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myohmy2

(3,261 posts)
Tue Mar 29, 2022, 11:24 PM Mar 2022

I was watching Frontline's...

"Plot to Overturn the Election"

...it looks like trump's "Big Lie" has become a huge well-supported nationwide puke movement to question and possibly overturn future election results by controlling a state's election apparatus...

...if I lived in a puke state or in a puke county or in a puke city and a puke won an election, I would now have an extremely difficult time believing the results...

...they're destroying this country with their continuous never-ending lies...they're fascists, not democrats...

...sad and very evil...

...

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mitch96

(13,958 posts)
4. BINGO. I asked a conservative acquaintance who was eluding to the election was stolen.
Tue Mar 29, 2022, 11:41 PM
Mar 2022

I asked if all the republican that won had their votes changed also? .... Humm ummm crickets..
m

myohmy2

(3,261 posts)
5. as I was watching...
Wed Mar 30, 2022, 12:13 AM
Mar 2022

...the thing the struck me the most was that we're in a rush to spend billions to help save democracy in Ukraine while we're about to lose it here on the home-front...

...we should to be rushing to spend billions to save our own democracy too...

...

keep_left

(1,812 posts)
6. Because you can guarantee that there will be plenty of dark money coming in...
Wed Mar 30, 2022, 12:25 AM
Mar 2022

...from the other side if something isn't done to stop them. That Frontline episode did a pretty deep dive on the January 6th "movement", such as it is. The sophistication and resources involved were surprising, to say the least.

Demovictory9

(32,527 posts)
7. Listening to rightwing radio occassionally..they swallowed trump thought process completely
Wed Mar 30, 2022, 12:31 AM
Mar 2022

Wven the smarter ones pretend to believe it

Rhiannon12866

(207,679 posts)
8. Here's the FRONTLINE documentary, for those who missed it: Plot to Overturn the Election - PBS
Wed Mar 30, 2022, 12:53 AM
Mar 2022
Plot to Overturn the Election (full documentary) - FRONTLINE - PBS
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017725103

How did false claims of election fraud make their way to the center of American politics? FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate the plot to overturn the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

FRONTLINE and ProPublica uncover how a small group of people helped to create some of the core narratives of fraud that President Donald Trump and many others would go on to champion after the election — and how the legacy of their effort is impacting democracy and shaping elections to come. 03/29/2022.


barbaraann

(9,171 posts)
9. Just finished watching--fantastic reporting on a harrowing situation.
Wed Mar 30, 2022, 12:56 AM
Mar 2022

Our democracy is under attack on SO MANY fronts.

tishaLA

(14,176 posts)
12. The fact that so few would submit to questions
Wed Mar 30, 2022, 02:01 AM
Mar 2022

Says everything. Their claims don't withstand even basic challenges, but the repub media universe is so all-encompassing and so hermetically sealed that they can subsist and get elected on only that. Worse, legitimate media ends up playing sound bites either to report what they've said or debunk it and it has the net effect of furthering the bullshit.

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