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[Strife26]

Don't attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

At least the first time.

[mainiac]

Well this isn't the first time that people made accusations of election tampering.  So do we attribute these empty allegations to malice or stupidity?  I'm leaning towards stupidity because well... it's really stupid.

Accusing someone of rigging an election to help the candidate who has consistently lead in the polls, in a race that doesn't even matter but where the consequences of getting caught would be huge... that's a really stupid theory.  If there was actual malice it wouldn't be hard to come up with something plausible.

[Frumple]

I'unno, maybe they don't even want something plausible. Could be they don't want to get stuff to stick, for whatever reason, they're just throwing eggs at the wall to make it nasty with oozing yolk.

[Shadowlord]

Well this isn't the first time that people made accusations of election tampering.  So do we attribute these empty allegations to malice or stupidity?  I'm leaning towards stupidity because well... it's really stupid.

Accusing someone of rigging an election to help the candidate who has consistently lead in the polls, in a race that doesn't even matter but where the consequences of getting caught would be huge... that's a really stupid theory.  If there was actual malice it wouldn't be hard to come up with something plausible.

Unless it's an indication of a larger pattern which has been going on the entire primary season, and nobody's noticed until now. 

[TheBiggerFish]

Well yeah, but even the independent pollsters?

[Frumple]

Unless it's an indication of a larger pattern which has been going on the entire primary season, and nobody's noticed until now. 

An explanation as plausible as the continuing population explosion the lesser floridian invisible pink unicorn is experiencing :V

_{there aren't any unicorns down here, but there is quite a lot of meth}

[mainiac]

Unless it's an indication of a larger pattern which has been going on the entire primary season, and nobody's noticed until now. 

This feels way closer to Poe's law then it should be.

[Morrigi]

Hah, a fact-based ABC report on the San Jose riot delivered by the guy Trump called a sleaze last week. If that's what it takes to get proper news, then so be it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI1t8dtcXWE

[Sheb]

Funny how when he's critical of Trump he's a sleaze, and when he's not he's fact-based. :p

[Morrigi]

He was lying, got called on it very publicly, and is now trying to salvage his reputation.

[Sheb]

What was he lying about?

[mainiac]

He claimed that people wanted to beat him and that the police just watched.  And then he claimed that afterwards he was told to just take the beating.

[Wolfhunter107]

What was he lying about?

He wasn't. He was the guy who broke the story that Trump lied his ass off about donating $6 million to veterans organizations. Trump's response was to call him a liar, even though it's pretty obvious that he didn't.

[Playergamer]

"broke the story" That's adorable. You think he isn't a sleazebag.

[mainiac]

Kevin Drum had an amusing analogy: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/05/donald-trump-tried-cheat-veterans-out-1-million

Of course a lot of liberal shills dont believe Trump is actually worth 10 billion.  Wait, let me rephrase that.  Dont believe his financial assets are worth 10 billion.  No one except Trump think's Trump is worth 10 billion.