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The blatant corruption of the Republican Mafia needs to be confronted & investigated at at every level of government.	2Anger Expression	[ 2, 9, 11 ]
I wonder if ES&S machines are used in Palm Springs area or Southern Texas near the Mexican borders.	0Trait Anger	[ 3 ]
"Courts are not instruments through which parties engage in such gamesmanship or symbolic political gestures. As a result, at the conclusion of this litigation, the Court will determine whether to issue an order to show cause why this matter should not be referred to its Committee on Grievances for potential discipline of Plaintiffs’ counsel." Nice.	1State Anger	[ 2, 15, 0 ]
"Courts are not instruments through which parties engage in such gamesmanship or symbolic political gestures. As a result, at the conclusion of this litigation, the Court will determine whether to issue an order to show cause why this matter should not be referred to its Committee on Grievances for potential discipline of Plaintiffs’ counsel." Yes, please!	1State Anger	[ 2, 15, 4 ]
>Boasberg, an Obama appointee to the federal district court in D.C., tore into the plaintiffs in his decision, saying it was "not a stretch to find a serious lack of good faith here," and warning that they may be subject to sanctions from the court. Yeah... should be sanctions. But nothing ever happens.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
They are now 1-61.	1State Anger	[ 13, 14 ]
Donald Trump is a felon and a con man. He has been like that, and he was voted in spite of that. A con man must be inside the jail.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
This guy is just dunking on all of Trump’s lies. It’s glorious.	1State Anger	[ 7, 12 ]
I've said before and it gets more true everyday. Republicans wanted a civil war if Biden won. They got it. It's amongst themselves.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0, 6 ]
Summary: yes.	1State Anger	[ 8 ]
Depends on who you ask - Anyone with a shred of integrity and a working brain? Yep. Donnie's ass sucking groupies? Nope.	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
Violated GA law just by virtue of his position and the fact that he asked for it. O.C.G.A. §16-4-7 states: A person commits the offense of criminal solicitation when, with intent that another person engage in conduct constituting a felony, he solicits, requests, commands, importunes, or otherwise attempts to cause the other person to engage in such conduct. The phrase “or otherwise attempts to cause the other person to engage in such conduct” has been interpreted to mean that there is a clear and present danger of the other person performing a felony. It’s still solicitation if the other person refuses to perform the felony.	2Anger Expression	[ 2, 0, 15 ]
Was just listening to this. He tore into a bunch of the claims line-by-line. It was about as strong a rebuke as I would have thought possible from someone in the Republican party.	1State Anger	[ 16, 7 ]
Not sure who saw this just now (3:30 Eastern Time) but the top Georgia Election Offical who spoken brought a board to discredit Trump’s claims. He then went trough the claims one by one and disproved each. It was an amazing takedown. I’m sure he heads of any Trump supporters who watched are currently exploding! Edit: the officials name is Gabriel Sterling.	1State Anger	[ 7, 16 ]
That guy was spitting fire Gabriel Sterling, that is	1State Anger	[ 16, 7 ]
Gabriel Sterling was visibly so over Trump's bullshit during the press conference.	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
I don't want to harp on one network or the other because I think they all have their own agendas, but Fox News cut him off while he was still speaking so they could put their spin on it. If you wanted to watch the whole thing through to the end you had to watch another network. Draw your own conclusions from that.	2Anger Expression	[ 0, 2 ]
A murdered by words lecture. Never seen anything like it.	1State Anger	[ 16, 15 ]
I applaud him for standing up against the devil’s tongue with the truth. Sadly it’ll make no difference to the people who are too far gone. Of which there is a not-so-insignificant amount of.	2Anger Expression	[ 13, 0 ]
For anyone like me who missed it, I found it elsewhere. I found a livestream on youtube from The Guardian that you can scroll back on, at least for now. https://youtu.be/TQ8QXdPRiAI	1State Anger	[ 12 ]
Here's a video of the press conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOExxqWfH8k I would say it was "thorough" but that would be wildly understating how much ground he covers. You have to wonder how much research dude did on Facebook to even find all these bullshit complaints. Sanity Warning: The chat is visible, and MAGAs are NOT happy.	1State Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
I have such a love hate relationship with how people are finally calling Trump out on his shit. On one hand I'm glad everyone, from the media to elected officials, is finally doing it. On the other hand I'm pissed it took him losing reelection for people to have the balls to finally do so.	1State Anger	[ 2, 7 ]
I like how the narrative shifted from "facts over feelings" to "fuck your feelings". The republican party has lost all it's facts and only relies on hate and feelings that back up their hate at this point.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
>“This is all easily provably false,” Mr Sterling said. Amen.	1State Anger	[ 2, 9, 10 ]
This is sooo cathartic to watch Edit: the ASL interpreter is amazing. I think I love him	1State Anger	[ 7, 17, 12 ]
Oh man they’re not going to finish the list until next year :-(	1State Anger	[ 13, 14 ]
He read us the whole damn essay he wrote last night.	1State Anger	[ 2, 9, 10 ]
A few quotes from the article: >Georgia elections official Gabriel Sterling, a Republican, has defended his state’s election procedures from attacks by the president and his legal team as some Republicans in Washington try to overturn the 2020 presidential election results And: >The false claims ... have filtered their way through the online conservative ecosystem. "The facts tell a different story." said Sterling. And: >Georgia Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office had shown Mr Trump’s team a tape disproving their theory, but the president has persisted in spreading it. Thankfully there are Republicans still willing to do the right thing.	1State Anger	[ 2, 0, 15 ]
> "there is illegal voting in every single election in th history of mankind, because there are human beings involved in the process." I like that while he spends the time disproving all of the misinformation, he is honest enough to admit the hard truth. There will always be people who get away with it, and elections will never be perfect. HUMANS ARE NOT PERFECT. But the numbers Trump is claiming are just ridiculous. Like living in another reality. The President doesnt know or understand the meticulousness that goes into these processes to refute them. He only boasts and screams at others. If you have the patience to watch these facts laid out in 30 mins, then Congratulations! You probably have more attention span and grasp of reality than The President.	1State Anger	[ 2, 0, 9, 6 ]
So refreshing to have an adult give straight up information backed up by actual facts. Not only that but also discussing things in an organized manner. Our fucking bar for public officials has hit an all time low, you'd think everyone would be able to have an organized talk.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
This is wonderful. We need more public officials to step up and do something like this. Shut down the feelings crowd with facts and reality that cannot be disagreed with. edit: The scrolling comments on this vid - granted this was a Fox Business link, so you know what the majority are going to be like going in - are still nonetheless disappointing. Here is a public official refuting baseless claims with vague facts the president has spewed with very specific and precise numbers, statistics, timeframes and explanations... and these people are still 100% all in on the fraud claims. SMH.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0, 9, 6, 14 ]
This guy is so over this shit. Also, the sign language interpreter has become the physical manifestation of sarcasm.	2Anger Expression	[ 0, 2 ]
Robert Reich: Trump committed a crime under Georgia law -- criminal solicitation of election fraud. As the Supreme Court held in Trump v. Vance (2020), a sitting president is subject to criminal process. So when he enters Georgia, he can be arrested and charged. https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1345889175380185088?s=20	1State Anger	[ 2, 3 ]
I watched the whole thing and he really came across as a Republican whose seen the early voting results and is begging Republicans to show up an vote. He was definitely pissed at Trump but it really seemed like he was pleading with GOP voters.	1State Anger	[ 4 ]
i like this dude	0Trait Anger	[ 7 ]
Satisfying beyond description.	2Anger Expression	[ 7 ]
This should have CONSIDERABLE more upvotes. This guy goes through great effort and describes in thorough detail WHY the myriad of conspiratorial claims of election fraud are flat out FALSE and pure propaganda. His utter frustration throughout the press conference is palpable... I for one applaud him, because if anything Trump said in that phone call were true, it's that the GA SoS is committing political suicide. And this GOP election official along with Raffensperger are doing it by standing up against or at the very least refuting a baseless and cowardly attempt to overturn an election that sows distrust in our future elections and division in our democracy. How absurd is that? This guy has probably ended his career over DOING THE DIGNIFIED nay the objectively proper thing... AND he's a Republican who voted Trump (correct me if im wrong)! That should tell you everything! Trump's base are a bunch of mindless, sycophantic, devolved braindead troglodytes... They're everything that's wrong with this country.	1State Anger	[ 2, 0, 9 ]
Man, it's getting harder to NOT paint all GOP with the same brush, but Gabriel Sterling gives me some hope that whatever party comes out of the "old" GOP might just have some of his decency. And connection to reality. I'm old enough to remember that while there have always been segments of any party that seemed to think disagreement meant your opponent was evil, it didn't used to be that an opponent was automatically a pedophilic child murderer bent on the destruction of all Christianity and "'Murica".	0Trait Anger	[ 13, 3, 0 ]
If you could just hear him thinking, "Why is this my life that I have to explain a toilet leak?"	1State Anger	[ 13, 0 ]
That was one of the most bad assed pressers I have ever seen.	1State Anger	[ 7 ]
Trump claims secretary of state has a brother working for China, ignores Senate Majority leader with a wife working for China.	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
Knew it was Mr. Sterling before clicking.	0Trait Anger	[ 16 ]
Roger Ebert is fucking PISSED.	1State Anger	[ 2 ]
The Republican party needs more sane people like this man who deals in facts. Not sure about his past , but I can say his ethical behavior on the 2020 election is the minimum standard every politician should hold themselves to no matter the party. Of course everyone will call him a fake , part of the deep state , Rino, antifa or whatever label they use to discredit anyone who tells the truth against Trump.	0Trait Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
[I think this is the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVOkCfj0lbk)	1State Anger	[ 8 ]
I spent the last 30 days in Georgia and they're only doing this to motivate Republican voters to vote tomorrow. The Republican voters that I spoke with, are not enthusiastic about Perdue or Loeffler.	0Trait Anger	[ 4 ]
I don't know who the grey haired gentleman with glasses is (brown suit, white shirt), but he is giving a line by line, falsehood by falsehood absolute debunking of Trump's call, and he is pissed off about it.	1State Anger	[ 2 ]
Every single 'punch' Donnie Brook threw at Brad and Ryan for over an hour in 'The Call'? Ground up and fed to pigs by one man, one office.	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
That's Gabriel Sterling - Voting System Implementation Manager at Georgia Secretary of State He's the guy who negotiated and implemented our new paper-audit voting system.	0Trait Anger	[ 8 ]
There's no reason for any elected official to be scared of Trump. He's a weak man who has nothing but bluster and bluffs.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
CAN WE PLEASE GET THIS SIGN LANGUAGE SPEAKER A PART ON BROADWAY! Seriously, what a legend, just look at that performance!	1State Anger	[ 7, 16 ]
https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1346191454994112516?s=21 > Top Georgia election official Gabriel Sterling is debunking Trump's election claims one by one. “It’s Groundhog Day again. I’m going to talk about the things I've talked about repeatedly for two months, but I'm going to do it for one last time," he says. > Sterling says he screamed at his radio in his car when he heard Trump repeat a claim about ballot carriers that was already debunked. > Sterling says he screamed at his radio in his car when he heard Trump repeat a claim about ballot carriers that was already debunked.	1State Anger	[ 2, 9, 4 ]
What I find extraordinary is that they issue a sternly worded letter about 4 years too late. Anyone who cares about the country would immediately renounce their membership in the Republican party. It's become the party of a Confederate Coup.	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
Jan 20 Biden should award Gabriel Sterling the US Medal of Freedom	1State Anger	[ 16, 7 ]
You can clearly tell most Republicans in Congress are starting to hate Trump as he’s making them look very bad.	0Trait Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
Because he literally told him to fix an election so he won by 1 vote. He also mentions their efforts in other states, so they are fucking terrified of additional info coming to light and further incriminating them.	1State Anger	[ 3, 2 ]
Is the reason "it betrays all the principles our nation was founded on"?	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
Must be the law firm, Collins, Murkowski and Romney.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
> “We are aware of, and are concerned by, Ms. Mitchell’s participation in the January 2 conference call and are working to understand her involvement more thoroughly,” I think Trump was using a old mob boss trick. He has a attorney listening to the call. I don't think they would have used the words " conference call" when describing the call otherwise. The premise is that the call would be privileged and therefore inadmissible in court. The flaw in that idea is that attorney client privilege doesn't cover committing crimes. Apparently Trump forgot about that simple fact. For me this makes the call even more damning. He knew he was going to commit a crime	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
Susan Collins concerned, or really concerned?	1State Anger	[ 3, 4 ]
Lawyers are full of shit a lot...but these people are next level full of shit.	0Trait Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
How about "livid?" "Disgusted." "Apoplectic?" "Pig-bitin' mad?" "Concerned." Jfc.	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
No, it's a sign of where the GOP already is.	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
“Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.” - David Frum	0Trait Anger	[ 3, 4, 5 ]
"Headed"?	1State Anger	[ 16 ]
As a Georgian, I can’t tell you how grateful I am that it appears as if she’s going to run again in 2022 for the governor’s seat. I thought we had blown our chance at a governor of her quality. And this time, I bet she wins it.	1State Anger	[ 7, 12 ]
The key here is that Ossoff and Warnock are running against Mitch McConnell every bit as much as they’re running against Loeffler and Perdue. For 6 months, he’s been blocking desperately-needed aid and unseating his is going to be the only way to change that. And the only way to unseat him is to elect Ossoff and Warnock.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 9, 6 ]
In reading Trump's transcript it is blatant how much he really hates Stacey Abrams. I love that by simply doing the right thing she engenders so much vitriol. This is when you know that there's a right and wrong side.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
Get fucked Betsy. May no one remember your name.	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
A good sign that you're a human piece of shit is if you survived in Trump's cabinet for his entire term.	0Trait Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
The military is worried that Americans are too fat and too dumb to join the military. > In a Dec. 17 letter to Acting Secretary of Defense Christoper Miller, Mission: Readiness — a nonpartisan organization of nearly 800 retired admirals and generals — warned that 71 percent of young Americans between the ages of 17 and 24 are ineligible for military service “because they are too poorly educated, too overweight, or have a history of crime or substance abuse." > [Source](https://taskandpurpose.com/news/military-recruitment-obesity-education-crime/) Is this the legacy DeVos worked so hard for that she doesn't want anyone to try and fix in future administrations?	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
She also suggests rejecting bears.	0Trait Anger	[ 3, 0 ]
they don't care about democracy	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
Imagine going down in history as one of a gang of senators who tried to overthrow democracy and making that your legacy and doing it for the guy who called your wife ugly lmao what a fucking loser	1State Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
> From now on, any Republican who backed the coup loses all claim to the moral high ground. 4 years ago I'm sure someone wrote, by doing x, the GOP has lost all claim to the moral high ground... Then 2-3 months later, they wrote it again about a new corrupt thing they did... 2-3 months later again... 2-3 months later again.... So here we are again. They are once again losing their claim to the high ground. Surely this will be the time they stop. Any/All of us thinking the furrowed brow of the media was going to stop Trump/GOP over the last 4 years is probably dumber than anything they have been guilty of.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0, 9, 6, 1 ]
After the last four years, don't we already know the answer to this?	0Trait Anger	[ 0, 13 ]
About to? ABOUT TO? I'm sorry, has Vice been asleep for the last 4 years?	1State Anger	[ 2, 9, 1 ]
I think the answer to that question is demonstrably obvious. I've been around since the days of Eisenhower and none of us has witnessed this kind of seditious behavior.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
Trump has made America into an untrustworthy joke.	0Trait Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
At this point, I'm just trying to figure out how to make money off of these idiots.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
It is a death cult that has members in Congress. They are seditionists through and through that caters to the instability of the President's mental state by feeding him narcissistic hero fantasies. Remember Qanon believes Trump is the only one who can save the world from a ring of pedophilic cannibalistic celebrities and figures of note. His narcissism heightened by exnaying anyone from his sphere who does not agree with this false reality. The last time something this big happened in cults was Jonestown and that was limited to a commune in Guinea. This time it is in the seat of power in the USA with cult members everywhere. Hold on fucking tight.	0Trait Anger	[ 3, 4, 2 ]
They had the well respected sign language translator up there, but they should have asked Jeff foxworthy to do a redneck translation to help trump supporters understand how utterly destroyed trumps house of cards fraud claims are.	0Trait Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
The look of a man who is very tired of repeating the same stuff over and over again. He’s been a voice of honesty.	0Trait Anger	[ 13, 9 ]
The right will wear you down trying to prove there is no tea pot on the orbit of Saturn. It’s not up to us to prove there is no fraud. It’s up to them to prove there is.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 9, 6 ]
You could tell this guy was livid; he wanted to curse so bad. At point, he said he was screaming at radio listening to the presidency lie about things he debunked. Clearly, this is an intelligent individual, but I don't understand why is he still a Republican? Why would you support a party that clearly only exists by virtue of misinformation and conspiracy non-sense?	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
My favorite part of the call is where Raffensberger (sp?) offers to send him full, unedited footage to show Trump that the heavily edited video he’s seen was deliberately misleading and Trump says “I don’t need a link! My link is better!” I mean, I listened to the whole call and it’s just real hard not to picture him sitting in and playing with his own shit, that’s how fucking unhinged he sounds.	1State Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
>... >This is not a new observation. Particularly after President Trump won the White House in 2016 despite losing the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes, there’s been an enormous amount of attention paid to the role the electoral college plays in determining the winner of the presidential contest. What in 2000 was something of a fluke — George W. Bush narrowly won the electoral vote while narrowly losing the popular — 16 years later became an eyesore. Trump is president thanks to about 78,000 votes in three states, despite far more Americans having preferred Hillary Clinton. >An industry emerged in defense of that outcome, with various pundits offering rationales meant to explain why such a system was desirable. The most truncated were simple appeals to the structure of the Constitution, which is of course true. More elaborate ones included broad assertions that the states should necessarily be considered individual voting units, perhaps (one line of reasoning went) because it gave states like Wyoming a reason to be invested in what the country was doing. >What’s not common is to hear people explicitly articulate the actual reason so many Republicans think the electoral college is useful: It tips the scales in their favor in presidential elections. >In a statement expressing opposition to Trump’s efforts to block President-elect Joe Biden’s 2020 victory, though, a group of House Republicans did exactly that. Reps. Thomas Massie (Ky.), Kelly Armstrong (N.D.), Ken Buck (Colo.), Mike Gallagher (Wis.), Nancy Mace (S.C.), Tom McClintock (Calif.) and Chip Roy (Tex.) released a statement that included this paragraph: >>“From a purely partisan perspective, Republican presidential candidates have won the national popular vote only once in the last 32 years. They have therefore depended on the electoral college for nearly all presidential victories in the last generation.If we perpetuate the notion that Congress may disregard certified electoral votes — based solely on its own assessment that one or more states mishandled the presidential election — we will be delegitimizing the very system that led Donald Trump to victory in 2016, and that could provide the only path to victory in 2024.” >This is pretty remarkable! Their concern is not simply that there is no constitutional basis for Trump’s efforts, which there isn’t. It is also that a somehow successful effort by Trump to eliminate the electoral college vote as the predicate for becoming president would put at risk the Republicans’ best route to future presidencies. >...	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
And they know that the demographics are getting worse for them. The Republicans are in desperation mode.	0Trait Anger	[ 3, 4 ]
In the past 30 years worth of presidential elections, a Republican candidate has received more votes than the democrat ONCE. If they want to be a viable party without the electoral college, they should back policies that more people approve of. But I guess that’s a “radical” concept.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 9, 6 ]
Look at how much that idiot got away with? It's astounding! The fact that millions of Americans weren't in the streets everyday and the majority of the dissent seemed to come in the form of social media shows that the American executive is ripe for the taking and there will be very little resistance. At the end of the day Trump's narcissism was his downfall, but seriously, if the next guy has an IQ above 100 say goodbye to American democracy.	0Trait Anger	[ 3, 2, 0 ]
Trump exposed the flaws in the system and they need to be fixed before someone insidious like Ted Cruz shows up. I just threw up a little in my mouth.	1State Anger	[ 0 ]
Maybe. But the next one won't be Trump. There's something very specific about him that appeals to his base. His whole movement happened organically. It's not the kind of thing you can replicate. Ted Cruz is a lot smarter but nobody's dying in the streets for him. They know he's a snake. Trump is more like a gorilla with rabies.	0Trait Anger	[ 3, 2, 0 ]
Every day I think about "what if Trump wasn't so fucking dumb?" Like, what if it had been someone with a measured temperament and the ability to plan and execute anything more than one day in advance? America dodged a real bullet, but only by sheer dumb luck. We are highly susceptible to Russian-like autocracy and we need to fix our government ASAP.	0Trait Anger	[ 3, 4, 5 ]
Incompetence does not describe the level of craven criminality that Trump and his family have born into the highest levels of our government. Sure, a lot of it was already there, but to say he is merely incompetent is to gloss over how effective his manipulation of the media is and how managed to double speak his way into convincing the American electorate that his crimes are just fine.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
Fascism in orange is just as ugly, cruel, dangerous and deadly to democracy as any other type. We need a Trump Crimes Commission.	1State Anger	[ 2, 0, 3 ]
Every moment has been Trump's authoritarian moment for at least the last 35 years. It was obvious he's an authoritarian during his campaign and throughout his presidency. To suggest otherwise is a bald-face lie. Trump is a bigoted, authoritarian narcissist, which is one of the reasons Republicans adore him.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
authoritarianism is the \last thing\ that should be referred to as a \moment\	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 3 ]
I’m torn between “Trump is going to attempt to declare martial law to get a second term and will be dragged out of the White House by force” and “Trump will declare a self-pardon at 11am on Jan 20th and flee to Mar-a-Lago”. I’m completely confident he will lose I just don’t know which of his neuroses are stronger, the malignant narcissism or the cowardice.	0Trait Anger	[ 3, 4, 5, 6 ]
If anyone hasn't listened to the Trump Tape yet, I urge you to do so. Not because I think anybody needs to be convinced the guy is a criminal, but because it's genuinely enjoyable to hear the fear and panic in his voice as he practically begs for the election to be overturned. Listening to his impotent flailing as he makes weak threats that aren't intimidating anybody the way he thinks they are, it's so pathetic and embarrassing for him, and it elicits genuine joy when I hear it. He's scared.	1State Anger	[ 12 ]
"undo"? You mean overthrow the will of the people. You know - sedition.	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]

The blatant corruption of the Republican Mafia needs to be confronted & investigated at at every level of government.

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I wonder if ES&S machines are used in Palm Springs area or Southern Texas near the Mexican borders.

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"Courts are not instruments through which parties engage in such gamesmanship or symbolic political gestures. As a result, at the conclusion of this litigation, the Court will determine whether to issue an order to show cause why this matter should not be referred to its Committee on Grievances for potential discipline of Plaintiffs’ counsel." Nice.

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"Courts are not instruments through which parties engage in such gamesmanship or symbolic political gestures. As a result, at the conclusion of this litigation, the Court will determine whether to issue an order to show cause why this matter should not be referred to its Committee on Grievances for potential discipline of Plaintiffs’ counsel." Yes, please!

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>Boasberg, an Obama appointee to the federal district court in D.C., tore into the plaintiffs in his decision, saying it was "not a stretch to find a serious lack of good faith here," and warning that they may be subject to sanctions from the court. Yeah... should be sanctions. But nothing ever happens.

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They are now 1-61.

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Donald Trump is a felon and a con man. He has been like that, and he was voted in spite of that. A con man must be inside the jail.

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This guy is just dunking on all of Trump’s lies. It’s glorious.

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I've said before and it gets more true everyday. Republicans wanted a civil war if Biden won. They got it. It's amongst themselves.

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Summary: yes.

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Depends on who you ask - Anyone with a shred of integrity and a working brain? Yep. Donnie's ass sucking groupies? Nope.

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Violated GA law just by virtue of his position and the fact that he asked for it. O.C.G.A. §16-4-7 states: A person commits the offense of criminal solicitation when, with intent that another person engage in conduct constituting a felony, he solicits, requests, commands, importunes, or otherwise attempts to cause the other person to engage in such conduct. The phrase “or otherwise attempts to cause the other person to engage in such conduct” has been interpreted to mean that there is a clear and present danger of the other person performing a felony. It’s still solicitation if the other person refuses to perform the felony.

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Was just listening to this. He tore into a bunch of the claims line-by-line. It was about as strong a rebuke as I would have thought possible from someone in the Republican party.

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Not sure who saw this just now (3:30 Eastern Time) but the top Georgia Election Offical who spoken brought a board to discredit Trump’s claims. He then went trough the claims one by one and disproved each. It was an amazing takedown. I’m sure he heads of any Trump supporters who watched are currently exploding! Edit: the officials name is Gabriel Sterling.

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That guy was spitting fire Gabriel Sterling, that is

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Gabriel Sterling was visibly **so** over Trump's bullshit during the press conference.

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I don't want to harp on one network or the other because I think they all have their own agendas, but Fox News cut him off while he was still speaking so they could put their spin on it. If you wanted to watch the whole thing through to the end you had to watch another network. Draw your own conclusions from that.

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A murdered by words lecture. Never seen anything like it.

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I applaud him for standing up against the devil’s tongue with the truth. Sadly it’ll make no difference to the people who are too far gone. Of which there is a not-so-insignificant amount of.

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For anyone like me who missed it, I found it elsewhere. I found a livestream on youtube from The Guardian that you can scroll back on, at least for now. https://youtu.be/TQ8QXdPRiAI

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Here's a video of the press conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOExxqWfH8k I would say it was "thorough" but that would be *wildly* understating how much ground he covers. You have to wonder how much research dude did on Facebook to even find all these bullshit complaints. Sanity Warning: The chat is visible, and MAGAs are NOT happy.

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I have such a love hate relationship with how people are finally calling Trump out on his shit. On one hand I'm glad everyone, from the media to elected officials, is finally doing it. On the other hand I'm pissed it took him losing reelection for people to have the balls to finally do so.

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I like how the narrative shifted from "facts over feelings" to "fuck your feelings". The republican party has lost all it's facts and only relies on hate and feelings that back up their hate at this point.

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>“This is all easily provably false,” Mr Sterling said. Amen.

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This is sooo cathartic to watch Edit: the ASL interpreter is amazing. I think I love him

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Oh man they’re not going to finish the list until next year :-(

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He read us the whole damn essay he wrote last night.

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A few quotes from the article: >Georgia elections official Gabriel Sterling, a Republican, has defended his state’s election procedures from attacks by the president and his legal team as some Republicans in Washington try to overturn the 2020 presidential election results And: >The false claims ... have filtered their way through the online conservative ecosystem. "The facts tell a different story." said Sterling. And: >Georgia Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office had shown Mr Trump’s team a tape disproving their theory, but the president has persisted in spreading it. Thankfully there are Republicans still willing to do the right thing.

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> "there is illegal voting in every single election in th history of mankind, because there are human beings involved in the process." I like that while he spends the time disproving all of the misinformation, he is honest enough to admit the hard truth. There will always be people who get away with it, and elections will never be perfect. HUMANS ARE NOT PERFECT. But the numbers Trump is claiming are just ridiculous. Like living in another reality. The President doesnt know or understand the meticulousness that goes into these processes to refute them. He only boasts and screams at others. If you have the patience to watch these facts laid out in 30 mins, then Congratulations! You probably have more attention span and grasp of reality than The President.

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So refreshing to have an adult give straight up information backed up by actual facts. Not only that but also discussing things in an organized manner. Our fucking bar for public officials has hit an all time low, you'd think everyone would be able to have an organized talk.

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This is wonderful. We need more public officials to step up and do something like this. Shut down the feelings crowd with facts and reality that cannot be disagreed with. edit: The scrolling comments on this vid - granted this was a Fox Business link, so you know what the majority are going to be like going in - are still nonetheless disappointing. Here is a public official refuting baseless claims with vague facts the president has spewed with **very specific** and precise numbers, statistics, timeframes and explanations... and these people are still 100% all in on the fraud claims. SMH.

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This guy is so over this shit. Also, the sign language interpreter has become the physical manifestation of sarcasm.

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Robert Reich: Trump committed a crime under Georgia law -- criminal solicitation of election fraud. As the Supreme Court held in Trump v. Vance (2020), a sitting president is subject to criminal process. So when he enters Georgia, he can be arrested and charged. https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1345889175380185088?s=20

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I watched the whole thing and he really came across as a Republican whose seen the early voting results and is begging Republicans to show up an vote. He was definitely pissed at Trump but it really seemed like he was pleading with GOP voters.

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i like this dude

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Satisfying beyond description.

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This should have CONSIDERABLE more upvotes. This guy goes through great effort and describes in thorough detail WHY the myriad of conspiratorial claims of election fraud are flat out FALSE and pure propaganda. His utter frustration throughout the press conference is palpable... I for one applaud him, because if anything Trump said in that phone call were true, it's that the GA SoS is committing political suicide. And this GOP election official along with Raffensperger are doing it by standing up against or at the very least refuting a baseless and cowardly attempt to overturn an election that sows distrust in our future elections and division in our democracy. How absurd is that? This guy has probably ended his career over DOING THE DIGNIFIED nay the objectively proper thing... AND he's a Republican who voted Trump (correct me if im wrong)! That should tell you everything! Trump's base are a bunch of mindless, sycophantic, devolved braindead troglodytes... They're everything that's wrong with this country.

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Man, it's getting harder to NOT paint all GOP with the same brush, but Gabriel Sterling gives me some hope that whatever party comes out of the "old" GOP might just have some of his decency. And connection to reality. I'm old enough to remember that while there have always been segments of any party that seemed to think disagreement meant your opponent was evil, it didn't used to be that an opponent was automatically a pedophilic child murderer bent on the destruction of all Christianity and "'Murica".

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If you could just hear him thinking, "Why is this my life that I have to explain a toilet leak?"

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That was one of the most bad assed pressers I have ever seen.

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Trump claims secretary of state has a brother working for China, ignores Senate Majority leader with a wife working for China.

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Knew it was Mr. Sterling before clicking.

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Roger Ebert is fucking PISSED.

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The Republican party needs more sane people like this man who deals in facts. Not sure about his past , but I can say his ethical behavior on the 2020 election is the minimum standard every politician should hold themselves to no matter the party. Of course everyone will call him a fake , part of the deep state , Rino, antifa or whatever label they use to discredit anyone who tells the truth against Trump.

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[I think this is the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVOkCfj0lbk)

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I spent the last 30 days in Georgia and they're only doing this to motivate Republican voters to vote tomorrow. The Republican voters that I spoke with, are not enthusiastic about Perdue or Loeffler.

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I don't know who the grey haired gentleman with glasses is (brown suit, white shirt), but he is giving a line by line, falsehood by falsehood absolute debunking of Trump's call, and he is pissed off about it.

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Every single 'punch' Donnie Brook threw at Brad and Ryan for over an hour in 'The Call'? Ground up and fed to pigs by one man, one office.

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That's Gabriel Sterling - Voting System Implementation Manager at Georgia Secretary of State He's the guy who negotiated and implemented our new paper-audit voting system.

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There's no reason for any elected official to be scared of Trump. He's a weak man who has nothing but bluster and bluffs.

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CAN WE PLEASE GET THIS SIGN LANGUAGE SPEAKER A PART ON BROADWAY! Seriously, what a legend, just look at that performance!

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https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1346191454994112516?s=21 > Top Georgia election official Gabriel Sterling is debunking Trump's election claims one by one. “It’s Groundhog Day again. I’m going to talk about the things I've talked about repeatedly for two months, but I'm going to do it for one last time," he says. > Sterling says he screamed at his radio in his car when he heard Trump repeat a claim about ballot carriers that was already debunked. > Sterling says he screamed at his radio in his car when he heard Trump repeat a claim about ballot carriers that was already debunked.

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What I find extraordinary is that they issue a sternly worded letter about 4 years too late. Anyone who cares about the country would immediately renounce their membership in the Republican party. It's become the party of a Confederate Coup.

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Jan 20 Biden should award Gabriel Sterling the US Medal of Freedom

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You can clearly tell most Republicans in Congress are starting to hate Trump as he’s making them look very bad.

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Because he literally told him to fix an election so he won by 1 vote. He also mentions their efforts in other states, so they are fucking terrified of additional info coming to light and further incriminating them.

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Is the reason "it betrays all the principles our nation was founded on"?

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Must be the law firm, Collins, Murkowski and Romney.

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> “We are aware of, and are concerned by, Ms. Mitchell’s participation in the January 2 **conference call** and are working to understand her involvement more thoroughly,” I think Trump was using a old mob boss trick. He has a attorney listening to the call. I don't think they would have used the words " conference call" when describing the call otherwise. The premise is that the call would be privileged and therefore inadmissible in court. The flaw in that idea is that attorney client privilege doesn't cover committing crimes. Apparently Trump forgot about that simple fact. For me this makes the call even more damning. He knew he was going to commit a crime

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Susan Collins concerned, or really concerned?

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Lawyers are full of shit a lot...but these people are next level full of shit.

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How about "livid?" "Disgusted." "Apoplectic?" "Pig-bitin' mad?" "Concerned." Jfc.

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No, it's a sign of where the GOP already is.

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“Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.” - David Frum

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"Headed"?

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As a Georgian, I can’t tell you how grateful I am that it appears as if she’s going to run again in 2022 for the governor’s seat. I thought we had blown our chance at a governor of her quality. And this time, I bet she wins it.

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The key here is that Ossoff and Warnock are running against Mitch McConnell every bit as much as they’re running against Loeffler and Perdue. For 6 months, he’s been blocking desperately-needed aid and unseating his is going to be the only way to change that. And the only way to unseat him is to elect Ossoff and Warnock.

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In reading Trump's transcript it is blatant how much he really hates Stacey Abrams. I love that by simply doing the right thing she engenders so much vitriol. This is when you know that there's a right and wrong side.

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Get fucked Betsy. May no one remember your name.

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A good sign that you're a human piece of shit is if you survived in Trump's cabinet for his entire term.

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The military is worried that Americans are too fat and too dumb to join the military. > In a Dec. 17 letter to Acting Secretary of Defense Christoper Miller, Mission: Readiness — a nonpartisan organization of nearly 800 retired admirals and generals — warned that 71 percent of young Americans between the ages of 17 and 24 are ineligible for military service “because they are too poorly educated, too overweight, or have a history of crime or substance abuse." > [Source](https://taskandpurpose.com/news/military-recruitment-obesity-education-crime/) Is this the legacy DeVos worked so hard for that she doesn't want anyone to try and fix in future administrations?

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She also suggests rejecting bears.

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they don't care about democracy

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Imagine going down in history as one of a gang of senators who tried to overthrow democracy and making that your legacy and doing it for the guy who called your wife ugly lmao what a fucking loser

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> From now on, any Republican who backed the coup loses all claim to the moral high ground. 4 years ago I'm sure someone wrote, by doing x, the GOP has lost all claim to the moral high ground... Then 2-3 months later, they wrote it again about a new corrupt thing they did... 2-3 months later again... 2-3 months later again.... So here we are again. They are once again losing their claim to the high ground. Surely this will be the time they stop. Any/All of us thinking the furrowed brow of the media was going to stop Trump/GOP over the last 4 years is probably dumber than anything they have been guilty of.

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After the last four years, don't we already know the answer to this?

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About to? ABOUT TO? I'm sorry, has Vice been asleep for the last 4 years?

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I think the answer to that question is demonstrably obvious. I've been around since the days of Eisenhower and none of us has witnessed this kind of seditious behavior.

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Trump has made America into an untrustworthy joke.

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At this point, I'm just trying to figure out how to make money off of these idiots.

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It is a death cult that has members in Congress. They are seditionists through and through that caters to the instability of the President's mental state by feeding him narcissistic hero fantasies. Remember Qanon believes Trump is the only one who can save the world from a ring of pedophilic cannibalistic celebrities and figures of note. His narcissism heightened by exnaying anyone from his sphere who does not agree with this false reality. The last time something this big happened in cults was Jonestown and that was limited to a commune in Guinea. This time it is in the seat of power in the USA with cult members everywhere. Hold on fucking tight.

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They had the well respected sign language translator up there, but they should have asked Jeff foxworthy to do a redneck translation to help trump supporters understand how utterly destroyed trumps house of cards fraud claims are.

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The look of a man who is very tired of repeating the same stuff over and over again. He’s been a voice of honesty.

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The right will wear you down trying to prove there is no tea pot on the orbit of Saturn. It’s not up to us to prove there is no fraud. It’s up to them to prove there is.

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You could tell this guy was livid; he wanted to curse so bad. At point, he said he was screaming at radio listening to the presidency lie about things he debunked. Clearly, this is an intelligent individual, but I don't understand why is he still a Republican? Why would you support a party that clearly only exists by virtue of misinformation and conspiracy non-sense?

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My favorite part of the call is where Raffensberger (sp?) offers to send him full, unedited footage to show Trump that the heavily edited video he’s seen was deliberately misleading and Trump says “I don’t need a link! My link is better!” I mean, I listened to the whole call and it’s just real hard not to picture him sitting in and playing with his own shit, that’s how fucking unhinged he sounds.

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>... >This is not a new observation. Particularly after President Trump won the White House in 2016 despite losing the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes, there’s been an enormous amount of attention paid to the role the electoral college plays in determining the winner of the presidential contest. What in 2000 was something of a fluke — George W. Bush narrowly won the electoral vote while narrowly losing the popular — 16 years later became an eyesore. **Trump is president thanks to about 78,000 votes in three states**, despite far more Americans having preferred Hillary Clinton. >An industry emerged in defense of that outcome, with various pundits offering rationales meant to explain why such a system was desirable. The most truncated were simple appeals to the structure of the Constitution, which is of course true. More elaborate ones included broad assertions that the states should necessarily be considered individual voting units, perhaps (one line of reasoning went) because it gave states like Wyoming a reason to be invested in what the country was doing. >What’s not common is to hear people explicitly articulate the actual reason so many Republicans think the electoral college is useful: It tips the scales in their favor in presidential elections. >In a statement expressing opposition to Trump’s efforts to block President-elect Joe Biden’s 2020 victory, though, a group of House Republicans did exactly that. Reps. Thomas Massie (Ky.), Kelly Armstrong (N.D.), Ken Buck (Colo.), Mike Gallagher (Wis.), Nancy Mace (S.C.), Tom McClintock (Calif.) and Chip Roy (Tex.) released a statement that included this paragraph: >>“From a purely partisan perspective, Republican presidential candidates have won the national popular vote only once in the last 32 years. They have therefore depended on the electoral college for nearly all presidential victories in the last generation.If we perpetuate the notion that Congress may disregard certified electoral votes — based solely on its own assessment that one or more states mishandled the presidential election — we will be delegitimizing the very system that led Donald Trump to victory in 2016, and that could provide the only path to victory in 2024.” >This is pretty remarkable! Their concern is not simply that there is no constitutional basis for Trump’s efforts, which there isn’t. It is also that a somehow successful effort by Trump to eliminate the electoral college vote as the predicate for becoming president would put at risk the Republicans’ best route to future presidencies. >...

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And they know that the demographics are getting worse for them. The Republicans are in desperation mode.

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In the past 30 years worth of presidential elections, a Republican candidate has received more votes than the democrat ONCE. If they want to be a viable party without the electoral college, they should back policies that more people approve of. But I guess that’s a “radical” concept.

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Look at how much that idiot got away with? It's astounding! The fact that millions of Americans weren't in the streets everyday and the majority of the dissent seemed to come in the form of social media shows that the American executive is ripe for the taking and there will be very little resistance. At the end of the day Trump's narcissism was his downfall, but seriously, if the next guy has an IQ above 100 say goodbye to American democracy.

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Trump exposed the flaws in the system and they need to be fixed before someone insidious like Ted Cruz shows up. I just threw up a little in my mouth.

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Maybe. But the next one won't be Trump. There's something very specific about him that appeals to his base. His whole movement happened organically. It's not the kind of thing you can replicate. Ted Cruz is a lot smarter but nobody's dying in the streets for him. They know he's a snake. Trump is more like a gorilla with rabies.

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Every day I think about "what if Trump wasn't so fucking dumb?" Like, what if it had been someone with a measured temperament and the ability to plan and execute anything more than one day in advance? America dodged a real bullet, but only by sheer dumb luck. We are highly susceptible to Russian-like autocracy and we need to fix our government ASAP.

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Incompetence does not describe the level of craven criminality that Trump and his family have born into the highest levels of our government. Sure, a lot of it was already there, but to say he is merely incompetent is to gloss over how effective his manipulation of the media is and how managed to double speak his way into convincing the American electorate that his crimes are just fine.

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Fascism in orange is just as ugly, cruel, dangerous and deadly to democracy as any other type. We need a Trump Crimes Commission.

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Every moment has been Trump's authoritarian moment for at least the last 35 years. It was obvious he's an authoritarian during his campaign and throughout his presidency. To suggest otherwise is a bald-face lie. Trump is a bigoted, authoritarian narcissist, which is one of the reasons Republicans adore him.

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authoritarianism is the \*last thing\* that should be referred to as a \*moment\*

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I’m torn between “Trump is going to attempt to declare martial law to get a second term and will be dragged out of the White House by force” and “Trump will declare a self-pardon at 11am on Jan 20th and flee to Mar-a-Lago”. I’m completely confident he will lose I just don’t know which of his neuroses are stronger, the malignant narcissism or the cowardice.

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If anyone hasn't listened to the Trump Tape yet, I urge you to do so. Not because I think anybody needs to be convinced the guy is a criminal, but because it's genuinely enjoyable to hear the fear and panic in his voice as he practically begs for the election to be overturned. Listening to his impotent flailing as he makes weak threats that aren't intimidating anybody the way he thinks they are, it's so pathetic and embarrassing for him, and it elicits genuine joy when I hear it. He's scared.

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"undo"? You mean overthrow the will of the people. You know - sedition.

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