And did one of the participants here break one of these rules? Or did the people start crying foul after their preferred candidate lost? I sense some goal-post shifting going on here.

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAeqVGP-GPM Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Used to. Sadly.