cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26592059
Summary
Donald Trump is upset after King Charles warmly welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Sandringham, making Trump’s own state visit invitation seem “less special.”
Trump’s allies allegedly asked the British government to intervene, but officials stated the king makes his own decisions.
Relations may also be strained by Trump’s criticism of Canada, where Charles remains head of state.
The U.K. government denied tensions, reaffirming strong U.S.-U.K. ties.
I’m at the point where I don’t want to be cynical, and I don’t have any proof, but…would anyone put him past rigging the election? That’s where my head is at right now. It makes sense. I don’t know how he rigged the election. I don’t know how TO rig an election.
But seeing him, and being told he won the popular vote…my brain can’t process the core concept of trump being popular. But if you say he rigged it, my brain can follow that concept without having smoke come out my ears.
Remember when the traitors illegally seized all the voting machines for their bullshit audits in 2020?
The voting machines that are known to have first hand attack vulnerabilities were in the hands of America’s enemies.
Get out and talk to people. It’s 100% believable he won the popular vote, let alone the election.
The election apparatus in the US is extremely hard to rig. It’s run by local officials, so in order to fix the counting of voters you need to get to thousands of individual county/city/town election boards, all at once. Those boards have members of all parties generally present on them so there is a fair amount of local oversight to overcome, too.
There was a bit of time in the early 2000’s where the voting machines themselves were suspect but some good work by independant researchers shined some daylight on that. Now most votes in the US are either done purely by paper ballots (counted by machines) or on machines that generate verifiable paper trails, and are very hard to just casually alter the count without being found out.
Republicans rig the vote by manipulating their media. Roger Ailes was one of Nixon’s media advisors during Watergate. The lesson he took away was that if the media didn’t hold Nixon to account, he would have never had to resign. Ailes went on to run Fox News in the mid-90s, and the rest is history.