[Hoot Gibson]

An honest question for those who are crying about the election being rigged. Was your outrage just as vociferous and demonstrative in 2016 when it was shown that Trump's comrades, the Russians , interfered to rig the election in Trump's favor?  Hoot said that there is no way a" feeble old man suffering from dementia"(not true, btw) could have gotten more votes than Obama or Hillary. How could a lifelong con man that has failed in virtually every business venture he undertook have gotten more votes that an accomplished professional and experienced diplomat like Clinton?  We know Russia had a role. Did you show your outrage then?

You know, I became convinced that this Trump thing is a cult when talking to my dear mother.  Mom used to be a fervent Bill and Hillary Clinton supporter.  A few years ago, she began to rely on social media for her sole source of "news."  She became vulnerable to ridiculous conspiracy theories and became a Trump "follower. "  I asked her back during the summer if there is anything Trump could do that would change her mind and make her drop her support for him. Rape? Murder? Treason? Pedophilia?  What mom, would lose your support?  "Absolutely nothing," mom replied. I knew then that there was no way to  change the thinking of a MAGA/QANON person.  Serious deprogramming would have to occur.  I think the Tea Party opened the door  to what the GOP has morphed into today. With the way Texas, Ga, and Arizona is changing demographically and with the once Mitt Romney-John McCain-Ronald Reagan-George Bush Republican Party being usurped by Trump, the GOP may never win another Presidential election. Texas will be blue in 2024 and it's "game over" for the Trump Party.

The Russians did not help get Trump elected in 2016. You fell for a hoax that was intended to put Trump on the defensive and divert attention from Hillary Clinton's illegal use of a personal email server at home. Some of the email sent through that non-secure server was classified.

Nothing will convince me that Joe Biden won the election. I vaguely remember LBJ visiting Paintsville as a very young boy. Thousands of people turned out to see the president. My dad lifted me onto his shoulder so that I could see. I contrast that memory and seeing tens of thousands of people attending Trump rallies with Biden's inability to fill a small parking lot. There was no enthusiasm for Biden and enthusiasm drives turnout. Hillary also had difficulty drawing an audience but even her crowds dwarfed those that Biden drew. Obama's supporters were energized because many people wanted to see and support the first serious black presidential candidate.

Regardless of what you think about Donald Trump, his job approval is around 50 percent, which is at least as high as Obama's rating when he ran for his second term. Incumbent presidents with high approval ratings have consistently won reelection. IMO, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden are the two weakest Democrat presidential candidates to run during my lifetime and that includes Dukakis and Mondale.

Whether you dismiss Trump's supporters as cult members or not, you would have to be blind and deaf to believe that Trump does not enjoy widespread, enthusiastic support. The evidence of widespread election fraud is overwhelming and you will not convince me that Joe Biden, a man who performed very poorly when he twice ran for president previously, before his sharp mental decline, won the election.

I write computer software for a living and I am required to take the same annual training that Hillary Clinton was required to have that covers network security and operations security. If I plug a flash drive into my computer, an email message is sent to my department manager warning that I have connected an unauthorized storage device to my computer. If I continue to hook devices up to a USB port, I get banned from the network, which keeps me from doing my job, and then get terminated for not being able to do my job.

I have watched videos of vote counters connecting flash drives to voting machines and then hooking the flash drives to laptops connected to the internet. The Dominion voting machines are not secure. There is no legitimate reason for moving data back and forth between laptops and the voting machines.

Until there is a thorough audit performed on the voting machines used in the battleground states, nobody will be able to say with any certainty that the vote counts were valid and that nobody tampered with them.

As for states turning blue, if Joe Biden and/or Kamala Harris serves a term as president, that trend will likely be reversed. Rigged elections are no substitute for actual support of the electorate. Democrat governors are already destroying the economies of blue states by making it impossible for many small businesses to stay open. When Biden/Harris take those policies national, their popularity will sink even lower than it is now. Those of us who voted for Trump - and 70 percent of us believe that Trump won the election - are never going to support socialist policies of the left.