Actually no, I use that phrase to mean that the belief is non-falsifiable for that person. In the this case, by Rush’s own admission. That means it is pointless to discuss further with that person because here is no evidence that exists which would ever falsify the belief. And I think it is a good thing when a person who has such beliefs is up front about it. It reduces waste of time and keeps the discussion more polite.

Let me ask Becky if you can name any evidence, which could exist in principle, which would persuade you that the amount of fraud which existed in the 2020 presidential election did not affect the outcome?

Yes. A complete redo of the 2020 election as soon as possible, at the time, using only paper ballots, requiring ID, and one-day counting would have been ideal but of course doesn’t exist. It could still be done, but has not been and here we are facing another election with most of the cheat mechanisms still in place.

Don’t forget that the bulk of the cheat was made through controlling voting machine data in real time, in selected states and selected precincts where people were put in place to carry out the cheat in real time. However, they could not outsmart real time. President Trump’s lead was so great that the jumps in counts in those precincts were seen by the world. Literally, the world knows President Trump won. The frantic rush to produce paper ballots to back up the millions of fake votes was seen by the world. Testimonies were given, hundreds of them, by election workers from those selected precincts where the cheat happened, including by representatives of Dominion who testified they were told on election night to sit away from the counting activity and were not allowed to observe or monitor the activity of the machines in any way.

The passage of time has made it harder to find or even access these testimonies because there is a constant scrubbing of them from the internet.

I could be convinced the 2020 election was not stolen if every deposition, testimonial, video, election official statement, voting machine data and ballot were unearthed and examined with extreme focus and with bipartisan observers documenting each finding.

As well, let analysis and concrete backup explain the dozen or more statistics, such as Biden losing the bellwether counties and the differentials in registered voters vs. ballots counted, that prove the outcome was not merely statistically improbable, but impossible.

Our political leadership and government in general is doing just about all the wrong things with the major issues we currently face. The border, the illegal immigrant invasion, Ukraine, Israel, climate change actions/fossil fuel, etc. Every move is wrong. All of it. Utterly ridiculous.

and, of course, we should believe all the gems flowing from Putin's mouth and his propaganda machine...

  No, but we should hear all sides so we can form opinions.   

If y’all are talking about 2016, I too didn’t like the Donald.  I didn’t vote for him in the primary. Sensing Florida was getting ready to lean red again, I voted for Marco Rubio.  I wasn’t crazy about any of the choices. To my mind, anybody but Hillary, and for some reason I thought Rubio could beat her. I was probably wrong, and never imagined Trump would win. That election night was the happiest of my life.  I suppose I should say, excepting my wedding night or the birth of my children.

I was positive that Donald Trump would win in 2016 after hilary made her basket of deplorable pronouncement. Nothing was funnier than surfing around the networks watching anchors in tears.

Today, that would be considered criminal sexual assault. And worse, today, a 70 year old woman could recall that incident (accurately or not) and drag the poor guy, now an old man himself, into court over something that happened a half century ago. That’s what it’s come to and it is wrong on so many levels.

And then be sued for defamation when he says that it never happened, she's a nutcase, and besides, she's not his type.  Having a biased judge and jury doesn't help.  I'm VERY glad that I'm not dating in today's world.  Can't ask a girl out or be hit with sexual assault.  Can't tell if it's really a girl.  Can't ask if it's a girl.

Before the second trial got underway, the judge ruled that Carroll was telling the truth about the assault, and that Trump's statements denying her claims were defamatory. The jury was tasked only with deciding what damages Carroll was entitled to receive.

He's spot on.  It is Authoritarian Elite versus Libertarian (just leave me alone and let me live my life types).  The Metro area Elite (cities, burbs and now ex-burbs) hate anyone that doesn't think exactly like them, and want to control others and FORCE them to capitulate, conform and submit to their rules.  Again, it's why they hate that legal citizens can own guns.

It's not accidental that the people they hate are the actual producers of the food, electricity, housing, transportation, etc. etc. without us they couldn't survive in their cities and burbs.  They despise the dependency which is just under the surface of their conscious awareness.

à la The Hunger Games

Of course, what was I thinking?  Or maybe it's more like, "only if their accusee is not liberal".

Tara Reade

My wife is having her Neuro stimulator installed today. The prep nurse was swapping for MRSA and I asked if they tested for COVID. She said no, very few hospitalizations and the symptoms are usually slight.  I said, you mean like a cold and she chuckled.  I think I like her.