Joyce Vance looks at a scheme that has come to light in Georgia, in which Trump supporters are plotting to monkey-wrench the 2024 election by refusing to Trump is trying to create a legal path to do what he failed to declare a Kamala Harris win legitim...
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William Lindsey :toad:wrote last edited by [email protected]
Joyce Vance looks at a scheme that has come to light in Georgia, in which Trump supporters are plotting to monkey-wrench the 2024 election by refusing to certify the election if Kamala Harris is the victor.
"Trump is trying to create a legal path to do what he failed to accomplish in 2020, overturning the will of the voters if he loses."
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Strange Culpritsreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Hopefully, Kamala won't need Georgia to win.
Looking at our friends in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, and North Carolina - show up everybody
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Strange Culprits last edited by
@StrangeCulprits The problem is that any state could potentially try this monkey-wrenching, isn't it?
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gme (he/him) πΊπ¦ π΅πΈ :verified_gay:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy @StrangeCulprits The fact that Warnock and Ossoff both won their elections outright gives me hope for Georgia.
I lived in Georgia (Cobb County) for 25 years and I've seen Georgia get more and more progressive over the past 10 years.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to gme (he/him) πΊπ¦ π΅πΈ :verified_gay: last edited by
@gme @StrangeCulprits You're right. They're outraged that a Southern state is breaking with what has become the norm and turning blue(r), with Atlanta and its very large and prominent middle-class Black population playing a leading role. They're afraid North Carolina may soon follow suit. So they're doing everything in their power to impede voting, to gerrymander, etc,
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gme (he/him) πΊπ¦ π΅πΈ :verified_gay:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy @StrangeCulprits Yeah but neither Ossoff or Warnock would have won their seats from Fulton County voters alone. The whole State is becoming more progressive, not just metro-Atlanta.
Look at the trial down in Savannah where those white people murdered that black man for jogging through their neighborhood.
In addition, Macon is much more progressive now than it was in the late 90s when I moved there. Macon.
Gwinnett used to be bright red and Gwinnett is pretty much blue.
Same for my county, Cobb County. Sam Nunn, David Perdue... all from Cobb County. Cobb is pretty blue now.
My old district, 6th Congressional District in Cobb was the home to Tom Price, Karen Handel, Johnny Isakson, and Newt Gingrich and we kicked Price's ass out and elected Lucy McBath, the mother of Jordan McBath. You may recall he was the young man that was shot and killed in Jacksonville, Florida for sitting in the passenger seat of his friend's car, parked at a convenience store, and a racist white dude shot and killed him because he said their music was "too loud". (That guy is in prison thank god.)
McBath is a STRONG supporter of gun regulations.
And she's a Democrat. In Cobb County. And we elected her.
(Sadly the Georgia legislature gerrymandered the maps so she would lose her seat.)
My point is... it's not just Atlanta and it's even the historically very conservative parts of Georgia that are now a lot more progressive than Republicans like.
So I'm remaining hopeful that Georgia stays purple or turns even more blue this year. -
William Lindsey :toad:replied to gme (he/him) πΊπ¦ π΅πΈ :verified_gay: last edited by [email protected]
@gme @StrangeCulprits That's good to hear. I try to put together the picture of emerging progressivism in Georgia with the fact that Marjorie Taylor Greene got returned to office with overwhelming support from her constituency in northwest Georgia. I don't, of course, live in Georgia, though two of my grandparents had mothers born there and in the case of one of those grandparents, a father born the year after his family left Georgia for Louisiana.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@gme @StrangeCulprits So I've visited relatives in Georgia from those family lines, and wouldn't call them progressive in any way β but times change and people change along with them.
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Tyler Smithreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy it looks like a weird copy/paste error in your first paragraph - I can't make sense of it?
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Tyler Smith last edited by
@plantarum You're right. Thank you so much for pointing that out. You're correct that it was a weird copy/paste error. I've now fixed it. Appreciate you for bringing it to my attention!