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”It is officially time for Trump to start panicking.“

Regardless, it is NEVER time to start being complacent. There isn’t a single unthinkable thing Trump and his enablers won’t do to steal the election.

Closing polling places in Democratic neighborhoods, sending out “information packets” to voters that list the the wrong dates for voting, using government agencies to create “evidence” of a Biden scandal. You name it.

Until the vote is certified we must recognize that Trumps defeat is far, far from certain.

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A story this week that was both huge and very good was the results of the election for Wisconsin's Supreme Court seat between incumbent right winger Daniel Kelly and his liberal Democratic opponent Jill Karofsky.

Republicans in that state pulled every dirty trick in the book in order to tilt the election their way. Forcing the election to happen in the first place in the middle of a pandemic, making it difficult for people to vote - in Milwaukee, where there are 180 voting stations available for an election, only FIVE were open to the public. The GOP openly, blatantly tried to suppress the vote in their favor.

The end result: Instead of winning, Republicans got their asses kicked in red state Wisconsin. Voters risked their health to turn out to those sparse stations and chose Karofsky over Kelly, 855,981 to 692,523 votes, or 55.3% to 44.7%.

This is fantastic news for Democrats, and horrible news for Republicans. It means Americans are getting sick and tired of Republicans dirty tricks, heartless governing, and the dangerously gross incompetence of Drumpf and his lackeys, and want a return to normalcy in government. Even if it means risking their health. With six and a half months to go until the federal election, the chances of a Blue Tsunami washing Republicans out in DC grows greater and stronger.

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Indeed. Wisconsin was wonderful news.

But while “the chances of a Blue Tsunami washing Republicans out in DC grows greater and stronger“, it is by no means of certainty. After Wisconsin, Republicans will just be more desperate, be even more eager to suppress the vote.

There are 6 1/2 months to go until the federal election. I’ll keep making this point because it cannot be stressed enough.

For the next 6 1/2 months, we can’t relax for a single minutes.

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I hear you. But this time, it's much different. Republicans will try and pull their usual dirty tricks, but the average American voter has awoken from their lethargic slumber to cast their vote for real, honest to goodness change. The last three years of elections have shown us that.

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“I hear you.”

And here I thought you said you’d blocked me forever.

I’m not sure that is actually *more* folks being bothered by what do Republicans have done. Trump’s base, and the petulants on the radical left still seem to be sticking to their usual stupiditys. I think it’s just that more of the people who have always been bothered by Trump or actually starting to take action. And we need that to continue, right through the day after the election.

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