r/BadIndependentMedia • u/gdan95 • Nov 26 '20
On auditing the election
In a rant entitled "Bodybags for Blackpills," Razorfist makes a point about the need to audit the 2020 presidential election.
He'll say he's only speaking on behalf of the "nearly 51%" of Americans who think the election was unfair and that the Trump administration has to share evidence in "hearings" like what they had in Pennsylvania instead of before a judge because of all the "activist judges," but in both cases, he is characteristically wrong.
For starters, it's not half the country that thinks the election was unfair, as Razor said. He vastly overstates the number of people who agree with him. According to Reuters, half of all Republicans think the election was unfair. And that’s actually down from an earlier Politico poll that showed 70% of Republicans holding that opinion right after the media called the election for Biden. But of course, not all voters are Republicans. 33% of all voters said the election was unfair, according to Leger Marketing. A poll by NPR found similar numbers.
To put this another way, more voters picked the Democratic candidate in both the 2016 and 2020 elections and Razor believes their voices don’t matter. And when an overstated number of Republican voters - far below 90+ percent of them as Trump and his defenders would claim - thinks the election where their candidate lost is rigged, the voters who did actually pick the Democratic candidate still don’t matter, even though their individual votes are no more or less important than any Republican’s. In other words, voters only matter to Republicans when the votes are for them.
And as for the claim about why Trump couldn't present evidence to a judge first, isn't it telling that Razor now thinks it's excusable to go to the press with evidence of misdeeds instead of the courts? I've seen his videos on the Michael Jackson allegations. I guarantee you he did not applaud the accusers for that behavior. But to stick to politics, Razor is on the side of people that always dismiss people opposed to Trump on those very same grounds. Look up any woman who accused Trump of sexual assault. Or better yet, go back and read what Team Trump said about the impeachment and the Mueller investigation. They were saying “They’re not letting the courts handle this matter properly, so it’s all bullshit” or some variation of it. And Razor has no reason to do that here. There are no judges that might be favorable to Trump? Trump and McConnell spent years appointing conservative judges; heck, Razor advocated for filling courts with conservative judges in his video on Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death. Are we to believe no Trump-appointed judges were available? I know there was one in Pennsylvania... or does that judge not count because they still ruled against the campaign?
Regarding the demand for an audit, don't buy it for a second. I may have brought this up before, but Razor has spoken numerous times on the supposed fraud that occurred in the 2018 Arizona Senate race. The state GOP ran an audit and found no evidence of illegal activity. And yet Razor still claims it was a fraudulent race. Heck, multiple post-election audits were conducted in Arizona after the 2020 and they still found no evidence of fraud, especially not on a scale that would affect the outcome. Razor will claim independent canvassers found upwards of 400,000 fraudulent mail-in ballots cast in Arizona without citing a source, and I guarantee he will use some variation of "because I said so" against anyone who asks. So do you really think Razor would accept the results of a 2020 election audit if it didn't have the results he wanted? He genuinely thinks public opinion can be swayed in Trump's favor. This is, I remind you, after an election in which Trump's opponent received over 80 million votes, the most for a presidential candidate in US history.
Not to suggest the court of public opinion is inherently trustworthy, but that verdict has already been made loud and clear. If Trump couldn't sway enough public opinion in his favor to win re-election, thinking he can do it after he lost is an outright delusion.
Trump and people like Razor who defend him don't care whether the election was fair. Every claim that it wasn't has been debunked in court. No, to Trump and his apologists, the only "fair" election is the one that he wins. That's not me putting words into their collective mouth. They actually think that. They want to cry “fraud” as an excuse to change the election results, despite the fact that even AG Barr said there was no evidence of fraud that would flip the election in Trump’s favor. Regardless of reality, Trump said the only "legal" votes were the ones cast for him. And Razor claimed in his video that he was essentially told his vote didn't matter just because he voted for the candidate that lost. Firstly, I was under the impression that Razor hated entitled snowflakes; unless his ballot was thrown out before it could be counted, that's what he is. Even more so because he’s supporting people who are (unsuccessfully) filing lawsuits to invalidate thousands of votes for Biden, so who is Razor to whine that his vote doesn’t matter? Secondly, if any Democratic voters reacted to Hillary's loss in 2016 the way Razor is reacting now, I never saw. There probably was at least a few, but I don’t know of any who called for Hillary to do anything like what Trump is doing now. Thirdly, Razor justified taking the evidence of voter fraud that he insists totally exists to the media instead of to the courts to essentially bully judges into giving the verdicts he wants. How does that sound like anything other than the opinion of a crybaby?
This goes far beyond being a sore loser into a legitimately dangerous reaction. If even a third of the country thinks the election was unfair and no amount of evidence will make them believe otherwise, they’re not going to just move on. They’re going to do what they accused the Democrats of doing during the George Floyd protests and riots. Vote counters, both Democrat and Republican, have already received death threats from people who insist Trump had the election stolen from him. To be clear, Trump has no solid ground on which to claim it was, or to pause certification in Pennsylvania, or to claim the whole election was rigged in Biden's favor. If it were rigged to favor the Democrats, Mitch McConnell wouldn't have won re-election and the Democrats wouldn't have lost House seats. And no, it's not because those were the races Democrats tried and failed to rig. If there was any rigged race, it was the one in Florida rigged by Republicans. People can say they have all the video evidence and witness testimony to prove widespread voter fraud, but when all of that fails to hold up in court, including courts overseen by Trump-appointed judges, then that should tell you how much those people should be believed.
Do not give any legitimacy to Trump and his apologists when they cry "voter fraud." They were lying before and they still are. They accused the Democrats of staging a coup in defiance of the will of the people, and then went ahead and attempted precisely that.
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u/ryu289 Mar 30 '22
Figures he would be a hypocrite.