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Trump praising Musk, half an hour ago: He knows those computers better than anybody. Those vote counting computers. (Original Post) highplainsdem Jan 19 OP
They don't even bother to hide their crimes now. Irish_Dem Jan 19 #1
Kind of breathtaking, isn't it? Hekate Jan 19 #2
Shocking but not surprising. Irish_Dem Jan 19 #8
Yes Hekate Jan 19 #13
I felt surprised but not shocked. ananda Jan 19 #30
I knew they cheated but I didn't think that Trump would openly boast about it. Irish_Dem Jan 19 #35
True. Could dementia also make him loose tongued... ananda Jan 19 #51
Good points! Yes the dementia could cause frontal lobe damage and lowered inhibition. Irish_Dem Jan 19 #53
Unless there's a set up for tomorrow Marthe48 Jan 19 #52
Yes we cannot rule out Musk is now in Trump's crosshairs. Irish_Dem Jan 19 #54
Why wouldn't he boast about it Bettie Jan 20 #56
Yep. And he has to brag about his immunity, flaunt it in our faces. Irish_Dem Jan 20 #57
Is our cyber security that bad? BonnieJW Jan 19 #48
Because they knew that Democrats, out of a desire Bettie Jan 19 #5
That's what I find is as devastating as the election being stolen: knowing the Dems KNOW it, and we're still going BComplex Jan 19 #47
Why would they? Blue_Tires Jan 19 #14
Trump has total immunity, and he and Musk are Bonnie and Clyde for an adoring public. Irish_Dem Jan 19 #16
If I had a BLOOD BOILING "classic smilie", yellow dahlia Jan 19 #28
Is good. Now you have glass of best яussian vodka. NameAlreadyTaken Jan 19 #3
Yes Trump, Musk, Putin are flaunting their crimes. Irish_Dem Jan 19 #18
I wonder what Putin will do with Trump NameAlreadyTaken Jan 19 #41
We know the answer to that question. Irish_Dem Jan 19 #44
The MFer knows that junk will get to Democrats. I'm ignoring his BS, and not letting it get to me Silent Type Jan 19 #4
I hear you, I'll be damned Tickle Jan 19 #15
Agree, stop giving them the attention and satisfaction JI7 Jan 19 #17
Of course. Elon invented the computer. dalton99a Jan 19 #6
landslide??? lapfog_1 Jan 19 #7
Any day now Trump will start bragging about how he stole the election. It's inevitable, he can't help himself. sop Jan 19 #9
He did steal the election--with lies. SunSeeker Jan 19 #33
It's a fact, dark money did "steal" the election.. sop Jan 20 #58
It is his intent Codifer Jan 19 #10
I guess Bannon failed to get Eid of him? 33taw Jan 19 #11
Bannon doesn't have his greasy hands on the Crypto pump and dump spigot. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 19 #12
Trump needed Bannon supporters to get elected. He could not care less about them now. 33taw Jan 19 #26
He just admitted Elon helped him steal the election. nt Chalco Jan 19 #19
any reason he shouldn't? quakerboy Jan 19 #37
Silly cowardly justice system Dem4life1234 Jan 19 #43
I guess those of us screaming for paper ballot hand recounts yellow dahlia Jan 19 #20
Naw....we are just crybabies..... Hope22 Jan 19 #32
When does the new drumpf dump forum open? JoseBalow Jan 19 #21
No wonder I can't find anyone who voted for that turd! Kid Berwyn Jan 19 #22
He is baiting us and naturally we're going to take it. ColinC Jan 19 #23
You know this how malaise Jan 19 #25
It has been their MO for years ColinC Jan 19 #27
this is what he always does cilla4progress Jan 19 #24
Smh. He could outright admit he cheated ecstatic Jan 19 #29
Yes he Did... Big Diarrhea Mouth Mump Can't Keep Cha Jan 19 #39
He is so full of shit he is literally bursting at the seams. Klarkashton Jan 19 #31
Musk did help him steal the election -- with lies. SunSeeker Jan 19 #34
And where were our leaders asking for state recounts????? 58Sunliner Jan 19 #36
The Cheater CAndidate with the Huge Diarreah Mouth. Cha Jan 19 #38
Give me a break... EllisWhy Jan 19 #40
You don't need a degree in computer science to know about computers. LisaL Jan 19 #50
Especially when you have the $$ to hire really good people who do know computers Attilatheblond Jan 20 #55
I am not surprised Dem4life1234 Jan 19 #42
This message was self-deleted by its author Tbear Jan 19 #45
Sounds like a confession slightlv Jan 19 #46
especially in PA... kentuck Jan 19 #49

Irish_Dem

(66,692 posts)
1. They don't even bother to hide their crimes now.
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 07:25 PM
Jan 19

It is all out in the open.

They are proud of themselves.

ananda

(31,373 posts)
30. I felt surprised but not shocked.
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 08:41 PM
Jan 19

I had vote rigging sussed out already,
I just never thought they'd admit it
so openly.

Irish_Dem

(66,692 posts)
35. I knew they cheated but I didn't think that Trump would openly boast about it.
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 08:52 PM
Jan 19

But some psychopaths love to brag about their crimes.

ananda

(31,373 posts)
51. True. Could dementia also make him loose tongued...
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 10:53 PM
Jan 19

and less inhibited.

Unless it's some kind of Machiavellian scheme to
get rid of Musk so he can really be the president.

Irish_Dem

(66,692 posts)
53. Good points! Yes the dementia could cause frontal lobe damage and lowered inhibition.
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 10:59 PM
Jan 19

His filter could be damaged.

I also think he looks medicated sometimes on minor tranquilizers which could also loosen his tongue.

Or as you say he is setting up Musk in some way.

Good points!

Bettie

(18,048 posts)
56. Why wouldn't he boast about it
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 07:53 AM
Jan 20

he knows that there are no consequences for anything anymore. He has learned that laws don't actually apply to him or the other oligarchs.

They have carte blanche to do anything they want to and the fawning media will praise them and most people won't fucking care.

Bettie

(18,048 posts)
5. Because they knew that Democrats, out of a desire
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 07:30 PM
Jan 19

to be perceived as the adults in the room, would not question anything.

BComplex

(9,324 posts)
47. That's what I find is as devastating as the election being stolen: knowing the Dems KNOW it, and we're still going
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 09:43 PM
Jan 19

down this road. It really makes me ill. What are we, the people, to do?

 

Blue_Tires

(57,596 posts)
14. Why would they?
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 07:55 PM
Jan 19

They're above the law, and the more laws Donnie breaks, the more people seem to love him. He's the Jesse James of politics 👎

yellow dahlia

(2,002 posts)
28. If I had a BLOOD BOILING "classic smilie",
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 08:38 PM
Jan 19

I would insert it here.

For now I'll go with my new standby.

Irish_Dem

(66,692 posts)
18. Yes Trump, Musk, Putin are flaunting their crimes.
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 08:02 PM
Jan 19

Putin often leaves his calling cards at his crimes.
He has a signature murder style.

Irish_Dem

(66,692 posts)
44. We know the answer to that question.
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 09:22 PM
Jan 19

Putin will not use something obvious, this is an act of war.

Something which will look like a medical problem.

Silent Type

(8,748 posts)
4. The MFer knows that junk will get to Democrats. I'm ignoring his BS, and not letting it get to me
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 07:30 PM
Jan 19

I’d suggest doing same. And I’m not going to let my rube trumpster neighbors see me angry, concerned and damn sure not whining. Their turn will come, hopefully in mid-terms.

Tickle

(3,719 posts)
15. I hear you, I'll be damned
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 07:56 PM
Jan 19

if I change one thing I do because of them. Smile when you see and without saying a word let them know, we'll be back

JI7

(91,586 posts)
17. Agree, stop giving them the attention and satisfaction
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 08:02 PM
Jan 19

just go about your life like you are enjoying things.

He isn't going to do anything to actually improve their lives which is why he does things like this.

lapfog_1

(30,722 posts)
7. landslide???
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 07:34 PM
Jan 19

Trump 3,543,308 Harris 3,423,042

120,266 votes different out of a total vote of 6,966.350 votes or 1.7 percent.

Hardly a landslide. oddly enough, just the right amount to not have a recount but sufficiently small that a good hacker ( really good hacker ) could fake out and never be caught, i.e. small enough to go unchallenged by things like exit polls.

If I was to do the hack... I'm pretty sure this is the exact sort of vote totals I would aim for.

but not a landslide by any means.

sop

(13,276 posts)
9. Any day now Trump will start bragging about how he stole the election. It's inevitable, he can't help himself.
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 07:38 PM
Jan 19

Trump will rub people's noses in the fact he rigged the fucking election, and there's nothing anyone can do about it now. He's untouchable.

SunSeeker

(55,264 posts)
33. He did steal the election--with lies.
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 08:48 PM
Jan 19
...Elon Musk brazenly invested $20 million in RBG PAC, named after the late liberal Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in order to spread the word that Trump had “softened” on abortion.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/women-voters-gender-gap-kamala-harris/

Musk's money was used to saturate the swing states with lies. It worked.

sop

(13,276 posts)
58. It's a fact, dark money did "steal" the election..
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 09:11 AM
Jan 20

But gloating about that won't be enough for Trump. No, he'll start dropping hints the vote count was somehow rigged by his tech bro friends who "know a lot about computers." The hints will turn into open admissions. In a few months he'll be bragging that "no other president in the history of elections" has ever stolen an election as effectively as he did. Believe me!

quakerboy

(14,314 posts)
37. any reason he shouldn't?
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 09:01 PM
Jan 19

There is no power to stop him, no power to bring him consequences. As of tomorrow he and Elon are the most powerful people on the planet.

Other than being old.. he has no reason to fear anything.

Dem4life1234

(2,530 posts)
43. Silly cowardly justice system
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 09:21 PM
Jan 19

Couldn't even sentence his dumb ass to prison.

This is a nation of beta cowards.

yellow dahlia

(2,002 posts)
20. I guess those of us screaming for paper ballot hand recounts
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 08:20 PM
Jan 19

might have been on to something.

Some of us had heard about Musk being involved in tabulations.

There was gerry-mandering, and voter suppression, and a variety of the usual tactics. And some unusual tactics - remember the bomb threats at certain precincts. But I believe the cincher for the election result was determined by the tabulations.

The grifter said he didn't need any more votes.

I posited that the grifter made sure he "got" the popular vote (this time) to soothe his deranged and fragile ego.

Now what!?

He confesses to rigging the election, and we hand the country over anyway?

He was not "President" when he engaged in this confessed rigging and election interference, hence no immunity.

Why can't he and Musk be arrested? Now!



Hope22

(3,759 posts)
32. Naw....we are just crybabies.....
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 08:46 PM
Jan 19

……in reality TSF was saying that PA was rigged over and over again so there was no reason to not recount the state. They let it slid and Harris went silent! We’ve seen this before.

Kid Berwyn

(19,629 posts)
22. No wonder I can't find anyone who voted for that turd!
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 08:23 PM
Jan 19

No problem. President Musk soon will rewrite the records.

ColinC

(11,098 posts)
23. He is baiting us and naturally we're going to take it.
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 08:25 PM
Jan 19

Gonna eat up like lambs to a slaughter.

ColinC

(11,098 posts)
27. It has been their MO for years
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 08:38 PM
Jan 19

The right-wing are masters of the bait and switch narrative scam.

They act like bigots and criminals (bait) and upon us taking it, they can seemingly credibly switch the narrative to: "look how obsessed they are over (election conspiracy theories, making your kids transgender, wokeism, blah blah blah)!" And it works every time because they have the media resources and advertising juggernauts to blast the nonsense everywhere with some level of credibility (based on the left constantly taking the bait).

This is all so that we don't talk about real issues like income inequality, healthcare, education, and labor rights.

ecstatic

(34,697 posts)
29. Smh. He could outright admit he cheated
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 08:41 PM
Jan 19

And nothing would be done. Hell he confessed prior to the election. Crickets.

Cha

(308,851 posts)
39. Yes he Did... Big Diarrhea Mouth Mump Can't Keep
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 09:08 PM
Jan 19

his Big Mouth Shut.

And, now this... he's admitting he wouldn't have "won" without Cheating.

Klarkashton

(3,194 posts)
31. He is so full of shit he is literally bursting at the seams.
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 08:42 PM
Jan 19

All this is about beating the raps by winning. He doesn't give a flying fuck about anything.

SunSeeker

(55,264 posts)
34. Musk did help him steal the election -- with lies.
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 08:50 PM
Jan 19
...Elon Musk brazenly invested $20 million in RBG PAC, named after the late liberal Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in order to spread the word that Trump had “softened” on abortion.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/women-voters-gender-gap-kamala-harris/

Trump used Musk's money (and a shit ton of other dark money) to saturate the swing states with lies. It worked.

EllisWhy

(19 posts)
40. Give me a break...
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 09:18 PM
Jan 19

Musk knows less about computers than half the people on this board. His degrees are in economics and a bachelor of Arts (yes, Arts) in physics--the man is a science "enthusiast", not a scientist and certainly no engineer.

Attilatheblond

(5,512 posts)
55. Especially when you have the $$ to hire really good people who do know computers
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 12:06 AM
Jan 20

Plus, there were those county officials who willingly handed over some of the computers to be studied by the GOP operatives after 2020. That was not an accident.

Dem4life1234

(2,530 posts)
42. I am not surprised
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 09:20 PM
Jan 19

He's a loose cannon and no way most of the country supported him, no way did he win fair.

Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

slightlv

(5,206 posts)
46. Sounds like a confession
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 09:37 PM
Jan 19

Delivered in his usual gloating style. Stop everything! Arrest him and hold him ans Musk per further investigation.

But we have no one in power brave enough to do what's right, do we? Only unpatriotic peons... powerless and good for nothing but cannon fodder.

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