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It all feels like watching a Veep x Idiocracy mash-up. Surreal and scary as fuck.

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Americans are a big war tribe. After eating a heavy dose of amanita muscaria they start singing their traditional war chants and perform dances to induce a blood rage before they go into battle.

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I was listening to some trump supporters being interviewed on radio4 last night while stuck in traffic. Those dickheads are all deliciously unhinged.

I have a theory explains trump supporters, Facebook conspiracy theories, brexit voters etc, not sure if I've ever posted it before:

Lead poisoning

That shit was in everything until what, mid late 80s? A decent proportion of todays 50+yr olds spent the majority of their early years completely saturated by lead and now their brains are mush.

We just have to wait for them all to die. This is why rona is actually a good thing.

(I'm joking, but also not)

 

 

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aye, it’s easy to look at the trajectory of history and wonder why people in the past seemed fucked in the head enough to do truly horrendous shit. oh wait...

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Hey, fellow Trump supporters, just stopping by to say hi to all 0 of you in this magnificent circlejerk thread

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Some songs I made with my fingers and electronics. In the process of making some more. Hopefully.

 

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not that i think trump and barr are dumb enough to do this, but, just to document it for watmm record

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Armed Agents Are Allowed in Ballot-Counting Venues, Justice Dept. Tells Prosecutors

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/us/politics/justice-department-armed-officers-election.html

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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department told federal prosecutors in an email early on Wednesday that the law allowed them to send armed federal officers to ballot-counting locations around the country to investigate potential voter fraud, according to three people who described the message.

The email created the specter of the federal government intimidating local election officials or otherwise intervening in vote tallying amid calls by President Trump to end the tabulating in states where he was trailing in the presidential race, former officials said.

A law prohibits the stationing of armed federal officers at polls on Election Day. But a top official told prosecutors that the department interpreted the statute to mean that they could send armed federal officers to polling stations and locations where ballots were being counted anytime after that.

The statute “does not prevent armed federal law enforcement persons from responding to, investigate, or prevent federal crimes at closed polling places or at other locations where votes are being counted,” the official, Richard P. Donoghue, told prosecutors in an email that he sent around 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday.

A Justice Department spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment.

Mr. Donoghue, the No. 2 official in the office of the deputy attorney general, Jeffrey A. Rosen, sent his email about half an hour before Mr. Trump made reckless claims including falsely declaring himself the winner of the election and began calling for election officials to stop counting ballots.

“We want all voting to stop,” Mr. Trump said at the White House. He said, without offering details, that his campaign would “be going to the U.S. Supreme Court” over the election count. The Trump campaign said later in the day that it was filing lawsuits in multiple states, including Michigan, to halt or protest vote counts.

One state election official vowed to resist any interference or intimidation efforts by federal officials.

“Elections are a state matter, and we have authority as state officials over anyone trying to enter locations where ballots are being counted,” said Attorney General Maura Healey of Massachusetts. “Anything else is a radical reinterpretation of the law. States can handle elections, and we will ensure the people decide the outcome.”

The election has been both unusual and charged. A historic number of mail-in ballots, prompted by the pandemic, have slowed the work of local election officials who tally them. And Mr. Trump has for months stoked fears about the integrity of the vote and amplified unfounded conspiracy theories that slow-counting states could not be trusted, intensifying his baseless accusations as the count stretched on past Election Day and his opponent, Joseph R. Biden Jr., gained an edge in key states.

Attorney General William P. Barr also spent the months leading up to Election Day echoing the president’s dark warnings, claiming without evidence that the wave of mail-in ballots would lead to an unprecedented amount of voter fraud.

He cited one example of 1,700 falsified ballots that The Washington Post found to be false. A department spokeswoman blamed an inaccurate memo from an aide.

The new legal interpretation about armed officials at vote-counting locations appeared to be another example of the attorney general mirroring Mr. Trump’s public posture, former Justice Department officials said.

“This seems like a messaging tactic for the attorney general,” said Vanita Gupta, the acting head of the department’s Civil Rights Division under President Barack Obama. “Lawfully, the Justice Department can’t interfere in the vote count, enter polling places or take ballots, even in the course of an investigation.”

In instances where the department can secure access to ballots for any investigation, Ms. Gupta said that federal law allowed law enforcement officials to “copy and inspect, but that ballots stay in the hands of local election officials.”

Justice Department officials said this week that they expected lawyers for the Trump and Biden campaigns to take on court challenges related to the election, and that the Trump administration would have little, if any, role.

Election experts said that any effort by the Justice Department to blatantly interfere in the election would immediately prompt legal challenges. Still, armed officials arriving at ballot-counting locations even for investigatory purposes could intimidate or otherwise disrupt the process, they warned.

“The very strong, longstanding norm is that the federal government does not seek to do anything to interfere with a state’s ability to count votes and certify elections,” said Kristy Parker, an official in the department’s Civil Rights Division during the Obama administration.

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Angela Stanton-King, an African American Trumper running to fill John Lewis’ vacated House seat, received less than 15% of the vote, ouch.

https://thegrio.com/2020/11/04/trump-ally-angela-stanton-king-loses-georgia/

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  On 11/5/2020 at 2:16 PM, Amen Lare said:

Hey, fellow Trump supporters, just stopping by to say hi to all 0 of you in this magnificent circlejerk thread

yeah! why aren't there more trump supporters hanging out here? Richard's recent online outburst whining about lock downs should have drawn them straight to us! "who is aphex twin" I'd imagine was the top google search in MAGA circles that day. then it's only a matter of time before they dive in to the back catalogue of the Analogue Bubblebath series, SAW II, and ultimately become watmm members.

fuckin puzzled as to why this hasn't happened yet...

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A strange election indeed. Seeing Orange and his disciples already losing morale by melting down and throwing shit fits has to be a good sign though right?

 

  On 10/21/2015 at 9:51 AM, peace 7 said:

To keep it real and analog, I'm gonna start posting to WATMM by writing my posts in fountain pen on hemp paper, putting them in bottles, and throwing them into the ocean.

 

  On 11/5/2013 at 7:51 PM, Sean Ae said:

you have to watch those silent people, always trying to trick you with their silence

 

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  On 11/5/2020 at 6:37 PM, colunga said:

trump is looking at this map rn:

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