I Ended Up Sounding Like Such An Idiot Back In 2004 [View all]

[SoCalDavidS]

I spent hours doing research, trying to figure out what happened in Ohio. I ended up convinced that something was not right.

I was not alone, and there were plenty of others, especially here on DU, who thought the same. The name escapes me at the moment, but one in particular, he has since passed, had post after post challenging the results, and attempting to prove the machines were hacked.

Barbara Boxer and Stephanie Tubbs Jones became the first from each house of Congress to contest the results of the election. Of course, it went nowhere, and W was officially declared the winner.

Nobody else of any official capacity really made an effort to launch an investigation. We rolled over, and were rewarded with a 2nd term of Shrub & Cheney.

I remember how I told people that the election was stolen, but without anybody of prominence to back me up, I was looked upon by friends and family as a nutcase. I guess that's because I wasn't a repub, because they seem to embrace such conspiracies, and welcome skeptics with open arms, even when no evidence exists to support the conclusion.

The same seems to be happening here. Even to the point of several on DU basically shutting down any talk about rigging of the election. After all, repubs Never cheat, so accusing them of such is fantasy and wishful thinking.

And we wouldn't want to act like T has the past 4 years, lest we be punished by the public of being sore losers, and having it taken out on our party in the next election, just like it was taken out on T in this one. Oh wait.......

I am not going to go out on any limb again, only to have the leaders in my party cut it off, and make me appear like an idiot. I also don't sense any real desire to pursue an investigation, a recount or an audit. Just like the Justice Department didn't really appear to have a desire to go after T on January 21, 2021. It's almost like what George Carlin used to say, may he rest in peace. It's a club, and you ain't part of it.

Aside from the fact T made dramatic gains in Solid BLUE states like CA, is the fact he WON EVERY SINGLE SWING STATE, and most were not even close. We were told that results might take days to come in, yet by 1:30 AM EST that night, he was declared the winner. The odds of either candidate winning ALL 7 STATES was immense. I remember looking at a betting site a few days prior to the election, and that was available to bet on. I remember thinking, the odds are so high, that clearly such an outcome isn't a realistic possibility. Neither was going to run the table on all 7.

I wish I were the slightest bit optimistic that this anomaly will ever be looked into, and so this time, I'll keep any suspicions to myself outside of here, because the Democratic Party is basically signalling to me that I'm NUTSO for even thinking it, because they've seemingly already moved on. Perhaps in a couple of years, when they ask me to donate to a campaign, I will tell them that I too have moved on, and tell them to get funds elsewhere. Because I don't trust elections in America, and Zero effort was made to convince me otherwise.