2022 elections. The steady march for sanity continues.

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Librarians Come For The Former President | Joe "Dark Brandon" Biden Is More Powerful Than Ever
839,359 views Aug 10, 2022 The FBI's raid of the former president's home is apparently part of an ongoing investigation by the National Archives and Records Administration. Meanwhile, the current president's recent accomplishments are being celebrated online with "Dark Brandon" memes.
 

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It's almost 3 months until the election and the shit Donald is in grows deeper and more damaging to the GOP. They dare not say anything about national security or Donald's hoard of top secret nuclear secrets. I can assure you that somebody will want to know Donald's intentions about these documents and if he made copies, or gave any away already. Those who printed them out and packed them will be spoken to and all the past and present staff at Mar A logo will be gone over too, even the illegals.

Will any of it make a difference to your average moron republican voter? Will there be a war inside the GOP? Donald will want it all about him, the witch hunts and the 2020 election. Donald can be be indicted anytime between now and the election, in Georgia or by the feds, he is not running for any office, nor is he an official nominee for any party. They and Foxnews have to be real careful about how they play this, Trump's supporters will walk away from the polls on command and if Foxnews turns on him, their ratings will crash through the floor.

Hopefully abortion and guns will energize the democratic base while Trump and his baggage cause a war inside the GOP suppressing the republican vote. The economy is doing well, unemployment is at historic lows, gas prices and inflation are under control and dropping while the war in Ukraine could have a major victory. Some of the democrats agenda was driven though and some of the effects should be felt by election day.

Let's keep our fingers crossed and hope that the democrats keep the house and gain a useful majority in the senate. Then things can really happen to break the back of the GOP's undemocratic electoral advantage and to especially destroy their domestic terrorist and propaganda wings. HR1 on steroids, new laws, FCC powers and media regulation, hate crime laws and a domestic terrorist watch list with no guns or flying for those on it.


Are Democrats Turning The Midterm Tide?
75,494 views Aug 11, 2022 History suggests that incumbent presidents usually lose midterm elections, but recent polling has seen Democrats closing the gap. So which races are they set to win, and why are they bucking the trend? Could Biden do the impossible and win the midterms?
 
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'The US will face violence and Trump will announce soon' | Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson
15,265 views Aug 13, 2022 Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson spoke candidly with DW about the recent raid on former President Trump's home, the unshakeable bond he has with the party, Republicans hyper focus on culture wars and how the party's radical rhetoric could lead to political violence during the upcoming midterms.
 

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Orbán dazzles US conservatives — what do they see in him?

The Conservative Political Action Conference, known commonly as CPAC, recently met in Dallas with former President Donald Trump as the headliner. Speaking alongside Trump on the program is the U.S. conservative movement’s favorite foreign leader, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary.

What do American conservatives see in Orbán? Why would the leader of a country the size of Indiana with a population less than New York City have such an outsized effect on the Trump-wing of the Republican Party?

Orbán is proof of concept that a proudly un-woke leader can repeatedly win elections by leading with illiberalism. Over the 12 years, Orbán has been in power — extended for four years with his reelection in April 2022 — Orbán has set off culture wars. From demonizing Hungarian-American George Soros with dog-whistled anti-Semitism to fighting immigration as a global plot to mix races to campaigning against gender fluidity and LGBTIQ equality, Orbán has been the bad boy of Europe, seemingly enjoying the discomfort of European leaders whose values he attacks. Most recently, he generated controversy by using Nazi terminology to refer to those who are not Christian Europeans as belonging to completely different species.

Behind the culture wars façade, however, lies another threat to democracy, one that CPAC’s leaders may value even more than Orbán’s anti-wokeness. Orbán has demonstrated how to translate roughly one-third support in the polls into overwhelming election triumphs by designing election rules to guarantee victory. Orbán provides proof of concept that elections are won or lost by rigging the rules at least as much as they are won or lost on actual voter support.

One of Orbán’s first acts as prime minister in 2010 was to cut the size of the Parliament in half. Halving the Parliament allowed Orbán to redraw all of the districts and create a “wild gerrymander” that ensured that his party would win the vast majority of the districts for years to come. Of course, gerrymandering was invented in the U.S., but Orbán has exploited it to extremes.

When it looked like his power was slipping, Orbán changed the rules again so that splintered opposition parties could only win by combining forces into a single coalition against him — a strange-bedfellows assemblage that couldn’t agree on a message but that weakened each of the parties individually. When the opposition persisted anyhow, Orbán changed the rules again so that he could move his voters anywhere in the country to shore up close districts with an influx of support.

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During this time, Orbán controlled the media environment so that the opposition found it nearly impossible to get its message out. In addition, Orbán understood that packing the courts blocks challenges. As the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) election observers diplomatically noted about Hungary’s April election, legal challenges to election infractions “fell short of providing effective legal remedy.”

Like Orbán, Trump can claim a little over one-third of the voters as a solid base while a party-controlled media empire blasts out his messages. Getting to a victorious plurality on election day relies on a combination of anti-majoritarian sleights of hand and training the party media on the opposition like a weapon.

The election system is very different in the U.S. than it is in Hungary, so Orbán’s innovations must be tweaked to travel. But the principle that elections can be won by clever lawyering has clearly caught on among Republicans and some of Orbán’s innovations have migrated. Republicans are already racing to rewrite the rules.

The U.S. Constitution establishes an Electoral College, which provides many opportunities for mischief as we saw in the last election when Trump’s lawyers tried to generate confusion over the choice of electors that handed President Jos Biden his victory. This confusion was manufactured by their edgy readings of the Constitution and the Electoral Count Act to favor Trump’s cause. It almost worked.

Now, Republicans are advocating a once-fringe interpretation of the Constitution that gives to “state legislatures” the power to design federal election rules. According to the “independent state legislature theory,” neither governors nor state courts can intervene in this process.

Republicans have for years wildly gerrymandered state legislative districts to produce overwhelming Republican majorities in close-call swing states but they are less likely to control governors and courts. The new theory cuts these wild cards out of the Republican rules-writing loop. The now conservative-packed federal Supreme Court’s acceptance of this theory in a case they have agreed to decide next term will allow federal election rules to be written reliably by the party faithful, just as Orbán’s pliant parliament and packed courts allowed Orbán to design an election system that guaranteed he would never lose.

Orbán provides a formula for the permanent power of a minority party. Lead with culture wars to fire up the base. Discredit opponents through party-controlled media. Engineer the election rules by controlling their design. Orbán has demonstrated that this playbook works — and the Republicans are paying attention.
 

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Texas Paul REACTS to Republican PANIC as Beto O’Rourke Draws MASSIVE Crowds
127,534 views Aug 14, 2022 Members of the Collin County Republican Party in Texas are absolutely terrified of a Blue Wave after seeing Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Beto O'Rouke's massive crowds in deep red parts of the state. Texas Paul reacts.
 

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More Voters Prefer Democratic Midterm Candidates, Polling Shows
1,106 views Aug 18, 2022 More voters prefer Democratic midterm candidates than Republican candidates and President Biden's approval numbers are slightly up since June, new Politico/Morning Consult polling shows.
 

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Put heat on their corporate donors while Trump is gobbling up all the small donor, true sucker, money for his legal defense fund and of course stop the steal. Senators depend on big money donors and corporations, house candidates on small donor money and Trump is getting much of that.


Let's talk about Republican money troubles....
 

DIY-HP-LED

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America needs domestic terrorist laws and a domestic terrorist watch list and this is why. Everybody from the FBI, IRS, elected officials judges and witnesses are under terrorist attack, even the US capitol, death threats and menacing are terrorist acts. Hopefully this will help the democrats to get elected in November with a useful majority and they will step on these cockroaches hard. It is not really an option if you want to survive as a liberal democracy and it is required by the constitution for it's defense.

 

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Put heat on their corporate donors while Trump is gobbling up all the small donor, true sucker, money for his legal defense fund and of course stop the steal. Senators depend on big money donors and corporations, house candidates on small donor money and Trump is getting much of that.


Let's talk about Republican money troubles....
that's fine with me, let him suck up every fucking penny he can, it will get eaten up in legal costs, not one penny of it will ever turn into a political ad for anyone but trump, and i doubt there will be enough left over for more than one or two...then after the midterms when the democrats have a real majority, they can start fucking the republicans good and hard, and they'll lose so fucking miserably in 24 that they'll be irrelevant for at least 6 years, by the time they get back in power, some of them might be up for parole....
 

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that's fine with me, let him suck up every fucking penny he can, it will get eaten up in legal costs, not one penny of it will ever turn into a political ad for anyone but trump, and i doubt there will be enough left over for more than one or two...then after the midterms when the democrats have a real majority, they can start fucking the republicans good and hard, and they'll lose so fucking miserably in 24 that they'll be irrelevant for at least 6 years, by the time they get back in power, some of them might be up for parole....
If they are doing this poorly in swing states they are having trouble in red states too and Texas is close to a swing state. If Beto wins in Texas they will go nuts and if they lose the house in Texas it will be worse than nuts. Ron Johnson is up to his nuts in the fake elector scheme and could be indicted as part of the conspiracy. I'm an optimist, but I don't see why the democrats can't pick up a few more senate seats this time around, these are state wide offices that can't be gerrymandered. Donald's legal troubles are just beginning, no indictments to muzzle him yet, but plenty of heat to spook him into announcing, running and causing chaos inside the GOP. Rove and Mitch warned him not to announce before the election, but Trump knows they are gonna throw him under the bus after the election.

Polling suggests the public have two big issues, the security and stability of the democracy and abortion, though that one is stronger than the polling indicates. Domestic terrorism won't play well in 2022 and Trump will incite more of it as he gets deeper into shit. Imagine trying to call Garland to put the arm on him, "Nice little country ya got here Merrick, it would be a shame if somebody burned it down..." Jesus Christ! :o
 

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Texas Paul REACTS to Republicans DITCHING Greg Abbott for Beto O’Rourke
154,698 views Aug 17, 2022 During a campaign stop in Hemphill, Texas, Beto O'Rourke spoke to yet another packed house, and again earned the support of more traditional Republicans. Meet the Reagan Republican who is proudly voting for Beto!
 

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DeSantis announces 20 charges of voter fraud by new election security office
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Thursday that the state’s new Office of Election Crimes and Security has uncovered 20 instances of voter fraud since its establishment on July 1.
“The Office of Election Crimes and Security, in conjunction with the Attorney General’s office and FDLE of the state of Florida, has charged and is in the process of arresting 20 individuals across the state for voter fraud,” DeSantis said.

The governor claimed that the 20 individuals from Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties voted despite being disqualified due to previous convictions of either murder or sexual assault.

The state of Florida does not allow convicts of serious crimes including homicide and sexual assault to retain voting rights.
The 20 being charged with voter fraud face up to five years in prison in addition to a $5,000 fine for the third-degree felony, according to DeSantis.

DeSantis added that Florida’s election security office will continue to review the 2020 election in search of fraud, as well as monitor upcoming elections.

“One of the things that we did in the most recent legislative session, though, is recognize, yes, you can have all these great policy reforms, and it’s important to do it, but if it’s not actually enforced then what difference is it going to make at the end of the day?” DeSantis said in support of the election security office and its work.

The Office of Election Crimes and Security was proposed in a voting bill passed by the Florida House in March. DeSantis named lawyer Peter Antonacci director of the office on July 6, shortly after its establishment as part of the Florida State Department.


Good. Because you know, those 20 could have altered the election.
 

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DeSantis announces 20 charges of voter fraud by new election security office
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Thursday that the state’s new Office of Election Crimes and Security has uncovered 20 instances of voter fraud since its establishment on July 1.
“The Office of Election Crimes and Security, in conjunction with the Attorney General’s office and FDLE of the state of Florida, has charged and is in the process of arresting 20 individuals across the state for voter fraud,” DeSantis said.

The governor claimed that the 20 individuals from Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties voted despite being disqualified due to previous convictions of either murder or sexual assault.

The state of Florida does not allow convicts of serious crimes including homicide and sexual assault to retain voting rights.
The 20 being charged with voter fraud face up to five years in prison in addition to a $5,000 fine for the third-degree felony, according to DeSantis.

DeSantis added that Florida’s election security office will continue to review the 2020 election in search of fraud, as well as monitor upcoming elections.

“One of the things that we did in the most recent legislative session, though, is recognize, yes, you can have all these great policy reforms, and it’s important to do it, but if it’s not actually enforced then what difference is it going to make at the end of the day?” DeSantis said in support of the election security office and its work.

The Office of Election Crimes and Security was proposed in a voting bill passed by the Florida House in March. DeSantis named lawyer Peter Antonacci director of the office on July 6, shortly after its establishment as part of the Florida State Department.


Good. Because you know, those 20 could have altered the election.
https://ncpolicywatch.com/2022/05/02/florida-gave-voting-rights-to-people-with-felony-convictions-now-some-face-charges-for-voting/
 

Roger A. Shrubber

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DeSantis announces 20 charges of voter fraud by new election security office
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Thursday that the state’s new Office of Election Crimes and Security has uncovered 20 instances of voter fraud since its establishment on July 1.
“The Office of Election Crimes and Security, in conjunction with the Attorney General’s office and FDLE of the state of Florida, has charged and is in the process of arresting 20 individuals across the state for voter fraud,” DeSantis said.

The governor claimed that the 20 individuals from Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties voted despite being disqualified due to previous convictions of either murder or sexual assault.

The state of Florida does not allow convicts of serious crimes including homicide and sexual assault to retain voting rights.
The 20 being charged with voter fraud face up to five years in prison in addition to a $5,000 fine for the third-degree felony, according to DeSantis.

DeSantis added that Florida’s election security office will continue to review the 2020 election in search of fraud, as well as monitor upcoming elections.

“One of the things that we did in the most recent legislative session, though, is recognize, yes, you can have all these great policy reforms, and it’s important to do it, but if it’s not actually enforced then what difference is it going to make at the end of the day?” DeSantis said in support of the election security office and its work.

The Office of Election Crimes and Security was proposed in a voting bill passed by the Florida House in March. DeSantis named lawyer Peter Antonacci director of the office on July 6, shortly after its establishment as part of the Florida State Department.


Good. Because you know, those 20 could have altered the election.
notice that he doesn't say whether they were democrats or republicans....i got 20 bucks says at least 15 of the 20 were republicans...
 
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