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I gotcher fire right here, Barr.

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I still chuckle about that rigged election pastor bolting out the back door at a presser, and setting off the fire alarm, and watched by journos as he ran, pell-mell, to hide in the nearby church.

And that example of failed but easily traceable ballot harvesting goes to show how unfeasible it will be to replicate that to the tune of millions upon millions of ballots.

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That was some good footage! I’d forgotten about it. Lol.

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Even if, somehow, someway, mail in voting is aborted, trump will still lose. Because he is a loser.

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"Barr said he had seen the intelligence, just like dumb dick Trump ass-sucking liar DNI John Ratcliffe he's seen the intelligence that China is attacking the election, for Joe Biden."

"So what is that intelligence?"

"I can't tell you, national security"

"So, you have evidence of how other countries are going to interfere in our election and you won't share it so citizens can tell if they are being misled, because THAT would be bad for national security?"

"Correct"

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... with respect, the tone of this article is coming near to panic porn. "Gird your loins"? What exactly does that mean? Yes, it's obvious these guys want to rig the election or at least try to cast the results into doubt. But what do we DO about it. Just screaming that the fix is in will surely make people want to give up, why bother voting it won't be counted anyway, and submit to 4+ years of outright fascism because "there's nothing we could do because Bill Barr said words on TV".

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It's the job of the people of Russia to get rid of Putin (with global help, of course). The people of Belarus are giving them a good example.

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Secret Service, Marshal Service, People who arrest people for the House of Reps, FBI, National Guard, D.C. cops, and that's all before you get to the real military. Federal employees did not swear an oath to protect Donald Fucking Trump. They swore to the Constitution and have seen DFT work on destroying this country. Wake the fuck up.

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I worry about that also.

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Washington State resident here, baby!

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His nutjob base probably thinks he'll do an Allende and go down with an AR-15 in his hands.

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I try not to hate; it's toxic to my spirit. However, I loathe, detest, and despise this rotten hot garbage, Opus Dei/Federalist Society piece of shit with the heat of 100,000 suns, and long to see him spend the rest of his days in a prison cell.

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If they have to generate more than 3 million votes, it should be obvious.

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Barr is pulling the "post hoc plus slippery slope" fallacies in his "logic" speech.

If "because something can lead to an outcome, then it is 100% GUARANTEED that that outcome will occur" then we'd already be in the throes of a nuclear war because having nukes can lead to nuclear war (and a nuclear apocalypse).

Also, having guns can mean people will get shot by them so America should ban all the guns.

Having cars can lead to road accidents so.....

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"Shotel not included".

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