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For the same reason they cheer for their favorite World Wrestling actor. They like the look, the swagger, the bravado when he speaks to the camera, and expect he is going to beat down every opponent. When he doesn't succeed then they think the opponents are cheating or the refs have it rigged. "Hey, they hit him with a chair! No fair!" And then when he pulls out a pair of scissors and tries to cut the hair off someone they just laugh and say that's fair, he can do that because he's a winner.
They'll only stop supporting him if he gets too fat, becomes quiet or sad, or someone even more bombastic bursts onto the scene.
WASHINGTON — President Obama said on Thursday that the United States would retaliate for Russia’s efforts to influence the presidential election, asserting that “we need to take action,” and “we will.”
The comments, in an interview with NPR, indicate that Mr. Obama, in his remaining weeks in office, will pursue either economic sanctions against Russia or perhaps some kind of response in cyberspace.
How the Electoral College Rigged the Election for Donald Trump
America's electoral system gives smaller, more conservative states more weight – and that benefited Trump
So the election was rigged in the sense that the Founding Fathers created a system that, at this point in history, tilts the playing field in favor of candidates who appeal to low-population states and a small set of contested "swing" states, rather than those who appeal to big urban centers in population-rich states that are not contested.
Now who says the election was rigged ? LMMFAO You are to easy to destroy Moonbeam Boy
Who said the election was rigged? Donald Trump said that the election was rigged. He said it multiple times, just as Cartman said, and it seems you're too much of a snowflake to be able to deal with that.
Please note: simple repetition of your existing post, as you do frequently will simply result in 10 additional lies in leiu of repeated back and forts of you acting like a child.
A majority of Democratic voters think Russia literally rigged the vote in the 2016 presidential election — an outlandish conspiracy theory with no evidence to support it.
The latest Economist/YouGov poll found 58 percent of Democrats saying that it is “probably true” or “definitely true” that “Russia tampered with vote tallies in order to get Donald Trump elected President.”
That number is up six points from December when 52 percent of Democrats said they thought Russia tampered with vote tallies.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, criticized the Obama administration for not speaking out more forcefully to expose Russian hacking during the 2016 election, but also thinks President Donald Trump is in no position to blame Obama for failing to stop it.
Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, Schiff addressed a report in The Washington Post detailing the way the Obama administration was slow and hesitant to publicly accuse Russia of interfering in the election even after it received intelligence that President Valdimir Putin was involved.
“I think the administration needed to call out Russia earlier, and needed to act to deter and punish Russia earlier and I think that was a very serious mistake,” he said. Schiff, who said he urged the Obama administration to make a more forceful case against Russia, also believes politics were too much of a factor in the Obama administration’s thinking leading up to the election. The administration, he said, didn’t want to be seen tipping the scales for Clinton or supporting Trump’s claim the election would be “rigged.”
“But both of those factors did not outweigh, in my view ― and I argued this at the time ― did not outweigh the public’s need to know. The American people needed to know,” he said. “And I didn’t think it was enough to tell them after the election.”
The idea the Obama administration didn’t do enough to prevent the hacking is one Trump has adopted recently, after casting doubt on Russia’s role in the hacking for months despite an overwhelming consensus among intelligence officials that Russian hackers were behind the attacks and acting at Putin’s direction.
Who is complaining the election was rigged yes it is the Democrats
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, criticized the Obama administration for not speaking out more forcefully to expose Russian hacking during the 2016 election, but also thinks President Donald Trump is in no position to blame Obama for failing to stop it.
Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, Schiff addressed a report in The Washington Post detailing the way the Obama administration was slow and hesitant to publicly accuse Russia of interfering in the election even after it received intelligence that President Valdimir Putin was involved.
“I think the administration needed to call out Russia earlier, and needed to act to deter and punish Russia earlier and I think that was a very serious mistake,” he said. Schiff, who said he urged the Obama administration to make a more forceful case against Russia, also believes politics were too much of a factor in the Obama administration’s thinking leading up to the election. The administration, he said, didn’t want to be seen tipping the scales for Clinton or supporting Trump’s claim the election would be “rigged.”
“But both of those factors did not outweigh, in my view ― and I argued this at the time ― did not outweigh the public’s need to know. The American people needed to know,” he said. “And I didn’t think it was enough to tell them after the election.”
The idea the Obama administration didn’t do enough to prevent the hacking is one Trump has adopted recently, after casting doubt on Russia’s role in the hacking for months despite an overwhelming consensus among intelligence officials that Russian hackers were behind the attacks and acting at Putin’s direction.
Who is crying about a rigged election non other than a Democrat from where ? California the Land of Moonbeam how ironic LMAO
A majority of Democratic voters think Russia literally rigged the vote in the 2016 presidential election — an outlandish conspiracy theory with no evidence to support it.
The latest Economist/YouGov poll found 58 percent of Democrats saying that it is “probably true” or “definitely true” that “Russia tampered with vote tallies in order to get Donald Trump elected President.”
That number is up six points from December when 52 percent of Democrats said they thought Russia tampered with vote tallies.
Think the rigging is owned by the Democrats LMMFAO How many times you need to be made out as stupid ?
Washington (CNN)Russia's alleged role in the 2016 presidential election is turning into a stark lesson about how America's political dysfunction is becoming a glaring national security threat.
Debate stirred by new Washington Post reporting that linked interference in last year's election more directly than ever before to Russian President Vladimir Putin has revealed how political considerations for two administrations have allowed Moscow to avoid paying a significant price for an attempt to manipulate the US election on an unprecedented scale.
It's pretty telling that not one supporter listed any achievements. Is a combination of outright denial, blaming Obama, etc as well as listing things Trump has neither had time, nor enough implemented policy to significant effect.
The answer is pretty simple, and related to another one mentioned here. They've thrown their lot in with trump; the same way the right did with bush during the Iraq war (though he brought more people along). More importantly with the right wing medias drum beat of hatred against liberals, it's pretty self evidence that most would rather gauge their own eyes out and sell their souls to Lucifer before they'd admit to a democrat that they had misjudged things.
The silence speaks much more than any words though.
And what will happen, is once trump gets impeached or loses popularity and is thrown out of office, the majority of people who bough all the apparel, shouted at rallies, and went on forums and yelled at people will pretend that they didn't support him fully, that they were giving him the benefit of the doubt; or that they were for him until he started messing up... just like you find with the Iraq war.
But let's get back to Hilary/Obama/Clinton bashing!
Obama bombed nations into oblivion, dropped more bombs than all Presidents combined post WWII, turned the Middle East and Europe into an ISIS hell hole, and Obamacare caused 40 million people who actually were paying for insurance to not go to the doctor. He was accused of conspiracy with the Muslim Brotherhood by Egypt and Turkey. So explain to us Con... why did you still support him?
Nevertheless, to answer your question, the economy? Great. The stock market? Never better. Job creation? Good. Major terrorist attacks on American soil? None. Hard words that snowflakes can't handle but their grandparents could, tweets, and a liberal media circus? Don't give a flying shit.
Bill Clinton was provably a part of a conspiracy in Chinagate and the Clinton Foundation, which is worse than anything Trump has even been accused of and with a foreign power. Bill was involved in sexual scandals up to his eyeballs. Liberals didn't care. They always said, "yes, but how is the economy doing? Are we safe? Does his private stuff affect you?"
So Mr Excon, show me a Trump "failure" that affects my every day life, and we will discuss it.
If Excon is a businessman as outlaw claims above, shouldn't Excon be fawning over Trump with delight? This is the most pro business President in the history of the United States. Would Excon cut off his nose to spite his face?