@Free_Press Individuals, who are defendants in fraud trial(s) better shut the fuck up publicly fantasizing about "rigged elections", like Trump did in 2016 before the election, when polls (accurately) predicted he was gonna lose to Hillary — which didn't happen due to Putin's interference & habitual/traditional "Republican" voter suppression, gerrymandering, disenfranchisement, intimidation & other regularly practiced methods of fraudulently obstructing the electoral process.
@marcelias The obsessively voter-defrauding so-called "Republican party" needs to be taken off the ballots as they would be in any properly working free democratically governed country intent to ensure free & fair elections on behalf of all voters, whose voices deserve to be indiscriminately heard & counted.
Time to stop today's Confederate "GOP" from going on to sh*t on Abraham Lincoln's grave & legacy.
So Trump was blindsided that Sidney Powell decided to flip on him. But... my brother in Christ why?
That woman has been nothing but devoted to him & his "cause" and he's treated her with contempt, laughed at her behind her back, never lifted a finger to help... Then there was the plan to try and blame the whole thing on her...
I'm glad she flipped, not just for the case, but it's been disturbing to watch people serve that guy for NOTHING take abuse and just keep going. It's a ray of sanity.
@futurebird Powell, Chesebro & others flipping is just a matter of self-preservation, in no way an indicator of ideological recovery from assholism.
Which prosecutors likely didn't even expect, just being focused on building the case based on available evidence laying bare the facts of the infamous matter.
@marcelias A racist anti-voter entity like today's "GOP" is an inadmissible anti-democratic, anti-constitutional criminal organization, the right place of which is definitely not on the ballots.
> Local Labs – which calls its work both political research and journalism – is demanding voters’ details across the country to back claims of election fraud
@BigAngBlack The enemies of American democracy have organized to disrupt & obstruct every chance of free & fair elections.
Terrorism is intolerable & unnegotiable.
“The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible, so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy, or despotism in some form, is all that is left.”
— Abraham Lincoln —
@marcelias Apparently there is no act of human kindness & compassion today's "Republicans" wouldn't punish to fraudulently suppress voters, who could make the "GOP" look as electorally small & irrelevant as they really are.
Codified electoral fraud is still, what it is: Fraud, violating the Constitution & human rights, Mr Raffensperger!
@marcelias 😎 Well, there are appropriate rewards for rebelling against the authority of the United States. Like eg disqualification & reduced congressional representation.
@marcelias 👏👏👏 Congratulations once again! The insurrectionary Confedereds evidently can't let go of running against the walls of the Reconstruction Amendments, their codified derivates & Marc Elias Group.
Wonderful!
@marcelias Alabamian "legislators" stubbornly defend their racist serial electoral fraud obsessions.
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“Maps like the ones [voting rights groups] propose would also create majority-minority districts ‘in greater numbers than they otherwise would have been’ if race hadn’t been used,” the state argued, quoting from the Harvard ruling. “But the Constitution forbids using race ‘to discriminate against those racial groups that were not the beneficiaries of the race-based preference.’” In other words, the courts’ cure for unconstitutional racial gerrymandering would itself amount to unconstitutional racial gerrymandering in Alabama’s eyes.
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@LouisIngenthron Only an electorate, vast parts of which are not disenfranchised or artificially split up in different districts so they're no longer a homogeneous/ coherent community but weakened, can be able to exert its responsibility to consequently vote out abusers of official power.
One example I prefer to quote is that of Texas's 1st congressional district, which was turned more urban & "Republican" after 2003 redistricting & as a result went to Louie Gohmert, the first "Republican" to represent the district since Reconstruction (~1877).
That's how redistricting abusively & undemocratically works to create fake majorities & illegitimate representatives, who responsible voters would surely like to vote out, but are prevented from by fraudulent redestricting.
@marcelias Sounds like the plan of an organized criminal network, which is inconceivably still allowed to participate in elections it is firmly resolved to rig systematically.
That shouldn't even be possible in bodies politic, where the law rules.
Get out and vote, people. We will continue to see these small-minded, homophobic decisions unless we clean house. It will take a generation at least. I hope voters have the stamina and patience.
Then people can force cases like these back up where they can be overturned. These yahoos have established there is no such thing as precedent, anyway.
It’s more than clear. Republicans want to control the bodies of Americans, whether it be a pregnant person or a person who wants to present themselves as they wish.
These aren’t 6 week bans. You may have just a day or two. Then you have to face waiting periods, getting time off work, and screaming people outside a clinic if you can get an appointment. It’s meant as a total ban.
@daddoo@calculsoberic@TonyStark Louie Gohmert (in 2004) was the first "Republican" to represent (?) Texas's 1st congressional district since Reconstruction (ended 1877) — after gerrymandering, inserting Tyler into the district & drawing Texarkana (rural & Dem-friendlier) out of it.
Feel free to call "Republicans" the fraudulent Da Vincis of congressional district-redrawing.
Supermajorities denying those who disagree with them the right even to debate ideas in a legislature, first in Tennessee, now in Montana — while openly attacking their identities and using “insurrection” to describe any form of protest is wrong, undemocratic, and unconstitutional.
@TonyStark How did today's "Republicans" accomplish these "supermajorities"?
Everyone needs to be aware that it were true Republicans, who introduced & passed the Fifteenth Amendment, the 1st of 3 Reconstruction Amendments, & that it's today's so-called "Republicans", who are constantly & intentionally violating it, to sabotage the will of the majority of American voters.
What does the 15th Amendment mandate?
"Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."