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November 3, 2020

Ohio does it again

so the day before the election day "they" loaded new software into the voting system (I don't know where) so all the voting machines are having problems, the lines are long, and everybody has to vote on paper... at least at the precinct where I am working..... but people are staying in line and voting.

I might be wrong but this was no glitch or error but planned problems. Look for Trump to site OH in trying to complain about the outcome.


Btw we are crushing it here in Ohio.

Update... the machines are working now.

November 3, 2020

Can you say Buckeye Blue? 3.4 million mail in and in person early votes in OH

https://twitter.com/BrittBaileyTV/status/1323417828154839040

In 2016 Ohio had a total of about 5.3 million votes cast.

Off to do a long day of election protection work. If you are a Boogaloo Bois stop by
we are more than ready for you.
November 2, 2020

Just voted early in person in Columbus OH .... Blacks for Trump

Massive crowd for the last day .... line was about 1 1/2 hours to 2 hours .... people running
to make the 2 PM cut off time ..... and my favorite was the Blacks for Trump guy wasn't black
but some White and or part Asian dude with black make up.

Long lines aren't all that bad it many cases it shows we will have lots of blue voters

BTW I made a bunch of anti abortion people get upset & leave ..... Hey! did you know that Donald Trump is being kept
alive using ground up dead babies?

Off to do election protection work tomorrow.

BTW I danced with some young Biden/Harris women type of people they laughed at and or with me ....
I GOT MOVES LIKE JAGGER.

November 2, 2020

29% is the feel good stat for the day

Almost 29% of the total population of America has already voted. Not 29% of registered voters
but 29% of all us.


95,000 million early voters / 330,000,000 U.S. population = .2878

November 1, 2020

It is now clear that we have to remove the right wing thugs from our law enforcement nationwide

North Carolina: police pepper spray lawful protesters including children and a women on a
wheelchair

Ft. Worth Texas: Police protect Boogaloo Bois trying to intimidate African Americans voting.

Texas: Police don't do jack shit when a pro-Trump pick up truck pack tried to run a Biden bus off the
road.

I have always supported law enforcement and I have some good friends who are or were cops
but we can no longer abide these people in their current positions. It is almost like back in the
civil right movement days in the south when many of the police and sheriff departments had
active Klan members on their staffs.


October 30, 2020

Wanna see a good woman kick some right wing republican ass. OH's 12th district



This is my friend Alaina Shearer ... she is one of the good ones.

GOP's Troy Bladerson is a right wing shill. He would only debate Alaina on Friday @ noon on 10/30.
He is coward ... and it looks like he has punched in the face too.

The libertarian is just an idiot.
October 30, 2020

Repost: Parkland Shooting Survivors and "The March For Our Lives" people have been very busy.

When David Hogg and other survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida
went to congress looking to get some help and sensible gun laws they were all but laughed at and now they are coming
for their jobs in massive #s.


'It's Going to Require Every Young Person.' March for Our Lives Activists Urge Young Americans to Vote

A month after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, David Hogg stood in front of a crowd of hundreds of thousands gathered at the U.S. Capitol to demand an end to gun violence. “Who here is going to vote in the 2018 election?” asked Hogg, then a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas and co-founder of student-led group March for Our Lives (MFOL). “If you listen real close, you can hear the people in power shaking.”

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Now Hogg believes young voters will be the ones to decide this race’s outcome. In Florida, a critical state for President Donald Trump’s re-election, young voters are already turning out in big numbers. Recent data from polling firm TargetSmart shows more than 419,000 voters between the ages of 18 to 29 have cast their ballots in Florida so far — a 34% surge over the same group in 2018. “These elections really do matter,” Hogg says. “They’re not about voting for Democrats or Republicans. For young people, frankly, it’s about our survival.”

Hogg and other survivors of the Parkland shooting, in which 17 people died, have long been outspoken critics of Trump. On Oct. 22, Hogg tweeted video of Biden comforting the son of a Parkland school shooting victim, writing, “Trump never even came to Parkland. He spent 35 minutes taking photos at a nearby hospital, which he used in a fundraising email, then left for a disco party at Mar-a-Lago and golfed during the victims’ funerals.”

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On Oct. 24, Hogg and other youth activists joined a coalition of advocacy groups to host ‘VOTE WITH US,’ a virtual rally that encouraged young people across the country to vote. The event kicked off an 11-day on-the-ground effort to mobilize youth voters before Nov. 3. It showed never-before-seen clips of the film ‘Us Kids’, a documentary by Kim Snyder that follows the development of the MFOL movement.

https://time.com/5904030/march-for-our-lives-youth-vote-2020-election/



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A big blue wave is coming.



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