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OK, continuing the rest of the speech:

Repeating, repeatedly, his absolute astonishment that the mailed ballots heavily favor Biden instead of him.

Then he goes on to say that the law is that every ballot must be received by election day. Kind of betrays his reasons for the attack on the post office, if he actually thought that. It's not even spin, though, it's just an outright lie.
Oregon, interestingly, with its 100% mail in voting, does have such a law, but most states do not. The date it's mailed is the important date, just like when you file your taxes. (I guess he wouldn't know about that, either, though.)

He goes on to claim there is widespread voter fraud with mailed in ballots, despite the fact that nobody's ever been able to find any.

"Tens of millions of unsolicited ballots without any verification whatsoever" - straight up lie. No such thing.
"I told everybody this would happen." And yet it didn't.
"They refused to include any requirement to verify signatures" - uh, no, no they didn't.
"Unprecedented in American history" - except, you know, the states that have been doing it for decades. Oregon started doing it 40 years ago, and has been doing 100% mail in voting 20 years ago.

"No attempt to even determine if they're eligible to vote" - this is a lie. Everyone has to register to get a ballot, and ID and US citizenship status and local residency are all checked in every state.
"They have no idea. They're just taking numbers and writing down things and doing very bad things and we have a lot of information coming and litigation that's shake even you people up." If anyone can parse that, let me know. I'm not sure how to make sense of it and I had to listen to it four times to get it down verbatim.

They've got ballots coming in three days after the election (the election that was two days ago? How does he think that works?) "You don't have post marks. You don't have identification..." - both just flat out lies.


"These were legal observers who were supposed to be there..."
No, actually, to be a legal poll watcher actually requires going through a process, not just dressing up in your best tacticool gear, grabbing your gun, and demanding entrance to the counting locations in answer to trump's tweet.

A lot of people, from both parties as well as independents, did go through the process and were in the room legally, rather than just outside screaming threats.

"unexpected delays" - it takes time. "Nobody knew were they came from" - just because you don't know doesn't mean nobody did. I guarantee there are people who know exactly where every ballot comes from.

"Illegal votes being cast after election day" - well, great that you don't want that, because there weren't any. He is lying again. "Thou shalt not bear false witness" - that used to mean something to the people who are now followers of trump. (Heh, just kidding, a lot of them have always been hypocrites. Even when I was in high school being taught creationism it relied mostly on flat-out lies)

"He's claiming states, and I'm claiming states..." That's not how it works, dumbass. I've pointed out before, you can't just call dibs. There is a process, and it involves counting ballots. And the counting process involves one candidate being up for a while, then another, and back and forth sometimes. You can't just declare an end to it when you're ahead.

He has a lifetime of privilege and being given everything he wants without ever having to think hard or work for anything or ever having to face the consequences of any of his decisions. That explains why he thinks he can just have another term because he thought he was going to.
I don't know what his followers excuse for believing him is, though.

Date: 2020-11-09 06:09 am (UTC)
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Thank you for sparing me the pain of listening to this speech.

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