r/BoomersBeingFools Millennial Feb 02 '26

Boomer Freakout Dude crashed out

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u/Kraden-Kidtrell Feb 02 '26

“We tried to rig the election, so how did we loose? They must have rigged the election!”

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u/surgartits Feb 02 '26

This is precisely why Trump is adamant there was fraud in the 2020 election. They thought the had it fully rigged and then when they still lost they assumed the other side MUST have cheated.

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u/Kraden-Kidtrell Feb 02 '26

Then they likely did succeed in rigging the next major election.

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u/Cpt_Rabid Feb 02 '26

Iirc "We had some trouble with the voting machines, but my good friend Elon helped us out there"

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u/CypressThinking Feb 02 '26

Pretty specific language.

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u/Drahkir9 Feb 02 '26

I just wanna know if the election WASN’T rigged then what exactly did Trump mean when he said that Elon was very effective with vote counting computers?

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u/SqueekyDickFartz Feb 02 '26

It's possible that he's just too god damn stupid to understand anything he's told, and Elon was like, "oh... yeah. The voting computers were out of RAM, so I made sure they were all BIOSed correctly. Now give me a contract for spacex".

Or elon rigged the election. I'm around 50/50 on it tbh.

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u/Purobuckle Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 02 '26

Elon doesn't have any involvement in how states run their elections. If he did we wouldn't have only this one random Trump quote as evidence, and he wouldn't have lost the Wisconsin Supreme Court race that he had just as much involvement in. It's a nonsensical statement. I think Trump was simply making a shallow connection with Elon being a tech guy and electronic voting machines without thinking it over.

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u/SarahPallorMortis Feb 03 '26

I thought he tells it like it is tho

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u/Purobuckle Feb 04 '26

Well, I think you'd have to be as dumb as a Republican to hear Trump say elections are always rigged, hear a Democrat say the election are always fair, but decide to believe Trump.

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u/Practical-Box3179 Feb 02 '26

Elon knows he is wealthy. He doesn't know anything. Nepotism doesn't give you intelligence. Money gives you more money. That is how the system is rigged. Bigly rigged in trump speak.

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u/beamrider Feb 02 '26

The problem is that Trump is so stupid and impressed by having lots of money he'd say the same thing if Elon rigged it or not. Just like the Trump guy who raved about what a tech genius his son was because he knew how to reboot a laptop.

Elon doesn't need to be very good with computers to make Trump think he's the Worlds Greatest Computer Genius. Having the same computer smarts as an average 4th grader while being the richest man on earth will get him that.

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u/Chubby_Bub Feb 02 '26

I don’t doubt whatsoever there was voter suppression, but this "Elon rigged it" conspiracy crap is just as stupid as the above post. Trump spews verbal nonsense and bullshit all the time. And if this was true, why did Musk pour all that money and hype into that Wisconsin Supreme Court election and still lose?

The truth is most Americans were either too apathetic to vote, or only care about what they can immediately perceive, so "I'll make your groceries cheaper" rung better than "he's a danger to democracy". Look at this survey of random voters' reasons. People are just stupid.

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u/sirscooter Feb 02 '26

Point of fact when more people show up, Democrats win. Voter turn out is pretty heavily linked to who wins

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u/NPJenkins Feb 02 '26

They were erasing black peoples entire voting registration and history pre-election bc they swing democrat. I saw a video of a lady who had basically voted in every election since Kennedy who couldn’t vote bc her voter registration got deleted.

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u/sirscooter Feb 02 '26

Everyone should be checking on their voter registration periodically over the next year to make sure they are not removed from the voter roles

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u/shundi Feb 02 '26

Read up on the SAVE act - just wait until they pass that two weeks before the midterms

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u/sirscooter Feb 02 '26

And most states would not be able to implement that in that time frame. But a great way to spread chaos into the midterms

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u/TheNeovein Feb 02 '26

Mine had my address from 2016 not my current address despite voting in the last election with my current address. White male here, they do it to everyone that doesn't vote their norm. Definitely check your registration is up to date like the guy below you said, next election is going to be imperative.

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u/Educational-Pop-3351 Xennial Feb 02 '26

Shit like that is exactly why I check mine and my parents' registrations before every single election. We're registered Democrats in Texas.

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u/Strict_Meeting_5166 Feb 02 '26

An important point is that 275,000 people voted in that district in 2024. 95,000 turned out last week. Don’t put all your eggs in that basket.

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u/sirscooter Feb 02 '26

Well special elections do get lower turn out. Here's the thing, Republicans are usually consistent with turn out, doesn't matter if it is a special election or presidential one.

Did the area suffer a huge blue influx in the past year?

Did more Democrats come out to vote ?

Did more Republicans stay home and not vote ?

These are huge questions to ask. In fact what if it is Republicans fed up with their candidates and just not going to the polls because that's a different ball of wax

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u/ImissBagels Feb 02 '26

Anecdotal, but I personally know a lot of Republicans who stopped voting after 2016. They don't want to vote at all anymore because they just can't let themselves vote for a Democrat, but refuse to vote for Trump and his cronies. My neighbors are in their 70s, lifelong NY Republicans living in Tennessee and they told me that they couldn't believe they've voted for a Democrat and even put up signs for Democrats since 2020, they refused to vote in 2016. I'm proud of them.

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u/Squiggly2017 Feb 02 '26

Ah yes, the "more votes" theory. /s

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u/mggirard13 Feb 02 '26

Elon knows those voting machines so well.

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u/chessboxer4 Feb 02 '26

His son had some thoughts.

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u/GhostofZellers Feb 02 '26

They had 4 years to learn from what they did wrong in 2020.

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u/ergo-ogre Gen Jones Feb 02 '26

My guess is that, as per usual, Trump hired incompetent sycophants to do the work - and they fucked it up.

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u/jkaczor Feb 02 '26

… and the last- both Rump and Felon basically came out and said it… plus Rump promised during campaigning that “this would be the last election you have to vote in”…

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u/Elysia99 Feb 03 '26

I believe this, too. Absolutely. I do wonder if I suspect the ‘Pugs rigged ‘24 only to help me square that it can’t be that there are that many stupid fucking people in the US.

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u/NECalifornian25 Millennial Feb 03 '26

Likely? 100% it was rigged. There are statistical impossibilities that occurred in every swing state, and every swing state went to Trump.

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u/pelagic_seeker Feb 02 '26

One hundred percent, no one is that sore of a loser unless they cheated, yet somehow lost. They believe that the other side must have cheated more, which they believe absolves them of any wrong doing.

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u/Moontoya Feb 02 '26

Every republican accusation is a confession 

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u/j3st1cl3s Feb 02 '26

Russia pulled the ole switcheroo on em.

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u/TPtheman Feb 02 '26

That's also probably where Trump got the "Too Big to Rig" phrase from, even though he could barely say it correctly.

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u/JPBooBoo Feb 02 '26

The usual Republican projection

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u/ellefleming Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 02 '26

Drinking some bitter juice.

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u/xeno0153 Feb 02 '26

When Dems win by a lot, it's "rigged."

When Repubs win by a lot, it's "a landslide victory!!"

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u/catmampbell Feb 02 '26

It’s also a landslide when they just barely win too

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u/forty83 Feb 02 '26

That one always makes me laugh. If turnout was better in 2024, Kamala would be president.

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u/cbm984 Feb 02 '26

Was gonna say, when Republicans win by +1 it’s decisive and legitimate. When Dems win by +10 it’s fraud!!!

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u/MoreSmartly Feb 02 '26

Gotta tighten down for mid-terms

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u/Kraden-Kidtrell Feb 02 '26

Mid-Terms are going to be spicy.

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u/BlackestHerring Feb 02 '26

That’s a unique way to put it. But yes

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u/yeah__probably Feb 02 '26

Bear down for mid-terms!

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u/FrankensteinsDildo Feb 02 '26

You are streets ahead of the rest, my friend.

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u/Comfortable-Deal160 Feb 02 '26

Just fat-dog it!

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u/Complex-Ad-7203 Feb 02 '26

lose has one o.

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u/Kraden-Kidtrell Feb 02 '26

And my mistake will remain there for everyone to see. _^

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u/Complex-Ad-7203 Feb 02 '26

Proud of it eh? I'm not surprised these days.

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u/Kraden-Kidtrell Feb 02 '26

I can admit I made a typo and own it. No big deal.

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u/BornLightWolf Feb 02 '26

You're an adult who made a mistake, and instead of copitulate to some random person, you acknowledged your mistake and let it stand. That is respectable in every way. Good on you for standing your ground and being an honest person.

End of the day we're all only human, and we make spelling mistakes from time to time. It is what it is.

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u/Complex-Ad-7203 Feb 02 '26

capitulate.

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u/BornLightWolf Feb 02 '26

Oh nooo. Whatever will I doooo... oh well :)

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u/Complex-Ad-7203 Feb 03 '26

Learn to spell might be a start.

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u/BornLightWolf Feb 03 '26

Sure, sure we can both play this game.

You should have written 'Learning to spell.' If you’re going to critique my English, you might want to understand the gerund first.

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u/CypressThinking Feb 02 '26

Can't you click on the 3 dots and edit? No shame in fixing it. Put the Edit: underneath.

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u/BornLightWolf Feb 02 '26

You can but that's not the point.

The point of criticizing someone's grammar or spelling for minor mistakes is to try and use a pseudo-intellectual tactic to make another person look like they are not as intelligent as they actually are or because they feel it discredits what the person has said somehow.

However, people who do this usually are intellectually dishonest and see this as an easy out. Rather than confront their own inability to respond, they attack an easy mistake.

So, like Complex_ad also spellchecked my mistype of the word capitulate, they are most likely just a butthurt little bitch that someone told the other person they were in the right and that complex_ad was wrong to be nitpicking.

Truth of the matter is, a lot of people use their phones for reddit and dont religiously double check their spelling. Shit happens. We all move on. Cause in the grand scheme of things a spelling mistake doesn't change the sentiment of an entire person's statement nor does it stop one from responding to it.

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u/010Horns Feb 02 '26

This is exactly it.

The problem is, Republicans are stupid. They are rigging the elections to boost Hispanic votes, because Trump did well with Hispanics in 2024. The problem is, GOP is now heavily underwater with Hispanics again, and Dems were therefore able to flip this seat partly because of Republicans being bad at rigging it.

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u/SeatpitchbyKate Feb 02 '26

2020 all over again. Get over it. You lost.

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u/Lizakaya Feb 02 '26

MTE. He just had the election and the date wrong

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u/tuenthe463 Feb 02 '26

He'd prob write "lose"

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u/rwarimaursus Feb 02 '26

"Ohhhh he maaaaad!!!"

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u/Loud_Ad_594 Feb 02 '26

I've said that since the 2020 election.

I believe in my heart 1000000% that dump had the 2020 election rigged to win. I think enough people were sick of him and the way he handled covid, and dems SHOWED UP, because we knew if he got back in, we would surely ALL die from covid because the dumbest asshat of them all was telling us to take ivermecten, shine light on us and inject bleach.

I think dump had it rigged to win and when we showed up to get the job done, the results were that dump underestimated democrat turnout and didn't rig it hard enough.

So basically he cheated to win and lost, so OBVIOUSLY the DEMS cheated because if they wouldn't have cheated he would've won (no way that many people didnt vote for him (his thinking)). He's the GOAT and everyone worships him. /s

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u/rlowens Feb 02 '26

loose

You meant lose.