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edhopper

(36,325 posts)
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 02:06 PM Jun 6

If Musk unveiled evidence that he rigged the election

for Trump...

Nothing would happen. Congress and the Courts would not act.
The Dems would be powerless to do anything.
And the States would sit on their hands.

That is where we are in this country.

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magicarpet

(18,455 posts)
3. Blue state Dem governors and Dem atty gens,...
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 02:18 PM
Jun 6

.... would love to hear the details of how trDUMP is implicated and/or masterminded a dirty election.

If eLoon has the receipts to prove it, documents, videos, audio recordings, and witnesses,... all or some of the above,... total state immunity would be placed on the table for Musk to sing his little heart out.

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markodochartaigh

(3,334 posts)
4. I think that you are correct.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 02:19 PM
Jun 6

Look at the widespread disenfranchisement by Republicans, kicking people off voter rolls. We don't see that covered like it should be by CNN or MSNBC, certainly not by Faux News or OANN.
One summer Friday afternoon Musk would tell how he had rigged the election. It would be covered for a few days, but by Monday Trump would do something outrageous to suck the air out of the room. The Republicans who are desperate to steal elections anyway they can, and the Democratic upper echelons who are desperate to keep people from realizing the huge problems with our elections so that voter turnout doesn't drop even lower, both sides would breathe a sigh of relief and chase Trump's new outrageous thing.
And one more huge blow would be struck against democracy in the US.

brush

(60,556 posts)
8. Yep, that'a our two-party system. The party in power can get away with just about anything...
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 02:36 PM
Jun 6

and the party out of power is powerless to do anything...except raise hell in the media and the streets.

It takes real street activists/leaders to do that though.

We've only got AOC and Bernie now...and Bernie isn't actually a Dem.

TomWilm

(1,909 posts)
9. Rigged election? The voting proces is actually fine ...
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 04:54 PM
Jun 6

... it is everything else in the US election system, that is totally f*cked.
Blindly chasing vote stuffing is useless!

slightlv

(6,094 posts)
10. Same as it was the first go round
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 04:56 PM
Jun 6

With Hillary. The evidence was thete... if normal procedures had been followed we wouldn't be in this mess today. Plus we were told consistently that there is no remedy for removing an illegally elected president. We'd be in that same place today. The only thing that could be done is impeachment and conviction... and we know the repugs would kill all evidence along the way.

BurnDoubt

(802 posts)
12. It's all about obstruction.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 05:24 PM
Jun 6

How much of this is on loosey-goosey technicalities of the law being decided in their favor by shopped judges? And... how much evidence is now being shredded by the DOGE Purge and other operatives in efforts to "downsize government"?
The entire Republican Party is complicit in this obstruction and should be prosecuted for their complicity... Except they are "in control of the investigation".
HUGE reform is needed in Elections and more effective oversight measures are needed in investigating and litigating corruption by Congress. Impeachment process is riddled with vagueness and partisanship, being instead a best-and-most poll of partisan dominance, always won by the Senate Balance of Power. Rigged, top to bottom.

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