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A Judge Finally Found Fraudulent Votes All From a Republican

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A prominent Georgia state Republican, who has repeatedly claimed the 2020 election was stolen, was found to have voted illegally nine times.

Brian Pritchard, the first vice chairman of the state Republican Party, violated state election laws when he voted illegally in nine elections from 2008 to 2010, a Georgia judge ruled Wednesday. At the time he cast those votes, Pritchard was still on probation after being convicted of a forgery felony in Pennsylvania in 1996.

Georgia is one of 15 states that bars people from voting until they have completed their sentence, including probation. Judge Lisa Boggs ordered Pritchard to pay a $5,000 fine for his illegal votes. He will also receive a public reprimand.

Pritchard told Boggs he believed he had completed his sentence when he cast the illegal votes. He said he was not aware that the Pennsylvania criminal court had extended his probation until 2011 for allegedly failing to pay $38,000 in restitution.

The confusing nature of the U.S. sentencing system is a real issue when it comes to voting rights. Multiple people, particularly Black people, have been charged for trying to vote while ineligible due to felony convictions. But Boggs said she did not believe this was the case for Pritchard.

In her ruling, Boggs wrote that she did not find Pritchard’s defense credible because he had appeared in court multiple times while his probation was extended. So he should have known he had not completed his sentence.

Pritchard, like many Republicans, has repeatedly insisted that the 2020 election was fraudulent, tipped in Joe Biden’s favor by thousands of illegal votes. No one, including investigators hired by former President Donald Trump, has found any evidence to back up this conspiracy.

https://newrepublic.com/post/180230/georgia-official-vote-illegally

Judge rules John Eastman should be disbarred for enabling Trump's cockameme election fraud theories

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https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/27/john-eastman-disbarred-00149468

A California judge on Wednesday recommended the disbarment of John Eastman, calling to revoke the law license of one of former President Donald Trump’s top allies in his failed last-ditch gambit to subvert the 2020 election.

Judge Yvette Roland, who presided over months of testimony and argument about the basis of Eastman’s fringe legal theories, ruled that the veteran conservative attorney violated ethics rules — and even potentially criminal law — when he advanced Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results based on weak or discredited claims of fraud.

Eastman plans to appeal Roland’s decision to a panel of judges, an interim step before the matter reaches the state Supreme Court. But while his appeal is pending, the ruling forces his law license into “inactive” status, meaning he can no longer practice law in California.
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Kosovo takes 'historic step' towards joining Council of Europe

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Tfw Kosovo is closer to joining the EU than Serbia

https://www.euronews.com/2023/04/25/kosovo-takes-historic-step-towards-joining-council-of-europe

Kosovo took a step towards joining the Council of Europe on Monday, amid fiery opposition from Serbia.

According to AFP, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe "transmitted for opinion" Kosovo's membership application to its Parliamentary Assembly, though it is unknown when this verdict will be delivered.
The Council of Europe is an international organisation founded after World War II to protect human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe.

It established the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which protects the rights of every citizen within the 46 states that signed up.

Kosovo Foreign Minister Donika Gërvalla-Schwarz welcomed the decision stating on Facebook their candidacy was approved with a two-thirds majority.

"For our new state, today's decision marks a historic step, perhaps the most important since our independence", she said, but warned the accession process remained "long and difficult".

Kosovo gained independence from Serbia in 2008, though Belgrade still opposes any international recognition of its former province.

101 countries formally recognise the tiny Balkan state, populated mostly by ethnic Albanians, as independent, including the UK, US, France and Germany.
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Guilty of voting illegally 9 times

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/03/28/brian-pritchard-georgia-illegal-voting/73135511007/

I'll just leave this here since I know 90% of you are bots and another 8% of you wont even read the article if I paste it.
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American Hero Jon Stewart Mocks Republican Run New York Post for Questioning His Home Sale

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https://www.newsweek.com/why-jon-stewart-home-overvaluation-different-donald-trump-1884757

Jon Stewart responded with characteristic wit Wednesday after a New York Post story, centered around a right-wing commentator’s tweet, tried to depict the Comedy Central host as a hypocrite after he criticized Donald Trump’s justification of bank fraud as a “victimless crime.”

The Post quoted podcaster Tim Pool, who baselessly wondered whether Stewart committed “fraud” when he sold his New York City penthouse for $17.5 million in 2014. The publication based its conclusion on the fact that assessor records from that year showed the property’s estimated market value sitting at $1.882 million. According to the Post, the property’s assessor valuation was under $850,000.

On Monday’s episode of The Daily Show, Stewart explained why Donald Trump’s claim that his bank fraud judgment for inflating property values to secure better loans—and then using lower values for tax purposes—was not a “victimless crime.”

“Money isn’t infinite. A loan that goes to the liar doesn’t go to someone who’s giving a more honest evaluation. So the system becomes incentivized for corruption,” Stewart said then.

These comments, apparently spurred Pool—and later the Post—to look into Stewart’s own past.

“Did [Stewart] commit fraud when he sold his penthouse for $17.5M? NY listed its market value at $1.8M [and assessed value] at around 800k,” Pool asked in a post on Twitter.

But Stewart wasn’t having it.

“OMG!! I've been caught doing something not remotely similar to Trump!” he wrote in a tweet late Wednesday afternoon. “I guess all I need to do now is start a fraud college, steal classified docs, bankrupt casinos, pay hush money, grab pussies, discriminate in housing, cheat at golf and foment insurrection and you'll revere me!”
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Blood on your hands

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Protesters have interrupted a star-studded campaign fund raiser for the US President.
Demonstrators shouted that Joe Biden has blood on his hands.

A star-studded fundraiser hosted by President Biden in New York City was interrupted multiple times by protesters inside the event, as well as outside, as protesters clashed with New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers on Thursday evening.

The protest, which migrated along Sixth Avenue and Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan, took place outside of Radio City Music Hall.

The fundraiser, which reportedly raised $25 million, also included an armchair discussion with Biden, former President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton. The Q&A was moderated by Stephen Colbert.

The protesters interrupted the session, with one shouting, "You're out of your f---ing minds." Outside, many participants shouted, "Genocide Joe, it is time to go."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/ritzy-biden-fundraiser-nyc-interrupted-multiple-times-pro-palestinian-protesters-blood-your-hands

Another DeSantis win

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Another win for DeSantis.
https://nypost.com/2024/03/27/business/disney-desantis-allies-settle-lawsuit-over-special-district/
Disney caves in high-stakes lawsuit against Ron DeSantis for control of district governing Orlando theme parks

Disney on Wednesday capitulated in its long-running legal battle against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — handing a victory to the Republican in the high-stakes fight over a $17 billion planned development at the company’s theme park near Orlando.

The Mouse House agreed to a settlement that gives up its self-governing powers over the Reedy Creek Improvement District, which was dissolved by DeSantis in 2022 after the company opposed his legislation. Disney had controlled the special tax district for decades.

As part of the deal, Bob Iger’s Disney also agreed to drop a lawsuit over access to public records and defer briefings in a federal lawsuit it filed against DeSantis as the two sides try to reach a consensus on a new development agreement for Walt Disney World, among other matters.

“This agreement opens a new chapter of constructive engagement with the new leadership of the district,” Walt Disney World President Jeff Vahle said.

DeSantis took a victory lap after the stunning turn of events, saying his administration was “vindicated” by the settlement with one of Florida’s biggest employers following the two-year feud.

“A year ago people were trying to act like all these legal maneuvers were all going to succeed, and the reality is here we are a year later, not one of them has succeeded,” DeSantis told reporters in Orlando.

“Every action that we’ve taken has been upheld in full, and the state is better off for it.”
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Justice=Served

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Sad Banfraud-Man, Democrat megadonor, fraudster, career criminal, scammer and remorseless criminal is sentenced to 25 years in prison

Democrats lose a powerful ally.

https://nypost.com/2024/03/28/us-news/sam-bankman-fried-faces-decades-in-prison-as-hes-sentenced-today-for-multi-billion-dollar-fraud/

‘Remorseless’ Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison — as judge rips him as power-obsessed scammer

A Manhattan judge ripped Sam Bankman-Fried as a “remorseless” scammer obsessed with political power as he sentenced the fallen crypto mogul to 25 years in prison Thursday — five months after he was found guilty of stealing more than $8 billion from customers of his now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX.

Judge Lewis Kaplan said the 32-year-old convicted fraudster “presented himself as the good guy” all in favor of “appropriate regulation of the crypto industry” — but it was just an “act.”

“He did it because he wanted to be a hugely, hugely political influential person in this country,” Kaplan said, blasting him as “remorseless.”

“He knew it was wrong, he knew it was criminal, he regrets that he made a very bad bet about the likelihood of being caught,” he continued, as Bankman-Fried stood in front of him with his hands clasped tightly at his waist.

Moments before the judge handed down the lengthy sentence, Bankman-Fried apologized for making “bad decisions” that “failed everyone I care about” — but maintained his actions “weren’t selfish.”

“At the end of the day, I failed everyone that I care about and everything that I care about, too,” he said at the hearing in Manhattan federal court.

“A lot of people feel really let down and, I’m sorry about that. I’m sorry about what happened at every stage,” the fallen crypto mogul, wearing light tan jail garb, continued.

“I made a series of decisions, they weren’t selfish decisions, they weren’t selfless decisions. They were decisions.”
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Liberals are controlled by fear

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The facts are in. Liberals are controlled by fear. Their tiny reptilian brains control they voting habits, and without higher order logic or executive functions, they are dominated by fear and anger.
They are just sad victims of the journo-political complex, reduced to mere automatons driven by hate and fear at the discretion of their corporate media masters.

https://apnews.com/article/democrats-republicans-emotions-election-poll-biden-trump-2d29d5b0be4fe11272ec372542b76b44

Trump evokes more anger and fear from Democrats than Biden does from Republicans, AP-NORC poll shows

Many Americans are unenthusiastic about a November rematch of the 2020 presidential election. But presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump appears to stoke more anger and fear among Americans from his opposing party than President Joe Biden does from his.

A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that Democrats are more likely to report feeling “fearful” or “angry” about the prospects of another Trump term than Republicans are about the idea of Biden remaining in the White House.

The emotional reaction Trump inspires may work in his favor too, though, since the poll also found that Republicans are more excited about the prospect of a Trump win than Democrats are about a Biden victory.

Seven in 10 Democrats say the words “angry” or “fearful” would describe their emotions “extremely well” or “very well” upon a Trump victory. A smaller majority of Republicans – 56% – say the same about a Biden triumph. About 6 in 10 Democrats cite both emotions when contemplating a Trump victory. Again, that exceeds the roughly 4 out of 10 Republicans who said they would feel both angry and scared about Biden prevailing
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Elon Musk had an affair with wife of Google co-founder, 3 years later she's RFK Jr.'s VP pick

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https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/28/forget-kennedy-democrats-here-comes-the-2024-kennedy-voter-00149427

The Kennedy dynasty is most closely associated with Massachusetts, but it is also deeply intertwined with California. This is where Robert F. Kennedy Sr. forged an enduring bond with farmworker activist Cesar Chavez before his tragic death in a Los Angeles hotel. Newsom, a prominent Biden surrogate, reveres RFK Sr. so greatly that he keeps his bust in his Sacramento office.

Yet here was a scion of that storied clan — in the bluest district of a resolutely blue state, a short walk from where then-Sen. Kamala Harris launched her presidential campaign in 2019 — standing before a crowd of voters waving American flags, asking them to reject both Biden and the Democratic Party.

“Our independent run for the presidency is finally going to bring down the Democratic and Republican duopoly,” Kennedy tells the crowd of mostly white Boomers and Gen Xers. “Nicole Shanahan,” he adds, “will help me rally support for a revolution against the uniparty rule from both ends of the right and left political spectrum.”
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