Let me explain. Every time Trump complains about mail-in ballots, it reminds me…oh right, COVID happened during the election of 2020. And during that time, an unprecedented number of mail-in ballots were filled out. And Trump lost that election. So let me explain my reasoning behind this. These reasons explain the anomalies that continue to arise about that (and the 2024) election.
Republicans gained access to voting machines heading into the 2020 election. And as Elon Musk has said, every computer can be hacked. On election night itself, Trump confidently declared victory until Fox News announced Arizona for Biden. Then the shitshow started. Within a day or two, it was clear that Biden had won, and that there were a lot of mail-in ballots which helped contribute to that. And it sent MAGA into a tailspin. They sued in every swing state where he had lost, including Michigan where Trump lost by 150K votes. And in every single case, the suits were thrown out. But that wasn’t the real story. The real story was that after Trump lost, he incited a riot and attempted coup in Washington D.C. which killed 5 people, attempted to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power, and caused chaos throughout the nation’s capital. And people at the rally were calling for (and visually representing) the death of Pence by building a gallows with his effigy on it.
But even that wasn’t the end of the story, because Trump and his MAGA kkkult insisted over and over and over that the 2020 election was “rigged”. And it got me to thinking, “What if it was?” It seems to entirely fit the known facts and the behavior of Trump that he expected to win the election. And if you know Trump, you know that he never forgets when he loses any amount of money or somehow is on the receiving end of getting cheated out of money. And his behavior entirely aligns with that assumption—that he paid to rig the election, expected to win the election, and when he didn’t, he pointed at mail-in ballots as the cause. It all fits.
And so move on to 2024. Now he’s got Musk on his side and his team of unethical hackers. And he said something extremely strange for someone who had just won an election fairly: Elon Musk knows ‘those vote counting computers’. Now why would he say that instead of voting machines? Because he knows that the voting tabulators are the weak link. And even though voting machines themselves are not connected to the internet, as this article states, “ballot tabulators are briefly connected to the internet to transmit results when polls close.” And all it would take is a simple code change in the machines, or a man-in-the-middle attack to alter vote counts.
And check out Elon’s comments before the election: “the last thing I would do is trust a computer program, because it’s just too easy to hack.”, talking about voting machines. And he chose to go after Dominion voting machines, and only in counties where Republicans lost. It makes sense to me that Republicans have rigged voting machines or tabulators in areas they control. But in areas they don’t control, they always get super butthurt when they lose, as if there are not legitimate reasons people wouldn’t want to vote for fascist religious extremists to lead a government of all people.
And then 2024 rolls around. Amazingly, Trump “won” all the swing states. In Michigan, in a state where he lost by 150K votes, he magically gained 250K votes after he had been convicted of sexual assault and 30-something other felonies, as well as indicted in Georgia for electoral fraud (“find me x number of votes”) and nationally for election crimes. I saw nothing during that time period that should have changed people’s minds that much over such a short period of time. And a con man who has lived as a flimflam purveyor his whole life, doesn’t change his stripes and become “honest”. They use any and all means to get the result they want. And liars don’t get blind trust. From me, anyway.