[PJMedia] Colorado’s Secretary of State Jena Griswold is a very serious woman — except when she gets unhinged. And Griswold was in a full-on, hair-on-fire, bat-guano-nuts panic when she said in an interview with the radical left newspaper The Guardian that unless Americans vote for Democrats, they’re going to lose their democracy.
Now, any Republican who dared utter such nonsense would be laughed out of the building. But Griswold was only echoing — or parroting — the company line that Democrats have been peddling for months: our democracy is in trouble because Republicans are mean, spiteful, gay-hating, trans-oppressing, anti-female fascists.
They deny climate change, elections they don’t win, and the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines. They must be denounced. They must be beaten. They must be destroyed.
Colorado’s secretary of state, Jena Griswold, is warning anyone who will listen that the fate of free and fair elections in the United States hangs in the balance in this November’s midterm contests.
In many of the most competitive races for offices with authority over US elections, Republicans nominated candidates who have embraced or echoed Donald Trump’s myth of a stolen election in 2020.
Griswold, who chairs the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State (Dass) and is running for re-election, is urging Americans to pay attention to the once-sleepy down-ballot contests for secretary of state — lest they lose their democracy.
"What we can expect from the extreme Republicans running across this country is to undermine free and fair elections for the American people, strip Americans of the right to vote, refuse to address security breaches and, unfortunately, be more beholden to Mar-a-Lago than the American people," Griswold, 37, said in an interview with the Guardian.
She added: "For us, we are trying to save democracy."
Please define the term "election denier." Would that be anyone who denies the outcome of an election they lost? Is just anyone who has questions about the 2020 election?
No doubt, there have been some curious claims from some Republicans that some state elections were "stolen." But what does that have to do with secretaries of the state being elected on a platform espousing election integrity?
The reason that so-called "election deniers" are winning primaries and will be elected in November is that Democrats have been far too cavalier about the integrity of our elections, opening the process by giving too many opportunities for fraud. The American people are kind of touchy about their elections and don’t like cheaters. The thing about rhetoric like this, is you can't walk back from it. Spin up the base and talk smaller next time, you lose the enthusiasm. Keep spinning up, and you get the nutjobs that run out with guns and attack the other side. Maybe that is the point.
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In their minds, there is no legitimacy except for their own rule. They will cheat and defraud with no problem. I've long said that the 2016 election was the last time the American people will be allowed to decide anything. The result was totally unacceptable to the ruling class and this mistake will never be allowed to happen again.
Once you understand to mentally substitute "our rule" whenever they say "democracy" it makes a lot more sense.
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#3 We already know Philadelphia and Detroit dems will cheat.
Master mailbox keys are missing in Ohio ( not that the postal service is impartial).
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed 2022-08-29 05:56
...In fairness, my hometown of Cleveland was where the phrase, 'Vote early and often' originated.
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If 'Biden' can promote $500B relief from student loans 'he' can easily declare martial law and static continuance as a result of post election poll violence.
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Ref #10: ML and the setting aside of constitutions (state and/or) Federal would certain curtail the Tex gov's replacement people to D.C. and NYC program.
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#7@#4 - Wow, not Chicago and Mayor Daley? I didn't know that, Mike.
Posted by: DooDahMan 2022-08-29 08:15
It is indeed true, sir. from the end of WWI through the late 40s, Cleveland was Dodge-City-On-The-Lake, and anything and everything was fair game. I mean, Eliot Ness himself couldn't get the place under control. (Though interestingly enough, he chose to have his ashes scattered there.)
BTW - if you ever catch a rerun of COPS that's filmed in Cleveland, they're ALWAYS in Second District. According to my dad, that part of town never settled down.
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It's simple, have only 1 day to vote, YOU MUST VOTE in person and show enough documentation to prove citizenship and legally able to vote. Voting is done on paper ballots. Polls close at 8pm. End of line is marked, nobody else allowed. Triple signatures for the movement of any ballot box, counting, etc.
Anyone who shows up with ballot boxes in their car to be counted will be put against the wall and shot, their car set on fire.
Military will print ballots for their personnel who will follow same voting rules.
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Silentbrick, I like the lighting the car on fire but...
Might I suggest putting the offender into their car and then put the car in a car crusher and then the cubes of crushed metal be used to create a monument to the 2020 election.
They don’t believe in giving legitimacy to anybody who is not already on their side. So if this is who they are psychologically — if they have no interest in persuading people, if they have no interest in acquiring power as a result of massive public support — then who are they? What are they? They want power simply to have it. They don’t want it to derive from the people... As soon as they can figure out a way to eliminate elections, they will do it, ’cause they resent the hell out of it...
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You could do that, but that doesn't set as good of an example to the other election workers for 'immediate' consequences for doing things the wrong way as a quick execution and car-b-que
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@#12 - Interesting, Mike. In fact, I thought about Elliot Ness earlier.
I know in the '70's there were all kinds of mob bombings there, Danny Greene being probably the most famous victim.
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Whistleblowers alleged that Thibault concealed the partisan nature of evidence from FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland to secure their approval to open an investigation into former President Donald Trump. That investigation culminated in the FBI’s raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month.
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Thibault concealed the partisan nature of evidence from FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland to secure their approval
Not mentioned, Papa Cooky, is it is the responsibility and training of senior managers to notice what is not being said, and probe until satisfactory answers are given, to ensure that things are being done as they ought. Because it is the nature of subordinates, especially good subordinates, to push themselves and their teams to accomplish what they believe to be senior management’s goals, sometimes to the point of taking inappropriate — or worse — shortcuts. If Director Wray and AG Garland refused to notice and probe, the result is fully their responsibility as it is the liar, Thibault’s.
/speaking as what would have been a VP’s wife in a normal-sized company.
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Mr. Wife points out that senior managers are not omniscient, and therefore they are responsible for cauterizing the damage when such things as former Washington Field Office Assistant Special Agent in Charge Tim Thibault’s little project occur.
I find it difficult to imagine that nobody in the assistant special agent in charge’s line of command got excited enough to demand to see the evidence for him/herself, just for the sheer malicious joy of knowing. And having demanded and seen, also hid it from those above, knowing to how much risk they were exposing the Agency and the Department of Justice.
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OK Quick math: I own a 2018 Mercedes-Benz C300 EPA Fuel Economy Premium Gasoline Combined MPG: 27: MPG City MPG: 23: Highway MPG: 34: combined city/highway: city: highway: 3.7 gal/100mi 470 miles Total Range
Say I spend $5.00 per gallon Cost to Fill the Tank: $87: Tank Size: 17.4 gallons *Based on 45% highway, 55% city driving, 15,000 annual miles and current fuel prices. I fill up the tank 32 times in a year =$2784.00 per year~10years=$27840.00 so, 150,000 miles - maintenance - yup == say $3,500 in 7 years - The EV here has only gone 70,480 miles about half the miles and and it is dead; 4.75 years into ownership --- my conclusion < EVs are a dud financially & logistically.
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Can't argue with the math. I bought a 2021 F-150 Powerboost. The engine recharges the onboard batteries. Ford guarantee is for 8 yrs on the battery pack. I get 25 MPG with battery and 3.5 twin turbo motor. My primary reason was to get the 7.2KW generator built into the bed as a home backup - as well as all the fun th8ngs you can haul.
General Information
Make Chevrolet
Model Volt
Model year 2012
Body style 4 Doors Hatchback Engine type 1.4L L4 DOHC 16V FWD
Manufactured in United States
Vehicle specification
Body type Hatchback
Number of doors 4
Number of seats 4
Displacement SI 1393
Displacement CID 85
Displacement Nominal 1.4
Engine type L4
Engine head DOHC
Engine valves 16
Engine cylinders 4
Engine aspiration Naturally
Engine HorsePower 149
Engine KiloWatts 111 Fuel type Gasoline
Driveline FWD
Anti-Brake System ABS
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Forgot mention while the Volt does have a battery. It is primarily gas fueled for travel. According all the EPA data I read the Battery is only good for less than 40 miles per charge for travel.
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Note that nothing about the cost of the disposition of the replaced battery is included in the bill. As significant numbers of EV batteries are replaced, the economic/environmental impact costs for their disposition and recycling will be established, and will be significant additional expenditures.
Also an unknown, its the environmental impact of the manufacture of significant batteries on a scale needed to match the millions of POVs sold annually.
Finally, there is the entire issue of the electrical grid enhancements needed to sustain a worldwide conversion to recharging. All these impacts are real costs not discussed or even adequately forecast. What they all significantly seem to suggest is a long term consolidation of populations back into urban settings where POVs become rare and controlled.
Progressive/socialist/environmental WEF forecasts/policy papers suggest the elites see that as a positive, me not so much!
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Well, monkeypox is viral - and I don't mean in the social media sense, although it is that too - but there are plenty of icky bacterial infestations to choose from.
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[Washington Examiner via Bongino]Never trust an AG who looks like Elton John
Barr, who has since fallen out with former President Donald Trump, described the encounter as one of the most awkward moments during his tumultuous two-year tenure in the Trump administration. Trump disparaged Barr as a "f***ing loser" while meeting with his underlings to discuss their response to riots gripping the nation following George Floyd's death.
Since his departure from the White House, Barr has opened up about his feelings for his old boss. The former attorney general has often defended Trump's policies but disparaged his character. Barr resigned from his perch as the No. 1 Justice Department official in December 2020 while Trump and his allies peddled assertions that the 2020 election was "rigged."
Now Barr is backing someone else for the GOP nod in 2024: "whoever has the best chance of pushing Trump aside." During the interview, he name-dropped Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, former Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as possible contenders he could back.
Barr also noted that he was surprised that Democrats and many prominent figures in the media haven't apologized for pushing the so-called "Russiagate hoax" he ripped as the "big lie." Trump had been dogged by allegations that he and his campaign conspired with Russia in a plot of collusion to win the 2016 election.
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I would advise the gentleman, Mr. Barr to steeer clear of Gardening Stires and the like, as the American people readily recognize a bag of manure, when they see one. Mr. Barr, with all of his back peddling and disbelief, may find himself tossed into the back of a farmer's pick-up truck and carted away to serve a purpose, which is in line with the fertilizer he is attempting to spread here in this article. Bye Bill, your political life is over, but you just don't know it; everybody else does Bill, everybody.
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He refused to act obviously planned and well-funded riots -- "loser" is putting it mildly.
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It is astounding how thin-skinned so many in Washington are. Trump is a jerk, and he eventually rubs everyone the wrong way for the thin-skin that starts a life long hatred and cashing in integrity and occasionally doing illegal things to get him.
D.C is a modern Augean stables and Trump didn't have enough time to clean them out.
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