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Erdogan: My entire nation is an army and we're not afraid to sacrifice martyrs
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-Land of the Free
Georgia Investigating 1,000 Cases of Voter Fraud
[FreeBeacon] Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger announced an investigation into the 1,000 cases of double-voting that took place in the state’s June primary and August runoff elections.

"Every double voter will be investigated thoroughly," Raffensperger said. "A double voter knows exactly what they are doing, diluting the votes of each and every voter that follows the law."

Democrats and the media have repeatedly declared there is essentially no chance of voter fraud affecting the 2020 election, particularly when it comes to mail-in voting. Last week, Joe Biden told a local Georgia television station there is "not a shred of evidence that mail-in voting is fraudulent."

After Raffensperger's announcement, the Democratic Party of Georgia attacked the investigations as stemming from "the GOP's voting conspiracy theories" that are being deployed to suppress the vote.
Posted by: Croger Slamp6200 || 09/13/2020 00:08 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Democrats and the media have repeatedly declared there is essentially no chance of voter fraud affecting the 2020 election

So this suggests we both would agree that if even a small number of cases of voter fraud were unearthed in a short time that the premise would be untrue and appropriate action should be taken.
Posted by: gorb || 09/13/2020 2:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Only 1,000?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/13/2020 9:33 Comments || Top||

#3  BTW, what is Box Car Adams up to lately?
Posted by: Clem || 09/13/2020 9:35 Comments || Top||

#4  don't talk that bitch up
Posted by: Chris || 09/13/2020 9:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Ref #3: BTW, what is Box Car Adams up to lately?

About 400 pounds, give or take.

Posted by: Besoeker || 09/13/2020 9:45 Comments || Top||

#6  HAHA, quite snarkish, Besoeker.
Posted by: Clem || 09/13/2020 10:05 Comments || Top||

#7  So Adams really is the rightful governor?
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/13/2020 16:51 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Minnesota Police Group Withdraws Democrat Endorsements After Video of Union Chief Beaten in Effigy
[BREITBART] The Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association board has switched its endorsements of Democrat candidates to Republican after one Democrat candidate was purportedly caught on video beating a piñata with the likeness of top police union official Bob Kroll.

Fox News reports:

Minneapolis state house candidate John Thompson stood outside the police union leader’s home and and gave an expletive-laden speech to a crowd of Black Lives Matter demonstrators in August.

"Come on over here with your ’Blue Lives Matter’ sign," he said. "Blue lives ain’t s—, and if people in Hugo don’t support black people, f— Hugo."

Thompson had won his primary in the heavily Democratic district the week before. He faced intense backlash for his remarks and later apologized.

Brian Peters, who serves as executive director of the police association, expressed concern over DFL caucus’ support of Thompson after he was identified as beating the Kroll effigy.

"The endorsements that we rescinded, my issue was those candidates did not stand up to their leadership and put pressure on and ask why are we supporting a candidate who did this in Hugo," Peters said.

"If this is the future of the Democratic Party
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
, my organization is going to support elsewhere," he added.

Peters did not identify which Republicans were endorsed by the police group.

The development comes in the wake of President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
scoring two high profile endorsements from police unions: The Fraternal Order of Police and the Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York (PBA).

"Public safety will undoubtedly be a main focus for voters in this year’s election," FOP president Patrick Yoes said in a statement. "Look at what the national discourse has focused on for the last six months. President Trump has shown time after time that he supports our law enforcement officers and understands the issues our members face every day."


Posted by: Fred || 09/13/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  And once again our local Pravda channels 4, 5 , 9 and 11 are refusing to cover this turd's terrorist threats. Alone with our dic-a-tater tot Gov Walz. Still is endorsing Thompson.

Minnesotans outside of the Twin Moscow on the Mississippi are raging mad.
Posted by: Woodrow || 09/13/2020 5:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Big talk for a guy that can't back it up.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/13/2020 9:17 Comments || Top||

#3  The real story is that they ever gave Dems an endorsement in the first place.

Congrats to the union jefes for having the same deductive skills as the average flatworm, I guess.
Posted by: charger || 09/13/2020 13:45 Comments || Top||


Exclusive: Data shows that half of 2019 donations to ActBlue came from untraceable 'unemployed' donors
[FoxNews] Less than two months ahead of the presidential election — with concerns of foreign interference again at the forefront — a conservative political group is raising "serious concerns" about millions of donations reported by a major Democratic fundraising platform.



"After downloading hundreds of millions of [dollars in] donations to the Take Back Action Fund servers, we were shocked to see that almost half of the donations to ActBlue in 2019 claimed to be unemployed individuals," he said. "The name of employers must be disclosed when making political donations, but more than 4.7 million donations came from people who claimed they did not have an employer. Those 4.7 million donations totaled $346 million ActBlue raised and sent to liberal causes."
$346.00/4.70 = $73.61 average per. Not likely unemployed folks are sending this kind of "ching", imo.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 09/13/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Let me guess: no IP addresses? Or they were all done via VPN end point? Handy for those overseas donations to find their way into our elections.

Hey Georgie Soros, we see you. If only it was through a scope.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 09/13/2020 1:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Just like Obama's campaign. Whoops, somebody disabled tracking of where the donations originated. Donations with non-zero penny amounts were foreign currency converted to dollars.
Posted by: Croger Slamp6200 || 09/13/2020 1:44 Comments || Top||

#3  In a highly employed population, of course.
Posted by: gorb || 09/13/2020 2:58 Comments || Top||

#4  China?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/13/2020 5:23 Comments || Top||

#5  The history of many countries attacked by way of the soft underbelly of greed. China gives but you pay, you will always pay much more in return and forever. Reminds me of a story I would tell of Indians placing traps with bait but not setting them. Doing this a couple of times the little thief grows bold and snatches the free meal without hesitation. Then the trap is set and crack!!. An easy catch for nearly every trap set this way.
Posted by: Dale || 09/13/2020 9:39 Comments || Top||


#7  This "dark money" needs to be tracked down. Reads like laundered money going to Biden's campaign.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/13/2020 10:51 Comments || Top||

#8  This year, it'll be 95%.

As for Trump "slamming" these efforts -- if only there was a department of the government that could investigate these things and which answers to Trump.

Oh well.
Posted by: charger || 09/13/2020 14:29 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Housing Minister Litzman resigns in protest of holiday lockdown
[YNet] - In a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Litzman said lamented the fact that the lockdowns would prevent many Israelis, including tens of thousands of Jews who don’t go to a synagogue during most of the year, from attending one of the main Jewish services of the year.
Some supplementary links in comments
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/13/2020 07:13 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:



#3  Perhaps I should add a bit of background.
Ultra-Orthodox believe three things supersede everything else.
(a) Holly writings study (albeit other streams in Judaism point out that rote-memorization is not study).
(b) Having lots of children to annul the effects of Holocaust.
Finally, (c) they believe that proximity of less orthodox Jews harms their holiness - bad example to their kids.
As a result of (a), they don't serve in IDF and (most of them) live on welfare - masked as stipends to life-long yeshiva students.
As a result of (b) they're desperately poor.
So, the main goals of ultra-orthodox parties for the last two generations is increasing public "stipends" to yeshiva students.
As a result of (c) any neighborhood they settle in, they try to drive everyone else out.

However, during the last generation, the ultra-orthodox been the balance between the Left and Right blocks and used it to squeeze concessions (sounds familiar?).
While all Israelis recognize that ultra-orthodox are a problem (especially the religious Jews whom they consider apostates), most politicians preferred to kick the can down the road.
Lockdown is especially troublesome for them because their yeshivas squeese a lot of students in a classrooms where they "study" holy texts by singsong chorus reading aloud.
The above cited results from MI analysts must be especially grim to cause Bibi to break up with them.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/13/2020 8:04 Comments || Top||

#4  While all Israelis recognize that ultra-orthodox are a problem (especially the religious Jews whom they consider apostates), most politicians preferred to kick the can down the road.

I recommend universal K-12 ultra-orthodox cultural and awareness studies as a potential solution.

[snark off] But seriously, thanks for this most enlightening insight.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/13/2020 8:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Gracias
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/13/2020 8:39 Comments || Top||

#6  any neighborhood they settle in, they try to drive everyone else out.

Sounds a lot like "White Flight" from the 1960-1970's.
Posted by: Clem || 09/13/2020 8:42 Comments || Top||

#7  #6 Meditate on "(sounds familiar?)". Just goes to show, if there is an ecological niche - somebody will move to occupy it.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/13/2020 8:49 Comments || Top||

#8  I will...over some "potato juice" ( or "wheat juice", if you prefer ).
Posted by: Clem || 09/13/2020 8:54 Comments || Top||

#9  Russians don't drink potato vodka (unless there's nothing else - like diluted ethanol or aftershave). Germans do.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/13/2020 9:14 Comments || Top||

#10  God damn, grom, it is just a joke...just having a little fun. (And I know Russians don't drink potato vodka.)
Posted by: Clem || 09/13/2020 9:26 Comments || Top||

#11  ^And I was joking back - a running joke, Clem.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/13/2020 9:31 Comments || Top||

#12  Touché
Posted by: Clem || 09/13/2020 9:33 Comments || Top||

#13  😃
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/13/2020 9:33 Comments || Top||

#14  Chabad emissary infected with coronavirus: Don't come to Uman
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/13/2020 10:03 Comments || Top||



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