Republican Party Purge

[The Architect Of Fate]

Never happen only Republicans would think of a conspiracy that dumb.

I think he might be thinking about the fact that the left complained about the fact that the electoral college is a fucked-up system that's, in recent memory, managed to put two extremely unpopular presidents into the White House who didn't even win the popular vote (this happened in 2000 and 2016, in case Biker's going to ask and points about voter suppression happening that are not only verifiable, but that at least since 1965, seems to be almost exclusively be backed by Republican politicians or that just seem to come about organically in states that have voted Republican in every election since before I was born; and comparing them with the conspiracy theories that Republicans cooked up after they lost in 2020, and concluding that both sides' concerns are equally invalid. 

But somehow, Biker seems to either ignore or legitimately not understand that there's a way to differentiate whether certain claims are valid: by checking them against external reality. Things like:

• The last two times a Republican has won the popular vote were in 2004 and 1988. The second one happened before I was born.
  
• The Republican party has decided to focus their attention on pandering to straight white men and alienating (at best) everybody else.
  
• Because the proportion (though not sheer numbers) of white people in America's population is falling, there probably won't be another election where they win the popular vote unless A) they change their stragegy, or B) they actively shape who gets to vote and who doesn't.
  
• As of last month, 43 states have introduced 250 bills to reduce access to polls, and most, if not all, have been introduced by Republicans.
  
• Pointing to the Jim Crow days when it was the Democrats who reduced access to the polls in the South means absolutely nothing when, currently, it's the Republican Party who's invariably doing it.
  

And, meanwhile, of all the claims that Republicans who were convinced that Biden stole the 2020 elections from Trump have advanced, the only one that holds up to any scrutiny is that, well, more people voted for Biden than Trump.

All this is very true 

[onlinebiker]

"Your guys" won an election.

Whoop de doo....

It doesn't mean the end of the world for the opposition.


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Trust me on this -- they will kick "your" party's ass once again - and then it will be your turn to whine and cry about stolen elections - and their turn to predict your party's demise.


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Welcome back.

Boru

Thanks -- but didn't really go anywhere....

Just too busy to sit at the PC --

My new phone - I still haven't gotten around to putting the password in........

I still have an engine swap - and two other cars with big jobs needing done --- before I can get to the projects I WANT to do....

(Fun one - I'm building an electric powered ATV trike (1000 watt 36 volt motor with lead acid batteries) for sneaking out to the blind in the morning silently.)



So - not much online stuff...