Donald Trump cited Vladimir Putin as an authority on the 2020 U.S. presidential election and false claims of voter fraud.
Russia has held rigged elections throughout Putin’s quarter-century reign as Russia’s dictator.
Trump has long claimed that the contest was rigged against him. After losing in 2020, he spent two months trying to overturn the results and ultimately inspired a deadly riot at the Capitol. He repeated those claims in an interview on Fox News with Sean Hannity on Friday, shortly after meeting with Putin in Alaska to discuss a potential end to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
I’ll never forget when my dad, who absentee votes by mail in NC, explaining to me that statewide voting by mail is dangerous. No actual claim of anything, just random shit like ‘how do they know where to send the ballots?’ After spending like 20 minutes describing how simple Oregon vote by mail is, as well as safeguards, and he still just couldn’t get it. Which is how so much misinformation is spread. Covid was the same way. There is so much ‘I don’t know how a thing works, so that means no one knows how this thing works’ in this country that it hurts my head.
Because he didn’t want to. Conservatives are biased against reality. The amount of cognitive dissonance that exists for them is so high that they build their own echo chambers so that they can be reinforced by their own ideology.
It would be sad if it wasn’t so dangerous to our democracy.
"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’ "- Issac Asimov
There were a few regulars on Denver Post’s comment section who kept harping on how we need to end voting by mail. And this is in Colorado, which has had it for years and years and years.
I swear they were probably paid…by some conservative/Republican outfit or by some foreign agency. They’d spew the same bullshit, trying to sow doubt in the heads of normies.
More than a few times I thought about trying to talk to the mods at DP about having their disinfo taken down and ideally ban these individuals, but I’m pretty sure at least a few of the mods there were more than receptive to fascist bullshit.
That’s a pretty common theme in Trump’s speeches.