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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[+] 368 points 3 years ago (37 children)
  • [–] 151 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 50 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    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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  • [–] 33 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 85 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    We watched Trump go on national TV before the election and asked Russia to help him win the election. A foreign hostile country was invited to interfere with our democracy.

    And Russia complied. That day.. How anyone thinks Trump and his supporters aren't traitors is mine boggling.

    And then a number is Republicans went to Moscow on the 4th of July a few years later. I've never seen such an obvious case of someone's handler making a statement.

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    [–] 136 points 3 years ago (19 children)

    They are so mad they cheated and still lost. This country is going to take so long to heal after this. It really makes me sad.

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  • [–] 80 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    its amazing how much back and forth happens the richer you are in the legal system. one woman accidentally voted twice, straight to jail.

    donald trump indicted 3 times, and god knows how many other terrible things . days in jail : 0

    2 sets of laws. which one do you think you fall under?

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  • [–] 31 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    One could afford bail of course. Because we let rich criminals buy their way out of sitting in jail.

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    [–] 99 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Keep digging and guaranteed to find the Russians as well.

    The most terrifying thing of all is how almost accepted all this is. None of it is particularly shocking. Hard core Republicans will even justify it, possibly even flaunt it. This is how far down the rabbit hole we've allowed things to get.

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    [–] 70 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    ”Rudy Giuliani had nothing to do with this,” said Robert Costello, Giuliani’s attorney. “You can’t attach Rudy Giuliani to Sidney Powell’s crackpot idea.”

    “Just landed back in DC with the Mayor huge things starting to come together!” an employee from the firm Sullivan Strickler, which was hired by Sidney Powell to examine voting systems in Coffee County, wrote in a group chat with other colleagues on January 1.

    Former New York Mayor Giuliani was consistently referred to as “the Mayor,” in other texts sent by the same individual and others at the time.

    “Most immediately, we were just granted access – by written invitation! – to Coffee County’s systems. Yay!” the text reads.

    Props to the authors of the article, Zachary Cohen and Sara Murray, for the excellent comedic structuring.

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    [–] 61 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    'Member how Trump and Roger Stone were instrumental in Bush winning in 2000?

    Pillsbury doughboy 'members.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    What the FUCK?! I was alive when this happened, remembered all the recounts and buzz about how close it is, and this is still literally the first I'm hearing about it. I didn't realize just how disconnected from politics my family and circle was. Now I understand the few grumbles I'd hear over the years about how it "should have been gore" I

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    How the fuck is it even possible for a political party to steal an election and we all just roll over and take it because the Supreme Court sided with them?

    I thought the system was ours to use as we please, not them.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    FWIW Bush Jr. was showered with abuse and had eggs thrown at him and he had to abandon the traditional walk to the Capitol at his inauguration, and he was deeply unpopular at the start of his term. Only 911 bailed him out.

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    [–] 54 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Classic Republican playbook, start shit and then project it on the enemy to make them look bad

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  • [–] 69 points 3 years ago

    It's actually an old fascist trick.

    It's really effective too. You always know the horrible things you're doing before anyone else. So you can always beat the opposition to the accusation.

    "You did X!"

    "No I didn't, why would you even think that?"

    Months (or years) later when there's an investigation...

    "Hey wait, you actually did X!"

    "You're obviously making it up, everyone knows it's what you did. People have been talking about you doing it for years!"

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    [–] 36 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    If she has a winnable case, the D. is fuuuuuucked.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago

    I'm shocked! SHOCKED!

    Well not that shocked.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago

    Ok now do the Republican Senators that helped the coup like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Boebert etc

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