Current Events > Nancy Pelosi Is Already Attacking the Legitimacy of the 2020 Election

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/nancy-pelosi-already-attacking-legitimacy-113013917.html

Nancy Pelosi just stated that it is dangerous to let the voters decide Trumps fate. @FoxNews In other words, she thinks Im going to win and doesnt want to take a chance on letting the voters decide. Like Al Green, she wants to change our voting system. Wow, shes CRAZY! tweeted Donald Trump Tuesday.

Well, not exactly. Trumps tweet quotes a Fox News reporter summarizing Pelosis position, not the speakers statement verbatim. Left-wing Twitterverse, of course, was immediately able to jump all over the presidents clumsy wording and act as if the substance of his contention was wholly untrue. It wasnt.

In her Dear Colleague letter pushing back against Republican anti-impeachment talking points, Nancy Pelosi wrote this: The weak response to these hearings has been, Let the election decide. That dangerous position only adds to the urgency of our action, because the President is jeopardizing the integrity of the 2020 elections. Is he?

If a Republican had suggested that a presidential election was a dangerous notion, he would have triggered around-the-clock panic-stricken coverage on CNN and a series of deep dives in The Atlantic lamenting the conservative turn against our sacred democratic ideals.

What Pelosi has done is even more cynical. Shes arguing that if Democrats fail in their efforts to impeach Trump and, I assume, remove him from office then the very legitimacy of the 2020 election will be in question before any votes are cast.

Though most liberals have long declared the 2016 contest contaminated, as far as we know, absolutely nothing not even the most successful foreign efforts in interference or meddling damaged the integrity of the election results. Notwithstanding the belief of over 60 percent of Democrats, precipitated by breathless and often misleading media coverage, not one vote was altered by Putin, nor was a single persons free will purloined by a Russian Twitter bot or Facebook ad.

And, contra Pelosis implication, whatever you make of Trumps request from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Joe Bidens shady son, not one voter will be restricted from casting a ballot for whomever they please in 2020. In truth, voters will know more about the inner workings of Trumps presidency than they have about any other administration in memory. Maybe they care, maybe they dont, but thats not up to Pelosi.

Rather than safeguarding the integrity of our elections, Democrats have corroded trust in them. Post-2016 calls for increased control over speech on the Internet, for instance, pose a far greater danger to American freedoms than anything our enemies at the Kremlin could cook up. And if the contention is that the only truly legitimate election is one that is free of any attempts to mislead voters, as seems to be the case, then we might as well close up shop. Because the presence of unregulated political rhetoric is a feature of a free and open society. We will never be able to, nor should we aspire to, limit discourse.

It shouldnt be forgotten, either, that this habit of injecting doubt into the electoral process is nothing new. For the past 20 years (at least), Democrats have shown a destructive inability to accept the fact that a bunch of voters simply disagree with them. If its not dark money boring into their souls, its gerrymandering, special interests, confusing ballots, voter suppression, crafty Ruskies or the Electoral College. Democrats cant lose on the merits. Someone, somewhere, has fooled the Proles into making bad decisions.

Calm down there Nancy
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Yeah, no.

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Crystal_pony posted...

Rather than safeguarding the integrity of our elections, Democrats have corroded trust in them.

This is beyond projection
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https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2019/nov/21/facebook-posts/no-pelosi-didnt-say-its-dangerous-let-voters-decid/
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Hey remember when Trump said "we'll see" during one of the debates when asked if he said he'd accept the 2016 election results

Well, not exactly.

/topic

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Spooking posted...

Is this referring to the conspiracy that the DNC boosted Hillary over Bernie,

Debbie Wasserman Schultz just resigned and got hired by Hillary for no reason.
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Bump
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Crystal_pony posted...

Bump

Thank you for bringing my attention to this dogshit take.
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Wtf is this "let the voters decide" nonsense? They did the same thing with the supreme court seat and that was bullshit too.
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2019/nov/21/facebook-posts/no-pelosi-didnt-say-its-dangerous-let-voters-decid/

Not sure if anyone saw this, but guys -

Pelosi never said those words.
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justaguy3492 posted...

Wtf is this "let the voters decide" nonsense? They did the same thing with the supreme court seat and that was bullshit too.

I can't believe they made Nixon resign instead of letting the voters decide :\

Literal fake news.
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foxhound101 posted...

UnholyMudcrab posted...

https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2019/nov/21/facebook-posts/no-pelosi-didnt-say-its-dangerous-let-voters-decid/

Not sure if anyone saw this, but guys -

Pelosi never said those words.

Pelosi-haters don't care about real facts.
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Even if this were true...

Shes arguing that if Democrats fail in their efforts to impeach Trump and, I assume, remove him from office then the very legitimacy of the 2020 election will be in question before any votes are cast.

The guy's accused of trying to broker a deal with a foreign government to investigate his political rival's family, he's accused of trying to investigate a literal fucking hoax conspiracy about Ukraine hacking the elections in 2016, and he's openly admitted to believing the president of the Russian Federation over the American Intelligence Community and state governments regarding the source of *real* hacks into e-mail accounts and ballot machines.

So I mean, I think that's a legitimate concern tbh.

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Nancy was definitely intrigued the instant she saw that "Hillary Can Still Win if 5 Republicans in a Row Resign, the Next Democrat Makes Her VP and Then Resigns Too" opinion piece.

Right on cue, the headlines today were 'PENCE IS IN ON IT'

She wants it. And it may sound like total fantasy, but think of it this way: this is all they've got. This is their hail mary pass because the assumption is that they're going down in 2020. And Nancy herself could never win the position through an election. I mean her own daughter compared her to ISIS decapitating people she disagrees with, and her district is widely viewed as a total mess. She could never win it.

But even if it seems like the musical chairs resignation push is totally out there, Nancy still sees removing 2 people as easier than winning over 330 million people the fair way. Like Hillary she's that desperate, and the clock is ticking. She doesn't have much time left and this is the last-chance power grab.
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creativerealms posted...

Literal fake news.

Trumpers sure love sharing fake news.
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TaiIs82 posted...

Nancy was definitely intrigued the instant she saw that "Hillary Can Still Win if 5 Republicans in a Row Resign, the Next Democrat Makes Her VP and Then Resigns Too" opinion piece.

Right on cue, the headlines today were 'PENCE IS IN ON IT'

She wants it. And it may sound like total fantasy, but think of it this way: this is all they've got. This is their hail mary pass because the assumption is that they're going down in 2020. And Nancy herself could never win the position through an election. I mean her own daughter compared her to ISIS decapitating people she disagrees with, and her district is widely viewed as a total mess. She could never win it.

But even if it seems like the musical chairs resignation push is totally out there, Nancy still sees removing 2 people as easier than winning over 330 million people the fair way. Like Hillary she's that desperate, and the clock is ticking. She doesn't have much time left and this is the last-chance power grab.

Wow all that typing for one shitpost, wouldnt you prefer to be harassing Error on Twitter?

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shockthemonkey posted...

lmfao

Pelosi says we need to actually enforce the law and impeach the president and a bunch of hacks act like shes saying anything about the 2020 election

I mean if she was saying it about the election shed be right too; the Trump administration refuses to take steps to prevent foreign powers from meddling in them; meanwhile theyre more than happy to push the narrative that it was actually Ukraine that meddled in 2016 against Trump (which is completely false)

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