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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Steve203 🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Re: Trump orders DOJ to go after oil companies
Date: 06/26/26 10:17 AM
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Not just pointing to resources that Trump has, but what you think he might do with them that would result in him remaining President.

Straight up intervention, rather than nibbling at the edges?

Arrest any state election official that obstructs Trump being on the ballot.

Arrest any state election official that refuses to deliver the vote totals that Trump wants.

Georgia official: Trump call to ‘find’ votes was a threat

The book climaxes with the phone call, which was recorded and then given to multiple news organizations. Raffensperger — known as a conservative Republican before Trump targeted him — writes that he perceived Trump as threatening him multiple times during the phone call.

“I felt then — and still believe today — that this was a threat,” Raffensperger writes. “Others obviously thought so, too, because some of Trump’s more radical followers have responded as if it was their duty to carry out this threat.”


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In 28, Trump can start the intimidation campaign months earlier, rather than after the votes are cast. Some state officials will be eager to put Trump on the ballot. Others will put him on the ballot, to avoid expected retribution. Others will submit to threats. I doubt he would need to actually have US Marshals arrest any state Secretary of State. If need be, he can have the votes in blue areas investigated, like Fulton County, GA and Wayne County, MI, are being investigated now, and refuse to allow the votes to be counted, until the "investigation" is complete. Of course, the "investigation" would never be completed.

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