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Here's the thing. Everyone keeps saying "oh yeah this minority faction absolutely voted for the asshole that is trying to put them/(their family) in literal concentration death camps." Sorry, no. I don't fucking believe it. I have worked among Republican minorities, I have worked with Republicans, I have worked with way more liberals as my choosing, but this whole FACADE that the 7 swing states MAGICALLY swung minority voters just because Elon was buying them off? Absolute fucking bullshit. 1) they aren't stupid 2) they aren't cultists 3) they have FIRST HAND experience with the racist effects and tyrannical dictators and mob bosses and violence and 4) they are NOT as savvy at figuring out A] their ballot went missing B] got replaced at the booth. MUCH LESS C] What to fucking do about it.

<- I'm indigenous not on reservation, and I've voted green party 3 times in major elections. I spent a few years in upstate NY before returning to my childhood district right before covid hit. While in NY since I had NO rapport with my rep there (Paul Tonko, ironically despite being Democrat because Albany) so when my ballots were suddenly not getting through in the primaries and after I just figured "Man NY's whole voting system being different from MA is weird, I must have done it wrong 3 times in a row??? WHAT IS THAT ABOUT?" Meanwhile back in MA; Jim McGovern I have known since I was 14 as a baby activist liberal and never shy about writing everyone/anyone and getting petitions going. This was the first year my father: an army vet who hasn't once moved from this town in 30 years suddenly had his ballot go missing. My mother's? Same. Mine? SAME. And isn't it FUCKING PRECIOUS that *only* the minorities went missing???? Because Russia & Republicans realized in 2004 (Yes, THAT FAR BACK with John Kerry!!!) that singling out the minorities that typically vote Democrat (because we aren't fucking stupid, and we do not vote against our self interests in numbers to matter) was a giant fucking red flag. And even as obviously MENTAL as RFK Jr. is NOW, back then, the brainworm hadn't gotten through so much of his brain, so he called it the fuck out. https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/voting/press/WasThe2004ElectionStolen.pdf Democrats need to stop trying to be politically correct insofar as "well, it's POSSIBLE I GUESS THAT THESE MINORITIES JUST GOT DUPED." And stop being so fucking FUCKING WEAK that they actually STAND UP FOR US VOTERS!!! I'm so fucking pissed. Ben, Harry, fucking go talk to these minorities before you let the CONVICTED IN A CRIMINAL COURT OF LAW FOR VOTER FRAUD DUPE YOU AGAIN. He didn't even bother doing it *well.* Fuck.

Even being super white-passing in one of the richest towns in America, *I'm* still scared to make too much noise, but I don't have the megaphone you two do. NOR do I have a law degree. What I do have on both of you is simply lived experience. I didn't vote for the fucking orange fascist clown. And in fact, I got 10 people to vote for Harris, and NONE OF US were going to because she would have locked my parents in jail (it's a health thing, I had undiagnosed Cystic Fibrosis -- just got diagnosed after losing a lung THANKS TO TRUMP'S FIRST TERM OF HELL, and I missed an obscene amount of school on account of it.) but we didn't underestimate the threat. My town has one of the highest Jewish populations in the state. Yes, it's MA, and yes MA was the least Trumpy, but I haven't met ANY Jewish person ANYWHERE that voted for this fucker and yet supposedly he totally swung a bunch because /checks notes/ Harvard and Tufts let Palestinians ask not to have their families murdered. I cannot express more strongly how much this is fucking BS. You guys are doing the same thing as DNC consultant class, and they're all fucking IDIOTS and if they weren't, they would actually be trying to WIN instead of what they are REALLY doing which is fucking holding back the truth.

Use your heads. GO TALK TO YOUR OWN AUDIENCE AND OUTREACH.

AND for the love of fucking everything under the sun; ask Michael Cohen all the techniques Trump used to fake the 2016 election; PRINT IT UP IN A GIANT LIST And remember those are only the ones Cohen knew about in 2015/2016. Trump's had 8 years to do NOTHING ELSE but figure out how to make things worse this time around and isolate himself with the worst of the worst who have no other goals and are all locked into a death cult pact to the end. If he's managing successes on every single other front, how can you POSSIBLY believe America VOTED FOR THIS? We didn't. Stop wasting a second/SINGLE BREATH on ~scolding~ victims and start figuring out "What should we do, now that we know he stole this election? How can we fix this?" ASSUME THERE IS A WAY but THIS? This whole "ahhh small tiny little fractions of minorities Trump was able to PRETEND ARE IN HIS CAMP BY LITERALLY HIRING PAID ACTORS WHO DO NOT EVEN VOTE FOR HIM EVEN THEN toooooooootalllly voted for him because they just SO EASILY BELIEVE ANY/ALL PROPAGANDA and our own messaging just was TOO WEAK" is falling into Trump's distraction trap. Every breath you spend on this, is one you aren't looking at how he did and how to fix it. Get your head on the game, it's been 8 months for fuck's sake. I expect better. Do it.

Oh, and for the record? No, my parents' and my ballots still isn't resolved. I trust McGovern because he Literally saved my life (twice) but I know if MA got this fucked up, how badly did everywhere else? Get organized. That's what Trump fears.