Atlanta-area prosecutors investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia are in possession of text messages and emails directly connecting members of Donald Trump’s legal team to the early January 2021 voting system breach in Coffee County, sources tell CNN.

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      Just adding that no one is obligated to continue to be a republican, loyalty to a political party is a recipe for totalitarianism.

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        It’s so fucking strange too. It’s like they brought this new TV and they’ll be damned if they’re going to be told it doesn’t work as well as advertised. I would think we could all unite about this, and we could show the world that not even the president can evade justice. But instead they’re still selling him hard.

        Republicans: {smacks Donald’s ass} “This baby here can fuck up at least 10 democracies.”

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          A big part of many Republicans’ mindsets seem to be “how dare you tell me I’m wrong! Just for that, I’m going to double down!” Like I’ve seen it in things as petty as Republicans being told they’re using a comma the wrong way and then continuing to use it that way out of spite.

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          Bit of an aside, but one the smartest things I’ve ever done was after my dad brought his new TV and had just hooked it up, I quickly used the parental controls to delete Fox News from the channel lineup while he was looking away. He never even noticed, and he’s in a much better mental state now.

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            Ever hear of the documentary “The Brainwashing Of My Dad”

            It details how a sweet man became a monster when he started watching Fox, and went back to normal when the family intervened and stopped him from watching it.

            It’s a recurring thing, people become terrible when they watch Fox, they snap out of it when access to Fox is blocked.

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        People treat political parties like sports teams, taking credit for all their victories while distancing themselves personally from every loss. WE won vs THEY blew it. I my anecdotal experience it’s especially bad on the right. Most conservative voters I know proudly say they’re a Republican but liberal voters will only say they vote Democrat, not that they are one.

        The two party system was a mistake

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              That oft repeated claim of parallelism between the US Democrats and the CPC might have been more true in the past. I think there are significant differences nowadays as Poilievre plays with populist rhetoric and policy ideas. Considering the voting base the CPC is attempting to court, I’m not sure those two political parties are really in the same boat.

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            The outcome of FPTP-voting is naturally a two party system, the ancient wealthy romans designed it so deliberately in order for them to easily manipulate regardless of election outcomes to maintain their wealth and power. Everywhere it is used politics degenerate into voters being reduced to pick between “business as usual” and “tax cuts for the rich.” Wealthy donors play both horses and don’t really care about the outcome except when some progressive candidate appears and they find themselves forced to run some interference behind the scenes to help even the odds back to the usual bread and circus’ that they prefer.

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      Don’t forget Cambridge Analytica. Social Media with the help of Ai will help them to guide us and we’ll be more productive for them.

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      America needs a new conservative party so that the republicans who are still sane don’t feel like crazy town is their only option to avoid being disenfranchised.

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        You have a new Conservative party, it’s called the Dems, what you need is a new progressive party to catch up with the rest of the developed world.

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      Jezus America are you ok? So about half your country are traitors as far as the other half is concerned? I’m not condemning or anything but fighting amongst yourselves like this is not going to work either.

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            You guys are 31 trillion in debt. You aren’t rich, you’re just borrow money you can’t pay back and keep increasing your debt limit.

            It’s nice spending money that’s not yours until the lenders get fed up about the lack of payments and you default and go into bankruptcy. I cannot wait until the US debt situation explodes, watching from half way around the world.

            And yes I’m aware pretty much every nation is in debt, but not to the extent the US is. But the US is by far the most in the hole.

            I don’t know why Americans think they’re hot shit. You’re literally just an echo chamber the rest of the world laughs at.

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        yes he will be first against the wall, mainly because he spoke out about them, the self purging doesn’t start until after the fascist takeover.

        and yes an.6 was an attempt to depose the democratically elected government, and yes it had planning, why do you think they had the gallows put up so fast? why do you think the people who broke in were armed and had cable ties? you know, the ones literally caught on video

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      Sticks and stones, you can call me a horse as well and it doesn’t mean I whinny.

      Sincerely, a card carrying Republican