A walk down memory lane when Democrats were promoting the BIG LIE

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The talking point today is the BIG LIE. BIDEN WON!!! SAY IT!! SHUT UP!!!

Well, it's time to expose these lying, dishonest hypocrites and set that record straight.

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Remember when they claimed that Trump was illegitimate and refused to accept the election results?

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Remember when they were the insurrectionists?

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Remember when Joe Biden said that he agreed with a constituent that Trump was an illegitimate President?

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In 1960, JFK enlisted the help of an alternate set of electors much like Trump and his team strategized about. Did anyone claim he and his supporters were insurrectionists?

JFK’s popular vote victory: the myth

After George W. Bush won the presidency in the 2000 election despite losing the popular vote, liberals refused to accept the results.

First, they attempted to rig the election through a “selective recount” scheme—recounting the vote selectively in those areas where Bush’s opponent, Al Gore, was likely to pick up votes, and not recounting in areas that favored Bush. (This effort by the Gore campaign was struck down as a violation of voters’ rights by the U.S. Supreme Court. The vote was 7-2, and the majority included one of the two Clinton appointees.)

After Bush was proclaimed the winner, liberals ridiculed Bush as an illegitimate president and printed up bumperstickers proclaiming “RE-elect Gore in 2004!”

They attacked the Electoral College for robbing the American people of the president they wanted. Liberals argued fervently that only by winning the popular vote does someone fairly attain the presidency.
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Would they have a different view of the Electoral College if, say, John F. Kennedy had won the presidency while losing the popular vote?

Kennedy’s defeat of Richard Nixon by a narrow margin is a fact that everyone “knows.” Wikipedia puts the margin at 112,827 votes, 0.17% of the popular vote.

The reality:

Once Senator John F. Kennedy won the Democratic nomination for president, many Democrats faced a dilemma. Both Kennedy and his Republican opponent, Vice President Richard Nixon, opposed the Jim Crow (racial segregation) laws that were in effect in much of the country, especially in the deeply Democratic states of the South.

Now, keep in mind that a state’s votes for president and vice president are actually cast by electors from that state. Each political party selects a slate of electors, usually longtime party supporters who can be counted on to cast votes for the party’s official nominee. If you vote for, say, Obama for president, you’re not really voting for Obama; you’re voting for electors who promise to vote for Obama.

Today, electors are chosen by the respective hierarchies of the political parties, usually at state conventions or by a state party’s executive committee. In some places, in times past, the electors were selected in party primaries—elections in which (depending on state law) all voters or all registered party members could vote.

Given the Byzantine intricacies of Alabama politics, it is indeed possible that Nixon’s popular vote may have slightly exceeded Kennedy’s in that close election. Whereas in most states in a presidential election voters are given a single slate of Republican or Democratic electors to check off, Alabama Democratic voters could choose or reject individually from the list of electors, eleven separate choices. There must have been considerable vote-splitting in 1960, for an anti-Kennedy elector topped the list with 324,050 votes, trailed by a pro-Kennedy with 318,303 votes. This latter figure the Congressional Quarterly gives as the total Alabama Kennedy vote. The difference between the “anti” and the “pro,” the Quarterly tabulates as “Other.” The “Others” then, with some six thousand votes, take six electors whereas the Republicans with thirty times that total get no electors at all. This, as Professor Tullock points out, is an absurdity.

There is no tabulating the vote exactly, but for a reasonable approximation one can divide 318,303 by eleven, multiply it by five for the pro-Kennedys and by six for the anti-Kennedys. The Kennedy Alabama total would then be 144,685 instead of the Quarterly‘s given 318,303. If we then deduct the 179,838 anti-Kennedy Alabama votes from the national total then Nixon did have a final 64,165 vote plurality in the 68,828,960 votes cast.​

By the way, the fact that Kennedy failed to win the national popular vote was initially noted by major national publications such as the New York Times. As the years passed, and his legend grew, the complicated truth about the 1960 vote was forgotten, to be replaced by the story that Kennedy won by a little more than 100,000 votes.

A small part of that myth was that he won the popular vote in 1960. It was a pretty insignificant little fib that became important only in light of the attempts to deprive George W. Bush of legitimacy in 2000 and to abolish the Electoral College altogether.

A personal note: If I had been old enough to vote, I probably would have voted for Kennedy. JFK was the kind of Democrat we don’t see any more: he was a supply-sider, favoring across-the-board tax cuts to boost the economy; he was strongly anti-Communist and believed deeply in American Exceptionalism; and, reluctantly or not, he provided support at critical points for the civil rights movement, which in those days had the goal of achieving a color-blind society. Perhaps he would have been a great president, had he lived, but an unspeakable crime half a century ago deprived us of the chance to find out.
https://capitalresearch.org/article/jfks-popular-vote-victory-the-myth/
 
The point of all this is to illustrate, point out and highlight the glaring hypocrisy and dishonesty of the autocratic hacks that comprise the Democratic Party of Lying Jackasses. Perhaps because they know their supporters are historical fools, they think the rest of us are too.

But we are here as a constant reminder and keepers of the truth about how their narratives are nothing more than lies, that their policies are economically destructive, particularly to the black and Hispanic community, and that their green agenda is nothing more than an uneducated fantasy used to control the citizens and fear monger them into blind compliance.
 
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