mekka okereke Aug 25, 2023

US friends:

I don't want to hear any of you ever say that African countries have corrupt elections again.

Ever!

You hear me? That's over for y'all now.

And this dude is still the GOP front runner! By a long shot! Like, it's not even close! A lot of y'all are like "This is fine!"

And I don't want to hear "Oh no! We're like a 3rd world country now!" That's that mess I often hear after the US has acted exactly like the US. We're not "like a 3rd world country." We're like ourselves.

Show threadTVNRedAug 25, 2023
@mekkaokereke The system is corrupt. But the election itself, the casting and the counting of the votes is not…or at least to a large degree it is not. Those things are different.
Show threadmekka okereke Aug 25, 2023

@tvnred

That statement doesn't make sense to me.

Casting:
If a Black person that is legally allowed to cast a vote, is denied that right on election day, because racist people decided that they shouldn't get to vote, and this happens to 100s of thousands of people...

Counting:
If racist people storm the building where votes are being counted, specifically to "Stop the count" so that Black voters votes are not counted...

Is your argument that the election is not corrupt but the system is?

Show threadTVNRed
@mekkaokereke But the votes were counted. My main point is that there is actual election integrity. Trump’s argument that the election was stolen is BS. Of course people are denied the vote. But Trump won the votes cast in 2016 just like Biden did in 2020. Work on assuring people their vote but don’t undermine trust in the elections themselves.
Aug 25, 2023 at 6:12amWeb
Show threadmekka okereke Aug 25, 2023

@tvnred

What part of "the votes weren't counted" are you not understanding?

In 2000, Gore would have been president if they had counted all the votes of all Black and brown voters in Florida. But GOP operatives, including the people that did dirty tricks in 2016 and 2020 and are planning to again in 2024, lead the "Brooks brothers riot" and stormed the building shouting "stop the count!" while threatening election workers. They didn't count all the Black votes, and so Gore "lost."

Show threadmekka okereke Aug 25, 2023

@tvnred

Did you not know about the Brooks Brothers riot? Or are you claiming that somehow the election integrity is still maintained, because they did count the ballots that they did count? 🙂🙃

That distinction makes zero sense to me.

How do you think they steal elections in other countries? What's the difference in your mind, that makes US high integrity election, but other countries low integrity?