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Sandwich Breathe
@TepidButterASMR
Poll watcher in Michigan testifying that black lives matter people wore rhinestones. This was a problem for her.
9:55 AM · Dec 2, 2020
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Poll watcher in Michigan testifying that black lives matter people wore rhinestones. This was a problem for her.
This man walked up, swore himself in, and he's talking about his internet radio show.
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In his experience hosting an internet radio show he saw the voting machines connected to a router.
He is now crying because he needs proof the votes are valid (not that they were fraudulent) or they will not accept the results. Now getting applause.
This is Dave. Dave is struggling a little but to get his story out. His proof of fraud is that they stopped counting at night and in the morning when they restarted it was too quiet in the room.
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Linda who is a nurse believes covid is fake. She believes only a sneeze or cough spreads covid. Having a mask below your nose does not spread covid.
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This is Holly there was fraud because she felt like the democrat watchers were looking at her.
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This is Robin she just said "cock blocking" she refused to wear a mask correctly and was harassed. She follows that up by saying "ADA" with no other explanation.
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She keeps going over her time and everyone wants her to stop.
Here's Bill. I'm not sure what he's doing here. He doesn't seem positive either. He says the counting room was hot, he carried a thermometer that said 85 degrees.
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Here's Matt, he loves FREEDOM. He was at the stop the steal rally. He wasn't a poll watcher. He is saying Obamas reign of destruction was caused by dominion voting machines. His testimony is about signs he saw at a rally.
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Mr Parker. He said he got tired waiting to get into watch the votes being counted and left. He thinks because of this they should pass a law to redo the entire election.
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Polly. She said that so many ballots were only for Biden with nothing down ballots selected. She says the electors should elect Trump because that means it's fraud.
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Vickie. An Asian man brought in ballots to be counted. That's it. That was her whole story.
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Vickie. A lot of the ballot envelopes were closed with packaging tape. She saw workers that had pens.
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Now @SenPeterJLucido is asking questions but his question sounds like it was supposed to be for a different witness because she doesn't know what he's talking about.
John says ballots arrived to be counted after the "election deadline" which doesn't exist. He's now yelling.
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Terri said she saw a video at someones house that poll workers were told to be mean to her, she thinks maybe on YouTube.
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Ronna Ross. You'll never guess. She felt harassed. She switched lanyards and lied about her party affiliation which she just admitted. There was not any signage for signing in and out, that was it.
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Eugene Greenstein. Absentee ballots are all fraudulent. He said he hadn't heard anyone else say this.
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Ms Halpert. People were mean. She said someone brandished a letter opener. Workers took to long to count military ballots, possibly on purpose.
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Dr Linda Lee Tarver. I looked and she's not a doctor (lol). She has photos of herself online with Trump. Shes yelling a lot but not about anything in particular. It's fraud, etc she's happy to answer any questions.
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She said ballots were to pristine to be real, not crinkled enough.
She's still going.
This is the greatest moment of her life.
She is being racist now. This is very odd.
"voting by mail disenfranchises people"
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Miss Fine was not at any polling place she refuses to stop testifying. "check out the covid"
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Michael Hayes "I don't have much to offer" says he was forcibly removed from a polling location.
He didn't see fraud, but "a dog wags it tail" so he knows something happened here. He's very close to saying the n word I think.
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Claims he's not racist at the end.
Eddie walks up wearing a giant orange hat. "I seen a lot of fraud". Mentions eating at Mr Bs Tavern.
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Gordon isnt sure but heard poll workers were paid $600 in Detroit, evidence of fraud, possibly!
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Angelique. A scanner wouldnt take a ballot, the workers discussed what to do. She thinks maybe it was a person voting twice. Shes not sure but it seemed like it.
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btw...
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that wraps it up, the michigan senate republicans outside of @SenPeterJLucido seem relieved they no longer have to deal with this.
My apologies on this last tweet. Dr Tarver does in fact have a doctorate in theology. Not sure from where.
underpants
(182,904 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)dware
(12,449 posts)so we need to redo the election.
This wouldn't surprise me in the least if someone claimed it.
BComplex
(8,067 posts)classes in Civics & Government.
weissmam
(905 posts)But I think these people are way to far gone, maybe lack of O2
Nasruddin
(754 posts)Education ... civics ....
People keep saying this but I'm not convinced. Not that education is bad, or civics unhelpful, but I don't see it as the cure.
A lot of the people pushing the conspiracy-theory sides of all this are among the smartest and best-educated in the country.
3 star generals, attorneys many from high falutin' schools, medical doctors, even an engineer with a MIT degree.
If there is a cure, it's somewhere between better mental health screening with consequences, and a lot of work on identifying and understanding logical fallacies. With consequences. I don't think we can implement much in the way of consequences (1st amendment) other than public shaming, but you have to assume the public understands and agrees with the shame. Or is there something else that can be done?
BComplex
(8,067 posts)I wish I knew if there was something we could do to unprogram all these cult followers. It's truly the weirdest thing I've seen in my 70+ years.
grumpyduck
(6,265 posts)Or this is just comic relief at the end of 2020?
barbtries
(28,811 posts)hilarious and terrifying at the same time.
#BringBackTheFairnessDoctrine
#NewsIsNotEntertainment
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,448 posts)MotorCityBeard
(201 posts)Leave Detroit and Wayne county out of it and Trump won Michigan.... With these idiots it's easy to see why.
catbyte
(34,458 posts)Washtenaw, & Genessee Counties.
MotorCityBeard
(201 posts)I did not phrase that post very well. I do know people all over the state who support Biden. I do know it's not just the Detroit area. I did get very offended by the Rethug comment about leaving out Wayne county and Trump wins Michigan though.
catbyte
(34,458 posts)since 2008. No need to apologize!
Warren_Pointe
(328 posts)there's enough extra chromosomes in that crowd to make another person.
demmiblue
(36,898 posts)Bill was actually sane (despite the need to carry around a thermometer).
He is a lifetime Republican who voted for Biden. He made several good points, including the fact that Trump pushed the fraud argument on Twitter so vociferously that watchers/challengers may have already had a preconceived notion regarding the election.
Johnny2X2X
(19,118 posts)Screw em. They are pathetic and disgusting, I am glad they think it was rigged, now they should drop out and go crawl back into their holes. We don't care what you think!
Mr.Bill
(24,330 posts)Hassler
(3,390 posts)weissmam
(905 posts)Trump is an idiot and he attracts idiots
Trump lost money owning a casino (think about it)
cab67
(3,009 posts)I was scared shitless.
Not by the speakers - they're delusional and easily disregarded as individuals
Rather, I was shocked at the activity on the running chat and the comments posted to the video itself. Also delusional and easily disregarded as individuals, but there are way more of them than a country with a halfway decent education system should have.
That some of the repub senators seemed to take them with great sincerity didn't help.
niyad
(113,582 posts)Nevilledog
(51,201 posts)niyad
(113,582 posts)Takket
(21,634 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)it's comforting to know I'd have to work very hard to be counted among the these, the most stupid.