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Why saying the election was “stolen” is offensive

This posting is opinion.

There is no evidence the outcome of the 2020 presidential election was changed by illegal votes or fraud. To say it was, without evidence, is to falsely accuse innocent people. It slanders the thousands of election workers who manned the polls and counted the ballots by implying they’re dishonest.

The election wasn’t “stolen” because Biden won. The American people had a right to vote Trump out of office. To say the election was “stolen” because they did so goes against the principles this nation was founded on and generations of veterans fought and died to defend; such talk is un-American and disloyal.

It’s also hypocritical, because Trump and Republicans tried to steal the election by tampering with mail service, removing ballot drop boxes, purging eligible voters from voting lists, closing polling locations, and other vote suppression activities; by demanding that legitimate votes not be counted; and by plotting to overturn the results in partisan courts and legislatures. Those efforts failed because millions of Americans went to extraordinary lengths to vote despite the obstacles thrown in their way by these enemies of democracy.

The people “stole” nothing by taking the presidency away from Trump. It isn’t private property; it belongs to them, not him. They took back what was theirs. To call that theft is like calling a robber a victim and the victim a robber. Decent people won’t stand for that.

Photo below: The arrogant belligerence of Trump’s supporters; the American people had a right to elect Biden, and Trump and his supporters are trying to steal the election.

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WASHINGTON D.C., NOVEMBER 14- Trump supporters demonstrate outside the Supreme Court during the Million Maga March protest regarding election results on November 14, 2020 in Washington D.C. Photo: Chris Tuite/imageSPACE/MediaPunch /IPX


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  1. Mark Adams #
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    Wile it may upset it is that thing called political speech, which has a special place when speech is concerned. It often is not entirely truthful or an outright lie. Democrats have claimed Trump has been an illegal President for the past four years that he stole the election and they did it in the 2000 election. So it is all just good political speech which is what you are doing here.
    This has been a nasty election. Good. Not sure we will like what we sowed. Seems to me the Chinese should be encouraged to invade Taiwan if Biden is the winner, maybe they influenced his election if he won. It was the Chinese.

    What is fact is that no state or very few have even certified their elections. So nothing has been stolen and the process continues and is not over until sometime in January. No one has won and no one has lost the election. This is true of every Presidential election we have ever had. Yes we should not blame the innocent in Guam or Perto Rico of malfeasance. We have a lot of clerks offices and I am sure my county clerks office does a fine job, but I have some reservations about the King County clerks office. I do think some clerks and their offices maybe corrupt and that is always hard to prove and it id difficult to find the evidence and todays fourth estate is just not up to the task. Of course the FBI from time to time makes arrests and charges people in clerks offices and people go to prison for corruption like at some clerk offices in Philadelphia. Or should our FBI gets take a powder as somehow all of these folks are paragons of virtue just like Tammany Hall.

  2. Roger Rabbit #
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    To my knowledge, no Democratic politician or party official ever claimed Trump was an “illegal president.” If you make such accusations, it is incumbent upon you to cite examples, otherwise you’re just engaging in “political speech” aka hot air. I have no reservations about the King County elections office. I have personal knowledge that the GOP accusations against that office made during the 2004 recounts were false. If all you know is what John Carlson and Chris Vance said about it, then you only heard scripted propaganda. Neither of them were ever in the buildings where the recounts were conducted. The story they told people like you was make-believe, aka “political speech.” When the GOP contested that election in court, their lawyers offered no evidence of any wrongdoing by King County Elections, they did not even make such claims, and a Republican judge rejected their lawsuit.