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The GOP are no better than fucking grave robbers.  In Wisconsin, Michigan & North Carolina they attempted or are attempting to severely strip the power of the duly-elected democratic governor in those respective states.

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The GOP-dominant legislatures in these states have thumbed their collective noses at the popular vote in those states – wherein Democrats were/have been installed asgovernor – only to be thwarted by GOP midnight legislation designed to stifle or thwart the ability of the newly-elected Democratic governor to exercise their legally-obtained power via the ballot box.

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Whether it’s the governor’s right to appoint the State Board Of Election members, or stripping away the power of the Democratic state attorney general ‘s ability to handle cases wherein state law is under attack from third-party, outside litigants or to allow for adequate early voting leading up to elections, the GOP is rigging the political system to counter their losses of the governor’s mansion at the ballot box.

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In Wisconsin, Republicans aim to limit early voting, change the date of the state’s presidential primary to help a conservative member of the Wisconsin Supreme Court win re-election, limit the governor’s ability to make certain appointments and block Gov.-elect Tony Evers from eliminating a state economic development agency.

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Another bill would overhaul the state’s elections boards, the latest in a long series of steps Republicans have taken to alter the voting process in the state, many of which have been turned back by federal courts. Other steps would slash currently required environmental reports and reduce regulation elsewhere.

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In Michigan, under Governor Rick Snyder, the Michigan legislature has taken it upon themselves to insert the legislature into the attorney general’s office by crafting legislation that allows for the legislature to intervene in cases where the state is being sued by third parties/outside interests.  In addition, against the wishes of the voters of Michigan who approved of a ballot measure to raise the minimum wage and allow for more generous sick leave, the Michigan GOP-dominated legislature decide otherwise and instead moved to undo the will of the voters of Michigan!

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In all states, the GOP was and is acting contrary to the popular will of the people who elected a Democrat as governor!

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In North Carolina in December-2016, the GOP-dominated legislature acted to thwart the victory of newly-elected democratic governor, Roy Cooper, by signifcantly scaling back his power of appoints to various governmental agencies such as the State Elections Board, The Superintendent of Education and a host of other areas.

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In total, the legislation in during this time – (Dec.-2016) – was designed to reduce the number of appointments opportunities available to the new Democratic Governor, Roy Cooper, to a total of a mere 300, a steep reduction in contrast to the 1,500 appointments that were available to his immediate predecessor, the former Republican governor – Pat McCrory.

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All-in-all – these 3 states starkly sketch our the brazen and shameless ploys that the GOP is more than willing to undertake to “manhandle” democracy that has been won at the ballot box.

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Grave robbing is the only way to characterize the GOP’s despicable behavior.  They can’t win fair & square at the ballot box. So, in the dead of night – as in Wisconsin and Michigan – or – as in North Carolina — where a governor typically calls a special session— the North Carolina legislators – used an obscure legislative maneuver to call themselves back into a “special” to pass measures designed to illegitimately hamstring the newly-elected democratic governor.

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Thank God for Bob Mueller, because these shenanigans – along with the REMOVAL of Donald J. Trump + Mike Pence – in the not-too-distant future – will serve as a kibosh on Republican Thugocracy – as they will find the 2020 election season way more unfriendly to their underhandedness than the 2016 election cycle.

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Paul Manafort has forfeited his plea deal arrangement with Russia probe Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller.  It seems that the Mueller team got fed up with all of the lying that lying Paul committed after agreeing to “tell all” truthfully after agreeing to plead guilty to 1 or 2 counts of tax/bank fraud in exchange for lenient treatment as a witness for the prosecution.

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That’s in the rear view mirror now.  Mr. Manafort will now face sentencing on two conspiracy charges and eight counts of financial fraud — crimes that could put him behind bars for at least 10 years.  Manafort is 71 years old. Rot-in-hell, bastard!  Manafort figures he’ll get a pardon from the Dumpster but unfortunately, Mueller has arranged it so that if that were to happen the State of New York could take up the case & bring up the same charges against Manafort where a presidential pardon will have no effect at all. 10-years it is, maybe 20! maybe 50!

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The latest LIE involves Manafort secretly meeting with Julian Asange in March-2016 at the Equadorian embassy in London.  You remember Julian Assange – of Wikileaks fame – who engineered the mass dump of Hillary Clinton emails on 2 separate occasions in 2016 – once in August and again in October – designed to do great damage to Hillary’s campaign.

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It appears from the timeline – given that Manafort assumed the role of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign manager in March-2016, that these email dumps were planned well in advance by both the Trump campaign – Wikileaks – and the Russian intelligence misinformation operatives.  The starting point appears to be close after Manafort’s March-2016 secret visit to Assange.

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Manafort, wittingly or not, was a Russian agent at the heart of the Trump 2016 campaign.  Manafort took the job of campaign chairman because he was desperate for income – having fallen on hard times – he was deeply in debt – and was willing to trade his crucial position within the Trump campaign to turn his personal finances around and work hand-in-hand with his Russian clients to savage the Clinton campaign as Russia, specifically Vladimir Putin, abhorred Hillary Clinton and did not want her as U.S. president.  Hillary Clinton had called Putin out in 2012 over his re-election as President of Russia when she labeled his victory as tainted because of the rampant corruption that surrounded the counting of ballots.  Putin never forgot or forgave.

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Manafort was even willing to provide “private” updates to one of his Russian oligarch clients, multi-billionaire Oleg Derepaska, to whom Manafort was in hoc – to the tune of $15-million to $20-million.  Manafort was squeezed for money and he used his position as Trump 2016 campaign chair to work with his Russian satellite clients in accepting whatever assistance they could provide – i.e., dirt on Hillary Clinton in the form of the electronic hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s servers as well as John Podesta’s, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager.

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I think we have a pretty air tight case of conspiracy here.  And the trail leads all the way up the food chain to the oval office – to the Dumpster himself!  Trump would know everything Manafort did – to say otherwise is pure nonsense!  We’ll go out on a limb and even conjecture that the choir boy, Mike Pence himself, was also privy to the basic details of this skulduggery.

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Working in concert with a foreign power to undermine a national presidential election is tantamount to treason and grounds for criminal charges and/or impeachment – or both!  This, for all practical purposes, is the smoking gun that all of us who are horrified at the mere fact of this twisted American presidency have been hoping for! Yes, friends, it’s here!

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Trump be shittin’ in his drawers by now!  In addition to Manafort, Mueller is also closing in on both Jerome Corsi, a conspiracy theorist & godfather of the Obama “birther” nonsense and Roger Stone, a close associate of both Trump & Manafort.  Corsi emailed to Stone in the spring/summer of 2016 that Wikileaks/Julian Assange had dirt on Hillary Clinton and communicated this to his associate, Roger Stone, who himself was a long-time close friend to both Paul Manafort and Donald Trump.  The circle is complete!

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Thanks for the memory
Of Stormy’s pantaloons
Swinging harem tunes
Amazon hips & burning lips
My manly boast – your girlie swoons
How lovely it was

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Thanks for the memory
Of candle light & wine
Shackles so sublime
My penthouse suite &
Our Mar-a-lago conga line
How lovely it was

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Many is the time that we feasted
With money from folks you had fleece’d
Oh well it was swell while it lasted
You drank all my rum, then u waited to see my plumb

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So thanks for the memory
Of naughty games on the floor
Nights spent on Jersey shore
You might have been a head case
But you never were Tipper Gore
I thank you so much

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Thanks for the memory
Of chasing you down the hall
Out the house to the horse stalls
That time I ran short of Viagra
You hardly saw my Niagra
How ungodly that was – thanks to you

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Thanks for the memory
Of lunch we ate off the floor
My hot Ivanka at Toot’s Shore
That pair of risque bandanas
That you bought and I never wore
Say by the way, what did happen to those bandanas

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Letters with sweet little secrets
That ended up on Bloomberg news wire
Too bad it all went up in fire
Karma’s a bitch, I guess
I love you, i confess
& you – you knew i was so sleazy

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Thanks for the memory
Of vaults of money they gave
Laundered money gushing in like a wave
Your panty hose in my basin
You’re with another fellow – treating me like a slave
I thank you – so much

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Thanks for the memory
Of hard-ons in Dubai
My briefs drying under the sky
The night you got irked
When you saw my little smirk
With lip stick on my thigh
(how lovely that was)

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Thanks for the memory
Of lingerie with lace
Yes and pills just in case
And how you jumped
The day I humped
You on daddy’s desk
(how lovely that was)

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You said that you were not evil
As you ran my debts high as a steeple
(Remember?)
But I ain’t elegant, people
Always in arrears & putting up a fuss
I’m bullshit for both of us

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It’s strictly all on you
Stormy, you knew just what to do
Personally wreck all of my dreams
As if it all came out of the blue
Worst thing was when I met you
Good riddance & now bugaloo

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If you’re over 18 you have the obligation of voting.  No, the duty!  It’s not about convenience.  It’s not about the best of all possible worlds.  It’s not a beauty contest.  It’s not supposed to be sexy or American Idolish!  It’s a necessary harsh reality when you are living in a democracy.

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If you don’t vote, then you don’t have any right to bitch or complain!  You have divorced yourself from any such privileges.  You are literally “out-in-the-cold”.  So, keep it to yourself, if you don’t pony up and vote!

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So, what you got’s to do – is look in the mirror and say – do I want to be a schlub, a dweeb, a schmuck, a putz?  And then the mirror answers back — if you want to be an A-hole, do it on your own time – but don’t go showing your ugly puss to us – it just hurts too much.

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Vote, dammit, vote!  Just get your arses to the polls.  Hell, Uber & Lyft are giving free rides to the polls!  Shit-a-brick, y’all — ain’t no reason in the world to NOT vote!

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You only have two things to do as a U.S. citizen.  Vote every 4 years for President/Vice President and every 2 years for your Congress-person. Hell, you could skip everything else – (propositions, statewide offices, etc.) – but for Christ’s sake — @ least vote for president, vice-president and your members of Congress!

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So get with it – or forget it!  Losers always quit!  Yeah, guess that makes you all – (those that won’t or don’t vote) – losers!

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So, put up – or shut up!  Neeener-Neeeener!!!

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Before we begin — the Democratic party symbol is the “donkey” – or – mule.

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This podcast is set to the tune of “The 12-Days Of Christmas”.

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[Verse 1]
On the first day of mid-terms
My true love gave to me:
An unmarked mail-in ballot

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[Verse 2]
On the second day of mid-terms
My true love gave to me:
Two ballpoint pens
& an unmarked mail-in ballot

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[Verse 3]
On the third day of mid-terms
My true love gave to me:
Three sheets of candidates
Two ballpoint pens
& an unmarked mail-in ballot

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[Verse 4]
On the fourth day of mid-terms
My true love gave to me:
Four ballot measures
Three sheets of candidates
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[Verse 5]
On the fifth day of mid-terms
My true love gave to me:
Five golden mules
Four ballot measures
Three sheets of candidates
Two ballpoint pens
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[Verse 6]
On the sixth day of mid-terms
My true love gave to me:
Six reasons for voting
Five golden mules
Four ballot measures
Three sheets of candidates
Two ballpoint pens
& an unmarked mail-in ballot

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[Verse 7]
On the seventh day of mid-terms
My true love gave to me:
Seven houses to canvass
Six reasons for voting
Five golden mules
Four ballot measures
Three sheets of candidates
Two ballpoint pens
& an unmarked mail-in ballot

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[Verse 8]
On the eighth day of mid-terms
My true love gave to me:
Eight types voter suppression
Seven houses to canvass
Six reasons for voting
Five golden mules
Four ballot measures
Three sheets of candidates
Two ballpoint pens
& an unmarked mail-in ballot

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[Verse 9]
On the ninth day of mid-terms
My true love gave to me:
Nine ways to vote
Eight types voter suppression
Seven houses to canvass
Six reasons for voting
Five golden mules
Four ballot measures
Three sheets of candidates
Two ballpoint pens
& an unmarked mail-in ballot

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[Verse 10]
On the tenth day of mid-terms
My true love gave to me:
Ten dollars for bus fare
Nine ways to vote
Eight types voter suppression
Seven houses to canvass
Six reasons for voting
Five golden mules
Four ballot measures
Three sheets of candidates
Two ballpoint pens
& an unmarked mail-in ballot

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[Verse 11]
On the eleventh day of mid-terms
My true love gave to me:
‘leven polling precincts
Ten dollars for bus fare
Nine Ways To Vote
Eight types voter suppression
Seven houses to canvass
Six reasons for voting
Five golden mules
Four ballot measures
Three sheets of candidates
Two ballpoint pens
& an unmarked mail-in ballot

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[Verse 12]
On the twelfth day of mid-terms
My true love gave to me:
Twelve political pollsters
‘leven polling precincts
Ten dollars for bus fare
Nine Ways To Vote
Eight types voter suppression
Seven houses to canvass
Six reasons for voting
Five golden mules
Four ballot measures
Three sheets of candidates
Two ballpoint pens
& an unmarked mail-in ballot

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The profound significance of Jamal Khashoggi’s brutal murder as directed by the Crown Prince of Saudia Arabia, Mohammed bin Salam can only be brought into clear view by understanding the underpinnings and/or beginnings of the modern state of Saudia Arabia.  We digress a bit to go back in history and give a brief historical background sketch of events that led up to the creation and the “environment” of  current-day Saudia Arabia. 

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This story goes all the way back to 1744, when the ambitious but unremarkable clan of al-Saud – (the current ruling family of Saudia Arabia), one of many clans that divided up the vast Arabian desert, allied with a puritanical fundamentalist named Muhammed ibn al-Wahhab.

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The al-Saud clan allied with Wahhab and his followers, known as Wahhabis, who in their fervor could fight as well as preach.  The deal was simple: the Wahhabis would help the al-Sauds expand through conquest from a tiny sliver in the Arabian peninsula’s central desert to a vast empire, and in return the al-Sauds would adopt Wahhabism as official policy. It worked.

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The Saudi empire collapsed in 1818, defeated by the much stronger Ottoman Empire, which seized much of the Arabian peninsula for itself.  But Wahhabist Islam had taken root, and the Wahhabis and the al-Sauds maintained their strategic alliance from 1744 through today.

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Because Saudi rulers need the Wahhabis’ support to stay in power.  They need their loyalty, they need the civil society that the Wahhabi clerical establishment creates, and they also need the ideological justification for the vast, young, and in many ways artificial Saudi empire.

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When Abdulaziz al-Saud – (the founder of SAUDIA ARABIA) – was born, in 1876, the area we today know as Saudi Arabia was a patchwork of tribal leaders, many of them loyal to the Ottoman Empire or, later, the British Empire.  Abdulaziz wanted to restore his family’s former empire.  He knew that, like his forefathers, he would need the help of the Wahhabis and the zeal they brought to the battlefield.  So he formed a band of quasi-renegade fundamentalist militias known as the Ikhwan, or brothers.  As before, the deal was simple: the Ikhwan would fight on behalf of al-Saud, and in exchange could impose their ultra-conservative Islam on whomever they conquered.

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By the late 1920s, al-Saud and the Ikhwan had conquered most of today’s Saudi Arabia.  Al-Saud, a pious Muslim but also a forward-thinking pragmatist, began to modernize his new empire. This infuriated the Ikhwan, who saw it as a betrayal.  Then the Ikhwan began to attack neighboring British-held territory, which they hoped to “liberate.”  Al-Saud had forbidden this, wishing to remain friendly with the powerful British Empire.  The al-Saud clan and Ikhwan fell into open warfare, which ended when al-Saud used modern machine guns to defeat the camel-riding Ikhwan at the 1929 Battle of Sabilla.

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After the 1929 battle, al-Saud tried to head off future uprisings, but retain the loyalty of the Wahhabis whose support he needed in order to ideologically justify his new nation, by cynically co-opting their religious fundamentalism as his own.  He created the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, better known as the religious police, a fanatical and semi-autonomous band of ideological enforcers who are still an official body of the Saudi state today.

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FAST FORWARD

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In 1948, a pot of gold was discovered.  Aramco discovered the Ghawar oil field, the mother lode of the world’s fields.  Ghawar, which went onstream in 1951, is 170 miles long and 20 miles wide.  At one point it held 170 billion barrels of proven reserves of oil.  They’ve been pumping from that field half or more of their production for fifty years.  Most of Saudi exports come from this field—about 5 million barrels a day.  Ghawar today still has 70 bb compared to the total current U.S. proven reserves of 20 bb.  That means it still holds more than three times as much as all the oil reserves in the U.S.

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In 1950, to try and solve the problem of how to get the Saudi oil to American and Western markets, the U.S. company Bechtel, based in California, built a 1,000-mile pipeline directly from the Saudi oil fields across Jordan and the Golan Heights to Sidon in Lebanon in order to take the oil directly to the Mediterranean by pipeline.  That went onstream the following year and continued to function up until the early 1970s.  The last year of U.S. self-sufficiency in oil production was 1970—Saudi oil didn’t become important to the U.S. until the 1980s.

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In 1973, Saudi government led the Arab boycott of oil supplies to the U.S. (Netherlands was also singled out).  This led to a quadrupling of the oil price, from about $3 to $12 per barrel. Saudi Arabia was suddenly very much on Washington’s radar screen, and very rich.  Saudi oil earnings went from $8.5 billion in 1973 to $35 billion in 1974.  With that money, they began building and buying from the U.S. tanks, airplanes, and infrastructure.  The U.S.-Saudi military relationship took off. American companies basically built the whole military infrastructure of Saudi Arabia as it is today.  Over the next twenty years, the Saudis spent some $85-86 billion on American arms.  When you buy an airplane, you have to have a structure to maintain them and to train people.  It’s a huge undertaking. We were their key ally.

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In 1973, however, because of the war between Israel and the Arab states, the Saudis began to take over Aramco.  They insisted on taking a 25 percent interest in it, paid for in oil—they didn’t try to nationalize without compensation.  By 1980 they owned 100 percent of Aramco.

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So what you have with Saudia Arabia – as it is constituted today – is 2 spiders locked inside of a closed jar! – the ruling al Saud Family that is aligned with or allied to the religious fundamentalists – the Wahhabis.  It is all or nothing – both parties must exist alongside one another or Saudia Arabia – as we know it – ceases to exist.

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Jamal Kashoggi was an INFIDEL – to the Royal Crown Prince MBS – Mohammed bin Salman.  Kashoggi wanted a free press, free assembly and openess and transparency.  He wanted freedom of thought and discussion!  Not the sort of thing that would maintain the Saudia Arabia – built on the partnership of the Saudi royal family & wahhabism – that we see today.  This town ain’t big enough for the both of us – it’s either US or YOU, KHASHOGGI, and guess what, it ain’t YOU!

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Republicans are bracing for a total shellacking on Nov. 6, 2018.  Polls show that they are truly the minority party, especially among women.

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The democrats are buoyed by the fact that there are 209 congressional districts that are leaning or heavily democratic.  It only takes 218 congressional seats to have a majority. They need only 9 more seats to lean or go democratic to take such control.

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63% of women identify as democrats.  Only 33% identify as republicans.

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50% of men identify as republicans while 45% identify as democrats.

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So, overall, the number of voters who identify as democrats is vastly larger than that of republicans.

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The Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court Senate hearings – overall – are a boon to the democrats.  If nothing else, there will be an absolute deluge of women voters turning out to vote.  Any perceptible bump the GOP hopes to reap as a result of their win in getting Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court will be more than dwarfed by what happens as a result of the huge turn out by Democratic women on election day – Nov. 6th.

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In Texas, the 2nd largest state behind California – Beto O’Rourke is battling head-to-head & even with GOP incumbent Ted Cruz to be the next U.S. senator from Texas.  Cruz is on the ropes and O’Rourke is actually poised to pull off one of the biggest upssets in U.S. political history.  O’Rourke raised a record $38.1 million in political donations in the last 3-months alone — a U.S. record for a senate race!

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Andrew Gillum, the African-American Democratic mayor of Tallahassee, Florida is leading Republican Congressman Ron DeSantis in the gubernatorial race in Florida!  African-American Democrat Stacey Abrams is battling the Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp in Georgia for the governorship.  Along with an O’Rourke victory in Texas, these developments alone could completely tilt the 2020 presidential race as they are major southern states with large African-American & non-white voter populations.

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So, what are the Republicans left with? — let’s try begging for ever-more money from their mega-donors like Las Vegas casino owner Sheldon Adelson.  They’re now forced to fleece these large GOP donors for tens-of-millions of dollars in additional campaign contributions between now and Nov. 6th – to stem what appears to be a virtual Democratic avalanche heading in the GOP’s direction.

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The odds favor the Democrats all across the country – whether it’d be congressional races or gubernatorial or mayoral faces.  The GOP is literally on the run.

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The real importance for Democrats in all of this, aside from an enormously stronger position to wage a presidential campaign in 2020 is that regaining control of the U.S. House of Representatives will thwart Trump in his bid to fire (1) Jeff Sessions – (2) Rod Rosenstein & (3) Robert Mueller – and effectively shut down the Russian investigation.

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So, get out and vote on Nov. 6, 2018 – and vote like your life depended on it because it does.  If the GOP manages to maintain control of BOTH houses of Congress they will continue to dismantle health care, grant further tax relief and breaks to the super-wealthy & jam ever more right-winger judges on to our courts!  And if they manage to water-down Democratic gains in state races, gerrymandering heavily tilted in favor of Republicans will go on unabated and voter suppression efforts aimed at non-white voters will continue, both of which will greatly increase the odds of Donald Trump – should he somehow sidestep impeachment – being re-elected in 2020.

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