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Turn on Rachel- Clapper says the election was ripped off. (Original Post) onecaliberal May 2018 OP
Finally Iliyah May 2018 #1
Ah well history has absolved me malaise May 2018 #2
When I saw some of the Facebook ads wasupaloopa May 2018 #3
We're doing nothing to stop it from occurring again. The effing DHS head hasn't even read onecaliberal May 2018 #5
The most we've got so far is a real life version of The Social Network. Initech May 2018 #32
Yes and that was where mercuryblues May 2018 #39
I'm sure they had other 'human' help from a certain campaign. triron May 2018 #43
the trump campaign mercuryblues May 2018 #51
Scathing condemnation of the Con malaise May 2018 #4
I think dotard will GP6971 May 2018 #9
Then it should be nullified and do over. honest.abe May 2018 #6
Agree. If you're not watching Rachel tonight you should catch the re-run later. onecaliberal May 2018 #7
PBS Newshour showed it also. llmart May 2018 #70
That is wonderful. onecaliberal May 2018 #71
I wish there was a mechanism for doing so... Still In Wisconsin May 2018 #48
There isn't one because this is unprecedented. triron May 2018 #49
Indeed, the founders never envisioned a people who would protect a man over their country. onecaliberal May 2018 #52
How about the Supreme Court. honest.abe May 2018 #68
Unfortunately the time for that has long since passed. Still In Wisconsin May 2018 #72
Its not that clear and simple.. honest.abe May 2018 #73
Perhaps the DNC lawsuit may eventually go there? triron May 2018 #74
oh well RussBLib May 2018 #8
What on god's green earth is Obama supposed babylonsister May 2018 #11
"And Obama still just sits on his hands." Eko May 2018 #12
This is Obama's fault? wasupaloopa May 2018 #13
No, this is the Republicans fault. Period. They're traitors all of them. onecaliberal May 2018 #14
RussB's OP questioned if Obama doesn't want to step up Hortensis May 2018 #63
Me too. And there's this from: Reuters AJT May 2018 #17
OMFG! Sickening. Duppers May 2018 #29
Their polling is online. Terrible methodology for accuracy. triron May 2018 #45
Yesterday they didn't have JustAnotherGen May 2018 #64
VERY WEIRD COMMENT THERE!! bluestarone May 2018 #19
"I'm tuning out." Perhaps that's best, if you think Obama could have saved us from all these.... Tarheel_Dem May 2018 #20
I'm with you on those feelings Victor_c3 May 2018 #24
They are all nuts. Gotta out vote them cause we won't change their mind. Pepsidog May 2018 #36
What keeps me up at night TheRealNorth May 2018 #46
Quite a Fox'y statement denbot May 2018 #53
Clapper says grave damage done. onecaliberal May 2018 #10
Trump ultimately winning is truly unimaginable. But we surely have seen the unimaginable recently. Pepsidog May 2018 #37
It is so important that we take over the House wasupaloopa May 2018 #15
Excellent final point! BobTheSubgenius May 2018 #22
But if they stole 2016... why not 2018 as well? tinrobot May 2018 #27
That worries me too, but if we can have wasupaloopa May 2018 #30
Trump is illegitimate, he's a Fake President! nt procon May 2018 #16
Of course it was n/t shanti May 2018 #18
Gonna go Trekkie on this one djacq May 2018 #21
And remember: slumcamper May 2018 #31
It's like listening to the story from the first person in the first chair... kentuck May 2018 #23
Lordy I love Rachel but gee wiz get to the damn point. Her long explanations are insufferable and Pepsidog May 2018 #25
She gets that way. It's tough to wade through it at times. SHRED May 2018 #34
She had he on the edge of my seat for 5 minutes before she told us about what Clapper said Pepsidog May 2018 #35
Three cheers for the boys in the band. Crutchez_CuiBono May 2018 #26
Watch and see, the next step will be Nunes will subpoena Clapper and make him appear before that politicaljunkie41910 May 2018 #28
What words did he actually use? "Ripped off" doesn't sound like him pnwmom May 2018 #33
He said orangecrush May 2018 #41
Okay I can believe that. The margins in the 3 states were so small pnwmom May 2018 #44
Or Russian election engineering; including computational alterations. triron May 2018 #58
keep reminding them questionseverything May 2018 #66
Here is where I think vote counts were altered: Voter registrations triron May 2018 #69
well since no machines were checked and the repubs stopped every recount questionseverything May 2018 #75
here orangecrush May 2018 #42
Yes boys and girls, we have an illegitimate president. Sneederbunk May 2018 #38
Great show! orangecrush May 2018 #40
Seth Abramson says this is a bombshell revelation triron May 2018 #47
I would definitely agree. I don't know how this isn't the lead on every station. onecaliberal May 2018 #54
Fmr. Director Clapper Armymedic88 May 2018 #50
Even The Comey Shit at the end would not have hurt her as much if JI7 May 2018 #55
Comey should have kept his trap shut especially knowing dump was under investigation. onecaliberal May 2018 #56
i agree JI7 May 2018 #57
kick for visibility triron May 2018 #59
For the good of the country, the NSA, CIA and FBI need to start leaking like a sieve. roamer65 May 2018 #60
This onecaliberal May 2018 #62
Clapper was a great guest... chillfactor May 2018 #61
Clapper was clear that russia elected trump Gothmog May 2018 #65
K&R for visibility. lunamagica May 2018 #67
 

wasupaloopa

(4,516 posts)
3. When I saw some of the Facebook ads
Tue May 22, 2018, 09:36 PM
May 2018

paid for by Russians I was confused. They did not seem very harmful.

But hearing Rachel tonight I get it.

An ad praising Hillary for supporting BLM was only aired in red districts.

There had to be coordination for that to work.

onecaliberal

(32,486 posts)
5. We're doing nothing to stop it from occurring again. The effing DHS head hasn't even read
Tue May 22, 2018, 09:39 PM
May 2018

The intel assessment.

mercuryblues

(14,491 posts)
39. Yes and that was where
Tue May 22, 2018, 11:06 PM
May 2018

Cambridge Analytica came in. They crunched your online data and pinpointed where the ads were to be placed.

 

Still In Wisconsin

(4,450 posts)
48. I wish there was a mechanism for doing so...
Tue May 22, 2018, 11:45 PM
May 2018

my understanding, however, is that there is not. Once the results are certified in the Electoral College, it's irreversible. The best hope is to impeach and convict Trump and Pence. The most realistic hope is to batter the Republicans in the midterms and take back Congress.

triron

(21,915 posts)
49. There isn't one because this is unprecedented.
Tue May 22, 2018, 11:52 PM
May 2018

Just like a complicit congress protecting a corrupt illegitimate POTUS.

honest.abe

(8,556 posts)
68. How about the Supreme Court.
Wed May 23, 2018, 06:07 PM
May 2018

Our election process has been manipulated by a foreign government in combination with illegal activity by the campaign and the party of the winning candidate. Seems to me that is situation where the SCOTUS needs to get involved.

 

Still In Wisconsin

(4,450 posts)
72. Unfortunately the time for that has long since passed.
Wed May 23, 2018, 08:17 PM
May 2018

Individual legal actions contesting election results can and do sometimes make their way up to SCOTUS. However, once a President is elected by the Electoral College, it's game over vis-a-vis reversing or changing the result. There simply isn't any constitutional mechanism for a new election or "do-over" as you and others put it.

Other remedies are, however, still on the table. These remedies would all involve removing Trump, then hopefully Pence, according to rules of succession. There isn't a mechanism for making HRC President unless she were to be named Speaker of the House, coupled with the removal of both Trump and Pence. This is something the Democrats COULD, in fact, do if they take over the House in November. Realistically, though, it's exceedingly unlikely that anyone other than Nancy Pelosi will be Speaker if the Democrats get the House.

honest.abe

(8,556 posts)
73. Its not that clear and simple..
Thu May 24, 2018, 01:49 PM
May 2018

From 538...

The framers gave the Electoral College broad discretion to resolve disputes as it saw fit: The text of the Constitution pretty much says an election is legitimate when the Electoral College says it is. It doesn’t lay out a process for do-overs. Occasionally, courts have ordered new elections for offices other than the presidency after a proven case of fraud or error. (Or gerrymandering — a court in North Carolina ordered new state legislative elections, though this order has been put on hold.) And a Senate election was once redone in New Hampshire because it was too close to determine even with multiple recounts.

But whether this kind of re-do is allowed for presidential elections is a more complicated matter. Some legal scholars maintain that the language in Article II of the Constitution prevents holding a presidential election again, thus putting it beyond the power of the courts to order a re-vote, as they have occasionally done for other offices. Others suggest that there is legal precedent for a presidential re-vote if there were flaws in the process. One instance in which this question arose was the “butterfly ballot” from the 2000 election, which may have caused some voters to choose Pat Buchanan when they meant to vote for Al Gore in Palm Beach County, Florida.

If the 2000 election had taken some different twists and turns, the re-vote question might have come up in a serious way, and it’s not clear what the courts would have decided. At least one federal court has suggested that the courts could order a new election. In 1976, a District Court in New York heard a case alleging voter fraud in several urban locations. The court’s opinion maintained that federal courts had a role to play in ensuring free and fair presidential elections, arguing: “It is difficult to imagine a more damaging blow to public confidence in the electoral process than the election of a President whose margin of victory was provided by fraudulent registration or voting, ballot-stuffing or other illegal means.” This assertion challenged the idea that presidential elections occupy a special category beyond such court remedies. However, in this case, the court didn’t find sufficient evidence that voter fraud had altered the outcome, or even occurred at all. As a result, its claims about presidential elections were not evaluated by higher courts and have never really been tested.

So experts disagree about whether courts can order presidential elections to be held again. That’s not great news for angry people hoping for a do-over. And even if it is constitutionally permissible, there’s much broader agreement that the standard for invalidating an election result and holding another vote is quite high. University of Memphis law professor Steven Mulroy told me that courts will usually entertain this option only if they determine a violation of rules that would change the election outcome. In the case of the 2016 election, this would likely require proving tampering in several states where the vote was close — enough to change the result in the Electoral College. In that case, a few states would vote again, not the entire country, Mulroy said. But this is new territory, and no one knows for sure.


https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-happens-if-the-election-was-a-fraud-the-constitution-doesnt-say/

Someone needs to figure out how to come up with a legal challenge that will allow the courts to take it up. Then let the legal battle begin.

RussBLib

(8,984 posts)
8. oh well
Tue May 22, 2018, 09:40 PM
May 2018

a little too late.

FOX viewers are totally brainwashed. GOP was probably in on it.

And Obama still just sits on his hands.

I'm tuning out. I've had enough.

onecaliberal

(32,486 posts)
14. No, this is the Republicans fault. Period. They're traitors all of them.
Tue May 22, 2018, 09:50 PM
May 2018

Not one of them is worth a shit. Not one!

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
63. RussB's OP questioned if Obama doesn't want to step up
Wed May 23, 2018, 04:40 AM
May 2018

or is afraid to. And on another thread: "And we have no good Dem leaders to fight back. If our elected Dems are just cowering, why should we fight?" So that's pretty much where Russ seems to be coming from.

Speaking of Democratic leaders, I'm off to check the rest of the results of the latest primaries. We Georgia Democrats have nominated Georgia's first black woman for governor, making history.


The primaries are exciting and interesting, but they're making me impatient for November 6.

COUNTDOWN TO KICKING ASS IN THE MIDTERMS: 166 days!

AJT

(5,240 posts)
17. Me too. And there's this from: Reuters
Tue May 22, 2018, 10:02 PM
May 2018

"Republicans hold a slim lead over Democrats in a generic ballot among registered voters, a new Reuters poll found, marking the first time the survey showed the GOP ahead in this election cycle."

Duppers

(28,094 posts)
29. OMFG! Sickening.
Tue May 22, 2018, 10:26 PM
May 2018

Had not seen that. If the Democrats don't take over the house, the Republicans are going to run this country into the ground and that son of a bitch will never be impeached.

Our house will be going on the market anyway. Now, where to?






JustAnotherGen

(31,683 posts)
64. Yesterday they didn't have
Wed May 23, 2018, 06:01 AM
May 2018

Enough of a sample set the to give results on NJ - in two demographics.

That said - fight this like 98% of people want Republicans in Congress.

Ill start using this in the NJ 7th to scare people into voting.

Tarheel_Dem

(31,207 posts)
20. "I'm tuning out." Perhaps that's best, if you think Obama could have saved us from all these....
Tue May 22, 2018, 10:06 PM
May 2018

colluding, crooked ass Republicans.

Victor_c3

(3,557 posts)
24. I'm with you on those feelings
Tue May 22, 2018, 10:13 PM
May 2018

I post on a conservative forum from time to time and those guys are totally bat-shit crazy. They buy everything fox tells them and the say that the rest of the media is all part of the “deep state”. Yet, at the same time they are saying that democrats were able to create this intricate deepstate under the noses of republicans, that democrats are stupid and inept and can’t even manage an email server properly. Democrats are stupid for believing that there might be s trump-Russia connection while they are simultaneously believing that the deepstate thing is a hoax.

Sorry, but the party that actually believed the conspiracies of pizzagate, climategate, that school shootings are staged by democrats, and the illimati is totally nuts. The basis of their beliefs is that everyone is after them - including the government - and they have too keep their guns and their survivalist bunkers stocked for Armageddon. Never mind that the government that is supposedly after them has been dominated by the republicans at the state and federal level since 1980...

TheRealNorth

(9,435 posts)
46. What keeps me up at night
Tue May 22, 2018, 11:32 PM
May 2018

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
-- Voltaire

 

wasupaloopa

(4,516 posts)
15. It is so important that we take over the House
Tue May 22, 2018, 09:54 PM
May 2018

in November.

The Repubs will do nothing to protect the country from trump.

Only a Democratic controlled House will be able to protect our institutions.

Any statement by anyone on this board to counter voter turnout should be met with extreme prejudice.

tinrobot

(10,848 posts)
27. But if they stole 2016... why not 2018 as well?
Tue May 22, 2018, 10:23 PM
May 2018

We've done nothing to protect the voting system... and that worries me.

 

wasupaloopa

(4,516 posts)
30. That worries me too, but if we can have
Tue May 22, 2018, 10:32 PM
May 2018

a much bigger turnout than usual in a midterm election we could pull it off.

This year women and minorities are engaged as are liberal guys like me.

djacq

(1,633 posts)
21. Gonna go Trekkie on this one
Tue May 22, 2018, 10:07 PM
May 2018
“As a matter of cosmic history, it has always been easier to destroy than to create.” -Spock

Considering the recoveries from Nixon’s impeachment, Reagan’s tax cuts, and G.W. Bush’s triggering the Great Recession... Standby for a long recovery after we deal with this Orange Clown.

kentuck

(110,950 posts)
23. It's like listening to the story from the first person in the first chair...
Tue May 22, 2018, 10:12 PM
May 2018

He has the first eye on history.

He is very credible.

Pepsidog

(6,252 posts)
25. Lordy I love Rachel but gee wiz get to the damn point. Her long explanations are insufferable and
Tue May 22, 2018, 10:14 PM
May 2018

unwatchable.

Pepsidog

(6,252 posts)
35. She had he on the edge of my seat for 5 minutes before she told us about what Clapper said
Tue May 22, 2018, 10:57 PM
May 2018

in his book about the Dotard and the election. Repeating Clapper’s credentials over and over again. Come on Rachel, we aren’t ignorant Fox viewers, probably a majority of her audience is aware of who Clapper is and his experience. We don’t need to be spoon fed every little detail, over and over. It is exasperating but, by the same token, I will always love you Rachel. Chris Hayes got a little talky today too trying to explain the Broidy affair which is truly confusing. He was all over the place. Just say, Trump impregnated the woman who was paid 1.6 million by Broidy who took the fall for for the affair for Trump In return for millions in government and foreign contracts. A form of bribery for which Trump will be indicted.

politicaljunkie41910

(3,335 posts)
28. Watch and see, the next step will be Nunes will subpoena Clapper and make him appear before that
Tue May 22, 2018, 10:24 PM
May 2018

non-biased Committee called the House Intelligence Committee. They will use the opportunity to try and discredit his claims and probably even make some ridiculous charges against him such as dereliction of duty, to try and destroy his character. They don't want the truth, they just want to ask a bunch of misleading leading questions like Gowdy would do with Hillary, "such as the infamous "Do you still beat your wife, Mr. Clapper?" and when he tries to respond "Just Yes or No" Mr Clapper, I don't have a lot of time, and I've got lots more misleading questions I want to get to."

pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
33. What words did he actually use? "Ripped off" doesn't sound like him
Tue May 22, 2018, 10:44 PM
May 2018

and I'm not sure, if he did say that, what exactly he meant.

pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
44. Okay I can believe that. The margins in the 3 states were so small
Tue May 22, 2018, 11:24 PM
May 2018

that any one of several factors could have swung the election, including Russian meddling.

questionseverything

(9,631 posts)
66. keep reminding them
Wed May 23, 2018, 02:09 PM
May 2018

no voting machines were ever checked





... Desi Doyen said on 10/17/2017 @ 4:00 pm PT...


Hi, Karen --- It was actually DHS, specifically acting undersecretary Jeanette Manfra, who acknowledged that DHS had not conducted a forensic examination on any individual voting machine during her testimony at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on June 21, 2017. The relevant segment starts at about 58 minutes:

https://www.c-span.org/v...ted-russia-2016-election

Here's Brad's article on it: http://bradblog.com/?p=12192. More on it can also be found here.

Desi

questionseverything

(9,631 posts)
75. well since no machines were checked and the repubs stopped every recount
Thu May 24, 2018, 03:53 PM
May 2018

we really don't know

it amazes me that we accept that russians and repubs would cheat in every way possible, in front of our eyes, but think they are going to be above board on the secret vote counting software

onecaliberal

(32,486 posts)
54. I would definitely agree. I don't know how this isn't the lead on every station.
Wed May 23, 2018, 12:26 AM
May 2018

I can’t wait to get the book.

 

Armymedic88

(251 posts)
50. Fmr. Director Clapper
Wed May 23, 2018, 12:01 AM
May 2018

Is the ipitomy of a public servant. As a retired Army man myself, I can hear the military tone and style in how he speaks. He's a guy I'd go into battle with any day of the week.

JI7

(89,174 posts)
55. Even The Comey Shit at the end would not have hurt her as much if
Wed May 23, 2018, 12:29 AM
May 2018

there hadn't been all the negative attacks from Russia.

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