Originally Posted by
Haghstull
I can't, because they aren't obviously horseshit. A thorough evaluation of these claims would need to be conducted by a team of constitutional lawyers, computer scientists/software engineers, and statesmen with decades of practical experience administering federal elections. The three best reasons I see to disbelieve the election fraud claim follow, and I'd be interested to hear your responses to each:
1) Barrett, Scalia, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh (who were briefed by a team of the sort described above), are dutiful red tribe soldiers, and would have backed Trump's case if it was even faintly plausible. Seriously, how do you lot explain their lack of support? You're saying that he appointed 3/5 of them, they had shown no signs of disloyalty with him before dismissing the case, he'd publicly supported nearly all of their stated policy positions... but they each secretly despised him for an unknown reason and decided to forego a perfectly good legal case just for the sake of making sure he gets screwed? It just doesn't add up...
2) The risk::reward ratio for the would-be usurper isn't there, in my opinion. The evil powerhoarding class discussed in that year zero article Rip linked a few pages back don't have a preference for Biden as strong as the one you lot have supposed. Don't get me wrong, they absolutely prefer him--Trump was the anti-establishment candidate for sure. But not by that much. Recall that Biden is pledged to try to increase the corporate tax rate by 7% and raise taxes on foreign income by some unspecified amount. As much as these people love how cozy he is with China, these are considerable annoyances for amny of them. Compared to most people on this board, I think that the ruling elite-type class that is often made reference to in conversations surrounding covid and this election is actually pretty diverse in terms of which candidate they prefer, and they have the game rigged so that they can thrive under either President. So I don't see motive.
3) I'm old enough to recall the aftermath of 2016, and unlike... well, probably everyone on this board, I vividly recall the febrile derangement that took hold in liberal internet spaces. Batshit theories about purged voter rolls in Wisconsin, utterly baseless lunacy about russian interference (this one actually gained alot of traction, you might have read about it in the news last year), and even calls for faithless electors. Then as now, there were statistician's, and legal experts willing to fan the flames in exchange for money and exposure. I think they're all grifters.