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GOP tries to 'correct the narrative' on use of mailed ballots after years of conflicting messages (apnews.com)

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[–] WhatIsThePointAnyway@lemmy.world 76 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Yet their base will just accept the flip flop because they seem to just be endlessly content with hypocrisy.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 18 points 5 months ago

Hypocrisy is the name of the religion they follow.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

They don’t need to remember anything when their media leads them by the hand.

[–] ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

How dare you! They are not hypocrites!! Democrats are always wrong about everything, so who cares if you have to abandon logic, reality, and consistency in order for the world to make sense?!

Being objectively wrong is an insignificant price to pay when it still feels like you're right!

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago

One even replied to you! 🤣🤣🤣

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No, the base will not accept the flip. And that's why the GOP is so concerned.

Once a person gets a bad taste in their mouth, it's all but impossible to wash out. It's now a gut feeling, and it's not going away.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Once a person gets a bad taste in their mouth, it's all but impossible to wash out

Ever hear about toothpaste and mouthwash? 😛

[–] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm thinking soap.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

I'm thinking you had an abusive grandparent 😛

[+] Cincinnatus@lemmy.world -57 points 5 months ago (6 children)

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[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 40 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Your bias is showing.

This is you in another thread.

Btw, Trump didn't just make it up about the MSM lying. It's pretty obvious to anyone willing to venture outside the MSM bubble. Things like the Russia hoax, the burying of the Hunter laptop story, waiting until campaign season to bring every case they've got and then saying it's not political, or spending 3 years telling everyone the border is secure and closed, refusing to say certain words or phrases such as illegal alien, and anytime someone calls them out on something they just tell everyone you're a racist MAGA supporter, etc. are all examples of the fake news that Trump talks about.

Bolded for emphasis.

You have drank way too much of the Kool aid, bud. Trump isn't gonna let you suck his dick.

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 2 points 5 months ago

You’re arguing with a grown-up six-year-old who’s perpetually afraid and looks at his guns to feel brave. I appreciate the thought, but he’s here to argue.

[–] forrgott@lemm.ee 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Unsurprising, yet predictable. There was not, in fact, any confirmation of fraud committed in the events of that story. Republicans remain opposed to, well, whatever they're told to oppose; petty concerns such as empirical evidence have no meaning to them.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Leading up to the Sept. 12 primary election, 420 people cast 1,255 absentee ballots at four drop boxes, the Deseret News reported. Under Connecticut law, absentee votes must be delivered either by relatives and caregivers or sent by mail, but surveillance footage shows a woman on Ganim’s campaign staff, allegedly Wanda Geter-Pataky, stuffing a ballot box with white envelopes.

As long as the votes are cast by registered voters, this just sounds like a stupid law that should be done away with, not a fraud issue.

[–] Cincinnatus@lemmy.world -4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

It's definitely fraud if you have a person filling out ballots in other people's names without them knowing about it. How is that not fraud?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Where in the article did it say that happened?

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You're jumping to conclusions. How many of those people were dropping off their and their spouses (or adult children, or whathaveyou) ballots? Is it really necessary for all of them to not only go to the drop box, but also get out of the car and place it into the slot themselves? Is that what's keeping us from freedom?

[–] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

Your outlandish fantasies do not constitute reality. Fuck your fuhrer and fuck every single anti-american magat.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works -3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

So your conspiracy is that Biden won Connecticut by 800 votes?

[–] teft@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Ironic a bootlicker like you would choose a revered individual like Cincinnatus as your handle.

[–] WhatIsThePointAnyway@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

we're left with no choice but to start using it

What exactly does that mean? You have no choice but to use it to also commit fraud since you believe that’s the reason it’s used? In person poling places exist so it seems another choice exists.

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 55 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I still remember the GOP trying to dismantle the USPS while trump was in office. Even destroying perfectly good equipment! Guess they had a change of heart?!?

[–] Actual_Idiot@midwest.social 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I doubt it since DeJoy is still the Postmaster General

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I don't understand why though 🤷‍♂️

[–] realbadat@programming.dev 18 points 5 months ago

Biden can't fire DeJoy. It's a 9 member committee that has control.

That committee can have only 5 members of one party. Biden also can't just remove someone from the committee, there needs to be specific cause.

It's that committee which would need to remove DeJoy.

[+] Actual_Idiot@midwest.social -10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Because apparently Democrats also don't care if the Post Office is destroyed and privatized. They may say they do, but in terms of action there is none.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You should read how it works.

[–] Actual_Idiot@midwest.social 4 points 5 months ago

There are literally still two vacant seats on that board, unfilled, four years into Biden's presidency. And Biden has put a democrat and a republican in already. Guess what, if he had just done exactly what Trump will do and filled all of the vacancies with democrats, they would have the majority. But he didn't, and he won't, so we all have to sit around and watch while the post office dies

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

They don't want fascism, they just want the dems to magic handwave away all the problems.

[–] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 54 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Trump’s handpicked chair of the Republican National Committee, his daughter-in-law Lara Trump:
“In this election cycle, Republicans will beat Democrats at their own game, by leveraging every legal tactic at our disposal based on the rules of each state.”

So...taking part in an election according to the laws is the Democrats own game?

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

I really hope Trump tells his supporters to vote in person again this election

[–] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 12 points 5 months ago

This was a huge problem even when Trump was running.

It's not like people tried to warn them, but I guess the idea that older generation that have a harder time moving around might actually want/need mail in ballots to vote.

You know, being considerate of your voters and such.