re: Remember when just the swing states simultaneously went to take a smoke break in 2020?

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Milwaukee County’s registered voters for the 2022 elections went down by 50,000 versus the 2020 elections.

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A review of data by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found that the share of Georgians who registered through the state Department of Driver Services fell from 79% in 2020 to 39% last year.

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Pretty smart to register them when they renew their DL. Half of them won't vote and don't care who mails in their ballot.

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less than 40,000 votes cumulative in 4 states

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So less than 50K changes everything.

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Tell the board about Russia, Russia, Russia.

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To summarize one example, Trump had a Russian lobbyist as his campaign manager. He asked the Russians to hack the Democrats' emails. Then he had another campaign member call and arrange for the emails to be released, 45 minutes after the Access Hollywood audio was released.

150 of them came from just one single hotel/flop house in Ohio.

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Voting by mail is a better option for many people experiencing homelessness because it allows them to circumvent requirements for government documents

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From NPR, known bastion of conservatives

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Many states, including Ohio, require government identification for in-person voting, Leith says, and not all homeless people have something that qualifies.

Leith says voter guides distributed by her organization recommend using the last four digits of a Social Security number as identification.

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Iron clad proof of who you are and where you live - any four numbers between 0-9. What a fricking tragic joke this has become.

We're nearly there, maximum clown world!

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To summarize one example, Trump had a Russian lobbyist as his campaign manager.

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When was Trump's defensive briefing on this with the FBI?

Ah ... yes ... I remember now.

There was no defensive briefing by the FBI.

Despite that, what did Trump do?

Ah ... yes ... I remember now.

He fired Manafort before the Fall Campaign even began.

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He asked the Russians to hack the Democrats' emails

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In public at a presser, he threw out his arms laughing and said "Hey Vlad, they say you've got Hillary's emails. Release 'em. Release 'em all. Thanks Vlad."

To imply Trump was serious is bizarre.

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Half of them won't vote and don't care who mails in their ballot.

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We all know this is what is happening. Some people can say it out loud. Others cannot.

The only thing more troubling than a stolen election is if the election was not stolen. If 81M actually voted for Biden then it’s done, it’s over, stick a fork in western civilization. There’s nothing left to fight for and look to the third world as our future.

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What does Trump getting a defensive briefing have to do with what I posted?

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Goodness Tex, I assumed as you brought it up, you'd have some rudimentary knowledge about the topic.

You referred to Trump's Campaign Manager. The man's name was Paul Manafort. You called him a "Russian lobbyist." Of course Manafort's connections were actually to Ukraine, like Hunter Biden's. But, be that as it may, Manafort did not divulge those foreign connections to Trump, and they had no basis whatsoever in Trump's decision to bring Manafort on.

Manafort was hired because Ted Cruz was getting beaten at the polls, but outmaneuvering the Trump Campaign with procedural technicalities behind the scenes. Cruz was attempting to manipulate GOP Convention delegates and policies. Manafort arrived with the experience and organizational expertise to shut Cruz down, and he did, very effectively.

In June, Jared Kushner who'd been the main force behind Manafort's hire, became suspicious of PM after Manafort arranged an odd, ill-conceived meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya, Kushner, and DJTjr.

JK began poking around and by August he'd uncovered various activities Manafort had hidden from the campaign team. Those activities included some of his Ukrainian work. JK passed this on to Sessions and Trump. Trump confronted Manafort, and fired him.

So that's the Manafort story in a nutshell.

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But what is missing in that whole sequence?

What is missing is a routine heads-up from the FBI.
That 'heads-up' is known as a "Defensive Briefing." It serves purpose to warn politicians and nominees of FBI/IC concerns regarding certain information, contacts, etc.

According to Comey, the FBI was wringing its hands over Manafort's foreign dalliances prior to the Veselnitskaya meeting. Yet, there was no STANDARD FBI DEFENSIVE BRIEFING which is ROUTINELY PROVIDED to a party front-runner in a situation like that.

To the contrary, instead of briefing Trump as they should have done, Comey and the FBI kept the information to itself. They chose instead to work cooperatively with the HRC Campaign and w/ Christopher Steele to concoct a bizarre series of fictional claims targeting Trump.

Given a routine, standard, normal, typical run-of-the-mill defensive briefing when the FBI first registered concerns, Trump could/would have acted on Manafort much earlier, and none of this would have even happened.

Instead, even to this day, someone like yourself is bamboozled into attaching RussiaRussiaRussia to Trump through the Manafort association.

So that's "what Trump getting a defensive briefing had to do with what you posted."

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Trump tries to walk it back by saying he doesn't know if it's Russia who has the emails. "I don't know who it is. If it is Russia..." "It's probably China," he blurted out.

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Interesting premise.
You say he "tried to walk it back"?
So who did have "those emails"?
Russia? China?
Indeed, which emails are we even referencing?

Because Hillary's cybersecurity was so horrible there were at least three major breaches. Remember?

(1) The John Podesta Phishing Breach: Podesta unbelievably kept years of confidential correspondence on a fricking Google Server! Brilliant! Then even more unbelievably, he was stupid enough fall for a Junior High School level Phish. All of his correspondences were exposed/published.

(2) Hillary's Home Network Wireless Server: While she was Secretary of State Hillary broke numerous national security protocols, but the most egregious was maintaining top-secret information on an open broadcast home network. Her imbecilic negligence allowed any country on the planet with even rudimentary cyber expertise to access some of the Obama Administration's most sensitive materials. It was around that time that several of our spy networks were coincidentally decimated. Later the FBI found out HRC transferred much/all of that info to another residential computer which was routinely accessed by a convicted pedophile. Remember?

3) The DNC "Hack": Actually not a "hack" at all. Just a simple download of information to a thumbdrive which was subsequently provided to wikileaks. Interestingly, the FBI is still lying about the source of the DNC wikileaks data, and perhaps lying about the Seth Rich connection to it. There may have been additional external DNC hacks/access-attempts by outside players. But those were not the source of wikileaks materials. The FBI knows that.

My recollection is Trump's comments referred to #2.
So with regard to "walking it back," neither he, nor you, nor anyone actually knows who had/has information from Hillary's kitchen pantry server network. It could be Russia. It could be China. It could be NoKo. It could be Britain, France, Germany, etc. It likely is all of the above. It's a virtual certainty several countries, allies and enemies, acquired everything that network contained, and whoever has it ... well, they ain't talking.