08-12-2016, 11:51 AM
(08-11-2016, 07:36 PM)The Wonkette Wrote:Quote:The only time a presidential election was certainly rigged, in the last 140 years, was in 2000 when the Supreme Court ratified the blatant rigging of Katherine Harris and the Republicans in order to put a "shocking and awesome" genocidal murderer in the White House, and possibly in Ohio by Mr. Black in 2004 too to keep him there. THEY are the ones who rig elections. Nowadays conspiracy theory fans use that fact as the background event for the believability of their theories that elections are rigged by Hillary's Democrats.Just to nit, one could certainly argue that the election of 1876 was rigged. That election was exactly 140 years ago.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta...tion,_1876
The only name for the tactic of claiming that if you lose, the system is rigged, is "intimidation." That is certainly a tactic that bullies like Trump use all the time, and voters who prefer bullies (like you and Cynic Hero) are quite pleased with use of the tactic.
That's what I meant; since then.