A little truth in that clip. But the guy is either deranged - or more likely playing a scripted part to brainwash the masses. Much like the Roger Stone audio that recently came out, it's not about what is happening or what actually happened - it's about planting the seed.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
Georgia GOP lieutenant governor blasts Trump over Walker Senate campaign
Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R) blamed former President Trump for embattled GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s campaign on Thursday as Walker’s Senate bid remains engulfed in scandal.
“[Georgia] let down the entire country,” Duncan told CNN. “Donald Trump led us down a rabbit trail post-election because he was too consumed with trying to save face from losing his election. And he ran us down a trail, and we screwed up.”
Walker’s campaign has been on defense since Monday, when The Daily Beast reported that the anti-abortion candidate had encouraged and paid for a then-girlfriend’s abortion in 2009. Walker strongly denied the allegations, which The Hill has not independently verified.
However, The Daily Beast followed up with a second story revealing that the women making the allegations was the mother of one of Walker’s children. The former NFL star’s campaign continued to struggle when his son Christian Walker, a conservative influencer, publicly criticized his father and accused him of lying about the incident.
Trump, who endorsed Walker, defended the candidate, claiming that he was “being slandered and maligned by the Fake News Media and obviously, the Democrats.”
Duncan said on Thursday that the scandal has left him, along with other Georgia Republicans, unsure of who to support in the Senate race.
“I’m not voting for Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker hasn’t earned my respect or my vote,” Duncan said. “I’m like hundreds of thousands of other Republicans here in Georgia. We’re confused. We don’t really have anywhere to go right now.”
The Georgia lieutenant governor is aligned with GOP Gov. Brian Kemp, who has frequently clashed with the former president. Kemp soundly defeated Trump’s endorsed candidate, former Sen. David Perdue, in the Republican primary for governor in May.
I guess nobody had anything to say about the Kanye/Tucker clips. I wonder if Kanye is on the spectrum. Sometimes he comes across with hard-hitting facts/truth, but then spins off into weirdness or tries to apply what he's saying to his life. And he makes his childhood sound harsh saying his dad was an Amry brat... but listening to him, I don't think he had it very tough. Probably a lot together than his kids will have it with a billionaire dad.
Your feelings and opinions do not add up to facts.
Iowa man arrested for threatening Arizona election official: "We're going to hang you"
An Iowa man has been arrested for allegedly threatening to "lynch" and "hang" a Maricopa County, Arizona, election official nearly a year after the 2020 election, the Justice Department announced.
Mark Rissi was arrested Thursday for allegedly leaving voicemails for the unnamed election official, in which Rissi allegedly threatened the official with lynching, hanging, and torches, according to the indictment filed against him. The arrest comes as the FBI continues to warn about heightened threats to election officials across seven states, including Arizona, where election deniers continue to disbelieve that President Biden legitimately won.
"Hello Mr. [VICTIM], I am glad that you are standing up for democracy and want to place your hand on the Bible and say that the election was honest and fair," Rissi allegedly said in a voicemail left on approximately Sept. 27, 2021, according to court documents. "I really appreciate that. When we come to lynch your stupid lying Commie [expletive], you'll remember that you lied on the [expletive] Bible, you piece of [expletive]. You're gonna die, you piece of [expletive]. We're going to hang you. We're going to hang you."
In another message on about Dec. 8, 2021, Rissi allegedly left a voicemail for an election official in the Arizona attorney general's office about the Maricopa County official. The Arizona attorney general is the highest law enforcement official in the state.
"I'm a victim of a crime," Rissi allegedly said. "My family is a victim of a crime. My extended family is a victim of a crime. That crime was the theft of the 2020 election. The election that was fraudulent across the state of Arizona, that [VICTIM] knows was fraudulent, that [VICTIM] has images of the conspirators deleting election fraud data from the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors computer system. Do your job, [VICTIM], or you will hang with those [expletive] in the end. We will see to it. Torches and pitchforks. That's your future, [expletive]. Do your job."
Rissi faces two counts of making a threatening interstate communication and one count of making a threatening phone call. He faces up to 12 years in prison, if convicted on all counts.
The FBI is still investigating the case, which is a part of the Justice Department's Election Threats Task Force announced by the Justice Department in June 2021.
In 2021, the GOP-led Arizona Senate ordered a controversial review of Maricopa County's 2.1 million 2020 ballots and voting equipment. Maricopa County is Arizona's most populous county and was a longtime Republican stronghold, but President Biden carried it by about 45,000 votes. A cybersecurity firm, Cyber Ninjas, was selected to lead the review, though it had no experience with official election audits, and its CEO, Doug Logan, had promoted election conspiracy theories on social media. Ultimately, the nonbinding review re-affirmed Mr. Biden's victory.
Election deniers continue to hold and run for some of the top offices across the country. Arizona's Republican nominee for secretary of state, Arizona's highest ranking election official, Mark Finchem, still won't say President Biden legitimately won the election.
Seven states across the country continue to see unusual levels of threats to election workers, senior FBI officials said in a briefing Monday.
Those states are Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Wisconsin — all states where the 2020 election results were questioned, officials noted, and all states won by President Biden. FBI officials are discussing how to address these threats as state officials in 8,800 election districts prepare for the midterm elections next month.
Since June 2021, the FBI has received more than 1,000 tips concerning threats to election workers, according to the agency. Roughly 11% of those tips have led to FBI investigations.
How Different Would America Be Today if Trump was Still President?
By Wayne Allyn Root
This is the easiest column I’ve ever written. It’s so simple to imagine what America would be like today if Trump was still President. What a tragedy that we allowed a brain-dead, feeble, confused, old man with dementia and diapers, and his radical, anti-American, globalist, communist handlers to destroy the greatest country in world history – in only 22 months.
Let’s start with the obvious. How did this happen? The 2020 election was stolen. That’s how they removed Trump from office and installed a man who doesn’t know who he is, where he is, or what he’s doing. A man who can’t put 2 sentences together, and who can’t attract more than 20 people in concentric circles to his speeches- yet they want us to suspend reality and believe he got 81 million votes- the most in history. Bizarre.
And look what they did to us after rigging and stealing the election. They quickly put a plan in place to disassemble America; overwhelm the economy, make America poor, destroy the middle class, make America unsafe, and to open the borders and make America foreign to Americans.
And as a bonus, they put in place a disastrous foreign policy of liberal weakness, wokeness and appeasement that has set the entire world on fire.
Now World War 3 is upon us. Not just any World War, but a nuclear war that threatens to end the world as we know it. I’ve been warning about this for months. Days ago, Biden agreed. He announced we are closer to “nuclear Armageddon” (his words) than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What a fine job you’ve done Joe. And in record time!
Now let’s look at exactly where we’d be if Trump was still President of the United States. And yes, I’m a pretty sharp and successful businessman- and I do believe in every bone in my body that Trump is the rightful, 100% legitimate president. This should never have happened.
If Trump were still president…
We would have energy independence. We’d be selling our oil and gas to other countries all over the world. Gas would be $3 per gallon and middle-class Americans would be enjoying low prices and record prosperity.
OPEC would no longer have power over our lives, and we certainly would not be begging our socialist enemy Venezuela for an oil deal.
We would have low to zero inflation. Groceries would cost dramatically less than now. Middle class consumers would be dancing in the aisles.
The stock market would be thousands of points higher. Trillions of dollars have been lost since Biden became president. All those trillions would be back in the hands of consumers, business owners and the retirement accounts of Americans.
Russia would have never invaded Ukraine- so not only would there be no threat of World War 3, or “nuclear Armageddon”, but American taxpayers would have an extra $100 billion still in the bank (that’s the money we’ve given away to President Zelensky and his Ukranian mafia and Nazi cronies).
North Korea wouldn’t be shooting rockets over Japan. Iran would be broke- starved of funding by Trump.
The Taliban would not have $80 billion of our military equipment. And 13 US soldiers would still be alive looking forward to Christmas at home with their families.
Our cities would not be destroyed by the worst crime wave in history- simply because Trump doesn’t allow violent criminals to walk free, while defunding and demoralizing police. A large percentage of police would not be retired in the past 22 months. We’d have plenty of cops to keep us safe. How many Americans out of the tens of thousands murdered since Biden took over, would be alive and looking forward to Christmas with their families?
Britney Griner, the WNBA star in a Russian prison cell, would be home with her wife and family. Trump and Putin would have negotiated her release in a matter of days.
There would certainly not be 87,000 new IRS agents hired to harass, intimidate and bankrupt the American people.
Although President Trump and I disagree on the Covid vaccine, if Trump was still president, millions of Americans would never have been forced to take the experimental jab, or risk losing their job. Trump is strongly against mandates. He would never have forced one American to take the vaccine against their will.
How many Americans would still be alive or uninjured today, if never forced to take the vaccine by Biden’s mandate. How many would still have their jobs?
I saved the most important for last- Open Borders. With Trump in the White House, we’d have a secure border. That means five million new illegals allowed in since Biden became president wouldn’t be in our country. How many billions of dollars would be saved?
Think of all the criminals who have come in that open border. How many Americans murdered in the past 22 months would still be alive? How many communities and schools would be safer?
If Trump was still President, America would be a much nicer, wealthier, healthier and safer place. There’d be prosperity instead of inflation. We’d still be dominating the world, instead of facing World War 3. America would be great again.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Bullet-proof glass, guards: U.S. election offices tighten security for Nov. 8 midterms
Oct 9 (Reuters) - When voters in Jefferson County, Colorado, cast their ballots in the Nov. 8 midterm election, they will see security guards stationed outside the busiest polling centers.
At an election office in Flagstaff, Arizona, voters will encounter bulletproof glass and need to press a buzzer to enter. In Tallahassee, Florida, election workers will count ballots in a building that has been newly toughened with walls made of the super-strong fiber Kevlar.
Spurred by a deluge of threats and intimidating behavior by conspiracy theorists and others upset over former President Donald Trump's 2020 election defeat, some election officials across the United States are fortifying their operations as they ramp up for another divisive election.
A Reuters survey of 30 election offices found that 15 have enhanced security in various ways, from installing panic buttons to hiring extra security guards to holding active-shooter and de-escalation training.
Reuters focused on offices in battleground states and offices that had openly expressed a need for security improvements, for example in congressional testimony. While the survey does not speak to how widespread such moves are, it does show how election officials are responding to threats in parts of the country where the election will likely be decided.
Election officials around the country said they were coordinating more closely with local law enforcement to respond quickly to disturbances. Many have also trained workers in de-escalating conflicts and evading active shooters.
Until recently, such threats to safety were seen as hypothetical in a country that has seen few instances of election-related violence since the civil rights battles of the 1960s, when the presence of armed officers sometimes intimidated rather than reassured Black voters.
Now those risks are seen as real, said Tammy Patrick, a senior adviser at the Democracy Fund, a nonpartisan public-interest group founded by entrepreneur and Democratic donor Pierre Omidyar.
"The likelihood that they could occur has definitely increased, so everyone is taking that to heart," she said.
Election officials in 12 states, including some who have paid for moderate security improvements, said they have not received enough money to make their desired upgrades due to bureaucratic hurdles.
In Champaign County, Illinois, clerk Aaron Ammons would like to install metal detectors at his office, where visitors have filmed staff and the layout of the space in what he described as a threatening manner.
"It makes us feel like we're targets, or we're not a priority in the same way our men and women in uniform are. And we're on the front lines of democracy just like they are," said Ammons.
Ammons gave testimony to Congress in August that he and his wife received anonymous messages threatening their daughter's life ahead of the 2020 election, and he told Reuters he recently saw someone filming his house.
The Justice Department says it has investigated more than 1,000 messages to election workers since the 2020 election, including more than 100 that could warrant prosecution. Reuters documented the campaign of fear being waged against election workers in a series of investigative reports.
Seven cases have been charged so far. The first sentence came Thursday, when a Nebraska man received 18 months in prison for threatening an election official.
SPOOKED WORKERS
One in five U.S. election officials said that they were unlikely to stay in their job through 2024, when Americans will go to the polls again to elect a president, according to a survey by the Brennan Center for Justice that was released in March. They cited stress, attacks by politicans and impending retirement as reasons.
The lingering bitterness from the 2020 election has also spooked many of the temporary workers who check in voters, count ballots and perform other tasks that make elections possible, officials say.
Philadelphia has boosted pay for election day workers from $120 to $250 to help recruiting efforts that have been complicated by fears of harassment, as well as a tight labor market, said Omar Sabir, one of the city's three election commissioners. After receiving death threats in 2020, he himself changed his travel patterns.
"You've got to keep your head on a swivel," Sabir said. "Sometimes I have nightmares thinking about that, somebody walking up and causing me harm."
PROTECTIVE MEASURES
Many election officials blame disinformation, such as Trump's baseless claims about election fraud in the 2020 election, for the surge in threats.
Justin Roebuck, the Republican clerk of Michigan's rural, conservative Ottawa County, said Trump's rhetoric had "really poisoned the well," inspiring other candidates to sow doubts about elections. In Michigan, Republican candidates for governor, attorney general and other positions have questioned the outcome of the 2020 election.
Roebuck's office held a three-hour role-playing exercise with local emergency management officials this year to plan how to respond to violent incidents. They also printed a brochure explaining balloting procedures that workers can hand to people to de-escalate confrontations with anyone agressively questioning their work.
In addition to adding Kevlar walls, the Leon County, Florida, elections office has held active shooter trainings for its workers, installed bullet- and bomb-resistant glass, and invested in security cameras and video file storage, according to elections supervisor Mark Earley, who says he gets frequent hostile and profane calls from strangers.
"I've got to worry about my workers leaving the building and walking up to their cars after dark," he said.
Earley paid to stiffen his facility's security with a 2020 grant from the Center for Tech and Civic Life, a non-profit group funded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. But Florida and 25 other states have since banned such outside funding.
FUNDING WOES
Election officials say they have struggled to get federal aid for safety measures.
The departments of Justice and Homeland Security said this year that funds would be available for election office security, but that money was claimed by local police departments and others more familiar with those programs, said Amy Cohen, the head of the National Association of State Election Directors.
A spokesman for the Justice Department said the agency's Election Threats Task Force had worked since its launch in 2021 to steer federal aid to local election offices for security enhancements, and had urged Congress to provide more such funding.
Some offices have paid for security enhancements by cutting back elsewhere. Jefferson County, Colorado, has scaled back mailings to voters to pay for four security guards who will monitor the busiest four voting locations in the weeks surrounding the election.
"It's worth it for us, having the ability to be proactive rather than reactive," said George Stern, the Jefferson County clerk.
You are something else, my friend. How’s Tommy Tuberville treating you down south these days. He voted down the STOCK act because it would “disincentivize” people to run for office. So I’m sure he’s using your tax dollars well and fairly representing your interests vs his own.
I hope I don’t need purple.
Blue ostriches on crack float on milkshakes between the sidewalk titans of gurglefitz. --YTown
We agree on something! I don't think a first-term POTUS should be any older than 65-ish max. The 70s age bracket is where most really start to fall apart or slow down. Not all, but most.
And we probably should stop letting people over 65-70 vote. They are way too out of touch with the times, stuck in the past. JMHO.
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Your feelings and opinions do not add up to facts.
Depends, how old are you? Doesn't matter, you'll come around to my way of thinking after you stand in line behind Grampa Gravy Diaper for two hours this November. Unless you are Grandpa Gravy Diaper?
Last edited by OldColdDawg; 10/10/2209:40 PM.
Your feelings and opinions do not add up to facts.
Depends, how old are you? Doesn't matter, you'll come around to my way of thinking after you stand in line behind Grampa Gravy Diaper for two hours this November. Unless you are Grandpa Gravy Diaper?
I'm not in that age bracket yet but I cannot believe you would think disenfranchising people based on age is at all a good idea. What other rights do you think they should lose when they get older? Maybe we should just pick an age and start putting people in the incinerator.
They should lose the right to pick where the family goes out to eat.
"What's wrong with Perkins??" "Nothing grandma, we'll go to Perkins... again."
LOL. I'm obviously joking, but the truth behind the joke is my mom (81) always picks the same horrible restaurant to eat at whenever we take her out, the name of which shall remain confidential...
Blue ostriches on crack float on milkshakes between the sidewalk titans of gurglefitz. --YTown
They should lose the right to pick where the family goes out to eat.
"What's wrong with Perkins??" "Nothing grandma, we'll go to Perkins... again."
LOL. I'm obviously joking, but the truth behind the joke is my mom (81) always picks the same horrible restaurant to eat at whenever we take her out, the name of which shall remain confidential...
And we probably should stop letting people over 65-70 vote. They are way too out of touch with the times, stuck in the past. JMHO.
This is a joke I hope.
He is mad because somewhere along the line he fell off the train. Heck, maybe got pushed off based on the way he talks and acts.
Wow, I laid the bate for some harsh reactions and this is the best I could get? GET OFF MY LAWN! lmao, and he still votes. I expected more. We definitely need age limits on candidates and voters. Definitely.
There should also be IQ limits. If you're too stupid to form coherent independent thoughts, you can't vote. I would LOVE that.
Last edited by OldColdDawg; 10/11/2208:20 PM.
Your feelings and opinions do not add up to facts.
Purported Trump supporter who claimed Antifa burned down his camper admits to staged attack, DOJ says
A Minnesota man who claimed Antifa set fire to his camper during the political unrest of 2020 because he had displayed a Trump campaign flag admitted to staging the event and committing insurance fraud, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.
Denis Molla, age 30, of Minneapolis suburb Brooklyn Center was indicted by a federal grand jury in July and pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud after being accused of defrauding and attempting to defraud an insurance agency and GoFundMe donors of more than $300,000 following the alleged incident, according to court records.
In September 2020, Molla had “falsely reported to law enforcement that someone had lit his camper on fire and that three unknown males were near his home when he heard an explosion,” according to a DOJ news release. The Justice Department said Molla claimed his property was vandalized with graffiti referencing “Biden 2020,” Black Lives Matter, and Antifa.
Molla falsely told CNN affiliate WCCO shortly after the fire that he believed someone set the blaze in response to Trump 2020 flags he had put in his yard. “These kind of stuff should not happen, especially over beliefs of some sort,” he told WCCO.
“Mr. Molla was obviously remorseful during his federal plea hearing today,” Ryan Garry, Molla’s attorney, told CNN via email Tuesday. “It’s easy for the general public to look down on him, without knowing what was going on in his life, and cast immediate judgement. Mr. Molla is a wonderful husband and father who made a mistake that he sincerely regrets. Unlike many others, he has accepted full responsibility for his actions and is sorry for what happened.”
Federal guidelines call for Molla to receive a sentence of up to 51 months, plus a fine and restitution, but prosecutors did not immediately make a sentencing recommendation.
Judge David Doty released Molla on his own recognizance pending a sentencing hearing to be scheduled at a later date.
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