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Couldn't agree more. Billserle.com

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I believe Marc Elias, the attorney along with his team, have successfully filed over 60 lawsuits against the R’s and they on mostly all of their cases. He is on this and knows 70 electors have taken a “pledge”. He said if they try and eff with voters, they will get sued. Today, Jenna Ellis said that she would cooperate with The Feds prosecutors. Tonight, I learned another woman in the AZ area has also pleaded guilty but wants to cooperate and tell her story. This is BIG! Things are a’changin’!

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Elias is on it, and he's not the only one, and our people are smarter than their people.

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Being innocent weighs heavily too! 👻

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Aug 6Liked by Greg Olear

Yesssss Thank You Sir

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I hope you're right.

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I've gotten burned putting my faith in old white guys to do the right thing many times in the Trump years, but the stakes have never been this high, Biden is surely pissed off, and I can't see him going down without a fight.

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We have some protection through the democratic roles of secretaries of state who would also serve as a front line against illegal “certifiers” in each state. They can hold the line before it gets to congress, hopefully. It’s going to be a battle, for sure, but Biden is in a position to prevent an all out steal.

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It's the GOP secs of state that are the problem...MAGA has been cultivating them.

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Are not new members of Congress sworn in on January 3rd? If the Democrats take the House, then Hakeem Jeffries would become Speaker of the House, not Mike Johnson.

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That’s for certification. An election that went to the House would take place in November. At least, that’s my understanding.

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Thanks. I was just listening to Heather Cox Richardson today (08/14/24) on her weekly podcast & learned that the actual certification is done at the state level, as before this I thought that the ceremonial count by the Vice President was the official certification. I had intended to look up how it all worked after your response to my comment, and it was still there in my mind to do so, but I have been busy with life & busy going down rabbit holes & had not followed up. (I’m embarrassed 😳 that I didn’t follow up immediately.)

So the Republicans will be/are spending money at the local level to fight certification, which makes it a much broader war on many fronts. Right?

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Aug 6·edited Aug 6Liked by Greg Olear

More and more people seem excited about democracy again, so hopefully the election will be a blowout for Democrats.

I think it's critical in this time before the election, to get the message out that without a doubt, Republicans are going to try to make claims of fraud, and they will do everything possible to subvert the election.

If people are prepared for it, the attempted subversion will fail.

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I don't know, Rick, the JD Vance Express seems like it has a lot of riders.

LOLLOLOLOLOLOL

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Aug 6Liked by Greg Olear

With the selection of Walz as her running mate, I can really see them getting 110,000,000 votes. 🥹 no fuckery required!

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Yes please!

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Aug 6·edited Aug 6Liked by Greg Olear

Yes, but I must say that I have deep concerns about the Trump loyalists who have been installed in swing states to oversee election results. I don’t think that we as a country are yet educated enough about how malignant narcissists operate and the extent they will go to in order to remain in power. If I were queen, I would be investigating the backgrounds of all these people, well in advance of the election and making criminal conspiracy referrals, even before they have an opportunity to rear their ugly faces and refuse to certify election results.

Expect the unexpected with this fascist regime. And fight on the offensive, not the defensive.

Countrywide, I expect Harris to pull between 55 and 58% of the popular vote. It will be a slap in the face to Trump and his henchmen and perhaps send them packing, except those under criminal indictment. Those we need to keep a special eye on because they have means, opportunity and incentive to escape.

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Aug 6Liked by Greg Olear

65-70% is more like it! 😌🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👊

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In the last 200 years, it's never gone above 60, and even then very rarely. But I share your enthusiasm and confidence, Ed!

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Aug 6Liked by Greg Olear

At 58% a landslide, electoral college gets to the 380 range, make it so!

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I think you're right about 55-58%. Reagan got 58.7 in 1984, and Nixon got 60 (!) in 1972.

If they try to fuck with the vote, Biden can declare them insurrectionists and therefore enemy combatants, round them all up, and keep them confined until January 21. Same goes to SCOTUS or any MOCs who want to try their luck.

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Aug 6Liked by Greg Olear

Amen😇🙏

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Aug 6Liked by Greg Olear

You make a fine (and easy to swallow) argument. I like it.

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Aug 6Liked by Greg Olear

This was a hoot! I can get pretty base, rudely making a point; but you are so much smoother and entertaining! Another great read… thanks, Greg for continued support 🫵🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👊

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Thank you, good sir!

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Aug 6Liked by Greg Olear

I'm working on committing to memory "the mobbed-up racist rapist lying felon wannabe strongman Putin fluffer."

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Picture Julie Andrews singing it. Maybe that would help? ; )

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or Bette Midler tooling around in a wheelchair on stage (hope you saw that routine of hers)

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Aug 6Liked by Greg Olear

Good morning Greg......no pins and needles! sit firmly on your weary haunches and celebrate a return to some normalcy.....use your vital imagination to picture what is coming...True North, a country and world at peace with itself and coming from our True selves.... let Love replace uncertainty and apprehension.....you know and stay with what you know, not what you fear....fear is simply a poor use of imagination!

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Oh, I am very confident, Dennis, and I am going to speak this into existence for sure. But so much crazy shit has happened, I can't discount the possibility of more crazy shit happening...

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good morning sunshine! Crazy shit happens every day, everywhere...observe and focus on the crazy shit for your wonderful observations and commentaries, but also focus on the great and positive energetic stuff for your sense of harmony and enthusiasm because they both exist at the same time....one is there for your observation and commentary, while the other is also there for your harmony and knowing self to participate with...... only allow those to enter into your participation...with my admiration, respect and appreciation of YOU!

Dennis

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Aug 6Liked by Greg Olear

Yes, completely agree! Neil Gorsuch is now on my sh-t list. I'm so done with these frauds pretending to work for the people's best interests.

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He's a pompous little dope.

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When Gorsuch was first appointed to the SC, I became so frustrated and angry I called his church and got his priest on the phone. It was awkward to say the least. Neither of us were prepared for that conversation. I couldn’t believe I got her on the phone. All I kept saying was why, what, how could somebody with such ill intentions hide out in her church for so long pretending to be a decent Episcopalian? How did he go unnoticed? Her answer was unsatisfactory, something about tending the flock. When trump first got elected, I bet I spent every day the next two years calling Republicans any where and everywhere telling whoever answered the phone that I knew what they were planning. I didn’t slow down until Covid. You probably think I’m crazy but I was just so distraught.

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I share your optimism, and without having thought through some of the scenarios you’ve outlined here. I feel—and it’s more of a vibe than an analysis—that we’ve reached a tipping point where more people are both sick and tired of the demented old fool and scared of what Project 2025 portends. Yes, America will embrace Harris/Walz in a massive Blue wave.

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Their messaging has been shit since Kamala took over, but they have really botched the Walz stuff. He is EXTREMELY likable.

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It’s TUESDAY🎉 And a glorious Tuesday, at that. To Musk, and Gorsuch, and trump, and Roberts, and Flynn, I say, and I mean this in all sincerity, G.F.Y.

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Amen amen amen!

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