My deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of Corey Comperatore, a former fire chief who was tragically killed at yesterday's Trump rally in Pennsylvania. This morning, his daughter Allyson shared a deeply moving tribute to her father on Facebook, describing how he died shielding Allyson and her mother from the bullets that came at them. "We lost a selfless, loving, husband, father, brother, uncle, son, and friend...the best dad a girl could ever ask for,” she wrote. "He died a real-life superhero."
The impact of the rampant vitriol and divisiveness in today's political and media landscape – and, increasingly, political violence – isn’t isolated to presidential candidates or political parties. As this tragedy shows, it also takes an unimaginable toll on our country's citizens: American families with hearts and hopes, like the Comperatore family.
America has fallen off the precipice, but we can still climb back up. As a nation, we can overcome this. But we need to learn how to better understand and empathize with one another, converse with respectful dialogue, and regard differing viewpoints with dignity and respect.
A GoFundMe has been set up to support Allyson and her family: https://t.co/v9dzrnmLBA
My thoughts and prayers are with the Comperatore family.
Are you angry the system is forcing two of the worst candidates in US history down our throats?
Prepare to get even angrier.
We all know the uniparty tries to rig the system in their favor. While the Democrats do most of the dirty work, the Republicans don’t put up much of a fight.
But how exactly do they keep third parties and independent candidates off the ballot and out of the White House?
Let me break down some of the shady things they've done that you may have missed over the last 5 months:
❤️ February
•DNC files FEC complaint against the only PAC supporting Kennedy, AV24, to get the signatures they’d acquired in states like AZ, MI & GA thrown out under the guide the campaign colluded with the PAC.
•DNC launches billboards in Michigan ahead of a Kennedy rally linking him to Trump.
🍀 March
•The DNC hires an entire team to keep 3rd parties off the ballot including operatives like Lis Smith and Matt Corridoni. They’re essentially paid to slander RFK Jr on social media.
•State officials in Nevada basically create a new rule for collecting signatures AFTER Kennedy’s signatures were submitted, stating the VP must be named on the petitions. There wasn’t even a space for a name on the form provided by the state. This required 10k signatures to be recollected which were turned in earlier this month.
RFK Jr is currently suing the NV Secretary of State over the debacle. The DNC is also currently suing the NV SOS, but to block Jill Stein from the ballot.
•DNC operatives organize an attack on the Kennedy website events page, creating numerous obviously fake community events with inflammatory titles.
•Polling aggregators such as RCP begin including pay-to-play polls like YouGov, bringing down Kennedy’s polling average.
☔️ April
•DNC and dem org MoveOn pay several homeless individuals to hold signs outside a Kennedy rally in LA. MoveOn was caught changing the job listing, but the RFK camp secured screenshots.
•The DNC tries to remove Kennedy from the ballot in Hawaii and loses
🌸 May
•Dems claim Kennedy petitioners misled signers in NY as to who they were signing for. Petitions were collected by volunteers (in full RFK Jr swag) and by a paid team, Meridian Strategies, that was recommended by a DNC strategist. Guess which group was accused. Once the allegation was made, the team said fine - all Meridian signatures were thrown out, they were referred to law enforcement, and team Kennedy still had tens of thousands over what was needed.
The DNC has since filed a lawsuit in NY to keep Kennedy off the ballot
☀️ June
•A dem-backed group in NC, Clear Choice Action, launches a text campaign to ask petition signers for both RFK Jr and Cornel West to withdraw their signatures. They then review all signatures and send a letter to the state board to have them tossed for both candidates.
•CNN colludes with Biden and Trump to keep RFK Jr off the debate stage with arbitrary rules they don't even follow.
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In addition to all of those things, add in a bought-and-paid-for mainstream media and you have a lot of power.
When I hear people say that Trump is the enemy of the establishment, I laugh. If they didn’t want Trump on the ballot, he wouldn’t be there.
This is what it looks like to be a real threat to those in power. Every day is a battle just to keep moving forward.
They can pull all the dirty tricks they want, but guess what? We’re going to expose them, and we’re bringing receipts 💅🏻
Presidents Biden and Trump do not want me on the debate stage and CNN illegally agreed to their demand. My exclusion by Presidents Biden and Trump is undemocratic, un-American, and cowardly. Americans want an independent leader who will break apart the two-party duopoly. They want a President who will heal the divide, restore the middle class, unwind the war machine, and end the chronic disease epidemic.
@jacksonhinkle Probably a little reluctant to support Russia in the middle of a war. Protecting their interests doesn't mean they've changed their stance on mass murder and genocide. This image is from 2/23/2022.
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