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Mr.WeRP

Mr.WeRP's Journal
Mr.WeRP's Journal
October 25, 2024

Dear Garland: Why is the Media doing your Job? Can we have an indictment now?

https://x.com/MeidasTouch/status/1844762232900477412

The New York Times has been able to confirm, for the first time, that there has been coordination between the Trump Campaign and Twitter, or in other words, Elon Musk. In a new article released this morning, the Times writes:

"The relationship has proved significant in other ways. After a reporter’s publication of hacked Trump campaign information last month, the campaign connected with X to prevent the circulation of links to the material on the platform, according to two people with knowledge of the events. X eventually blocked links to the material and suspended the reporter’s account."


If we had a real AG, Musk would be indicted by now.

Oh yeah, there’s also this:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-vladimir-putin-conversations-threats-1235142693/

Musk Has Regularly Talked to Putin, Faced ‘Implicit Threats’: Report
The billionaire and Russian president have discussed personal issues, business, and geopolitics, according to the Wall Street Journal

Tech billionaire Elon Musk and Russian President Vladimir Putin have been regularly contacting each over the last two years, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday night.

The topics of discussion have included personal matters, business, and geopolitical issues, according to current and former United States, European, and Russian officials.

Among many of the deeply concerning revelations in WSJ‘s report include a request from Putin made last year asking Musk to not activate his Starlink satellite internet service over Taiwan as a favor to China’s top leader, Xi Jinping. Russia heavily relies on China for trade, including industrial equipment and consumer goods, and to weather Western sanctions.


ON EDIT: For those who complain Indictments and Prosecutions take time, Reality Winner was Indicted LESS THAN A MONTH after she leaked a classified document that showed Trump colluded with Russia.
October 24, 2024

Here's all the tea leaves I need: McConnell openly attacking Trump

Calling him a sleaze-ball, narcissist and a danger to our country.

Internal polling for Trump must be so bad that McTurtle has no fear in openly going after him. If McConnell thought Trump was going to win, you know he would be balled up in his turtle shell and saying he backs the nominee for the party.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/23/politics/mcconnell-trump-gop-new-book/index.html

October 24, 2024

Swing State Early Voting Update

This is an update of where the election is on early voting and as it is compared to the vote totals from 2020. Data is sourced from https://election.lab.ufl.edu.

When states share party affiliation, that is shown by percent breakdown. When states share gender, that is shown since there is an obvious gender gap this election cycle. (EDIT: WI does not share early voting data.) I am also considering FL a swing state this election cycle. I would have included TX but they do not share early voting data.

Summary: turnout in early voting is good with 12 days to November 5th. The largest early voting turnout so far is in GA, MI, NC, PA and VA. Dems are outpacing Reps in early voting for MI and PA by large margins and close in the remaining states. However, there is a clear gender gap in early voting with Women outpacing men by 10+ points in all states that report it.

AZ
=================
Total: 916,688
Percent of 2020: 37
Percent Dem: 35.9
Percent Rep: 41.8

FL
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Total: 2,817,925
Percent of 2020: 31
Percent Dem: 36.3
Percent Rep: 43.5

GA
=================
Total: 2,159,980
Percent of 2020: 53.8
Percent Female: 55.3
Percent Male: 44.1

MI
=================
Total: 1,309,097
Percent of 2020: 46.1
Percent Female: 56.4
Percent Male: 43.4

NV
=================
Total: 332,668
Percent of 2020: 29.6
Percent Dem: 36.0
Percent Rep: 39.5

NC
=================
Total: 2,007,659
Percent of 2020: 43.7
Percent Dem: 34.0
Percent Rep: 34.2
Percent Female: 52.1
Percent Male: 42.2

PA
=================
Total: 1,120,904
Percent of 2020: 42.6
Percent Dem: 61.0 !
Percent Rep: 29.2

VA
=================
Total: 1,205,062
Percent of 2020: 44
Percent Female: 55.2
Percent Male: 44.8





October 23, 2024

Shit's about to get real: there is video of Trump groping a minor

There have been rumors over the last couple of days about it and the right is prepping by saying it is AI generated.

Keith Edwards, Dem strategist, appears to confirm:


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UPDATE: This appears to be a story that was pitched to Halperin: https://www.newsweek.com/mark-halperin-says-hes-been-pitched-story-that-could-end-trumps-campaign-1973637
October 23, 2024

Garland's DoJ pens strongly worded letter to Musk

https://www.24sight.news/p/scoop-doj-sends-musk-pac-warning




The Justice Department's head of election crimes sent a warning letter to Elon Musk's America PAC Monday, alerting it that it was a crime to knowingly offer anything of value to register to vote or vote, a person familiar with the warning letter told 24sight News.

Robert Heberle, the head of the Justice Department's election crimes branch, wrote in the brief warning letter to America PAC lawyer Chris Gober, that offering anything of value to influence voting was in violation of U.S. law barring-payments to sway votes.




Must be nice to be an oligarch who commits crimes and is only sent a letter for it.
October 22, 2024

I think I figured out Trump's strategy for after he loses. You may want to take a seat.

Take a look at this election map for this year:


Consider these states:
AZ, GA, NC and NV

Recently, I've posted about how Trump has been paying millions for swing state polls. The main vendor is Fabrizio. If you look at the states where there are more Fabrizio polls than other swing states, it is NV, AZ, GA and NC to the tune of 1 and sometimes 2 or 3 per week (under different collabs with other pollsters). Even now, in places like PA, MI, MN, WI, Fabrizio has slowed down and many of the polls are 1-2 weeks old in these states.

Now, if you correlate that with the Early Voting data, three of the states where Democrats are NOT outpacing Republicans are:
AZ, NC, and NV. Note: GA doesn't release party affiliation with early voting data.

These are the only swing states with Rs leading Ds (or close) in early voting where party affiliation is tracked. I believe Trump has gotten the word out to his voters in these states to commit to early voting and to get the turnout he needs to win them. If he does this, then he is just one electoral vote flip away from contesting the election. Maybe Younkin in VA or he has a henchman issue threats in urban areas of PA to dissuade enough voters to flip PA or similar state or convinces the NE legislature to flip the one blue elector in that state. Roger Stone is saying they will have armed guards patrolling polling locations FFS. I put nothing past him in this regard. If this happens, it will end up in the hands of SCOTUS and unless we substantially win one or more of these four states, I fear another Gore v. Bush.

October 22, 2024

Well, it's over folks. MSNBC says Harris campaign is failing

Of course this is the noon hour.

But they had Kasich on saying the campaign has failed because Harris went into preemptive defense when they didn’t have the lead. And he said “Who is Liz Cheney? She represents no one”

I swear, MSNBC is almost as bad as the NYT.

They are attempting to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Allowing Kasich to spout off as if Harris has failed without challenging him is journalistic malpractice. Wait.. what am I thinking.. journalism is on life support in this country.

Rant off.

October 21, 2024

PA: Close to 1 million people have voted. 63% of those early votes are Democrats

See: https://election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/2024-early-voting/2024-general-election-early-vote-pennsylvania/


Democrat 578,883. 63.0 %
Republican 253,765. 27.6 %
None/Minor 86,817. 9.4 %
————————————————
TOTAL: 919,465

October 20, 2024

Trump serving Hamberders from McDonald's proves one thing

Kamala is all up in his head, rent free.

This sad fuck can’t get over the fact that Kamala is the real deal and Trump is just fake shit.

Maybe it will teach Trump a thing or two… lol what am I thinking, this dog is too old to learn a new trick.

Fuck Trump.

October 16, 2024

Union Workers React To Trump's Scab-ass Comments On Overtime



Sorry if the embed isn’t working… it is a shorts video.

On edit: got an embeddable version, thanks to mercuryblues: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219571618#post6

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