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EarlG

(21,935 posts)
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 10:59 AM Aug 2019

Pic Of The Moment: FEC Chairwoman Reprimands Trump For His Repeated Lies About Voter Fraud



'Facts matter': FEC chairwoman challenges Trump's voter fraud claims


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Pic Of The Moment: FEC Chairwoman Reprimands Trump For His Repeated Lies About Voter Fraud (Original Post) EarlG Aug 2019 OP
"Facts Matter" DesertRat Aug 2019 #1
Facts? Donnie? leftieNanner Aug 2019 #2
And remember how his own kids hadn't bothered to register PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2019 #18
Uh-oh!!!! MyOwnPeace Aug 2019 #3
She's going to love the "Google did it" story he came up with today! n/t Chemisse Aug 2019 #4
I swear to god Trump must have watched "Gangs of New York" again... Moostache Aug 2019 #5
She's about to get fired IronLionZion Aug 2019 #6
limbaugh led 20 years of bullshit about voter fraud, starting big in the early 2000s to cover certainot Aug 2019 #7
You are not at all the first to say this.. but nothing happens... pangaia Aug 2019 #9
The only problem is - it's not just talk radio. It's also Pox Noise. calimary Aug 2019 #23
imo it starts with the radio where they can lie all they want repeatedly and the left never hears certainot Aug 2019 #28
You are probably right captain queeg Aug 2019 #27
Let's remember that Donald Trump is a pathological liar with zero credibility. Martin Eden Aug 2019 #8
the standard response should be "well that's what limbaugh says every day but....." certainot Aug 2019 #29
This lie needs to be stamped out immediately. kentuck Aug 2019 #10
If Only CDerekGo Aug 2019 #11
many many many manymany many manymanymany many sprinkleeninow Aug 2019 #12
I don't think he had ever voted until he got a chance to vote for himself. rhiannon55 Aug 2019 #13
Hi dear heart. (So disturbing. All of it.) sprinkleeninow Aug 2019 #17
such an ugly face Marthe48 Aug 2019 #14
Yet we see it every day Capperdan Aug 2019 #24
Hope every day Marthe48 Aug 2019 #25
She was on CNN late this afternoon. Damn, she doesn't take any crap. Gotta love it. George II Aug 2019 #15
Donnie doesn't lie. Aussie105 Aug 2019 #16
You are absolutely right. PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2019 #19
Most of us think that at a very early age. Aussie105 Aug 2019 #21
Honestly? I think he was born this way. PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2019 #22
Too bad she won't fight harder... SergeStorms Aug 2019 #20
K&R Gothmog Aug 2019 #26

leftieNanner

(15,070 posts)
2. Facts? Donnie?
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 11:20 AM
Aug 2019

Hahahaha.

Good on her for calling this out. Shows how little he knows about voting. Like his remarks about people being bussed to multiple precincts to vote again and again. YOU MUST BE REGISTERED! And if you're not, you don't vote! If you insist, you might be given a provisional ballot, but it will be thrown out. Geez.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,817 posts)
18. And remember how his own kids hadn't bothered to register
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 12:19 AM
Aug 2019

to vote and couldn't vote for him in the NYS primary? Granted, NYS has a stupidly early deadline, but still. It's not as though any of them had just turned 21 in time for the election. Apparently they are people who normally didn't bother to vote.

MyOwnPeace

(16,920 posts)
3. Uh-oh!!!!
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 11:31 AM
Aug 2019

Looks like she'll be looking for a new job!

IQ45 ain't gonna' like that kinda' "fact shit" coming from his own gubmint'!

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
5. I swear to god Trump must have watched "Gangs of New York" again...
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:24 PM
Aug 2019

That film depicts Tammany Hall era New York elections as fraudulent affairs with grabbing ineligible voters and marching them in to vote then marching them out and shaving them partially and marching them back in to vote again and so forth...basically the exact behavior that Trump is constantly bloviating about.

The man is a tabula rasa every morning and evening...then whatever he watches fills his empty head for a few hours and if someone gets a mic in his face it simply pours out unfiltered.

IronLionZion

(45,380 posts)
6. She's about to get fired
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:30 PM
Aug 2019

and replaced with someone who will reaffirm that only white land-owning males are authorized to vote, just as the founders decided.

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
7. limbaugh led 20 years of bullshit about voter fraud, starting big in the early 2000s to cover
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:38 PM
Aug 2019

for their election theft, and then it morphed into their pretext for passing voter ID and other suppression around the country.

the whole immigration issue is steeped in those lies about democrats getting them to vote democratic.

talk radio was the only major medium that could do that, allowing them to coordinate their lying at the local level, and it has worked because democrats have ignored it.

trump's whole political career was made with and depends on talk radio and on democrats not knowing how much his survival and hold over the GOP depends on democrats ignoring talk radio while it attacks them, his critics, his investigators, pollutes jury pools, intimidates GOP pols and media, and makes excuses for him

trump echoes team limbaugh and does anyone believe it doesn't matter that limbaugh will lead 1500 radio stations in echoing the trump lies to the base? what if the talk radio monopoly was destroyed with protests and boycotts before the next elections? it's the only advantage trump has, and yet it isn't even factored into the political calculations being made every day in MSM. the dem party doesn't even poll for it.

calimary

(81,139 posts)
23. The only problem is - it's not just talk radio. It's also Pox Noise.
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 09:58 AM
Aug 2019

Get to ‘em on radio, get to ‘em on TV. With lots of bright splashy graphics and bells and whistles and other sounders.

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
28. imo it starts with the radio where they can lie all they want repeatedly and the left never hears
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 10:53 PM
Aug 2019

it. fox is the visual icing on the on talk radios lie turd pie. on fox they can't do the level of racism and lying and repetition without someone seeing it. they actually have to pretend to be 'balanced'. fox also can't be locally coordinated like those republican talk radio stations.

fox gets way too much 'credit'. as soon as talk radio is seriously challenged fox will fall apart

captain queeg

(10,104 posts)
27. You are probably right
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 05:25 PM
Aug 2019

I don’t pay attention to talk radio but there are people who do. Many people and businesses seem to be unwilling to just have quiet and always have something on. I used to carpool with a guy who listened to Rush. I just figured he was an isolated idiot, but there are very many just like him.

Martin Eden

(12,849 posts)
8. Let's remember that Donald Trump is a pathological liar with zero credibility.
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 01:15 PM
Aug 2019

That should be the standard response from every Democrat when asked about Hair Twitler's latest assertion.

The above is not directed at the head of an independent agency like the FEC. Weintraub's statement was perfect.

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
29. the standard response should be "well that's what limbaugh says every day but....."
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 10:57 PM
Aug 2019

and that could be said about anything any republican says

kentuck

(111,056 posts)
10. This lie needs to be stamped out immediately.
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 02:04 PM
Aug 2019

So, if he loses the next election by ten million votes, it will be rigged.... because there were 16 million illegal votes in the last election. He is setting it up to discredit final votes if he loses by a landslide.

CDerekGo

(507 posts)
11. If Only
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 02:05 PM
Aug 2019

Each and EVERY LIE was called out to Trump, each and every single time he spoke, maybe the news cycle wouldn't include all of his lies, but the fact that each lie was being corrected all day long, each and every day. Now, that would make him really SWEAT!

rhiannon55

(2,671 posts)
13. I don't think he had ever voted until he got a chance to vote for himself.
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 07:11 PM
Aug 2019

He sure doesn’t seem to have a clue about how voting works.

Aussie105

(5,334 posts)
16. Donnie doesn't lie.
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 10:32 PM
Aug 2019

He just presents his own version of reality.
In his reality he is the smartest, brainiest Uber human, Leader of the Free World, the defender of the Faith, the Leader of all Leaders.
Facts don't matter, consistency doesn't matter, nothing matters other than his self proclaimed superiority.

It is just that it doesn't match any one else's version of reality. But that has never stopped him in the past.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,817 posts)
19. You are absolutely right.
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 12:21 AM
Aug 2019
Donnie doesn't lie.

He just presents his own version of reality.
In his reality he is the smartest, brainiest Uber human, Leader of the Free World, the defender of the Faith, the Leader of all Leaders.
Facts don't matter, consistency doesn't matter, nothing matters other than his self proclaimed superiority.

It is just that it doesn't match any one else's version of reality. But that has never stopped him in the past.


People really need to understand that

Aussie105

(5,334 posts)
21. Most of us think that at a very early age.
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 03:15 AM
Aug 2019

But get taught differently by parents, family, school, life, reality in general.

What went wrong with #45, one wonders? No one can hang on to that childish feeling of 'My Reality is The Only One that Counts' for long.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,817 posts)
22. Honestly? I think he was born this way.
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 03:24 AM
Aug 2019

It didn't help that he seems to have had a dysfunctional childhood, nor that his dad gave him many millions of dollars to get started in life. As an adult he's been able to bulldoze his way through everything. It is obvious to the most casual observer that no one around him is willing to tell him he's wrong about anything. The utter lack of integrity is totally appalling.

Don't ever forget that he's a narcissist. They are very different from the likes of you and I.

SergeStorms

(19,188 posts)
20. Too bad she won't fight harder...
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 12:33 AM
Aug 2019

to get the FEC to investigate the Russian/NRA connections to the Trump campaign. That would be even nicer information to bring forward.

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