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"Just find me 11,780 former pentagon chiefs" - Donnie "I'm fucked!" Two Scoops	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
16. More. Days.	1State Anger	[ 7, 12 ]
For the uninitiated, how is this extraordinary? They are former chiefs, and like many other formers govt employees who "warned", it did nothing to change people's mind about Trump	0Trait Anger	[ 0 ]
According to the leaked phone call, Trump is coming to remind Georgian’s not to trust the election and not to bother voting in the election because it’s “rigged” anyway. I guess losing all legislative control is how they’re going to “own the libs”?	1State Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
It's getting old - people who think this election was somehow hornswoggled by a rogue software company and a handful of Dems are mental....	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
>But objecting to certified electoral votes won't give him a second term -- it will only embolden those Democrats who want to erode further our system of constitutional government. I think we might have the perfect 10 in mental gymnastics.	1State Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
He's still a piece of trash.	0Trait Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
Im sure he plans on running.. why oppose the process that gets you elected.. its a political move and he still sucks	0Trait Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
It's telling that this subreddit holds random redditors to higher standards than our country demands of the President of the United States.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
Nothing, and I mean nothing can beat the absolute slug fest that was week long Nov 3rd.	1State Anger	[ 4 ]
I am pretty sure this means that someone has been making phone calls to generals asking for the military to support his coup.	1State Anger	[ 3, 4 ]
They 'Caution' him against it? Listen, if he can do it, he will do it. So, this tells me he's totally going to try and do this. Great.	1State Anger	[ 3, 4 ]
This letter was Dick Cheney's idea. A secret Democrat, who knew?	2Anger Expression	[ 16 ]
Why do I get the feeling Trump is unaware he's not as popular with the military as he thinks he is?	0Trait Anger	[ 16, 0 ]
It's almost like planning sedition is a crime or something.	2Anger Expression	[ 0, 1 ]
Now this is polracing.	1State Anger	[ 7 ]
The GOP fighting amongst themselves, Keep on keeping on	1State Anger	[ 7, 12 ]
Were the calls for impeachment before, or after the full recording of the phone call with the GA SoS was released?	1State Anger	[ 16, 3 ]
Or McConnell set up a show. Romney vs Cruz factions, setting Republicans (especially Romney as “the reasonable Republican”) up for post Trump politics.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
The GOP been trying to limit voting to whit conservatives fo 50 years	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
That and cheating are the only way they can win	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
And now confirmation that Raffensperger and his lawyer decided to record the call because Trump and Lindsey Graham previously lied about their efforts https://twitter.com/dandrezner/status/1346086967461765121	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
The part of that call that still fucking baffles me is the sequence concerning the Dominion machine shit. At one point Trump asks plainly if Dominion was removing machines. Ryan Germany says no. Afterwards Trump asks if Dominion was removing parts from the insides of the machines and replacing them. Germany again says no. Later in the call, Trump goes back to saying Dominion was removing machines. I firmly believe that many people use "gaslighting" too loosely to reference anything where two people have conflicting stories, but this is 100% gaslighting. Trump will keep asserting falsehoods over and over even when told they're not true.	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
If only we could have seen this coming - we could have impeached Trump.	1State Anger	[ 13, 14 ]
Actual opening paragraph: >Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Monday that it was unlikely his office would open an investigation into his weekend phone call with President Donald Trump, but suggested a criminal probe could still be launched by an Atlanta-area district attorney.	1State Anger	[ 3, 4 ]
He should be impeached after the fact and lose his presidential pension.	2Anger Expression	[ 2, 15 ]
Could, should, might, may, just kill me.	2Anger Expression	[ 3, 13 ]
This shouldn’t be optional. Numerous lawyers and politicians say this constituted a state and federal crime. Nobody’s above the law you say? Prove it.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 9, 11 ]
Well, sadly, nothing will come of it. Because Republicans have his back. Remember when he talked about shooting someone on fifth avenue? Well, he's spent quite a lot of magazines already.	0Trait Anger	[ 13, 0 ]
JFC. Just charge the MFer already.	1State Anger	[ 2 ]
Basically: Trump does the most treasonous thing a modern president has done. We might look into punishment later, I don't know.	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
Lock him up	1State Anger	[ 2 ]
Could.Should.Must. Everyday the same BS. Do it already!	0Trait Anger	[ 4 ]
Could but won't.	2Anger Expression	[ 2 ]
I can't wait for my family to tell me how this is fake news, how they saw that it's fake news on OAN, and this is all a deep state conspiracy. It's amazing how well they've insulated themselves from reality.	0Trait Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
First paragraph: >Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Monday that it was unlikely his office would open an investigation into his weekend phone call with President Donald Trump, but suggested a criminal probe could still be launched by an Atlanta-area district attorney. Don’t forget these are Georgia republicans. Just because he’s standing up to trump right now doesn’t make him a hero and doesn’t erase his past with this state either (he was in the house for 4 years prior to becoming SOS - followed by the Kemp saga).	0Trait Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
"contests" defeat in the same way that Tonya Harding "contested" the outcome of the 1994 US Figure Skating Championships	0Trait Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
Why would he face heat, for doing the right thing? Strange times we live in.....	1State Anger	[ 0, 13 ]
Lol "Neoliberal" is just the term that the purity-spiraling far left applies to anyone who doesn't meet their shitty litmus tests. In reality, these "neoliberal" Democrats are the only way to win. It's funny how the left would rather fight the Democrats than fight the Republicans who are actually causing our problems	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 9, 6 ]
I remember hearing about a country somewhere where instead of having crappy public housing, they hired renowned architects to build really nice apartment buildings in the middle of the city, and then priced the rent at an affordable level. Then they said if you get a better job and start making decent money you can pay a little extra and stay in the building. Once again, these are nice buildings right in the city center, so they're places people WANT to live. What ended up happening, was over time, people from all different income levels end up living in the same building. Relatively wealthy people were living next door to and interacting with people who needed assistance. That way, people could actually live near where they worked. The fast food worker and the banker could both walk to work. It sounded to me like a really simple, innovative way to reduce income inequality AND get people from different income levels to see and interact with eachother as human beings and not some faceless "they." Hell, it even reduces traffic.	0Trait Anger	[ 7, 12, 17 ]
I don't have a subscription so I can't read the article. I agree as long as we don't go with the "projects" style tenement housing that warehouses poor people in concentrated areas. They need to innovate and disperse this housing where the residents have decent opportunities to take advantage of a fair distribution of resources.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 9 ]
Also cut zoning regulations, in order to allow for the market to build housing. Don't need to cut any safety regulations or anything, just get rid of the unnecessary shit that's used by NIMBYs on the right and left to basically oppose any new housing construction. Allowing the market to build more housing will not only create more housing but lower the cost of housing due to more supply. And of course we can also invest government money specifically into affordable/low income housing too. This two pronged approach would do so much to help the housing crisis that is seen in various areas like California	1State Anger	[ 2, 9 ]
Invest in the poorest half of the population or in the case of the US, the poorest 80%. Housing, education, sports, community etc. This is the mythical rising tide that will lift all boats. Yes, there will always be people taking advantage of this but it is better to help 10 million people and fight fraud where you find it but accept that it will happen, than to help none out of fear of that abuse.	0Trait Anger	[ 3, 15, 12 ]
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Trump, on tape, committed a felony under Georgia law by soliciting election fraud.	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
This is the most open and shut case of trying to cheat an election that I've ever seen.	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
If Trump doesn't see some kind of punishment for his openly committed misdeeds the US will lose it's last shred of credibility.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 3, 15 ]
I find it incredibly odd...I just checked in over at r/conservative, and scrolled down through the last 12 hours or so of posts. There simply is no mention of this anywhere to be found over there. It must be a terrible thing to have reality continuously knocking on the door of a crafted alternate reality, and what constant maintenance the mods must have to do over there to make sure there isn't a breach. What a bunch of snowflakes.	0Trait Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
This entire call was everything Michael Cohen said trump normally does when he testified back in 2019. >“He doesn’t give you questions, he doesn’t give you orders,” Cohen said. “He speaks in a code, and I understand the code because I’ve been around him for a decade.”	0Trait Anger	[ 3, 4, 2 ]
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Fact checking Trumps phone call: https://apnews.com/article/ap-fact-check-donald-trump-georgia-elections-electoral-college-407d934b6649a4e4059ec28c4cb70512	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0, 6 ]
Brazen criminality. He belongs in prison for life.	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
I wonder when we're going to stop using the term 'on tape?'	0Trait Anger	[ 16 ]
The fact that he's only concerned with "finding" just enough votes to give him the win (versus every legally cast vote for either candidate) further proves he has never cared about "election integrity" or "free and fair elections" or whatever the talking point is.	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
Have tried looking in the couch cushions? - Trump	1State Anger	[ 16 ]
What is the point of this? Even if Georgia could somehow "flip" at this point, it's not going to do anything for him in terms of changing the election outcome.	0Trait Anger	[ 0, 9, 2 ]
He draws from personal experience. Trait of an effective liar. He knows people laugh at him behind his back.	0Trait Anger	[ 13, 0 ]
That whole call was Psychology 101 for Trump's fears. They're laughing at you. You look weak. I can tell you're a good lawyer by your last name. Trump is such a fuckwad child.	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
Trump, I’ve got news for you. The entire world is laughing at you.	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
For Trump, people laughing at him behind his back is the worst sin, the ultimate humiliation. His entire psyche is built around this - desperate for approval from those whom he secretly wants to be accepted by - the real rich, Hollywood, leaders of foreign governments. It’s what drives him and and is a substitute for that which he can no longer obtain- approval from Daddy.	0Trait Anger	[ 0, 13 ]
For sure, we definitely are. We're laughing at you, however, mister Trump. Our location is beside the point.	2Anger Expression	[ 7, 12 ]
In other news. Donald Trump has inquired about the possibility of transferring the penalties for his crimes upon his youngest child, Baron.	1State Anger	[ 0, 15 ]
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1346110956078817280?s=21 > How can you certify an election when the numbers being certified are verifiably WRONG. You will see the real numbers tonight during my speech, but especially on JANUARY 6th. @SenTomCotton Republicans have pluses & minuses, but one thing is sure, THEY NEVER FORGET So tonight’s rally is gonna almost only be about Trump instead of the senate races it’s confirmed	1State Anger	[ 2, 3, 4 ]
Their first point was "keep the tax cuts for the uber-wealthy". I stopped reading after that.	1State Anger	[ 0 ]
The owners of The Hill are huge Trump supporters. IDC what they wrote. Jettison everything Trump did, and salt the earth.	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
The policies: Keep the 2017 tax bill. Keep the Israeli Embassy in Jerusalem. Abraham Accords. Keep China in check. Overall, I feel that the first two are ludicrous, the third would benefit from the Iran Nuclear Deal, and Trump’s Tariff War undermined the Fourth.	1State Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
Being photographed at a campaign event with a “former” Klansman might make people a bit suspicious.	0Trait Anger	[ 0, 3 ]
Once again, we're counting on Black folks to save the Republic, despite being so poorly served by it. Inspiring and shaming at the same time.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0, 13 ]
Claim 3: 'They ran out because of a water-main break. And there was no water main, there was nothing. There was no break. An official investigation later clarified "what was initially reported as a water leak... was actually a urinal that had overflowed".	1State Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
>So why not record the call with the president, Raffensperger’s advisers thought, if nothing else for fact-checking purposes. “This is a man who has a history of reinventing history as it occurs,” one of them told Playbook. “So if he’s going to try to dispute anything on the call, it’s nice to have something like this, hard evidence, to dispute whatever he’s claiming about the secretary. Lindsey Graham asked us to throw out legally cast ballots. So yeah, after that call, we decided maybe we should do this.” > >Raffensperger’s team kept quiet about the call and the recording and waited. The president made the next move, claiming on Sunday morning via Twitter that Raffensperger was “unwilling, or unable, to answer” questions about his baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. “Respectfully, President Trump: What you're saying is not true,” Raffensperger [replied](https://twitter.com/GaSecofState/status/1345753643593687040) at 10:27 a.m. “The truth will come out.” It wasn’t an empty promise.	2Anger Expression	[ 3, 4, 2 ]
Finally a recording of a “perfect call”	1State Anger	[ 16, 7 ]
I mean, that's good but I don't think people are going to shop hospitals when they are having a heart attack. Or when they only have one option in their rural community	0Trait Anger	[ 13, 14 ]
From the editorial: > Patients now have the right to know the actual price of their hospital care before they get it. Patients who are experiencing a stroke, brain aneurysm, anaphylactic shock, heart attack, seizures, and a whole bunch of other medical issues are not able to compare prices of hospital care before they get it. The right to know actual price of care is a minimal measure that does not resolve intrinsic issues with our current healthcare system.	1State Anger	[ 2, 9 ]
Any abuser is the most dangerous when you try to leave.	0Trait Anger	[ 3, 4 ]
Trump just singled out Tom Cotton for not backing Ted Cruz's scheme https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1346110956078817280 And apparently Trump still intends to use his Georgia speech tonight to rail against Kemp and Raffensperger	1State Anger	[ 2, 6 ]
My biggest fear is that he drops a nuke on Iran. I hope there are generals telling him 'No' like they did whenever he brought up a military parade down Pennsylvania Ave.	1State Anger	[ 3, 4 ]
Somebody needs to just keep putting food in front of him. Keep his hands busy and his mouth full. Bonus if he eats so much he gets tired and takes a nap.	2Anger Expression	[ 7, 12 ]
Mary Trump did the talk-show circuit weeks ago, warning us that this was about to happen...	0Trait Anger	[ 3, 13 ]
May be? It should be expected that Trump is going to to insane things for the remainder of his term. I fully expect at some point he will literally call for his supporters to engage in violence to defend him and keep him in power. What is he going to say to everyone on January 6? He's certainly not going to tell protesters to remain calm, he's already asked them to be "wild." There's no low that he will not stoop to. He's a danger not only to the country, but to the world right now.	1State Anger	[ 3, 4, 5, 6 ]
"If I take one more step, it will be the farthest away from democracy I've ever been." Except Sam says it all of the way from the Shire to Mordor.	0Trait Anger	[ 3, 4 ]
He’s desperate and has power that is largely unchallenged by GOP officials.	0Trait Anger	[ 3, 4 ]
Eh. No, they’re liars and traitors.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
Cruz has a creep factor that makes almost everything that comes out of his mouth look like it went in through his asshole first.	2Anger Expression	[ 0, 2 ]
let me guess, if the republicans lose it'll be lawsuit and lawsuit after lawsuit, and if they win by even 1 vote on election night it's "SHUT IT ALL DOWN, STOP COUNTING"	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
> The polls are set to close at 7 p.m. EST on Election Day, and that’s when ballot counting can begin. Absentee ballots must be received by the close of polls to be counted. Military and overseas ballots postmarked by Tuesday and received by Friday will be counted, and absentee voters also have until Friday to fix any problems so their votes can be counted. > No ballots, including absentee ballots received in advance of Election Day, can be counted until the polls close. But a state election board rule requires county election officials to begin processing absentee ballots — verifying signatures on the outer envelope, opening the envelopes and scanning the ballots — before Election Day. So, basically the same thing as November. We won't know the final result until this weekend at the earliest.	1State Anger	[ 3, 4 ]
Right-wing rag ignores all the extremists empowered by their side which includes Kyle Rittenhouse, Proud Boys, Neo-Nazis, Boogaloo Bois, anti-maskers, and more. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/right-wing-plot-kidnap-michigan-gov-whitmer.html https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-race-and-ethnicity-suburbs-health-racial-injustice-7edf9027af1878283f3818d96c54f748 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/23/texas-boogaloo-boi-minneapolis-police-building-george-floyd	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
Projection. Its Republicans that are about to pay an actual price via control of the Senate for empowering Qanon.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
Garbage Murdoch drivel. Probably published today due to a phone call by trump begging for a distraction.	1State Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
Yes, I distinctly remember that when Nancy Pelosi was asked to condemn left wing violence from groups like BLM and the mythical AntiFa she refused and instead said 'stand back and stand by.' Must have been Halloween because she was made up like an Oompa Loompa and had her hair arranged in a bad combover.	0Trait Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
What a bunch of garbage.	1State Anger	[ 0 ]
>~~Democrats~~ Republicans are now paying the price for empowering ~~Antifa~~ Trump. Fixed the headline.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
Murdoch moving on to the next cultural/political wedge.	0Trait Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
Note the 100% consistent trend is that any GOP "accusation" turns out to be their own "admission" of the same action. lol	0Trait Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
>“To say that I am troubled by President Donald Trump’s attempt to manipulate the votes of Georgians would be an understatement,” Worley wrote in the email. > >He asserted that “our job as members of the State Election Board is to enforce the Georgia Election Code.” > >“Among our responsibilities is to determine whether probable cause exists to refer potential civil and criminal violations of the Code to the Georgia Attorney General and local District Attorneys,” Worley told Raffensperger. > >The official emphasized his alarm over Trump’s gambit in an [interview](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/03/investigation-law-trump-georgia-phone-call/) with the Washington Post, which had [published](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-raffensperger-call-georgia-vote/2021/01/03/d45acb92-4dc4-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html) the phone call on Sunday. > >“It’s a crime to solicit election fraud, and asking the secretary to change the votes is a textbook definition of election fraud,” Worley told the Post. No waffling. Deciding to ignore this is a red flag that the State Election Board will ignore malfeasance at the highest level. They will really earn the distrust of Georgians if they choose to overlook what we've all heard on tape. E: Punctuation	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
Raffensperger is no hero, him and Brian Kemp stole the gubernatorial election from Stacy Abrams, he might be a hero by default he helped light the fire that turned Georgia blue. Trump knows this and it's probably why he's so insistent that if they cheated for themselves then cheating for him should be no big deal.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
Sounds like a crime worthy of investigating to me. It’s not too late to impeach this loser again.	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
Investigation is not necessary. He committed a crime in front of the authorities of the state of Georgia. The world is witness to it. Charge his ass.	1State Anger	[ 2, 9, 10 ]
From the article: >\[...\] Which raises a question: In a future presidential election, if Republicans control both chambers of Congress and similar objections are brought against a victorious Democrat’s electors, mightn’t they succeed in invalidating them? > >“It’s become a lot easier to envision that in the last month,” Alexander Keyssar, the leading historian of U.S. democracy, told me. “I find this to be very worrisome — very disturbing.”	1State Anger	[ 3, 4, 5, 6 ]
Trump's strategy is two fold. He wants to rally his base to him because he fears going to jail. Mark my words, he'll be calling for his supporters to go the streets and commit violence when he is threatened with prosecution. Second, is of course he is squeezing as much money from them as he can because he doesn't know anything else. A conman to the very end. But, the author is right obviously these Republicans are just trying to curry favor with Trump' voting base to further their own careers. But, what happens if there are no consequences for these nakedly self serving corrupt actions inflicted against our democracy?	1State Anger	[ 3, 2, 0 ]
"He should be happy", added Fat Don, "Soon Democracy itself will be history. Will be huge for the book business."	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]

"Just find me 11,780 former pentagon chiefs" - Donnie "I'm fucked!" Two Scoops

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16. More. Days.

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For the uninitiated, how is this extraordinary? They are former chiefs, and like many other formers govt employees who "warned", it did nothing to change people's mind about Trump

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According to the leaked phone call, Trump is coming to remind Georgian’s not to trust the election and not to bother voting in the election because it’s “rigged” anyway. I guess losing all legislative control is how they’re going to “own the libs”?

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It's getting old - people who think this election was somehow hornswoggled by a rogue software company and a handful of Dems are mental....

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>But objecting to certified electoral votes won't give him a second term -- it will only embolden those Democrats who want to erode further our system of constitutional government. I think we might have the perfect 10 in mental gymnastics.

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He's still a piece of trash.

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Im sure he plans on running.. why oppose the process that gets you elected.. its a political move and he still sucks

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It's telling that this subreddit holds random redditors to higher standards than our country demands of the President of the United States.

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Nothing, and I mean nothing can beat the absolute slug fest that was week long Nov 3rd.

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I am pretty sure this means that someone has been making phone calls to generals asking for the military to support his coup.

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They 'Caution' him against it? Listen, if he can do it, he will do it. So, this tells me he's totally going to try and do this. Great.

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This letter was Dick Cheney's idea. A secret Democrat, who knew?

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Why do I get the feeling Trump is unaware he's not as popular with the military as he thinks he is?

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It's almost like planning sedition is a crime or something.

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Now this is polracing.

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The GOP fighting amongst themselves, Keep on keeping on

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Were the calls for impeachment before, or after the full recording of the phone call with the GA SoS was released?

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Or McConnell set up a show. Romney vs Cruz factions, setting Republicans (especially Romney as “the reasonable Republican”) up for post Trump politics.

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The GOP been trying to limit voting to whit conservatives fo 50 years

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That and cheating are the only way they can win

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And now confirmation that Raffensperger and his lawyer decided to record the call because Trump and Lindsey Graham previously lied about their efforts https://twitter.com/dandrezner/status/1346086967461765121

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The part of that call that still fucking *baffles* me is the sequence concerning the Dominion machine shit. At one point Trump asks plainly if Dominion was removing machines. Ryan Germany says no. Afterwards Trump asks if Dominion was removing parts from the insides of the machines and replacing them. Germany again says no. Later in the call, Trump *goes back to saying Dominion was removing machines*. I firmly believe that many people use "gaslighting" too loosely to reference anything where two people have conflicting stories, but this is 100% gaslighting. Trump will keep asserting falsehoods over and over even when told they're not true.

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If only we could have seen this coming - we could have impeached Trump.

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Actual opening paragraph: >Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Monday that it was **unlikely his office would open an investigation** into his weekend phone call with President Donald Trump, but suggested **a criminal probe could still be launched by an Atlanta-area district attorney.**

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He should be impeached after the fact and lose his presidential pension.

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Could, should, might, may, just kill me.

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This shouldn’t be optional. Numerous lawyers and politicians say this constituted a state and federal crime. Nobody’s above the law you say? Prove it.

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Well, sadly, nothing will come of it. Because Republicans have his back. Remember when he talked about shooting someone on fifth avenue? Well, he's spent quite a lot of magazines already.

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JFC. Just charge the MFer already.

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Basically: Trump does the most treasonous thing a modern president has done. We might look into punishment later, I don't know.

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Lock him up

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Could.Should.Must. Everyday the same BS. Do it already!

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Could but won't.

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I can't wait for my family to tell me how this is fake news, how they saw that it's fake news on OAN, and this is all a deep state conspiracy. It's amazing how well they've insulated themselves from reality.

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First paragraph: >Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Monday that it was unlikely his office would open an investigation into his weekend phone call with President Donald Trump, but suggested a criminal probe could still be launched by an Atlanta-area district attorney. Don’t forget these are Georgia republicans. Just because he’s standing up to trump right now doesn’t make him a hero and doesn’t erase his past with this state either (he was in the house for 4 years prior to becoming SOS - followed by the Kemp saga).

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"contests" defeat in the same way that Tonya Harding "contested" the outcome of the 1994 US Figure Skating Championships

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Why would he face heat, for doing the right thing? Strange times we live in.....

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Lol "Neoliberal" is just the term that the purity-spiraling far left applies to anyone who doesn't meet their shitty litmus tests. In reality, these "neoliberal" Democrats are the only way to win. It's funny how the left would rather fight the Democrats than fight the Republicans who are actually causing our problems

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I remember hearing about a country somewhere where instead of having crappy public housing, they hired renowned architects to build really nice apartment buildings in the middle of the city, and then priced the rent at an affordable level. Then they said if you get a better job and start making decent money you can pay a little extra and stay in the building. Once again, these are nice buildings right in the city center, so they're places people WANT to live. What ended up happening, was over time, people from all different income levels end up living in the same building. Relatively wealthy people were living next door to and interacting with people who needed assistance. That way, people could actually live near where they worked. The fast food worker and the banker could both walk to work. It sounded to me like a really simple, innovative way to reduce income inequality AND get people from different income levels to see and interact with eachother as human beings and not some faceless "they." Hell, it even reduces traffic.

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I don't have a subscription so I can't read the article. I agree as long as we don't go with the "projects" style tenement housing that warehouses poor people in concentrated areas. They need to innovate and disperse this housing where the residents have decent opportunities to take advantage of a fair distribution of resources.

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Also cut zoning regulations, in order to allow for the market to build housing. Don't need to cut any safety regulations or anything, just get rid of the unnecessary shit that's used by NIMBYs on the right and left to basically oppose any new housing construction. Allowing the market to build more housing will not only create more housing but lower the cost of housing due to more supply. And of course we can also invest government money specifically into affordable/low income housing too. This two pronged approach would do so much to help the housing crisis that is seen in various areas like California

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Invest in the poorest half of the population or in the case of the US, the poorest 80%. Housing, education, sports, community etc. *This* is the mythical rising tide that will lift all boats. Yes, there will always be people taking advantage of this but it is better to help 10 million people and fight fraud where you find it but accept that it will happen, than to help none out of fear of that abuse.

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Trump, on tape, committed a felony under Georgia law by soliciting election fraud.

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This is the most open and shut case of trying to cheat an election that I've ever seen.

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If Trump doesn't see some kind of punishment for his openly committed misdeeds the US will lose it's last shred of credibility.

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I find it incredibly odd...I just checked in over at r/conservative, and scrolled down through the last 12 hours or so of posts. There simply is no mention of this anywhere to be found over there. It must be a terrible thing to have reality continuously knocking on the door of a crafted alternate reality, and what constant maintenance the mods must have to do over there to make sure there isn't a breach. What a bunch of snowflakes.

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This entire call was everything Michael Cohen said trump normally does when he testified back in 2019. >“He doesn’t give you questions, he doesn’t give you orders,” Cohen said. “He speaks in a code, and I understand the code because I’ve been around him for a decade.”

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Fact checking Trumps phone call: https://apnews.com/article/ap-fact-check-donald-trump-georgia-elections-electoral-college-407d934b6649a4e4059ec28c4cb70512

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Brazen criminality. He belongs in prison for life.

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I wonder when we're going to stop using the term 'on tape?'

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The fact that he's only concerned with "finding" just enough votes to give him the win (versus every legally cast vote for either candidate) further proves he has never cared about "election integrity" or "free and fair elections" or whatever the talking point is.

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Have tried looking in the couch cushions? - Trump

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What is the point of this? Even if Georgia could somehow "flip" at this point, it's not going to do anything for him in terms of changing the election outcome.

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He draws from personal experience. Trait of an effective liar. He knows people laugh at him behind his back.

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That whole call was Psychology 101 for Trump's fears. They're laughing at you. You look weak. I can tell you're a good lawyer by your last name. Trump is such a fuckwad child.

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Trump, I’ve got news for you. The entire world is laughing at you.

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For Trump, people laughing at him behind his back is the worst sin, the ultimate humiliation. His entire psyche is built around this - desperate for approval from those whom he secretly wants to be accepted by - the real rich, Hollywood, leaders of foreign governments. It’s what drives him and and is a substitute for that which he can no longer obtain- approval from Daddy.

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For sure, we definitely are. We're laughing at you, however, mister Trump. Our location is beside the point.

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In other news. Donald Trump has inquired about the possibility of transferring the penalties for his crimes upon his youngest child, Baron.

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https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1346110956078817280?s=21 > How can you certify an election when the numbers being certified are verifiably WRONG. You will see the real numbers tonight during my speech, but especially on JANUARY 6th. @SenTomCotton Republicans have pluses & minuses, but one thing is sure, THEY NEVER FORGET So tonight’s rally is gonna almost only be about Trump instead of the senate races it’s confirmed

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Their first point was "keep the tax cuts for the uber-wealthy". I stopped reading after that.

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The owners of The Hill are huge Trump supporters. IDC what they wrote. Jettison everything Trump did, and salt the earth.

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The policies: Keep the 2017 tax bill. Keep the Israeli Embassy in Jerusalem. Abraham Accords. Keep China in check. Overall, I feel that the first two are ludicrous, the third would benefit from the Iran Nuclear Deal, and Trump’s Tariff War undermined the Fourth.

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Being photographed at a campaign event with a “former” Klansman might make people a bit suspicious.

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Once again, we're counting on Black folks to save the Republic, despite being so poorly served by it. Inspiring and shaming at the same time.

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Claim 3: 'They ran out because of a water-main break. And there was no water main, there was nothing. There was no break. An official investigation later clarified "what was initially reported as a water leak... was actually a urinal that had overflowed".

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>So why not record the call with the president, Raffensperger’s advisers thought, if nothing else for fact-checking purposes. “This is a man who has a history of reinventing history as it occurs,” one of them told Playbook. “So if he’s going to try to dispute anything on the call, it’s nice to have something like this, hard evidence, to dispute whatever he’s claiming about the secretary. Lindsey Graham asked us to throw out legally cast ballots. So yeah, after that call, we decided maybe we should do this.” > >Raffensperger’s team kept quiet about the call and the recording and waited. The president made the next move, claiming on Sunday morning via Twitter that Raffensperger was “unwilling, or unable, to answer” questions about his baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. “Respectfully, President Trump: What you're saying is not true,” Raffensperger [replied](https://twitter.com/GaSecofState/status/1345753643593687040) at 10:27 a.m. “The truth will come out.” It wasn’t an empty promise.

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Finally a recording of a “perfect call”

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I mean, that's good but I don't think people are going to shop hospitals when they are having a heart attack. Or when they only have one option in their rural community

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From the editorial: > Patients now have the right to know the actual price of their hospital care before they get it. Patients who are experiencing a stroke, brain aneurysm, anaphylactic shock, heart attack, seizures, and a whole bunch of other medical issues are not able to compare prices of hospital care before they get it. The right to know actual price of care is a minimal measure that does not resolve intrinsic issues with our current healthcare system.

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Any abuser is the most dangerous when you try to leave.

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Trump just singled out Tom Cotton for not backing Ted Cruz's scheme https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1346110956078817280 And apparently Trump still intends to use his Georgia speech tonight to rail against Kemp and Raffensperger

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My biggest fear is that he drops a nuke on Iran. I hope there are generals telling him 'No' like they did whenever he brought up a military parade down Pennsylvania Ave.

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Somebody needs to just keep putting food in front of him. Keep his hands busy and his mouth full. Bonus if he eats so much he gets tired and takes a nap.

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Mary Trump did the talk-show circuit weeks ago, warning us that this was about to happen...

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May be? It should be expected that Trump is going to to insane things for the remainder of his term. I fully expect at some point he will literally call for his supporters to engage in violence to defend him and keep him in power. What is he going to say to everyone on January 6? He's certainly not going to tell protesters to remain calm, he's already asked them to be "wild." There's no low that he will not stoop to. He's a danger not only to the country, but to the world right now.

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"If I take one more step, it will be the farthest away from democracy I've ever been." Except Sam says it all of the way from the Shire to Mordor.

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He’s desperate and has power that is largely unchallenged by GOP officials.

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Eh. No, they’re liars and traitors.

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Cruz has a creep factor that makes almost everything that comes out of his mouth look like it went in through his asshole first.

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let me guess, if the republicans lose it'll be lawsuit and lawsuit after lawsuit, and if they win by even 1 vote on election night it's "SHUT IT ALL DOWN, STOP COUNTING"

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> The polls are set to close at 7 p.m. EST on Election Day, and that’s when ballot counting can begin. Absentee ballots must be received by the close of polls to be counted. Military and overseas ballots postmarked by Tuesday and received by Friday will be counted, and absentee voters also have until Friday to fix any problems so their votes can be counted. > No ballots, including absentee ballots received in advance of Election Day, can be counted until the polls close. But a state election board rule requires county election officials to begin processing absentee ballots — verifying signatures on the outer envelope, opening the envelopes and scanning the ballots — before Election Day. So, basically the same thing as November. We won't know the final result until this weekend at the earliest.

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Right-wing rag ignores all the extremists empowered by their side which includes Kyle Rittenhouse, Proud Boys, Neo-Nazis, Boogaloo Bois, anti-maskers, and more. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/right-wing-plot-kidnap-michigan-gov-whitmer.html https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-race-and-ethnicity-suburbs-health-racial-injustice-7edf9027af1878283f3818d96c54f748 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/23/texas-boogaloo-boi-minneapolis-police-building-george-floyd

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Projection. Its Republicans that are about to pay an actual price via control of the Senate for empowering Qanon.

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Garbage Murdoch drivel. Probably published today due to a phone call by trump begging for a distraction.

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Yes, I distinctly remember that when Nancy Pelosi was asked to condemn left wing violence from groups like BLM and the mythical AntiFa she refused and instead said 'stand back and stand by.' Must have been Halloween because she was made up like an Oompa Loompa and had her hair arranged in a bad combover.

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What a bunch of garbage.

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>~~Democrats~~ Republicans are now paying the price for empowering ~~Antifa~~ Trump. Fixed the headline.

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Murdoch moving on to the next cultural/political wedge.

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Note the 100% consistent trend is that any GOP "accusation" turns out to be their own "admission" of the same action. lol

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>“To say that I am troubled by President Donald Trump’s attempt to manipulate the votes of Georgians would be an understatement,” Worley wrote in the email. > >He asserted that “our job as members of the State Election Board is to enforce the Georgia Election Code.” > >“Among our responsibilities is to determine whether probable cause exists to refer potential civil and criminal violations of the Code to the Georgia Attorney General and local District Attorneys,” Worley told Raffensperger. > >The official emphasized his alarm over Trump’s gambit in an [interview](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/03/investigation-law-trump-georgia-phone-call/) with the Washington Post, which had [published](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-raffensperger-call-georgia-vote/2021/01/03/d45acb92-4dc4-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html) the phone call on Sunday. > >“**It’s a crime to solicit election fraud, and asking the secretary to change the votes is a textbook definition of election fraud**,” Worley told the Post. No waffling. Deciding to ignore this is a red flag that the State Election Board will ignore malfeasance at the highest level. They will really earn the distrust of Georgians if they choose to overlook what we've all heard on tape. E: Punctuation

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Raffensperger is no hero, him and Brian Kemp stole the gubernatorial election from Stacy Abrams, he might be a hero by default he helped light the fire that turned Georgia blue. Trump knows this and it's probably why he's so insistent that if they cheated for themselves then cheating for him should be no big deal.

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Sounds like a crime worthy of investigating to me. It’s not too late to impeach this loser again.

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Investigation is not necessary. He committed a crime in front of the authorities of the state of Georgia. The world is witness to it. Charge his ass.

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From the article: >\[...\] Which raises a question: In a future presidential election, if Republicans control both chambers of Congress and similar objections are brought against a victorious Democrat’s electors, mightn’t they succeed in invalidating them? > >“It’s become a lot easier to envision that in the last month,” Alexander Keyssar, the leading historian of U.S. democracy, told me. “I find this to be very worrisome — very disturbing.”

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Trump's strategy is two fold. He wants to rally his base to him because he fears going to jail. Mark my words, he'll be calling for his supporters to go the streets and commit violence when he is threatened with prosecution. Second, is of course he is squeezing as much money from them as he can because he doesn't know anything else. A conman to the very end. But, the author is right obviously these Republicans are just trying to curry favor with Trump' voting base to further their own careers. But, what happens if there are no consequences for these nakedly self serving corrupt actions inflicted against our democracy?

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"He should be happy", added Fat Don, "Soon Democracy itself will be history. Will be huge for the book business."

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