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Take all the assets from the Trump clan. May they live on Slide Row and under bridges.
General strike?
Why do the people who are running Trump (Heritage Society or whoever) want the USA to be weakened and isolated from the rest of the world?
Trump makes me physically sick because he reminds me of the divorce with my ex wife. Not alll divorces end in good understanding.
Eisenhower poisoned my mom with his promise the first birth control pills were safe. She had a nasty stroke. Eisenhower kicked us in the ditch. What a slimy POS he really was! Epstein, Epstein, Epstein!!!😮
OHIO has already capitulated to Trump's attempt to attach a specific number, and possibly even an attached bar code, to the specific applications mailed out traditionally to all voters in Presidential elections. The number is printed in a position on the application which reveals the number, (which can be specific to each individual enrolled voter,) to anyone who can see the front of the enclosed return envelope for the envelope has a see-through window pane which exposes the number to anyone who comes in contact with that envelope. Worse, if the sender writes in a return address, as we are all taught to do, to guarantee our mail can be returned if it is lost, that act of writing in your return address on the front of the envelope allows anyone in contact with the the envelope to associate your name and address with your personal voter ID number.
This is not a Presidential Election year, so sending out an application form for an absentee ballot unrequested suggests Ohio has already agreed to follow Trump's attempt to turn voting into an Executive Branch controlled act.The voter is being tricked into revealing personal information to any number of unknown, nameless people or machines which can pick up the revealed information.
Please remember there must be a way for the post office to read the number assigned by the Ohio government to a voter's application for an absentee ballot or an actual absentee ballot. That is why the number must be visible to the postal employee checking to make sure the application for an absentee ballot – or an actual absentee ballot itself – can be granted permission to use the postal service just to vote by absentee ballot and return it by post.
Buying a stamp is not enough. The potential absentee voter must give up privacy rights when electing to include a return addresops! (How convenient for the postal service to be protected from any blowback from a third party getting the voter's personal identifying number and personal name, address, city, State and zip code. The voter follows the rules and risks being hacked. The Post Office writes the rules to cover its own behind if the privacy rights of voter's are violated because it can claim the voter revealed the information willingly.)
Ohio sends these application forms out to everyone in a Presidential Election year. Not everyone uses them. But those who do must pass muster with the Post Office or their envelope will not be delivered to the Board of Elections.
What happens if the voter elects to use a regular business envelope, without a see-through pane, to return the request for an absentee ballot? Does the post office throw out the envelope on the assumption there is a request for an absentee ballot inside? What happens if the voter decides to protect his or her personal number and not include a return address or use anothervaddress? What authority has been given by the Constitution to allow the postal service to decide who gets permitted to vote, or vote absentee, or even just apply for an absentee ballot in the first place? When purchasing a stamp and sticking it onto an addressed envelope is suddenly not enough, I, as a willing and enrolled voter must also reveal my prearranged "voter identification" number, which I never agreed to have applied to me if I use my return address. How is this not voter suppression? How is this not voter intimidation
Let's assume the number on my absentee ballot application I got from calling the board of elections and requesting it (which did not come with a return envelope with a pane) or the same number which appeared on the preauthorized absentee ballot application form traditionally sent to all voter's in Presidential Election years gets into the hands of a gang which has robust hacking skills. What happens if that gang can do what we are assured cannot happen, that a private gang with very strong technical skills can get into my voting history and obtain the contents of my vote choices? This would be so helpful for any gang wishing to identify a voter to target with propaganda convincing them to vote in a specific way.
Could it also change voting choices in electronic files months or years after an election? Could this illegal change of votes be used if all voting is only done by using digitally recorded choices where no paper ballots are available for posterity to use to verify choices? Should voters be given a printout of their voting choices to retain for their records, as a hedge against illegal internal voting manipulation? Should voters be given more extensive ways to change initial votes to combine with other groups to put a different candidate in office before the actual voting is closed? In this instance, voters might actually benefit from having personal voting numbers assigned. Voter's themselves might be given the right to change their votes, using access through their personal unique numbers in an attempt to elect a better candidate, thus balancing some of the unfairnesses of the wealthy to swing elections through CPacs
Such large issues should not be left to politicians. Democracies are defined first and foremost by the degree to which the Governed are in charge of government and not the reverse. Government is based upon authority. Democracies do not permit the authority of Dynasties, or of Theocracies, or Monarchies or Aristocracies.
Democracies only permit the authority of the Governed as the creating and authorizing source. This must be seriously and robustly defended, for all Governments, once in power will claim to be the only source of authority needed to perpetuate themselves.
Domination of the individual's personal sovereignty to freely choose governmental organization must be recognized, resisted and replaced with protections equal in strength to the forces which will ineviably seek to illegally
overpower personal liberty.
Elders may not want to get in crowds & get sick . THEY DONT WEIGH WHAT THEY ARE CAUSING
It's about time someone stopped this crazy mail-in voting. Fraud in Connecticut shows the corruption.
Why would democrats want protected election all they done in years is cheat cant protect mail in ballots you are all stupid everyone would have to follow the rules it doesn't help just republicans job reports have nothing to do with teachers they still get paid in the summer
They need to change the name of this show because there is someone else running it far more often than Lawrence O’Donnell is.
Thx Jonnthon. Appreciate the information your guests provided, especially the low wage growth and inflation prediction coming soon. Make sure you are registered and let's do this!💙💙💙
😂 you can't trust this gov'ts numbers.
Where's Larry back in the mental institution?
F wall mart. Look at how they treat their employees…then look at how much money the owning family has made. Evil
MSMEOW=HATE
Amazing, Tiffany is a family member, now….another way to launder…
Talk to the millions who don't vote.
I have never forgotten President Obamas speech. Its yes WE can. People seem to be waking up but there will always be the sitters and the doers.
The jobs added is bogus. It's only teachers going back to work.
Got to give it to Trump that he incessantly comes out with one diabolic plan after another. He’s just a wrecking ball – anything to stay in power and enrich himself. A barbaric monster. So sick of hearing his name day in, day out. Get him out of the Whitehouse and into a jailhouse!
I HAVE to read that book!
The steal is on!!
1:45 there it is a request that we go back to performative grandstanding and those who don't act are problematic. Pushing allies away for clout is exactly how Trump got elected in the first place.
To make higher wages you have to be more productive compared to the rest of the world, not sit back and wait for your democrat welfare handouts.
When trump left office (begrudgingly) in Jan. 2021 he carried on a shadow government from Mar a Lago for the subsequent 4 years, hosting (illegally) foreign dignitaries and right-wing influencers.
(Maybe the six SCOTUS "justices", too?)
Well he’s getting people out to vote- NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT BEFORE! But why is he so reckless ahead of these midterms? HE KNOWS THE VOTING MACHINES ARE RIGGED. This has been a toxic topic due to false claims sullying the concept of ensuring that the results are valid. Now, why do you see how that was part of the takeover strategy?
The mosr childish, stupid and egotistic thing ever elected to public office ever; and anywhere, at any time in humanities sordid history.
Democrats on the Lindsay Clancy jury tried to free the baby murder because they love murdering babies too. A lone Republican stopped them.
How can this happen…
How can the supreme court comply with wrong ?
Job numbers are a joke. Schools opened. Janitors, bus drivers, teachers, admins etc. hired. It is a JOKE!
So, it basically boils down to voting in November… but what happens if they declare the election null and void? 🤔
The party that lets 20 million people break into our country, puts criminals back on the streets, allows the taxpayers to be robbed and defrauded, and fights tooth and nail to keep all of this going, should NEVER be in a position of power ever again.
Those job numbers are b***** they'll be downgraded next month
The steal is on!!
"ALL OF THE FILES" 9 / 4 /`26
Day 259 in VIOLATION of The Epstein Transparency Act
Day 258 of the COVERUP by REPUBLICAN COWARDS
Leadership through Capitulation is Not Democracy
60 Days until the MIDTERMS
💙WE REMEMBER💙
HERE COMES NOVEMBER
🎉GOP Is fulfilling the great hope of the New World, America 🌎 by fighting against Prejudices of the Fake left or right🎉
There will be an economic collapse on our oligarchy before we make peace with the world.
Great show, Jonathan ❤
CRAZY LARRY, BSN0W HASN'T PUT UR $ENIAL A$$ 0UT 2 PASTURE YET?!😂
Why do you respond as eos are laws? Just stop!
If you hang an American Flag outside your home, people will know you're not a democrat that hates our country!
I already put together a thumbnail concept for this one after hearing the discussion on political division and the future of democracy.
I work on YouTube thumbnails and video editing professionally, so your breakdown of this segment inspired a different visual direction worth testing. I'd really like you to see the version I made. What's the easiest way for me to send it over?
So it boils down to voting in November… but what happens if they declare the voting null and void?🤔
Good rest,Lawrence 😮
What is this rubbish?