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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Trump: Arrest GA Gov Kemp...
Date: 12/26/25 3:18 PM
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Years later, with Fulton County now conceding that hundreds of thousands of ballots were never lawfully certified, the episode takes on a very different light. Trump was not inventing problems out of thin air. He was pointing, imperfectly but insistently, to a fundamental failure to follow even the most basic rules of how elections are conducted. The consequences, however, fell entirely on the wrong person. Trump was denounced for questioning the election, accused of undermining democracy, and subjected to years of investigation and prosecution for stating what was true: that legal requirements for certifying hundreds of thousands of votes had been fundamentally violated.

To this day liberals insist that Trump was trying to steal the 2020 election and cite the phone call to Raffensperger as the smoking gun. However, the admission that 300k+ votes were procedurally questionable flips that accusation on its head.

Trump was right to question it. The left was wrong to frame it as they did.

But why is this important?
If nothing comes of Fulton County’s admission, the implication will be that election laws can be treated as optional rather than binding. Lawful certification will remain a matter of convenience instead of necessity. Future officials will understand that essential checks on the integrity of the vote can be ignored so long as the results are politically convenient.

Even more troubling, inaction would validate a deeper inversion of responsibility. The individual who raised concerns was punished, while the institutions that failed to follow the law remain protected.


And the main point:
Democrat dies in darkness. Just not the “darkness” the left has claimed:

If the State Election Board declines to act, this episode may quietly fade from memory, leaving nothing to prevent it from happening again. Democracies do not fail when rules are broken. They fail when no one is held accountable.

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