Total domination.
The MAC is back, baby! That’s just everybody except the Pac-12, who starts this weekend too. ManUre lost in the UCL while Chelski won. I have no problem with either result. I don’t know what else to really hit on in sports. And Liverpool won yuuuuuuge on Tuesday. That’s pretty much it.
Total smokeshow.
Cowboy/media personality Roy Rogers was born on this day. He shares it with the beautiful (and freaky) actress Vivien Leigh, baseball player Jim Tabor, musician and spousal abuser Ike Turner, musical sidekick Art Garfunkel, rocker Gram Parsons, French intellectual Bernard Henri-Levy, basketball player Bill Walton, guitarist Mike Score, Canadian person Bryan Adams, actress Tilda Swinton, pitcher Javier Lopez, outfielder Johnny Damon, disliked golfer Bubba Watson, cricket great Virat Kohli, and mental patient/football player Odell Beckham, Jr.
That list was hot garbage, I ain’t gonna lie. So let’s quickly move on to…the links!
Total shitshow.
Here’s the latest election goings-on. The Michigan SOS comment is the funniest. Did she take time out of her blocking-windows-from-observers schedule to make the comment?
Gee, I wonder why? Let me guess though: government isn’t the cause but will be the solution, right? Sure thing, assholes.
Total retard.
They’re not being “ordered” anywhere, asshoe. They’re still free to assess the risks they’re willing to take (based on the mountains of evidence that shows schools are incredibly safe), and assess their own future. If they want to return, they can return. If they don’t want to return, they’re free to seek employment elsewhere. Which is pretty much the same for every single person in the country.
Cry more, pussies. Here’s a solution for you: don’t do those drugs. And while you’re at it, leave people the fuck alone.
They couldn’t even wait until the results are in. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you America’s hard left.
GOOD!!!!!!! There need to be cuts. And they need to be painful to tax leeches like you, big boy.
Remember when I said upthread that the Pac-12 starts this weekend? That may not have been entirely true. This is not at all surprising.
Mississippi has replaced the state flag. Unfortunately for residents, they still live in Mississippi.
Here’s a great song to start your day. Just lovely. Thank you, 80s.
Now go have a fantastic day, friends!
I’m so disheartened by the fraud, I can barely First.
Must be the small hands.
meh it’s kind of fun that they are so brazen about it.
It’s a very scary indicator for the fate of the nation that they are so brazen about it and know they will get away with it.
have hope It’s been this brazen before in our nation’s history.
Had a discussion with my very likely soon to be ex liberal girlfriend because according to her the fraud was evil orange man saying team blue is trying to steal the election where she went off her rockers angry when I pointed out her emotional quotient rather than adherence to facts leads me to believe she knows that is going on but doesn’t care because the ends justifies the means.
This isn’t about team blue just winning: it is about getting rid of bad orange man, in as humiliating as possible a fashion, and then getting to the business of punishing those that supported or support him to make sure these unwashed serfs never again get uppity.
I’m not sure if I could stay with a girl so diametrically opposed to my world view even if she was young Vivien Leigh hot. You’re right about the payback if Blue wins. Sorry, Alex.
We are really good until we start talking politics. Then her inner angry progressive comes out. She is used to having her leftist crazy validated in the usual bubbles she travels in. When I present her with contradictory information it is dismissed as coming from “unreliable sources with an agenda” or just being false. She gets angrier when I point out this is neither logical nor unemotional on her part. So we usually avoided political talk until recently. And man has it been interesting to see how invested in their own illusion of what they world looks or should look like progs tend to be.
For them it is an existential crisis that they are not in charge. It is as if their morality and intelligence is questioned if you point out their dogma is crazy. That is unbelievably scary for someone like me that cares about a principle and not a team.
Oh dear. I still have a friend still taking Covid-19 seriously and believes lockdowns and social distancing are a must. It blows my mind how people still wear a mask. This thing is not going to kill on a mass scale yet people are now invested in nothing but precautionary theatre. Its mad.
Yep. Have had a recent up-tick of mask bearers at work but they never maintain discipline. As soon as they break a sweat the mask falls below the chin and when they notice it’s like Uncle Perv caught them in bed with their nighties on and the bedclothes down. We’ve had less than 250 deaths in our Province from this world-shattering Pandemic. Out of five million souls.
.” I still have a friend still taking Covid-19 seriously”
Pretty much those people have dis-friended me or died or both. I’m am absolutely amazed how old people have been taken in and are willing to subjugate themselves into solitary confinement.
Once the SS kicks in wave making seems to take experiences out of the picture. Somehow politics have replaced individual thinking and personal responsibility. I laugh when someone with 40 years of smoking experience tells me the covid is coming but a mask is the panacea.
Depression is a serious known and being alone is not helpful for anyone, let alone old people. Glad I have the Glibs, to more or less lend a little sanity into the picture.
It is their morality and intelligence you are questioning. They know that, you didn’t. It’s no different than being a non-believer and discussing someone’s religion – for progs, govt is their god.
It needn’t be the Government. They crave affirmation whatever the source. Pats on the head and a good scritch under the collar work for most tamed hounds.
You could always just pump up your numbers around 0400 by 100k. That might help.
Second!
Belated welcome back, MikeS! I don’t get to comment on the afternoon and early evening links.
Thanks, man. Good to be back.
Morning, MikeS. Good to see you surprised a lot of late nighters. I’ll have to take back some of the things I said about you.
/Sarc, of course
Of course it’s sarc. You’d never take back the things you said about me!
Here’s the latest election goings-on.
Welcome to ‘Who’s Election is it Anyway’, where the rules are made up and the votes don’t matter.
*snort*
Yeah, that was solid.
Does that mean we can just get Drew Carey as President out of nowhere? I’d take it….
Would you rather host the Price is Right or be President?
I choose both! Behind one of these doors is a new in the box Abrahms tank! How much is this A-10 worth? Gotta get that militia well regulated somehow,
[golf clap]
^This.
Ha! You guys get to make fun of us for our flag sporting a leaf and yet Mississippi went with a Pride motif and a flower.
It’s like they were going for the gayest flag in the union with that. Supposed conservatives had input on its design?
Sure, wide-stance conservatives so basically most of them/
Hey, now…
So you’ve been to the Mpls airport?
…when the guy at the urinal next to you says, “nice watch”…
The gayest flag would have something about being first.
But enough about your caloric intake. What about the Illinois budget?
They’re just waiting for the Federal bailout like a kid hoping Santa brings his grades up on Report Card day.
“Dad, I really, really need an an advance on my allowance”
“Uh, beer?” (actual answer)
^^^THIS^^^
Democrats, please make that a national Dem talking point prior to the mid-term election! Make it a national issue, so that voters around the country can reject just like the people of IL did.
“Do we really want to cut education funding in this state?” Pritzker asked.
well what are they doing this year?
I live in the state right next door. Somehow we’ve managed to balance our budge for decades, and one year we had a surplus so big they sent everyone a tax refund. Look in the mirror, pal.
Why we need Jesse Ventura (again). 2 refunds during his tenure. He asked “Why do we need a rainy day fund? With the people’s money?”
But he did spend for a light rail, not sure if anyone rides it but makes Mpls/StPaul 2 world class cities. Or not.
Nothing will change as long as Madigan runs the show. That guy is straight poison.
“We always knew we’d be here from when the polls closed as we went through that tabulation, there would be a lot of efforts to undermine people’s perceptions about the integrity of our process,” Benson added. “But we’ve always had a lot of faith in the truth underneath our work.”
“I’m pissing on you while staring you in the eyes and calling it rain.”
Notice she said “truth” instead of “integrity” or “accuracy”.
Well, “Truth matters more than facts!” seems to have been a winning formula going forward.
“The only thing we did when we voted on election day, was tell them how many vote they needed to ‘find’ on election night.”
This whole thing is bullshit. I don’t think the new ‘vote by mail’ trend is going away. In the future, the R’s are going to have to start ‘finding’ some votes o their own.
Their concession speeches are going to lead to the rest of us deplorables into cattle cars.
I have said this in other places, but in the long run, Vote by Mail *is* more secure. I can go online and see when my ballot was printed, delivered to my house, dropped off (or mailed back), arrived at the precinct, accepted, and when it was counted. And I can see where all of this happened. Each vote is watermarked to an individual, so you cannot just “find” a stack of ballots and count them, without attaching them to an actual person who can then call bullshit on the particulars of that vote.
Indeed, mail-in-voting changes the game completely. 33% of the electorate didn’t vote this year. A technology company can identify those people, figure out which ones would vote for YOU, and dispatch some moon-eyed volunteer from your campaign to go help them get their ballot in the mail. You don’t NEED fraud at that point. It is cheaper, less risky, and more likely to work. You just need to have your volunteers move quicker than the other side.
If the GOP doesn’t figure out that Voting is now a 21 day harvesting operation where each day you need to harvest more votes than the other- a game of throughput, not base-rallying and election day turnout- then it is all over for them.
Which state are you located? Do all states do it that way?
We don’t have anything like that here in New York.
There’s too many incentives to have no oversight or tracking.
I live in CA.
There are two systems being implemented nation wide right now: Mail in voting (which I described above) and Ballot Harvesting, which legally allowing a 3rd party to collect your ballot and deliver it on your behalf. That latter one is where fraud comes in, and while legal in California, it is critical that people point out how ripe for abuse. That is essentially what the Veritas video from the somalis was covering.
In Orange County, a reliable GOP stronghold, they flipped it to a reliable two congress critters for Dems through legal ballot harvesting. While the GOP sends its activists to encourage you to vote on election day, the dems send someone to pick up your ballot. Every single day they are voting for 3 weeks, compared to one day for the GOP.
I get all the reasons people don’t like this, but you need to focus on keeping ballot harvesting from coming to your state.
In my state there is absolutely no way to track any of that.
I don’t want a ballot I filled out attached to my name. Fuck that.
100000%
The thing is it’s fucking way worse having a political volunteer(the worst type of person, i’d take jehovas witness’s anyday) come to your house knowing who you vote for that’s going to end badly.
And if the political volunteers know who voted for who, the activists know. If the activists know, the “peaceful protesters” know.
While I’m sure that mail-in balloting could be made more secure, I don’t see it actually being done that way. And one of those measures I am strongly opposed to – watermarking each ballot to an individual, so that it is no longer a secret ballot.
And even with the security measures you list, I think its still much easier with mass mail-in voting to cast votes for registered, even legal, voters who didn’t actually vote. Putting millions of ballots into the wild simply gives anyone who cares to try and defraud the system more opportunities to do so. So the question is, with ample incentive in political operations all over the country to leave mail-in balloting insecure, who is going to make it more secure?
You also have what we are seeing now – ballots being handled by the post office, which is both inefficient, inept, and corrupt. How do you fix the ballots that never arrive, whether due to the normal error rate or due to more targeted measures? How do you fix backdating ballots to make them legal (or, when they think of it, front-dating ballots to make them illegal)? A shorter, tighter chain of custody is always more secure.
Walk-in voting on election day wasn’t broken. At one time, even in cities of millions of people, there was one day to vote, and votes got counted that day and announced the next day at the latest, and there were paper ballots for every vote in case a recount was needed. It wasn’t perfect, and could still be (and was) corrupted in one-party strongholds, but it was much more secure than what we have now. We “fixed” something that wasn’t broken, and no surprise, the fix made things worse and may delegitimize the entire electoral process in the eyes of a significant minority of the country.
Blockchain?
Did they give AZ to Trump yet?
He’s closer in NV, but both seem like they need recounts and special consideration to each ballot to ensure it is legitimate, which is why it won’t happen and they will not give it to him.
#2 on the baseball birthday WAR list (behind the aforementioned Damon) is 19th century Pitcher Ice Box Chamberlain. Never heard of him, which says something, considering the name — especially since he played for Louisville and Cincinnati. 157-120 career record in 10 seasons.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/req/202010270/images/headshots/a/ac500d52_sabr.jpg
I like the popped collar.
Yep. That guy fucked.
Some Gram Parsons
Mornin’ Mike!
How’s things in ND?
How’s things in ND? – cold I would think
hmm googling bismarck weather it seems quite warm for 4 days and then it suddenly drops by a lot. Weird. 24 C to -10 in a week. You Americans and your crazy weather.
Yeah, for my neck of the
woodsplains, the high Sunday is 63 and the high Monday is 34.You Americans and your crazy weather.
Says the man using Celsius instead of real temperature.
I’ll never understand why Europeans are so proud of using Jacobin units.
Celsius predates the Jacobins
Shit. We went from pecks and furlongs to grams and kilos in one year when I was about 8 years old. You guys are smart enough to figure it out if you let the wave pass over you.
It’s a bitch to measure furlongs in kilos.
UCS, that got a solid LOL from me!
I needed that today.
UCS, that got a solid LOL from me!
I needed that today.
Snow-free and unseasonably warm…for a few more days. Work is busy as hell. How about you?
Indian summer, man!
74 yesterday.
Things are great, overall. We adopted a beautiful (old) pup last week, so we’ve been enjoying being a two-dog, no-kid family!
W00t! That’s a lucky dog, I’m sure. Good on you all.
She’s awesome!
Meet Kiki!
10.5 year old Aussie mix. Surrendered to the Humane Society a few weeks ago. Poor girl was very neglected and had such bad dental disease they had to remove 15 teeth! Some people are asshoe.
She’s really settled in nicely. Our old sheepdog was a little put out at first, but he’s warmed considerably. She eats, sleeps, walks and behaves perfectly. We scored.
You are truly wonderful for taking in an older pooch. Such a sweetie.
Awesome! That’s great she can finish her life out with much love. Good for you guys.
Quit trying to distract us from your shitlordism with stories about your cute dog (congrats by the way)!
It is Native American summer. Get with the times.
One of the things I will miss about Minnesoda when I move away is the big stupid smiles on everyone’s face that I passed on my walk yesterday. A week ago we were getting 8 inches of snow, now it is sunny and 70. You can’t help smiling at everyone.
Obviously this warm weather is all due to the Biden Administration Green New Deal being blocked by the GOP assholes in the Senate.
Here the official term seems to be “second summer. “
Nice!
Work being busy is better than the alternative.
Amen
Good to see you Mike!
I’m envious of the intelligent electorate you have in NoDak. If only we could show that much sense here on this side of the Red river.
Haha. That’s how absolutely terrible the Dem-NPL (Democrats) party is in this state. The population would rather elect a dead guy.
If the dead can vote, the dead can be elected.
What I want to know is the status of the Undead.
To be fair, what better place to keep a zombie penned up than on the floor of the state legislature?
The Undead (R – NoDak) would wander around searching for brains. It would quickly become confused by all the movement around it but without a whiff of brains or fellow zombie.
Status of the Undead is Speaker of the House, same as before the election.
Not Ounce Parsons?
He was ahead of his time in adopting the metric system.
Gee, I wonder why?
Just more turmoil from the super deadly and scary scamdemic.
Lmao this election shit is like turn of the century old timey.
also happy bday to vivian leigh who’d I wait in line for.
You’d have likely had to wait in line. Or just be at the right place in the pile. That woman was a freak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XESxsUl6hGU
I laughed at the 12″ version. Apropos.
No link to a news article about Whataburger coming to the Nashville area? That’s the best news I’ve heard in a long time.
If you can’t provide it, you expect us to be able to find it?
My news feed had a picture of Pelosi and I just couldn’t scroll anymore.
Too busy Toobin?
Maybe.
MMmmm… Pattymelt.
Good morning, Sloop!
A reminder: clicking the music link first really helps take the edge off the breathtaking stupidity of the day’s news. Especially NO. Fantastic song.
My wife works at the school and has nothing but disdain for the whiny bitch teachers. “Just do your fucking job.” She is definitely not woke.
Oregon did the right thing – probably for the wrong reasons – but it’s a step in the right direction.
The 80’s were a great time. I should have appreciated it more.
Have an awesome day, my groovy babies!
A swan song of sorts. They wouldn’t do anything that good again. And not to nit-pick, but it’s from 1993 🙂
Yes. This. The 80’s were turbulent times but that’s were I spent my late teens and early twenties. Many adventure, much experience. I wouldn’t relive it for anything.
Keep counting them votes. Any serious election should have at least 120% participation.
Maximum effort.
The U.S. used to go around the world trying to make every place a democracy. Now we have lost the ability to administer a national election with any degree of legitimacy. I remember being 10 years old watching Jimmy Carter’s victory speech before my bedtime. Dad was pissed, but never questioned that it was a legitimate win.
Are the Europeans shaking their heads and laughing at us, or taking notes on how to ruin their voting systems to get the chaos they want?
It probably depends on which group of Europeans you’re talking about. The ones who hold multiple elections until they get the result they want are probably nodding in approval that any necessary measures were taken to remove from office a man who was destroying the world.
taking notes on how to ruin their voting systems to get the chaos they want – as a Romanian lol you wish you had the kind of fraud we do
I don’t think Europe should be laughing at anyone.
Canadians on the other hand…./pish!
Who cares about participation when the counters really decide what that number should reflect and who wins?
Do you guys have evidence of fraud? It seems pretty likely Trump would lose. He has never once gained majority approval during his presidency (the only president to hold such an honor), and polling was highly against him, and it was predicted by every analyst covering the election that results would look good for Trump on election night, but mail in counts would shift races toward Biden. Then you had Trump campaign sue in a bunch of places to make sure mail vote counting was delayed as long as possible, and then you have DeJoy purposely hobbling the postal service to ensure as late delivery as possible, then you have Trump priming all his followers with completely baseless accusations of fraud for months prior to the election….seems like a very obvious scam reaching its very obvious conclusion. Also, we have international observers here, and not a one has witnessed any fraud or impropriety. Seems like the usual baseless accusations and projection from the cult of Trump.
And you guys know the vote tally plug ins on news org’s websites are not 1:1 accurate, right? Tallies “showing up in the middle of the night” or being adjusted is not evidence of fraud; those are not official vote tallies.
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-elections-voting-2020-voting-b30f3424736014a6b7405df71e32e36f
Do you guys have evidence of fraud?
Well, there’s the postal worker who went on tape and named names about his supervisors backdating ballots.
There’s the mail-in ballots that have been dumped.
There’s the illegal exclusion of Republican poll watchers.
There are verified ballots cast by dead people.
More suggestive, perhaps:
There’s polling stations covering their windows with pizza boxes.
There’s people in and out of polling stations, on tape, without getting their identities verified, hauling boxes, suitcases and coolers, after the deadlines for delivering ballots and with no reason for any of that.
There’s voting districts reporting zero votes for Trump, and reporting votes well in excess of the number of registered voters.
But other than that, its all just speculation I suppose. What you count as evidence of fraud, anyway?
I do not believe the so called anonymous postal worker. The illegal exclusion of republican poll watchers has not happened, as just ruled this morning in court. I have not seen any confirmed reports of dead people voting, but this gets reported every single election so… The polling station covering windows was because armed trump suppoorters were banging on the windows and shouting, interupting the work inside. You think some grand conspiracy to steal the election relies on pizza boxes covering up windows? I need a source on all of these things btw. Thanks in advance.
Or you can just apply occam’s razor. Option A: the most unpopular president in the history of polling lost, as expected. Option B: there is a massive conspiracy of legislators, governors, volunteers, and the media involving 10,000’s of people, that somehow was not sophisticated enough to come up with a better solution to covering their crimes than pizza boxes.
And the kids are learning remotely because the schoolmarms won’t show up. The best logic is circular because circular is the best logic.
So… just like any other job. Don’t show up to do the job, don’t get paid.
for various definitions of the word learning
But, but, but I have a contract…
It’s a tautology: the study of taut.
It’s raining. The streets must be wet again!
Why do people enter a 50 webex and not mute creating noise? I don’t get it. I always get in muted by default. Why would you do otherwise? I unmute when I am ready to
The host should have the ability to mute everybody in one button press.
yes but the host did not know how and it took a minute to figure out. And the unmuted person was not answering to calls to mute themselves. That Jens is a real asshole.
Thank you for this. My pet peeve is people who have TVs on in the background for the kids or other household members. Yes, op can hear that shit.
There’s at least one asshole in my company who plays Christmas music in the background loudly enough to hear over the call. Even in summer.
that is a top troll move
Yeah, I kinda like it.
Now that is how you troll…
Fuck having year long Christmas decorations…
Play stupid Christmas songs when you have to join meetings to drive people insane!
Kick ass!
People don’t know shit about how to use the tools. “Can you hear me, am I off mute?” Yes, shithead. there’s an indicator you can look at that tells you if you’re transmitting audio to the call.
My problem is I work with engineers, most of which have masters or phds and I keep expecting more of them in many things and I keep being disappointed. When I used to go to the office the usage of the toilet brush was a mystery to many.
What are engineers doing with toilet brushes?
Nothing. That is the problem.
You need to clean the bowl regularly or it will turn colors and start to smell.
my standard is if you smear it you clean it
Well, who else is going to…
Oh, you mean at work.
At work, they don’t let the employees have access to such things. They’re the exclusive domain of the janitorial contractors.
well at my work there is always a brush next to each toilet. So no excuses
We have had more than a few instances where those indicators were not indicative of what people actually hear. Or that a person is transmitting and not recieving, asking if the call can hear them because they’re not hearing the call. Usually it means someone needs to reconnect.
Technical issues aside, some ask as a matter of course.
I am tech illiterate and don’t see widgets.. Its all gobbledygook on my screen!
/tard
Vivien Leigh by all accounts blew the Hot/Crazy matrix out of the water. Younger, drunker me would be all over that even if it resulted in a Kamala-job. H/T SF
A forest.
Couldn’t see the trees.
This is actually one of their best songs performed live.
This taking my daily walk with a mask on is depressing me. I mean I don’t wear it all the time but I have to be on the lookout for cops and shit. Although you are legally allowed not to wear one while smoking or jogging so I can buy a pack a smokes and carry it with me or pretend to run.
What’s the penalty for non-compliance?
A fine. Which you can probably challenge in court and win due to all pandemic laws being made stupidly and prone to overturning but I just don’t want hassle. Even if I could talk my way out of a fine. I just want a quiet walk.
500 to 2500 lei depending on the discretion of the cop
That’s a lot of flower necklaces just for not wearing a mask.
What is the penalty for not paying the fine?
Here the usual penalty is the send a notice to your employer and block them from paying your salary until the fine is payed. If self employed they can block all your bank accounts until you pay, and you cannot make payments to anyone outside the government.
What if you are on public assistance?
I have no idea. You probably don’t pay and nothing happens.
I’m of the opinion that in modern society you either need to be super wealthy or broke to be free. The middle gets squeezed for taxes and have something to lose so they follow the rules.
Can you buy a vape pen and just have it in your mouth?
dunno but it sounds kinky
How about this?
Team Spirit ’88 was the only time I could have been considered a “smoker”. The gunny and gunner (aka warrant officer) who were running our detachment were big smokers. They started taking lots of breaks and all the smokers could stop and take a break too. Non-smokers were supposed to keep working.
Surprisingly everyone began smoking in a very short time. I didn’t like the smoke in my lungs, so I usually just lit up and held a smoke during the breaks. It wasn’t hard to give up once we were back in our barracks. The other advantage of having a pack of american smokes on you was it was super duper easy to make friends with the ROK Marines we were training with. Just give them a smoke and they though you were awesome.
So yeah, grab a pack of smokes and you are good to go. To be fair, smokes were dirt cheap in the Marines so you didn’t have to worry about the cost.
Although you are legally allowed not to wear one while smoking
For your health of course.
How many fraudulent ballots do you think were counted across the country?
1 million? 2 million? More?
Given the huge chunks reportedly “found” for Biden, I could easily see it in the 1-2m range.
They had almost 8 months to prepare for this, on top of their usual cheating.
Which means the Republicans had eight months to counter their efforts…but they did next to nothing….because the Republican Party is fucking useless.
What could they have done?
Not meekly allowing themselves to be denied access to observing the counting process at key voting sites would have been nice.
I’m not sure what legal recourse they had.
See below. I don’t think all the counting was of ballots. What I saw sure looked like someone hacking a computer when everyone else has gone home and just fucking changing the numbers to flip MI and WI, brazen as all fuck.
They had 4 years. Think about it. They saw what happened in 2016 and vowed to not let it happen again, so they gameplanned the mail-in vote-finding scheme.
TJ SWIM 4K uncut 2019-20 Swimwear Collection / Miami Swim Week 2018/19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g43DIYeCGyQ
Feral children throw tantrum
Hundreds of protesters were arrested Wednesday night shortly after they marched onto Interstate 94 in Minneapolis, protesting among other things Donald Trump’s presidency and his threat to challenge Tuesday’s unsettled election results.
The march, which began at Cedar and Riverside avenues and looped through downtown, was organized by Twin Cities for Justice 4 Jamar in coordination with the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Regression. That group soon merged with a second protest endorsed by 30 organizations whose agendas ranged from pro-Black Lives Matter anti-police fervor to calling for action on climate change.
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“We have a racist in office. Which side are you on?” Nekima Levy Armstrong said to the crowd in the protest that preceded the walk onto the freeway. “Do you stand on the side of oppression or the side of justice? I’m tired of relatives of people killed by police coming to these rallies.”
Other speakers said Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden cannot be trusted to champion causes dear to the protesters’ hearts and that even if he wins the election, protests are likely to continue.
No fairness, no peace. You have been warned.
Hey Brooks: to reply to your observation on the previous post. I read part of the article and I did see it the same way you did. It just seems to me that the groundwork is being laid for Biden to say, “well, I was going to defund the police/seize guns/other progressive mantra” but I couldn’t because of the damned Republicans in the Senate and that fraudulent Supreme Court.” That way he won’t have to walk back any of the bullshit he said on the campaign trail.
The fact that the Senate held is the only part that makes this shit even a little palatable.
I’m guessing the Michigan Senate race was fixed.
This. The Senate, and that “packed” supreme court are going to be crucial.
Wisconsin shenanigans?
If the stats and charts in that story are true, shit is really going to hit the fan. The author of the blog post warns that he hasn’t dug into the numbers himself to verify, but still….
I come out to 88% turnout with those numbers. Smells like bullshit.
https://mkecitywire.com/stories/564495243-analysis-seven-milwaukee-wards-report-more-2020-presidential-votes-than-registered-voters-biden-nets-146k-votes-in-city
588 to 10 in one ward…
This is so flagrant and ridiculous.
I have heard a bunch of people from your state claiming the fact they have 88% turnout shows how “patriotic & concerned” Minnesodans are. Not that your state, run by the usual suspects, had some serious ballot harvesting shenanigans going on…
We normally do have high turnout and are super proud of it. OKay, only the Sec of State here is “proud” of it. And we’ve never hit the “coveted” 80% turnout mark since 1950’s.
You know if the Trump got up there and conceded because it turned out that Biden was so inspirational that multiple states had turnout even higher than Obama’s election, Obama might get so pissed that he came forward and spilled the beans on the who/what/when/where of fraud.
“Let me be clear. More people did not really vote for Joe than voted for me!”
Wisconsin has same day registration, so you can’t calculate based on pre-registered voters.
Right but wouldn’t that mean over 600k registered on E-Day?
more like 900k
How you do same-day registration and mail-in voting, I have not clue. It used to be done at the polling place.
Its easy to track, anyway – compare rates of same-day registration from prior elections, do the math on the registered voters (including same-day) voters who voted. If the results are still an anomoly, what’s the explanation?
“If the results are still an anomoly, what’s the explanation?”
The sheer frenzied excitement for Joe Biden, of course.
It’s not at all suspicious that Joe Biden got more votes from deep inner city areas than Barack Obama did.
Or that he got a quarter million more votes in WI than Hillary did.
Or that the addition of over 100,000 votes for Biden in one stroke, which was claimed to be some kind of input error, does not seem to have been corrected.
I get states are different, and that’s fine.
But Trump picked up 2 percentage points in Ohio and somehow lost ground in both MI and WI? That boggles the mind.
It fucking reeks.
You know what though. There was no cheating. I pulled up google last night and typed Wisconsin in and the first 2 results were Snopes reporting of ballot fraud in WI as FALSE.
And I’m thinking, OK, sure you guys went to WI and counted the votes again and didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary? Because why else are you reporting something as false? No one can possibly even know at this point.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/11/massive-voter-fraud-in-wisconsin.php
So Biden is plus 250,000 over Hillary? A guy who couldn’t get a thousand voters to come out to any events?
Suspicious, but mail in ballots are very low effort.
Please explain how you can get a ballot if you aren’t a registered voter. Yes, same day registration for in-person voting I get. But not for mail-in.
Biden wasn’t holding any mass rallies. They were purely insider invite only events, for media consumption with careful camera placement.
Mississippi has replaced the state flag.
Is that a cauliflower?
“In god we trust” is going to have to go.
Based on the design of the new flag it should be:
“With Gaia we Gay”
That flag has “woke” all over it. You can tell that the people who came up with it were always ashamed of the old flag and worked hard to come up with a flag that the kind of people liked the old flag would be ashamed of. Political tit for tat. I had always hoped some people with traditional Mississippi values would have taken on the task to change the flag and substituted the “stars and bars” with the actual national flag of the Confederacy (The “stars and bars” was a battle flag) since most people wouldn’t recognize it so few would complain.
Didnt Georgia do that and people still complained?
ugh, I fucking hate daylight slavings time
/4th day in a row that the kiddo woke up an hour early
Yup…although it beats trying to wake my daughter up to get her to school. She is not a morning person.
There was a local fairytale which said the best way to wake someone up is to dump a bucket with cold water and small live fish on them
The votes are in and the results arent surprising
https://twitter.com/RoonKolos/status/1324176009755844608
How do they know it’s women searching?
the internet know everything about anyone doing anything
So while I was away, I’ve been getting more into country (don’t tell Chafed). The good stuff, not that new Nashville shit. And it’s been a tough year for some of the big names.
RIP Billy Joe Shaver and Jerry Jeff Walker
…and Justin Townes Earle
And the king of them all; John Prine
I have Chris Knight on my Pandora feed and some of those guys come up and get the thumbs up. You for in case you haven’t heard it – North Dakota.
I have not. Thanks for the recommendation! I really like the little I’ve heard of Chris Knight, just haven’t gotten around to listening to him seriously. His duet with Prine on Mexican Home kicks ass.
Billy shoe Shaver died? Fuck. How many great singer songwriters have to get raptured this year?
Good songs.
RIP Billy Joe Shaver and Jerry Jeff Walker
Mac Davis? C’mon, Man, you gotta get hooked on Mac.
My theme song
It just seems to me that the groundwork is being laid for Biden to say, “well, I was going to defund the police/seize guns/other progressive mantra” but I couldn’t because of the damned Republicans in the Senate and that fraudulent Supreme Court.” That way he won’t have to walk back any of the bullshit he said on the campaign trail.
I agree. They are laying the foundation for claiming Biden’s Great Works were thwarted by McConnell and those obstructionist anti-democratic bastards in the Senate. Whether that is because he (and his DNC puppetmasters) never had the slightest intention of following through on the radical progressive wish list remains to be seen.
It would be amusing to see the internecine fighting that would go on if Biden is installed as President.
The tussles for who got what cabinet positions would be great. My gut tells me that AOC and Bernie would be shut out for the most part and throw epic hissy fits. It would be just like when the old time Dems rigged things for Hilary. Once again the new socialists would find themselves on the outside.
Wishful thinking. The dems will swing hard left immediately and try go pass every leftist fantasy dream they can. Just the ‘free’ healthcare will break us all even with 50-60% income tax and a Euro style VAT tax. All the other stuff is just a pipe dream because we’ll be broke and there won’t be any money for any of it. Almost forgot about the huge bailouts for blue states we’ll all have to pay for.
No, you’ll see the progressive wing of the party go full insurgent on the Dem establishment. It will be an intra-party civil war.
It will be glorious, because the moment the progressives gain control, they destroy the party.
There’s almost no one left in the dem party who are not far left. The coup is over. They just put up with Nancy and Schmoobz for a few more years and that’s that.
AOC might get a senate seat out of this just to get her out of Pelosi’s hair, there’s some definite backroom dealing between those two.
What’s unfortunately going to happen now, is that the GOP are going to shift back hard towards RINO status. Without Trump giving them a hard time, it’s just too easy to go back to the good ol Bush days, lots of warmongering and reaching across the aisle to screw us over.
I expected myself to be more upset about the obvious rigging of the election, which I assumed would happen all along, but I’m oddly unperturbed, even amused, by it. I think it’s mainly down to the fact that we’re looking at a divided government in which no major domestic policy fuckups are likely (eg: court packing, making DC a state, banning cars, etc.). Sure, we’ll undo most of the MENA peacemaking that Trump had accomplished but that’s business as usual right? The upshot is that I think many more people have been red-pilled and legions more will be after watching Biden’s embarrassing public descent into complete senility. Besides, that’ll probably provide some amusement along the way. I think the plan is for Harris to take over around the midterms, but I’d be surprised if Biden lasts that long. Based on friends and relatives, he’s already at the start-declining-really-fast stage. My prediction is that he’s no longer a functional human by the end of 2021.
Another thing I find amusing: we live in a world completely submerged in a tsunami of data. 1 petabyte is equivalent to giving everyone on Earth a 50,000 page novel and we move around thousands of petabytes everyday. Netflix compiles, parses and streams, with minimal errors and downtime, multiple terabytes per second. Credit card companies process tens of thousands of complex transactions per second with six-nine success rate. And we’re supposed to believe that tabulating the votes from a couple hundred million people takes 96+ hours and the process continues to be riddled with unintentional errors? It’s so insulting to the Nation’s intelligence that it’s actually hilarious.
Oh well. Thot Thursday.
https://archive.li/wgWPZ
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As for the election, I have a strong ingrained aversion to rewarding foul play, and instinctively want to break out the cruel and unusual punishments for anyone who engages, aids, abets, or benefits from it.
An honest loss is one thing. This mess is clearly anything but honest.
^This. They have a chance to stop this. Mass arrests with heavy jail time. Flip the low-level and move up the food chain.
If fraudulent results are accepted so easily without any repercussions, then it’s done. The Dems will go all in on this tactic next election aided by the media and sweep everything. If it’s accepted that the Dems can do things like finding 128,000 ballots in Philadelphia all for Biden and zero for Trump then it’s time turn the lights out. It’s inevtiable we’ll get court packing, the green deal, gun bans, and anything else.
If this shit is going to get kicked off, I’d rather it happen now then 4 years of gridlock followed by unending Dem election sweeps and the resulting Marxist agenda being implemented.
Even if is doesn’t overturn the results, I would like to see this. Find any cases at all and prosecute to full extent. Make it clear it is not worth doing in the future.
What, exactly is stopping Trump from ordering his FBI to get all over this? Might it be the complete and total lack of evidence of any such fraud?
I’m with you. I read this stuff and laugh. It’s so blatant and pathetic. No matter how they call these races, the genie is out of the bottle. There are many millions of people who will start experimenting with agorism, whether they know it or not. You can’t clamp down 150 million (armed) people.
I’ve started letting my lefty friends know in frank terms how the rest of the country views the shenanigans. One was celebrating that PA may flip to blue today. My response:
I’ll probably be unfriended for it, but I’m beyond caring now. I’m tired of keeping my trap shut while they constantly proclaim their TEAM bullshit.
Don’t know where your friend has the idea it will flip blue – the Repubs have retained the State Senate and may yet gain the House. All of the Dem effort is focused on Biden? What a fool’s errand.
I don’t think it will, but if it were to do so, it would just show how corrupt the process is.
You can go to @Fleccas on Twitter and see him proving that dead people voted absentee in MI, using the state’s own website.
They’re doing it right out in the open, and they know the media will cover for them.
There is a Yuge Industry devoted to politics, politicians and the money involved. Pollsters, workers, bureaucrats, ad infinitum. They are not going away quietly. They need all the little volunteer workers, like all cults. Best politicians money can buy.
in a perverse way, I did think Biden was going to be the ultimate red-pill. And if the DNC does install Harris, that’s the ultimate deception they perpetuated on the American electorate.
Will this Q-JATNAS crossover be followed by a JATANS-Q crossover?
Sermon on Skimpy Swimsuits?
Just a paragraph not a stitch [on]
Billy Joe Shaver croaked? I did not know.
Yeah, about a week ago.
A good one from Billy Joe Shaver
Yeah, that is a good one.
But what a thrill for your last act.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_Coaster
I don’t think that would work as designed. One minute of blackout isn’t going to kill you.
And your loved ones can get a photo of you doing the g-loc jerk at the gift shop.
The fact that the Senate held is the only part that makes this shit even a little palatable.
The Republicans picked up some seats in Congress, I guess. Funny- nobody on the “news” seems interested in talking about that.
Project Veritas exposes Michigan voting fraud scheme.
I don’t think it will make any difference, at this point
You’re right, they’re going to get away with it, which means they’ll do it even harder and more blatantly in the future. Get ready for a one-party-ruled banana republic with one quarter of the world’s economy and a massive military machine.
not for long
Meh, the percentage will probably hold, because when the US economy goes in the shitter the rest of the world will follow. There is no massive free-market economy to take its place.
We are well less than a quarter of the world economy.
I wouldn’t call 24% “well less” than a quarter. Jun 01, 2020 · Basic Info US GDP as % of World GDP is at 23.91%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
That massive military machine is going to turn to crap soon too. Who in their right mind would enlist to serve in a Biden / Harris social justice brigades?
The military machine will start getting used again, like it’s supposed to. Lyndsey Graham and Max Boot will be in their bunks.
I guess you could say they are already getting to work managing expectations for Biden’s America.
Maybe I’m nuts, but I’m not so sure Biden ends up winning this thing.
I predicted he would before the election and I am never wrong.
I’m quite likely nuts, and I think there’s going to be violence in the streets before this is over.
The fraud coming out of the Democratic stronghold machines is massive and is not going unnoticed.
I think there’s going to be violence in the streets before this is over. – there already is violence in the streets I understand.
If there is anyone on the planet with the fortitude to fight it, it’s Old Two Scoops.
I like you Sean, but I think you’ve taken your man crush too far. Trump only looks like a tough guy when you put him next to other politicians. Don’t have heroes, they only let you down.
*shrug*
He’s been fighting these commies since he first won the Primary. Just saying, there’s every reason to believe he’s not going to quit now.
I mean throw out “Trump is a hero”
Trump is a spiteful, egotistic, narcissist. He’s constantly on Twitter talking about unfairly and wrongly he’s been treated by the media and the bureaucrats.
It’s not his heroic nature that would lead him to go to the mattress on this, it’s that he’s a massive fucking asshole.
he’s a massive fucking
assholedick.This seems apropos
Trump only plays a strong-man in his (and your) head.
He’s got no stones.
You’re probably right about that.
The fraud this time around just seems to be exponentially more obvious than in past elections. I mean, 88% turnout in Wisconsin for Joe fuckin’ Biden’s senile ass, far exceeding what Obama got at the height of his Chocolate Jesus powers in 2008? Who actually believes that?
I don’t know. I agree that there was no enthusiasm for Biden. But mail in voting meant that you didn’t have to go stand in line somewhere.
Right. If they go check all these mailins, and every door they knock on it’s
“Oh the nice girl from the Democrats said I could just vote right now so I said ‘ok sure’ and yes that’s my signature.” then all right, I respect the hustle.
But if you start knocking on doors and it’s “I never vote” or “no one by that name lives at this address” then strike down the dirty ones until we get a clean count.
strike down the dirty ones until we get a clean count
Whole effort is tainted, bounce it all.
“The fraud coming out of the Democratic stronghold machines is massive and is not going unnoticed.”
Your usual team blue player is absolutely certain that the massive fraud is coming from the people denying them the ability to steal the election by counting every vote, but especially the ones they had ready to make sure they could flip and keep the states they run into the Biden column…
I do believe that Trump should tone down his rhetoric and instead let his lawyers go to town. He is not helping his cause antagonizing this crowd of insane people by screaming “WHO WANTS CAKE???” to the retarded…
I disagree completely. If the ruling elite looks around and only sees one army fielded, they will only continue to capitulate to that army. Conservative need to start showing up and they need to show the world how pissed off they are.
this is coming soon. when ballots can’t be trusted, people vote with bullets.
A large group of Trump supporters already flooded into a Michigan polling place and demanded counting be stopped (Michigan has banned Trump campaign observers from watching the count as required by law).
It wouldn’t take much for those supporters to be armed. I’d rather they were. This is enough.
They put up poster board on the windows so the GOP people couldn’t watch from outside.
The only reason to do that is to commit fraud. There is no honest, forthright reason to not allow people to look through the window at the count.
The fig leaf of escorting people out of the room because they are getting in the way doesn’t apply to people looking through a window.
“(Michigan has banned Trump campaign observers from watching the count as required by law).”
This is false. There are observers from both parties and independents. There is an overall limit on the capacity of the building, which led to 30 people being barred from all parties and affiliations. The Trumpian poll watchers were also accused of purposefully slowing down the counting and interfering, but that is a separate matter.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-michigan/michigan-still-counting-votes-angry-poll-watchers-barred-in-detroit-trump-sues-idUSKBN27K2AQ
But that unfounded accusation you have no trouble believing. Huh.
Ah, the ruling elite. Who is that exactly? If they don’t have their own army, how exactly are they ruling – all part of a con?
The ruling elite. The people who hold power through their personal decisions.
The entire Judicial branch. Every executive working for a social media platform. The talking heads on every major news channel. Mayors. Sheriffs. Governors. Generals. Senators.
They rule through the decisions they make. The people had their moment to speak and it’s been clearly ignored. Now, our rulers get to choose what happens next. The choices they make will definitely be impacted by the risk to their lives and property that mobs pose.
Right now. There is only one mob on the streets. It’s been made very clear that there is no political will to make that mob go home. There was a lot of violence on election night and it was very much not covered and very much on sided.
I think there were a lot of non-progressives, including me, who had a “wait until the election” mentality. It’s been made very clear that our voices are being silenced. So, now what? Who is going to stand up to these assholes? It’s not going to be the “ruling elite” until they see what the other mob looks like. because right now, there is only one beast to feed.
And you think this ruling elite is all thoroughly progressive?
No. My point was that the ruling elite will base their decision on what they see. If all they see is a mob that is one sided, they will continue to capitulate to that mob.
By not fielding a mob, anti-progressives risk business as usual or even worse empowerment, see the last 7 months of unproesecuted lawless riots and government/media coverups and victimsplaining.
If the anti-progs show up in force with force, the people who get to make decisions will be forced to be more fair to both sides.
Think of it as a negotiation and only one side showing up with a mediator in the middle. It’s a bit of an over simplification but still apt.
“If the anti-progs show up in force with force, the people who get to make decisions will be forced to be more fair to both sides.”
It’s already started happening and unfortunately, I do not agree. The powers that be will keep taking the side of the left because those people are easy to herd around. They’re all in for the mask mandates, ani-gun, and they seem fine with calling for crushing taxes via climate change BS.
When the elites are comfortable enough that the Trumpists have been corralled and are no longer a threat, they’ll send in the cops and even the military to start cracking the heads of the rioters. Once their usefulness has expired, they’ll wind up with fractured skulls and prison sentences.
This.
Obviously the people like me who just wanted to be left alone and go about their business need to stand up and say enough. The gloves are off.
I think there’s going to be violence in the streets before this is over
There already is. Still only from leftists, though.
Let’s see:
1) The red mirage shows Trump winning on election night (done)
2) The dems manufacture enough votes for Biden to win (in progress)
3) SCOTUS says Trump wins (waiting in the wings)
4) Blue cities burn (actually getting started early I think)
This is a win either way for the Democrats.
If Biden wins, the deep state runs wild and Harris takes over in a year or two.
If Trump does win the legal battle, they have a grievance to fuel their hate and violence for 4 years.
Either way, 2021 is going to be chaos.
“[N]eoliberalism, characterised by the laissez-faire model of economic development, is dead.”
-Is the FT turning into Teen Vogue?
https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1323955969731284993
No, they have less anal and more rent seeking
Rent seeking is a form of anal…
And vice-versa if you consider the anus as housing.
“In our experience here in the state where we actually have bipartisan poll watchers, a number of other people, a lot of people with eyes on the process,” she said.
Sure.
The Bank of England is pumping another £150 billion ($195 billion) into the UK economy after warning of a double-dip recession because of the coronavirus pandemic and an uncertain outlook because of Brexit.
It’s the government’s response to the pandemic. Sure, I buy that some businesses might have gone under had the government done nothing as people changed behavior. But note that South Dakota and Sweden recovered pretty quickly from those changes.
‘I’m so p***ed that Oregon passed 110. You really just decriminalized heroin. The drug that KILLED my cousin. He only shot up a ‘personal use’ amount and now he’s gone,’ one railed on Twitter.
Fuck you. I also have a relative with a heroin addiction. He beat, it didn’t kill him. It did fuck his life up. Heroin should be legal. You own your body, not the government.
Local authorities declared a riot after groups of demonstrators destroyed property in the downtown section of the city, which the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office described as “widespread violence.”
Not “mostly peaceful widespread violence”?
Gov. J.B. Pritzker has said Illinois had three choices for dealing with its massive deficits: Hike taxes across the board, make spending cuts that would include education and public safety, or amend the state constitution to allow a graduated income tax.
FUCK YOU CUT SPENDING!
Good news from Reopen NH: Out of 119 endorsed candidates, 74 have won. Approximately 35% of the new Republican majority is Reopen NH endorsed. Combine that with a significant number of Republican legislators that are known to be sympathetic to Reopen NH, and the Reopen NH folks are confident they will have some success reigning in the Clown Prince once the new legislature sits.
Reopen NH will rebrand themselves “Rebuild NH” as they switch to work on rewriting legislation and getting businesses back to normal.
Does this mean I might be able to visit actual stores again?
Though some of those roads are… not the sort of routes I’d want to take when the snows hit.
We’ll see.
The new legislature meets in December for “organization day”. They get sworn in and pick officers. Then the state Senate and state House elect the Secretary of State and State Treasurer. There are also meetings and votes on rules for the next legislative session.
The actual legislative session begins in January. I don’t expect much until January.
A 2/3rds vote is required to override the usual legislative calendar so that the legislature can consider things like resolutions and new legislation outside of the normal legislative process. There is no way Reopen NH supports get a 2/3rds vote on “organization day” to pass a resolution reigning the Clown Prince in. That’s why I think there won’t be any action until January.
“You really just decriminalized heroin. The drug that KILLED my cousin.”
So he died when the drug was illegal?
I mean, I know I sound like an ass but it doesn’t seem like laws against drugs are stopping people dying.
That’s just because the punishments aren’t high enough yet!
Death for having drugs!
‘I’m so p***ed that Oregon passed 110. You really just decriminalized heroin. The drug that KILLED my cousin. He only shot up a ‘personal use’ amount and now he’s gone,’ one railed on Twitter.
Fuck you. I also have a relative with a heroin addiction. He beat, it didn’t kill him. It did fuck his life up. Heroin should be legal. You own your body, not the government.’
Yep. Somebody needs to break it to this person that laws can’t save people from themselves.
“My body, my choice” is not a sometimes thing. Either you mean it or you don’t.
That only counts for abortion, don’t be silly.
“He only shot up a ‘personal use’ amount and now he’s gone,’ one railed on Twitter.”
He shot up what he thought was a personal use amount but was actually a high dose because heroin is not made in a nice clean pharma factory the way it would be if it was legal.
“We banned legal alcohol and now people are dying from methanol poisoning. Goddamn these moonshiners.”
The whole “opioid crisis” is mostly due to fentanyl.
I hurt my knee hiking a few years ago, and I got some of that in the ambulance. Gooood shit. Of course it came from Big Pharma, not from some Mexican or Chinese lab.
Yup, burned my arm a couple years ago and the nearest burn center is an hour away. The sweet, sweet lady in the back of the ambulance hooked me up with some fentanyl, that stuff is a godsend.
Burn unit discharged me same day and wrote me a script for Tylenol 3 that did nothing. I begged my PA for something better – he said he would call something in, turned out more Tylenol 3. finally found a half bottle of hydrocodone I had from a previous surgery two years prior and that kicked the pain until I healed up. I told my PA that if that ever happened again I would find a new doctor. He was apologetic and told me the doctor was on vacation and he couldn’t go any higher. I like my PA so I will let it slide this once.
This was honestly my biggest concern in this cycle. If this would have passed, I would most likely be completely fucked. We just refinanced our house to a 15 year with a better interest rate, so our monthly payment went up considerably. The last thing I need is that gluttonous sack of shit dipping deeper into my earnings to please his public sector union overlords and potentially leaving me homeless in the process.
Trump is being done dirty.
This is a coup.
All Coups Are Bastards
The only arrow left in his quiver is the Supreme Court. The worst thing about it for me was listening to the “woe is me” coverage on the CBC on my way to work when Trump was crushing it and then later on travelling to the other site when they announced that the counts had been suspended. I felt like driving my forehead through the steering wheel. The fix was in and there wasn’t a damn thing that anyone could do about. Lying, blatant cheating just like the old Gypsy woman foretold.
This just triggered a vague recollection of a certain 2016 third party candidate spearheading a recount in a number of states. If memory serves, they ended up uncovering even more votes for Trump then quickly and quietly shitcanned the rest of the effort.
Then Jill Stein walked away with a suitcase filled with money.
she did ride off into the sunset. Never do something for free if you are good at it.
^^^This guy get’s it! ABC.
Preemptively saying to tEd’S – I know.
I believe that was in Michigan and/or Wisconsin.
I started to get a bad feeling when AZ was turning blue. I have no doubt there was a red wave in motion and they DNC managed to thwart it. Now if it’s prove I’m wrong so be it. But for now, that’s what I’m leaning.
Except they had to walk back declaring Grandpa Joe the winner in AZ
Funny how they were calling states for Creepy Sleepy Swampy early but PA never got called.
Shit, Florida wasn’t called until late in the night despite Trump having a 3 point lead with like 98% reporting.
Yeah and more importantly Trump running near 50 50 in Miami Dade. The MAGA poll guy I follow on Twitter called Florida at noon. Said, quite simply, Trump doing better than expected in the big blue counties meant there was no way he could lose the state at that point.
The only way a Republican could possibly win Virginia, for example, is running up huge totals everywhere but NoVA, and then staving off the blue wave when Fairfax submits their ballots. If the Dems are winning Henrico and running decent everywhere downstate, theres no way the Republicans can possibly win when NOVA comes in. You can call the state right there.
You can absolutely call states early. But calling AZ when they did was based on nothing but the mailins, which were heavy Biden nationwide, Trump called for his supporters to vote on Election Day.
Funny Rufus, because there seems to also be a great deal of disappointment about the failed (and fabled) blue wave.
Joe Biden got more votes than Barack Obama but somehow the GOP is picking up House seats?
In 2008 the Dems went from 236 to 257 seats.
In 2020 they went from 232 to losing seats. How many is yet to be determined, but they have lost seats.
I like the phrase in a technical presentation for updates to a tool “we tried to reduce the number of false errors” without mentioning whether they succeeded in this endeavour.
The measures they’re taking with the kids are so beyond the pale and without scientific reason it’s insane and criminal.
I’ve no more words anymore by what I’m seeing in 2020.
There’s no such thing as Peak Derp:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKLaomvBUc0&feature=emb_title
Just as in the Hindu texts “it is turtles all the way down” with the left it is derp all the way up.
At this point, no one can complain. Wheeler got re-elected in Portland and Minnesota stuck with the Ds. Let them deal with it. Get out Tundra!
Hey it is not like Quebec is that much better
That goes without saying. But not sure it’s worse than what I see in OR, MI and MA at the moment. Yet.
His opponent is an actual dyed in the wool communist. Wheeler is just the sweet, delicious center of the oreo cookie that plants crave.
What about me and Leap? We have to stay and fight so Dugout Tundra can escape via submarine?
What will be most depressing is having Fourscore outpace me during the Bemidji Death March to the camps.
He does have long legs…
Sorry! YOU GUYS! SAVE YOURSELVES!
There’s plenty of room in the submarine. I won’t leave you guys behind.
We all live in the (choose your color) submarine, a (choose your color) submarine, a (choose your color) submarine…
I call Ringo!
I’ve heard of submarine races. I thought it was something else.
Huh. For some reason I thought Dugout Doug MacArthur left Corregidor on a submarine. Turns out it was on a bunch of PT boats.
Heh.
But what a thrill for your last act.
“Euthanasia Coaster”
Awesome. Where do I buy my ticket?
WHEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!
I noticed a couple of “No Foreign Election Interference” stories, this morning. As long as we got the “right” outcome, there is no need for concern.
“Chi-nah” *said in Trump voice* Hmmm, wonder what happens to the Biden mess on Jan 20?
Your music choices are always fantastic, sloop. I feel like we’d have gotten along great in high school.
I get that vibe from most of the people here but then again I am a charming and fetching feller.
We’ll have a lot more fun in the camps if someone smuggles in a Zune.
Remember, remember!
The fifth of November,
The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!
Guy Fawkes and his companions
Did the scheme contrive,
To blow the King and Parliament
All up alive.
Threescore barrels, laid below,
To prove old England’s overthrow.
But, by God’s providence, him they catch,
With a dark lantern, lighting a match!
A stick and a stake
For King James’s sake!
If you won’t give me one,
I’ll take two,
The better for me,
And the worse for you.
A rope, a rope, to hang the Pope,
A penn’orth of cheese to choke him,
A pint of beer to wash it down,
And a jolly good fire to burn him.
Holloa, boys! holloa, boys! make the bells ring!
Holloa, boys! holloa boys! God save the King!
Hip, hip, hooor-r-r-ray!
The only man to enter parliament with honest intent.
I was talking with my wife just now about the moment I watched the DNC / Deep State (but I repeat myself) steal the presidential election.
Me: “So I got up in the wee hours of the morning, election night – literally wee hours, if you know what I mean – and thought, fuck it, let’s find out what’s happening. Pulled up some site showing the electoral college map. MI, WI, PA, OH – all pink. Trump has got it, if the lead is big enough. So I quickly delve in at the state level – OH and PA, big unsurmountable lead, MI and WI both pretty close. Zoom back out to the main map, it refreshes – MI and WI both flipped blue. In the space of about a minute.
I’m an aspie math guy. I fucking remembered the exact vote totals, cause still in short term memory. Delve back into MI and WI.
They. Fucking. Added. Over. 100K votes. ALL Democrat. Zero Republican, Zero third party. Still the math guy, so I know that is statistically impossible voting by human beings.
Queue the Ron Swanson All The Eggs epiphany:
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=ron+swanson+all+the+bacon+and+eggs+you+have&atb=v153-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DHrIeP798hiQ
This is how brazen it was: they stole all the
bacon and eggsvotes. Not some of the votes, like 130,000 more D, 25,000 more R – something plausible if you got some dark blue precincts in Milwaukee or Detroit. ALL the votes Democratic. 100.0000000%.Mrs Prolefeed: “If it was that brazen, I’m sure they’ve already filed some lawsuits. Can we talk about something else?”
That’s the thing. If brazen, then it should be easy to trace and prove.
AZ is still in play. If there are no more fraudulent votes and things hold and he gets that state, he’s still in a good spot.
Something could still tilt his way. He just has to fight because this ain’t Gore/Bush which was really just a mechanical failure more than anything.
This clearly had some rigging element to it.
And it’s totally in the DNC’s wheelhouse. They rig their own damn primaries for the love of God so they wouldn’t think twice at taking it a notch higher against OMB.
If brazen, then it should be easy to trace and prove.
Maybe. Depends on how it was done. The devil is in the details.
Let’s say WI and MI don’t keep both envelopes with the ballot, so there is no way to validate whether a mail-in ballot was submitted on time or was from a particular voter. Its just a bare ballot at that point, one of millions in the pile.
Let’s also say that the Dem operators in WI and MI manufactured hundreds of thousands of ballots in advance, saw that they were going to need over 100K to win, and dumped over 100K bare ballots into the pile of millions of bare ballots. Naturally, they had already done the work of identifying dead, absent, or non-voters on the rolls, and ticked them off as having voted. Hell, at that point, they would know who hadn’t voted. Note, also, that there is no need to add your fake ballots to the pile when you “count” them. They can be added later, before the audit/recount is done.
How do you prove much of anything? Go to every single person who is shown as having voted and ask them? What do you think your non-response/error rate is going to be?
It’s good that Trump will fight this, but I can’t imagine him winning recounts or legal battles.
I moved on to looking forward to an R(ish) senate, and some local wins
I don’t think it’s quite true that there were no Trump votes along with those 100K Biden votes. The chart that I saw for Wisconsin showed vote counts over time. When the 100K votes were added for Biden, his line overlapped with Trump’s line, and that hid an increase in Trump votes. That said it was still heavily weighted toward Biden, and I’d like to see an explanation for it.
Everyone hates Drumpf, this is common knowledge. In fact, all votes FOR Drumpf are the frauds!
The charts I saw showed the actual count of votes as well as the line graph. In both WI and MI, there was a six digit increase in Biden votes, and not one additional vote for any other candidate.
So- regarding the stories of cities reporting near-unanimous voting for Biden. What do the people who have been moaning about the “Cult of Trump” have to say about that?
trust me when I say they fail to see the irony. The fawning over Obama is still ongoing.
Near unanimous is possible. 100% is impossible. Out of every 100,000 votes at least one of them is a write-in for Mike Hunt.
Or Semi Bright Corgi
Is there such a thing? They’ve always struck me as a particularly stupid breed.
Corgis – or at least the one we have – are idiot savants, as all dogs are to some degree.
Get me to give him dog fat from what I’m eating? He’s a genius.
Stay alive when we go on walks despite cars whizzing past? He’s outsourced that survival skill to staff – to us. Still genius.
Other stuff – not so much so.
There aren’t really any dumb true herders.
Unless they get stomped on the head by a cow, of course.
True, at least with cattle dogs. The evolutionary pressure is immense. Every rancher who uses dogs can tell you about the one(s) who put a foot wrong and had their skull or ribcage caved in.
Hence the idiot savant thing. They are geniuses at herding. They can be dumb as a stump at tasks that there was no evolutionary pressure to be good at.
Dogs are literally wolves that retain infantile features their entire life, and that are uncannily good at reading humans.
I think there’s also a lot of “dumb” that’s really “idgaf.”
I had a dog that demonstrated abstract reasoning ability (when he got boted, he would separate his kibble into the different shapes and line them up, he’d also build elaborate geometrically symmetrical nests out of unwatched laundry). But since he wouldn’t obey my mom, she declared him stupid.
I more local news, Romania while having high taxes overall, it does not collect them very well and there is lots of evasion. Off course there are plenty who tie this to the underdevelopment of the economy, if only the government could get more money the country would be much better.
Due to the covid and shit, the estimates for next year are about a total of 28% of GDP taxes collected. Due to some government salary and pension increases due to being an election year, it is projected that next year government expenses with salaries and pensions will exceed total government revenue.
There are about 6 million people working in the private sector, about 1.5 million working for the government, and about 5.3 million pensioners
I just realized that I actually was voting against my interests.
With Biden **cough**Harris**cough** in office the dozens of military grade firearms (which I need to start selling off before I get too old to do it properly) will be worth much more than they would have had Trump remained in office.
And if the DNC is successful in steaking this election we can count on the pandemic theater to come down a few notches before deflating completely – or at least to a reasonable level. I might even be allowed to travel military space-available sometime early next year.
Everything else is gonna suck like a 12.7 through the lungs but I guess I have to look for the silver lining.
“Steaking” – “stealing” WTF 2020?
Independent polling may be shit, but internal polling may be a bit more accurate. My GOP contact in Chester County said their internal polling showed Biden doing better than Clinton by 2%, and that’s how the vote (pre-140,000 mail in ballots) turned out. Surprisingly, the GOP seems to have defended all their remaining three seats in the State House (at least until those mail-ins are counted) but lost another State Senate seat that has been Republican since the Civil War. And the Dems have moved several more State House seats from leaning to solid Dem. It lots like almost everywhere America’s suburbs are turning Blue. Where is the tide going the other way? Except for WV, I can’t recall any state turning more Red in the last forty years.
I don’t think the populace has actually moved blue. With decades of rampant fraud, the real results of the votes cast will never be known. Until we prosecute the fraudsters and institute vote integrety controls with active enforcement, we will never know.
Theres a fraud machine, but theres also the insane politicization and brainwashing of the public schools. My friend’s kids homework is straight up prog propaganda, and when I was in school not even 20 years, even in an all black school in the inner city, it was much more even handed and fair.
Florida.
Yes, Florida would appear to be redder than before. Why? You’d think with all the oldsters from NY, etc. moving there, they’d be especially scared that the Republicans were going to steal their social security and medicare. Look what happened to Ariz.
Arkansas
In the mid 90s, when I moved here, Arkansas had a Dem gov, both Senators, and 3 out of 4 Representatives (not to mention the Dem President was a former Arkansas Gov). Now Governor, Senators and all Reps are Republican and Trump won by almost thirty points. I don’t see the state going purple or blue any time soon. We like guns here too (also meth).
Texas – people forget that was once a Democratic stronghold.
The whole “south” was if you go back far enough, and the north east was the opposite.
At the risk of infuriating those here who mock the notion of a party switch (Yes, I watched Dinesh’s movie too, but I am bad at sticking to bs narratives), the parties did have a significant realignment over the last century. And neither party has ever really been fully aligned with conservatism or liberalism or left or right, so you have always had shifts
“Arizona polling center is forced to CLOSE as armed Trump supporters lay siege – while Republicans launch legal challenges in Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia and counting continues with Biden needing two more contested states to declare victory”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8915559/Could-Arizona-flip-TRUMP-State-reveals-600-000-votes-counted.html
“Arizona officials debunk #SharpieGate conspiracy theory claiming the special pens were given to Trump supporters to invalidate their ballots”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8915829/Arizona-officials-debunk-SharpieGate-voter-fraud-conspiracy.html
Let me guess the extent of the debunking was “Nuh-uh.”
What is the supposed mechanism for Sharpies not working?
Bleeds through the paper, I think.
Bleed-through. Our ballots are front and back.
SFW Q memorial pics:
https://thechive.com/2020/11/02/dont-look-backs-in-anger-i-heard-you-say-36-photos/
or
https://archive.is/lhIqP
*psst* Q’s back.
that is an impostor
Q is back. I suspect his Wife’s burgeoning front porch has awaked the slumbering giant.
How many months in a pregnancy does sex stop? Are there any statistics on that? I assume it all depends on the mood of the woman.
It goes canine after a certain point (or so Pornhub has led me to believe).
Sometimes never, haven’t you ever heard of irish twins in Romania?
Never. Unless there are complications.
Mostly it’s a PIA of finding a comfortable way to do it.
Never- well for a friend it stopped 5 months in so never is not true.
I was answering in reference to actual biology. Because who would ask “Consensually, how many months in a pregnancy does sex stop?”
Because the answer to question is pretty obvious.
After the birth it’s recommended to wait at least 5 weeks.
I was not asking in reference to actual biology. I wanted to know if there was a poll/sociological study to know after how many months the average couple stops having sex.
“Consensually, how many months in a pregnancy does sex stop?”
Actually, if the woman is late delivering, they encourage vaginal sex then, since the sperm contains some chemical that helps kick off labor.
https://mkecitywire.com/stories/564495243-analysis-seven-milwaukee-wards-report-more-2020-presidential-votes-than-registered-voters-biden-nets-146k-votes-in-city
“Trump received 15 or fewer votes in 16 Milwaukee voting wards including a total 7,389 registered voters. Biden defeated him 5,217 to 151 in them.”
A comparison to 2016 would be helpful.
I’m in SF and not even here was the Trump/Harris vote so skewed. In my part of town it was about 20/80 Harris.
That’s about a 3% Trump vote. That’s actually possible, if those wards are entirely African-American, and the men vote the way black women usually vote.
If it was 5,368 to 0 – that’s totally voter fraud, and time to demand the court allow examination of all ballots and envelopes.
“Biden has a lead of just 0.64% or 7,647 votes with 588,252 ballots compared to Trump’s 580,605”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/us-election/article-8916245/Biden-expected-win-Nevada-despite-having-1-lead-Trump.html
That’s within a recount margin.
The problem with the recount thing is that they’ve already destroyed the Trump ballots. People keep discussing the votes they find miraculously. What? You think that when the doors are locked and windows covered that they weren’t destroying Trump ballots in these districts?
none of it matters they aren’t going to allow the remaining states to declare Trump until Biden has it totally and unquestionably in the bag. The whole thing was to spread out his team of lawyers and money all over contesting while the state ag’s and gov can clown up the electorate. The only one that I don’t quite understand is GA.
Nevada hasnt realsed their provisional ballot and dumbasses that just dropped their mail-in ballots in a box on election day. The Fail needs to keep their nose out of our business.
And they’re not even in the same league of bullshit with The Guardian.
It always amazes me when my wife has Globo news on here. I’ve asked her several times if they ever talk about news in Brazil, because I swear they only talk non-stop about what is happening in Murika.
My wife’s theory on Nevada is that it’s actually flipped to Trump, but they won’t report it because they don’t want to be the ones to turn the map red.
How does Nevada, heavily dependent on travel into the gaming cities, and mining, expect to survive a Green New Deal with restricted travel and restricted extraction of minerals? How nutz are the voters there?
They probably don’t even expect to survive covid.
Wait until they get California-style electricity!
Yes and they voted for a ballot initiative to require 50% or more of our power to be from “renewable source” (not nuclear, or hydro mind you) by 2022.
I believe that was the first time it was on the ballot so we will need to vote on it again for it to go into effect.
Fucking dumbasses that live here.
I mean, in theory couldn’t you just pave large swathes of the desert with solar panels? That would be stupid and inefficient yes, but you’d have power, right?
You’d have power on a sunny day. Not at night. Not when cloudy.
I don’t mind solor but yes the desert is littered now with solar fields…we sell something like 95% of Hoover Dam power to everyone else.
Nat Gas is not renewable in their eyes. They want wind and solar and unicorn farts…wait that adds methane….fairy dust to run our grid.
That’s why you need the massive banks of batteries manufactured with rare earths and other toxic materials.
Because Gaia.
So my local energy company is going to the board to request a 20% or 25% surcharge on people who use solar energy, and if they can’t get that, they want to raise their prices by that much on everybody.
And….we aren’t surviving. It is 2008 levels of businesses closed.
When the right embraces and get’s their Pinochet after their fun loving entertaining PT Barnum got thrown out for the sin of winning in 2016 I will almost enjoy it.
Eh. I’m not quite that mean spirited. A good spell in the Comfy chair will suffice.
My employer has been all-in on supporting the election by volunteering our time to work voter suppression hotlines and the like as a pro bono project. I wonder how quickly they’ll shoot me down if I recommend providing vote fraud investigation as a pro nono project.
“Pro nono”
?nice typo
That’s John-worthy!
“Giuliani claimed that that mail-in ballots are open to fraud and could have come from ‘Mars or Canada’ ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8915369/Trump-sends-Rudy-Giuliani-son-Eric-dispute-Supreme-Court-ballot-deadline-Pennsylvania.html
Foreign interference?
Georgia keeps finding ballots somewhere.
The Biden campaign is still looking for volunteers to go down to GA to fix the ballots.
Do you get a fiddle made of gold?
How convenient.
“Nancy on the ropes: Democrats plot to oust Pelosi as Speaker after their House majority shrunk amid her refusal to do a COVID deal as AOC’s squad circles the embattled leader ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8915851/Nancy-brink-Democrats-plotting-oust-Pelosi-House-Speaker.html
Didn’t they try that last time?
Yes. I just find it funny that the only possible outcome is installing a more progressive Representative. More progressive… than Nancy Fucking Pelosi.
I mean, to be fair, Nancy Pelosi is a fake progressive by their standards. This is something that the progs are actually talking about right now, because assuming Biden’s lead holds it will be the shifting of the suburbs to him that did it. Which means that their economic agenda is DOA.
There is a critique among a lot on the Left, and I agree with it, that the modern Democratic Party is just “More female murder drone pilots yay!!!” and “Hey look all the Wall Street people who donate to us are wearing rainbow ties this week!!!!!!!” and “Oooooo Raytheon has a new Green type of cruise missile”.
Nancy isn’t progressive, just corrupt as sin.
yes
And her, Maxiepad, Schmoobz, Hillary, and Biden are all that are left of the old school. The new school are batshit crazy commies.
The daily mail really doesn’t understand US politics AOC is of no threat to Pelosi.
“Turns out 118 year old “William Bradley” voted via absentee ballot in Wayne County, Michigan. William Bradley died in 1984.
How long has this been going on?
Try it for yourself: ”
https://twitter.com/fleccas/status/1324216584219623424
Every year since he died.
Suitcases and Coolers Rolled Into Detroit Voting Center at 4 AM, Brought Into Secure Counting Area
This is damaging my calm.
Video thrown out on ground it was in portrait mode. WTF is wrong with people? Turn it sideways instead of filming your fucking dash.
Eh…sometimes you have to capture it incognito and holding up a phone in landscape is a dead give away.
My proposal for a secure voting system.
1. Issue a photo ID. On the back is a 20 digit number and a bar code under it, covered up by an opaque tape. The only person who tears the tape off is the voter. No one else sees it.
2. Go to the polling place. A person is sitting there at a computer. There is a barcode scanner on one side of the desk. Voter scans their barcode, the screen pops up with their photo. Worker prints ballot after verifying the person.
3. Ballot has the voter ID number on the top, along with a barcode. Voter fills out ballot, places it in the box.
4. Counting stage: boxes come in, are scanned in with observers from all parties, with cameras filming the entire room.
5. Verification. Voters can go online and enter their 20 digit number and see that their vote was counted correctly. If the ballot was lost, or mistakenly entered, the voter can travel to their county clerk and correct their vote. If a voter who chose not to vote goes online and sees that someone voted using their ID number, they can report it and receive cash.
You already know that’s racist.
There’s no way to get democrats to go along with that. They’ll say the same thing they’ve been saying, that’s voter suppression.
I have to go show my birth certificate and three other forms of id to get a REAL ID drivers license so I can get on a plane.
My wife was harassed at the DMV during her REAL ID interview because the cancelled check document was a printout (nobody gets cancelled checks in the mail anymore). And because the marriage license was from a podunk town in the west of the state.
This is what I have to do so I can have freedom of movement in the modern USA. Yet, I can show up to exercise political power over others at the ballot box with no proof of who I am. It’s infuriating.
Just say ‘I no speak the Ingles’ and pretend like you can’t understand anyone. They’ll just hand it to you, easy peasy.
I have a passport for a reason. Real ID is bullshit.
Not sure the connection between your name and your ballot is broken, what with the ID number and all. No secret ballot, no deal.
When we voted, we showed our registration cards and ID. But the lady who helped us when we first got in line said that MD is a no ID state. So basically anyone can vote because they don’t know who you are if you won’t show them ID and you can register right there on the same day you vote. They also will not know your age. So if I’m 15, they probably cannot stop me from voting if I insist I’m 18.
Ha, same thing happened to me and the poll worker was almost in a panic. “Sir, Maryland is a no ID state, put your wallet away!”
Yep
Down with the Aussie ballot! Make voting American again!
Taking the 17-year-old to the vet tomorrow to see about his neurological episodes. Please keep your fingers crossed. I don’t think tomorrow will be The Day, but I think it’s coming soon.
Sorry, KK.
I’m sorry to hear that. 17 years is a hell of a run.
Poor lil’ guy. Fingers crossed.
So sorry Kristen
He’s definitely having stroke symptoms, though yesterday seemed more like a regular seizure. But this morning he’s listing to the right and confused, etc. * sigh *
He’s chillin on my lap
Sorry to read that.
He’s got my fingers crossed. I’m sorry KK. Stupid dust in my eyes from blowing the leaves this morning.
Sad to hear KK. 17 years that cat is a beast!
Sorry 🙁
Sorry.
Sorry Kristen
Sorry to hear that, KK. Good luck.
Good luck.
“How to Rig An Election & Get Away With It | Guest: Lauren Chen | Ep 100”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjwROJzfEJ8
Random thought:
We legalized funpot in AZ. Amazingly, for ballot initiatives there is a short timeline for implementing them, and the deadline is early April. Of 2021.
Let’s say Biden-Harris take office. Harris was a famously anti-pot prosecutor in CA. All those federal laws are on the books, still. Obama eventually dialed back federal harassment of state-legal pot, and Trump has pretty much left it alone.
What will Harris do when she is in a position to give orders to federal law enforcement? The opportunities and temptations for shakedowns will be immense, as the legal pot industry has gotten pretty sizable – will she be able, for the first time in her life, to resist the temptation?
I expect she will do as her DNC puppet-masters instruct her to do. She knows how she got where she is and will keep the game going as long as she has a hand to play.
https://i.imgflip.com/2txq68.jpg
Pet work peeve: people using IM in lieu of e-mail.
When I point out that it’s 11:45pm I just get a “oh, I thought you’d just respond tomorrow”. WTF is e-mail for? IM is synchronous, for something that needs a timely response. E-mail is async, for things that can wait. How is that hard?
(It’s always from Bangalore, for some reason. Never Krakow, for instance).
My peeve is asking technical question in an email and getting a phone call back because some people prefer talking on the phone. I want the answers in writing.
Folks in Krakow are still in bed when it’s 11:45pm here. That might explain the difference.
True, but I don’t get IMs from them at 04:00.
I blame Teams and it’s ability to send messages offline (with email notifications that you can’t reply back to). I’ve noticed a switch away from email to just firing an im away. It also enforces retention limits so rather that being able to go back and find some necessary information later, it’s wiped away.
This is Webex Teams in this case but, yes, finding old info is terrible vs. e-mail.
Mine is the people who write up their IM’s like this:
Hello X.
Good Morning.
I’ve got a question for you.
Those being sent as three different IM’s instead of one.
The next election will be a starry eyed far left wacko representing the dems and a washed up RINO representing the GOP, probably Mittens again or Jeb. Probably Jeb because it was his turn before Trump screwed him out of it.
I don’t think a Republican will ever be able to win another national election. Too many brain washed now by years of hard left indoctrination in public schools.
So where does that leave us? We’re all socialists now? I’m sure the NYT already has the presses rolling out stories like that.
Where it leaves us is preparing for the collapse, and whatever comes afterwards. There’s still some time, but I would get going…
Going where? There’s no where to go for most of us.
I didn’t say anything about going anywhere.
I said preparing for the collapse. Although, staying mobile is a big part of being ready for the collapse.
Get yourself a copy of Locusts on the Horizon, read it, and you’ll have the broad strokes.
If it’s brainwashing, Romney has the hereditary advantage over Jeb.
No one actually likes Jeb other than the Bulwark/Lincoln Project crew. He has no popular support.
No one likes Harris either, but half the country voted for her. Like has nothing to do with it, they just want control over other people who don’t think the right way. You don’t really think Biden will be president for 4 years, do you? I don’t. If he makes it past the mid-terms I’ll be somewhat surprised. Although with the best healthcare anyone can get, they may keep him propped up and spouting gibberish for 8 years.
I continue to be astonished that we could well have a President in a few years who could not collect a single primary delegate from her own party.
And the only thing standing in her way is a bunch of Repub lawyers with an almost unbroken history of losing post-election fights, and the federal judiciary.
How long Biden stays in office has more to do with how much the DNC wants to run Harris for one or two terms. If they want her as POTUS past 2028 she has to stay as VP until after 2022.
Wouldn’t be surprised to see an all woman ticket – Haley and Noem, for instance.
Can we reverse those?
This was the issue the Republicans had in ’16, and they got Trump.
Someone didn’t get the Biden camp messaging memo.
“I have to say this if Joe Biden becomes president of the United States, and I hope that he does because he’s not a dictator in the making, he seems to be a decent guy, I will immediately turn around my hat and be extremely critical of him because you cannot come into this White House with the idea that these people aren’t the enemy. They are. The people chasing the Biden-Harris truck out of Texas — they are the enemies of democracy. The people right now attacking vote counters in Detroit, they are the enemy. Kyle Rittenhouse is the enemy. Mitch McConnell is the enemy,”
Rioters and looters in Portland and Seattle are not the enemy, they’re our bestest friens.
OK, sounds legit.
A dictator in the making who as far as I know has respected or appealed court decisions, who hasn’t used Covid as an excuse to seize more power and who is filing lawsuits to combat possible election fraud rather than just sending in the army (which probably wouldn’t obey anyway). He can’t even dictator correctly.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/witches-backlash-grows-disability-community-161411881.html
WTF is wrong with these people?
The “limb difference” community.
We should have never invented the internet?
What will Harris do when she is in a position to give orders to federal law enforcement? The opportunities and temptations for shakedowns will be immense, as the legal pot industry has gotten pretty sizable – will she be able, for the first time in her life, to resist the temptation?
I have not heard anything about it, lately, but where are the banks? At one time, banks were refusing to touch (state) legal pot businesses, due to federal regs. Will Harris sic the bank regulators on anybody in banking or payments processing who facilitates teh dope?
They’ll be too busy getting rid of guns to focus on weed. So, with weed, they’ll leave you alone, but guns are an entirely different situation.
“The National Guard was activated for the first time tonight in Portland at the #antifa riot. In the past six months of rioting, the governor refused to bring in the National Guard.”
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1324226547989897217
You would think people in Oregon — who had their businesses and property destroyed — would be pissed at this obvious political bullshit.
People in Portland. It’s chain stores, woketarians who believe in the message but wish the mob wouldn’t break their stuff quite so much, and small business owners that are powerless beyond sweeping up the glass and maybe getting a sob story in the local rag. The vast majority of the population aren’t really directly affected by the riots.
I guess we should all pack for camp.
So when this is all over, we’re just supposed act like everything is cool with these people and try to reach them? Fuck. No.
Well, if they want to play I hope they bring their toys.
They’ll send the cops to get your guns, so there will be no toys. You could still throw rocks at them.
There aren’t enough cops to pull that off, and no one is going to volunteer for that gig.
They’re going to try it through executive orders and administrative bullshit.
They won’t actually go collect guns, they’ll just make everyone who has one a felon. Turn them in, we spare you, try to keep them, you’re a felon who will not have any right to vote or be able to get employment. For the people who don’t comply, they’ll start going door to door eventually.
They’ll have a line out the door, because the gun confiscation squads will get time and a half and all kinds of tacticool toys. And if they need to, they will just tell them to join the doorkickers or lose their job and their pension. Any armed resistance will justify, in their minds, ramping up the War on Guns.
Cops are pubsec employees. They are in the order-following business.
Incurious reporter doesn’t ask why viewing is needed to be obstructed by pizza boxes.
Party of tolerance and peace. They have voices and actors (blm/antifa) that want to burn Florida, excommunicate latino and blacks, stick it to whitey and a whole slew of other things.
It would be so much easier to clear off my desk if the stuff accumulated on it were actually junk.
Instead, I have to go through, assess if it can be trashed, and if not, then where it should go. I need this cleared by the time my new monitors arrive so I don’t end up with another “temporary” setup that lasts for years.
After watching this vote count fiasco I can’t wait for these people to have full control over my healthcare.
Georgia “unexpectedly” found another 25-35K ballots today. Imagine that!
Don’t worry, they’ll stop after they find enough for team blue.
I really want to hear how this happens.
You move the ballots from the precinct to the counting place. Each precinct has workers to do the moving. There’s not any legit way they can get lost. It’s impossible. These counts are done at convention centers and arenas….they can’t be legitimately and honestly misplaced.
It’s pretty much never a ligtimately misplaced box of real ballots.
IT’s not even a box anymore lol.
My Dem Congresscritter, the CIA agent turned diversity trainer, was trailing by 5k…..and they found a flash drive that had been overlooked, and voila now shes ahead.
Yeah the spanberger election is almost funny.
The thousand ballots found overnight in Minnesota in 2008 were “in the trunk of the election judge’s car.”
There were 1000 ballots found. All were marked for Al Franken for Senator. No other office marked—not even president. funny that—a thousand voters felt so strongly about senate, they turned out for Al, yet they had no opinion on president?
Prior to that, Sen Coleman was winning, but clii of se enough to trigger recount. The found ballots pushed Franken over the top for the win. By 399 votes. Took months, but the dinks prevailed.
Very disheartening for those of us who’d worked on the Coleman campaign. My last official act with the GOP before i realized that the stupid party is statist too, just differently from the leftist version.
So when this is all over, we’re just supposed act like everything is cool with these people and try to reach them? Fuck. No.
Let the purges commence. Round up the traitors. Erect the gallows. Fire up the bulldozers.
Welp, off to start my research on potential expat destinations. Starting with Panama and Costa Rica. Will cast a broader net before we plan our exploratory travel, though.
Downside: will finally have to learn to sprechen ze espanol.
Panama would be great, but it’s not cheap. US dollar for currency, so you don’t get the dollar advantage there. There are a lot of perks there once you reach senior age.
I’ll just say one thing. I am NOT moving to Canada, or Europe, or New Zealand or any of the other places that are already move woke than this place is now.
Panama is pro-2A. There are some absolutely breathtaking inexpensive ocean front properties, but they are WAY out in the middle of nowhere.
You sure about the pro-2A thing? Seems pretty restrictive.
https://www.panama-offshore-services.com/how_to_buy_a_gun_in_panama/
That’s a hell of a lot better than 95% of the other countries.
Fair enough
Panama is pro-2A.
It is?
Panama doesn’t have any amendments.
You can possess a firearm in Panama. You are correct that I misspoke.
Are there any other places with decent protections for firearm ownership? Seems like the 2nd A is non-existent in every other country.
From my research, and spending about three years of my life in LatAm locations, Chile has some of the best firearm laws (relatively speaking here) of most any county south of the US border. Which is not saying very much.
I wouldn’t bet on that lasting.
Chile is about to experience a run of “bad luck”.
Yup, I saw that and am very disappointed. They will end up like Argentina within a decade if they go the route they seem to be taking. I only spent about 15 days there in the late 90’s, but had a fantastic time. I solo travelled from Santiago up to Bolivia, hitchhiking and taking buses. It is the most European of countries south of our border. Got invited to eat with and spend the night at a few peoples homes. Can’t wait to visit again, and really hope they don’t go commie.
I was inches away from taking a job that would have sent me to Chile every few weeks. I was legit excited by that prospect, then they totally low-balled me on the salary offer.
They knowingly offered significantly less than I was currently making, but gave the bullshit “but you’ll get options!”. Fuck you very much – I had options elsewhere, they’re not some sort of guaranteed money.
I promptly got a different job with both a salary bump plus options (which turned out to be worthless – thus proving my point).
As great as Chile is, going from the East Coast to Santiago is a long frigging haul to be doing every few weeks. That’s a serious flight and also one of the negatives for relocating there, it is really far away from almost everywhere.
If you do ever get there, the main seafood wholesale market is awesome if you like delicious sea creatures. There are a bunch of little hole in the wall restaurants and stands there to gorge yourself for cheap.
I was way younger, when semi-frequent long-ass flights would be NBD. Looks about the same as to Hawaii from here – do-able, but I wouldn’t look forward to it these days.
I’d like to go to Chile someday, if they increase my travel ration enough.
In in Belize you can speak English (former British colony).
Both of those are solid expat destinations. Much lower cost of living than here, plenty of Yanks, good medical facilities, and great outdoor recreation. From my limited research there might be better real estate deals to be had in Panama. I spent a few weeks in CR and a week in Panama in the late 90’s. Even then there were a ton of Americanos in CR, much less in Panama (at least the part I was in). Excellent sport fishing. I also have the East Cape of Baja on my list as we go down there once a year for the past decade. Also incredible inshore and pelagic fishing there.
Seems appropriate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlUKcNNmywk
Will I get a notice in the mail designating me as an Enemy of the State, or will someone come to my door and tell me in person?
It’ll be a text. With an emoji.
???♂️? ☹️????
Starting with Panama and Costa Rica.
I remember hearing good things about Estonia, but that may be No Longer Applicable.
You move the ballots from the precinct to the counting place. Each precinct has workers to do the moving. There’s not any legit way they can get lost. It’s impossible. These counts are done at convention centers and arenas….they can’t be legitimately and honestly misplaced.
I ASSUME any protest will be heavily reliant on chain-of-custody issues.
“Hey, look what followed me home! Can I keep ’em?”
buying a revolver. .38 or 357? Ruger, Colt or SW?
All of them
.357 Ruger; GP100. I am unable to back up my argument with facts. But it looks cool and goes pew pew.
You are welcome.
kind of where I’m leaning.
And then buy boxes of cheap .38S for practicing
+1
My dad bought one in the 80s. Can’t go wrong.
I have nothing by Colt.
Ruger or S&W gets my vote.
Are you looking for new or used?
.357 – you can still load it with .38s if you want.
All makers are fine. Only get it in .357 as you can always shoot .38 as well.
Have all 3 brands. Ruger is the value leader.
.357, no question.
S&Ws are nicer and more pleasant to shoot. Rugers work and are arguably more durable.
buying a revolver – why? I don’t get you people. Were I American I would have twin gold plated desert eagles.
Too malfunction-y.
Although .50AE is probably still as available as it was before The Stupid Times.
gold is best
why a revolver? For fun and games, off course.
I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy news
But she just smiled and turned away
I hate that dirge.
You’re welcome.
Now I have the song from Moana stuck in my head.
No idea what you are talking about.
You’re welcome
I have been bitten by the bug that sends my screen to the top of page when I refresh.
I assume that is happening for everyone. Mine’s been that way for more than a week, I think maybe 2 weeks now.
Just started this morning.
My infection started on Monday.
#ShouldHaveWornAMask
Or a rubber.
I’ve had it for a while.
Commenter suppression.
like getting your period, it is strange at first but you get used to iy
Uh Pie, if you are bleeding down there it is not your period. Boys don’t get those.
Boys don’t get those. – THEY MOST CERTAINLY DO. I want to talk to the diversity officer about this othering
Science denier!
Also you are forgetting Joe won. Transphobia and hate speech will no longer be tolerated. It is a new world. A brave one you may say. Stunning and brave.
It’s been a week for me. I just tried to clear all the cookies.
Let’s see what happens…
That’s a negative.
Any evidence for this?
In another part of Montgomery County, another trick was being played. Republican voters who for years had voted in the same location, were told their names were not in the voter registration book and, consequently, they could not vote. Not even provisionally.
The author provides none, but he is apparently a mind reader:
So maybe he used those powers to determine such things.
There was rioting in my town last night. It was less crazy than a few months ago — Eight arrests, some broken windows, dumpsters set afire, a handgun and other weapons confiscated. Local news says they were denouncing both Trump and Biden. I wonder if this was the “pitchers and catchers reporting” phase of the rioting to come.
I’m reflecting on the changes to my life when Obama was in office. Things got a lot more expensive and … nothing else happened.
Mr. Mojeaux reminded me of the Great Mojo Prepper Panic of 2008 and that TEOTWAWKI did not happen.
What IS going to happen is I’m going to stay off social media because it all sickens me. I know what’s at stake–freedom/liberty, masks, lockdowns, economic collapse. But we’re already in survival mode as we have been for many years. Things COULD get worse, but I am going to live as if the only thing that happens is things get a lot more expensive for a while.
I may not be around much (although I have a hard time staying away from you lot). I need to go stick my head in the sand because I cannot live with all this anger and fear and watching the idea of the USA slip away into evil.
Look at the bright side. Maybe your kids get free college. It will be purely scientific socialism, but free at the point of delivery.
I think avoiding social media is wise. The thing is, while it feels like you are being engaged by reading people rail against the fraud and therefore avoiding it feels like burying your head in the sand, that is simply not true. You are not influencing events with your comments and you are not being cowardly by avoiding them, those comments have no effect on anything except your mental balance. We are all just RHEEEEing.
Thanks. Sometimes I feel that is exactly what I am.
My Usenet years and “call for references!” spoiled me, but now you can’t even get a reference someone will accept as the final word because no one has any credibility. But there was that one time I used the IRS website to back up a point I made and the person wouldn’t accept that reference, so people gonna people, I guess.
Thats what I have been telling my wife. It isn’t fire and brimstone but we may have to cancel our subscriptions that we carry, cut down on some things, and live a little tighter. She has all but cut out the socials except for business contacts and family.
The world will still turn and the past few years of insane people had led us to purge them and we have a solid core of friends that have differing views but are able to still break bread and share a glass with.
You do you Mo and I am sure we will be here when you need to drop in and tell us cat farts are gross.
Yes, yes they are, but the got nuthin on greyhound farts. Paint peeling.
Yeah, I’m only scanning comments right now. I’ll zoom though
I will Zoom in that hour before I have to work. It helps my sanity more than I realized.
I need to go stick my head in the sand because I cannot live with all this anger and fear and watching the idea of the USA slip away into evil.
I hear ya on that. Now I need to convince the wife that I dont need screenshots of the memes and outrages from social media. She’s getting burnt out on it, but she’s also eating up some of the outrage from the right. She’s where I was in 2008, outraged and black-pilled (is that the one where you are acutely aware of how much everybody around you sucks?).
Determinism helps me in these times. Things will happen the way they are supposed to, and nothing I do can stop what is coming. The best I can do is protect myself and my family from any negative consequences and be prepared for as much as I can foresee. No panic, no doomsday, just putting a bit of money and effort into expanding the types of disasters I’m prepared for.
“Florida counted 10.5 million ballots in 24 hours. Trump won 51-48.
Georgia has taken two days to count 4.8 million votes, and Trump’s margin is shrinking.
It’s remarkable how Biden performs the best in states where counting takes more time.”
https://twitter.com/AugustTakala/status/1324361419597488129
Counting votes honestly is fast. Fraud takes time.
The entire 16 years I’ve voted in my podunk town I’ve gotten a ballot, marked it, put it directly into the tabulating machine myself and that was that. The only time another person doing anything is needed is when I mark the -write-in spot, an actual person has to read that at a later time.
If my podunk town has had this tech for more than 16 yrs, why is it done any other way anywhere else?
What is fairly annoying is that it wouldn’t be all that hard to add some simple steps to voting to make recount shenanigans a lot harder.
1) Paper ballots. Can be read by scanners, but each precinct must have a pile of paper ballots that can be audited
2) A journal of how many ballots were handed out.
3) A journal of when a ballot was scanned
The journals could be rolled up by hour and show that 200 ballots were given out and 200 ballots were scanned. What this would hopefully do is prevent a bunch of ballots mysteriously run through the scanner.
When polls close, the paper ballots should be put in a box and sent to a central location. At that point, they should be run through a different scanner. The results should be compared to the original results. Any discrepencies would result in them being counted manually by a team that was chosen by random. The team would not be told what either of the scan results were.
Maybe have a video camera on the scanner so that if there was a mysterious spike in ballots, it could be reviewed to make sure that it was in fact from a lot of different people and not one guy feeding them in.
These wouldn’t be fool proof, but it would at least slow this shit down.
” it wouldn’t be all that hard to add some simple steps to voting to make recount shenanigans a lot harder.”
That’s why it’s not happening.
Yup. Just like voter ID laws, I never thought they were that important because I didn’t think that that much fraud was going on.
The level of ferocity in opposing those laws by the DFL convinced me that there absolutely was something going on.
The GOP should really propose a law that says that no other right of citizens can be abridged more than they are for voting. If you don’t need an ID to vote, you shouldn’t need one to enter government buildings, send packages in the mail or to buy a firearm.
It’s sort of crazy. How many other countries are like that?
I was with my wife in DC when she voted in Brazil’s last presidential election. The process is a lot more strict than here. You have to show ID and prove their version of SS number and they actually check. If you can’t do that, I don’t think you are voting. So people in Brazil and manage to prove their citizenship and show ID, but we can’t do that here. Public education really worked.
I had the thought this morning, all the area votes should be brought together and tabulated at casinos, following the same protocol with the ballots as casinos treat money handling.
“STOP THE COUNT!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1324353932022480896
I have no idea how tweeting that could help.
This made me laugh
My sister texted me (a Pats fan) that last night – good stuff.
Serious analysis
Republicans can’t build a solid governing coalition without first figuring out how to fix their suburban problem. “It’s simple to say, harder to do,” says Kirk Adams, the Republican former speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, who represented a suburban Phoenix district. “People in the suburbs want government to work. They want it to be effective and to solve problems. They don’t want to be associated with anything that has even a tinge of racism. For the GOP to win them back is going to require candidates who speak to issues that they care about and do it in a way that is civil and smart.”
But for the last four years, all the momentum has gone the other way. Republican politicians at every level have learned that the path to success in the Trump era entails praising and emulating the president. And Nov. 3’s better-than-expected results are unlikely to drive a reform movement. Breaking away from him now—even if he loses—may be impossible. Currently, many Republican voters evince more excitement about QAnon, the pro-Trump, anti-Democratic conspiracy theory, than for returning to the sober competence of a Mitt Romney. Trump’s approval rating with GOP voters hovers around 90%, and the moderates and #NeverTrump conservatives who oppose him have either left or been driven out of the party. There isn’t an obvious candidate to steer the GOP back to the center.
Trump has remade the party in his own image. And nobody I know would ever vote for that. Soccer moms are good people, not deplorables, dammit!
As for that “racism” business? Maybe I’m wrong, but it appears to me a lot more energy has been directed at ridiculing the white people who accuse Trumpublikkkins of racism than actual expressions of racism.
“There isn’t an obvious candidate to steer the GOP back to the center.”
Center my fucking ass.
Sure, there are plenty of candidates to steer the GOP back to the left. And that’s very likely what we will see happen. Jeb will be back and all of the assholes that Trump thumped good and hard in 2016.
The super racist President who increases – by a lot – his vote totals from nearly every group of minorities?
Yeah, definitely don’t do that. It would be much better if the GOP went back to not giving a shit about those minorities and letting them vote for the Dems.
It’s almost like they have an interest in the conflict…
“Also, the percentage of LGBT voting for Trump doubled from 2016. DOUBLED!!! This is why LGBT people of color don’t really trust the white gays. Yes, I said what I said. Period.”
https://twitter.com/CharlesMBlow/status/1323982596980826113
CWAA
It’s wrongthink and unpersoning all the way down.
Maybe many philosophical allies recognize your economic policies are nonsensical, and you can’t paper over fundamental policy differences with shared bigotry.
And maybe many people are turned off by the bigotry, too.
the sober competence of a Mitt Romney
Sober competence, he says.
More like limp dick acquiescence to the (Democratic) mob.
Remember when Mitt was literally worse than Hitler? Pepperidge Farms remembers.