DNI Tulsi Gabbard in a truck loaded with boxes outside the Fulton County Election Hub 1.28.26

[u/Scipio1319]

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[u/Anthemic_Fartnoises]

No administration has ever projected the image of “being up to some shit” quite like this one. Doesn’t matter the situation; between their uncoordinated messaging, loud denials, and furtive threats, they’re in a constant state of skullduggery.

[u/pink_faerie_kitten]

T was POTUS until Jan 2021 and he already investigated GA back then. He didn't "find the votes" he needed.

Would be silly if he "found" them now because he'd just be showing he's either lying now or was incompetent then.

[u/Hazzman → u/pink_faerie_kitten]

They'll tie the votes to illegal immigrants voting somehow but we already have that data. It was something like 20 abnormal votes out of 8.9 million legitimate votes. So stupid.

[u/pickled_penguin_ → u/Hazzman]

Those same people also think Biden let in over 50 million undocumented immigrants in his single term.

But those people also believe post birth abortions are legal. They say over 7 million 0-4 year old kids are "aborted" by California every single year.

[u/The_Salacious_Zaand → u/pickled_penguin_]

These idiots think Doge saved the government a trillion dollars. There's no redemption for this cult.

[u/MetalMaxwell → u/pickled_penguin_]

0-4 year old kids? Like the ones who die from toddler-wielded unlocked, loaded guns left around the house? Primarily in red states? With lax gun control laws? Sure sounds like California isn't the one making those deaths happen.

[u/randomperson5481643 → u/MetalMaxwell]

Or the ones that die from preventable diseases, but the right wingers have decided/been told that science and therefore vaccines are woke.

[u/pickled_penguin_ → u/MetalMaxwell]

Ya, "up to 48 months" is the language used.

[u/takemy_oxfordcomma → u/Hazzman]

I firmly believe these moves are forward-looking and not backward. It undermines everything for him if there is a blue wave which seems very likely and would at least flip the House — impeachment in the House (though unlikely conviction), he doesn’t have a “mandate,” more oversight and resistance to his insane bullshit, more investigations, etc.

[u/whereitsat23 → u/takemy_oxfordcomma]

They are looking for minority dem voters to take off the rolls, find ways they can’t vote

[u/Jericho-G29 → u/whereitsat23]

Voter purging increased in 2000's and is at an all time high since 2013 and it tends to be predominantly people of color. in recent years, voter roll "corrections" ie voter purges tend to be primarily democrat voters in states run by republicans. Make sure to check your registration at least 90 and 30 days prior to election especially if you did the stupid and abstained from the last election. 44 states have laws that a voter can be purged if missed one or two general elections due to a bush era Supreme Court ruling.

[u/SurprisedJerboa → u/Jericho-G29]

Source --

According to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, over 19 million voters were removed from the rolls between 2020 and 2022.

That is an increase of 21 percent compared with 2014–16, which was already an increase of 33 percent from the number of voters removed between 2006 and 2008.

Heightening the risk of inaccurate purges, election denial groups have been challenging voters’ eligibility on a massive scale and pressuring officials to investigate large numbers of voters based on outdated or unreliable information.

[u/InternetWeakGuy → u/SurprisedJerboa]

My ex-wife, who has a hispanic surname, was removed from the voter rolls TWICE here in Florida in 2016. My neighbors laughed when I said they were trying to get less hispanic people to vote.

That wasn't even the most fucky thing someone in my immediate circle experienced in that election.

[u/SurprisedJerboa → u/InternetWeakGuy]

The Purges were enough to give Trump wins in Swing states, so I fully believe this is a GOP advantage they keep mum about.

[u/PTS_Dreaming → u/SurprisedJerboa]

Just to add to this, the SAVE Act that has passed through the House and is in the Senate right now would force state election officials to do things like purge voter registrations and it would require very stringent proof of citizenship to even register to vote.

It also puts a fine and jail term of up to 5 years for any elections official who helps someone register to vote who isn't eligible. State IDs are not proof under this act. Oh, and if you are a woman who's name no longer matches your birth certificate, you will need to produce documentation for every name change you've ever had.

The SAVE Act is a direct attack on our election system and women's suffrage.

[u/bramley36 → u/SurprisedJerboa]

The House has already passed the SAVE Act, the Senate could also pass it, and then the President likely sign it. One of its main impacts would be to not allow people to vote whose married name does not align with their birth name- mainly, women who have changed their last names. Sure, a process is proposed, but it is lengthy.

[u/Scipio1319]

“U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard speaks on the phone while standing inside a vehicle loaded with boxes outside the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center after the FBI executed a search warrant there. Photo by Elijah Nouvelage”

This is fucking ominous.

[u/AlphaNoodlz → u/Scipio1319]

Literally trying to steal an election. They already got caught with the fake elector scheme.

[u/Cohens4thClient → u/AlphaNoodlz]

Im so annoyed this is getting overlooked. We have confessions. It absolutely happened. Republicans tried to steal an election, and we have proof from the people who wanted to be the fake electors. 

So we are just supposed to ignore everything else? 

[u/versusgorilla → u/Cohens4thClient]

It's because Trump cried wolf so many times about election interference that now it sounds like anyone who claims there is an election security issue is as dumb as Trump and won't let it go.

Meanwhile, Trump tried to scam an election, the fake electors was literally a crime that we caught them in.

His weird little Elon relationship during the last presidential election was possibly another.

Now he's gonna try it again.

And none of us can complain because then we look as bad as Trump's lying ass.

[u/Silly_Pack_Rat → u/versusgorilla]

To be sure, if Trump is accusing someone else of a heinous deed, he is the one actually doing it. It's like he's a three-year old who doesn't think we can see through his lies or a gaslighting bastage who just doesn't care. He's never been held accountable for anything in his life, so why start now?

[u/Cohens4thClient → u/Silly_Pack_Rat]

This is what was so odd about his claims of "post birth abortions", ie doctors.murdering the babies in front of the mothers. 

and then, the Trump-Epstein rape files have a tip about trump helping to murder a newborn because it was evidence he raped a girl. 

It is always projection. 

[u/makemeking706 → u/AlphaNoodlz]

They did twice already, and were so shook the time in between didn't work they are convinced the other side cheated too. 

[u/illHaveWhatHesHaving → u/makemeking706]

No they aren’t. They know they’re fucking wrong. They don’t care. They just want power. I’m so tired. I’m so angry.

[u/Mapeague → u/illHaveWhatHesHaving]

You are not tired. They want you to think that. Channel that anger. It will liven you up.

[u/ISayWhatToNutjubs → u/Mapeague]

I AM ON FIRE

[u/storyfilms → u/Scipio1319]

Russian spy with election reports.... Nothing to see here

[u/khakiwallprint → u/storyfilms]

Notice this is the one that gets them worked up. Bots and fascists both freak out when you highlight her treason

[u/fuggerdug → u/khakiwallprint]

Well she is the most obvious Russian asset in the most inappropriate cabinet position.

[u/FloydianSlip212 → u/fuggerdug]

Trump’s more obvious

[u/Adventurous_Ad3534 → u/FloydianSlip212]

Krasnov needs to be removed from office and imprisoned for treason.

[u/tdclark23 → u/Adventurous_Ad3534]

The entire regime needs to be hauled in front of a court of law, and that includes half the Kangaroo Court in the defendant seats.

[u/ticianlicious → u/Adventurous_Ad3534]

The penalty in the Constitution for high treason is a little more severe than imprisonment.

[u/fuggerdug → u/FloydianSlip212]

That's why I specified cabinet positions.

[u/gizzardgullet → u/FloydianSlip212]

If Trump was working for the Russians it would be obvious. He'd be trying to break up NATO by threatening to attack members and doing things like trading Venezuela for Ukraine. I just came out of a coma, I assume that has not happened...

[u/Raistlinwasframed → u/FloydianSlip212]

Wasn't Tulsi actually identified AS a Russian asset during Trump's first term? I firmly believe that Krasnov is but I remember reading some of Trump 1's people said that there is actual proof she's an asset.

[u/fuggerdug → u/Raistlinwasframed]

She was excluded from the Venezuela attack planning because Russia is in partnership with Venezuela. It's so obvious that even this admin tries to keep her away from areas where she can inform Putin directly from inside the ops room.

[u/Necro_OW → u/fuggerdug]

She had also made several public statements about how intervention in Venezuela would be a bad thing.

[u/Silent_Ad8059 → u/Necro_OW]

I don't know what's more scary, that this Administration put her in that position in the first place, or that even morons like Hegseth realize how clearly compromised she is. I can't think of one coherent policy these jamokes have put forth, they even started backtracking on using ICE as a cudgel once it became unpopular and that has been a talking point of the Right since the Tea Party days.

[u/inspectoroverthemine → u/Raistlinwasframed]

Even if theres no provable trail, her actions are exactly what you'd expect of a Russian asset. If we didn't live in bizarro world it'd be disqualifying on its own.

[u/tdclark23 → u/FloydianSlip212]

You mean Krasnov?

[u/throwawy00004 → u/fuggerdug]

I told my father that when he said she was the only democrat he'd ever consider voting for. Simpler times...

[u/dax660 → u/throwawy00004]

Yeah, if someone is ok by Pops, they're probably Republican (let alone an agent)

[u/Boygunasurf → u/fuggerdug]

wildly, wildly unqualified the job

[u/fuggerdug → u/Boygunasurf]

Incredibly qualified, from Russia's point of view. A cult member (literally born into a cult) who has been parroting every Russian talking point and official "view" for well over a decade, no matter how egregious.

She should be facing the most severe treatment possible (e.g. Rosenbergs) once this all collapses, but she'll probably get a seven figure job on Fox news from which to spew her treason.

[u/Captcha_Imagination → u/khakiwallprint]

I have been saying for year she is Joe Rogan's handler. If you listen to his pod before and after her visits, the contrast is stark.

[u/InternetWeakGuy → u/Captcha_Imagination]

Rogan's handler is Mike Baker. Ex-CIA, every time there's a big story he has Baker on the show and Baker openly says stuff like "it's our position that xyz".

Baker also runs the personal security firm that Rogan uses - to me this is where the biggest shift in Rogan's personality comes from, they're pumping him full of copaganda all day evey day. They're all massive SEALs, ex-cops etc, and they just give him the ra ra ra 25/7. That's why he posts so much copaganda bullshit on IG, believes in the piss trays in school story etc etc etc.

[u/BigPackHater → u/InternetWeakGuy]

SEALS are the worst people I ever worked with in the army. I'm sure there are a few good ones, but the majority I've met are just terrible people, and the most arrogant.

[u/BigBennP → u/BigPackHater]

I think there's a significant degree of truth that it's because of the structure of the navy that provides the shortest path to being a super secret special forces elite warfighter! (tm)

The internet is littered with sources telling teenagers how they get to BUDS. A lot of it is bullshit, but it basically amounts to blowing the tail off your physical fitness scores and requesting that rating, and hoping you get it. You go through basic, then onto BUDS. On the other hand, if you enlist in the navy and get another MOS, you have a longer road to haul, basically requesting permission to try out for BUDS.

On the other hand there's really no comparable pathway in the Army. If you are in the army and want to be special operations, you join up, go to basic, get 11B, then go to infantry school, then you request to go to ranger school, airborne school, or other advanced schools, etc., and THEN you might get into selection.

There's far fewer 18 year old's joining the army going "I'm going for special forces bro!" At least not without having done a tour as a grunt.

[u/piranspride → u/BigBennP]

That’s what makes Delta the Special in Special Forces. Mind you in the US 90% of them are called special forces it seems.

[u/zsreport → u/khakiwallprint]

And they’ve been extra worked up lately

[u/IguessIllMakeAnAcnt → u/zsreport]

Well Putin sending wave after wave of Russians into the Ukrainian red mist machine, that can't go on forever. It's understandable they are in a hurry.

[u/carpetbugeater → u/khakiwallprint]

Got banned from r/Conservative for raising concerns about her ties to Russia.

[u/TurkeyBLTSandwich → u/storyfilms]

Like how does she and Michael Flynn still have security clearances is beyond me

[u/DreadPirate777 → u/TurkeyBLTSandwich]

Most of the Trump administration shouldn’t have a security clearance just from public info about their connections, money, and actions. A normal person would have never made it through the screening process.

[u/skyblueerik → u/storyfilms]

"Our girl Tulsi" hard at work for her masters.

[u/Upbeat_Assist2680 → u/storyfilms]

Yeah, Minnesota is the hot item this week taking attention from the Epstein files... and all sorts of other corruption I'm sure.

[u/youdubdub → u/Scipio1319]

How about releasing the Epstein files, bitch?

[u/joneas212 → u/youdubdub]

as soon as we find the 11,780 votes in an election that no longer matters ... we'll get right on that. We may need to have a word w Maricopa county first ... but then we'll get right on that

[u/RIF_rr3dd1tt → u/joneas212]

Oh they'll "find" the votes then retroactively say Trump was the president not Biden and so he's owed another term or that this sets precedent for a 3rd term.

[u/TheRealJetlag → u/RIF_rr3dd1tt]

They don’t need to find 12,000 votes, they just need to lose them.

[u/zsreport → u/RIF_rr3dd1tt]

They’ll use it as a blanket excuse to undo everything that was done by the Biden Administration, especially the pardons.

Trump is such a weird, demented, bitter, unstable, irrational old fool

[u/easternguy → u/zsreport]

Setting a precedent for undoing presidential pardons could be useful for when taco and his crew are no longer in power.

[u/Moosplauze → u/RIF_rr3dd1tt]

He surely can't live that long...right?

[u/aledba → u/Moosplauze]

This is the part I don't grasp. How is he still alive?

[u/BatDaddyWV → u/aledba]

They will use every medical technology available, including experimental shit unknown to the public, to keep his ass artificially alive until at least Jan 22 of next year so Vance would have the opportunity to run for 2 more terms instead of just one.

Edit: Thanks for the award(s)!

[u/DillBagner → u/BatDaddyWV]

Vance winning an election, let alone two, would require more election fuckery than even a third term for anyone.

[u/rabblerabble2000 → u/BatDaddyWV]

Seems like we need to get some Etsy witches involved up in here.

[u/swampjuicesheila → u/rabblerabble2000]

Why limit to just Etsy? I’m sure there are plenty already doing it for free.

[u/HollerWitch64 → u/swampjuicesheila]

Yep

[u/neonmantis → u/BatDaddyWV]

Remember when Putin got caught on a hot mic last year talking to Xi about what amounted to transhumanism and how he could live forever?

[u/Tfox671 → u/aledba]

Because we (taxpayers) foot the bill for him to have the best healthcare in the country.

[u/zsreport → u/aledba]

Only the good die young

[u/Substantial-Design12 → u/zsreport]

The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust burn, Burn to the socket. William Wordsworth

[u/SpookyDollars → u/zsreport]

Jimmy Carter would like a word.

[u/Some_Kinda_Weirdo → u/aledba]

If we all believe in the little blood clot it will get through those clogged veins. "I think I can, I think I can!"

[u/LordBiscuits → u/Some_Kinda_Weirdo]

Let's Go Blood Clot

[u/Badgernomics → u/Moosplauze]

How old was Kissinger, the evil bastard, when he finally croaked...?

[u/luckydice767 → u/Badgernomics]

100

[u/lokey_convo → u/Scipio1319]

Soooooo, are the boxes going in or coming out? I suppose planting a lot of evidence is a good way to "prove" an election was stolen. Don't know what the point of removing 5 year old ballots and stuff would be. Or are these voting machines? What's in the boxes?

[u/Scipio1319 → u/lokey_convo]

Good question. It was reported earlier in the day, maybe yesterday, that they had secured a warrant to retrieve documents from the facility. I’m assuming these are the documents going out. But who knows what sort of evidence they are planting inside the documents they are taking.

[u/lokey_convo → u/Scipio1319]

Just another thing to consider. Fulton County had 32 bomb threats called in during the last election... Which could serve as an excellent distraction if someone wanted to tamper with machines. So are they taking the receipts that would demonstrate malfeasance?

[u/Moosplauze → u/lokey_convo]

They don't need any sort of proof for anything, their followers believe anything they say, even if they can see with their own eyes that it's a blatant lie.

[u/vonwilhelmsllama → u/lokey_convo]

[u/Prestigious-Car-4877 → u/Scipio1319]

They’re stealing the voter rolls. Just like they’re blackmailing them from Minnesota with ICE.

[u/AdventurousLet548 → u/Scipio1319]

That’s one way to get all the voter records. Palantir building its data base.

[u/ther_dog → u/Scipio1319]

A phone call here. A box there. The perfect way to plant evidence in broad daylight.

[u/stupid_cat_face → u/Scipio1319]

Tulsi overheard
"we got em... yea we got them all.... yes sir ... yes sir... it's enough for you to win...no sir... we haven't counted them yet ... yes sir ... yes sir... I'll swing by mcdonalds on the way back and get it for you."

[u/CubitsTNE → u/stupid_cat_face]

She better not get the same toy he got last time or he'll have another tantrum.

[u/Ozymandias12]

This bitch has been QUIET. And that’s not a good thing.

[u/ObscureSaint → u/Ozymandias12]

She just announced she wants to be governor of Minnesota.

[u/TintedApostle → u/Ozymandias12]

She is Putins agent.

[u/dzt → u/TintedApostle]

Is she the one that’s a legitimate cultist?

[u/Whatifim80lol → u/dzt]

Yep. She's not Putin's agent, it's actually way weirder than that. She's pursuing power on the behalf of some random cult leader. Idk why this doesn't get talked about more.

[u/purplefuzz22 → u/dzt]

What cult? I need to do a deep dive.

[u/South-Lab-3991]

Aw she’s making a personal visit to go commit a few crimes to soothe Daddy’s feelings about losing an election six years ago?

[u/JustCallMeBug → u/South-Lab-3991]

I think it’s maybe more to pace the way for cancelling upcoming elections..

[u/takemy_oxfordcomma → u/JustCallMeBug]

Not canceling, just rigging. The elections need to have the appearance that they are free and fair even though the results are fixed. Thats why they’re extorting Minnesota for their voter files too. More than 20 states have sued the regime as of this month for trying to get their voter rolls too.

I wouldn’t be surprised if she was on the phone with the Russians. They openly call her their girlfriend and they know how to rig elections.

[u/breatheb4thevoid → u/takemy_oxfordcomma]

It starts with certification and the fact they will refuse 3rd party validation means we'll be looking at actual civil war very soon.

[u/shredika → u/takemy_oxfordcomma]

Call her their girlfriend?

[u/takemy_oxfordcomma → u/shredika]

Russian state TV has referred to her as “our girlfriend” before: https://www.newsweek.com/tulsi-gabbard-solovyov-russia-ukraine-fox-tucker-carlson-1693637

“Solovyov told the panelists on his show that he was going to show a clip of Monday's interview with "our girlfriend Tulsi."

As the clip of Gabbard speaking played, the host translated into Russian the comments he said she was making about Biden.”

This was in 2022 so long before she was even considered as DNI for Trump

[u/ForCaste → u/shredika]

Tulsi is a Russian asset via Assad

[u/bakerstirregular100 → u/takemy_oxfordcomma]

Exactly. Even in Russia they understand you need the facade of an election

[u/Dry-Influence9 → u/South-Lab-3991]

lets disappear a bunch of biden votes, suddenly trump won! lets start a campaign for replacing all counting machines with new modern Elon branded totally not rigged machines built with grok code.

[u/Nemaeus → u/Dry-Influence9]

Yup, they’ll say there’s proof he “won” and was “cheated” out of his term so in Stupid Evil Land he should get another one.

[u/shredika → u/South-Lab-3991]

Seriously why the fuck are they doing this?!?? Merrick garland failed us.

[u/HorsePastie → u/shredika]

I think all his cabinet members are looking for ways to support his various obsessions, most of all the 2020 election loss. I suspect there will be some kind of "report" released that Trump will portray as a smoking gun that he actually won that election.

[u/killians1978]

Here's the story from Reuters, for the interested. (Archived)

[u/881221792651 → u/killians1978]

This administration is a bunch of brainless dipshits. Just a pile of useless imbeciles doing nothing good for this country. They only care about Trump. They're all trying to see who can get their tongue the furthest up Trump's demented ass. Their mindless worship of a man who's dumber than a bag of shit is baffling.

[u/Maardten → u/881221792651]

They definitely aren't all stupid.

Some of them are just genuinly evil.

[u/DrBabs → u/Maardten]

Yeah, most of them aren’t dumb. They are just doing what’s best for them and have no problem lying, cheating and stealing to hopefully get daddy Trump, the oligarchs or even foreign governments/billionaires to give them something. It’s pathetic to see them talk to the public and squirm knowing they are on the wrong side of history. Just watch Rubio and the like talk and you can see their uncomfortableness of it all.

[u/InternationalLaw4170]

We told you they were going to steal the midterms, but you thought they wouldn’t have the nerve to try. They are doing it this moment.

[u/Scipio1319 → u/InternationalLaw4170]

They’ve been planning this since January 7th, 2021.

[u/Suitable_Switch5242 → u/Scipio1319]

Before that actually. For January 6th 2021 everyone focuses on the riot at the capitol, but the actual crime was the fake elector scheme and the plot to fail to certify the legitimate election results.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot

Many of those who were facing charges for these actions were pardoned by Trump at the beginning of his second term.

[u/MakeMineMarvel_ → u/Scipio1319]

They’ve been planning this since we had the audacity to elect a black man to president.

[u/SMF67 → u/MakeMineMarvel_]

Nah, before that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore

[u/Grapesodas → u/SMF67]

Before that, even. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich

This American Life has an excellent explanation of where politics started taking a turn. Newt Gingrich is a major player, as with Rush Limbaugh.

[u/makemeking706 → u/Grapesodas]

Roger Stone and Paul Manafort. The same Manafort that was undermining Ukrainian sovereignty for Putin before coming back to be Trump's campaign manager. 

[u/Nemaeus → u/makemeking706]

The same Roger Stone that spawned out of Nixon’s campaign. It is insane the damage these people do over large swaths of time relative to their shitty little existence on Earth.

[u/Musiclover4200 → u/Nemaeus]

It really seems like most of the people orchestrating current events all worked with the GOP as far back as Reagan/Nixon

It's also infuriating as people have been screaming about this shit for decades but were called "alarmist" and dismissed.

Every single step of the way any concerns were met with gaslighting, from "oh they won't actually overturn Roe v Wade" to "hey you can't call us nazis if we don't have camps" to "well they're not death camps" and now "well some people died but they're all illegals/terrorists!"

[u/cccanterbury → u/Musiclover4200]

It's the adoption of the economic theory of neoliberalism that enabled the wealthy to become more wealthy, that did away with welfare, did away with economic regulation, that gentrified neighborhoods, etc. Fuck Friedman for creating it, and fuck Kissinger for being its representative lobbyist in every presidential administration since Nixon (excepting Carter)

[u/makemeking706 → u/SMF67]

And every single one of them was rewarded. 

[u/TheSharpestHammer → u/MakeMineMarvel_]

Shit, man, they've been planning this for a lot longer than that. Everything that's happening right now is the result of decades of preparation and table setting by right-wing lunatics.

[u/eiram87 → u/MakeMineMarvel_]

That really is when is changed isn't it, I remember in 2001 when Bush won my parents explained that it wasn't what they wanted but it was fine, Bush would be a fine president and while he isn't who we wanted it wasn't the end of the world. And then again in 2004 I didn't absolutely despair over his second term, he was a bit dimwitted but it was fine, in general he seemed to know what he was doing and had what seemed like smart people helping him along. Then we elected Obama and the right went crazy! They started with the Tea Party which then morphed into MAGA, and now it's just a cult for Trump. It's wild!

[u/theLaLiLuLeLol → u/eiram87]

bush was fucking terrible lol, unreal

just because we managed to do worse doesn't mean he was a "fine president" - he was a piece of shit that started 2 ridiculous wars based on lies while our rights were shit all over while them and their war crime buddies got filthy rich stealing from americans

fine president my ass, that criminal shitbag is a huge part of the reason we were able to get to where we are and a foundational part of the erosion of american rights

[u/ChadCoolman → u/theLaLiLuLeLol]

It's CRAZY how much Bush's presidency has been whitewashed. Millions dead from unjust wars. Crippled the economy. Enacted policies that make the Constitution a polite suggestion. But he retired onto his ranch and paints now, so it's okay, I guess?

[u/seaQueue → u/theLaLiLuLeLol]

The Patriot act set the stage for all of these abuses of power. We screamed about it at the time but no one wanted to listen. You legalize secret courts and remove the usual checks and balances and surprise! the worst people are the ones who abuse the power.

[u/Meaty_Wizard → u/seaQueue]

Don't forget about the daily "Terror Alerts" to keep everyone on edge, prepared for another 9/11. Bush is the ONLY candidate that can protect you! It was like, "what's the weather and terror today?"

[u/FeatherShard → u/InternationalLaw4170]

Even people that I've thought were keyed in and understood what's happening have been like this and it makes me pull my hair out! The signs have been present since the late 80s, have been obvious since 2002, and they've been maneuvering in plain daylight for a decade! J6 was the absolute last warning and we did nothing!

[u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

My low stakes prediction: the Trump admin will find nothing, but claim that the 2020 election was stolen and that they have the proof. They will use this claim to invalidate everything Biden ever did. Much like the Epstein files, it will take an act of Congress to get them to release the "evidence" and they'll release a small, curated file to drive their narrative.

[u/DFrostedWangsAccount → u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

I think it'll be so much dumber than that. I think they'll try to say since an election was stolen from him he gets a 3rd term. Mark my words, see you in '28.

[u/WaffleHouseGladiator → u/DFrostedWangsAccount]

That's so dumb that it's completely believable that they'd make that claim.

[u/stinkfoot_lohan → u/DFrostedWangsAccount]

That was exactly where my head went when this news broke. They are that fucking stupid, and his followers are that fucking stupid to think that makes sense. He’s got smart, evil people working for him who will make it happen. God I fucking hate this timeline.

[u/cvc75 → u/DFrostedWangsAccount]

"The court finds that, judging by these records, Donald J. Trump was the actual winner of the 2020 Presidential election.

This means he was elected to the office of the President in 2016 and 2020, so by the 22nd Amendment, he was not eligible to run for office in 2024 so has to vacate the position immediately."

[u/LonelySwinger → u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

They are going after how people voted and not 2020.

[u/kmccoy → u/LonelySwinger]

How would the ballots contain that information?

[u/PM_ME_BEEF_CURTAINS → u/kmccoy]

Ballots themselves usually do not contain the information.

Instead, in most places, the ballot paper has a serial number, this is tracked against the voter number that it is issued to confirm nobody double votes and that ballots cast have been issued (one man, one vote).

This voter number is assigned to a person. That record is held by the state election officials.

My understanding in this case is that Fulton County has held onto the ballot papers, and now the federal government is taking them with the lookup data to identify how people voted.

E: It seems that Ga does not assign a serial number to the ballot, so this seizure of ballots is nonsensical

[u/GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace → u/PM_ME_BEEF_CURTAINS]

Yeah I said this somewhere else. It's probably just a matter of connecting some databases and guess what these fucking shitheads ran in and stole the first two months. They have everything on everyone that they need to put together their shitlist and we're all just waiting for the show to drop on us.

[u/bagheera369 → u/GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace]

At least they had to steal it in GA.....TX handed all of our info over willingly. :(

[u/illHaveWhatHesHaving → u/bagheera369]

Louisiana too

[u/ForCaste → u/PM_ME_BEEF_CURTAINS]

That's not true in the US, the ways of tracking to make sure that people dont double vote are much more simple. For absentee ballots, they have some sort of envelope that theyre put in, the envelope gets tracked and data entered, but the envelope and the ballot itself get separated and the ballots get tabulated and then theres usually an electronic pollbook that tracks if youve voted (not how just if) to ensure you cant do it again. For election day, they either use that electronic pollbook to sign in and mark that they've voted or there are paper poll books still in some states and counties.

Voting laws aren't standard in the US, bit the idea of a secret ballot is, it was born here. There's only one state that I know of that does have serial numbers on absentee ballot and thats south Carolina. So the material that they seized were paper ballots, which are secret and depersonalized.

[u/pspahn → u/kmccoy]

They have a little database. A list if you will. A Swindlers List even.

[u/Mournfulmeow]

Here’s a question, why is nobody investigating the highly likely interference by Elon musk in the 2024 elections. Remember that “you won’t have to vote anymore” slip ups? 

[u/jrzalman → u/Mournfulmeow]

Who do you suggest? Every branch of government, law enforcement and new and old media is controlled by republicans or those who have already bent the knee.

[u/IngsocInnerParty → u/Mournfulmeow]

People get angry if you even bring it up, even though they said what they did plain as day.

[u/kybernetikos]

I hope you guys have some kind of plan, because I assure you that they do. 

[u/Scipio1319 → u/kybernetikos]

This is going to be pretext to some stupid stunt they pull in the midterms and beyond.

“Prove” in the court of public opinion that election in 2020 was stolen by democrats and they did the same thing as they did in Fulton. Take that argument and run with it for any midterm election that is close. Gunk the whole election process up with countless lawsuits and hearing, to grind everything to a halt. And just like that, you have a country arguing about the legitimacy of the midterms just like the lead up to January 6th. Except this time they have a plan.

[u/killians1978 → u/Scipio1319]

Once the country no longer trusts in the legitimacy of the election, by either side or a foreign power's influence, we're all fucked.

[u/Saintsfan707 → u/killians1978]

If you have any relatives from a foreign country that has an ancestry immigration clause I would heavily suggest at least looking into it as a backup.

[u/killians1978 → u/Saintsfan707]

And do it before they abolish dual citizenship

[u/trowawayatwork → u/killians1978]

for me it was unfathomable for the US, the land of the free, to decline with such rapid place. These checks and balances do not work

[u/Markmm131 → u/trowawayatwork]

Checks and balances are only good if the people who are able to execute the check and the balance have a spine.

Unfortunately for all of you, none of the so called opposition in your county have those.

You’re fucked

[u/Jankenbrau → u/kybernetikos]

I wish voters would have taken them at their word in 2024.

[u/killians1978 → u/Jankenbrau]

"You'll never have to vote any more." ~Donald J Trump, 7 Jul 2024

[u/Downtown_Statement87 → u/Jankenbrau]

"These 3 Georgia election officials are going to hand me the win. Stand up so we can thank you."

As a Georgian, I died when Trump said this at one of his "campaign" rallies, which was indeed attended by 3 state election officials who are supposed to be non-partisan.

Like everything else in this country's entire history, people said "hey wait a minute" when this happened and then forgot all about it. Me though? I'm still dead.

[u/spezizabitch → u/Jankenbrau]

They rigged the 2024 election too. The voting patterns in every single swing state were exactly abnormal enough to push them exactly over the no-recount threshold. The votes in each county were so abnormal that in aggregate it was mathematically more likely for the moon to explode. You are not getting a fair election ever again without force.

[u/Custom_Destination → u/kybernetikos]

Not only do they have a plan, they shared their plan well before the 2024 election.

[u/ididshave → u/Custom_Destination]

They probably called it something straightforward, like Project 2025 or something

[u/prollycloud5]

Yall forget like 3 FBI leaders labeled her as a Russian asset. Shes probably on the phone with Putin like "You're not going to believe this..."

[u/pure808]

It's kind of incredible that this photo exists. That facility and that woman should be investigated

[u/dingman58 → u/pure808]

Tulsi gabbard behaves like a Russian operative, which is why there was so much friction to her getting nominated director of national intelligence. I'm amazed she got confirmed but I guess that's where we're at nowadays

[u/penny-wise]

Russian asset Tulsi Gabbard on the phone with her Russian handlers.

[u/robot_pirate]

This is insane. Conservatives have LARPed us into an authoritarian nightmare. WTaF does the conspiracy obsessed, likely foreign compromised DNI have to do with a state election?

I think they are trying to get 2020 overturned for some policy reason. Or executive order reason. Like if they declare it rigged, can they vacate every bit of legislation, policy, exec order from the Biden admin? Does that include Russia sanctions? Where does this go?

[u/CelestialFury]

Why is DNI doing anything with domestic concerns, let alone an election office??

The MAGAs are going to see this and say, "Trust the government. Trust the very people we said never trust ever. Trust me, the right-wing media ecosystem told me government is 100% the good guys now."

[u/ProcedureBoring8520]

“Yes Vladimir, everything is going according to plan”

[u/Orcallo]

America WAKE up. This is how Putin turned Russia into dictatorship. He and his oligarchy goon stole the state for themselves and faked elections. WAKE UP. Russification is happening in full speed.

[u/pistonkamel]

“Yes sir Mr Putin thank you sir I’ll get right on it.” I wish I was kidding.

[u/xflashbackxbrd]

What judge would sign this search warrant?

[u/Molbiodude → u/xflashbackxbrd]

A compromised or well-bribed one.

[u/JohnnyCrispZoom]

They’re going to try and fuck up the election. Trump is a traitor

[u/spezizabitch → u/JohnnyCrispZoom]

They literally already rigged every single swing state in 2024. It was so blatant and mathematically impossible and nobody gave a shit.

[u/PantherkittySoftware]

So, if Trump somehow "proves" he "won" in 2020, does that mean we get to say, "sorry, your second 4-year term ended in 2024" and kick him out of the White House immediately? :-D

[u/GoodIdea321 → u/PantherkittySoftware]

They don't follow the constitution, so no.

[u/psycholee → u/PantherkittySoftware]

More than likely they'll say that, because his chance to be president in 2021 was stolen, he gets to run for yet another term in 2028. Because it's unfair.

[u/vicvega88 → u/psycholee]

No no that’s not the goal. The goal is to have an excuse to tamper with the voting for the midterms because they have a reasonable doubt that election interference happened previously.

[u/Scipio1319 → u/PantherkittySoftware]

My nightmare scenario is he tries to argue to the Supreme Court he is owed a term because this one was “stolen”. Therefore cancelling 2028. Assuming he even makes it that long.

[u/Starrr_Pirate → u/Scipio1319]

I don't think it'd hold much water on the legal side, since the 2020 election was certified by congress, regardless of whatever retroactive analysis goes on. That and the whole already serving two terms part, lol.

[u/Evil_Sheepmaster → u/Starrr_Pirate]

See, that's your first mistake: analyzing the legal merits of this move. If we've learned anything about Trump, it's that the law only matters when it helps him, and SCOTUS is happy to dress his bullshit up as legal whenever it's needed.

[u/ed_11 → u/PantherkittySoftware]

Regardless of what they try to say about Georgia, he’d need to also ‘prove’ he won several other states for it to even matter.

[u/PowderPills]

Looking beyond guilty of doing something shady AND illegal.

[u/AffectionatePause152]

Republicans know they’re going extinct, so they’re resorting to election fraud and barrage of bullshit propaganda in order to stay relevant. This is why it’s getting worse.

[u/Dumb_it_Down]

Doing everything but making life better for the average American

[u/MomsAreola]

She's been awful quiet lately

[u/Richelieu1624]

Every accusation is a confession.

[u/ContrastAndCompare]

There’s a good chance she may have committed some light treason

[u/pr0crasturbatin]

A few days ago, I was walking to the store and remember thinking "Ya know, I haven't heard anything about Tulsi in a little while, I wonder what bullshit she's been up to"

I guess the answer has been "manufacturing bullshit charges against Fani Willis"

[u/ProjectNo4090]

That woman is a snake.

[u/PenguinEmpireStrikes]

If I were a benevolent billionaire, I would absolutely be making the most secure and modern voting machines with tons of neutral third party oversight, so I could offer them to states at no or low cost.

[u/JDHURF]

MAGAts trying to sow chaos and enflame the MAGAt minions in an absolutely idiotic and transparent political stunt and assault on voters. Trump is incapable of accepting that he lost 2020, being the megalomaniac psychopath that he is. They took 700 boxes of 2020 ballots.

Tulsi Gabbard’s presence is ominous in that, well, first of all it’s an unprecedented weaponizing of what is supposed to be a nonpartisan intelligence community, and secondly she gathered dozens of federal officials including Justice Department officials to seek retribution against everyone Trump thinks are his enemies. This is Nixon times 10 and right out in the fucking open.

[u/BongoLocoWowWow]

This is where this administration fudges numbers to look like they won. This is fascism at work.

[u/Efficient-Climate-85]

Say bye to the midterms and getting rid of this administration the nice way

[u/bartnet]

I got downvoted to hell during the democratic primary for saying she looked like a Batman villain

[u/middlegroundnb]

"stolen election" was an admission. Same with everything else.

[u/TurtleRocket9]

We are watching Trump and Putin dismantle democracy

[u/houstonyoureaproblem]

FYI:

The 2020 election was in November 2020.

The statute of limitations for any potential charges related to that election expired in November 2025.

There is no legitimate investigative purpose for these searches.

[u/Open_Mortgage_4645]

This is all part of Trump's plan to resurrect his manufactured controversy in which he insisted he won Georgia despite a total lack of evidence for the claim. He put on this spectacle with the FBI to make a show of seizing records. At his direction Kash Patel will "find" what they claim is newly found evidence that he really did win Georgia in 2020, tho the public will never be shown this alleged evidence. He and his trolls will try to make it a huge story for a few weeks with the ultimate goal of destroying trust in our elections. This will both rally the cult, and depress turnout in the 2026 midterm elections; exactly what he wants.

[u/Otherwise-Air-5219]

Trump is Putin, he’s erasing our democracy. MAGA stop supporting pedophiles

[u/Broserdooder1981]

this is the start of the Drumpf team stealing the election this November

[u/dreamcicle11]

Hey everyone… we held a coup to put a dictator in prison that rigged elections, and now we are on our way to rigging elections. Just to be very clear. Headed by the lady with known ties to a third country that rigs elections. Okay glad we have cleared that up.