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This needs to go far and wide.

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Highlights of this thread:
1. China is the aggressor
2. Iran is the proxy bogeyman - the excuse to launch WWIII (look here not there)
3. Their aim is to divide the country against itself and they feel they succeeded
4. They use crime (poisoning) + law to protract the crisis
5. They are throwing low level operatives under the bus and distancing themselves from them
6. They are projecting their own crimes onto the victims of their crimes (eg blaming General Flynn’s “digital soldiers” for election interference - that is all of us, folks)
7. The war is going to intensify
8. We must stick together and pray if we are going to win
9. There are a lot of people who silently live in panic and fear for trying to do the right thing
10. Know that when Patriots speak of the true evil of the enemy we are fighting, that they are not making stuff up.

**THEY NEED TO COMPROMISE SCOTUS TO FINISH THIS — EYES ON!**
From me: Why in the last two days am I “suddenly” seeing Chinese social as a “share” item on YouTube; Chinese payment methods at CVS; and the Chinese non-social-distanced, New Year’s celebration online? Economy tops?

WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP
WAKE OTHER PEOPLE UP
WHITE SQUALL!
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Also, I am suddenly getting tons of recommended or promoted accounts that are blue checkmark Chinese.

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There is no scenario where Trump lets Biden steal the election.

There is no scenario where an elected official facilitates election fraud and gets re-elected.

There is no scenario where we accept this kind of tyranny as normal.

They stole the election again in Georgia because they don’t think they can truly get caught or lose. Broken machines, extended deadlines, blocked access to observers, sudden vote flip. They don’t care.

The way this ends is going o truly shock the world. It isn’t going to be trivial. It isn’t going to depend on Mike Pence.
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New: Dominion Voting Systems employee SUES Trump campaign and allies https://t.co/7dEEapCEYI via @MailOnline
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It’s amazing how the President actually gets his enemies to do the work of burying themselves.


In this audio, which of course the President knew was being taped (after years of leaks), the President gets the Georgia Secretary of State to own the faulty data. Raffensperger cannot claim he made a mistake.


It’s a sting. “Shredded ballots” and “took out machines” - “do you know anything about that? ‘Cause that’s illegal, right?”


How can the fake news claim that this audio is false? The answer is that they can’t. It comes from one of their own, The Washington Post.

Ryan Germany, General Counsel for Georgia’s Secretary of State, jumps in. “No, Dominion has not moved any machinery out of Fulton County.”

“But have they moved the inner parts?”

“Are you sure, Ryan?”
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They report, you decide.

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