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Sargon's wife's son said:
I wonder how they won the governorship then it's very interesting how the Democrats always win no matter how much they screw up it's almost like the cheating
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It's tacitly believed by a stunning amount of Long Island that Zeldin would have ousted Hochul in 2022 if NYC hadn't foritified to lock him the fuck out. When even the fucking Progs are bandying that accusation around, you know they're sort of fucked.

In the short term, that sucks for NYC, but in the long term, it's great for everyone else - like @Gehenna once helpfully mentioned, the fact that they had to steal what was otherwise a safe seat in a blue HQ district is a tacit admission that they will need to do so going forward, and it causes a snowball effect - because they need to invest time and resources in fortifying the safe seats, they're not going to be able to shore up other seats they need. This forces them to rig more, and in turn, still more, and vastly increases the odds they fuck up or get caught as well. And while some of the Doomer/Coomer brigade on A&H would argue that none of that matters, it absolutely does at the local level. Across NY, the state continues to trend harder and harder red in tune with NYC's pathological fuck-ups. Five years ago, the progress local Repubs have made would have been considered an impossibility.

TL;DR: They can't do it forever. Either they get bled out by the locals going increasingly red and losing more and more ground to them, or they fuck off when they see the writing on the wall and cut their losses, though doubtless there will be at least one Dem establishment clown that tries to go down swinging. It will take years, but a paradigm change is taking place and these asshats, short-sighted as they are, do not realize the implications.

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Here's the question: If they do that blatant fraud, what do people do then? No, really; what do they do? 2020 'showed' that there is no legal recourse for a fraudulent election in America.
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The obvious is "exactly what you'd think," but I would like to point out something critical, pertinent to their last steal:

The coverage of it by TIME Magazine and similar bullshittery was done with a very specific intent. The intent, of course, was to try to provoke an actual violent response that they could exploit, and even with everything they did, every asset at their disposal, and every single media mouthpiece they had, the best they could do was the idiots who actually did do stupid shit (and were mostly feds), and a bunch of confused boomers wandering around the capital.

The steal itself, in my perview, was a means an end: The hope being that they could use that to carry on their agenda going forward. But unfortunately for them (and equally fortuitous, for us), we do not live in the same world we did in 2020. People are more aware of bullshit than ever before. Even with full control of basically every avenue involved, Big Tech got exposed, over and over again, carrying the water of the Dems - despite the full assurances of them, they didn't protect the platforms at all and immediately turned around and blamed them to cover their own ass. As such, Big Tech (Google aside) is not making that mistake twice - especially not with one of the biggest platforms being openly in favor of the Donald and another fucking off as hard as possible away from politics.

A lot of what allowed the steal in 2020 is the media blackout on it. That blackout will not be happening this time, and while I do expect shennanigans to go down, I do not expect it to be enough to save their stupid asses.
 
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Absurdist Laughter said:
I wonder how our god Pharaoh administration would react if the Rio Grande was turned to blood. Will they ignore the plague until it consumes them fully or will they head the word of their true god, the people.
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"Nothing to see here! God's wrath upon his sinful people happens everyday." And blame Trump, of course.
 
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The Nothingness said:
(((Goldman))) could not care less about the Gentiles who die everyday from Fentanyl poisoning.

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4:02 The Biden Administration has seized more fentanyl and arrested more people for fentanyl related crimes in the last two years than the last five years combined.
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It's almost like when you have more people coming across the border, you're going to arrest more people for carrying drugs and shit.

And that's even if that claim is true. Dan Goldman did nothing but patronize this woman while trying to shift the blame away from his party's failures. He clearly has no problem lying to someone he thinks is beneath him and considering he's a congressman, that means anyone who can't bribe him.
 
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Barbara Lee said she got stopped from using the senate member's elevator because the guy thought she stole a senator's pin. If this was real, it would have been all over the news by now. the guy or gal's name plastered all over social media / msm
 
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Gehenna said:
Without any trace of "You should do this", as a solemn note. The only thing that can happen. Maybe not that year, maybe not that admin, maybe not the next few. But violence will brew and explode. It ensures it. A terrible seed.
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That or they expect enough apathy that nothing happens.
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Barbara Lee said she got stopped from using the senate member's elevator because the guy thought she stole a senator's pin. If this was real, it would have been all over the news by now. the guy or gal's name plastered all over social media / msm
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Show us the video, Barb.
 
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Jaimas said:
This forces them to rig more, and in turn, still more, and vastly increases the odds they fuck up or get caught as well.
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Yeah, imagine if they're caught on camera faking a water main break so they can haul out boxes of votes and count them without any observers present. They'd get in so much trouble. I'm sure the courts wouldn't just dismiss everything on standing grounds.
 
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In an exclusive interview with The Epoch Times, Steve Bannon laid out what the beginning of former President Donald Trump’s second term would look like if he is elected later this year.

“The first 100 days of President Trump’s second term will be the equivalent of the first 100 days of FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt],” said Mr. Bannon, the host of the “War Room” podcast.

“FDR, in his first hundred days, started the foundations of building the administrative state, the deep state. The first 100 days of President Trump, I think you’ll see the beginning of the deconstruction of that and the destruction of the deep state, along with dozens and dozens and dozens of other policy proposals,” he added.
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When asked by Newsmax if the rumours of Carlson being the one had any validity, Trump Jr. said “I would love to see that happen. That would certainly be a contender.”

“That clearly would be on the table, right.” he continued, adding “I mean they’re very friendly, I think they agree on virtually all of these things,” including “stopping the never-ending war.”

Trump Jr. suggested several other names including Ben Carson and even Ron DeSantis, who Trump continues to call ‘DeSanctimonious’.
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In a 15-page filing, prosecutors pushed for the maximum statutory sentence of five years in prison, arguing that Mr. Littlejohn’s betrayal of the public trust “merits significant punishment.”

Mr. Littlejohn had access to “vast amounts of unmasked taxpayer data” when he worked for Booz Allen, a consulting firm working with public and private clients mostly on IRS contracts, between 2008 and 2013.

After President Trump took office in 2017, Mr. Littlejohn sought to return to work for Booz Allen “with the intention of accessing and disclosing” the tax returns of the president, whom he viewed as “dangerous and a threat to democracy,” according to prosecutors.

Mr. Littlejohn “weaponized his access to unmasked taxpayer data to further his own personal, political agenda, believing that he was above the law,” prosecutors said.

This went on for more than two years, with multiple news organizations receiving unlawfully leaked private tax returns and other private financial information.
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Seanut Arbuckle said:
Traitor before an enemy I guess. At least with the libtards we know where we stand but with the meatball party we're supposed to be on the same side. I get it they don't like trump starting shit and they're still upset about covid. I actually agree with the meatball crew on this, DeSantis was better than trump on covid, but that's only one issue and while I won't say "Get over it" because I sure as hell haven't gotten over it, there are other issues at stake.
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What the Meatball crew does not understand is the most fundamental issue right now is the left's willingness to destroy every institution the country has in order to maintain its grip on power, and the lawless way in which they've gone after Trump since the Russia hoax is a huge part of that. When they are silent or, even worse, take sides with the left with these sham prosecutions and hoaxes, they are taking sides with the enemies of America and against the very voters they want to court in November.

That is why Meatball is absolutely fucking done on the national stage. Nobody expected him to throw the primary or not try to win. But also, nobody expected him to say "Heh, welp, guess Trump shouldn't make the libtards so mad!" when state prosecutors start making up bullshit to charge him with. The thing for Meatball to do in that situation is to not take the bait and immediately pivot to attacking the lawlessness of these prosecutors, maybe kick in some jabs at Soros, and then talk about how he's the better guy to destroy them than Trump and what his plan is.

The fact he didn't know to do that shows that his political instincts are horrible and he doesn't understand what Republican voters want. He doesn't deserve the nomination now or ever.
 
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Steve Cortes, a former Trump advisor who campaigned for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis before stepping down from the Never Back Down super PAC, had a change of heart, penning an op-ed titled “Only Trump Can Save America.”

In the RealClear Politics piece, Mr. Cortes wrote that he had believed Republican voters were ready to move on from former President Donald Trump this election cycle, and “I now believe I was wrong.”
Mr. Cortes was an advisor in President Trump’s 2016 and 2020 campaigns.

In May 2023, he announced his endorsement of Mr. DeSantis in a Newsweek editorial, writing that the “America First movement” was bigger than President Trump.

He made a case for Mr. DeSantis as “the best possible option to win the presidency in 2024” with few references to President Trump, but he later criticized the former president on social media.
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I believed that Republican voters were ready for a new post-Trump chapter of the America First movement. I now believe I was wrong.

Those of us who backed Ron DeSantis – or the other Republican candidates – should read the room. Former President Trump winnowed the field effortlessly and then crushed the remaining three candidates in Iowa. He leads in the polls everywhere else. It is time to coalesce and unite behind the clear preference of the GOP grassroots, Donald John Trump.

We do not have the luxury of further internal strife and instead must gird for an epic battle this autumn against our opponents who are inflicting daily damage upon America. Any further time, capital, and effort spent attacking the frontrunner, especially with Democratic Party-like talking points, only dilutes the power of our cause as we head toward November.

Why do these patriotic voters rally so overwhelmingly to Trump?

Clearly, they admire the resilience of this outsider who is so reviled by the ruling class that has nothing but contempt for everyday Americans. Voters still see in Trump a fighter and champion for the forgotten and ill-used citizens of the United States.

Americans also rally to his side as he faces an onslaught of corrupt persecutions from politicized, dirty prosecutors and undemocratic efforts to remove his name from state ballots.

We confront a perilous moment in U.S. history. Our country suffers from sky-high violent crime, the ravages of an effectively open border, a subversive educational system, and the anxiety of an economy that punishes workers – all brought about, deliberately, by Joe Biden and his allies.

At such a flashpoint in history like this one, political unity among conservatives is an imperative. A second Biden term would risk the permanent loss of our republic as we know it. Moreover, the very plausible scenario of Vice President Kamala Harris taking over for a weakened Biden makes the already troubling outcomes even more bleak.

Regarding the border disaster, December marked a new monthly all-time high for migrants crossing into our homeland, over 300,000 of them. This lawless chaos extends far beyond incompetent mismanagement and instead represents a purposeful move to effectively vaporize the border and the idea of American national sovereignty.

The border crisis, in turn, worsens the economic calamity inflicted by Biden and Harris. Millions of new workers compete unjustly and illegally in the labor market against American citizens. Those hard-working Americans have already seen their real wages decline markedly since Biden took office, meaning pay adjusted for the costs of inflation. Under Biden, Americans work harder to get poorer.

In addition to restoring the buying power of regular workers, we must resurrect Americans’ self-confidence. In a Wall Street Journal poll, fully 78% of Americans said that future American generations will not live better, by far the worst pessimism ever recorded in the survey, which goes back three decades.

Since the Biden team and media allies realize that running on such a record presents massive hurdles, they choose to demonize not just Trump, but the tens of millions of Americans who gravitate toward his can-do message of hope.

So, they enlist shamelessly partisan prosecutors to concoct sham charges, all the while pretending that what’s really happening is a far greater violation of their precious “norms” than anything Donald Trump ever did. Their scheme is to have prosecutors employed by his Justice Department, or big city Democratic Party hacks attempt to jail Biden’s chief political opponent. This from the political party that rails endlessly about “threats to democracy”!

Yet that has been the theme pushed by the Democrats and their media allies since before the 2022 midterms. In his notorious and menacing “Red Sermon” speech in Philadelphia, Biden essentially slandered half the country who supported Trump in 2020 as having “fascist” tendencies. He then escalated those attacks with his Valley Forge speech only last week.

Unable to persuade voters on the merits, the Biden-Harris team pursues a scorched-earth strategy that includes tactics ranging from politicized prosecutions of Trump to wholesale character assassination of Americans for him. This supposed blue-collar ally takes perverse delight in spewing propaganda that punches down at salt-of-the-earth “deplorables.”

So, what is the solution to this present crisis? How do we save America?

It is time to unify behind former President Trump as he leads the battle against the ruling class and the oligarchs intent on destroying the American way of life. I implore all patriotic populists to join as I pledge to do all I can to work for Trump’s cause, just as I proudly did in 2016 and 2020.

With the America First movement acting fully in concert, we will win a historic electoral victory that leads to a full restoration of American greatness.

Steve Cortes is former senior advisor to President Trump, former commentator for Fox News and CNN, and president of the League of American Workers, a populist right pro-laborer advocacy group.
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Germany seems to think Trump will win
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What is the subtext here of "fostering our European competitiveness"? This implies Europe will need to be more competitive if Trump is in power than Biden. Why? What is he saying here?

Gehenna said:
This is going to be so fun to watch.
If he does win, wonderful. If he does not though... the only way that would be possible is utterly brazen, not even bothering to bullshit it, just out and out fraud. Shit that makes 2020 -actually- look like the most safe and secure election ever. The world at large is demonstrably showing already they are less than willing to keep playing along to the obvious bullshit that is the Biden admin's legitimacy. If they steal it again it will be so fucking great, and horrifying, to watch them stop pretending.
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You really think other countries that aren't actively hostile to the USA (or vice versa) would outright call the election fraudulent? Even if it were obvious that it were? I'm not so sure about that. I mean you say the world at large is demonstrably showing they are less willing to play along with the bullshit that Biden's government is legitimate but demonstrated how? Have any foreign officials actually said that he was elected fraudulently on the record?
 
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Gehenna said:
You'd be surprised how much the political analyst profession agrees with this. Nothing will convince you more of the need for it than personally handling the raw numbers. Hell, some of my fellows go further and say you should have it even break up individual major cities by groups of suburbs/boroughs.
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I'm very much of the opinion that once a state reaches the point where a single county or small coalition of clustered counties can outvote the rest of the state, it's time to split it off into its own entity. That dense of an urban center has its own needs and mindset and quickly the whole state devolves into policies that solely benefit the urban core to the detriment of everyone else.
NYC, Chicago, greater LA, the San Francisco Bay Area, Denver, Portland, and Seattle are all the top candidates in my mind. There's probably a few more on the east coast, I just don't follow their politics as closely.
The Ugly One said:
What the Meatball crew does not understand is the most fundamental issue right now is the left's willingness to destroy every institution the country has in order to maintain its grip on power, and the lawless way in which they've gone after Trump since the Russia hoax is a huge part of that. When they are silent or, even worse, take sides with the left with these sham prosecutions and hoaxes, they are taking sides with the enemies of America and against the very voters they want to court in November.

That is why Meatball is absolutely fucking done on the national stage. Nobody expected him to throw the primary or not try to win. But also, nobody expected him to say "Heh, welp, guess Trump shouldn't make the libtards so mad!" when state prosecutors start making up bullshit to charge him with. The thing for Meatball to do in that situation is to not take the bait and immediately pivot to attacking the lawlessness of these prosecutors, maybe kick in some jabs at Soros, and then talk about how he's the better guy to destroy them than Trump and what his plan is.

The fact he didn't know to do that shows that his political instincts are horrible and he doesn't understand what Republican voters want. He doesn't deserve the nomination now or ever.
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The most pants-on-head retarded cope from a Meatball advocate I've seen post-Iowa was Ben Dreyfuss saying that each party should allow the other to nix the least appealing candidate in their opposition's respective primaries, because Trump freaked out 100 million libs so much that they let the crazy far-left wingnuts take over the party.
Like, a) that's their problem, not Republicans', and b) instituting that would just result in anyone threatening to move the dial in a way that upsets corporate media (because Trump hysteria was not organic, sorry) getting preemptively eliminated.
 
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reposting from Happenings 2024 Primaries
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apparently Nimarata is a total slut and she's big mad that DM tattled, banning them from all two remaining events she has
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Is anybody actually surprised by this? Cheating and being promiscuous is a big part of the bitchy girlboss aesthetic/lifestyle.
 
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