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jimbobboy18

(22 posts)
Wed May 5, 2021, 01:20 PM May 2021

The Big Lie

Re: THE BIG LIE. There is a process to contest election results. It is called the court system. Trump's side lost 61 to 86 cases depending on where you look, and won 1 affecting few votes in Pennsylvania which was later overturned. Many of the judges were appointed by Trump. You have the word of the world's most prolific liar vs. the findings of the U.S. court system. Why isn't this brought up discussing THE BIG LIE? When Republicans scream about it and it is discussed on news programs no one seems to ever mention the court results. Why is that?

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Claire Oh Nette

(2,636 posts)
1. All part of the Big Lie
Wed May 5, 2021, 01:26 PM
May 2021

News programs want ratings.

Fox is losing viewers, and CNN is trying to scoop them up.

Shooting down the Big Lie doesn't draw ratings like telling the truth does. 30 years of right wing outrage and demonizing democrats over nothing has led to this idea that the GOP is fighting an enemy, not just a people who disagree about how our tax revenue should impact Americans' lives.

The GOP and its adherents are increasingly religious zealots out to kill the Infidel, in this case, Democrats. They are domestic terrorists no different from Taliban Jihadis.

CNN is no friend to Democrats as they give platform to the former GOPers who continue to lie about Biden and his policies.

kentuck

(111,102 posts)
2. Good question, Jim Bob!
Wed May 5, 2021, 01:29 PM
May 2021

And the one case that they won, the court ruled that the poll watchers could stand as close as 3 feet to the election workers, instead of 6 ft. They couldn't see very well from 6 feet away.

And also, the Supreme Court refused their meritless case.

global1

(25,252 posts)
4. I'm Convinced That It Is The MSM That Is Propping Up Both Tr**p And The Big Lie.....
Wed May 5, 2021, 01:59 PM
May 2021

They can't get Tr**p out of their system. They have to keep him in the limelight somehow - and every time they talk about him; show his picture or feature his cult followers - they prop him up.

As long as the MSM keeps propping him up - the Repug Party will think of him as their Party leader and continue to cower in his shadow.

Out of sight - out of mind. That's what needs to be done.

Quit talking about him about not being on social media. Don't highlight his press releases. All these things do is provide him with some semblance of credibility.

Tr**p is old news.

Focus on the positive that is going on in this country and what can be accomplished without this total loser being in the picture.

sanatanadharma

(3,707 posts)
5. For the big-lie to be true, countless numbers of people must be involved...
Wed May 5, 2021, 03:25 PM
May 2021

For the big-lie to be true, countless numbers of people must be involved, planning, implementing, knowing about and covering-up the 'steal'.
To believe the big-lie is to acknowledge that your neighbors are against you, from the poll-volunteers to the machine-manufacturers to your Governors, though whole nations, up to the US Constitution under the Capitol Dome.
The big-lie requires casting doubt on all reality, as the surf of reality is constantly lashing the seawalls of subjective stupidity.
To believe the big-lie is to tell the lie(s), is to be a liar and thus be untrustworthy. Dumb under the dome!

Within the claim of the 'big lie' lies evidence of the existence of an overwhelming majority of anti-trumpublican Americans.
For the big lie to be true, countless numbers of people must be involved, conspiratorially demonstrating that they are clearly smarter than the combined individual "Q"notions of the big liars.

The big-lie ignores 'knowledge' while claiming 'knowing'.
Some of us know how to spell "Epistemology" (although I need spell check).

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