My favourite part of Linux cli is you only know you’ve done something when you get no feedback at all.

Theoretically, yes, but I suspect the manufacturing quality of SD cards is a lot lower than SSDs

Unless you are suggesting that actual election fraud took place, these guys got democratically elected.

From the outside it seems like this is what the majority of your voting public wanted, and the majority of your adult population were fine with it and chose not to vote. If it were the first time I would consider it as revealing a major flaw in your political system, but this is the second time, non consecutively, that this has happened. That just looks like this is representative of your people. Sorry.