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Rachel Maddow notes that as the prospects for Donald Trump to win a legitimate re-election appear increasingly dim, Trump and his supporters in Congress and the media are running a campaign against the integrity of the election and U.S. democracy. Aired on 09/24/2020.
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    1. @ako tairi *August 4, 1964* _Bodies of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner discovered_ “Yesterday morning, three of our people left Meridian, Mississippi to investigate a church burning in Neshoba County,” project director Bob Moses informed an auditorium of volunteers on June 22, 1964. They were planning to work in Mississippi that summer and were being trained at Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio.
      “They haven’t come back and we haven’t heard from them.” The assumption of movement workers was that they were dead. The digging began early on the morning of August 4, 1964; six weeks after the men had first gone missing. After several hours of digging and 15 feet and 10 inches deep into the earth. The bodies of Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney were finally discovered. Lying face down; side by side. https://snccdigital.org/events/bodies-chaney-goodman-schwerner-discovered/

    2. Jefe then you considered that Trump destroyed the country because people like me who are not rich is not charged more income tax? Under Obama I paid $1,200 more than Uber Trump. My nice was penalized by Obama with $600 hundred dollars every year because she was not able to buy the Obamacare health Insurance which was so expensive and with a high deductible than millions of people opted to pay the penalty. Than God Trump abolished that penalty . Do you considered that he destroyed the country when millions of jobs were created and we had before the pandemic the lowest unemployment record? The virus is affecting the whole world . Check the per capita rate of deaths in the world and see that USA is in the 8th place. Belgium is the number 1, then Peru 2 England 3 Italy, Spain, Sweden Chile all of those countries have more deaths per each million people and none of them blame the president.This country was destroyed when our ex president Obama sent gifts to his friends in Iran when he filled out a plane with bundles of dollars bills. He gave billions away from our hard earned money. It was a crime charging poor people $600 in order to give money to enemies of our country. But you did not have any idea what was going on because the liberal media is brainwashing the usefully idiots to help with the socialist agenda.

  1. This isn’t about supporting a political party or even a political candidate. It’s about saving our democracy at the polls: the right to vote and have that vote counted and a peaceful transition of power. Vote as early as possible (vote.org), complete the census and help two people outside your household to do the same. It’s Now or Never – for Everyone. Thank you

    1. @J. Lo So tell us, what is socialism? Because to me, it means putting the means of production into the hands of the public rather than the elite few. No more undeserved corporate bailouts or lobbying, instead being replaced by the will of the people. Let me guess, you think the nazis were socialists? Pff. Talk about uneducated. That’s why trump loves you lot, you’re easy to trick.

    2. Leah Archambault . Interesting question. Obviously I can’t speak for Trump. In the last election, I several counties in California, Republicans were winning contests on election night, even late into election night. Suddenly, people were showing up at voting precincts carrying hundreds of ballots that they said were collected from people that could not get to the polls. There are many questions that remain about those events. It has come to be known as ballot harvesting. People knocking on doors, asking did you vote, and then collecting the vote. Did the people actually exist? Were they home? Did they complete the ballot on their own? Were they given anything of value for the vote ($5, cigarettes, bottle of booze, etc?). We don’t know as there was no control. But suddenly, all of the republicans that had significant leads late into the evening I’d the election lost after all those “additional votes” were counted. So I ask, was what happened fair and legal? What if it happens on a larger scale? Couldn’t the same thing happen elsewhere now that courts are permitting states to count ballots that arrive up to one week after the election? The Dems are pushing for widespread mail voting and we don’t have systems in place to deal with it. How do we verify the accuracy of one person, one vote?
      So I guess, as long as we are not seeing questionable activity on a widespread basis, I am sure trump will leave if he loses. But as it looks, the Dems are doing everything they can to muddy things up. Even to the point of saying “he won’t concede”. Well heck, Biden won’t concede either if he suspects widespread fraud. So I guess that is the dem strategy. Convince everyone of widespread fraud and hope a favorable judge sorts it out for them. Not a great answer, but it’s the best I have right now.

    3. Kay are you up for the challenge of a few questions? When you say the the means of production are in the hands of the public, who exactly do you mean? For example, who at the company is responsible for assigning jobs, such as janitorial, vs production, vs purchasing? Who decides who gets what role? Will,it be a committee? If so, who decides who is on the committee? What if someone isn’t performing? Who gives any warnings and eventually fires the person so a comment at employee can be hired? Or is that don by committee too? Who determines the prices for the products made? Also a committee? If so, who gets the work done during all the committee meetings? Simple questions. Are you up for the challenge?

  2. 🌊We
    should Vote in GREAT NUMBERS for BIDEN/HARRIS so there is NO QUESTION
    as to who is the clear winner! Let us save our DEMOCRACY!🌊

    1. 4 keys to STOP Trump from rigging our votes:

      1. Check your voter registration status NOW.

      County clerks in Republican districts across the country fraudulently purge voter rolls of legitimate Democrat voters prior to each election. In the 2014 mid-term election, I arrived at my local polling station only to discover I was no longer registered to vote, even though I had been a resident of my county and living at the same address for seven years. I was forced to cast a “provisional ballot,” which I suspect was not counted in the final vote tally. Since then, I have always verified my voter registration status well ahead of upcoming elections to ensure I have time to re-register in case of any Republican shenanigans. For more info: *Vote.org*

      2. Vote early.

      In Republican states, there will no doubt be attempts to suppress voter turnout in Democratic districts by limiting the number of polling stations and reducing polling hours. This will likely be under the guise of protecting voters and polling workers from Covid-19 exposure.

      Laws no doubt vary by state. In Texas, voters must vote at their designated polling location on Election Day. However, during the early voting period, voters can vote at *any open polling location in their county of residence.* This makes it more difficult for Republicans to target Democratic districts for poll closures and restricted hours. Find the early voting laws for your state, and vote as early as possible. This will point you in the right direction:
      Vote.org/early-voting-calendar/

      Early voting dates & which states can/can’t vote early: https://en.as.com/en/2020/09/05/latest_news/1599327128_613730.amp.html

      3. Use no-excuse absentee voting in states where it is available.

      “No excuse absentee voting” means you can request an absentee ballot from your state or county election official for any reason. Currently, 29 states offer no excuse absentee voting, including the most important swing states: Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin. If your state is on this list, request an absentee ballot and mail it no later than October 20th to ensure it is received and counted:
      https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/vopp-table-1-states-with-no-excuse-absentee-voting.aspx

      Mail in ballots can be dropped off at your local election board in most cases, or authorized ballot boxes at various locations in your state. That will lighten the burden on the Post Office that Trump has kneecapped.

      To New Yorkers: New York State has Republican districts. Due to COVID-19, the legislature recently passed several bills to make it easier to request an absentee ballot. The date was moved up so you can request one today. You can use COVID-19 as a reason. For more information see: https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-signs-law-sweeping-election-reforms#_blank

      4. Do NOT waste your vote.

      Yes, my fellow Americans, I am also frustrated by the two-party system, and I understand the appeal of underdog third-party candidates. You must realize, however, that a vote for a third-party candidate is effectively a vote for Trump. Don’t believe me? Just look at the numbers. Two states, Florida and Wisconsin, tipped the Electoral College for Trump in 2016. Trump won Florida by 113,000 votes and Wisconsin by a mere 23,000 votes. The top two third-party candidates, Gary Johnson and Dr. Jill Stein, captured 271,000 combined votes in Florida and 137,000 combined votes in Wisconsin. According to exit polls, the overwhelming majority of these votes were from disenfranchised Liberal voters who refused to vote for Hillary Clinton. *We must be united in taking back our country* and protect our freedoms. With tRump in power even voting is at stake! *VOTE **#BLUE**!* If you’re not sidin’ with Biden then you’re rootin’ for Putin! Please share this message as often as possible from now to Election Day. Say “NO” to another four years of fascism and American deaths.

      Flush the turd on November the 3rd!
      🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊💩

    2. talk to your friends and families to vote 💙 We have to have a super high turn-out 💙 Trump needs to lose in a landslide ✔

    1. Trump and the GOP has been taking advantage of the voters for years. They see PA as stupid. That is the simple answer.

  3. The more I read and hear about Republicans conspiring with agents of Russia, the more I’m convinced, that the GOP has sold out America to the Russians in order to try and stay in power…

    I believe that Republicans came to an agreement with Russia, that if it funneled money into their campaigns, and launched a disinformation campaign on the American people, that would help them stay in power, then in return, Republicans would lift the crippling economic sanctions that President Obama placed on Russia. There are simply too many connections between Republicans and Russians for it to be a coincidence. And I don’t believe in coincidences.

    In 2018, eight republican lawmakers celebrated the 4th of July in Moscow: Senator Richard C. Shelby of Alabama, who led the delegation, along with Senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, John Neely Kennedy of Louisiana, Steve Daines of Montana, North Dakota’s John Hoeven, Jerry Moran of Kansas, South Dakota’s John Thune, and Rep. Kay Granger of the 12th District of Texas. The dubious reason they gave for the trip was “engagement.” It’s the same tired excuse Sen Rand Paul routinely provides to justify his own shadowy meetings with our enemies.

    The group met with a number of key Russians, including foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and former Russian ambassador to the US Sergei Kislyak—the two jackals who 14 months earlier were photographed by the Russian press yukking it up with Trump in the Oval Office, the day after Trump fired Comey for daring to do his job of investigating Russian interference in our elections. To this day, we have no way of knowing what was discussed during their visit to Moscow, as the media was barred from the closed-door meetings, much to the delight of the “gloating” Russians.

    Sen Ron Johnson has been the most outspoken when defending Trump. So  much so that during an interview on Meet the Press in October 2019, he announced that he doesn’t trust the FBI or the CIA—a clear  admission that he does however trust the GRU and his Russian comrades. Today, the eight republicans that came back from Russia, show all the signs of a Russian GRU sleeper cell. It would explain why they’re all regurgitating Russian GRU propaganda to the American people.

    1. Larry Garland 😂😂😂 yeah i mean ukraine was part of the old soviet regime before the break up back in the 90’s but technically they are not the same

    2. @Bob Jones both dems and reps spy on each other get over it!! But collusion with the Russians??? How can that even be close to equal. Go back to Moscow!

    3. @Bob Jones <---- Hey Bob...... John Durham claimed immediately after the impeachment that there would be "Charges coming forthwith", "In weeks not months"...... We're now looking at 10 months since that statement.... He charged 1 FBI agent with perjury for using the wrong information to obtain a warrant that was actually just a clerical error. Now stuff it, McDuff it.

    4. Bob Jones Did you even read the bipartisan report from Senate about this particular topic!?, Let me also remind you that it was also led by a Republican!. Then you will see the truth about the matter!. After reading come back and let me know what to think!?. Remember led by a Republican with Democrats as well (bipartisan).

    1. Steve Gold Do you know what started the riots? You people still don’t get it. Trump isn’t the reason, but he doesn’t try to make it better. America was never great for the blacks and it never will be.

    1. 4 keys to STOP Trump from rigging our votes:

      *1. Check your voter registration status NOW.*

      County clerks in Republican districts across the country fraudulently purge voter rolls of legitimate Democrat voters prior to each election. In the 2014 mid-term election, I arrived at my local polling station only to discover I was no longer registered to vote, even though I had been a resident of my county and living at the same address for seven years. I was forced to cast a “provisional ballot,” which I suspect was not counted in the final vote tally. Since then, I have always verified my voter registration status well ahead of upcoming elections to ensure I have time to re-register in case of any Republican shenanigans. For more info: *Vote.org*

      *2. Vote early.*

      In Republican states, there will no doubt be attempts to suppress voter turnout in Democratic districts by limiting the number of polling stations and reducing polling hours. This will likely be under the guise of protecting voters and polling workers from Covid-19 exposure.

      Laws no doubt vary by state. In Texas, voters must vote at their designated polling location on Election Day. However, during the early voting period, voters can vote at *any open polling location in their county of residence.* This makes it more difficult for Republicans to target Democratic districts for poll closures and restricted hours. Find the early voting laws for your state, and vote as early as possible. This will point you in the right direction:
      Vote.org/early-voting-calendar/

      Early voting dates & which states can/can’t vote early: https://en.as.com/en/2020/09/05/latest_news/1599327128_613730.amp.html

      *3. Use no-excuse absentee voting in states where it is available.*

      “No excuse absentee voting” means you can request an absentee ballot from your state or county election official for any reason. Currently, 29 states offer no excuse absentee voting, including the most important swing states: Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin. If your state is on this list, request an absentee ballot and mail it no later than October 20th to ensure it is received and counted:
      https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/vopp-table-1-states-with-no-excuse-absentee-voting.aspx

      Mail in ballots can be dropped off at your local election board in most cases, or authorized ballot boxes at various locations in your state. That will lighten the burden on the Post Office that Trump has kneecapped.

      To New Yorkers: New York State has Republican districts. Due to COVID-19, the legislature recently passed several bills to make it easier to request an absentee ballot. The date was moved up so you can request one today. You can use COVID-19 as a reason. For more information see: https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-signs-law-sweeping-election-reforms#_blank

      *4. Do NOT waste your vote.*

      Yes, my fellow Americans, I am also frustrated by the two-party system, and I understand the appeal of underdog third-party candidates. You must realize, however, that a vote for a third-party candidate is effectively a vote for Trump. Don’t believe me? Just look at the numbers. Two states, Florida and Wisconsin, tipped the Electoral College for Trump in 2016. Trump won Florida by 113,000 votes and Wisconsin by a mere 23,000 votes. The top two third-party candidates, Gary Johnson and Dr. Jill Stein, captured 271,000 combined votes in Florida and 137,000 combined votes in Wisconsin. According to exit polls, the overwhelming majority of these votes were from disenfranchised Liberal voters who refused to vote for Hillary Clinton.

      *We must be united in taking back our country* and protect our freedoms. With tRump in power even voting is at stake! *VOTE **#BLUE**!* If you’re not sidin’ with Biden then you’re rootin’ for Putin! Please share this message as often as possible from now to Election Day. Say “NO” to another four years of fascism and American deaths.

      Flush the turd on November the 3rd!
      🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊💩

    2. for the first time in my life, I don’t even care about the issues and policies…I just know we can’t have this for another 4 years

    1. @T. R. Campbell When we get all the way down to it, we need to ask ourselves “Are things better than they were four years ago”, and anyone can answer that rationally. The answer is CLEARLY NO. We are sicker, more divided and poorer than we were before 2016, and if Trump doesn’t turn that around in THIRTY FIVE DAYS, Just a little over ONE MONTH, he will be voted out.

    2. @T. R. Campbell FACT- Over 10M Americans filed for unemployment in the past six months.
      FACT- Over 7 Million Americans have the Coronavirus and over 200K Americans have died from the Coronavirus.
      FACT- Trump OPENLY IGNORED AND DOWNPLAYED THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC UNTIL IT KILLED 200K INNOCENT AMERICANS.
      Denying the evidence and to deny the facts is to support the killings of over 200K of our fellow Americans, let’s boil it all down to that, shall we? Trump wants to be leader, he has to earn our respect and sincerity. Right now, all Trump owns is our contempt and our regret.

    3. MrPurpleHoops – Logan Of course they are not better. Things are not better worldwide and it would only take a fool to think otherwise. Unless you live in a cave you must be aware that the world has been taken aback by this COVID-19 virus from our friends in China.
      We are however, recovering and there is no indication that Joe would have done any better. In fact several months ago he was asked what he would’ve done to mitigate the virus and everything he mentioned was what Trump had already done with one exception. Joe would not have halted travel to and from the USA and China.
      So if you were asking if things are better, clearly the answer is no. Things were clearly better prior to the virus after Trump implemented our iconic JFK tax plan that supercharge the economy both during his time and most recently up until the virus. So, the question we must ask ourselves is who would be better to revive the economy and get it back to the point that it was before the virus. Would that person be Trump or would that person be Joe Biden? That is the true question.

    4. MrPurpleHoops – Logan While we’re on the the Britts are having a resurgence in COVID-19 infections and are we considering another lock down. I guess some would blame Trump for that also.

    5. Yep it’s his ego he thinks he is all that & more he needs to be stripped down to the rest of nothing and that is what he is been all his life 1 big looser.

    1. @real american Insurance fraud, bank fraud, wire fraud, tax fraud, the deal with the Mamadou family in Azerbaijan, etc….. the AG of the State of NY is just lining them up. Those apply to the oldest three children to by the way.

    2. All of russia knows how hard and successfully Putin is trolling America. Putin would parade trump around for fun for awhile (with Trump thinking he’s a hero), then Putin would off Trump as a final statement of “ownage”.

    3. @SlabHardcheese Republicans will be the same way, TRUMP who? Out of office, Trump will be worthless to anybody in the high-end market. Building, club, or golfing resort. Might as well keep marketing trinkets like a religious cult. The next Jim Baker.

    1. Big Bubba no, your pathetic attempts to bend the truth will not be heard. She said ‘until all of the ballots are counted.’ You turds have the mental reasoning and debating skills of a spoiled 7 year old and you expect people to take you seriously. Your nothing but a lying pos. pathetic, absolutely pathetic.

    2. Xandros Townsend , there you go again. You call me names as your arguments fail. Pull the quote for me please. Your “smartest person in the room” mentality is what draws so much contempt. The arrogance you show, as if you are not capable of ever being wrong. As a result, you side resorts to throwing bricks, stopping traffic, and “burning this whole thing down”. You can’t win on the merits of your argument, so you resort to name calling and violence. Well done

    3. Big Bubba oh, your upset because I called you names. Typical pearl clutching bs despite the fact that you’re morally bankrupt. I called you names because you’re a lying disingenuous pos. And you’ve got the cheek to try and take some sort of moral posture just because I called you out as the turd that you are. would like to know where my attack on you fell into the ‘smartest person in the room’ category despite the fact all I did is call you out on your lies. And no, I won’t pull any quote for you or engage in debate. If you could read properly I made that clear in my first comment. You can’t debate with someone who lies and cannot discuss anything in good faith.

    4. @ppurppple Yup! But they can do it again on a different charge. You can impeach a president more than once. I say do it again on his lying about covid. That would hold up him being able to shove through his new judge

  4. Veterans understand the sanctity of the Constitution and oaths. Veterans will be voting Democrat this year. 💙💙💙

    1. real american, he’s said several things on LIVE TV (like injecting disinfectant), then later claimed he never said it or claimed he was joking. He’s a LIAR AND A FRAUD. it would not surprise me in the least if he had called fallen war hero’s suckers and losers, that sounds EXACTLY like something he would say.
      Considering what he said about the Late John McCain being POW.
      “I like people who weren’t captured”.

    2. My ex husband is a current serving Naval pilot, and him and his military colleagues and friends *hate Trump!* So the intelligent veterans and currently serving personnel would *VOTE**#BLUE**!* Flush the turd on November the 3rd 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊💩

    3. ALL 25 people with a MSDNC provided Microphone 🤣. TRUMP COULD NOT EVEN HEAR THEM 🤣🤣🤣LOSERS!! All of you. TRUMP FORVER 🇺🇸

    1. @Live Life You will fall like nothing. Trump will continue to reign for another 4 years. On November 4th you will cry again!

    1. @Steve Gold you think winning is important in an argument? No its about sharing perspectives to improve our worldview.

    2. @buddhastaxi666 No. Your fake news is not sharing a perspective. Your fake news is inciting violence against President Trump. It is all LIES. Trump is doing his job exposing how dirty the media is. Why is hunter biden allowed to receive money from Moscow? Why are soros and nike paying for riots? Why did biden and obama illegally spy on Trump? Why are reporters really political activists?

    3. @Steve Gold oh I can do this too, why do people believe such easily disprovable nonsense coming from what is essentially an unsuccessful used car salesman?

    4. Don’t claim victory just yet. We can breathe a sigh of relief only *after* the OrangeCunt is escorted out of the White House. And even then, people like Barr and Donnie’s other cronies need to be removed as well to make sure they won’t cause trouble.

    1. @Steve Gold when did he “get catch” is it around the same time that he “got caught” spying? Oh wait neither happend

    2. @Thomas Power You can try to play dumb. But we all know biden and obama illegally used a fisa warrant to spy on Trump. It is TREASON.

    3. ALL 25 people with a MSDNC provided Microphone 🤣. TRUMP COULD NOT EVEN HEAR THEM 🤣🤣🤣LOSERS!! All of you. TRUMP FORVER 🇺🇸

  5. Trump can go “unpeacefully” doesn’t matter – he’s done! Bye Bye 👋👋👋
    Vote 💙 make it happen
    All the best from Oz

  6. Trump was booed with chants of “Vote him out!” from the Dais, on the steps of the Supreme Court, at RBG Memorial! #BYEDON2020

    1. The Dems ARE organized. They are behind BLM AND ANTIFA. READ THEIR MANIFESTOS. THEY WANT TO TAKE AMERICA DOWN!

    2. I saw trump confused at first, he most likely thought the people were chanting, “Four more years!!” Then by looking at his eyes, it registered, so he turned tail and walked back into the building, with his plastic wife marching ten paces behind him!! He went on to lie to the media, they didn’t hear what the people were saying, LIAR!!! I was happy to see him get away from RBG’s casket, he and old Moscow Mitch have been salivating over her impending death, so they could ram another conservative on the Court!! BUT!! Good news, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch have voted against trump not just once!! So if this young woman is honest, she’ll vote with the constitution, not spit on it like trump does!! We have to keep the congress and take the senate, in case of a rigged election, trump is trying his best to rig, and if he wins, he can still be cut off at the Knees!! And the Dems, just wrote a bill giving the Supreme Court justices time limits, thank God, it will no doubt be in 2021!!

    1. Did ya see Jr’s plea to their voters? He couldn’t even open his eyes up and was kinda slurring his words. He’s got some issues that’s for sure. It was pretty pathetic, if he was my kid I’d being putting together an intervention.

  7. THIS PRESIDENT IF YOU WANT TO CALL HIM THAT! IS LOSING HIS MIND! 25TH AMENDMENT! EMBARRASSMENT TO THE COUNTRY & HIMSELF! WORSE IN HISTORY! 🗳

    1. ALL 25 people with a MSDNC provided Microphone 🤣. TRUMP COULD NOT EVEN HEAR THEM 🤣🤣🤣LOSERS!! All of you. TRUMP FORVER 🇺🇸

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