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And they did cheat. They cut millions from voter rolls. They spent more time questioning whether signatures on mail-in voters were valid. They did more gerrymandering. They, in general, did their damnedest to make it harder for people vote. They used disinformation campaigns and foreign actors to influence social media. The thing about it is, they do a lot more of it out in the open than people want to admit. Just like how they weren't hiding Project 2025. Why would they suddenly have the ability to be so tight lipped about just this issue?

Circumstantial evidence is not evidence. Further, this story is about Tripp Lite, which last I checked, isn't owned by Musk. It's owned by Eaton. Gonna have to jump through a lot of mental hoops to connect Eaton and Musk.

Have you ever considered that they would say they were going to win even if they weren't? That part of how fascism and fascists work is by projecting power by never admitting weakness? Saying you're the winner, even after you've lost, is common for both Trump and Musk.

I'm just gonna say it: Everything about everyone involved in this administration screams people who are hired for their loyalty, not their skillsets.

The theory that they used Uninterruptible Power Supplies to modify the vote, and that they had enough people involved to pull this off, yet everyone kept their mouth shut, is not the level of competency I have seen from anyone in Trump's orbit.

As someone with a background in tech, I find it hard to believe. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. They can make up all the stories about they want in their own heads, until there's some proof of it, it's just as bullshit as Trump's claims of election fraud.

If Eaton pushed an update to those UPS units, it could have gained root-level access to the host tabulation environment—without ever modifying certified election software.

So yeah, we're gonna have to have a hell of a lot more to go on than "could have" here. Also I'm skeptical on the claim that Windows automatically trusts any connected UPS and skeptical about the "root level access" claim (including the fact that it is called administrator access on Windows, Windows doesn't have "root" accounts).

Part of the reason I'm skeptical on the root-level access claim regarding a UPS. If you could do this with any old UPS, this would make any and every UPS in existence a major attack vector to every computer and computer network in existence. I find it hard to believe that cybersecurity experts would have somehow missed this in the last 20 years that commercial level UPS's have been in use. That it was just somehow conveniently overlooked that you could override server administration with a UPS. I don't buy that.

EDIT: All this being said, I think a court case to reveal any evidence that is there is important. It's highly improbable but not impossible and so I hope the court case moves forward quickly.

I mean, the mom from Adventures of Pete & Pete had a bit part as a newscaster in Frankenhooker. Actors get around.

To be clear a lot of them want to rape the men, too.

Further, you could just say "rape the women" because "your" implies some weird ownership over them.

I see what you did there

Buying physical copies of both Get Your War On collections was one of the best things I ever did for myself.

Yeah of course you don't keep the drunk who spills the beans on a Signal chat in the loop.

Not with that attitude. Sounds like your weird still isn't enough of a pro yet.

It's my guess that they either have 1) weapons manufacturers donating to them or 2) have weapons manufacturing in their district (which they see as "job creation" for their constituents) or both.

In response, Democrats have claimed that Trump is sending the country into a constitutional crisis.

Fucking Jesus the constitutional crisis has been here for almost two months already. Great job Dems on underselling the seriousness of this.

The crisis is here and has been ongoing. Saying he is just sending us into it now is pussy shit.

incompetence, incontinence, tomato, tomahto

The guy who famously doesn't ever use a computer, "writing" and "signing" an Executive Order about Cybersecurity while complaining about Biden using the autopen.

It can't get any fucking stupider out here.

Everything is computer!

Reppin argyle socks instead of the classic striped, hell yeah.

If the Trump admin had it's way, the entire Suicide & Crisis Lifeline would be staffed with people who would just say "you're such a pussy, the world would be better without you anyway" to anyone and everyone.

Return of the chain gang busting limestone.

I don't need no damn pageboy when I can magic up a golem that can do the same job!

Page boys who complain about losing their jobs to magic are just luddites anyway.

Mandela Effect: He died in prison, therefore no reforms are needed. /s

He will use any excuse, whether people protest or not. He will say it's a rebellion if people just disagree with him politely.

The more people are willing to speak up and stand up, the less control he actually has. The more we cower in fear over what he might do when he's going to do it anyway the more power we're actually giving him.

Public defenders are also not offered for civil cases. If you need a lawyer for your civil case, you either need to find someone who will work for you pro bono or you have to risk filing it yourself and doing it wrong.