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ck4829

(35,038 posts)
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 10:31 AM Jan 2021

"Stop the steal"? What exactly is being stolen?

Because you know, as we've been told repeatedly over the past year, the president doesn't seem to do anything really...

It's someone else's fault for COVID.
It's someone else's fault for government shutdowns.
It's someone else's fault for the riots.
It's Obama's fault for... everything.

And what is the value of the thing supposedly being stolen? It's not exactly the Hope Diamond being swiped here: An office propped up by Putinists, white nationalists, and the people outraged, not by school shootings, but by the students outraged that school shootings are happening. And an office very few people, including the current president himself, have very little to no respect for.

So to sum it up; there was a massive conspiracy involving George Soros, Dominion Voting Systems, millions of Democratic voters, the media, judges who litigated against Trump, the deep state, the governments of Venezuela and China, antifa (Because why not), the electors of the electoral college, and probably countless others I am forgetting about to steal the one political office that according to supporters of the current president is the most toothless and powerless office in the land, the one office that has consistently passed the buck to someone else over the pressing issues of the day.

Is it "stealing"? Or are we just taking the unfair burden from Trump and his supporters?

Trump and his supporters were wailing over the past year about taking no responsibility at all.

To them, I think we should say:

Come, we will lift your heavy office off of your heads. You need to worry about this powerless office that has someone else REALLY be responsible for the things Trump does or does not do any longer. We are relieving you of this toothless monstrosity.

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milestogo

(16,829 posts)
3. If they believe the election systems are susceptible to "stealing" why was this issue never raised
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 10:49 AM
Jan 2021

in the past 4 years when they could have done something about it?

ck4829

(35,038 posts)
4. Bingo. I didn't hear about Dominion Voting Systems until AFTER they lost the election
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 10:52 AM
Jan 2021

Where were all these crazy conspiracies before November 3?

Chainfire

(17,467 posts)
5. You have to remember that a significant percentage of our population does not live on Earth
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 11:24 AM
Jan 2021

They live on the planet Htrae, described in the Superman comic books as Bizarro World. Everything is backwards, so that stop the steal actually means start the steal. A world where Liberals won't listen to facts and Nazis are patriots. It is a world where truth is lie, and good is evil. A place where rumor is more important than fact.

When I was a kid, I thought that it was a fictional world.....

Claire Oh Nette

(2,636 posts)
6. Projection or Confession?
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 12:40 PM
Jan 2021

They're easily duped "fans" of the "winning" team.

Taxed Enough Already
Drill Baby Drill
Lock her up
Make Amurica Great
Back the Blue (except, not now...)
USA USA USA
Feck Antifa (feck antifa)
Stop the Steal.

It's all bumper sticker sloganeering for the simpleton.

Cheerleader types, and the dumb jock mindset they cheered for (football)

And they're still backing a loser. Biggest loser ever.

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