Summary: A man was caught on video removing and destroying Harris-Walz signs outside an early voting site in Raleigh. The man claimed he was expressing his political beliefs, but removing or stealing political signs is considered theft and is a misdemeanor. Early voting continues through Saturday, with Election Day on Tuesday, November 5th.

  • Flying Squid
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    13123 days ago

    Damn it, if only he had gotten away with it, no one would have known she was running for president!

    • @[email protected]
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      8323 days ago

      i was going to vote harris, but i didn’t see any signs with her name on it, so i guess rapistconmanshitstaintraitor’s got my vote

      • Boozilla
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        3223 days ago

        I like candidates with signs that don’t get stolen!

        • @Jesusaurus
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          3023 days ago

          I like the ones that DO get stolen, because it’s an indication that they are that in-demand!

    • @Snapz
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      322 days ago

      Not about memory, about voter intimidation.

  • @chemical_cutthroat
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    7723 days ago

    Tuesday is going to be fucking ugly. Wednesday is going to be worse.

    • HonkyTonkWoman
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      4423 days ago

      I don’t care if Tuesday’s fucking ugly

      and Wednesday’s worse

      Thursday, Friday, no remorse

      Monday we’ll all fall apart

      Tuesday, Wednesday, realize we all smell like farts

      Oh, Thursday doesn’t even start…

      It’s Friday, I’m in love still fucking glad I voted

      • @Snapz
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        I don’t care if Monday’s filing cases without evidence to clog the courts

        Tuesday’s prematurely declaring victory and Wednesday accusing fraud because vote count went overnight due to unsupported and disproven gop challenges of voting machines

        Thursday, trucks with ski masked people pulling up to the Capitol with assault rifles

        It’s Friday, I’m in a camp for suspected Marxist socialist antifahs!

        Monday, barricades at politician’s homes can fall apart

        Tuesday, Wednesday, break my elderly neighbor’s hip when cops break the door down at the wrong home and tackle her for being a suspected “illegal”

        Oh, Thursday doesn’t even start because musk/trump dept of efficiency has outlawed clocks and calendars so there can be no more legal labor challenges of unpaid overtime, no weekends and no holiday pay

        It’s Friday, I’m in only the second week of trump’s second, never-ending term as America’s dictator clumsily toppling 250+ years of democracy


        You know you can do the right thing here. Go register, go vote. It’s fast, simple and painless. You know we have to tell ourselves the above could never happen here to feel safe, but you also know it’s closer to reality then ever before and you can do something, right now.

    • billwashere
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      2823 days ago

      Wait until all the bullshit ramps up by Saturday. I totally imagine escalating bullshit for several weeks if not more.

    • @athairmor
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      2223 days ago

      Nov 6 - Jan 21 is going to be tense. But, if Harris wins it’ll be worth it.

      • @[email protected]
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        -823 days ago

        Nothing will make this bullshit worth it. Not even a good president, and all Harris has going for her is that she’s not trump.

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          “all Harris has going for her is that she’s not trump” is a whole fucking lot right now, bud.

          Another woman, a girl actually, who never saw her 20th birthday, was just murdered by Texas politicians and voters for having a miscarriage.

          • @[email protected]
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            -522 days ago

            It’s a good reason to vote for her, but it’s nothing special. Most people aren’t trump. Nixon wasn’t trump. I’d vote for Nixon over trump. That doesn’t mean he’d be a good president.

            • @Snapz
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              122 days ago

              Oh, okay, what are you talking about?

              • @[email protected]
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                122 days ago

                Well, you see, someone can be a bad candidate and still be better than the worst candidate. Being better than trump doesn’t make her good. Most people are better than trump. You don’t get a cookie for that.

    • Flying Squid
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      1923 days ago

      I really think people are going to die.

    • FuglyDuck
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      1523 days ago

      And that’s why I vote by mail.

  • Rhaedas
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    6323 days ago

    The man claimed he was expressing his political beliefs

    You do that by voting. Dumbass. At least he didn’t attack volunteers inside like what’s happened in other places. I can’t understand people sometimes.

    “I didn’t mean to cause such a stink, but my understanding is that when signs are placed in public places, like on the road or on government land, it’s essentially litter and you’re allowed to pick them up if you want to,” the man said.

    Ignorance isn’t an excuse, and that excuse might be more believable if it was off on a road corner at a light or something. A sign in the ground at a voting area…could be litter? Really? Definitely a dumbass.

    • aramis87
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      3823 days ago

      Was he pulling out the Trump and local Republican signs too? No? Then he knew, he just didn’t want to get in trouble for what he did. Fucking cowards don’t have the conviction to actually stand up for their beliefs.

      • @ChronosTriggerWarning
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        623 days ago

        No, you see, BIG STRONG PATRIOTIC MEN wear diapers and whine like it’s way past naptime when they’re told “no.”

    • @ChronosTriggerWarning
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      323 days ago

      Their excuses are always just so cute. I’ve met 6yo’s that are better bullshitters. By this reasoning, STOP signs are litter and should be removed. Could make the same argument about billboards, which i would actually agree with.

  • @El_guapazo
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    2723 days ago

    Bad faith arguments? Feigning benign ignorance? Lip service to accountability until he has to pay? He must be a trumpy voter

  • @PetteriPano
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    2523 days ago

    In my country we have designated billboards where candidates get to put up their posters ahead of elections. Usually along roads, by malls, promenades, etc.

    Messing with those is election interference. Believe it or not, straight to jail!

    • @Noodle07
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      523 days ago

      Doesn’t stop some people though

  • @Supervisor194
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    2423 days ago

    I thought Trump was a shoo-in? Christ knows that’s the message these people are getting over and over again, drummed into their heads so they can get good and pissed off when they’re told the truth.

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    "The man said Williams assaulted him by attempting to take the signs [that he’d illegally stolen] away from him, knocking his keys to the ground. He said it broke his key chain."

    The man who stole the signs actually sent me the rest of his statement that the WOKE news wouldn’t print, “I knew it could happen… I just didn’t think it could happen to me… I’m so sorry keychain of snoopy with a big exposed dick that I got in Mexico while trying to find underage prostitutes! This should not have come down on you, and for that I am eternally sorry”

    The man was last seen at a local Michaels craft warehouse, screaming across the aisles in anguish, tears streaming down his face, “Which one of these is snoopy dick glue? For fucks sake sometime help me!!!”

  • @[email protected]
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    1622 days ago

    That ought turn the tide in his favor. Some people might be forgetting who they were going to vote for while going to the polling places and the signs won’t be there to remind them.

    • @paddirn
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      722 days ago

      “Shit, who was I voting for again? Harriet? Harold? Harburg? The other name started with a W or a V or something right? Oh wait, this guy’s name is Vance, that must be it. I’m voting for Trump & Vance, almost screwed that one up!”

    • @Snapz
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      422 days ago

      That’s a pretty confident statement in the era of the “undecided” voter?

      And of course, it isn’t about memory, it’s about voter intimidation. You see this red hat brown shirt doing this shit publicly without remorse and it tells you he might break your window if you try to put a sign in your yard or break your fucking arm if he sees you with a Harris shirt in the streets.

      Giggle all you need to, but you’re talking around the point here.

      • @[email protected]
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        122 days ago

        Don’t worry buddy, I giggled all that I needed to and more. Lamest voter intimidation ever…giggle

  • @DarkDecay
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    1023 days ago

    Fuck they’re so desperate. It’d be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic

    • @Buddahriffic
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      222 days ago

      You take that back! I’ll have you know he voted three times and would have voted even more times if his friend group had known the location of any other polling stations!

  • @Maggoty
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    522 days ago

    These signs were too close to balloting area right?

    Right guys?

    Straight to jail. Oh what am I saying, this is Raleigh, they’re going to give him an award.

  • @JimVanDeventer
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    522 days ago

    What is the exclusion zone for campaign signs around a voting place in the US? The article makes it sound like they are right at the site? Or he carried the sign from somewhere else to destroy it on site?

    • @Timmy_Jizz_Tits
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      222 days ago

      I don’t know for sure but it must be state laws. I believe Georgia has has laws against it I know California does. It really creates so much needless nonsense and it would require the US congress to fix but the GOP has made that entire branch of government, practically, non-functional.

  • @[email protected]
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    422 days ago

    “When I shot him to defend the signs, I was expressing my political beliefs.”

    First amendment is cool, we can excuse anything with it.