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Republicans Mail Out Fake Census Documents | All In | MSNBC
Wow. This is outrageous!
Absolutely outrageous!
It is 👍
The Trumplickin Party are working hand in hand with Russian Trolls to overthrow the election.
@John Bender <<--- troll/bot.
@Duane Hall ⬅ Media Matters shill paid per comment by David Brock
@larrysigourney ⬅ Media Matters shill
@John Bender <<--- Sure comrade. New account? Fake picture, no content troll account. #RussiansSuk
@Duane Hall #stopsocialism
💦💦 2020 Time to evict the Squatters Out Of The WH.😀
Dittzx Squatters is the perfect way to describe them 👍
@Eagle Eyes 😁
🤦♀️🌏dunno how cult45 expects to be trusted around the World.. when their domestic record is clearly corrupt #PowerToThePeople
“Daddy? Why do republicans hate America and democracy so much?”
“I don’t know, son. I just don’t know.”
They think we hate America, and “democracy” (of which there is little in the USA).
This is an old article, but I think it still applies, and might give some insight into the “other side”.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-beast/201210/why-liberal-hearts-bleed-and-conservatives-dont
@Zeno of Citium interesting and still applicable.
I always thought of conservatives as very closed minded, acting on basic instinct only and definitely lacking in empathy.
The definition of corruption! Unbelievable 😳
Republicans have created an America of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations. We the people, have been officially replaced by Citizens United, a ruling placed on us by Republicans, which is designed to rule over us.
Republican campaign finance reports, which are, available to the public, show connections between a group of wealthy donors with ties to Russia and their political contributions to Trump and a number of top Republican leaders. And thanks to changes in campaign finance laws, the political contributions are legal. Bottom line, our campaign finance laws are now a threat to our country.
Len Blavatnik, is a dual U.S.-U.K. citizen and one of the largest donors to GOP political action committees in the 2015-16 election cycle. Blavatnik’s family emigrated to the U.S. in the late ’70s from the the Soviet Union and he returned to Russia when the Soviet Union began to collapse in the late ’80s.
In 2015-16, Blavatnik’s political contributions soared as he pumped $6.35 million into GOP political action committees, with millions of dollars going to top Republican leaders including Moscow Mitch, Rubio and Lindsey “Two-faced” Graham.
Oleg Deripaska is said to be one of Putin’s favorite oligarchs, and he is founder and majority shareholder of Russia’s Rusal, the second-largest aluminum company in the world. Blavatnik holds a stake in Rusal with a business partner.
We already know that Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager, began collecting $10 million a year in 2006 from Oleg Deripaska to advance Putin’s interests with Western governments. Deripaska’s name turned up again in an email handed over to Mueller’s team by Manafort’s attorneys. In the email dated July 7, 2016, just two weeks before Trump accepted the Republican nomination, Manafort asked an overseas intermediary to pass a message on to Deripaska: “If he Deripaska needs private briefings, tell him we can accommodate.”
Moscow Mitch knew from receiving intelligence briefings in 2016 that our electoral process was under attack by the Russians. Two weeks after the Dept of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a joint statement in October 2016 that the Russian government had directed the effort to interfere in our electoral process, Moscow Mitch’s PAC accepted a $1 million donation from Blavatnik’s AI-Altep Holdings. The PAC took another $1 million from Blavatnik’s AI-Altep Holdings on March 30, 2017, just 10 days after former Comey publicly testified before the House Intelligence Committee about Russia’s interference in the election.
The contributions are legal because the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling, Citizens United, allowed American corporations to give unlimited amounts of money to PACs, regardless of how they make their money, where they make their money, or with whom they make their money.
The man who led the winning fight for Citizens United was David Bossie, president of the conservative non-profit since 2001. Bossie served as Trump’s deputy campaign chairman.
The Super PAC, Make America Number 1, is funded by Trump’s largest donor, Robert Mercer. His Renaissance Technologies hedge fund donated $15.5 million to the PAC.
Mercer’s daughter, Rebekah, assumed control of Make America Number 1 in September 2016 and is now tainted by her role in the communications between Wikileaks and Cambridge Analytica, the firm that Jared Kushner, hired for $5.9 million to handle the digital portion of the Trump campaign…
Citizens United must be overturned. It represents the biggest crime ever perpetrated on the American people. It was created by republicans and powerful corporations, for the sole purpose of finally controlling our government for their own financial gains, all while undermining the will of the people..
Thanks for typing all that out.
I cried the night I heard about SCOTUS ruling on Citizens United.
This past January, I rewatched Keith Olbermann’s commentary on it. 10 years! Congress could have written a law to nullify it.
Super Pacs bundled are nearly impossible to source the donors and we know now that foreigners are buying our politicians.
Christina Cope
Sad but true.
We have a conspiracy on our hands
Without cheating, the republican party would be an afterthought by now.
*We are a damaged democracy because of: 1) the electoral college, 2) plurality voting, 3) a structurally flawed Senate.*
When you vote, you are voting for a “delegate” or “elector”, NOT for your candidate.
110+ million Americans do not vote, because of our undemocratic voting system. No conspiracy or hacking required.
Focusing on the symptoms, will NOT cure the disease. https://youtu.be/7mYPACssLbI https://youtu.be/7wC42HgLA4k
Between gerrymandering and outright corruption pretty much everyone of them is a cheater. Literally the only way they can have any power.
@undertow – Gerrymandering of districts is a problem specific to the House of Representatives. However, it is not wide spread, and, the way the House is designed, (435 Reps, up for election every 2 yrs), makes one or two gerrymandered districts less significant. That is why, The House is structurally sound, as one of our branches of government. However, the Senate gets two senators per state, no matter who lives there. 1 Wyoming senator represents 300,000 people, while 1 California Senator represents 20,000,000 people. Clearly an undemocratic branch…it might have been okay in the late 1700s, but, it is the worst now.
Yes. We have “legalized corruption” in our government. It’s everywhere. This is what Bernie and Warren are trying to stop. It’s so prevalent, it’s almost considered an American tradition.
@Zeno of Citium have you seen Ohio? 6th circuit district court in Cincinnati ruled Republicans in a Holiday Inn picked their voters after 2010 Census. And it’s not new to them, Senator Rob Portman said his district looked like a banana when he was a Congressman.
Republican voters vote straight ticket everytime without thought.
SEND ALL OF ‘EM BACK TO MAR O LARGO IN PALM BEACH, FLA!
REPLIKKKLANS are out of their fkn minds!
The Democratic nominee would do well to enlist Katie Porter as Vice President.
AGREE I absolutely love her she always asks the right questions
@Betty Thomas She does her homework, that’s for sure.
The Party of Putin GOP has been sending out those fake census forms for over a year now. If you get one, write on it how you really feel about Trump and the GOP and mail it back to them.
What a great idea! Unless I have to pay postage to do it. Do you think I can write return to sender?
The Republican party has become a threat to our Constitution, to our democracy, as well as a threat to our national security, and therefore it should be banned as a political party.
David J agree
Says the people who want to dismantle the Bill of Rights.
Is this fraud or what ? Wtf and how to is this happening . How much taxpayer dollars being used for stamps and mailing to commit fraud against the American people.
Crazy Republican and how they IGNORE the Democracy and the LAW – …. who knows what they could do, but here are some crazy ideas… 1. Russia Helps 2. China Helps 3. North Korea 4. Saudi Arabia & Israel – WHY? –
1. Arctic Oil 2. Expanding MFG 3. U.S. Nukes 4. Liquidating other Nations.
https://youtu.be/InzhRWX3UEs *_Bernie2020_*
How is this fraud not a federal crime ?
“Criminal Republicans” is redundant.
Make betas afraid again
Republicans are criminal
This is an absolutely huge deal. This is utterly insane and shows how corrupt and undemocratic the repubs really are.