More tweets on Republican efforts to sabotage elections in Georgia

NEW: The Democratic Party has filed a powerful new lawsuit to challenge the election subversion rules passed by the Trump-endorsed members of the Georgia State Elections Board.

Paige and I break it down and explain. https://t.co/y3ddfBkqSM
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) August 29, 2024

NEW: The DNC and Georgia Democratic Party sue the Georgia State Election Board over new rules that could delay election certification this fall. Democrats ask the court to rule that certification is mandatory and officials cannot delay or refuse to certify.https://t.co/qjERwl2sov
— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) August 26, 2024

.@BrianKempGA, what’s uncertain? https://t.co/1YNleiKdwl pic.twitter.com/8US639jdlc
— Max Flugrath🗳️ (@MaxFlugrath) August 26, 2024

A former Fulton County election official who submitted an initial draft of the rule told ProPublica she had done so at the behest of a regional leader of a right-wing organization involved in challenging the legitimacy of American election systems. https://t.co/cFYUPTTnUu
— ProPublica (@propublica) August 29, 2024

NEW: Two right-wing activists — who have challenged the status of thousands of voters in Georgia — sue Fulton County election officials, claiming they are not properly maintaining the county’s voter rolls and are failing to respond to voter challenges. https://t.co/P68SCEuWQU
— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) August 29, 2024

Trumpism’s route to the White House is paved with bricks of election theft in the battleground state

Source: the Guardian https://t.co/MjDE1Lgyof
— Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ (@tribelaw) August 29, 2024

Memes on the Vance couch story

AP retracts its JD Vance 'Couch Cushion Story' fact check, leading some to jokingly conclude the lewd Tale must be true.

(post by @ParkerMolloy) pic.twitter.com/8UZ93VWJ1w
— Know Your Meme (@knowyourmeme) July 25, 2024

I don’t care if JD Vance isn’t really a couch fucker. The memes are funny. pic.twitter.com/g2A4SgeilV
— Annalea 🪷🐝☀️🌻🍌🗳️ (@citizengatsby) July 23, 2024

Can we get a Trump/Vance meme thread going?

(I know the couch thing was made up but it's still funny as hell) pic.twitter.com/nboB2AlylR
— Pekka Kallioniemi (@P_Kallioniemi) July 24, 2024

Of course I have more memes about the couch pic.twitter.com/P8ot7Tz2IM
— Queen Iseabail, the Sassy Lassy 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@bandrui0) July 25, 2024

I was wondering why I was seeing memes today of JD Vance lusting after couches. Turns out, in his hillbilly book he wrote about a time, that he used a latex glove and fucked the cushions of his couch. There's your ticket MAGAs….the rapist and the couch fucker. Good job. pic.twitter.com/SM1dCCBQLT
— #AnatomyOfCapitalAttack #CruzHawleyCoup #Sedition (@TekStol) July 24, 2024

Lololol. Who did this ??? pic.twitter.com/rzR1euqelB
— jonathan Slater (@slater_paul) August 26, 2024

pic.twitter.com/HaLr2WQWsB
— Tim Johnston /Mojojax (@timjohnston50) October 6, 2024

More tweets on Trump using music without permission

When you illegally use songs from 18 different artists it's not an accident, it's intentional.

18 Artists Who Have Hit Out At Donald Trump For Using Their Songs https://t.co/ij1ttrZ4TO
— John Oberlin (@OMGno2trump) August 24, 2024

Foo Fighters Reject Donald Trump Using 'My Hero' at Rally https://t.co/6MYS5KalFJ
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) August 24, 2024

Foo Fighters have formally denounced Donald Trump's use of "My Hero" at a rally with Robert Kennedy Jr. earlier this evening

"Foo Fighters were not asked permission, and if they were they would not have granted it." → https://t.co/ontxqVY1PY pic.twitter.com/hKmONEkTI8
— CONSEQUENCE (@consequence) August 24, 2024

Trump's campaign co-opted the song just days after accusing Harris of “copying” him.https://t.co/oFh1ZBpJ3m
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) August 20, 2024

Donald Trump campaign disputes Foo Fighters’ claim song use was unauthorized https://t.co/OadQmH4LkH
— The Hill (@thehill) August 26, 2024

Georgia Republicans may not certify the election results

The election will be ugly. Republicans will do everything to prevent Harris from winning regardless of the results at the ballot box.

Lawyers who spoke on behalf of a new rule in front of the GA state board of elections this week are already suggesting there is legal justification both for entire election boards and individual election board members to refuse to certify elections https://t.co/gkdLyDvBZb pic.twitter.com/ENwbehvtIU
— Sam Levine (@srl) August 23, 2024

This should now be one of the biggest political stories in America, between now and November https://t.co/S6xxfi9Ufr
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) August 23, 2024

“Any last-minute changes to the rules risk undermining the public’s trust.”
Election directors from across Georgia are urging the State Election Board to stop changing rules so close to the upcoming presidential contest. #gapol https://t.co/EpwIcedSjb
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) August 20, 2024

In addition to their scheme to change Georgia election rules to benefit Trump, the MAGA operation is attacking Georgia elections on multiple fronts. https://t.co/cHLz75668O
— Max Flugrath🗳️ (@MaxFlugrath) August 19, 2024

One of the most under reported stories of this election cycle is that the State of Georgia spent taxpayer money to build a website to allow people to REMOVE voters from the voter rolls. It is an outrage and straight up voter suppression. pic.twitter.com/cMXOOZmxu0
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) August 18, 2024

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger blasts proposed MAGA-backed election rules changes as “11-hour chaos" promoted by “unelected bureaucrats who have never run an election” on the State Election Board. #gapol https://t.co/B9xTmTDgsM pic.twitter.com/WWQrR5FxK3
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) August 16, 2024

Wow. The hits just keep coming in Georgia, where unelected officials are willing to sell their states election in exchange for the prospect of jobs in a new Trump administration. https://t.co/LkxmWPrNed
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) August 15, 2024

Excellent tweets on how GOP extremism has left an opening for Democrats

Trump has taken Republicans so far off the deep end as to leave the American mainstream wide open

Harris and Democrats spent this effective convention claiming it – on broadly-shared values, on decency, on love of country
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) August 23, 2024

An important thread: 🧵Something happened at the DNC that will be written about for years. Donald Trump has given up traditional Republican ground, and the Democrats and Kamala snatched it up.

Trump gave up being the defense candidate by becoming weak and panicked, and…
— Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@AdamKinzinger) August 24, 2024

How can Republicans say they are pro-police after 1/6 when they attacked cops?
Republicans can’t say they are anti-Russia since their nominee is very pro-Putin
Republicans can’t say they are pro-military since Trump said soldiers who gave their lives are suckers and he evaded the war
Republican judges got rid of Roe. The majority of the country opposed this
The majority also supports increased gun regulations while the GOP doesn’t

Democrats did a good job of showing how the GOP is out of step with American values.

Trump could use refusal to certify election results to undermine the 2024 election if he loses

There is nothing too low for Trump to stoop to. The 2024 election will be a fiasco and wind up in many court cases.

Trump's desperation strategy is clear: get enough states to fail to certify, throw the election to the House. Rs may have a majority of states even if Ds recapture the House. Here are 10 key states that could make the difference, with the key races involved. Thread
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) August 12, 2024

If Harris wins, Republican election deniers won't wait for Jan. 6, writes A.B. Stoddard in @BulwarkOnline.

They plan to "refuse to certify anywhere" they control key posts, thereby blocking state certifications and national certification of the election. https://t.co/8ANkI1WWEt
— Will Saletan (wsaletan on Threads) (@saletan) August 10, 2024

📺 @AmandaCarpenter on the legal obligation of officials to certify elections & a concerning trend to usurp the certification process in order to sow doubt in our elections.

“It is against the law…for these election officials to insert themselves into the process in this way.” pic.twitter.com/Fik5QgjOf5
— Protect Democracy (@protctdemocracy) August 10, 2024

If you’re reading story after story about how local GOP elected officials could refuse to certify the election or otherwise undermine results & perpetuate chaos and you’re freaking out, a ~thread~ for you… https://t.co/I22fRp1WkR
— Amanda Litman (@amandalitman) August 12, 2024

New GA election rules are outright undemocratic — officials can now refuse to certify results at personal discretion

Election denialism ran rampant in 2020 — expect to see it again in 2024

I discussed more @MSNBC — TN https://t.co/mDKeNhgcce
— Norm Eisen (#TryingTrump out now!) (@NormEisen) August 12, 2024

With fewer than 100 days until the election, Republicans are building an election subversion war machine. They have sacrificed traditional get out the vote activity to fund and recruit for their massive voter suppression program. https://t.co/3Mrx2srwmB
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) August 9, 2024

Rolling Stone investigation finding at least 70 election officials in key swing states have histories promoting 2020 election conspiracy theories raises concern they would refuse to certify election results if their candidates don't win. https://t.co/eWibg7h5Yp
— SUSTAINABLES.EARTH (@LuvSustainables) August 7, 2024

Trump lies about Harris’s big crowds

Jealous Donald can’t stand the fact that her crowds are bigger so he lies and says the pictures of them are AI.

“It was a large crowd,” the Getty Images photographer tells The Daily Beast, adding that the pictures he took clearly “speak to that.”https://t.co/C7aaJ5ocKI
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) August 11, 2024

Speakers and supporters at the Harris rally in Michigan are enjoying the chance to reshare photos and videos from it, now that Trump is lying about the crowd being "AI" generated https://t.co/PNcSXa760K
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 11, 2024

WashPost: Trump says falsely that photos of Harris’s big crowd were produced by AI. https://t.co/DL0H9LB0q9
— Robert McCartney (@McCartneyWP) August 12, 2024

Trump lied

Lying Trump and other MAGA conspiracy theorists are claiming a photo of the crowd in front of Kamala Harris’ Air Force Two is “fake” and “there was nobody there”. The crowd was real, here’s a video. pic.twitter.com/2EMDBrYRfb
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) August 11, 2024

Yesterday's false claim by Trump that Harris is generating fake big crowds with AI was a true Captain Queeg moment, maybe the most bat-guano crazy thing I've seen in 40 years of covering presidential elections

Neither NYT nor Washington Post is promoting it on their home page
— Will Bunch (@Will_Bunch) August 12, 2024

Trump’s campaign was hacked – should the stolen documents be published?

This is a tough call. The media was wrong to publish the Hillary Clinton documents in 2016 and would be wrong to publish these. Still, it would be a terrible double standard if they didn’t print them – they would help Trump both in 2016 and 2024. I vote for publishing them now out of fairness and not in any future similar situations. That was proposed in one of the tweets below.

IMO they should treat Trump they way they treated Hillary and then do better in the future https://t.co/7owM80qHH1
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 10, 2024

So the media is going to run the 2016 playbook, setting up dedicated reporters to sift through the materials and tease them out so they dominate the news cycle from now until the election, right?

Or is that just reserved for Hillary Clinton? https://t.co/elraiXjd8J
— Zac Petkanas (@Zac_Petkanas) August 10, 2024

Will be truly amazing if the only thing the media learned from 2016 turns out to be another dual standard that benefits Trump. https://t.co/NSZzHw00Hc
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) August 10, 2024

Reminder that in 2020, Trump said he might not tell the FBI if foreign actors provided campaign dirt on his rivals. And he rebuked the FBI director for saying that campaigns should report such foreign interference. https://t.co/OfRCKXaP5b pic.twitter.com/ASFQQWwC2l
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 10, 2024

Trump’s latest unauthorized use of music

He has done this on many occasions. The Hollywood Reporter article cites past examples.

Today, Celine Dion’s management team and her record label, Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc., became aware of the unauthorized usage of the video, recording, musical performance, and likeness of Celine Dion singing “My Heart Will Go On” at a Donald Trump / JD Vance campaign… pic.twitter.com/28CYLFvgER
— Celine Dion (@celinedion) August 10, 2024

Celine Dion Denounces Trump Rally's Use of Her Hit "My Heart Will Go On": "Really, THAT Song?" https://t.co/VZVwUhrN86
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) August 10, 2024

The Canadian-born singer joins a list of at least 23 other celebrities who have asked the former president to stop playing their songs at his rallies.https://t.co/SPFozMfvkT
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) August 11, 2024

Today, on the anniversary of my father @isaachayes death we have repeatedly asked Donald Trump, the RNC and his representatives not to use “Hold on I’m Coming” written by Isaac Hayes and David Porter during campaign rallies but yet again, in Montana they used it.

Donald Trump…
— Isaac Hayes III (@IsaacHayes3) August 10, 2024

The deadline has passed, so as of 5:59PM EST The Estate of @IsaacHayes has filed a lawsuit in United States Federal Court, Northern District against Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump, the RNC, Donald J Trump for President, Inc., and a several other parties for copyright… pic.twitter.com/faDMhKkE9i
— Isaac Hayes III (@IsaacHayes3) August 17, 2024

Trump hasn’t paid bills in Montana

“Montanans haven’t forgotten that he came here four times to campaign against Jon in 2018, and the only thing he left was unpaid bills to our cities and towns.”@American_Bridge co-chair @GovernorBullock on Trump’s visit to Montana ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/nvmfPzFJWC
— Monica Venzke (@monicavenzke) August 9, 2024

Trump can't get the venues he wants in a lot of places because he STILL refuses to pay his bills from 2018 and maybe even before. 🤣🤣🤣https://t.co/2aMHA3vv3u
— Holly Figueroa O'Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) August 7, 2024

Montana cities waiting on Trump to fork over $50K after stiffing them for costs of rallies https://t.co/1VxjS8ORnS
— #TuckFrump (@realTuckFrumper) August 7, 2024

Still hasn’t paid his bills the last time he was in Montana on 2018.

Sheeesh
He stiffed the police departments paid to assist the SS to protect him.

Not cool https://t.co/mAJRRG6pkp
— LisaDH (@LisaDH15) August 9, 2024

Because he likely hasn’t paid his fuel bills.

My dad was in the aviation fuel biz for decades. If Trump owes money to the fueler (ex: AvFuel, Edwards) they won’t refuel his plane there.

Billings uses Edwards.
Bozeman uses World Fuel Services.

Btw: my Dad started Worldfuel https://t.co/x5tALK0PAd
— The Sassiest Minx in MN 🌊 (@SassiestMinx) August 9, 2024

People are wondering why Trump is not campaigning and they think it's because he stiffed venues in

Lebanon, OH
Mesa, AZ
Erie, PA
Green Bay, WI
Eau Claire, WI
Tucson, AZ
Burlington, VT
Spokane, WA
El Paso, TX (over $500,000)
Billings, MT
Albuquerque, NM had to send Trump’s…
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) August 11, 2024

I keep hearing of so many localities that Trump owes money to as a result of his rallies. They should all get together, file a class action suit and put a lien on all of his campaign funds and personal property.
— Henry M. Rosenberg (@DoctorHenryCT) August 11, 2024

An under-discussed factor in this election is the numerous venues and towns that will not let one of the candidates campaign there due to him having previously refused to pay them. https://t.co/2jrTdouZxX pic.twitter.com/iMulizC6dx
— Smom (@smomwetgobam) August 10, 2024

If anyone is paying attention, the Trump/Vance campaign is currently at a standstill. While no one has offered a definitive explanation, I would wager it’s connected to Donald Trump’s outstanding debts to several cities from past campaign rallies. These unpaid balances could have… pic.twitter.com/arDgkpzn6F
— Kenny Akers (@KeneAkers) August 12, 2024

Trump campaign forced to pay North Carolina city $82k in advance for rally https://t.co/MFKrxlG6N6
— Matt Murphy (@MattMurph24) August 13, 2024