Patriotism means putting country first and
accepting the election results
Cleveland Plain Dealer,
by
Carol Moseley Braun
&
Deborah Pryce
Original Article
Posted By: OhioNick,
11/22/2020 9:04:59 AM
As former members of Congress from opposing political parties, we understand how high tensions can run around elections. But we also know that, regardless of whether we are pleased with electoral outcomes, we must accept the results. [SNIP] Remember that, above all, we are not Democrats and Republicans — we’re Americans. Now, it is time for us to act like it. It’s time to put our country first and listen to the will of the people. That’s how we ensure the integrity of our democratic processes for years to come.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Cat Ballou 11/22/2020 9:07:43 AM (No. 613112)
Really? I think protecting the Constitution is much more important than accepting an illegal election.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 11/22/2020 9:08:16 AM (No. 613114)
No, patriotism means searching for the truth.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
LeeBertie 11/22/2020 9:14:18 AM (No. 613125)
I smell flopsweat.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
pros7767 11/22/2020 9:19:06 AM (No. 613131)
Pryce waited 5 weeks for a re-count and she's telling Trump to give it up? Hypocrite!!!
How about WTP came out in droves for this President. So much so that they had to stop counting so they could modify the algorithms to steal it away from him. They can both go pound sand!
We'll accept the election results when he wins in a landslide!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
mizzmac 11/22/2020 9:20:38 AM (No. 613132)
Where were these two clowns four years ago???
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
FunOne 11/22/2020 9:22:57 AM (No. 613137)
The second paragraph of this article clearly establishes that the co-authors, a democrat and a RINO, are living in the Twilight Zone: "voters shattered turnout records this year. Historic numbers of Americans voted, and the 2020 elections were safe and secure, despite taking place amidst a deadly pandemic."
Yes, Donald Trump received a greater number of votes than any republican candidate, but overall, records were shattered by the number of BALLOTS, not votes. Secondly, their claim that the elections were safe and secure depend on partisan democrat claims and acceptance by Twilight Zone residents.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
klezmer 11/22/2020 9:23:48 AM (No. 613140)
I agree... as soon as we know the real results. When that happens, I'll accept it no matter who wins.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Samsquanch 11/22/2020 9:24:27 AM (No. 613142)
Carole Moseley Braun? Please.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 11/22/2020 9:24:40 AM (No. 613143)
These people know they stole the election, and twist the definition of patriotism to support their actions. In their warped world all forms of thievery would be considered patriotic. Guess that would make looting patriotic. We've heard BLM 'activists' say that.
We are seeing how corruption functions in front of our very eyes.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
sw penn 11/22/2020 9:26:42 AM (No. 613145)
"Patriotism means putting country first and
accepting the election results"
One can only hope that the dems can accept the results
when the courts throw out their media proclaimations
of their biden bite off.
Think that's what they mean?
Yeah, me neither.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
jimincalif 11/22/2020 9:27:35 AM (No. 613147)
Uh, no. Good comments here by Don Surber:
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2020/11/why-we-fight.html
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
kennedylaw 11/22/2020 9:28:54 AM (No. 613150)
ROFLOL! Like they did after Clinton lost the 2016 election?
Don't you just love it when liberals tell us what patriotism means?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
red1066 11/22/2020 9:33:35 AM (No. 613158)
That's true. Being patriotic does mean putting country first after an election, but only if that election was fair and not full of fraud. There were millions and millions of voters that didn't want Obozo elected as president, but they didn't riot or burn businesses because of it. As it turned out, those millions and millions of voters were right about Obozo, and they ended up voting for Trump to save the country. The results of this past election make absolutely no sense except if one factors in fraud. So the REAL patriots will march peacefully and protest peacefully until they have no other recourse but to fight back to save their country.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 11/22/2020 9:34:53 AM (No. 613161)
You convinced Mitt Romney and Jonah Goldberg.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Condor44 11/22/2020 9:35:17 AM (No. 613163)
Was the same said of the marches by democrats after the last election, or the refusal of dem congressmen to attend the inauguration or state of the union, or hillarys`s refusal toaccept the results? Why should Trump cave in? What hypocritical scum!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
BarryNo 11/22/2020 9:36:10 AM (No. 613165)
Patriotism means arming up and marching when the Constitution is being subverted. Americans were not meant to be sheep in any flock but God's.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 11/22/2020 9:36:57 AM (No. 613168)
Patriotism means protecting and defending the Constitution of the United States of America against ALL enemies foreign and domestic. It does not mean blindly accepting anything that goes against the rule of law - including questionable elections.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 11/22/2020 9:39:35 AM (No. 613170)
I refuse to accept and illegitimate and fraudulent election. If they are not exposed now and corrected, all future votes will turn out the way that the elite want it to be. The democrats and republicans involved are starting to sweat. The Gov in Georgia now wants a signature audit after he certified the election. Someone had a discussion with him about his future and him being involved in the fraud. I believe he will indicted along with the Secretary of State.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Aubreyesque 11/22/2020 9:41:34 AM (No. 613175)
FIVE YEARS of vile...utterly vile and treasonous unacceptance...therefore no mercy.
We create lists too.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
bpl40 11/22/2020 9:45:11 AM (No. 613180)
The headline is exactly right. Except it squarely applies to the other side!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Blizzard 11/22/2020 9:51:39 AM (No. 613192)
Carol Mostly Fraud knows all about stealing elections in Illinois. She needs to sit this one out.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
stablemoney 11/22/2020 9:55:13 AM (No. 613195)
I will never accept Joe Biden. Why did you louts nominate a criminal to succeed the criminals Obama, and the Clintons in the first place? It is because the Democrat Party is a criminal organization that has to stick together to keep out of jail. This is a stolen election. We will never get to check those servers or see the ballots.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
janjan 11/22/2020 9:55:32 AM (No. 613197)
The media obviously care nothing about their own credibility but now may be a good time for them to refrain from lecturing the rest of us on what it means to be a patriot. If the evidence Sydney Powell is promising comes to fruition, she will not only have exposed the biggest election fraud scheme in history, she will have pulverized the co-conspirators in the media. The Cleveland Plain Dealer doesn’t sell enough newspapers to pay the legal fees.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
MDConservative 11/22/2020 9:56:09 AM (No. 613199)
FTA: Remember that, above all, we are not Democrats and Republicans — we’re Americans.
And as Americans we should be united in demanding fair elections and honest outcomes. The thought we simply "must accept the results" is ridiculously wrong. We must not accept what our betters merely tell us is a questionable outcome. No corruption should be allowed to stand.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
hershey 11/22/2020 10:00:12 AM (No. 613205)
NOT if it was fraudulent, which it is...God, I pray every day that Trump triumphs and many liberal heads explode...
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Quigley 11/22/2020 10:06:45 AM (No. 613217)
Patriotism means putiing my group in power, you then shut up, or we’ll cutoff the toilet paper supply.
The four year investigation of Trump without a predicate or supporting facts was patriotic.
Questioning the outcome of an election a dim wins is unAmerican.
Are we clear on this?
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
czechlist 11/22/2020 10:08:09 AM (No. 613220)
So, after 4 years Patriotism is in vogue again?
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Albatross 11/22/2020 10:11:13 AM (No. 613226)
I've never heard of Pryce before. I looked her up on Wikipedia. She's the queen of the RINOs.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
StrikingViking 11/22/2020 10:11:54 AM (No. 613227)
In order to "ensure the integrity of our democratic processes for years to come" we ought to jettison the fraud-friendly election practices of late and demand in-person voting for the overwhelming majority of voters, voter photo ID at the polling places, regularly purged voter registration rolls, and effective bi-partisan election monitoring at the polling places and vote tabulation centers.
If a voter can't be bothered to register to vote and to show up at the polls on election day with a valid photo ID, that voter might be dead, living and voting in another jurisdiction, or just not motivated to vote for anyone. Democrats foisting that voter's illegal vote on the body politic disenfranchises Republican voters.
There will be no confidence in our democracy until the Democrats pull back from their election fraud coup against the oldest democratic republic in the world.
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Carol Mosely Braun defrauded Medicare by stealing her mother's payment and cashing it for herself, and then took a quarter of a million dollars (worth even more back in the 90s) bunch of trips, paid for by her campaign while her campaign workers went unpaid. And she's talking about ethics and integrity?
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Subsuburban 11/22/2020 10:13:07 AM (No. 613229)
Please point me to the time either of these two twits demanded that the democrats drop their "resistance" and embrace the Trump administration.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
FormerDem 11/22/2020 10:19:00 AM (No. 613234)
Patriotism means knowing the Constitution's basic provisions, and also, patriotism means not slobbering over authority, but instead, having the doubt over political motives that is a if not the main driver of the writing of the Constitution. Slobbering flattery of power is not patriotism. Nota bene.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Anti_democRAT 11/22/2020 10:23:41 AM (No. 613237)
Seems they just said for the good of the nation seal the steal and not fight for right. I would say in the face of all this impossible votes for biden and the greatness of Trump biden should concede the race. For the good of the nation that is.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
jalo1951 11/22/2020 10:28:18 AM (No. 613240)
"Because I said so" might have worked with your mother but not in this case.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
jasmine 11/22/2020 10:33:55 AM (No. 613245)
We're not talking about an election. We're talking about a COUP executed by dangerous electeds and bureaucrats from at least two past administrations, and foreign agitators with global designs on the United States of America. And let's not forget the willing participation of our disgusting anti-American media, which joined forces with traitors attempting to rob American citizens of their right to choose their own president.
Why in God's name were voting machines sending information about our PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION over the internet to Spain and Germany??? Somebody needs to go to jail.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
TJ54 11/22/2020 10:37:31 AM (No. 613249)
Carol Mosely Braun committed Medicaid fraud in Illinois, one of the many reasons she lost re-election to the US Senate
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Right Time 11/22/2020 10:42:50 AM (No. 613257)
To show you how corrupt this election was....Here, in Pennsylvania, 15 votes were recorded in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia voting districts for people whose date os birth was before 01 January 1900.
That's right! These voters would be AT LEAST 120 YEARS OLD! And these people voted in person!
(The officially recognized oldest American is 115 tears old)
Produce these 15 people, and I will believe the ballot count
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 11/22/2020 10:43:54 AM (No. 613258)
What's their motivation to urge people to accept what's given to them, no questions asked? Or even allowed?
This is NOT patriotism! Our history books tell us of our patriotism, of events like The Boston Tea Party. WHat do you think the British version of those events were at the time? Patriotism, or sedition?
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
PChristopher 11/22/2020 11:04:48 AM (No. 613271)
Everyone who wants to 'heal' and 'unite' just seems to be a Commucrat pushing the false narrative of an untainted election. Never Biden, ever!
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Kate318 11/22/2020 11:11:57 AM (No. 613275)
Yes, Carol and Deb.O.Rah...that’s what we are trying to do. We just want to do it with LEGAL election votes. Now, get out of the way, and let us do the job of the overwhelming majority of the American people.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Doc1 11/22/2020 11:13:10 AM (No. 613276)
You mean like Al Gore did in 2000. I expect you were all for that.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Rather Read 11/22/2020 11:16:05 AM (No. 613279)
That's rich coming from a party that spent four years trying to overthrow a legally elected president.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
andyboy 11/22/2020 11:43:59 AM (No. 613299)
Please re-run this piece after Team Trump reveals the massive vote theft in minute detail and Trump ends up with the votes needed to win the election (votes that were his to begin with before they were stolen).
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
columba 11/22/2020 11:54:00 AM (No. 613305)
I will choose God first. He has a comment to make about liars.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
Antioco39 11/22/2020 11:56:37 AM (No. 613309)
We Free Thinkers know beyond any shadow of a doubt that the Commie Left has had more than a year to plan and execute this farce of an election in especially the Blue States and cities. From bogus ballots, to criminal postmen, to lost and trashed ballots to fixing voting machines and they covered all the bases to assure a win for the demented Biden. hey knew that he could never win otherwise. It is totally irrational to think that the Trump haters and Left could make the American public believe that Biden/Harris could win, especially since Biden lived in his basement all these months and Trump was drawing tens of thousands at each rally for the last six weeks! The fix was in and they had plenty of time to implement it! Trump may not win the second term that we all hoped for but Biden won't be president long anyway. We will be stuck with another Obama in the likes of Harris and the country will have turmoil not seen since the civil war.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
Edgelady 11/22/2020 12:01:14 PM (No. 613314)
Maybe they were recipients of the Dominion machines. Who knows any more?
Plus, the Constitution has an app for these situations. No more editorials from “elected” politicians, please!
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 11/22/2020 12:17:27 PM (No. 613323)
That's not Patriotism, it's stupidity.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 11/22/2020 12:18:18 PM (No. 613324)
These two women have no clue, zero. Being American doesn't mean you are a doormat, nor does it mean you accept illegal fraud from your government. What kind of weird history classes did these two women take in school? I loathe moderate cuckie people, women especially, who expect us to just lie back and take socialism being forced down our throats.
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 11/22/2020 12:20:08 PM (No. 613326)
You lie cheat and steal
Then you pull the patriotism card on us?
GFY hypocrites
We are so on to you rats now...
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
john56 11/22/2020 12:37:37 PM (No. 613337)
Funny I didn't see an article like this from these two esteemed Democrat politicians four years ago. I think I'll adopt their attitude from 2016. Biden will never be my President. There.
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
Rama41 11/22/2020 12:41:03 PM (No. 613345)
"Patriotism means putting country first and accepting the election results" -- J. Stalin, 1934
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
anniebc 11/22/2020 12:58:26 PM (No. 613359)
Both of you, regardless of what you used to be, can shut up! Being a former member of Congress is not something to demand respect for or boast about. You're bums.
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
SavageRider 11/22/2020 1:02:57 PM (No. 613366)
Yeah, suddenly these Dims are Patriots screaming "Can't we all just get along!"
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Reply 54 - Posted by:
kono 11/22/2020 1:08:19 PM (No. 613370)
Carol Measly Brains promoting honor in politics is a little like A-Rod promoting integrity in sports.
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
ladycatnip 11/22/2020 1:46:48 PM (No. 613393)
I don't remember ANY democrats spouting this after Trump won in 2016. Instead we were told the American patriotic thing to do was "Resist!!"
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Reply 56 - Posted by:
Pault135 11/22/2020 1:58:23 PM (No. 613404)
In 1960 Richard Nixon put the country first and accepted the election results despite the obvious corruption in the Illinois election results. That eventually resulted in the Vietnam War.
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Reply 57 - Posted by:
kidsmom 11/22/2020 2:01:34 PM (No. 613405)
Wait! Wait! I'm supposed to move along, and accept this now.... and 4 years from now, when a conservative wins (again) and the election is stolen (again), I'm supposed to move along, and accept it.... ad infinitum. I don't think so. We fight for what is right. Now. If we lose, so be it. But never, never, never, give up. Churchill was right! Go Trump! Thank you for staying the course!
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Reply 58 - Posted by:
Luke21 11/22/2020 2:23:15 PM (No. 613427)
Screw these Democrat liars.
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Reply 59 - Posted by:
DVC 11/22/2020 2:30:59 PM (No. 613436)
Total BS.
Patriotism means INSISTING on free, fair and transparent. FRAUD FREE elections.
Mot covering up massive vote fraud
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Reply 60 - Posted by:
DVC 11/22/2020 2:31:47 PM (No. 613438)
Oops..
Not covering up....
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Reply 61 - Posted by:
DVC 11/22/2020 3:02:39 PM (No. 613458)
Carol Mosely Brainless.....
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Reply 62 - Posted by:
cactus 11/22/2020 3:17:34 PM (No. 613465)
Our “journalists” don’t want to remember or remind the public of Al Gore and Hilary Clinton and their non-acceptance of elections either. I believe this election is another coup attempt by the Democrats and Obama after putting the country through four years of trying. If they win it will be the third Obama term with Valerie Jarret running the show. Sure would be interesting to see an unexpected intelligence sweep of that mansion.
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Reply 63 - Posted by:
leonardo 11/22/2020 3:23:30 PM (No. 613469)
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools."
~ Herbert Spencer
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Reply 64 - Posted by:
cny 11/22/2020 4:24:00 PM (No. 613495)
Carol Moseley Braun... ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !!!!!
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Reply 65 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 11/22/2020 5:20:59 PM (No. 613531)
Putting country first means putting liberals in prison.
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We allowed Al Gore 37 days to find his 2000 victory, but these yahoos won't give Trump the same courtesy.
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Reply 67 - Posted by:
kono 11/22/2020 5:33:26 PM (No. 613537)
Patriotism means putting country first and shitcanning the Leftist propaganda, "Plain Dealer" dudes.
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Reply 68 - Posted by:
ronniethek 11/22/2020 5:53:52 PM (No. 613555)
Blowers moi.
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Reply 69 - Posted by:
Jebediah 11/22/2020 6:40:41 PM (No. 613596)
Wondered what ever happened to Carol Mosely Braun....yuk!
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Reply 70 - Posted by:
passchendaele 11/22/2020 7:09:16 PM (No. 613621)
If the roles were reversed, this journ-o-list would be singing a different tale.
As the left will wage war upon 1/2 of the American people if Trump concedes, I would prefer he just doesn't: fraud or no fraud.
The republic is pretty much dead anyway.
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Reply 71 - Posted by:
4Justice 11/23/2020 3:27:43 PM (No. 614380)
Patriotism means finding the truth and rejecting voter fraud. Only accept election results that are honest, free and fair. It is NOT patriotic to accept election results that have been manipulated.
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Comments:
What's shocking is that both of these women are members of the National Council on Election Integrity.