• Optional@lemmy.worldOP
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    There were a lot of storylines stemming from former President Donald Trump’s Atlanta rally Saturday, beginning with Trump’s bitter attack on Gov. Brian Kemp, his congratulating Vladimir Putin for last week’s prisoner swap, his swipes at Georgia State University, and somewhere in there, his shots at Vice President Kamala Harris.

    But in the midst of all this clickbait, something really serious happened, and it hasn’t received the attention it deserves. Trump publicly recognized three members of the State Election Board, who were sitting right in front of the speaker’s podium.

    “They’re on fire. They’re doing a great job,” Trump said to cheers from the audience. He said the three board members, Janice Johnston, Rick Jeffares and Janelle King, were “all pitbulls, fighting for honesty, transparency and integrity.”

    The first line in the election board’s code of conduct states that members “shall be honest, fair, and avoid any appearance of conflict and/or impropriety.” If sitting on the front row of a major rally basking in praise from a presidential candidate doesn’t look conflicted and improper for an election board member, what does?

    Alert . . . Fascism in Progress . . . Alert

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      Ahh, they must’ve found the 11,780 votes Trump was looking for a few days before Jan 6.

      So far all he managed to find from that phone call was a second impeachment and two indictments.

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      The fact that it won’t should say all we need to know about the role of corporate news in politics.

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        I’ve seen bigger pubs bringing it up frequently, but not this specifically with these people being called at his rallies. That is incredibly blatant.

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    I’m definitely worried about what shenanigans they’re going to pull in November. They tried to steal the election in 2020 and they’re going to try again…and it seems like they learned a few lessons from the first time