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Trump and his allies engage in a criminal conspiracy to undermine democracy. There, I fixed it for you, AP. You guys should know better, come on AP.	2Anger Expression	[ 2, 9, 0 ]
Lawsuits and jail	0Trait Anger	[ 3, 4, 15 ]
It's like his personal game of monopoly. He gets a permanent "get out of jail free" card, and "collect unlimited tax payer funded golf as you pass go".	0Trait Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
Reminds me of this: [Trump struggles to say what he would do with another term for second time in a week](https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/01/politics/trump-second-term-agenda-objectives/index.html)	1State Anger	[ 0, 15 ]
God that speech was good. That whole section about the working class just felt so good to hear.	1State Anger	[ 7, 17, 12 ]
Best part of his speech was the jab about winning Georgia 3 times. Q country definitely punching air over that one.	1State Anger	[ 7, 17, 12 ]
Legal protection. He literally doesn’t give a shit about the job, he wants the powers.	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
What time is the count on Wednesday start?	1State Anger	[ 8 ]
It is such a close tie for who disgusts me more Trump or McConnell. This shit show jumped the shark so long ago.	0Trait Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
Nation's capital braces for violence as extremist groups converge to protest ~~Trump's election loss~~ Democracy	1State Anger	[ 3, 4, 6 ]
This is the breaking point for our grand experiment in self rule.	1State Anger	[ 3, 4 ]
Prediction: Instead of the ~8,000 or so people who showed up to the last two “stop the steal” protests in DC, this time ~9,500 will show up. Nothing will happen except small pockets of violence quickly stamped out by police and national guard.	1State Anger	[ 3, 4 ]
So many snowflakes in one place, I hope DC has plows ready.	0Trait Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
There will be violence. Its gonna be a scary day in America	1State Anger	[ 3, 4 ]
The GOP conned us into a war in Iraq by lying about bringing democracy and now they are doing the same thing to their own country.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
Actual title. What a time to be alive.	2Anger Expression	[ 7 ]
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Credit where it's due: WaPo knows their audience.	0Trait Anger	[ 0 ]
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NTA - that other guy though ...	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
ESH I don't know how you get to the point of being threatened by a member of your own party (Trump), have your own constituents sending you and your family death threats and your two state senators siding with the guy threatening you and you still want to be a part of that party. That is fucked up. At this point I would think all conservatives could see that the republican party is no longer a conservative party, its Trump's party. Get on board or get a knife in the back.	1State Anger	[ 3, 2, 0 ]
You're the asshole for not asking him more insistently about where you were supposed to look, or how you were expected to proceed and what steps were needed in order to find those votes. Because you looked everywhere they were supposed to be, you counted them three times and you took every step you could think of, so now you need explicit instructions.	2Anger Expression	[ 2, 9, 10 ]
I love Alexandra Petri. You can spot her column every time just by reading the title. I get the impression that ladies in her family are sharp as rule.	0Trait Anger	[ 7, 17, 12 ]
I was like "that cannot be the headline" and it was +1 Washington Post	1State Anger	[ 16 ]
YTA: Everyone knows that stories posted to r/AmITheAsshole are supposed to be fake, and this story actually happened.	1State Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
Alexandra Petri is almost always funny, but daaamn this is ice cold. Do they give Satire Pulitzers?	1State Anger	[ 7, 17, 12 ]
Hey! A lot of people seem mad at me, but I don’t think I’m actually the a------ here! So I (65, M) got a telephone call from an older acquaintance in a position of power (74, M). I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt here and assume that maybe he used to be a lovely man, because a lot of people seem very dedicated to him, but all I can say is that he has definitely reached the stage of life where talking to him on the phone is a duty rather than a pleasure. And this isn’t the first time he tried to call. He tried 18 times!Basically, the call went immediately off the rails; indeed, it would be kind of inaccurate to say that it was at any point on the rails? I pick up the phone, we announce that everyone’s on the call, including his friend Mark (who frankly seems like he’s enabling a lot of dubious things right now) and a person he seemed to view as a lawyer (doesn’t necessarily mean anything!), and then he immediately starts shouting that I need to “find” him “votes.”I should mention that I am the secretary of state of Georgia, and, as such, basically the absolute minimum of my job is to make sure we don’t just randomly pick the winner of elections and give all our electoral votes to them because they call and yell at me, so that was how I was coming in.Anyway, the call mostly went like this:Him: [Conspiracy theory I did not perfectly understand, additional different conspiracy theory, just repeating an election worker’s name a bunch of times as though the name itself was proof of wrongdoing, description of an edited video he saw on Fox News maybe? Incoherent shouting about how he has 500,000 votes we should just take as assumed — he does NOT, we checked — but we only need to give him enough votes to win the election, and we need to find them for him.]Me: ??Mark: So, we can agree to work together on this, right?Me: We can agree to work together in the sense that we are happy to get on the phone later and explain that we think everything you’ve just said is incorrect!Then he started to go on and on about how it was unlikely that anyone could ever move back to Georgia and legitimately vote here again after previously leaving the state? Which, I understand there are things in our electoral process that are pretty wacky, but the concept that somebody might want to move back to a state seems like a very weird one to latch onto as definitely untrue. But he kept going on about it. Literally, he was like: “How many people do that? They moved out, and then they said, ‘Ah, to hell with it, I’ll move back.’ You know, it doesn’t sound like a very normal … you mean, they moved out, and what, they missed it so much that they wanted to move back in? It’s crazy.”Verbatim quote!! Which, in addition to being very strange, seemed kind of insulting to the lovely state of Georgia! Of course people who leave it for other places could want to move back!My friend and I tried to say it wasn’t crazy, but he was not really in a listening place.The call goes on for like an hour, somehow, most of it him yelling at me, and he and Mark kept trying to pressure me to look into this less “litigiously,” which I think meant that he wanted me to just announce I found a bunch of votes for him maybe in a drawer or a ravine somewhere? Really unclear where I was supposed to be getting these votes!But he was like, I heard people saying there are a lot of fake votes and dead people voting. Okay, you heard that, that’s great, but did you hear it from somewhere true, or did you just read it on the Internet, where people make things up? And then he got offended that I thought he was reading made-up things on the Internet. Like, what am I supposed to do with this?Anyway, I don’t think I was in the wrong here. I let him talk and talk and talk and tell me about these conspiracy theories he’d heard. I just didn’t agree to find him any votes, since I don’t think he understands how elections work.I should mention he is the president of the United States. AITA? Alexandra Petri is a Washington Post columnist offering a lighter take on the news and opinions of the day.	1State Anger	[ 2, 3, 0 ]
ACTUAL TITLE! Wow!	1State Anger	[ 16 ]
Get this lady a Pulitzer.	1State Anger	[ 7 ]
ESH. You weren't an asshole for refusing, but your party helped enable the orange douchebag enough to allow things to get to this point, and many of them are still with him. You and the rest of the party should have put a stop to this a long time ago - not just when it started to negatively impact you personally.	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
Like others, I thought this was an edited title, but its real! NTA.	1State Anger	[ 16 ]
Actual headline. We have done it reddit. We are the new deep state now	2Anger Expression	[ 7, 12 ]
He tried to bully me into breaking the law for him, so I reported him.	2Anger Expression	[ 2, 15, 4 ]
Alright, I’m upvoting this out of principle, no need to read the article first. We did it, Reddit.	1State Anger	[ 7, 12 ]
Oh boy here will come the bizarro brigade	1State Anger	[ 0, 3 ]
The full quote is much better and painfully accurate: > “Getting America vaccinated will be one of the most difficult operational challenges this nation has faced, but we’ve known that for months and this administration has gotten off to a god awful start,” Biden said. “The president spends more time whining and complaining than doing something about the problem. I don’t know why he still wants the job. He doesn’t want to do the work.”	1State Anger	[ 2, 0, 9 ]
Biden was far from my first choice in the primaries, but I can’t even express how soothing it is to know that in 16 days we’re going to have a competent, rational person occupying the Oval Office.	1State Anger	[ 7 ]
plus the fact that no one listens to those warnings	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 9 ]
Every single individual buying into, supporting, or enabling this effort is an enemy of the Republic.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
Not since WWII will so many Nazi's gather together in one place.	0Trait Anger	[ 0, 3 ]
Dear DC friends, Please stay inside and away from the rally. None of you deserve to be murdered by a Proud Boy.	1State Anger	[ 3, 4 ]
So many of them are going to get busted for brandishing a weapon immediately.	1State Anger	[ 3, 15 ]
Possible arrest of the proud boys leader being reported here: https://twitter.com/realmattcouch/status/1346218732687941637?s=21	1State Anger	[ 3, 4 ]
From the article: In an effort to preempt violence, officials in Washington, D.C. on Monday warned potential attendees of Wednesday's so-called #StopTheSteal rally and related events scheduled for this week that armed protesters will be arrested by city police officers, with the assistance of 300 unarmed National Guard members who have been activated to help contain the protests. There is "a serious threat to our democracy right now... and violence is being incited," said Muriel Bowser, the mayor of D.C., which prohibits the open carry of firearms.	1State Anger	[ 3, 4, 6 ]
Trump should be charged for every death caused by these neo nazis	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
Good luck trying to overcome DC metro, Capital Hill Police, and the National Guard all in one afternoon!	1State Anger	[ 3, 2, 1 ]
I hope nobody shows up to counter protest and there’s just bunch of neckbeard dipshits in yellow and black running around yelling” you want some, come get some” to nobody in particular.	2Anger Expression	[ 0, 2 ]
Now that's the honest-to-goodness headline I've been waiting to read. "Trump-Endorsed Anti-Democracy" Holy shit! Feeling like 1936 in this place.	1State Anger	[ 3, 4 ]
Blast carnival music at them from all sides. Done.	2Anger Expression	[ 2, 15 ]
Anti-Trump, antifa, and other groups and individuals should just stay away from this event. If they have no one to attack, they'll just end up turning on each other.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 3 ]
Round em up, move em out (to jail).	2Anger Expression	[ 2, 10, 15 ]
the battle for Helms Deep begins	1State Anger	[ 3, 4 ]
Buckle up pal, because Trump’s speaking at a GA rally tonight and will keep spewing out all those same baseless claims to his cult followers. He only has one gear.	0Trait Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
This is how narcissists win. They just exhaust people until they're so fed up they give in so they can move on with their lives. We can't give in.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 9, 11 ]
Thats why I think its so so so vital to call trump supporters out on their shit. Yea Democrats have flaws too and we need to deal with that, but this beyond insane. Trumps actions are enough that anyone who supports him that has any complaints about a democrat going forward would automatically be shot down just because of what they support. Call them out....They're fucking traitors to America and I'm not just saying that to be intense...that's what it is	2Anger Expression	[ 2, 0 ]
Is he gonna tell them to stand back and stand by again?	0Trait Anger	[ 3, 4 ]
More like he plans to feed bullshit to the right wing assholes. Something he's been doing for 4 years.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
I’d be shocked if he wasn’t. The fact that [every living former Secretary of Defense](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/10-former-defense-secretaries-military-peaceful-transfer-of-power/2021/01/03/2a23d52e-4c4d-11eb-a9f4-0e668b9772ba_story.html) recently signed a letter disavowing the President’s unconstitutional assertions relating to involving the military in settling his election disputes speaks volumes.	1State Anger	[ 16, 3 ]
All he's doing all day is trying to stay president. He's desperate. Who knows what crazy shit he's been trying that we don't know about yet?	0Trait Anger	[ 3, 2, 0 ]
"And this in particular is ominous: Given these factors, particularly at a time when U.S. forces are engaged in active operations around the world, it is all the more imperative that the transition at the Defense Department be carried out fully, cooperatively and transparently. Acting defense secretary Christopher C. Miller and his subordinates — political appointees, officers and civil servants — are each bound by oath, law and precedent to facilitate the entry into office of the incoming administration, and to do so wholeheartedly. They must also refrain from any political actions that undermine the results of the election or hinder the success of the new team. We call upon them, in the strongest terms, to do as so many generations of Americans have done before them. This final action is in keeping with the highest traditions and professionalism of the U.S. armed forces, and the history of democratic transition in our great country. These statements should be shockingly self-obvious. So why did they need to be made? What is happening between Trump and the Pentagon that this would be necessary?"	1State Anger	[ 3, 4 ]
From the letter that should give us all pause, considering what we just learned about Georgia...the fact this needed to be iterated kinda scares the pants off of me... >Civilian and military officials who direct or carry out such measures would be accountable, including potentially facing criminal penalties, for the grave consequences of their actions on our republic.	1State Anger	[ 3 ]
All Signs Point to Yes	0Trait Anger	[ 7 ]
>Acting defense secretary Christopher C. Miller and his subordinates — political appointees, officers and civil servants — are each bound by oath, law and precedent to facilitate the entry into office of the incoming administration, and to do so wholeheartedly. Oath and precedent are no longer a restraint and law is a toss-up. Just to add, [this](https://usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/01/03/trump-republicans-reject-biden-win-expose-flawed-democracy-column/4118231001/) from a couple of days ago makes the same point. >Too many of the guardrails of democracy are little more than white lines painted on the road that depend on a sense of honor, duty, and integrity that is simply no longer the norm.	0Trait Anger	[ 3, 4, 15 ]
We need to remember that Trump has access to nuclear weapons. I see few people taking this as seriously as it needs to be. We are talking about a cornered narcissist with nothing left to lose. We are on the precipice of Trump doing something that America, and the world, will never recover from. He could literally take the entire world down with him. We can't pretend like his psychology will prevent him from doing the unthinkable. We are potentially mere days away from this. Impeachment will do nothing and is too late. All we can do now is brace for impact and hope he just gets kicked out of the White House on Jan 20.	1State Anger	[ 3, 4, 5, 6 ]
This is the problem. We know the content of ONE call. We don’t know what was offered to the Michigan legislators that visited the White House to “hear the offer.” We don’t know the details of the Pennsylvania legislators that publicly revealed they were in “negotiations”—their actual term—with the White House. We have NO IDEA what was said or who else is on on this thing. It could very well already be much bigger than we think. It may be much more underway than we think.	0Trait Anger	[ 3, 4, 5 ]
Who isn't Trump making Democracy-Threatening Phone Calls to? I really hope of those other states he Zoomed with come forward with something. He's beyond unhinged and dangerous.	1State Anger	[ 3, 4, 2 ]
Once he's gone, the shit we will discover that he said, did and wanted to do will be shocking.	0Trait Anger	[ 3, 0, 16 ]
Used to be when a News outlets headline was a question the answer was always NO. With Trump, and it involves fuckery of any kind, the answer is always YES. And if he is accusing someone else of fuckery, you can bet your last paycheck that he is projecting his own shenanigans. Assuming you have a paycheck.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
Hope they are all making tapes. Years of interesting listening for legal scholars and historians and years prison time for Trump a Dump.	1State Anger	[ 7, 12 ]
Umm, Trump did [fire the last Secretary of Defense](https://www.npr.org/2020/11/09/933105262/trump-terminates-secretary-of-defense-mark-esper) 3 days after the election in order to replace him with a loyalist. That is certainly some timing on that. Secretary Esper has prepared a letter of resignation months earlier after disagreeing with the President about using troops on peaceful protestors.	1State Anger	[ 3, 4, 6 ]
I think this may be about the defence dept. Not meeting with the Biden transition team. If so, it's too little, too late. They should have spoken out on this as soon as the civilian leadership cancelled all the DOD meetings with Biden's team.	1State Anger	[ 3, 4, 2 ]
Is he a fucking idiot? Yes.	1State Anger	[ 2 ]
What is it going to take to throw this motherfucker in jail?	1State Anger	[ 2 ]
And to Arizona? And to Pennsylvania? And to Michigan? How many of the swing states did he pressure? He called Georgia 19 times, do we really believe that’s all he did?	1State Anger	[ 3, 4, 5 ]
The new litmus test for republicans: "Will you help destory democracy for a cult tyrant?"	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
please Warnock win ...	1State Anger	[ 3, 4 ]
It's a little strange that someone who wasn't voted into her office has the ability to object to the votes of Americans.	1State Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
Quelle surprise. What a vacuous toady.	2Anger Expression	[ 0, 2 ]
She looking two directions at once?	0Trait Anger	[ 16, 0 ]
God please Georgia vote those two hacks out tomorrow	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
What a loser. She didn't say this earlier, because she didn't want it to be a giant news story. So wait until the absolute last minute so you can get the people who were on the fence. Slime ball is trying to hide who she is from the masses. We see you, we hear you. Fuck you.	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
Seditionist Barbie	2Anger Expression	[ 0, 2 ]
Lame duck senator going down with the ship of a lame duck president. "Lame" being the key word here.	2Anger Expression	[ 0, 2 ]
Of course she is. Announced the day before the runoff, perfect timing	1State Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
These are 2 of the worst candidates I’ve ever seen. The fact they have a chance of winning is a sign of the times.	0Trait Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
If you’re from Georgia, and you can vote but decide not to, fuck you. You’re part of the reason why this country is so fucked.	1State Anger	[ 2 ]
I have voted, my wife has voted, every one of my friends has voted, and it was all for Ossoff and Warnock!	1State Anger	[ 7, 12 ]
Please VOTE! Call each other, who needs a ride? This is critical Georgia. Hit this mother...... where it hurts. Colossal loss for this treasonous monster and jail for the seditious officials.	1State Anger	[ 2, 4, 3 ]
You get to decide whether everyone gets $2,000 or whether mitch gets to block all progress for years.	1State Anger	[ 2, 9, 6 ]
Her name is Cleta Mitchell and she is just as dangerous as Wood and Powell, perhaps more because she isn't a media hog	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
"Volunteer." So is he broke or is he just refusing to pay this lady because he knows he's full of shit?	1State Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
whannity was still whining about Hillary Clinton today on my drive home. still. batching about Hillary. in 40 min I heard nothing about this phone call. fucking ridiculous.	1State Anger	[ 2, 9, 10 ]
Lin Wood has the bigger bombshell apparently	1State Anger	[ 3, 16 ]
I will never understand what kind of person would rather believe that Democrats and anyone who isn't a hardcore Trump ally are cannibal pedophiles instead of just accepting Donald Trump is a corrupt idiot. Like how would you prefer that be the world we live in.	0Trait Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
The Nazi media just keeps regurgitating the Hunter Biden stuff.....meanwhile, Trump just made Watergate look like a hiccup.	1State Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
The gaping wound in the country is never going away until we address the elephant in the room - numerous extremist right wing media propaganda outlets masquerading as news channels. As long as they exist this battle will go in circles.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
Yep I got banned from r/Republicans for saying listen to the entire call... they know it's not good.	1State Anger	[ 0, 15 ]
I love how right wing media was all BREATHLESS about the "Biblical" Kraken and then it turned into a giant pile of shit. And it's not like ANY of those stories promised by right wing media have ever panned out to the extent they hyped them. Fuck it goes back to when Trump and Sheriff Joe were promising to prove Obama wasn't born here. They never delivered ANYTHING. There's the Nunes nothingburger, all the O'Keefe and Project Veritas horseshit and promising to bring those responsible for his Russia investigation to heel. And NOTHING COMES of ANY of it. Yet, these morons still lap it up. It's like they're Charlie Brown, but they're sure Lucy won't yank the ball away at the last second THIS time.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 0 ]
well over at r/conservative, they believe the call was taken out of context and the media is trying to smear trump’s reputation. it’s truly mind boggling how brainwashed they are.	0Trait Anger	[ 0, 2 ]
Imagine if a phone call with H. Clinton or Obama was leaked in which they spoke like this, their careers would be over. Yet in this case, I strongly suspect that there won't be any real consequences at all, yeah we're all angry for a few days and then that's it. It's mindblowing. Biden and his team will fear the outrage from Trump's supporters if they take legal action, so while I could be wrong, they probably won't do anything. Well it's reached a point where I don't care if people get "outraged" anymore, this infantile man must face consequences, or it'll send a very disturbing signal to the society at large.	0Trait Anger	[ 2, 3, 0 ]

Trump and his allies engage in a criminal conspiracy to undermine democracy. There, I fixed it for you, AP. You guys should know better, come on AP.

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Lawsuits and jail

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It's like his personal game of monopoly. He gets a permanent "get out of jail free" card, and "collect unlimited tax payer funded golf as you pass go".

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Reminds me of this: [Trump struggles to say what he would do with another term for second time in a week](https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/01/politics/trump-second-term-agenda-objectives/index.html)

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God that speech was good. That whole section about the working class just felt so good to hear.

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Best part of his speech was the jab about winning Georgia 3 times. Q country definitely punching air over that one.

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Legal protection. He literally doesn’t give a shit about the job, he wants the powers.

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What time is the count on Wednesday start?

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It is such a close tie for who disgusts me more Trump or McConnell. This shit show jumped the shark so long ago.

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Nation's capital braces for violence as extremist groups converge to protest ~~Trump's election loss~~ Democracy

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This is the breaking point for our grand experiment in self rule.

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Prediction: Instead of the ~8,000 or so people who showed up to the last two “stop the steal” protests in DC, this time ~9,500 will show up. Nothing will happen except small pockets of violence quickly stamped out by police and national guard.

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So many snowflakes in one place, I hope DC has plows ready.

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There will be violence. Its gonna be a scary day in America

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The GOP conned us into a war in Iraq by lying about bringing democracy and now they are doing the same thing to their own country.

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Actual title. What a time to be alive.

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Credit where it's due: WaPo knows their audience.

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NTA - that other guy though ...

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ESH I don't know how you get to the point of being threatened by a member of your own party (Trump), have your own constituents sending you and your family death threats and your two state senators siding with the guy threatening you and you still want to be a part of that party. That is fucked up. At this point I would think all conservatives could see that the republican party is no longer a conservative party, its Trump's party. Get on board or get a knife in the back.

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You're the asshole for not asking him more insistently about *where* you were supposed to look, or *how* you were expected to proceed and *what* steps were needed in order to find those votes. Because you looked everywhere they were supposed to be, you counted them three times and you took every step you could think of, so now you need explicit instructions.

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I love Alexandra Petri. You can spot her column every time just by reading the title. I get the impression that ladies in her family are sharp as rule.

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I was like "that cannot be the headline" and it was +1 Washington Post

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YTA: Everyone knows that stories posted to r/AmITheAsshole are supposed to be fake, and this story actually happened.

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Alexandra Petri is almost always funny, but daaamn this is ice cold. Do they give Satire Pulitzers?

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Hey! A lot of people seem mad at me, but I don’t think I’m actually the a------ here! So I (65, M) got a telephone call from an older acquaintance in a position of power (74, M). I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt here and assume that maybe he used to be a lovely man, because a lot of people seem very dedicated to him, but all I can say is that he has definitely reached the stage of life where talking to him on the phone is a duty rather than a pleasure. And this isn’t the first time he tried to call. He tried 18 times!Basically, the call went immediately off the rails; indeed, it would be kind of inaccurate to say that it was at any point on the rails? I pick up the phone, we announce that everyone’s on the call, including his friend Mark (who frankly seems like he’s enabling a lot of dubious things right now) and a person he seemed to view as a lawyer (doesn’t necessarily mean anything!), and then he immediately starts shouting that I need to “find” him “votes.”I should mention that I am the secretary of state of Georgia, and, as such, basically the absolute minimum of my job is to make sure we don’t just randomly pick the winner of elections and give all our electoral votes to them because they call and yell at me, so that was how I was coming in.Anyway, the call mostly went like this:Him: [Conspiracy theory I did not perfectly understand, additional different conspiracy theory, just repeating an election worker’s name a bunch of times as though the name itself was proof of wrongdoing, description of an edited video he saw on Fox News maybe? Incoherent shouting about how he has 500,000 votes we should just take as assumed — he does NOT, we checked — but we only need to give him enough votes to win the election, and we need to find them for him.]Me: ??Mark: So, we can agree to work together on this, right?Me: We can agree to work together in the sense that we are happy to get on the phone later and explain that we think everything you’ve just said is incorrect!Then he started to go on and on about how it was unlikely that anyone could ever move back to Georgia and legitimately vote here again after previously leaving the state? Which, I understand there are things in our electoral process that are pretty wacky, but the concept that somebody might want to move back to a state seems like a very weird one to latch onto as definitely untrue. But he kept going on about it. Literally, he was like: “How many people do that? They moved out, and then they said, ‘Ah, to hell with it, I’ll move back.’ You know, it doesn’t sound like a very normal … you mean, they moved out, and what, they missed it so much that they wanted to move back in? It’s crazy.”Verbatim quote!! Which, in addition to being very strange, seemed kind of insulting to the lovely state of Georgia! Of course people who leave it for other places could want to move back!My friend and I tried to say it wasn’t crazy, but he was not really in a listening place.The call goes on for like an hour, somehow, most of it him yelling at me, and he and Mark kept trying to pressure me to look into this less “litigiously,” which I think meant that he wanted me to just announce I found a bunch of votes for him maybe in a drawer or a ravine somewhere? Really unclear where I was supposed to be getting these votes!But he was like, I heard people saying there are a lot of fake votes and dead people voting. Okay, you heard that, that’s great, but did you hear it from somewhere true, or did you just read it on the Internet, where people make things up? And then he got offended that I thought he was reading made-up things on the Internet. Like, what am I supposed to do with this?Anyway, I don’t think I was in the wrong here. I let him talk and talk and talk and tell me about these conspiracy theories he’d heard. I just didn’t agree to find him any votes, since I don’t think he understands how elections work.I should mention he is the president of the United States. AITA? Alexandra Petri is a Washington Post columnist offering a lighter take on the news and opinions of the day.

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ACTUAL TITLE! Wow!

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Get this lady a Pulitzer.

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ESH. You weren't an asshole for refusing, but your party helped enable the orange douchebag enough to allow things to get to this point, and many of them are still with him. You and the rest of the party should have put a stop to this a long time ago - not just when it started to negatively impact you personally.

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Like others, I thought this was an edited title, but its real! NTA.

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Actual headline. We have done it reddit. We are the new deep state now

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He tried to bully me into breaking the law for him, so I reported him.

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Alright, I’m upvoting this out of principle, no need to read the article first. We did it, Reddit.

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Oh boy here will come the bizarro brigade

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The full quote is much better and painfully accurate: > “Getting America vaccinated will be one of the most difficult operational challenges this nation has faced, but we’ve known that for months and this administration has gotten off to a god awful start,” Biden said. “The president spends more time whining and complaining than doing something about the problem. I don’t know why he still wants the job. He doesn’t want to do the work.”

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Biden was far from my first choice in the primaries, but I can’t even express how soothing it is to know that in 16 days we’re going to have a competent, rational person occupying the Oval Office.

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plus the fact that no one listens to those warnings

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Every single individual buying into, supporting, or enabling this effort is an enemy of the Republic.

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Not since WWII will so many Nazi's gather together in one place.

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Dear DC friends, Please stay inside and away from the rally. None of you deserve to be murdered by a Proud Boy.

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So many of them are going to get busted for brandishing a weapon immediately.

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Possible arrest of the proud boys leader being reported here: https://twitter.com/realmattcouch/status/1346218732687941637?s=21

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From the article: In an effort to preempt violence, officials in Washington, D.C. on Monday warned potential attendees of Wednesday's so-called #StopTheSteal rally and related events scheduled for this week that armed protesters will be arrested by city police officers, with the assistance of 300 unarmed National Guard members who have been activated to help contain the protests. There is "a serious threat to our democracy right now... and violence is being incited," said Muriel Bowser, the mayor of D.C., which prohibits the open carry of firearms.

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Trump should be charged for every death caused by these neo nazis

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Good luck trying to overcome DC metro, Capital Hill Police, and the National Guard all in one afternoon!

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I hope nobody shows up to counter protest and there’s just bunch of neckbeard dipshits in yellow and black running around yelling” you want some, come get some” to nobody in particular.

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Now that's the honest-to-goodness headline I've been waiting to read. "Trump-Endorsed Anti-Democracy" Holy shit! Feeling like 1936 in this place.

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Blast carnival music at them from all sides. Done.

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Anti-Trump, antifa, and other groups and individuals should just stay away from this event. If they have no one to attack, they'll just end up turning on each other.

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Round em up, move em out (to jail).

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the battle for Helms Deep begins

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Buckle up pal, because Trump’s speaking at a GA rally tonight and will keep spewing out all those same baseless claims to his cult followers. He only has one gear.

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This is how narcissists win. They just exhaust people until they're so fed up they give in so they can move on with their lives. We can't give in.

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Thats why I think its so so so vital to call trump supporters out on their shit. Yea Democrats have flaws too and we need to deal with that, but this beyond insane. Trumps actions are enough that anyone who supports him that has any complaints about a democrat going forward would automatically be shot down just because of what they support. Call them out....They're fucking traitors to America and I'm not just saying that to be intense...that's what it is

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Is he gonna tell them to stand back and stand by again?

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More like he plans to feed bullshit to the right wing assholes. Something he's been doing for 4 years.

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I’d be shocked if he wasn’t. The fact that [every living former Secretary of Defense](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/10-former-defense-secretaries-military-peaceful-transfer-of-power/2021/01/03/2a23d52e-4c4d-11eb-a9f4-0e668b9772ba_story.html) recently signed a letter disavowing the President’s unconstitutional assertions relating to involving the military in settling his election disputes speaks volumes.

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All he's doing all day is trying to stay president. He's desperate. Who knows what crazy shit he's been trying that we don't know about yet?

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"And this in particular is ominous: *Given these factors, particularly at a time when U.S. forces are engaged in active operations around the world, it is all the more imperative that the transition at the Defense Department be carried out fully, cooperatively and transparently. Acting defense secretary Christopher C. Miller and his subordinates — political appointees, officers and civil servants — are each bound by oath, law and precedent to facilitate the entry into office of the incoming administration, and to do so wholeheartedly. They must also refrain from any political actions that undermine the results of the election or hinder the success of the new team.* *We call upon them, in the strongest terms, to do as so many generations of Americans have done before them. This final action is in keeping with the highest traditions and professionalism of the U.S. armed forces, and the history of democratic transition in our great country.* These statements should be shockingly self-obvious. So why did they need to be made? What is happening between Trump and the Pentagon that this would be necessary?"

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From the letter that should give us all pause, considering what we just learned about Georgia...the fact this needed to be iterated kinda scares the pants off of me... >Civilian and military officials who direct or carry out such measures would be accountable, including potentially facing criminal penalties, for the grave consequences of their actions on our republic.

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*All Signs Point to Yes*

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>Acting defense secretary Christopher C. Miller and his subordinates — political appointees, officers and civil servants — are each bound by oath, law and precedent to facilitate the entry into office of the incoming administration, and to do so wholeheartedly. Oath and precedent are no longer a restraint and law is a toss-up. Just to add, [this](https://usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/01/03/trump-republicans-reject-biden-win-expose-flawed-democracy-column/4118231001/) from a couple of days ago makes the same point. >Too many of the guardrails of democracy are little more than white lines painted on the road that depend on a sense of honor, duty, and integrity that is simply no longer the norm.

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We need to remember that Trump has access to nuclear weapons. I see few people taking this as seriously as it needs to be. We are talking about a cornered narcissist with nothing left to lose. We are on the precipice of Trump doing something that America, and the world, will never recover from. He could literally take the entire world down with him. We can't pretend like his psychology will prevent him from doing the unthinkable. We are potentially mere *days* away from this. Impeachment will do nothing and is too late. All we can do now is brace for impact and *hope* he just gets kicked out of the White House on Jan 20.

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This is the problem. We know the content of ONE call. We don’t know what was offered to the Michigan legislators that visited the White House to “hear the offer.” We don’t know the details of the Pennsylvania legislators that publicly revealed they were in “negotiations”—their actual term—with the White House. We have NO IDEA what was said or who else is on on this thing. It could very well already be much bigger than we think. It may be much more underway than we think.

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Who *isn't* Trump making Democracy-Threatening Phone Calls to? I really hope of those other states he Zoomed with come forward with something. He's beyond unhinged and dangerous.

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Once he's gone, the shit we will discover that he said, did and wanted to do will be shocking.

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Used to be when a News outlets headline was a question the answer was always NO. With Trump, and it involves fuckery of any kind, the answer is always YES. And if he is accusing someone else of fuckery, you can bet your last paycheck that he is projecting his own shenanigans. Assuming you have a paycheck.

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Hope they are all making tapes. Years of interesting listening for legal scholars and historians and years prison time for Trump a Dump.

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Umm, Trump did [fire the last Secretary of Defense](https://www.npr.org/2020/11/09/933105262/trump-terminates-secretary-of-defense-mark-esper) 3 days after the election in order to replace him with a loyalist. That is certainly some timing on that. Secretary Esper has prepared a letter of resignation months earlier after disagreeing with the President about using troops on peaceful protestors.

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I think this may be about the defence dept. Not meeting with the Biden transition team. If so, it's too little, too late. They should have spoken out on this as soon as the civilian leadership cancelled all the DOD meetings with Biden's team.

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Is he a fucking idiot? Yes.

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What is it going to take to throw this motherfucker in jail?

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And to Arizona? And to Pennsylvania? And to Michigan? How many of the swing states did he pressure? He called Georgia 19 times, do we really believe that’s all he did?

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The new litmus test for republicans: "Will you help destory democracy for a cult tyrant?"

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please Warnock win ...

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It's a little strange that someone who wasn't voted into her office has the ability to object to the votes of Americans.

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*Quelle surprise.* What a vacuous toady.

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She looking two directions at once?

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God please Georgia vote those two hacks out tomorrow

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What a loser. She didn't say this earlier, because she didn't want it to be a giant news story. So wait until the absolute last minute so you can get the people who were on the fence. Slime ball is trying to hide who she is from the masses. We see you, we hear you. Fuck you.

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Seditionist Barbie

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Lame duck senator going down with the ship of a lame duck president. "Lame" being the key word here.

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Of course she is. Announced the day before the runoff, perfect timing

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These are 2 of the worst candidates I’ve ever seen. The fact they have a chance of winning is a sign of the times.

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If you’re from Georgia, and you can vote but decide not to, fuck you. You’re part of the reason why this country is so fucked.

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I have voted, my wife has voted, every one of my friends has voted, and it was all for Ossoff and Warnock!

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Please VOTE! Call each other, who needs a ride? This is critical Georgia. Hit this mother...... where it hurts. Colossal loss for this treasonous monster and jail for the seditious officials.

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You get to decide whether everyone gets $2,000 or whether mitch gets to block all progress for years.

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Her name is Cleta Mitchell and she is just as dangerous as Wood and Powell, perhaps more because she isn't a media hog

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"Volunteer." So is he broke or is he just refusing to pay this lady because he knows he's full of shit?

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whannity was still whining about Hillary Clinton today on my drive home. still. batching about Hillary. in 40 min I heard nothing about this phone call. fucking ridiculous.

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Lin Wood has the bigger bombshell apparently

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I will never understand what kind of person would rather believe that Democrats and anyone who isn't a hardcore Trump ally are cannibal pedophiles instead of just accepting Donald Trump is a corrupt idiot. Like how would you prefer that be the world we live in.

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The Nazi media just keeps regurgitating the Hunter Biden stuff.....meanwhile, Trump just made Watergate look like a hiccup.

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The gaping wound in the country is never going away until we address the elephant in the room - numerous extremist right wing media propaganda outlets masquerading as news channels. As long as they exist this battle will go in circles.

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Yep I got banned from r/Republicans for saying listen to the entire call... they know it's not good.

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I love how right wing media was all BREATHLESS about the "Biblical" Kraken and then it turned into a giant pile of shit. And it's not like ANY of those stories promised by right wing media have ever panned out to the extent they hyped them. Fuck it goes back to when Trump and Sheriff Joe were promising to prove Obama wasn't born here. They never delivered ANYTHING. There's the Nunes nothingburger, all the O'Keefe and Project Veritas horseshit and promising to bring those responsible for his Russia investigation to heel. And NOTHING COMES of ANY of it. Yet, these morons still lap it up. It's like they're Charlie Brown, but they're sure Lucy won't yank the ball away at the last second THIS time.

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well over at r/conservative, they believe the call was taken out of context and the media is trying to smear trump’s reputation. it’s truly mind boggling how brainwashed they are.

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Imagine if a phone call with H. Clinton or Obama was leaked in which they spoke like this, their careers would be over. Yet in this case, I strongly suspect that there won't be any real consequences at all, yeah we're all angry for a few days and then that's it. It's mindblowing. Biden and his team will fear the outrage from Trump's supporters if they take legal action, so while I could be wrong, they probably won't do anything. Well it's reached a point where I don't care if people get "outraged" anymore, this infantile man must face consequences, or it'll send a very disturbing signal to the society at large.

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