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    Congratulations to Mike Johnson! You’re the next contestant on “Idiots Being Sued By Dominion”!

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      Every journalist, in every interview, should ask him if 2020 was stolen and how, until he admits it was a lie or becomes liabile for defamation.

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        He was asked about the 2020 election shortly after he was elected speaker. The Republicans all booed the reporter’s question and Johnson just skipped answering.

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          Please do not pollute the internet with such inaccurate filth.

          The Republicans all booed the reporter’s question, mocked her, openly laughed in her face, then told her to shut up. Then he just skipped answering.

          That whole press conference was a MAGA victory lap.

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    This guy is popping a wheelie right off the starting line. Where in the ever loving fuck do they dig these idiots up at? How is this government? I wouldn’t trust this lunatic with a book of matches and somehow he is third in line for the presidency.

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        He still said it. How come this is the best of the best of the best of the best to rule the country???

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        Was referring more to just the inundation of current and past wild shit coming out about him since he got voted in. I should have been more clear.

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          Totally fair. I was also thinking about “Hey, why didn’t we hear about all this until after he was elected?” Oh yeah, they kind of hustled him through - so fast, in fact, that his own family couldn’t get flights in time to join him in Washington for his swearing in. Research takes time.

          The American Fascist Party didn’t want anyone to have all this shit assembled in one place until it was too late.

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      Second, technically. Biden IS president, not in line. So it’s Harris then this fuckbag.

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      When you consider that a major part of the Republican platform is “government is bad and can’t be trusted to do things” I think it makes more sense.

      Plus the people funding the republicans could be happy to see the party being a spectacle in various ways that make people think of things other than taxes and industry regulations.

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      Can we just have all the smaller shitshows roll up under one big shitshow conspiracy? Like a SICO (Shitshow Influenced Corrupt Organization)?

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    Should have known something was up about this guy when they just rammed him through at record speed.

    We literally went from “There’s nobody in the GOP that can get to 217” to “Hey here’s Mike Johnson out of nowhere he’s perfectlyfinenowletsjustramhimthroughinrecordtimemovealongnothingtoseeherejustvoteforhim” in a couple of hours.

    He had all the baggage of Jim Jordan, if not more. They were just hoping nobody would notice.

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    Look at the wish version, Minnie Pearl getting all screamy up front! She’s having a great time yanking up the ladder behind herself and making sure all the youngsters have a downright miserable future ahead!

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      Has he recanted or otherwise apologized for those remarks? If not, they remain relevant today.

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        I agree. I just wanted to make clear the date, since I was curious about it myself.

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    That guy looks like he spent a good portion of childhood trying to become a real boy. And then, once he got his wish, he immediately turned evil.

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    What the Democratic Party must do, and do well, is make sure this weird little elf of a “man” (along with the gross and criminal little d) is made the face of the Republican Party.

    They need to do everything to highlight that this is who they are.

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    Can someone who isn’t trained figure out how to audit the results to verify they are correct without figuring out who anyone voted for? With simple paper ballots anyone can. With computer voting machines, as someone with a computer science degree i’m confident I can rig the results in a.way that I wouldn’t catch is someone else was rigging the results.

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      You can easily just chuck paper ballots and write new ones. It’s easier than hacking a computer system. Trust me, I wrote through all of school.

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        And either one of these attacks is high risk, low reward. Let’s say you can modify a voting machine or toss/replace some paper ballots. You, as one person, aren’t going to make much of a difference in the election results - especially national ones. Meanwhile, you’ll be risking significant prison time if caught. (And a lot of people will be watching during your attempt.)

        Scaling this attack up would require armies of co-conspirators all operating silently, nobody ratting out the others, nobody getting caught, and everyone successfully pulling off their missions. This is something that might be possible in a movie, but it’s extremely unlikely in the real world.

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        Sure, but any idiot understands that attack. Which is why the major political parties send volunteers to watch elections go ensure that doesn’t happen.

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      The irony is that computer scientists were all over this in the 2000’s, and absolutely did find that the electronic voting machines were insecure, during elections in 2000, 2002, and 2004, including in Georgia:

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_Election_Solutions#Security_and_concealment_issues

      There’s no reason to believe that these researchers have stopped, and it is probably due to their efforts that we have more reliable electronic voting systems now with verified paper trails.

      And since with Conservatives, every accusation is a confession, when they accuse the 2020 vote of being rigged, maybe we should ask them what they know about the 2000 and 2004 votes.

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      Any computerized voting system should produce a human readable paper receipt which should be deposited into a box at the voting site.

      Alternatively, you can use a Scantron method (like my polling place uses). You fill in bubbles corresponding to who you want to vote for. A machine then scans it, adds your votes to the totals, and stores the original paper.

      Either way, you can do hand recount spot checks to ensure that the machine count matches with the paper trail. This was done in the 2020 election and no significant discrepancies were found. Of course, that didn’t stop the conspiracy theorists who just added more nonsense to their theories.