Texas firm allegedly behind fake Biden robocall that told people not to vote::Tech and telecom firms helped New Hampshire AG trace call to “Life Corporation.”

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    The New York Times reports that “a subsidiary of Life Corporation called Voice Broadcasting Corp., which identifies Mr. Monk as its founder on its website, has received numerous payments from the Republican Party’s state committee in Delaware, most recently in 2022, as well as payments from congressional candidates in both parties.”

    That’s nice. The robocalls were sponsored by politicians. Can we please throw them in prison to rot for corruption now? No? Is that hoping for too much?

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      The US has become such a fucking deregulated hellscape and I hate that Canada is following their lead.

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      Republicans take election fraud very seriously. I’m sure they will be taking swift action here. 🤡

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    Wow, that’s literally “Hang-them-from-a-gallows” treason. I wonder if anyone will even get a wrist-slap.

    If this doesn’t get hammered to hell, we’re even more fucked than we are now.

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      My guy, democracy in your country was on life support when citizens United was enacted, and then Bush killed it when he stole the election from Gore. You guys have been so busy working your hands to the bone you didn’t realize you’ve been standing on the corpse of democracy for decades lol.

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      And Jan 6 was literally “shoot on sight” treason, but most of those people aren’t getting more than a year or two unless they’re a high profile oath keeper or whatever. We keep treating active attempts to subvert democracy and/or overthrow the government like this and it’s going to bite us in the ass.

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      Technically, it’s not treason unless it helps a country that the US is officially at war with. It’s Sedition and Election Interference by US Legal Definition.

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    Wow, I stand corrected. When this first happened, I said nobody domestic could actually be stupid enough to break multiple federal and state laws doing this, but here we are.

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        It’s 2024 and not only is Trump still not in prison after dozens of crimes, including national security breaches that would put any non-elite person behind bars for life, but he’s allowed to just fucking run for president again…

        I wonder how much longer it’ll take for the people to realize the courts are irreversibly captured, and the existing system too corrupt and compromised to prevent a fascist takeover. I expect that time will come only after the fascist takeover. Either way, this slow death is pathetic to watch.

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          If Obama had led an insurrection, it’d have been war in the streets and they’d have swept him away to some military black site, never to be seen again.

          USA ✊

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              Not even trolling. Can you imagine what would have happened if the first black president had tried to cling to power on his way out?

              USA: Not okay.

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                i apologize, I misread your comment. Thought you were saying you’d have been in the streets.

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    I seriously hope they throw the book at them, HARD. Close the shop, and put the people responsible behind bars.

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      The people responsible are the politicians who funded this shit. They’re not going to put themselves behind bars

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    People complain about the US international policy… but apparently election interference also just results in “cease & desist”.

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      So, just run in guns blazing? It’s unclear what you think they could have investigated by this point.