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Georgia: Organizing, Organizing, Organizing

by WaterGirl|  December 4, 20203:34 pm| 69 Comments

This post is in: Election 2020, Georgia Runoff Races, Open Threads, Political Action, This Fight Is For Everything

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I’ve been so busy with the calendar that I haven’t had time to get up a Georgia post in about two weeks.  Sorry about that!  Not enough time in the day.

I think a lot of us have concluded that money spent on organizing is better spent than money spent on advertising or TV.  Well, here’s a chance to contribute to organizing on the ground in Georgia.

I asked DougJ if he could make us a BJ thermometer for this group, and of course he came through.

America Votes – Georgia

Goal Thermometer

If you donate to America Votes – Georgia, they are making sure they get distributed directly as needed to groups that are having the biggest impact on the ground.

AMERICA VOTES – Georgia

Organizations include:

  • Asian American Advocacy Fund
  • Black Male Voter Project
  • Black Voters Matter
  • BlackPAC
  • Care in Action
  • Collective PAC
  • Color of Change
  • Georgia Alliance for Progress
  • Georgia Conservation Voters
  • Georgia Equality
  • Mijente
  • New Georgia Project Action Fund
  • Poder Latinx
  • UNITE HERE

I also want to share a couple of great articles:

Stacey Abrams On Finishing the Job In Georgia “It can be undone just as quickly and as effectively as we did it.”

In the math-addled hours after polls closed on Election Day, as the New York Times needle tipped delicately toward blue in Georgia, the nation’s attention followed, homing in on one of its most transformative political figures: Stacey Abrams.

She is extraordinary, partly because she has one of the most detailed-oriented, forward-looking, compulsively organized brains in politics. Abrams — who served as minority leader in Georgia’s state legislature for seven years before running for governor in 2018, losing narrowly to Georgia’s then–Secretary of State Brian Kemp, in one of the most flagrantly voter-suppressed elections in recent memory — has been working to turn her state from red to blue for more than a decade. Now that her promise has (this time at least) been made manifest, many in the Democratic Party are looking toward Abrams as a kind of silver bullet: a figure who can be installed — in the Cabinet or as head of the DNC — to perform her magic across the nation.

In the flood of post-election analysis of muddied results and still-emerging data, answers can seem simple and obvious. But real life, real states, and real political organizing don’t always lend themselves to easy explanations or diagnoses. And what’s been missing from some of the adulation of Abrams is a view of how much work — by so many people, from so many angles, over so many years — has always undergirded her efforts in Georgia; I wanted to hear a fuller story, from the woman whose capacious vision sets her apart from so many currently telling the story of politics and power in America.

In Georgia, get-out-the-vote operations that helped Biden win haven’t stopped

For Deborah Scott, executive director of Georgia Stand-Up, it’s as if Election Day never ended.

The get-out-the-vote efforts of civic engagement groups like hers, which helped Joe Biden become the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the state in nearly three decades, have been ongoing since Nov. 3. The group is still knocking on doors, calling voters and signing up new registrants, with a big push involving 100 volunteers planned for this weekend. Another group that works to mobilize voters of color set up tables at a recent high school graduation to register newly eligible young voters. A third group is reaching voters at transit stations.

The efforts are a continuation of the groups’ relentless push to register, engage and turn out voters ahead of a pair of high-stakes Senate runoffs on Jan. 5, which will determine which party controls the Senate and potentially whether a President Biden will be able to enact an ambitious agenda or be blocked by a restive upper chamber.

Scott is executive director of Georgia Stand-Up, which is focusing on registering more voters ahead of the state’s Senate runoffs in January. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)
“At this point, it’s a turnout game,” said Scott, whose group focuses on Atlanta. As excited and proud Black voters are about their role in the outcome of the general election, Scott said the challenge is to remind them “we’re not done yet. We have to get them to go back. We have to show them why this race is so important because a lot of people will not be as engaged.”

What’s everybody doing to help with Georgia?

Update: Open thread, also.

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  1. 1.

    H.E.Wolf

    December 4, 2020 at 3:53 pm

    What’s everybody doing to help with Georgia?

    Writing with http://PostcardsToVoters.org, of course. :)

    As always, they follow the exact guidelines and wording provided by the local campaign(s).

    Currently, the message is “request an absentee ballot”; when the deadline for that is past, there will be a new message queued up.

    I like looking up the cities and towns to which I’m writing, and discovering snippets of history and current info. It reminds me of the great richness and variety present throughout our country.

    To anyone who’s been on the fence about writing postcards: PTV is very organized, very clear, and makes it easy for folks with very limited time/resources to participate. I think you can write 5 cards with them, and call it done!

  2. 2.

    jeffreyw

    December 4, 2020 at 3:54 pm

    It took a decade of hard work to make her an overnight wonder.

  3. 3.

    dnfree

    December 4, 2020 at 3:54 pm

    “I think a lot of us have concluded that money spent on organizing is better spent than money spent on advertising or TV.”  That’s a very succinct way of expressing my conclusion.  In one local race, we received daily large postcards either telling us how despicable the Republican was (from the Democrat) or how despicable the Democrat was (from the Republican), which cost a lot of money for a local race and yet did absolutely nothing to sway our decision as to which one to vote for, except to diminish our interest in voting for either of them.

    All that money we sent to candidates–how did they spend it, really?  If it was just for advertising, most of it might as well have been flushed down the toilet.

  4. 4.

    robmassing

    December 4, 2020 at 3:55 pm

    Phone-banking on Sunday!

  5. 5.

    arrieve

    December 4, 2020 at 3:58 pm

    I’m in — it’s become a reflex now. I see one of the themometers and I click on it.

  6. 6.

    Jim Appleton

    December 4, 2020 at 4:01 pm

    Not an open thread, but iDJT’s focus on ancillary players is a sign of desperation.

  7. 7.

    🐾BillinGlendaleCA

    December 4, 2020 at 4:05 pm

    @robmassing: SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY!

  8. 8.

    UncleEbeneezer

    December 4, 2020 at 4:06 pm

    Just got my 200 postcards from our local UDH effort, and started writing them yesterday.  Targeting infrequent voters with a real simple script asking them to vote for Warnock and Ossoff.

  9. 9.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 4, 2020 at 4:07 pm

    @Jim Appleton:  you Bossie and Lewandowski appointed to that Pentagon board?

  10. 10.

    H.E.Wolf

    December 4, 2020 at 4:09 pm

    Stacey Abrams doesn’t need me to defend her. However, I find it jarring when – as in the otherwise well-written article by The Cut – a highly accomplished woman is described as “compulsively” [positive leadership trait].

    It’s as if the writer(s) can’t imagine a woman doing great work unless she is mentally or emotionally off-kilter… an antiquated and harmful stereotype. The Cut can certainly do better than that.

    /soapbox

  11. 11.

    H.E.Wolf

    December 4, 2020 at 4:11 pm

    @UncleEbeneezer: Just got my 200 postcards from our local UDH effort, and started writing them yesterday. Targeting infrequent voters with a real simple script asking them to vote for Warnock and Ossoff.

    Hello, fellow GOTV-er! :) I’m embarrassed not to remember what UDH stands for – sounds like a good group, regardless!

  12. 12.

    Jim Appleton

    December 4, 2020 at 4:13 pm

    @Jim Appleton:

    Don’t know why this is necessary, but some don’t seem to understand that iDJT is shorthand for “idiot”.

  13. 13.

    JPL

    December 4, 2020 at 4:13 pm

    BTW Early voting is December 14th, so a reminder on the BJ then would be appreciated. Also, I don’t need another reminder about absentee voting. I have already received seven reminders in the mail. I think Raven has me beat though

    I made sure that I was registered to vote today as did my family members.   GA is notorious for purging voters.   Better safe than sorry.

  14. 14.

    Another Scott

    December 4, 2020 at 4:15 pm

    Donated.  An important cause!!

    [ Here’s hoping that ActBlue uses their windfall this year to get some faster servers**.  It’s really, really annoying to have to wait so long for the thermometer to move!!11ONE ]

    Cheers,
    Scott.
    ** – or maybe it’s yet another FYWP caching issue??

  15. 15.

    West of the Rockies

    December 4, 2020 at 4:21 pm

    OT, but I KEEP encountering a Zergnet story here that features a fucking-hideous photo of some evangelist named Kenneth Copeland. Good lord, the ugly stick worked overtime on that fool.

  16. 16.

    Old School

    December 4, 2020 at 4:21 pm

    @H.E.Wolf: 

    I’m embarrassed not to remember what UDH stands for

    According to Google options include:

    User Data Header
    Utah Department of Health
    United Democratic Headquarters
    United Doctors Hospital

    It’s probably the Utah one….

  17. 17.

    Amir Khalid

    December 4, 2020 at 4:24 pm

    @Jim Appleton:

    TIANA, friend.

  18. 18.

    raven

    December 4, 2020 at 4:26 pm

    @JPL: They’s drivin me nuts!

  19. 19.

    Another Scott

    December 4, 2020 at 4:27 pm

    Yet another reminder of what’s at stake…

    More Americans died from COVID yesterday than in the misguided “war on terror” in Iraq & Afghanistan, but McConnell want to give corporations immunity & Trump wants to lie about vote counts.

    — Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II (@RevDrBarber) December 4, 2020

    Forward!!

    (via LOLGOP)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  20. 20.

    dww44

    December 4, 2020 at 4:30 pm

    As a lifelong Georgia voter and one who went door to door starting with Obama in 2008, I’m not sure all these mailings will spur voter turn out. The turnout for the Nov 3 election was 62% in this majority minority community. It’s getting to that 38% that will put us over the top. It would be nice if the GOP depresses its own turnout but I do NOT see that happening. They are too many of them like Gabriel Sterling, voted Republican their entire lives and are not gonna stop doing that now.

    We Democrats are the enemy. We stand little chance of converting conservative voters who should vote against their 2 obviously corrupt candidates. So we just have to focus on our own likely voters and now, the not so likely ones. That needs a massive knocking on doors effort, which I believe can be done safely even during the pandemic. It will also require a physical voter to the polls effort, maybe starting during early voting.

  21. 21.

    WaterGirl

    December 4, 2020 at 4:37 pm

    @Jim Appleton: I did not know that.

  22. 22.

    raven

    December 4, 2020 at 4:38 pm

    @dww44: Athens was worse.

  23. 23.

    NeenerNeener

    December 4, 2020 at 4:39 pm

    @Jim Appleton: He’s rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

  24. 24.

    glory b

    December 4, 2020 at 4:41 pm

    @jeffreyw: More than that.

    There is out there on youtube, a video of her giving a speech when she was, if I recall, 16 or 17. She was formidable then, and so impressive.

    I also love the fact that she worked her way through law school by writing romance novels. I would never have thought of that, even if I had the ability!

  25. 25.

    WaterGirl

    December 4, 2020 at 4:41 pm

    @jeffreyw:

    It took a decade of hard work to make her an overnight wonder.

    I just wanted to see that again.

  26. 26.

    Another Scott

    December 4, 2020 at 4:43 pm

    I nominated @neeratanden to lead OMB because she's a brilliant policy mind with experience across government. She will help us control the virus, deal with the economic crisis, and build back better. And above all she believes what I believe: a budget should reflect our values. https://t.co/lDmnvaDwx4

    — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) December 4, 2020

    Good, good.

    He needs a Democratic Senate to make many good things happen. This is our chance.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  27. 27.

    WaterGirl

    December 4, 2020 at 4:43 pm

    @glory b: Yes!  Stacey’s speech when she young, and seeing John Lewis speak on that important day when he was just a young pup, tells me that there were people paying attention – who saw talent in those young people and put them forward.

  28. 28.

    WaterGirl

    December 4, 2020 at 4:44 pm

    @Another Scott: I keep hoping that all this fuckery about the election will backfire – that people in Georgia are paying attention and will vote accordingly.

    Please let us win the senate.

  29. 29.

    🐾BillinGlendaleCA

    December 4, 2020 at 4:48 pm

    @Another Scott: Neera is also a Bruin.

  30. 30.

    sdhays

    December 4, 2020 at 4:51 pm

    @Jim Appleton: I guessed it stood for “impeached Donald J. Trump”. Which is a more specific form of “idiot”.

  31. 31.

    JPL

    December 4, 2020 at 4:56 pm

    @dww44:  Warnock is doing better in polling than Ossoff..  Biden won Alpharetta but several points and so did Perdue.    Somehow he has to appeal to the burbs.

  32. 32.

    pamelabrown53

    December 4, 2020 at 4:58 pm

    @raven:

    Do you agree with dww44’s analysis? I don’t live in Georgia but I tend to think that Trump’s chaos and the repub. candidates’ corruption won’t tip the scales in our favor.

    It’s imperative that we focus on getting our vote out. Every last one.

  33. 33.

    BruceFromOhio

    December 4, 2020 at 5:00 pm

    …which will determine which party controls the Senate and potentially whether a President Biden will be able to enact an ambitious agenda or be blocked by a restive upper chamber.

    What a polite and elegant phrase, especially when referring to Moscow Mitch, Fascist Enabler.

    Could also apply to my stomach after a plate of spicy nachos.

  34. 34.

    raven

    December 4, 2020 at 5:00 pm

    @pamelabrown53: I’m skeptical that anything will help, I’ve lived here for too long. sorry

  35. 35.

    raven

    December 4, 2020 at 5:05 pm

    @raven: But, yea, I think that is right.

  36. 36.

    pamelabrown53

    December 4, 2020 at 5:05 pm

    @raven:

    No need to be sorry. Honest opinions from actual residents helps keep us grounded.

    If one of our democrats have a chance, which one and why? Sorry if I’m uncomfortably putting you on the spot.

  37. 37.

    JeanneT

    December 4, 2020 at 5:06 pm

    I’ve got Vote Forward GOTV letters to write: sending them out on Monday.  I’ll start another round of Postcards to Voters cards as soon as my new stamps arrive.  Not as immediate as text or phone banking, but both groups are keeping the message positive and empowering and I hope the personal touch makes a difference, in contrast to traditional campaign mailings.

  38. 38.

    JPL

    December 4, 2020 at 5:06 pm

    @raven: bah humbug ..   If the republicans don’t show up, we win.

  39. 39.

    raven

    December 4, 2020 at 5:09 pm

    @pamelabrown53: In my opinion they both have an equal chance. Wait and see what fuckhead does in Valdosta tomorrow.

  40. 40.

    KSinMA

    December 4, 2020 at 5:09 pm

    I’m in.

  41. 41.

    raven

    December 4, 2020 at 5:10 pm

    @JPL:

    If they kill more Russians, they win. If we kill more Frenchmen, we win.

  42. 42.

    Amir Khalid

    December 4, 2020 at 5:11 pm

    @BruceFromOhio:

    R E S T I V E  is not how most people spell “obstructionist”.

  43. 43.

    JMF

    December 4, 2020 at 5:15 pm

    Driving voters to the polls in blue areas, and voting myself. Fingers crossed.

  44. 44.

    JPL

    December 4, 2020 at 5:18 pm

    @raven: Loeffler wasn’t with Pence today because someone on her staff died.   Twitter said he was dating one of Kemps daughters.   It will be interesting if she accompanies trump tomorrow.

  45. 45.

    JPL

    December 4, 2020 at 5:20 pm

    Biden did win again in GA today.

  46. 46.

    Woodrow/asim

    December 4, 2020 at 5:20 pm

    @jeffreyw: It took a decade of hard work to make her an overnight wonder.

    And decades for the GOP to put America in the situation Abrams — and many others — are working like mad to get us out of.

    I recently found out about GOP Chair Guy Gabrielson, and how the Southern Strategy was already a going concern in the GOP by 1952:

    Guy Gabrielson, the chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1949 to 1952, hoped to bring disaffected Dixiecrats into the GOP. “The Dixiecrat Party believes in states’ rights,” he told an Alabama gathering in 1952. “That’s what the Republican Party believes in.” Seeking to craft a coalition of southern Democrats and northeastern Republicans, Gabrielson commenced negotiations for what he called a “trial marriage at the top” in which nominally independent Dixiecrats would pledge to support the Republican nominee in 1952.

    Don’t ever let the assholes let you believe that the GOP “just happened” to collect White Supremacists. Too many in that Party worked too damned hard, for far too long, to pull that exact Black-hating vote over.

    “State’s Rights”, my Big Black Butt.

  47. 47.

    catclub

    December 4, 2020 at 5:22 pm

    @H.E.Wolf: 

    embarrassed not to remember what UDH stands for

    United Democratic Happeal?

  48. 48.

    Mary G

    December 4, 2020 at 5:27 pm

    I wish I could be optimistic, but the record shows Republicans always show up more in special elections and runoffs, and my experience donating a not-insignificant chunk of my life savings to many Senate candidates across the country who were ahead in the polls and ended up losing this year is not positive.

    I am still donating to Fair Fight, Ossoff, Warnock, and now this organization, have written letters for Vote Forward and postcards for PTV, but I wonder if Georgians are getting multiple contacts they may get annoyed like raven and not vote and if I’m wasting my time and money.

  49. 49.

    WaterGirl

    December 4, 2020 at 5:39 pm

    @Mary G: We really don’t know the answer to the questions that you are (sort of) asking.  The choice is between doing something you think might help, and doing nothing, which will definitely not help.

    If multiple contacts, annoying as they can be, convinces people to vote for the other side, then I don’t think all the campaigns would still be doing GOTV.

    You are on the side of the angels, Mary G.  Do not give up, we need you!

  50. 50.

    raven

    December 4, 2020 at 5:41 pm

    @Mary G: Oh, we’ll be voting as will all of our annoyed friends!

  51. 51.

    WaterGirl

    December 4, 2020 at 5:41 pm

    This calendar was at 0 when DougJ made it at about 3 pm and look where we are now.

    I truly believe that giving to these smaller groups, and Fair Fight – who are doing on-the-ground organizing – is a really good use of our resources.

  52. 52.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 4, 2020 at 5:45 pm

    @JPL:

    Biden did win again in GA today.

    So much winning!

  53. 53.

    RR Mikey

    December 4, 2020 at 5:45 pm

    Stacey Abrams should be the head of the DNC. Lord knows she’d be great in that job and a damn sight better than that farcical fool, Tom Perez, who currently holds the job (is he really under consideration for AG????). If you or I did our job as poorly as he did his (he lost seats in the House and failed to gain a majority of the Senate despite Biden’s strong win), we’d be fired on the spot. He was nowhere to be seen for months prior to the election except for those folks who work at the bank where he cashes his paychecks. Please find a job for her where she can shine as brightly on the national stage in the same way she did in Georgia.

  54. 54.

    Baud

    December 4, 2020 at 5:48 pm

    @RR Mikey: I don’t recognize your nym, but the DNC is not responsible for the Senate and House.  Those are the DSCC and the DCCC.  The DNC focuses on the top of the ticket.  Nor do I think Abrams wants the DNC job, so it’s a moot point.

  55. 55.

    evap

    December 4, 2020 at 5:53 pm

    As a Georgia resident, I have to say that all of the flyers, postcards, texts, ….  are getting really annoying.  I’ve received absentee ballot applications from  four different groups.  I wish there was a way I could tell all these people that YES I AM GOING TO VOTE and that I will vote early in-person.   I think the absentee ballot applications might confuse some voters.

    Historically, the GOP does better in these run-offs, which is likely why the state legislature switched to this run-off system.   But this year is so different from previous years, and there is so much organizing and GOTV happening, I don’t think past elections really tell us that much.   It seems that Warnock is doing better in polling than Ossoff, but it’s really hard to imagine that there would be voters who would vote for Warnock and also vote for Purdue.

    The funniest thing is that the spousal unit is getting GOTV postcards and he is not a U.S. citizen.  Never happened before…

  56. 56.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    December 4, 2020 at 5:58 pm

    @RR Mikey:

    I’m skeptical that Perez had any impact whatsoever, good or bad tbh. Trump simply turned out a lot of voters, for our side and against. I mean, Susan Collins for example didn’t just win in a squeaker; it wasn’t even close. That was every Senate race.

    Hundreds of millions of dollars wasted. And of course this provided the right an opportunity to try to disingenuously claim that this means that money can’t buy elections; Dark Money is no problem!

    And what Baud said above

  57. 57.

    🐾BillinGlendaleCA

    December 4, 2020 at 6:02 pm

    @Baud: Tom Perez’s job was to run the convention, he did a pretty good job.

  58. 58.

    Mary G

    December 4, 2020 at 6:09 pm

    Had ordered something from Amazon Tuesday, fortunately nothing very important. Checked yesterday and they said it was due to come today, but the tracking details showed it had been sent to Brazil. Got an email today that it is undeliverable and a refund would be issued. That’s never happened to me before.

  59. 59.

    Geminid

    December 4, 2020 at 6:15 pm

    @RR Mikey: People want to see Stacey Abrams shine on the national stage but they may not understand how much good Abrams could do as Governor of Georgia. This year in particular we’ve seen the importance of good leadership at the state level. Abrams knows her own value best, and if she decides to run for Governor again people who want to see her shine will just have to pay some attention to state politics. It would probably be to their benefit knowledgewise.

  60. 60.

    laura

    December 4, 2020 at 6:18 pm

    @Mary G: you must not have ordered a wading pool this summer.

    So president ham head pitched a nutty and shat all over a most deserving Governor Kemp.  Does that count as helping Ossoff and Warnock? It’s schadenfreudalicious watching the GOP snake eat its tail. Each and ever loyal bootlicking morally bankrupt skeezy unfuckable acts more surprised than the last as the leopard eats their face.

  61. 61.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 4, 2020 at 6:19 pm

    @Mary G:

    Amazon just wanted to go home!

    (I hope you can re-order, obviously at Bezos’ expense!)

  62. 62.

    Mary G

    December 4, 2020 at 6:23 pm

    😍😊😃 O/T

    WaPo: Federal judge restores DACA, orders DHS to accept first-time applications from immigrants

    Thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children are immediately eligible to apply for an Obama-era program that grants them work permits, a federal judge in New York ruled Friday.

    U.S. District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis in Brooklyn said he was fully restoring the eight-year-old Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program to the days before the Trump administration tried to end it in September 2017. He ordered the Department of Homeland Security to post a public notice by Monday to accept first-time applications and ensure that work permits are valid for two years.

    Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf had issued a memo in July reducing DACA recipients’ work permits to one year, but Garaufis ruled last month that Wolf had unlawfully ascended to the agency’s top job and vacated the memo.

    I’m sure somebody will try to sue and get the Supremes to overturn this, but hopefully there won’t be enough time before Uncle Joe is in.

  63. 63.

    Mary G

    December 4, 2020 at 6:25 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I ordered the cheaper version I’d been vacillating about, so their loss!

  64. 64.

    raven

    December 4, 2020 at 6:28 pm

    @evap: I heard that!

  65. 65.

    Another Scott

    December 4, 2020 at 6:28 pm

    @catclub: Heh.

    Made me look…

    https://www.facebook.com/UnitedDemocraticHQ/

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  66. 66.

    Salty Sam

    December 4, 2020 at 6:30 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    @Mary G:

    Amazon just wanted to go home!

    (I hope you can re-order, obviously at Bezos’ expense!)

    Amazon has screwed up so many orders since day one of the pandemic. I cut ’em some slack at first, global pandemic and all, but they’ve never gotten the problems solved.  I have had at least a half-dozen orders botched and refunded since March.   I have started ordering directly from merchants with much better results.

    As my wife (who hates Amazon with the burning heat of 1000 suns) says, “FUCK Jeff Bezos!”

  67. 67.

    UncleEbeneezer

    December 4, 2020 at 7:09 pm

    @H.E.Wolf: United Dem Headquarters (Pasadena)

  68. 68.

    rikyrah

    December 4, 2020 at 9:35 pm

    Happy Founders’ Day to all my ice cold brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated. 🤙🏾 pic.twitter.com/EC1GYkwAxh— Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) December 4, 2020

  69. 69.

    rikyrah

    December 4, 2020 at 9:45 pm

    @Mary G:

    Brazil?!?🤔🤔😲😲

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