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Quote of Miss White Privilege from the article
āBut now itās changing my whole vernacular because I donāt want to be a target ā¦ I canāt say āNaziā or ārapeā because my freedom of speech has been taken away from me.ā
No one has taken away her freedom of speech. That is called consequences. Say something stupid and win stupid prizes.
From the article:
Ryan said she wants to practice yoga, detox from alcohol, and lose 30 pounds in prison.
She also told Insider sheās preparing for her time behind bars by learning prison slang and speaking to prison consultants.
yoga, detox, wieght loss, and prison consultants?! Sheās going to a min security federal prison! Sure, itās in Texas, but still min security. And 30 pounds in 60 days? Hello crash diet and a trip to the infirmary!
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Sounds like the big one
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The pair were the sources for a story that was published in late October, when they said members of Congress were involved in planning Trumpās efforts to overturn the election and the Jan. 6 Ellipse rally. They claimed one of these lawmakers, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), suggested the possibility Trump could get them a āblanket pardonā in an unrelated ongoing investigation if they helped protest the election. (Gosar later suggested that story was ācategorically false and defamatory.ā) Stockton and Lawrence also say they were told that Trumpās former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, had communicated with the organizers and was warned about concerns of potential violence.
Nothing in the documents viewed by Rolling Stone or the coupleās statements revealed any planning for, or coordination with, the violent attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters.
Kind of suggestive tho.
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Skweeeeee! 
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Tangentially relatedā¦
āThe U.S. Postal Service pursued a project to build and secretly test a blockchain-based mobile phone voting system before the 2020 election, experimenting with a technology that the governmentās own cybersecurity agency says canāt be trusted to securely handle ballots.ā
āThe Postal Service system allowed people to cast votes on an Internet-connected mobile app similar to how they might add items to an online shopping cart or fill out an online survey. The votes were designed to be anonymous and to be recorded in multiple digital locations simultaneously. The idea is that each of those digital records would act as a check to verify the accuracy of the other records. This is essentially the same method that cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin use to ensure transactions are accurately recorded.ā
āBut the system didnāt protect against the numerous ways hackers might fake or corrupt votes, the University of Colorado researchers said. Those include impersonating voters, attacking the blockchain system itself so votes canāt be trusted, flooding the system with information so it becomes too overwhelmed to function, and using techniques that undermine votersā privacy and the secrecy of the ballot. The researchers were able to successfully perform all those hacks during a mock election held on campus.ā
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No! You donāt say?
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Next stop, Louisiana! (Actually, although he was invited there and warmly greeted, it does sound like maybe? hopefully? they arenāt buying it)
Phil Waldronās 90-minute talk in Louisiana came just days after revelations that he had circulated and briefed members of Congress on a PowerPoint presentation that urged then-Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6 to reject electoral votes
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āI can call the National Guard from the vasty deep!ā
(Useless if they never show up.)
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Cap Police Chiefs tend to be MAGAMurican by nature so it will be interesting to see if he or she would call at all.
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Donāt keep mentioning it here and there, Dems.
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There really is no other way. With the Court as it is now and hostility to voting rights at the state level going unchecked, we are looking at being locked for decades in an undemocratic, minority rule country if this isnāt done now.
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Wake me me when the Dems actually do something about it.
My Dem reps are asleep at the wheel drunk on military spending.
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It can be done by just Biden and the Senate. If just a few asshole senators were absent that day. Mitch McConnell made damn sure it could be done that way.
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