counterpoint: The media doesn't have to push the narrative because that's what is going to happen. Your decision to vote or not should be up to you and not what the media says.
Bush v Gore, while a dumbass miscarriage of justice, ultimately wouldn't have won Gore the election. By most recounts, Gore would have lost by a very thin margin. And that reflects polling at the time, Gore and Bush ran within a percentage point of each other. Now, did Jeb fuck with ballots to confuse voters? Sure, and that kind of tampering can impact the vote, but not by huge margins. And unfortunately that's not the legal challenge that Gore mounted anyway, they just wanted to recount the ballots which I maintain should have happened but the end result is that Gore would have lost anyway so I don't truly in my heart care also because the entire American electoral system is a fucking mess anyway.
So what's Trump going to do? He's a spoiled rich kid who hates being president, who hates being bossed around and going to meetings and shit. He wants out of this. He'll put up a token resistance but anytime anyone has stood up to him he's backed down instantly. Why wouldn't that happen now?
counterpoint: The media doesn't have to push the narrative because that's what is going to happen. Your decision to vote or not should be up to you and not what the media says.
I mean it's not but okay
you don't think Trump is going to do an election coup? In the country that welcomed the 21st century with Bush v. Gore?
Woof. Long answer, here we go.
Bush v Gore, while a dumbass miscarriage of justice, ultimately wouldn't have won Gore the election. By most recounts, Gore would have lost by a very thin margin. And that reflects polling at the time, Gore and Bush ran within a percentage point of each other. Now, did Jeb fuck with ballots to confuse voters? Sure, and that kind of tampering can impact the vote, but not by huge margins. And unfortunately that's not the legal challenge that Gore mounted anyway, they just wanted to recount the ballots which I maintain should have happened but the end result is that Gore would have lost anyway so I don't truly in my heart care also because the entire American electoral system is a fucking mess anyway.
So what's Trump going to do? He's a spoiled rich kid who hates being president, who hates being bossed around and going to meetings and shit. He wants out of this. He'll put up a token resistance but anytime anyone has stood up to him he's backed down instantly. Why wouldn't that happen now?