over and asked if I already had my ballot, and when they saw it, they said I could go right in and drop it off. There was only one couple ahead of me there.

    I had been wondering what the line was for, and now that makes sense. The Republicans had made the mail in ballot more complicated than necessary during COVID, so now they seem to feel it biting them as their potential supporters have been screwed by it.

    “Democrat election officials are seeing our numbers. They’re seeing our turnout. They are seeing us breaking early vote records across Pennsylvania,” he said. “They are terrified. And they want to stop our momentum. We are not going to let them suppress our votes.”

    Pennsylvania does not start counting votes before election day. Nobody has any clue as to who is voting for whom.

    They’ve broken the system and want to say “look at this broken system, we can’t trust it!” To me that just shows we can’t trust you!

    I really hope Pennsylvanians do the right thing. These people need to be stopped.

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      They’ve broken the system and want to say “look at this broken system, we can’t trust it!”

      This has been their process for… ever. They cut funding to government agencies (eg. FEMA), then when said agency has a hard time doing their job. they point a scream that the agency can’t do it’s job and should therefore have it’s funding cut. Rinse, lather, repeat. And right wing voters fall for the sham every 👏 single 👏 time 👏.

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      The Republicans had made the mail in ballot more complicated than necessary during COVID, so now they seem to feel it biting them as their potential supporters have been screwed by it.

      “Democrat election officials are seeing our numbers. They’re seeing our turnout. They are seeing us breaking early vote records across Pennsylvania,” he said. “They are terrified. And they want to stop our momentum. We are not going to let them suppress our votes.”

      This is the shit that is INFURIATING to me… They broke the system thinking it would hurt Democrats but now that it’s affecting them they just blame Democrats which also helps them in the end… God I hate these people so much

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        Yup, same nonsense as when they sabotage the Post Office and talk about how that doesn’t work. The votes against immigration reform and then the yelling about that not working. Won’t cut spending or raise taxes but complain about deficit spending.

        They want you to want to throw out our current system so they can replace it. That’s why it’s important to understand the right people to be mad at. If you get mad at anyone other than them themselves, they win.

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    Quite a lot of the misinformation out of PA stems from a willful ignorance of how all this stuff works.

    For example… the voter registration drives turning in invalid registrations:

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/voter-registration-probes-launched-crucial-keystone-state-counties-amid-claims-potential-fraud

    “District attorneys and election officials in both Lancaster County and York County are looking into potential election-related fraud after authorities received large batches of voter registration materials from a “third-party organization.” Both York and Lancaster counties have more registered Republican voters than Democrats, according to state data, with York Republicans holding a 63% majority in the area and Lancaster Republicans at a 61% majority.”

    When you do a voter registration drive, you are legally obligated to submit all registrations, valid or not. The only entity with the legal authority to reject registrations as valid is the State Secretary of State office.

    This is because, back in the day, parties would do registration drives and just shit-can any registration for opposing parties.

    Now, even if some dumbass fills out a registration for “Mickey Mouse” or “Superman”, it STILL has to be submitted to the Secretary of State for rejection.

    That’s not “voter fraud”.

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      Look how much time and text it took to refute a few tiny bullshit utterances. Its impossible even if it was desireable, which its not. He needs to be in custody and in 24/7 solitary with zero internet access. He’s a goddamn terrorist

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    Blame Weird Old 34’s enablers for not holding him accountable when they had the chance: Moscow Mitch McConnell, the conservative SCOTUS Justices, Merrick Garland’s slowness, and so many more!

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          Bingo! I wish more of the electorate were up to date on current events in an election year. It boggles my mind that people are actually supporting a 34 count convicted felon who will be sentenced in New York in November. And what is he convicted of? Election interference! He’s deceived the voters about his past of sleeping with a porn star!

          We have a US Constitution that sets this high bar that one is innocent until proven guilty by a jury of one’s peers. To not respect that is to disrespect the Constitution. We expect the President to keep an oath to keep the laws of the land, you know, that whole Law and Order thing? How can you hire a criminal to work for you whose job is to keep the rule of law and defend it?

          It’s so nuts that this election is so close. Shame on the media for giving this disgusting adjudicated rapist so much air time every day.

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      That sounds like a form of dementia.

      “Grandpa used to be a top notch line worker before he got the Merrick Garland’s slowness.”

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    but county officials had observed that there were complaints on social media (shared by the Trump campaign) about long lines to obtain mail-in ballots on Tuesday, the last day of their availability

    This is all about allowing people to vote by mail in ballot??? What the fuck was his 2020 complaints all about???

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      Entire states vote by mail and they work out fine. It’s a paper record. He should like that after all the voting machine conspiracy crap he’s been floating.

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        It’s not about what he likes, it’s about what can erode public trust in the process enough that people will reject the entire system and Trump can declare himself president without having to worry about the will of the people.