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Let’s Give It Up For Senator-Elect Radical Liberal Rev. Raphael Warnock
Oh, and get lost, KKKelly.
January 06, 2021 09:56 AM
Kindness won.
The Beagle-loving Rev. Raphael Warnock defeated Attila the Hun wannabe Kelly Loeffler in Tuesday's Georgia Senate special election. While hardly a shocking Cinderella story, it's nevertheless a reminder that cruelty doesn't always prevail.
Republicans considered Warnock the weaker link of the two Democratic candidates, an easier target than his "running mate" Jon Ossoff. We don't need Stan Lee's imagination to understand why. They hit him with everything, seeking to paint the pastor as a radical, a Marxist, and unapologetically Black. That last one is actually true but it's something Republicans still view as a liability.
In a political world that contains Donald Trump, Loeffler managed to run the most racist campaign in recent memory, but it didn't work in the year of our Stacey Abrams, 2021. Black Georgians didn't like Jim Crow the first time, and they turned out in overwhelming numbers yesterday in support of Warnock. Now that the phony farm girl's political career has melted, we can focus instead on Warnock, the real Warnock, the kind man who took the punches and never joined his soulless opponent in the mud. He didn't stray from the path he knew was right.
Warnock's response to Loeffler's bigoted defamation campaign was poetic: "People who have no vision traffic in division." And so I repeat: Kindness won.
Senator-elect Raphael Warnock pays tribute to his mother in victory speech: "Because this is America, the 82 year… https://t.co/EhkUAbY3QR— The Recount (@The Recount)1609912529.0
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As he reminded us during his victory speech early this morning, Warnock's roots "are planted deeply in Georgia soil." He was born in Savannah, Georgia, one of the greatest cities on Earth, and while he grew up in the Kayton Homes housing projects, the eleventh of 12 children, he never buckled under the weight of poverty.
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<strong>WARNOCK:</strong> ... A son of my late father who was a pastor, a veteran and a small businessman and my mother who, as a teenager growing up in Waycross, Georgia, used to pick somebody's else's cotton. But the other day, because this is America, the 82-year-old hands that used to pick somebody else's cotton went to the polls and picked her youngest son to be a United States Senator.<br><br>
So, I stand before you as a man who knows that the improbable journey that led me to this place in this historic moment in America could only happen here.<br>
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We were told we couldn't win this election, but tonight we proved that, with hope, hard work and the people by our side, anything is possible.</blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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</p><p>Loeffler lacked the <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/its-official-biden-flips-arizona-martha-mcsally-returns-home-to-loserville" target="_blank">inspiring political skills of Martha McSally,</a> but Warnock is impressive in his own right. He had already kicked sufficient ass for several lifetimes before becoming the first Black Democrat to win a Senate race in a former Confederate state. The Morehouse graduate is the youngest person to serve as senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, the spiritual home of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rep. John Lewis. The brother can preach, as America witnessed when he presided over Lewis' homecoming, and his first remarks as senator-elect are an appeal to this country's better nature. They aren't merely bromides, however, but a call to service and to action. </p><blockquote><strong>WARNOCK: </strong>In this moment in American history, Washington has a choice to make, we all have a choice to make.<br><br>Will we continue to divide, distract and dishonor one another or will we love our neighbors as we love ourselves?<br><br>Will we play political games while real people suffer or will we win righteous fights together, standing shoulder to shoulder, for the good of Georgia, for the good of our country? <br><br>Will we seek to destroy one another as enemies or heed the call towards the common good, building together what Dr. King called "the beloved community"?</blockquote><p>Warnock said we can beat the COVID-19 pandemic with “science and common sense" and rebuild a "fairer economy by respecting the dignity of work and the workers who do it." This is a historic victory but also a life-saving one for Georgians who have suffered from leaders who believed their only duty was to Donald Trump.</p><div id="ceb79" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="9967d3b78135edde35430f5a1d906d9d"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1346679891811577857" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">“Senator Klobuchar, this is the pastor of the historic church which you’re in & an all-around great guy. And we wan… https://t.co/ybX01Bvm4y</div> — Vaughn Hillyard (@Vaughn Hillyard)<a href="https://twitter.com/VaughnHillyard/statuses/1346679891811577857">1609908480.0</a></blockquote></div><p>I admire Warnock because he has spoken “uncomfortable truths" for most of his life. He's denounced white supremacy from the pulpit. He's advocated against the death penalty. He's called out churches as “shamefully slow" to confront gender inequality. Yes, he even defended the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whose supposedly controversial comments were taken out of context (not that most Americans would tolerate racial truth-telling in <em>any</em> context).<br></p><p>As a pastor in New York during the 1990s, he worked with other church leaders to protest Mayor Rudy Giuliani's harmful “workfare" program. He led a sit-in at the Georgia state Capitol in support of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion in the state. He's <a href="https://www.wabe.org/gun-control-advocates-decry-revamped-house-gun-bill/" target="_blank">opposed concealed carry laws</a> ... in Georgia.</p><p>This was not the focus-tested background of someone you'd expect to win a Senate race in Georgia. The state's last Democratic senator, Zell Miller, endorsed George W. Bush in 2004. Now Raphael Warnock has won his seat. I know John Lewis, his former parishioner, is happy.</p><p>[<a href="https://www.savannahnow.com/story/news/2021/01/06/raphael-warnock-georgia-senate-runoff-victory-speech-full-transcript/6560019002/" target="_blank">Savannah Now</a>]</p><p>
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2020 Congressional Elections
Can You Hear Stacey Abrams Now??? ... GOOD.
Bye, Mitch!
January 05, 2021 11:36 PM
WE FUCKING DID IT. We just sent Senator Kelly Loeffler packing. And God willing and the crick don't rise, that bony sack of racist crap will take her self-dealing buddy Senator David Perdue with her. Come on DeKalb County!
As of this typing, Dave Wasserman has seen enough in the special election. Rev. Raphael Warnock will soon be Senator Raphael Warnock (D-Georgia), and Kelly Loeffler will go back to being an evil gazillionaire who eats puppies (probably), is despised by the WNBA team she owns (definitely), and spends the rest of her miserable life trying to wash off that Trump stink (we hope).
Welcome to the New South, and welcome to the Sunbelt Strategy.
<p>Maybe shouting SOCIALISM! over and over and over like a demented Barbie doll while attacking Black churches is a lousy electoral strategy when one-third of the electorate is Black and at least some of the other two-thirds are not raging, racist assholes? It's a possibility! And one that Kelly Loeffler is going to have lots of time to ponder. BYE, GIRL!</p><p>Senator-elect Warnock — and Your Wonkette is delighted to call him that! — will be the first Black senator from Georgia <em>ever</em>, and the first Black senator from a Confederate State to take his seat by election, rather than appointment. He grew up poor, the eleventh of 12 children, going on to become a pastor in Martin Luther King's Ebenezer Baptist Church, and delivering a benediction at Barack Obama's second inauguration. This is a fundamentally good and decent man, whom Georgians are lucky to have representing them in the senate. </p><p>Thank you, Georgia!</p><p>As for Jon Ossoff, we won't torture you with screenshots of THE NEEDLE, and we may be fighting this one out a couple more days. But things look pretty good for the 33-year-old investigative journalist who looks likely to end David Perdue's Senate career. And indeed it would be <em>poetry</em> if the guy who <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/we-will-have-karen-handel-to-kick-around-anymore" target="_blank">lost to Karen Handel</a> in the contest to take over <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/tom-price-quits-because-hes-too-grifty-for-donald-fucking-trump" target="_blank">Tom Price's</a> term in 2017 wound up clinching the Senate majority for Democrats by beating a stuffed shirt like David Perdue. Remember when Ossoff's <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/09/us/politics/ossoff-handel-georgia-house-special-election.html" target="_blank">$23 million House race</a> seemed <em>scandalously</em> expensive? We were so young!</p><p>Meanwhile Karen Handel is gone, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/08/politics/2018-elections-lucy-mcbath-karen-handel-concedes-georgia-congress/index.html" target="_blank">thanks to Lucy McBath.</a> Mitch McConnell's gavel is slipping away by the second. And Trump is on the way out the door.</p><p>What's that? Loser says WHAT?</p><div id="fe51f" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="17e68d3237066390691bfaf8238f42fd"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1346659909492998146" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Looks like they are setting up a big “voter dump” against the Republican candidates. Waiting to see how many votes they need?</div> — Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump)<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1346659909492998146">1609903716.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Hahahaha, fuck off. Although, he's probably right about one thing. Well, right-ish. Remember last week when that whiner <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1342245390540804096?s=20" target="_blank">tweeted</a>, "I saved at least 8 Republican Senators, including Mitch, from losing in the last Rigged (for President) Election"? Well, guess what? Without the greatest turnout machine ever invented on the ballot — we'll give him that one for sure — guess who didn't show up today?</p><p>That's right, it was REPUBLICANS. In county after county, GOP <a href="https://www.politicususa.com/2021/01/05/trumps-election-rigging-lies-backfire-as-gop-turnout-plunges-in-georgia.html" target="_blank">turnout was down</a> compared to November. And in those tight races, that's what took out Kelly Loeffler and probably David Perdue. </p><p>So, thanks, President Trump. Without 10 weeks of histrionics and attacks on Republican leaders in Georgia and setting your own goddamn house on fire, this probably wouldn't have happened. </p><p>Goddess bless! </p><p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> OMGGGG, WE WON! This four-year waking nightmare is almost over. We're about to control the House, and the Senate, and the White House.</p>
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Democrats win control of the Senate.</div> — Dave Wasserman (@Dave Wasserman)<a href="https://twitter.com/Redistrict/statuses/1346681326934650880">1609908823.0</a></blockquote></div>
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KKKelly Loeffler Keeps Up The Gross Lies About Raphael Warnock
Lies, damn lies, and the Loeffler campaign.
January 03, 2021 11:30 AM
The Georgia Senate runoffs are Tuesday. Georgians can choose to keep their current, crummy old senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, or upgrade to Democrats Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock. It's not a tough choice, but Republicans are doing their best to slander Ossoff and Warnock as “radical" and “anti-American," which conservatives define as anyone who's to the left of Ronald Reagan.
Loeffler says Warnock has been linked to “child abuse” and “spousal abuse.” Someone yells “lock him up!” “We learn… https://t.co/xxTKai0N1N— Dave Weigel (@Dave Weigel)1609601960.0
Loeffler, who supports noted humanitarian Donald Trump, has ramped up the personal attacks against Warnock. At a rally this weekend, she suggested Warnock's pastimes include beating up women and molesting children.
LOEFFLER: Raphael Warnock has been involved in child abuse, domestic abuse. He's hiding out. He won't answer these questions. And now, now, we've learned this morning that the lawyer for Harvey Weinstein has been contributing to his campaign. I don't think that's a coincidence.
It's possible that Loeffler is too stupid to understand what a "coincidence" is. However, someone who represented Harvey Weinstein donating to an unrelated Democratic Senate campaign is still a coincidence. She should avoid guilt by association charges considering she was recently photographed posing with a white supremacist.
<p>Maybe she's hoping that Warnock won't <a href="https://brutalsouth.substack.com/p/try-and-save-my-poor-versailles" target="_blank">sue her out of her tacky McMansion,</a> but it's still an appalling lie to claim the reverend was “involved" in child abuse. In 2002, <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2002-08-03-0208030184-story.html" target="_blank">Warnock was accused</a> of trying to prevent a state trooper from interviewing counselors at a church-run camp in Carroll County, Maryland. Warnock isn't pro-child abuse but he is pro-Sixth Amendment and believed <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/was-rafael-warnock-arrested-connection-child-abuse-investigation-his-church-camp-1552725" target="_blank">the counselors, who were minors, had a right to counsel</a> present during their interviews with the police.</p><div id="c106e" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="3a0522c0510ec130b314cd10c4914324"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1344695750526119936" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Kelly Loeffler has a message for Georgians... https://t.co/uEQfn7rdDc</div> — Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@Rex Chapman🏇🏼)<a href="https://twitter.com/RexChapman/statuses/1344695750526119936">1609435424.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Back in March, Warnock's estranged wife, <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt--politics/warnock-wife-involved-dispute/MCQYpvtswlZIIGdItrfcBJ/" target="_blank">Ouleye Warnock, accused him</a> of trying to run over her foot after a heated argument.<br></p><blockquote>Warnock, the senior pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, was not charged with a crime by Atlanta police and an officer said in the report that medical officials didn't find visible signs of injury in the foot that his wife said was struck by the vehicle. He flatly denied the allegation that he harmed his estranged wife, telling the AJC in an interview that "it didn't happen."</blockquote><p>I wouldn't take issue with Loeffler supporting a woman without qualification if she didn't act as if she'd never heard <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/kelly-loeffler-trumps-boots-taste-like-rainbows" target="_blank">Trump brag about assaulting women</a> on the "Access Hollywood" tape. Twenty-six women <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/women-accused-trump-sexual-misconduct-list-2017-12" target="_blank">have accused Trump</a> of sexual assault, and <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/republicans-absolutely-do-not-care-if-trump-raped-someone-they-will-never-care" target="_blank">Republicans absolutely do not care.</a> </p><p>Trump's first wife, Ivana, claimed in a sworn deposition that he'd raped her, and during the 2016 campaign, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/05/31/615843930/listen-how-michael-cohen-protects-trump-by-making-legal-threats" target="_blank">Trump's former lawyer, current felon Michael Cohen</a> tried to sink a related story with the repulsive claim that a husband can't rape his wife.</p><blockquote>"You're talking about Donald Trump, you're talking about the front-runner for the GOP, presidential candidate, as well as private individual, who never raped anybody and of course understand that by the very definition you can't rape your spouse," Cohen said.</blockquote><p>Republicans were already a bunch of hypocrites when they pretended character mattered during Bill Clinton's presidency, but these Trump-humpers are flat-out full of shit. They are the overtly the pro-pussy grabbing party.</p><div id="16a1f" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="f013128c61973635db8f21bcd94c3bdb"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1344076284830355463" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">New anti-Warnock Facebook ad from the NRSC depicts man with rifle, urges Georgians to "Stand Your Ground."
Subtle. https://t.co/ERyAd2ccu3</div> — Judd Legum (@Judd Legum)<a href="https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/statuses/1344076284830355463">1609287732.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Meanwhile, the National Republican Senate Committee is running straight-up racist ads on social media that actively promote violence. The ads from “Too Extreme For Georgia" encourage Republican voters to stand their ground against “radical liberals Ossoff and Warnock." This is an obvious reference to the Wild West-style <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/_stand_your_ground_kills_-_how_these_nra-backed_laws_promote_racist_violence_1.pdf" target="_blank">stand-your-ground laws</a> that <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/03/opinions/stand-your-ground-law-racial-violence-opinion-love/index.html" target="_blank">encourage racially charged violence.</a> In one ad, a white man is seated on the back of a pickup truck, gently caressing a shotgun in front of a child. “And they call us radical?" the copy reads. Well, yes, because a white <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/racists-who-lynched-ahmaud-arbery-mightve-freely-used-the-n-word" target="_blank">father and son lynching duo in Georgia</a> murdered a Black man out for a jog earlier this year. This isn't a joking matter.</p><p>These are the same people who lamented a lack of “civility" when comedian Kathy Griffin, who is not an elected official, took a <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/ok-everyone-you-punished-kathy-griffin-real-good-now-shut-the-fuck-up" target="_blank">picture with a Styrofoam bloody head of Donald Trump.</a> (You knew the head was fake because it understood how elections work.)<br></p><p>We'd love nothing more than seeing Loeffler and Perdue lose next week and then six months from now when they finally concede. If you're reading this from Georgia, please make a plan to vote if you haven't already.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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Trump Knows Who Stole GA, It Is Brad Raffensperger's Brother, Keyser Soze!
Lock him up!
December 30, 2020 11:43 AM
Good Morning, Georgia! If you're heading outside today, don't forget your umbrella and waders, because you're entering an absolute shitstorm of disinformation courtesy of President Trump and his allies.
Grandpa Crankypants stayed up late last night tweeting from his Florida garbage palace.
...The consent decree signed by the “Secretary”, with the consent of Kemp, is perhaps even more poorly negotiated t… https://t.co/gfDa0RcV2V— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump)1609303492.0
How about before we just allow them to "find the crime," we just allow the Bloodhound Gang to find Brad Raffensperger's brother who "works for China, and they definitely don't want 'Trump.'" These geniuses have been plugging away for eight weeks looking for evidence of voter fraud, but it will probably take them even longer to track down Brad R's nefarious brother "Ron" who "works for China," because that person does not exist.
<p>Big thanks to Newsmax, though, for planting that particular seed in the sandy soil that keeps our president's hollow head from falling off his stooped shoulders.</p><div id="9a00c" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="b0148365dac03afd54e5dc023ec8d5ad"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1344284237525090306" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">That bullshit story Trump tweeted about the Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's brother working for a C… https://t.co/EPbqYXsbjC</div> — Matthew Gertz (@Matthew Gertz)<a href="https://twitter.com/MattGertz/statuses/1344284237525090306">1609337312.0</a></blockquote></div><p>And now for the lies, damn lies, and statistics portion of our program.</p><div id="8206a" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="3a82442a7fa5a13a1685f2d7960ffe13"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1344173684983017473" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">New Lott study estimates 11,350 absentee votes lost to Trump in Georgia. Another 289,000 "excess (fraudulent) votes… https://t.co/V6cH6HYifI</div> — Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump)<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1344173684983017473">1609310954.0</a></blockquote></div><p>"Who the hell is Lott?" you are wondering? Apparently, the president is referring to John Lott, an academic whose <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2003/02/01/scholar-invents-fan-to-answer-his-critics/f3ae3f46-68d6-4eee-a65e-1775d45e2133/" target="_blank">greatest claim to fame</a> is inventing an alter ego named "Mary Rosh" who spent her time defending his position that <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/fox-news-gun-free-zones-committed-that-hate-crime-in-charleston" target="_blank">more guns cause less crime.</a> He also has <a href="https://twitter.com/stan_okl/status/1344055086767476736?s=20" target="_blank">#Thoughts</a> on the causal relationship between football players kneeling during the national anthem and their teams' win/loss ratios.</p><p>Lott, who recently joined the Justice Department, just put out a <a href="https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=367099102068002127067064085115021107038049048023079045090089086025028118024113019112053049038042059099045106066069109099116024020036071089003023119014121101069002032095096079117019106016086127005000125127119007067064084027080119075096072066126069&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE" target="_blank">"study"</a> purporting to "prove" the existence of widespread voter fraud in swing states by pointing to a disparity in absentee ballot rates between neighboring Democratic and Republican precincts in both Pennsylvania and Georgia. </p><blockquote>The best estimate shows an unusual 7.81% drop in Trump's percentage of the absentee ballots for Fulton County alone of 11,350 votes, or over 80% of Biden's vote lead in Georgia. The same approach is applied to Allegheny County in Pennsylvania for both absentee and provisional ballots. The estimated number of fraudulent votes from those two sources is about 55,270 votes.</blockquote><p>This cannot possibly be accounted for by Trump spending an entire year discouraging Republicans from voting by mail, of course. It must be "evidence" of FRAUUUUUDDD.</p><p>Naturally, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/us/politics/navarro-ron-vara-tarrifs.html" target="_blank">Ron Vara</a> approves.</p><p>What "press" would this "study" be hot off of? Oh, just none. But Lott did upload it to the Social Science Research Network website, which is, like, totally the same as peer review, right?</p><p>Here on Planet Earth, Georgia has already conducted multiple hand recounts <em>and</em> a <a href="https://sos.ga.gov/admin/uploads/Cobb%20County%20ABM%20Audit%20Report%2020201229.pdf" target="_blank">signature match audit </a>of 10 percent of the mail-in votes in Cobb County, comparing signed envelopes to county records. This is exactly what Trump has been <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1337526606445809665?s=20" target="_blank">braying for</a>, certain that it would turn up evidence of massive fraud.</p><p>Out of 15,118 ballots examined, 396 were contested by the investigating teams. Of those, 386 were subsequently verified by examining county records of the voters' signatures. Here's how the last 10 ballots broke down.</p><blockquote>All eight electors whose signatures were deemed valid by Cobb County Elections Department staff but not consistent by the LEOs conducting the audit, acknowledged completing and signing the ABM ballot oath envelope in question, verifying that the initial Cobb County Elections Department initial determination of validity was correct.<br><br>The elector whose envelope contained no signature or mark, acknowledged submitting the ABM ballot oath envelope in question, but reported signing the front of the envelope only. The final envelope in question was found to be mistakenly signed by the elector's spouse. The elector confirmed that he filled out the absentee ballot himself.</blockquote><p>So eight people said, "Yeah, that was me," when the investigators called to ask if they'd cast the ballots; one person signed in the wrong place; and one wife signed the outside of the envelope for her husband, who'd filled out the ballot for himself. Which adds up to exactly zero fraudulent ballots cast.</p><p>Naturally Trump has <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1344054358418345985?s=20" target="_blank">shifted</a> to demanding that the same procedure be replicated in Fulton County, where "Lott" has "proved" massive vote fraud without actually identifying a single inappropriate ballot. </p><p>And as we type, Georgia's Republicans are holding a <a href="https://youtu.be/u5ZP_HpBKos" target="_blank">hearing</a> to shit all over their own state's Republican election officials and lie about the vote being STOLEN. </p><p>Blahblahblah, and GET THE FUCK OUT.</p><p>[<a href="https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=367099102068002127067064085115021107038049048023079045090089086025028118024113019112053049038042059099045106066069109099116024020036071089003023119014121101069002032095096079117019106016086127005000125127119007067064084027080119075096072066126069&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE" target="_blank">SSRN</a> / <a href="https://sos.ga.gov/admin/uploads/Cobb%20County%20ABM%20Audit%20Report%2020201229.pdf" target="_blank">GA SOS</a>]<br></p><p><strong>Follow Liz Dye on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/5DollarFeminist" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE!</a></strong><br></p><p><strong>Please click here to support your Wonkette. 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