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I myself am in accord with the Mother of the Gracchi.(Except I have THREE)

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His money's worth, certainly.

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True the Vote's lawyer, James Bopp, added that Eshelman never attached any conditions to his donation, and he can't demand a refund just because he doesn't like the outcome. This was an attempted coup not a kitchen remodel.

Yeah, who does he think he is? Biff dealing with a contractor who built one of his trash palaces? That's why you don't pay them before the job is done. Or after.

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Freddie boy, Secret Agent is scamming you. I can get you the goods on him for 2.5 mil, 3 million tops.

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I, in turn, have irrefutable evidence that John Norris is funded by George Soros and I only need 3-3.5 million to get the word out.

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Come on, rivets are useful- how about a sack of soft rocks?

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Grammar the Vote!

Vote the Grammar!

The Gramte Marvo!

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Another great takeaway from this is that Eshelman has announced to the world that he is a sucker with a lot of cash. I expect that grifters like Lin Wood, Sydney Powell, and similar will all be contacting him soon, letting him know that they have everything he wants and will give it to him for the bargain price of 1 million bucks.

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the starting lineup of the Confederacy.

Man, that's a penguin doing a face plant into another penguin's butt, that is.

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I guess we're all aware the non-slave states struck that bargain with these Jim Crow humping mutherfuckers way back in 1776. The bargain was breached in 1860, thankfully, and should have been encased in concrete and sunk in the Mariana Trench before the next generation of confederacy-lovin peckerwoods ever had a chance to hit the ground and breathe our air. But history, Andrew Johnson, reality, white supremacy, regrets, blah blah. You know. Shit happens. These Dixiepublicans - because aren't they just Dixiecrats in Union clothing? - have won The War because they continued to fight it while the rest of us humored their romantic attachments to the past.They wield the same outsized power now that they did before 1860, power that was won from them with blood and lives 1860-1865. But when the Union lost Reconstruction - surrendered and abandoned it, really; not so unlike what we've done to the Kurds more recently - we were destined to wind up where we are today. Maybe that's why Jan 6 felt to me more like a coup de gras on the Yankee usurpers - long awaited ownage of the original Lib, Gen. Bill Sherman - than a coup d'etat on the U.S.A.[EDIT;] I should add, that we may have humored their romanticism, but most if not all of those Union soldiers would have sympathized with their white supremacist views.

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Why wait? He's not using it.

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This goes back to something I said the other night: if SARS-CoV-2 had arrived one year later, so we were dealing with COVID-20 in 2021, then Trump might have walked away with another EV win. Aside from Trump not being weighed down by the loss of life and the economic calamity of his incompetence, Biden and Democrats would not have been buoyed by the increased early-in-person and by-mail voting that resulted from the pandemic. The old reliable voter-suppression tactics would most likely been enough to let Trump squeak through.

Put another way, 2020 showed the GOP what things look like when minorities can vote with similar turnout to white people, and it terrified them. That's why they're wasting no time with starting to push even more odious suppression laws.

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Maybe he shouldn't be so stupid then.

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Since there is only six degrees of separation between me and Bob Geldof I think I can get someone to get someone to get someone else to get another to get someone to get someone to get Bob to do a benefit concert for this poor millionaire treated so unjustly.

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I was unfamiliar with this group and so looked them up. All grown up now and apparently still successful. I had seen photos before and assumed they were Scandinavian. Imagine my surprise to find they are from Tulsa. Pop music is weird.

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So this guy wants his money back because he didn't get the result he wanted and blames in on the ones he gave it do not doing their job properly.

He didn't do so because he felt in any way that what he did was WRONG, that the cause he invested in is a lie, in fact, from the passage there doesn't seem to be any indication that he ever changed his views about "Biden voter fraud" being a thing

This, folks, is what Trumpism with money looks like.

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