‘Georgia Is Our (MAGA) Laboratory’

[ouch]

There it is. GA is DJT's leading state for his big steal election 2024. GA Repubs will control their election boards and more. Not exactly a real surprise but never-the-less - one that's real and in place. All that's left to ponder is just how the Democratic Party will counter any of this - if at all.

'Georgia Is Our Laboratory': Inside Trump's Plan to Rig 2024

Team Trump sees Georgia as ‘a road map’ for putting Trump’s heads-I-win-tails-you-lose philosophy of elections into practice

www.rollingstone.com

“Georgia is our laboratory,” a source close to the former president tells Rolling Stone. “If you can get this up and running in Georgia, you get a road map for other states, maybe the country as a whole.”


As Trump has continued to lie that the 2020 election was “stolen” and “rigged” , the former president and his supporters have been making concrete, step-by-step progress in shaping electoral processes to his benefit. Across the state, MAGA die-hards are devoting considerable resources to purging voter rolls, intimidating election officials, employing legal dirty tricks, and ousting Republican officials and election appointees who haven’t been initiated into the cult of Trump.


Republican operatives have remade Georgia’s state election board, executive branch, Legislature, and legal ecosystems, all in Donald Trump’s image. Conservatives in the state Assembly have unleashed thousands of voter eligibility challenges on county election boards — an effort that will be turbocharged with a new election law. Lawmakers also worked to limit Raffensperger’s role in overseeing elections, while sapping resources for election administration.

It’s happening throughout the country: Nearly every leader who matters in various state GOPs, the national Republican Party, and within the conservative movement is playing part in a well-funded, coordinated attempt to corrupt American elections in a way so transparently cynical, so authoritarian, that it makes the right’s “voter fraud” crackdowns of the pre-Trump era look like a flicker of intellectual calm by comparison.

 

[Jessie C]

There it is. GA is DJT's leading state for his big steal election 2024. GA Repubs will control their election boards and more. Not exactly a real surprise but never-the-less - one that's real and in place. All that's left to ponder is just how the Democratic Party will counter any of this - if at all.

'Georgia Is Our Laboratory': Inside Trump's Plan to Rig 2024

Team Trump sees Georgia as ‘a road map’ for putting Trump’s heads-I-win-tails-you-lose philosophy of elections into practice

www.rollingstone.com

“Georgia is our laboratory,” a source close to the former president tells Rolling Stone. “If you can get this up and running in Georgia, you get a road map for other states, maybe the country as a whole.”


As Trump has continued to lie that the 2020 election was “stolen” and “rigged” , the former president and his supporters have been making concrete, step-by-step progress in shaping electoral processes to his benefit. Across the state, MAGA die-hards are devoting considerable resources to purging voter rolls, intimidating election officials, employing legal dirty tricks, and ousting Republican officials and election appointees who haven’t been initiated into the cult of Trump.


Republican operatives have remade Georgia’s state election board, executive branch, Legislature, and legal ecosystems, all in Donald Trump’s image. Conservatives in the state Assembly have unleashed thousands of voter eligibility challenges on county election boards — an effort that will be turbocharged with a new election law. Lawmakers also worked to limit Raffensperger’s role in overseeing elections, while sapping resources for election administration.

It’s happening throughout the country: Nearly every leader who matters in various state GOPs, the national Republican Party, and within the conservative movement is playing part in a well-funded, coordinated attempt to corrupt American elections in a way so transparently cynical, so authoritarian, that it makes the right’s “voter fraud” crackdowns of the pre-Trump era look like a flicker of intellectual calm by comparison.

We'll see.

 

[Phys251]

There it is. GA is DJT's leading state for his big steal election 2024. GA Repubs will control their election boards and more. Not exactly a real surprise but never-the-less - one that's real and in place. All that's left to ponder is just how the Democratic Party will counter any of this - if at all.

'Georgia Is Our Laboratory': Inside Trump's Plan to Rig 2024

Team Trump sees Georgia as ‘a road map’ for putting Trump’s heads-I-win-tails-you-lose philosophy of elections into practice

www.rollingstone.com

“Georgia is our laboratory,” a source close to the former president tells Rolling Stone. “If you can get this up and running in Georgia, you get a road map for other states, maybe the country as a whole.”


As Trump has continued to lie that the 2020 election was “stolen” and “rigged” , the former president and his supporters have been making concrete, step-by-step progress in shaping electoral processes to his benefit. Across the state, MAGA die-hards are devoting considerable resources to purging voter rolls, intimidating election officials, employing legal dirty tricks, and ousting Republican officials and election appointees who haven’t been initiated into the cult of Trump.


Republican operatives have remade Georgia’s state election board, executive branch, Legislature, and legal ecosystems, all in Donald Trump’s image. Conservatives in the state Assembly have unleashed thousands of voter eligibility challenges on county election boards — an effort that will be turbocharged with a new election law. Lawmakers also worked to limit Raffensperger’s role in overseeing elections, while sapping resources for election administration.

It’s happening throughout the country: Nearly every leader who matters in various state GOPs, the national Republican Party, and within the conservative movement is playing part in a well-funded, coordinated attempt to corrupt American elections in a way so transparently cynical, so authoritarian, that it makes the right’s “voter fraud” crackdowns of the pre-Trump era look like a flicker of intellectual calm by comparison.

FAFO, MAGAts. We'd be out marching in full force.

 

[Mycroft]

There it is. GA is DJT's leading state for his big steal election 2024. GA Repubs will control their election boards and more. Not exactly a real surprise but never-the-less - one that's real and in place. All that's left to ponder is just how the Democratic Party will counter any of this - if at all.

'Georgia Is Our Laboratory': Inside Trump's Plan to Rig 2024

Team Trump sees Georgia as ‘a road map’ for putting Trump’s heads-I-win-tails-you-lose philosophy of elections into practice

www.rollingstone.com

“Georgia is our laboratory,” a source close to the former president tells Rolling Stone. “If you can get this up and running in Georgia, you get a road map for other states, maybe the country as a whole.”


As Trump has continued to lie that the 2020 election was “stolen” and “rigged” , the former president and his supporters have been making concrete, step-by-step progress in shaping electoral processes to his benefit. Across the state, MAGA die-hards are devoting considerable resources to purging voter rolls, intimidating election officials, employing legal dirty tricks, and ousting Republican officials and election appointees who haven’t been initiated into the cult of Trump.


Republican operatives have remade Georgia’s state election board, executive branch, Legislature, and legal ecosystems, all in Donald Trump’s image. Conservatives in the state Assembly have unleashed thousands of voter eligibility challenges on county election boards — an effort that will be turbocharged with a new election law. Lawmakers also worked to limit Raffensperger’s role in overseeing elections, while sapping resources for election administration.

It’s happening throughout the country: Nearly every leader who matters in various state GOPs, the national Republican Party, and within the conservative movement is playing part in a well-funded, coordinated attempt to corrupt American elections in a way so transparently cynical, so authoritarian, that it makes the right’s “voter fraud” crackdowns of the pre-Trump era look like a flicker of intellectual calm by comparison.

None of what you mention from that article is bad for the country. It's only bad for those who used election fraud to put their puppet in the WH in 2020.

There is only one Big Lie, and that is this: "As Trump has continued to lie that the 2020 election was “stolen” and “rigged”"

 

[Peacenik]

The goal will be to 'find' 11,000 votes.

 

[The Stars Tremble]

None of what you mention from that article is bad for the country.

Obviously, you define "the country" as MAGA.

It's only bad for those who used election fraud to put their puppet in the WH in 2020.

There is only one Big Lie, and that is this: "As Trump has continued to lie that the 2020 election was “stolen” and “rigged”"

That's all you have to say about blatant election rigging in Georgia. "They did it first."

 

[The Stars Tremble]

The goal will be to 'find' 11,000 votes.

I'm not expecting Biden to win Georgia. It was a surprise the first time, and being a surprise there were obviously no counter-measures.

Trump can't cheat the vote in Pennsylvania, Michigan or Wisconsin. He will therefore lose.

 

[Peacenik]

Pretty alarming article. Donald is the same person who managed to get an apparent strong-arm unheard of 40 year get-out-of-taxes-free card in NY City on a luxury hi-rise he was building.

He requested the extraordinary tax break from city council. It was unanimously turned down. He refused to accept the decision. He hired mafia lawyer Roy Cohn. It is not know what Roy Cohn did, or if he threatened the officials. Maybe he sent them pictures of their children with gun sights on them. Who knows? Regardless, the next time the city council met, Donald's request was approved unanimously.

Donald has zero respect for the law, government, fairness, or other people. He uses money and power to get more money and power.

He must be stopped, for the good of America.

 

[Peacenik]

I'm not expecting Biden to win Georgia. It was a surprise the first time, and being a surprise there were obviously no counter-measures.

Trump can't cheat the vote in Pennsylvania, Michigan or Wisconsin. He will therefore lose.

Biden didn't need GA. He had enough electoral votes to win without GA.

 

[Perotista]

There it is. GA is DJT's leading state for his big steal election 2024. GA Repubs will control their election boards and more. Not exactly a real surprise but never-the-less - one that's real and in place. All that's left to ponder is just how the Democratic Party will counter any of this - if at all.

'Georgia Is Our Laboratory': Inside Trump's Plan to Rig 2024

Team Trump sees Georgia as ‘a road map’ for putting Trump’s heads-I-win-tails-you-lose philosophy of elections into practice

www.rollingstone.com

“Georgia is our laboratory,” a source close to the former president tells Rolling Stone. “If you can get this up and running in Georgia, you get a road map for other states, maybe the country as a whole.”


As Trump has continued to lie that the 2020 election was “stolen” and “rigged” , the former president and his supporters have been making concrete, step-by-step progress in shaping electoral processes to his benefit. Across the state, MAGA die-hards are devoting considerable resources to purging voter rolls, intimidating election officials, employing legal dirty tricks, and ousting Republican officials and election appointees who haven’t been initiated into the cult of Trump.


Republican operatives have remade Georgia’s state election board, executive branch, Legislature, and legal ecosystems, all in Donald Trump’s image. Conservatives in the state Assembly have unleashed thousands of voter eligibility challenges on county election boards — an effort that will be turbocharged with a new election law. Lawmakers also worked to limit Raffensperger’s role in overseeing elections, while sapping resources for election administration.

It’s happening throughout the country: Nearly every leader who matters in various state GOPs, the national Republican Party, and within the conservative movement is playing part in a well-funded, coordinated attempt to corrupt American elections in a way so transparently cynical, so authoritarian, that it makes the right’s “voter fraud” crackdowns of the pre-Trump era look like a flicker of intellectual calm by comparison.

Trump currently has a 5-point lead in Georgia and has averaged that 5-point lead since the beginning of the year within a point up or down.

https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/georgia/trump-vs-biden

The main reason why, only 41% of Georgian’s approve of the job Biden has done. This has nothing to do with the shenanigans, perceived or real that you observed. Most Georgian’s just think Biden has been a poor president. Also 47% of all Georgians now view Trump favorably, 48% unfavorably whereas they view Biden 40% favorably/52% unfavorably.

https://maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-co...-Poll_Georgia-NOS-and-Tables_202403181355.pdf

And to the question do you think you were better off financially today or 4 years ago, 13% better off, 39% the same, 44% worse off. Georgia like the nation has its pro and anti-Trump factions whose votes are set in stone. The difference between 2020 when Biden won Georgia by a bit more than 10,000 votes and Trump’s lead today is independents, those non-affiliate, less to non-partisans who for the most part aren’t neither pro nor anti-Trump. Approximately a quarter of all Georgians. Most of this quarter dislikes and doesn’t want neither Trump nor Biden to become the next president. To this quarter this election is just as much about Biden if not a bit more than Trump. Biden is today the sitting president running for reelection. Biden was the alternative to Trump in 2020, it was Trump running for reelection then. Trump is the alternative to Biden this year. A complete role reversal from 2020. Georgia independents went for Biden in 2020 53-44 enabling Biden to carry this state. Today, Trump is leading among independents 45-40 with the rest planning on voting third party against both Trump and Biden.

https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/exit-polls/president/georgia

Bottom line, today, this year, we have around 75% of Georgians who think this election is all about Trump. The solid pro and anti-Trumpers. But the remaining 25%, they are trying to decide whether or not Biden deserves reelection based on his job he has done as president over the last 4 years. Trying to decide if Trump is an acceptable alternative to the sitting president running for reelection. To this 25%, since Biden is running for reelection, this election is more a referendum on Biden and the job he has done as president than Trump.

 

[ouch]

None of what you mention from that article is bad for the country. It's only bad for those who used election fraud to put their puppet in the WH in 2020.

Changing or controlling election vote results is extremely bad for democracy.

Speaking of the 'big lie'. 60 judges has rejected election fraud of 2020. DJT's AG Barr has rejected it as well. No Big Lie in 2020.

It's up to GA to now block DJT's attempt to rig the outcome for 2024. The same applies it were Pres Biden controlling the vote results in any state this year.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

It’s happening throughout the country: Nearly every leader who matters in various state GOPs, the national Republican Party, and within the conservative movement is playing part in a well-funded, coordinated attempt to corrupt American elections in a way so transparently cynical, so authoritarian, that it makes the right’s “voter fraud” crackdowns of the pre-Trump era look like a flicker of intellectual calm by comparison.

When I was a kid, the worst thing you could be was a “sore loser”. Someone who complained when they lost. Now it’s a political platform.

 

[Borg Refinery]

Sounds like we've got major problems here in Georgia then ..

 

[Fearandloathing]

There it is. GA is DJT's leading state for his big steal election 2024. GA Repubs will control their election boards and more. Not exactly a real surprise but never-the-less - one that's real and in place. All that's left to ponder is just how the Democratic Party will counter any of this - if at all.

'Georgia Is Our Laboratory': Inside Trump's Plan to Rig 2024

Team Trump sees Georgia as ‘a road map’ for putting Trump’s heads-I-win-tails-you-lose philosophy of elections into practice

www.rollingstone.com

“Georgia is our laboratory,” a source close to the former president tells Rolling Stone. “If you can get this up and running in Georgia, you get a road map for other states, maybe the country as a whole.”


As Trump has continued to lie that the 2020 election was “stolen” and “rigged” , the former president and his supporters have been making concrete, step-by-step progress in shaping electoral processes to his benefit. Across the state, MAGA die-hards are devoting considerable resources to purging voter rolls, intimidating election officials, employing legal dirty tricks, and ousting Republican officials and election appointees who haven’t been initiated into the cult of Trump.


Republican operatives have remade Georgia’s state election board, executive branch, Legislature, and legal ecosystems, all in Donald Trump’s image. Conservatives in the state Assembly have unleashed thousands of voter eligibility challenges on county election boards — an effort that will be turbocharged with a new election law. Lawmakers also worked to limit Raffensperger’s role in overseeing elections, while sapping resources for election administration.

It’s happening throughout the country: Nearly every leader who matters in various state GOPs, the national Republican Party, and within the conservative movement is playing part in a well-funded, coordinated attempt to corrupt American elections in a way so transparently cynical, so authoritarian, that it makes the right’s “voter fraud” crackdowns of the pre-Trump era look like a flicker of intellectual calm by comparison.

Did democrats ever have a shot at winning Georgia?

Politics is war. You fight battle by battle and some you lose. You know you're going to lose. So, you do a hail mary and throw your trainees at it knowing you're going down...but making a show of it to simply wear down your opponents resources.

No, the dems have NO expectation of winning Georgia, but they CAN and WILL drive a hard campaign simply to wear down and tie up your opponents resources. If you can keep their nationally recognized names at home, you've won a battle. In this case they will focus on every word out of MTG's mouth and make sure they are national within seconds. MTG will win Georgia and a lot of seats FOR the democrats elsewhere.

Welcome aboard Margorie

 

[Grand Mal]

None of what you mention from that article is bad for the country. It's only bad for those who used election fraud to put their puppet in the WH in 2020.

There is only one Big Lie, and that is this: "As Trump has continued to lie that the 2020 election was “stolen” and “rigged”"

Trump's a loser, and every time he loses he says everyone else cheated.

 

[What if...?]

None of what you mention from that article is bad for the country. It's only bad for those who used election fraud to put their puppet in the WH in 2020.

There is only one Big Lie, and that is this: "As Trump has continued to lie that the 2020 election was “stolen” and “rigged”"

You still have literally no proof.

You know damn well that repeating a lie over and over makes people start to believe it.

It doesn’t ****ing make it actually true.

 

[Mycroft]

You still have literally no proof.

You know damn well that repeating a lie over and over makes people start to believe it.

It doesn’t ****ing make it actually true.

Just because you insist on denying the evidence, that doesn't mean the evidence doesn't exist.

 

[Crakhobarbie]

None of what you mention from that article is bad for the country. It's only bad for those who used election fraud to put their puppet in the WH in 2020.

There is only one Big Lie, and that is this: "As Trump has continued to lie that the 2020 election was “stolen” and “rigged”"

And yet, to this day, donalds failed to present one iota of evidence (proving the election was stolen) viable enough to be substantiated in a court of law.

If Donald had such evidence, he would of presented it already.

 

[Borg Refinery]

Just because you insist on denying the evidence, that doesn't mean the evidence doesn't exist.

Ok then show us the evidence?

 

[Hamish Howl]

None of what you mention from that article is bad for the country.

Why do you hate the republic?

 

[ouch]

When I was a kid, the worst thing you could be was a “sore loser”. Someone who complained when they lost. Now it’s a political platform.

The "sore loser" cult - oozing with authoritarian revenge for a bigger Trump Swamp.

GA is very much on my mind in a ground zero kind of way.

 

[Grand Mal]

Why do you hate the republic?

The fact is that what's bad for America is good for Trump. His cult would welcome with open arms a recession or a terrorist attack or a series of destructive riots in the cities.
Alternatively, what's good for America is bad for Trump. Low unemployment, low crime rate, booming stock markets, all bad for Trump.

 

[ouch]

To this quarter this election is just as much about Biden if not a bit more than Trump. Biden is today the sitting president running for reelection. Biden was the alternative to Trump in 2020, it was Trump running for reelection then. Trump is the alternative to Biden this year. A complete role reversal from 2020. Georgia independents went for Biden in 2020 53-44 enabling Biden to carry this state. Today, Trump is leading among independents 45-40 with the rest planning on voting third party against both Trump and Biden.

https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/exit-polls/president/georgia

Bottom line, today, this year, we have around 75% of Georgians who think this election is all about Trump. The solid pro and anti-Trumpers. But the remaining 25%, they are trying to decide whether or not Biden deserves reelection based on his job he has done as president over the last 4 years. Trying to decide if Trump is an acceptable alternative to the sitting president running for reelection. To this 25%, since Biden is running for reelection, this election is more a referendum on Biden and the job he has done as president than Trump.

Unfortunately, it's still too close for comfort in GA with our democracy up for stake. Pres Biden, as old as he is still can lead in a most honorable and respectful manner - believing in democracy. May Independents such as us remember that come Nov, 2024.

 

[mrjurrs]

There it is. GA is DJT's leading state for his big steal election 2024. GA Repubs will control their election boards and more. Not exactly a real surprise but never-the-less - one that's real and in place. All that's left to ponder is just how the Democratic Party will counter any of this - if at all.

'Georgia Is Our Laboratory': Inside Trump's Plan to Rig 2024

Team Trump sees Georgia as ‘a road map’ for putting Trump’s heads-I-win-tails-you-lose philosophy of elections into practice

www.rollingstone.com

“Georgia is our laboratory,” a source close to the former president tells Rolling Stone. “If you can get this up and running in Georgia, you get a road map for other states, maybe the country as a whole.”


As Trump has continued to lie that the 2020 election was “stolen” and “rigged” , the former president and his supporters have been making concrete, step-by-step progress in shaping electoral processes to his benefit. Across the state, MAGA die-hards are devoting considerable resources to purging voter rolls, intimidating election officials, employing legal dirty tricks, and ousting Republican officials and election appointees who haven’t been initiated into the cult of Trump.


Republican operatives have remade Georgia’s state election board, executive branch, Legislature, and legal ecosystems, all in Donald Trump’s image. Conservatives in the state Assembly have unleashed thousands of voter eligibility challenges on county election boards — an effort that will be turbocharged with a new election law. Lawmakers also worked to limit Raffensperger’s role in overseeing elections, while sapping resources for election administration.

It’s happening throughout the country: Nearly every leader who matters in various state GOPs, the national Republican Party, and within the conservative movement is playing part in a well-funded, coordinated attempt to corrupt American elections in a way so transparently cynical, so authoritarian, that it makes the right’s “voter fraud” crackdowns of the pre-Trump era look like a flicker of intellectual calm by comparison.

'When fascism comes to America it will be draped in a flag and carrying a bible.' (paraphrasing Sinclair Lewis)

It's already here, the question is whether or not America(ns) will be able to withstand them.

 

[Perotista]

Unfortunately, it's still too close for comfort in GA with our democracy up for stake. Pres Biden, as old as he is still can lead in a most honorable and respectful manner - believing in democracy. May Independents such as us remember that come Nov, 2024.

Here’s why Trump is leading in Georgia. This is all Georgians, not just independents. All –

BIDEN VS. TRUMP: THE ISSUES

Voters were asked who they think would do a better job handling six issues…

• abortion: 47 percent say Biden, while 45 percent say Trump;

• preserving democracy in the United States: 49 percent say Trump, while 46 percent say Biden;

• the response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: 54 percent say Trump, while 41 percent say Biden;

• the response to the Israel – Hamas war in Gaza: 53 percent say Trump, while 39 percent say Biden;

• immigration: 56 percent say Trump, while 39 percent say Biden;

• the economy: 58 percent say Trump, while 38 percent say Biden.

Notice that the preserving democracy down here, by a plurality Georgians think Trump would be better at that than Biden. Biden’s job approval among Georgian’s, 36% approval, 60% disapproval. 38% of all Georgians view Biden favorably, 57% unfavorably vs. Trump 46% favorable/49% unfavorable. Third parties register big, 20% of all Georgian’s are now favoring voting third party against both Trump and Biden. In a 6-way race Trump 31, Biden 27, Kennedy 8, West 4, Stein 2, Oliver 3.

https://poll.qu.edu/images/polling/ga/ga06052024_ggwb04.pdf

I’d say Georgian’s aren’t happy with either major party’s choice. But among those who opt to choose between them, down here the election is more about Biden and his presidency than about Trump and his convictions. Remember, this time around it Trump who is the alternative to Biden whereas in 2020 it was Biden as the alternative to Trump. That is a huge difference. I’ll end this concerning Trump’s guilty verdict. Pay close attention to the bottom 3 sentences.

TRUMP CONVICTION

Voters were asked about the guilty verdict in Trump’s New York City criminal trial in connection to charges of falsifying business records, including a hush money payment to an adult film actress.

Half of voters (50 percent) agree with the verdict, while 44 percent disagree.

Among Democrats, 96 percent agree with the verdict, while 1 percent disagree.

Among Republicans, 10 percent agree with the verdict, while 86 percent disagree.

Among independents, 52 percent agree with the verdict, while 42 percent disagree.

When voters were asked how the guilty verdict impacts their vote for Trump, 22 percent say it makes them less likely to vote for him, while 23 percent say it makes them more likely to vote for him, and 54 percent say it doesn’t make a difference to their vote.Among independents, 18 percent say it makes them less likely to vote for him, while 21 percent say it makes them more likely to vote for him, and 61 percent say it doesn’t make a difference to their vote.