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jimok's avatar

I have no second favorite candidate. Trump must win. It’s kinda scary to feel that way, but the USA is hanging on a thread. So much damage has been done to the trust of the citizenry that no other outcome will even begin to restore hope for the future.

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Don Reed's avatar

03/11/24: Molly Ball comes up in my data as yet another "Kiss Your Ass Goodbye" on 11/05/24.

It's November THIRD, 2024 that has me worried. The potential on that date for upheaval or worse is unlimited.

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Wayne's avatar

Nancy Mace should have reminded Stephanopoulous that he used to work for Bill Clinton.

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Shrugged's avatar

I don't understand why Nancy Mace (Or any Trump supporter) would appear there (or any mainstream site) in the first place. It gives undeserved viewership to Stephanopoulos and is fraught with scripted questions designed to destroy. The interviewer has the upper hand.

Mace did quite well and deserves credit, but we already knew that about her. She probably didn't gain an ounce with the viewers of the show or help the campaign. The risks far outweighed the potential benefit.

Attorneys have a saying I'll apply here, "The juice ain't worth the squeeze". Nancy had to squeeze really hard and didn't get much from it, especially with the audience tuning in.

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Adorable Deplorable's avatar

Great point. Like all the past idiot Republicans agreeing to the debates with the MSM...just tell them to F-off like MTG did to the British "journalist".

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Shrugged's avatar

MTG had a good opportunity to make a few good points before the BBC reporter pulled out the questions about "conspiracy theories" and "insurrection".

MTG's response was what the reporter deserved.

England (especially London) is gone. The Brits are idiots. Why isn't that BBC reporter over there covering their own issues and failures?

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Adorable Deplorable's avatar

Maybe she was their foreign propagandist.

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Joseph Kaplan's avatar

Been saying that for years. Could never understand why any R gives them the time of day.

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Gary Blackman's avatar

Because many Rs are actually Ds. They are Republicans for fund raising purposes only. Never, ever trust a Republican.

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Shrugged's avatar

Gary, you've been saying this for as long as I have subscribed here and I chuckle every time you repeat it. It never gets old and it always applies.

My only adjustment to it would be "Never trust a Republican in name only" because that is what a Democrat pretending to be a Republican really is. That sounds like some other dishonest Democrat tactics we've seen. No surprise there, I guess.

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Gary Blackman's avatar

We conservatives have been voting for Republicans for decades and what do we have to show for it? Of course there are honest Republicans but we can barely count them on one hand. So, my statement is true for a huge percentage of the double-dealing, RINO bastards. A true Republican would have been shouting from the rooftops very single say about the J6 political prisoners. Instead, we hear crickets. And there are many more examples. I rest my case.

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Gail W's avatar

Check out Dan Bongino's national radio show or daily podcast. He often says exactly the same thing - "MOST Republicans are actually Democrats but NO Democrats are actually Republicans" - because it's true.

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Lawsy0's avatar

That is why unless I can press cold hard cash into Trump, Jr.'s hand I will never give another cent, dime or farthing to the GOP. Circus people must feed their own elephant. I could buy a fine 2nd hand Infinity for what I've donated to R's over the years. I'll just have to thank the Almighty for my limited income.

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Playswithneedles's avatar

She’s my rep and you can bet your arse that I don’t trust her! I’m still sitting on the fence about whether or not I will vote for her in November.

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Gail W's avatar

The time to vote against a Republican is NOT in the General election, it is in the Primary election.

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Marlan Hoerer's avatar

Totally agree Shrugged.

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Adorable Deplorable's avatar

Indeed. Would have been a perfect come back when he asked her how she could indorse Trump after losing an obviously rigged civil case for rape. But she did a great job standing up to the POS anyway.

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Suzie's avatar

Amen and amen!

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marbucks's avatar

Yes. She should have said Biden is a rapist.

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David Thompson's avatar

Second favorite presidential candidate? Might as well be a possum you caught in your back yard; there is no alternative.

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Mike Herzog's avatar

I look as this choice as to who should be VP so the Deep State doesn't JFK Trump, otherwise we will have a better MAGAt than Trump calling the shots. God Bless Trump, but Vivek speaks the walk better than anybody in the entire GOP.

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David Thompson's avatar

Okay, but my response is the same: possum. No one else seems capable of withstanding or even recognizing the deep state threat (and Ramaswamy strikes me as a likely deep state plant). Of course, once the conspiracies are as thick as they are now, even Trump could be controlled opposition. I think this is God preparing a "Gideon's 300" moment for us to build up our faith in Him.

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Suzie's avatar

I don’t know if Vivek was so much a plant as he was a “useful tool” to the Left’s strategy to dilute votes from Trump. Had he been successful and by some sheer fantasy became the front runner, they would have unleashed the hounds of hell against him, and unearthed God knows what to destroy him.

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David Thompson's avatar

Or they would have made it appear so and when he achieved office, he would have shown his true colors with "the dog ate my homework" excuses.

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TeaPartyGal's avatar

I also voted for Vivek in the poll; but was just listening to Byron Donalds on Hannity a little bit ago while driving, and Byron Donalds actually would be pretty good. He new, but nowhere near as new as Vivek. Donalds has been thru some battles and is not naive. Also, being black, he would help demographically. He's VERY articulate, he would red-pill alot of independents and Democrats.

Actually, the more I think about it, the more I like him best for VP. Ben Carson is a fine man, but he does not have the fighter instinct that Byron Donalds has.

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tj's avatar

As much as I like Ben Carson, he is from a much more civil era. He hasnt been through as much of the fire as some of the others. I am sure he would fight back but not on a daily basis which would be needed. Donalds has.

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TeaPartyGal's avatar

Agree. But I just remembered Byron Donalds is also from Florida, and there's some thing about the Pres. and VP can't be from the same state, I guess.

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tj's avatar

yeah, forgot that. They cant be and with all the shenanigans, Trump has to stay located in Florida. If he moved back to NY, 'they' would probably find another couple lawsuits about him breathing their precious crime filled air.

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Marlan Hoerer's avatar

Unfortunately Donalds is also from Fla.

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tj's avatar

Thank you Marlan, forgot.

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Shrugged's avatar

That possum is still better than Joe Biden, and come 2025, will articulate about as well too.

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David Thompson's avatar

Hissing sneak-thieves the lot of them. My apologies to possums.

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Lawsy0's avatar

Cue the music: Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves. (Cher looks her age, now.)

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Lawsy0's avatar

Possum? I bet the Poll cat is reading over Don's shoulder. We may meet your possum again. That was funny, David!

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Chuck Goldman's avatar

“But the election comes down to Trump stopping a second steal. He rightly has bitched about it for years. Now it is put up or shut up. My tough love for him is to dare to remind him: fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”

…and there you have it Kids. Trump either has a bigger plan for an end run on the d-rats (which in truth, might not be wise to devulge to the plebs at this point) or he don’t. When the cities explode this summer with blm, antifa, the trans rights assholes (not originally a pun) and now the palestinian miscreants keeping our attention elsewhere, watch the d-rats initiate another series of strategies to steal the election.

They’ve been war-gaming this out since 2019 (and were upfront about it) and they know better than we do what’s in store for them if they lose, so they’ have a huge head start, they have money and they have motive.

We have Pure Hearts, Pure Blood and God (and a lot of guns and ammo)…and Texas and Florida! What do you think!

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Playswithneedles's avatar

“…comes down to Trump stopping a second steal.” I disagree. It’s up to US to stop the steal. So many of the shenanigans which happened last time occurred after the demonicrat poll workers threw the Republican watchers out. We can’t let that happen this time. No more not allowing Republicans poll watchers in, no more papering over the windows to hide their actions, no more “broken water pipes”. The only way this stops is for US to stand strong, refuse to be bullied and stop the steal ourselves.

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Suzie's avatar

Amen!

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Gary Blackman's avatar

Amen!

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LuAnn's avatar

Yes to that, Plays

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Marlan Hoerer's avatar

Well put Plays !

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Ms. Bert's avatar

Every GOP precinct worker needs to stay vigilant. Especially in all the BLUE states.

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jewel's avatar

All of the above

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Chuck Goldman's avatar

Finally. Something that at least sounds like a solid way to push back…Thanks Alan

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Gail W's avatar

I'm not in a swing county but THANK YOU for this site. I have not ever heard about it before so I will check it out now.

Another group that seems to be doing excellent work is called United Sovereign Americans (U.S.A.) Their website is https://unite4freedom.com/ Their mission is to make sure the voter ROLLS are not illegitmate even before the election occurs.

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David Thompson's avatar

I agree with everything except your assumption that the Democrats will use the same tactics this summer as last time around. They may (since there has been no accountability), but these days it seems like they've set their sights on WWIII and financial collapse. They don't seem to have enough power to push either past the tipping point (thanks, God!) but they are running lots of "scare stories" to try and induce us to panic.

(Reminds me of 1 Peter 5:8 "Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour."; Satan is all roar, no claws – but if you panic and run off a cliff...)

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Chuck Goldman's avatar

The Hot WWIII scenario is very much a possibility (which is another reason to keep Ukraine percolating even though they are finished in theory and in fact).

What a mess!

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David Thompson's avatar

I was surprised at the biological attack (covid/"vaccine"). It seems ineffective and it did not appear to be ethnically targeted.. Perhaps it really was a leak that they just decided to run with. If they ever managed to create something effective, it would be truly horrifying beyond even nukes.

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MT's avatar

The Demons within have been planning on killing BILLIONS for many decades, however, President Trump stopping the killing of Billions, which enrages the Demons. 80 Million Deaths are similar to War-Time collateral damage.

We are at War, right now and have been for a long time.

Don't misunderstand me, I lost 2 sisters in NYS due to this Covid Jab Policy and when I predicted it; other family members were not very happy with me.

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Chuck Goldman's avatar

The covid thing was designed to eliminate the old, the sick and those whose immune systems are suppressed.. You can see where that would be a huge help in a place like China where the numbers of ‘useless eaters’ are astronomical. Also, imagine what that would do to the cost effectiveness of a program like Medicare.

They’ll fix the weak spots in that the next time around. But the good news is that it’ll take some time to accomplish that in a reliable manner. In the meantime, wait for a ‘leak’ from a lab dealing with Ebola, Small Pox or a re-energized version of Bubonic Plague.

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Marlan Hoerer's avatar

I fear you are right but pray you are wrong Chuck.

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Gail W's avatar

My small understanding of Ebola (unless something is done to weaponize it) is that it kills it's victims 'too quickly' to create a pandemic. It's the long incubation and infection period diseases that are airborne that are the ones to worry about.

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Gail W's avatar

Unless they wanted an excuse to kill off those who account for the vast majority of medical costs - the old and the infirm - the two groups who were most vulnerable to the China virus.

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David Thompson's avatar

But it also kills off the most fit athletes, hence the new term SADS (Sudden Adult Death Syndrome) – as if they don't know the cause. That makes it ineffective.

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Shrugged's avatar

I keep thinking about the thousands of military aged men who have illegally crossed the border - now in hiding until called. A report the other day from a border crossing point stated that at least half of those crossing were Chinese males.

This summer will be more than riots. The lead-up to the election will be war games and terrorist events worse than Portland.

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MBethamn's avatar

Spot on, this invasion of young illegal males has everything to do with the election- a viewpoint that is not articulated nearly as often as it needs to be by conservative media. My situational awareness is in hyperdrive with each passing day, wondering when these sleeper cells will be activated. Locked and loaded with my head on a swivel everywhere I go is not how I expected to be living in America.

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TeaPartyGal's avatar

Amen--"situational awareness is in hyperdrive".

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Gary Blackman's avatar

One good thing...Chinese are much easier to identify. Is that racist? A good policy might be, "Guilty until proven innocent."

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Lawsy0's avatar

Side bar: My computer was frozen recently. Until the PC Doc could get to me, I just called the number shown. A male voice answered. I hung up immediately. The PC Doc said to block that number because the hacker probably intended to call me forever. PC doc cured the 'puter illness quickly. Racist or not, you are correct. They call us "round eyes."

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CactusMatt32's avatar

Trust but verify Laura Trump. Sure hope you have Alan West’s phone # in Dallas, and outer parts in Houston & San Antonio & Austin…and yes El Paso….to effectively counteract stop-the-steal, including a dirty ticks team to waylay USPS trucks of fake ballots, detain crooked Election workers, and computer & election lawyers, AND honest judges …..to stop the crooked computer vote counting…..

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Suzie's avatar

It truly is a massive enterprise they’ve engineered.

We need to be like the Resistance during WWII and blow up (figuratively, not literally), their “supply lines”.

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LuAnn's avatar

Great column, Don. You've summarized what's at stake. I've said this before and I still basically believe (with some wiggle room) that Trump won't be allowed to win and take office. The Republicans have to embrace ballot harvesting, mail-in voting, and any other legal tactics. Election day turnout will not get Trump elected. I will not endorse outright cheating, though.

Pray, my friends. DJT needs our prayers.

I watched that Tik Tok video with the priest talking about Ted Bundy vs the Rosary (God). I was blown away too, but when I stopped to think about it -- it all made sense.

We have to, we need to, believe that somehow God's will is going to get done. Your country needs God and a miracle in November now, more than ever.

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telephoneman's avatar

Kim Clement prophesized 2 terms for Trump back in '08.. now passed on.. he never said conclusive terms.. God let the last steal happen to awake us to the deep state

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MBethamn's avatar

Yes ma’am, I’ll be on my knees with my rosary November 5th. President Trump needs all our prayers as much as he needs our votes.

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Marlan Hoerer's avatar

Truer words were never spoken LuAnn/Stolen quote.

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Patrick White's avatar

in 1983 the American Cancer Society turned our dining room into a hospice for my grandmother. Winifred Healey was 93, an Irish Immigrant and a serious woman. A short profile, Gram was a widow for 30 years, lived on a pension and social security and until her 10 day stay at our house, lived alone. She prayed the Rosary daily. She died on a Sunday night; Friday morning (I was in the room) my Mother asked her how she was feeling and if she could get her any pain medication. My grandmother responded "I'm fine....the Blessed Mother sat on the edge of my bed and told me I will be with her very soon". Gram was not a fun loving, jovial kidder type of person. I have no doubt was she said happened...happened. 41 years ago this month...it continues to anchor my faith.

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Laurie's avatar

I worked in a geriatric dementia facility and was helping two residents get settled for the night. Edie gazed into the next room and said, "Who's the man in the white coat?" I scanned the other room and saw no one. There was only one man living there at the time, and I replied it was probably Wayne. "No," said Gladys, looking where Edie was looking, "he came to get Louise."

When I arrived at work the next day I was told Louise had passed in the night.

That experience had a profound effect on me, too, When I hear of a death I always wonder who came for them.

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Lawsy0's avatar

Loving memory turns into long lived blessing.

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Danimal28's avatar

Plugs. God Bless Rush who first introduced me to this nickname for Xiden.

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Adorable Deplorable's avatar

Nobody broke it down better than Rush. He was absolutely brilliant. Amazing how the left hated this guy's guts...without even ever listening to him.

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Suzie's avatar

He was the very first to expose the Left and all their minions - decades before Trump!

His most oft repeated remark, “they must be utterly defeated at every turn as they are the ruin of the nation!”

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Adorable Deplorable's avatar

Yup... and it wasn't really a fair fight between the left and Rush. Because he really could tie half his brain behind his back just to make it fair!!!

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Steve Boggs's avatar

I’ve never had enthusiasm for ballot harvesting, since its always seemed we’re going to try to disprove “two wrongs don’t make a right”. You’ve long advocated for it, Don.

I’ve never entirely disagreed with you, but hoped we could outlaw it before it became necessary. Of course, that never happened and we (cough) Repubs (cough) have no one to blame but our sorry-ass elected Repubs (those who were too cool to sit at the lunch table with the Freedom Caucus).

Time is short, so its probably necessary (to ballot harvest). So I grudgingly admit you were right.

But can we do it like Nehemiah and the Wall (Re)builders, with a trowel in one hand and a sword in the other? Can we try to match them harvested ballot for harvested ballot while putting as much effort into killing those laws.

I also liken it to the bombing of Dresden. I used to take grief from a pastor who said we should feel guilty about bombing such a non-militarily significant site such as Dresden (which doesn’t fact check). I basically argued FAFO. We bombed Dresden because Hitler bombed London, and for the same reason.

So (since I’m out of breath), yes- ballot harvest away. I just hope those that do it for Trump, and us, know martial arts.

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Suzie's avatar

I’ve never been a fan of copying their harvesting tactics either, but can’t balk when I realize the enemies penchant for stealing by any means necessary.

I believe the key is to maintain overwhelming, vigilant shared control of the count, which translates to never letting the Dems have sole access to the votes or voting mechanisms, along with a scrupulous focus on investigating the validity of each and every single mail-in ballot.

Some or even many invalid ballots may sneak through but not enough to makeup the necessary difference especially IF PEOPLE VOTE IN PERSON!!

Arizona’s effort - a successful one, I might add- at f”ing with in-person voting by monkeying with the machines during Kari Lake’s run for governor was not only egregious, (and obvious), but was aided and abetted by the REPUBLICANS in that state!

When your own party is playing for the enemy team to throw the game, then I don’t know what you can do to frustrate that effort. And the courts have made clear they want nothing to do with any of it.

So, at the end of the day, we’re left with God answering our fervent prayers to intervene on our behalf and for the sake of our country. His will be done. Pray much. It’s the best weapon we have in this war.

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RevMikeyMac's avatar

Yes - especially - to pray for God's divine intervention (whether we deserve it or not; we're living by grace anyway).

But along with both previous comments about harvesting, there's the bigger issue of "electronic harvesting" being done by/with voting machines. How do we stop that? Unplug them all? Take hammers to them all?

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Marlan Hoerer's avatar

They were not repubs but McStain rinos Suzie.

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Suzie's avatar

Either way, they were traitors to this country.

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TeaPartyGal's avatar

Agree with everyone above. We have a natural distaste for engaging in ballot harvesting, but have to be practical. The problem is, WE will ballot harvest legally--meaning by "ballot harvesting" (I think), that we would seek out identified Republicans (every precinct in the country has lists of registered Repubs and Dems, that are freely available and used by all campaigns), and make every effort to contact those Repubs and make sure they cast their votes, and assist them with transportation to the poll or to the post office, etc.

But the Democrats engage in ILLEGAL "ballot harvesting"--they get the uncleaned-up voter registration lists, and identify and vote the dead people, the people who've moved, the vulnerable people (aged, nursing homes, probably the drug addicted, etc.), the people who may be registered but have been apathetic and show no recent voting history, and fill out fraudulent ballots in those people's names. Then in addition, they manufacture votes out of thin air based on phony registrations (i.e., the addresses turn out to be a Walmart, or an empty warehouse, etc,). Someone else may have more details about this.

So it isn't just getting "raw ballots" in, it's verifying that all ballots that were not cast in person are actually "REAL ballots". Which is an audit process-- and presently, there is virtually no true audit process for mail in ballots that would catch this easily.

And what about all those instances when there were hundreds of ballot (in Detroit) all filled out identically IN RED INK PEN and somehow those got entered into the system? And the ballots that came in by truck at night from New York that were added to the Pennsylvania votes? And the stacks of "mail-in votes" in Georgia that were 8-1/2 x 11 sheets of paper that had NEVER BEEN FOLDED (i.e., therefore clearly never went through the mail)? And the boxes of ballots the Georgia workers pulled out from under the table late at night (it's on video) after they sent the Republican poll watchers home?

Our election processes are full of holes at every level, and we have virtually zero audit processes. Even if we 'legally ballot harvest' that alone cannot offset the myriad ways by which fraud occurred last time.

There have been excellent efforts by groups like Judicial Watch and others to clean up the voter registration rolls (this is just now occurring in Illinois by Judicial Watch), and many red states have already done their voter roll clean up (e.g., West Virginia), which reduces the number of deceased/moved/etc. registrations which can be used to file illegal votes. This needs to be done in all 50 states. Red states will do it voluntarily, but lawsuits by groups like Judicial Watch are required to get blue states to do it. (Give $$$ to Judicial Watch.)

But it still doesn't address the totally phony bulk ballot stuffing described above. And as mentioned, the machines themselves are another prime area where the fraud is occurring.

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Marlan Hoerer's avatar

Last paragraph says it all TPG.

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Lawsy0's avatar

Pray AND watch your back! Good plan.

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Gail W's avatar

Like the late, great Charles Krauthammer often said: "First you have to get the politics right." Meaning first you have to WIN the political battle before you will have the chance to make the policy right. Let's do everything legal we can to win and then we'll outlaw election criminality! If it's any hope, I have heard that a few states ARE already outlawing ballot harvesting and other election shenanigans. This is why getting LOCAL (state) elections right is SO crucial!

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Steve Boggs's avatar

I appreciate this. Good thinking!

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Tanto Minchiata's avatar

This column, as is frequently the case here, is like reading my own thoughts. The election fraud enterprise runs deep and wide, and it’s supremely difficult for one man to overcome. The judges here in AZ are in on it, and that seems to be the case in various jurisdictions around the country. A lot of these judges are RINOs. So it’s going to be an uphill struggle.

Besides the poll. I’m not crazy about any of those folks. Talk is cheap and the world is an old, treacherous place. Trump has proven he will stand in the breach. Nobody else on that list ( that I recognize lol) has done the same. You forgot Evan McMuffin or whatever his name was btw, the deep state Utah plant from the 2020 fake election.

The Democrats don’t plan to win the election because of the excellence of their candidate or their policies. They plan to win it by stealing, because practically nobody likes Joe Biden or his handling of just about anything. The Dems are replacing Americans with aliens and they are importing terrorists. The Americans are being killed off with fentanyl and meth and despair. The aliens boost the voter rolls in blue states, because like our elections, the census is corrupted - in this instance by the inclusion of illegal aliens, which makes zero sense to me. How can you allocate congressional districts based on the presence of people who aren’t legally supposed to be here?🤷🏼

This importation of people takes an even more sinister turn when you look at some of the people coming in and the infrastructure our government is providing for them to do it.

It isn’t that there might be some terrorists coming in, it’s that we seem to be deliberately importing them:

https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelyon/p/china-camp-is-a-terrorist-bus-station?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

I am praying that with the new people at the RNC that we have a chance, but I’m not optimistic. The RNC has spent years assiduously ignoring the fraud problem, wasting their funds on manicures, expensive flower arrangements, and champagne instead. You can’t make this stuff up. Meanwhile to nobody’s surprise, must of us don’t want to give them our money. Duh.

Support Trump. There’s no rational alternative if you don’t like the trash running the country at the moment.

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Mark's avatar

Don speaks for every person with common sense.

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Epstein Did Not Kill Himself's avatar

I share your same concern that with the new RNC leadership we're going to have more of the same. I read yesterday that a major focus now for the RNC is restoring faith and confidence in the election integrity. This would encourage more people to come out and vote if they thought it was an honest, fair process. Other than this, there was no other information on exactly what steps will be taken.

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tj's avatar

At least the new mgmt said they were going to ballot harvest, should have been doing that years ago.

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Marlan Hoerer's avatar

Amen Tanto Amen.

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TeaPartyGal's avatar

Tanto, I think the judges in Arizona are publicly elected-aren't they? I think only federal judges are appointed for life. So it should not really be hard to unseat them. I bet 90% of voters (often including myself) have NO IDEA of anything about any of the judicial candidates, and at best rely on a newspaper's endorsements as to who to vote for, i.e., vote for the 'conservative' paper's editorial picks for judges. But there are hardly any 'conservative' newspapers left.

It's starting to get to be too late to challenge them in the primary, but at least one can find out who is the "lesser of evils". It is hard to research judges, because often the position is listed as "non-partisan" (haha, what a joke), but with enough advance notice one can dig around and find out which ones would be horrible and vote for the less horrible. Still-- not many people vote in these judicial elections-- if we could get info about who these candidates are, I believe it would not take much effort at all to unseat them and get a good guy or gal in.

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Tanto Minchiata's avatar

I think you are correct. AZ judges are elected. And people do not pay much attention to most of the judicial races, especially if not AZ Supreme Court. I haven’t seen anything about replacing judges from conservative orgs or AZ Republican outlets. I would think that Kari Lake, Mark Finchem, and Abe Hamadeh know who the worst offenders are.

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TeaPartyGal's avatar

And further, I guess most of us (and again I'm including myself) have not really wanted to have to "apply ourselves" and get involved in these elections for lesser offices. This was how a determined enemy got control of our school boards, the state Republican (and Democratic) party apparatuses, the judicial positions, etc.

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Mark's avatar

4 years ago, With Covid in full bloom, Joe campaigned from his basement. When they were able to chase him down and give him a blow dart of Adderal he took to the campaign trail to give scintillating speeches to one or two interested citizens who listened intently in crop circles. With that winning strategy he received 81 million votes.( Future historians will note the number was closer to 81 than 81 million).

Fast forward 4 years, with a booming economy, strong dollar world peace and secure border and race relations solved, Mr Biden packs in the crowds interested in hearing what he has to say. I believe 100 people showed up the other night (no Covid restrictions). I think 99 of them came to support rape and murder of Jews and were surprised when an old man started to mumble and drool.

Can Trump win? Only if he starts printing ballots now and puts about 400 million into the drop boxes at 2am. One hint for his campaign: don’t use white people’s names….SHHH

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NotFromTexas's avatar

How depressing. Nothing to add, really.

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Adorable Deplorable's avatar

Aah... Bill Barr. Where is the fat man now? Probably yucking it up with John Roberts at a DC country club. Two pathetically corrupt weasels in the same vein as the Biden family syndicate.

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telephoneman's avatar

drawing a pension...

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Marlan Hoerer's avatar

Great exposure once again Poca-Man and you with help from like minded REPORTERs are why the msm/left is in a tizzy.They had to brag about the steal while denying it happened.Slowly but surely evidence of fraud and corruption are emerging yet if making the msm cited as too minor to affect the overall vote.Please keep hammering away and someone in PDJTs circle will give him the message,American Patriots want a return to sanity and prosperity with a future for the grand children and their grand children.Easy poll and full speed to a MAGA 2024 victory.

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telephoneman's avatar

I pray for the left to eat the left.. it is Biblical

God wins.. he will always win..

prophesized for 2 terms.. drop the mic

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Jim Nelson's avatar

Never has the old Reagan phrase "Trust but verify" been more important. Of course, the Dems will try to steal another election from DJT. It's in their DNA to cheat. I am glad Ronna is gone, but I wish she had been drop-kicked out of the RNC years ago. In addition to vote integrity, the key task of the RNC is energizing voter turn out. I have several friends who are conservative/moderate Republicans who say they hate DJT and won't vote for either him or Biden. Also, there are many independents who get their news from the MSM and only hear that Trump is the devil. Somehow, these people need to be awakened to the gaslighting that has been ongoing for years. The MSM will not do the job so the RNC via clear messaging must step up its game. They need to show the voters who the Dems really are and scare the bejesus out of them to get them to the polls. In my opinion, it's the only way forward.

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Marlan Hoerer's avatar

Un fortunately if the RNC comes up with powerful ads for Trump or truthful ads on this regime the media will refuse to run them ala CNN this past weekend.

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TeaPartyGal's avatar

Probably true. Then take out billboards on major interstates, etc. etc.

Actually commenter DRob4JC is a good brainstormer-- maybe he has some ideas for specific ways we can reach the general public--I'm serious.

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Marlan Hoerer's avatar

This needs to happen yesterday TPG.

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Suzie's avatar

Yup.

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Shrugged's avatar

Jim, you are a good man to have friends of different political sides, but I have to ask you a question about them. That is, how can they reconcile the disparity in the state of the union between Trump’s and Biden’s administration? Trump may not be their choice as a beer buddy, but the factual differences in our quality of life are undeniable.

Just who do they think is so much better and will do a better job? The not voting for either is a weak-minded excuse.

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Jim Nelson's avatar

It is baffling to me that anyone could stand on the sidelines during these times. The only explanation that I can come up with is that they get their news from the MSM and have become mushrooms (kept in the dark and fed nothing but shit). My brother-in-law, who is a moderate Democrat once tried to tell me that climate change was killing the polar bears. When I sent him a study that showed that the polar bear population was much higher than he thought and growing, he graciously admitted his ignorance. Having said that, whenever, we visit them, they have the TV on to ABC news which drives me nuts. Most people, unfortunately, have a tough time admitting their world view is wrong. We can only hope that some semblance of truth eventually penetrates their bubbles.

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TeaPartyGal's avatar

Yes, as Marlan says below, "merely keep proving your points nicely but with facts". Your experience is like mine, many Democrats ARE decent people, they are just drastically uninformed. We need to keep the channels of communication open and persistently engage with them. The border is one issue that they are likely to be persuadable on. They need to see PICTURES of the young military-aged, nicely dressed Chinese men coming over the border (all with identical backpacks, in one pic I saw)--33,000 of them this year alone, it said somewhere). Jim, you've got an opportunity to gently red-pill someone.

Think of the math-- if each Trump supporter red-pills just a single person--the whole country would become Red not Blue.

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Shrugged's avatar

Well, old patterns and habits are hard to break. As for moderate Democrats, I love to point out that JFK was almost perfectly aligned with the present day platform of Trump. That really confuses the long-term democrats. Most don't realize how far left and how far radical their party has moved.

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Marlan Hoerer's avatar

Merely keep proving your points nicely but with facts and we have two winners.Never despair Jim as the power of God is with the righteous.

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tj's avatar

I figured that my friend would see the light once she had a real job and got hit with Dem taxes. She never did clear until mid pandemic - Always swore Trump would start a war, when he got the Abraham Accords signed. Biden has started 2, and had 3 Embassies evacuated. Unfortunately I cant ask her about her thoughts today, we are estranged for other reasons. She and hubby were about the only two I would talk politics with until I found Don and his crew of commentators. I wish I could see what she says, we had a lot of civil conversations about politics.

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Marlan Hoerer's avatar

People like this are jellyfish parasites if they do not know evil in front of them Shrugged.

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