Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@Zincy  
Not sure what you think you’d do.
 
 
@TheHappySpaceman  
Not that long All things considered. Convincing people to take it will be another story.

@MagpulPony
 
More than your tiny little tail, evidently.
 
You’d honestly be ok if a President, any President, or party fixed the EC by having their electors vote opposite of what the people in the state decided?
 
That’d sit ok with you? What’s the second amendment for again? Right, preventing the fall of democracy.

@Zincy  
Nice deflection, now let’s bring it back around to you since I never said I would or wouldn’t do anything. You did.

@Zincy  
You know, i actually heard about this one before.

Dammit, why did I do that?

@MagpulPony
 
 
That would only count as a deflection if you actually asked a question. You made a statement, I was under no obligation to answer a statement.
 
Let me answer it anyway, since you’re inclined to want to know. I’d do my civic duty. March in the streets, motivate others, call in anyone and everyone I could find. I’d get them to do the same. And if I could, me and my little group would march day and night up and down Pennsylvania Avenue. Never said I’d change the world, never said I’d win. But you damn well better believe I wont just sit around if something like that happened.
 
 
There, I answered your inquiry, now you answer mine. Would you be ok with this kind of thing happening?

@MagpulPony  
So would you do anything? And if so, what?

@Zincy  
Also, I’d with all the suspect tactics expressed by democratic parties, I’d say this is this is a plan bourne of distrust and paranoia.
 
Hopefully, it won’t come to that.

@WyrmSpawN
 
Suspect tactics with voting? By the dems?
 
Like getting more drop boxes so large population centers don’t have to vote at a single location? Extending early voting? Funding the USPS?
 
If those are suspect tactics, then you may need to get out a dictionary.
 
Unless you’re privy to some news I missed about voting plans and the dems. Which is possible, I don’t read every article like I used to.

@Zincy  
The Bloomberg fines thing can look questionable.

@Latecomer
 
One act by one billionaire that’s not even a Democrat.
 
 
Even then, what defines a material reward? If we apply the same absolutism, then driving a poor person to and from the polls is, by that definition, a material reward for voting.

@Latecomer  
The GOP imposing a higher bar for being allowed to vote than it does for being allowed to run for the Senate or even the presidency is what looks questionable.

@Zincy
 
@Latecomer
 
Depends on what the reasoning would supposedly be. If there’s legitimate concerns of corruption, then who knows. We already know that the Democratic party had zero issue rigging the game against Bernie in 2016 because he wasn’t the candidate they wanted, so it wouldn’t be that far of a stretch to think they might play dirty again this year against Trump. I believe it was Hillary Clinton that said that Biden should not accept the election results no matter what unless he wins. Wow, that’s quite something.

@Zincy  
Material reward is a bit _im_aterial anyway with secret ballots, for the most part.

If they want to hang Bloomberg for it they can be my guests.
 
No love lost here. One semi good deed does not make up for a life of being an absolute dickweed.

@Zincy  
How is he not a democrat? He’s literally listed as a Democrat.

@MagpulPony  
And if it is clear that Trump has not actually won by any lawful standard, but he does not accept hus loss?

@Latecomer  
Then the government would work as it is supposed to and remove him. Just like how no amount of whining from Joe if he loses will make him president despite Hillary’s advice.

@MagpulPony  
If the system is so self-garunteeing, then I guess the Second Amendment has little to do with protecting democracy.

@Zincy  
I mean things like not rejecting mail-in ballots due to non-matching signatures, repealing voter ID laws, running hypothetical scenarios where they refuse to concede and delay the election by weeks as means to ‘count’ additional mail-in votes, and saying that the only way to have a peaceful election is for them to win.
 
Seriously, that “Wargame” thing was really scary.

@WyrmSpawN  
Right now, I’m fairly sure there isn’t actuslly a way to have a peaceful election.

@MagpulPony
 
Now that, my friend, is deflection. Of the “what-about-ism” variety. Thank you for illustrating it so that the people at home can have a better grasp of fallacious reasoning.
 
Let’s pick this apart.
 
 
Primaries are party run, so even if they rig there own it doesn’t really mean much. Hell, the parties don’t even have to do primaries if they didn’t want to. They do it as a gauge to see which candidate would be the most appealing.
 
 
Secondly, it’s one thing for a rando sideliner to tell a challenger with no real power not to say he lost. It is another for a major party to actually, actively speculate about rigging the EC to subvert the will of the people, and for the sitting President in power to refuse to say he will give up power peacefully.
 
 
Thanks for playing, I’ll be here next week for the next episode.

Republican Inquiry Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by Biden
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/us/politics/biden-inquiry-republicans-johnson.html  

@Latecomer  
The 2nd Amendment is about preventing a tyrannical government from rising up against the people in the event it fails to operate as it was intended. Which would likely not happen in this hypothetical scenario.

@MagpulPony
 
He was a Republican from 2001 to 2007, and a libertarian before that.
 
 
He’s a lizard that changes his color depending on who gives him the most dosh.