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The Clean Energy Boom in Republican Districts: Trump has said he’ll repeal President Biden’s climate law, but one North Carolina district shows how hard unwinding multibillion-dollar projects could be (messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com)
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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Unless Kamala won.

according to computer security experts, the US presidential election was likely hacked via voting software.

The numbers Trump achieved are non-credible.

https://www.planetcritical.com/p/cyber-security-experts-warn-election-hacked

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Does that matter if she conceded?

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 hours ago

it does not matter that she conceded.

The concession is not legally binding, it's a polite thing that politicians do.

If it turns out that enough votes are are illegitimate, then the states swing to kamala and she becomes the president-elect.

since there have been convictions and admissions that they tried to steal the presidential election in 2020 via the fake electors scheme, this is not an outlandish theory, but something that has happened before on a broader scale.

We have no idea what's going to happen, but it's crazy that the dems didn't order manual recounts in all the swing states since Trump's lawyers hired people to literally steal the election software we used for 90% percent of the voters in those States.