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A more perfect and more schadenfreude gif for the situation does not exist.
The gif that keeps on gif'ing...
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Seems to be the new normal for right wingers to call every lost election stolen.
Nothing about any of this is new, they're all running the playbook from 80 years ago, and it was old then
These constant normalizing statements are so tiring. Yeah, stuff like this has happend before. It becoming the normal state of things is new and has not been here 80 years go.
Just because they become angrier and louder and more stupid about it doesn’t mean they’re not still playing the same game.
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Its not even lost elections.
Some of them cry about elections they won, because they didnt win hard enough.
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Seems to be the new normal for right wingers to call every lost election stolen.
*whingers
Heads I win, tails you cheated.
That is exactly the reasoning that just got the Alaska lawsuit tossed.
This is the world now. It's the 2nd grade.
"Losing sucks. I can't possibly lose. I can't conceive of a world in which I've lost. I can't work in a world where I've lost.
"I will contrive the world to my own advantage. I will kill, lie, destroy, steal, pillage, and salt the earth. I will make my loss as unbearable to everyone around me as I can until I'm handed a win.
"And then, when I've got what I want, I'll make everyone regret having conceived of going against me. Others' suffering secures my power."
This isn't a society. It's an abusive relationship with all the hallmarks of a hostage situation.
Democracy was conceived of in response to all of civilization being run by tyrants just as you describe. This behavior is not at all new, it's how autocrats think.
We didn't finish the job and that's why we're in this mess. We left all the petty tyrants that rule over our workplaces alone and they put democracy on a leash.
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All these dipshits don't just have their office on the line.
Like Trump and Putin, Bibi isn't just running for office but running from prison.
They see what happened to Duterte, Jair Bolsanaro, etc.
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"I will contrive the world to my own advantage. I will kill, lie, destroy, steal, pillage, and salt the earth. I will make my loss as unbearable to everyone around me as I can until I'm handed a win.
Yeesh where the hell did you go to 2nd grade?
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I mean can you blame them? There is like an 80 percent chance no one will hold them accountable for their bullshit. They pretty much have nothing to lose and every thing to gain. The current US president spawned an insurrection and the country voted him back in....
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Israel complaining about foreign funding in elections is pretty hilarious. That's like 80% of their foreign policy strategy.
they spend too much time and effort on elections on the other side of the planet.. forgot about their own.
So you're telling me one of the most capable surveillance states in the world couldn't prevent it's most thoroughly surveilled part of the population from somehow "stealing" the election?
Yeah seems plausible
Crazy this guy is running around free after all his crimes. I guess there's a lot of that going around these days though...
The only thing keeping him out of jail for the last decade is that he's PM...
Like, literally as soon as he's out of office his corruption trial starts and he is obviously fucking guilty. And as far as I know it's not even in luding how he solicited donations for Hamas and smuggled literal suitcases of cash to them....
He was fucked from just his previous crimes, no one has started looking into the shit he's done since, but they most likely will be the second a new coalition is formed.
Will he also flee to his buddies using a US-provided jet?
Eventually they'll have enough people to start a new island.
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Like, literally as soon as he’s out of office his corruption trial starts
His corruption trials already started at 2020. He is using his status as PM to hinder them. Every time he has to testify he finds some classified state emergency he simply must personally deal with and excuses himself out of the courthouse.
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The bad thing about Trump being successful after claiming the US elections were stolen is that he provided a template for other super-shitty world leaders to follow.
The good thing, though, is that Trump has also kind of ruined the concept. Trump is such an obvious clown that when he did it, the rest of the world mercilessly mocked America, making the same stuff less likely to succeed in other countries.
Exactly. He shown the world that you can basically tell the stupidest lies ever every fucking days and you won't get any consequence as long as medias are controlled by billionaires. "Children go to school and gets transitionned", "All Muslim are jihadist", "The left will create Stalin's style communism", etc.
France media are using the same playbook: "Student protests? Obviously the Muslim brothers".
They have caught a handful of voter issues (like 3 or 4 individuals voting more than once.) They were all republicans voting for Republicans. Our country has very nearly 350 million people. Est. ~178million voters. [Statisa.com] if 3 or 4 people do it out of 178 million, we are amazingly well behaved as an electoral body. Fuck Trump, and fuck all fascists who would have us believe it is raining while they piss on us.
The only real demonstrable voter fraud issue that has been widely recognized came from the president himself trying to "find votes" in Georgia and of course, topped that sundae with J6.
More relevant than ever: there are 4 lights.
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Of course he does. Did anyone expect otherwise?
What I wonder is do despots like Trump and Netanyahu believe their bullshit or do they know it's bullshit?
Netanyahu, probably not. But I don't think Trump is capable of understanding the difference between lies and truth anymore, what with all the dementia. Not that he was too worried about it when he was 'functional'.
We know that Trump's cabinet are a bunch of spineless yes-men who won't give him bad news. I wouldn't be surprised if it's the same for Bibi.
I sense a theme appearing this week.
It should be a felony for a public official to cry that an election was stolen.
They can push in the courts all they want but they shouldn’t be allowed to stir up the people while the election is being processed. It makes everyone less safe and their free speech rights should be removed during this time.
Agree! It will never ever make sense to me that it can easily be proven in some cases that some rich asshole is knowingly lying in a harmful way and yet there's never any attempt at consequences for it. Meanwhile us normal people go to jail for practically nothing sometimes. People getting executed in the streets for suspected shoplifting, but Nazi cunts spread lies that kill people and it's fine.
The Trump playbook. Spew BS long and loud enough people start to think it’s true just to get him to shut up.
The evidence:
Of course he does.
Haha,loser
This strategy has already been through a few election cycles, and it's time to end it. Whenever any MAGA starts whining about the election being stolen, don't debate him. Don't offer proof, don't ask for proof, don't point to lawsuits, etc. Just laugh in their faces, and humiliate them in every way possible. Just talk over them, calling them sore losers, sour grapes, big babies, etc. Then make sure to tell them that they got voted out because they are traitors, racists, pedophiles, stoopid, and LOSERS, and nobody wants that in our country. Say it loud, talking over anything they try to say, then walk away, leaving them seething.
Bully them relentlessly, they've earned it. They need to have a very bad, very unhappy two years.
TLDR; "Bibi accuses others of copying his homework"
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It's just the real world version of the out of touch Principal Skinner meme.
... Shin Bet security service ...
I'm sorry, but "Shin Bet" is acronym for "shirut bitachon" which is Hebrew for "security service", making this a RAS syndrome.
See also: chai tea
Looking forward to the day when people make calls to concede again and just go off on their way to be rich and not bother me in peace.
Oh no, Hitler has lost, now we're going to get Mecha Omega-Hitler Phase 4! 😰 /s
Bribery and funding?
Where does all that money come from? It's not one dollar for one vote.
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