Hot Air has all the details about the warrantless raid on the nonprofit animal rescue that was also the home of the couple that rescued Peanut the Squirrel and Fred the Raccoon, now euthanized at the hands of New York State bureaucrats determined to test a pair of house pets for rabies. Also at the link are tweeted videos of the adorable critters.
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My favorite squirrel encounter of all time happening at a lakeside campground years ago. Noon one day I was sitting in a shady spot, surfing the internet on a laptop, very quiet and still except for keystrokes. Suddenly a squirrel's head appeared over the top of the laptop screen. He had simply walking up my leg and onto my lap without either of us being aware of the other's sentient existence. Hilarity ensued.
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She looks like a Stasi officer in that picture.
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From the Jan 19, 2022 press release - "Throughout her 26 years at DEC, Director Przyklek demonstrated a steadfast commitment to protecting communities from polluters and safeguarding natural resources," Commissioner Seggos said. "I'm honored to promote to her new role as Director as she breaks the glass ceiling and I am confident that she will lead DEC's outstanding Law Enforcement Officers with dignity and dedication."
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I think the scale absolutely pushes this. Squirrel and Racoon = major priority for search (8 agents IIUC) to grab/kill these two pets?
I'd fire everyone in the decision chain. Last night.
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My First Lit'l Book on Government Tyranny.
For a lot of people. Even normies who scoffed at the They're Eating the Pets can get this. In that sense, they just murdered popular podcasters, nearly in real time. Then there is my generation who grew up with Bob Ross and his pet squirrels.
PETA have a statement? Animals Have Rights Too have a statement? So far I've just seen Oh, So Much for a Tree Rat, reactionaries!. Which of course is indicative of a real pig shit look.
And, of course, her name is Karen.
Alternative Title:
My First Lit'l Book on Just Followinig Orders.
[JustTheNews]\ Mike Johnson says forcing government workers to leave the Washington "swamp" will lead to resignations and retirements that will quickly shrink costs to taxpayers.
House Speaker Mike Johnson says Republicans have an ambitious plan to reshape and shrink federal government if they win the election. That vision includes a plan to deport tens of thousands of federal bureaucrats from Washington and relocate them to middle America.
In a wide-ranging interview this week with Just the News, Johnson said he and other GOP leaders want to move federal agency offices, personnel and assets from the nation’s capital to bring them closer to the people they serve and farther from the monied special interests that often hijack policy and spending.
“There's a lot of talk about uprooting, you know, these entrenched bureaucracies and putting them out elsewhere around the country,” Johnson told the John Solomon Reports podcast.
Mike Johnson lays out top priorities for big GOP win: Border, Trump tax cuts, ‘blowtorch’ to weaponized deep stateMike Johnson lays out top priorities for big GOP win: Border, Trump tax cuts, ‘blowtorch’ to weaponized deep state
He explained such a re-invention of the monstrous federal bureaucracy with more than 2 million federal workers and contractors would integrate with former President Donald Trump’s plan to name billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk to lead a government efficiency office and also tie to fiscal conservatives' vision to eliminate federal bureaucracies and send monies to the states in the form of block grants.
Just how big has federal government become? Read this Congressional Research Service report.
The Louisiana Republican said the deportation of Washington bureaucrats would also create a natural shrinkage in the size and cost of government,
“That accomplishes a lot of important goals but the first would be that you don't have all these career civil service law protected bureaucrats,” he said. “Some of them have been camped out of these agencies for decades. They're nameless, faceless. We don't know who to hold accountable," he said.
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Johnson continued, saying “The idea is, if you move the agency to, you know, northern Kansas or southwest New Mexico, or wherever it is around the country, then some of the swamp dwellers they will not desire to follow the job to the new, less desirable location," he added. "They love the swamp. You know they want to stay. They'll turn them into lobbyist or something to stay in D.C.” The mass transfer and departure of bureaucrats then leads to a “business reorganization proposition” for federal government, he said.
"You've got agencies that you can scale down because you have empty cubicles and ... almost all the agencies are bloated and inefficient,” he said. “So you can scale that down. And then in the cubicles that you do need to fill, we've had America First Policy Institute and some of our other think tanks that have been working to develop a notebook full of highly qualified, previously vetted, limited government conservatives who have expertise in these areas.”
Johnson’s comments were the most sweeping he’s made about a congressional vision for shrinking the budget and reshaping the budget. He said the process would take a “blowtorch” to the regulatory state and align government agencies in the aftermath of a historic Supreme Court ruling this summer that reversed a decades old “Chevron doctrine.” Under the new ruling, federal bureaucrats can’t make up or interpret their own regulations and simply must enforce those authorized by Congress.
“We have a once in a lifetime, yeah, once in a lifetime opportunity to really claw back article one authority to the legislative branch under the Constitution and have an administration that is in tune with that whole agenda. So look, I just think there's almost unlimited potential in front of us, and we've got to seize that moment,” Johnson said.
If Republicans do win a majority in the House and Senate, it is likely to be slim, meaning Johnson's government reorganization ideas would have to appeal to conservatives and moderates alike in his caucus.
One of the leading voices of the House conservative wing, Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., told the "Just the News, No Noise" television show Friday that he likes Johnson idea, but with some important caveats like first getting stay-at-home bureaucrats to come back to the office.
"Well, I would prefer an idea where we actually eliminated the bureaucracies and the agencies that need to go away. But here's the thing: until you stop the telework epidemic the federal government has, it won't work. So you're gonna have to first stop that, then you then you can send them out," Biggs said.
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He also cautioned Congress not to send unionized federal workers to right-to-work states that give workers and employers more freedoms.
"They're unionized," he said of federal workers. "And that means, let's say you've stuck something in Arizona, which is a right to work state, you'd be sending in all these unionized leftist federal bureaucrats to our state, and it would make it even harder to maintain."
"So if you're going to send them out, just send them out to a state that's already deep blue. Send them to California for mercy sakes or or something like that," he added.
On other issues, Speaker Johnson made clear a GOP-led Congress would be in lockstep with Trump’s already stated agenda to close the border, deport illegal aliens, reduce inflation, renew the Trump tax cuts that expire next year and rapidly improve national security in a turbulent world.
“I think within the hour of President Trump taking this oath of office, he'll issue an executive order to secure that border," Johnson said. "We'll come behind that with legislative action to secure it, seal it up, and then we'll work on having to deal with the fallout of everybody who was allowed in, and that's a whole agenda thing.
"But immediately after the border is secured, we go to the economy, because the cost of living is unsustainable, unaffordable, and we know how to fix it ... Then we're going to do that and then somewhere you're going to have an extension of the Trump era tax cuts," he explained.
Of course, all of that must be preceded by Republicans winning the Senate, House and White House and Johnson winning another term as Speaker in a fractious GOP caucus. The answer those questions will be decided this month.
Once an agency or office gets into a Congressional District's agenda, it gets protection from that Rep and both Senators.
Recall the major fights that preceded closing military bases for example.
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Move good. Remove better.
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Moving would probably cull30-50% from the payroll, which is an easy way to downsize thr bureaucracy while they’re still unionized. They can always be moved again later.
[Townhall] Republican politicians demand answers from the Pentagon after military service members complained that they have not received enough absentee ballots to vote before Election Day.
GOP Reps. Brian Mast (R-FL), Bill Huizenga (R-MI), and Mike Waltz (R-FL) sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin citing their "grave concern over deficiencies in the Defense Department’s protocols" for the U.S. military because they said the absentee ballot stockpile has been "depleted and had not been replenished."
"Our nation’s brave men and women in uniform brought to our attention that there has been inadequate education at the administrative level on how to register to vote, request an absentee ballot, and fill in a federal write-in absentee ballot if their state-issued ballot does not arrive in time," the letter reads. "Other service members also stated that when a request for a federal write-in absentee ballot was made, they were told the base’s stockpile of such ballots was depleted and had not been replenished."
The politicians also wrote that the Pentagon offered "inadequate education" on how service members can vote while deployed.
The Republicans demanded that the Pentagon take extraordinary measures to ensure that the nation’s "elite warriors" have an opportunity to cast their vote in the upcoming election. However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... with only three days until Election Day, politicians fear the government has not yet taken action.
Mast called it unacceptable that the Biden-Harris Administration took no further steps to consider the country’s service members, and instead, it was an afterthought.
"Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body.... and Kamala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's' former mistress have mobilized federal manpower, resources, and tax dollars to block state-level election integrity measures, including in Georgia and Virginia, through lawsuits and smears," Mast said in a blurb. "They claim to care about democracy and the right to vote, yet they’ve failed to plan accordingly to facilitate the right to vote for every single one of our nation’s brave men and women in uniform. Our nation’s elite warriors deserve to have every opportunity to vote for the next commander-in-chief, especially since that person will be making life-and-death decisions for our troops."
The incident comes after President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have refused to acknowledge that U.S. military members are serving overseas in combat. During a debate, Harris claimed that no active service members were on the battlefield.
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Other service members also stated that when a request for a federal write-in absentee ballot was made, they were told the base’s stockpile of such ballots was depleted and had not been replenished.""
Bullshit.
In an internet world, there's no good reason why the unit voting officer/NCO shouldn't be able to push a button and print one out.
[JustTheNews] "Unwinding" Facebook's demotion of New York Post bombshell "now will unfortunately create more headaches than it’s worth" and problem is "we manually" demoted the story, executives told each other.
Big Tech platforms had shockingly frank internal conversations about their efforts to sway the 2020 presidential election, even stating explicitly they wanted to be on the good side of a Biden-Harris administration, according to communications released by the House Judiciary Committee days before an election in which mainstream media are promoting censorship of conservative voices.
The Republican-led Weaponization of the Federal Government Subcommittee published an 82- interim staff report Wednesday on how the FBI "prebunked" allegations about Biden family "corruption," and 641-page version with the full communications, providing the clearest evidence yet that tech platforms understood their role inevitably paved the way for the Democratic ticket.
"[W]hen we get hauled up to [Capitol] hill to testify on why we influenced the 2020 elections, we can say we have been meeting for YEARS with USG [the U.S. government] to plan for it," a member of Facebook’s Trust and Safety team messaged colleagues during a July 15, 2020, meeting among tech companies and feds including the FBI.
"Obviously, our calls on this could colour the way an incoming Biden administration views us more than almost anything else," U.K-based Nick Clegg, then-Facebook vice president of global affairs, told Vice President of Global Public Policy Joel Kaplan as the Meta-owned company debated whether to stop demoting a New York Post expose on then-Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
"From the beginning, the platforms understood what the FBI was doing" even if "Big Tech may not have known that the FBI was priming them to censor a true story," the GOP report says of the internal communications committee staff obtained. Companies knew "their meetings with the U.S. government regarding online speech could very well influence the 2020 election."
A week before this year's election, prominent conservatives blasted The Washington Post for laying the groundwork to censor them through an analysis that claims their podcasts are superspreaders of "unfounded assertions including that the election will be rigged or stolen."
Ben Shapiro and Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton posted the Post queries they received. Shapiro noted the financially hemorrhaging newspaper didn't specify what supposed misinformation he spread, and Fitton – flagged for his appearance on Charlie Kirk's show – scolded reporter Cat Zakrzewski for asking him after 5 p.m. with an 8 p.m. deadline.
Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan also accused YouTube of "censor[ing]" GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's interview with Joe Rogan, likely the nation's most influential podcaster, and sibling company Google elevating "material critical of the interview" in search results.
Jordan cited a New York Post report that said "YouTube users reported difficulty searching for the video" three days after it quickly racked up "tens of millions of views" Oct. 25 and that the full interview was "missing" from its trending videos page the day after.
He also argued YouTube admitted censoring the video by releasing a statement Oct. 28 that said "the original 3-hour interview didn't appear prominently" in "some searches" the day before.
While Rogan said Oct. 25 there was "no issue with YouTube censoring the trump episode," blaming a Spotify "glitch" for his decision to delist the YouTube interview "until it’s fixed," the podcast celebrity switched gears Oct. 29 and posted the entire interview on X, formerly Twitter, because "there's an issue with searching for this episode on YouTube."
The House Judiciary GOP report says the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force met more than two dozen times between Feb. 10 and Oct. 14, 2020, in one-on-one "bilateral meetings" with Big Tech companies including Google, then-Twitter, Facebook and Microsoft. The FITF's Russia unit chief told staff it resumed meetings with them this year.
The chief also said FITF's members knew the FBI had "Hunter Biden’s authenticated laptop" before the New York Post reported Oct. 14 on its "smoking-gun email" that said he introduced his father, the vice president at the time, to a top executive at Ukraine energy firm Burisma.
This is "consistent with other testimony" Judiciary and Weaponization received, the report said, citing FITF Section Chief Laura Dehmlow, who was then its China unit chief. Her predecessor, Brad Benavides, was also "certainly … aware" they had authenticated the laptop, she said.
Another set of meetings known as "USG-Industry" included FBI, Justice Department, Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and Office of Intelligence & Analysis, Office of the Director of Intelligence, Facebook, Google, Twitter and Microsoft among others.
Clegg and Kaplan were on a Sept. 21, 2020, Facebook email that said "USG partners" believe Russian actors will conduct a "hack/leak operation" before the first debate eight days later, "likely involving real or manufactured evidence" of links between the Biden family and Burisma.
"FBI tipped us all off last week that this Burisma story was likely to emerge," according to internal Microsoft notes Oct. 14, 2020, the same day of the New York Post report.
Oct. 14, 2020, shows up repeatedly in the interim staff report, including Facebook's decision to demote the Post story, then hand-wringing over feared blowback for undoing demotion.
"Unwinding will likely leak and be a story (conversely, doing things that might be perceived as anti-conservative, like demoting the content, never seem to leak)," Kaplan, a former deputy chief of staff for President George W. Bush, told Clegg among a series of WhatsApp messages.
Clegg agreed that "unwinding it now will unfortunately create more headaches than it’s worth." Kaplan clarified the problem was "we manually" demoted the story, because "if it were automatic, it would be sort of an easy call not to intervene."
Social media companies had "significant confusion around the Post article" during one-on-one FITF meetings Oct. 14, 2020, according to a paraphrase of the Russia unit chief's testimony. Quoting the chief, the report said he "felt [it] necessary to reach out to some of the more major companies" because an FBI analyst apparently confirmed the laptop's existence to Twitter.
The chief said he had a joint "follow-up discussion" with Twitter, Facebook, Google and Microsoft reps in which he shared a statement he "cleared" with superiors while "trying to skirt multiple policies and be within bounds legally," later telling GOP staff he told them something like "The FBI has nothing in its possession to suggest that the laptop is a hack or a leak."
He refused to answer any followup questions they had, saying his hands were tied by FBI policy even while acknowledging the agency "had more information" beyond knowing the laptop was not a hack or leak, the report says.
The companies nonetheless treated the laptop as a hack-and-leak, throttling the Post story so that "millions of Americans cast their presidential vote unaware of serious, credible allegations of misconduct levied against one of the two candidates," the GOP-led committee concludes.
"Today, these companies and their executives belatedly admit that their censorship was wrong," it says. "Although the FBI conditioned Big Tech to believe any allegations about [now first son]Hunter Biden were Russian disinformation, the social media companies are far from blameless."
[MSN-Newsweek] The Michigan Department of State is warning a programming issue with some machines made by Dominion Voting Systems will make casting a ballot "more inconvenient" for some voters.
Voters with disabilities and others in the battleground state can use Dominion Voter Assist Terminals (VATs) to help them mark their ballots.
People using the machines will have to carefully follow instructions to verify their ballot selections or they will receive an error message, the department said in a press release.
The error message comes up if a voter selects the "straight party" option at the start of the process but then casts their vote for candidates of different parties later on.
"Although the issue will not stop people from voting or making their preferred selections, and it will not change anyone's votes, it will make the process more inconvenient for some voters using the VATs," the department said.
The issue only affects voters in Michigan counties that use equipment from Dominion Voting Systems, the release said. Each early voting site and polling place in those counties has at least one VAT. A list of the voting equipment by county can be viewed on the department's website here.
Newsweek has contacted the Michigan Department of State and Dominion for further comment via email.
Voters using VAT machines "will have to select either the 'straight party' option if they wish to vote straight ticket or vote for each race on the partisan selection of the ballot if they wish to split their ticket," the department said.
"While this is the process used in some other states, it is not the standard in Michigan, where voters have the option to vote straight party but then override their party selection for individual races. If a voter using the Dominion VAT votes straight party but then splits their ticket, the voter will receive an error message," it continued.
DEVELOPING Florida Delray Beach 🚨 HUGE NEWS 🚨 TRUCK stopped in traffic after losing containers allegedly.. Containing BALLOTS 🚨 The same Thing happened in Miami a few nights ago. pic.twitter.com/LbJHsU4Gov
[NBCChicGo] Video shows a passerby who found items and turned them into Miami-Dade Police
A Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections employee has been fired after a ballot bin and bag fell off the worker's truck and was found by a passerby in an incident that was caught on camera.
Video posted by Only in Dade showed the passerby finding the items near the Florida's Turnpike and 211th Street in Cutler Bay.
"That's sealed, look at that," a man says in the video. "That's crazy."
Later in the video, the items are seen being turned in to Miami-Dade Police.
The man who found the items, Lazaro Padron, said he was driving near South Dade Regional Library, which is an early voting site, when he noticed the bin and bag in the middle of the road.
"I was really surprised, I never thought I was gonna find that," Padron told NBC6. "I talked to the Department of Homeland Security and the boss from the elections and they talked to me and congratulated me for what I did."
Miami-Dade's deputy supervisor of elections Roberto Rodriguez called it "human error," saying the worker forgot to lock the back of the truck and as they drove off, the sealed bin and sealed bag fell out.
The bin and bag contained already voted ballots from early voting, Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez said the person who saw the items fall from the truck turned them in to police, and elections staff verified that all seals were intact and nothing was tampered with or damaged.
"We were able to verify that both the bin and the bag were both sealed, and we confirmed that nothing was tampered with," Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections Christina White said. "I do want our voters to know that this was a very isolated incident."
Rodriguez added that while the incident was unintentional, the department has zero tolerance for error and the employee was fired.
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So how about hiring Armor Transports (e.g. Well Fargo, Loomis, Brink's)? Placing a poll watcher from each party and an armed security guard in each pickup up and delivery?
It would negate a lot of the "issues" we have seen in transporting ballots nationwide. Given the usual minority run, scheming political party that controls the Board of Elections, in too many large METRO's.
[ConservativeTreehouse] Three Days Before Trump 2017 Inauguration
On January 17, 2017, just three days before President-Trump was sworn into office, outgoing President Obama had a secret conference call with progressive media allies.
A long battled FOIA request by Jason Leopold was finally able to receive documents and within the documents the transcript of the phone call is revealed.
Again, this is three days before Trump took office, when the Obama White House and Intelligence Community were intentionally pushing the Trump-Russia conspiracy story into the media in an effort to disrupt President Trump’s transition to power. President Obama is essentially asking his progressive allies to help defend his administration. Part of the 20-page transcript is below:
Barack Obama – […] “I think the Russia thing is a problem. And it’s of a piece with this broader lack of transparency. It is hard to know what conversations the President-elect may be having offline with business leaders in other countries who are also connected to leaders of other countries. And I’m not saying there’s anything I know for a fact or can prove, but it does mean that — here’s the one thing you guys have been able to know unequivocally during the last eight years, and that is that whether you disagree with me on policy or not, there was never a time in which my relationship with a foreign entity might shade how I viewed an issue. And that’s — I don’t know a precedent for that exactly.
Now, the good news there, I will say, is just that there’s a lot of career folks here who care about that stuff, and not just in the intelligence agencies. I think in our military, in our State Department. And I think that to the extent that things start getting weird, I think you will see surfacing objections, some through whistleblowers and some through others. And so I think there is some policing mechanism there, but that’s unprecedented. Read the rest at the link
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] The StopBogusBallots.com team has begun posting videos about the wildly anomalous voter rolls in the swing states.
Voters by the thousands, tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands living in anomalous addresses like hotels, casinos and parking lots — now being made visible with Fractal quantum-speed technology.
In this video, the Fractal team performed an analysis of the current Pennsylvania voter roll — with over 8 million voters.
Those voters were then sorted real-time, at quantum speed, showing an alleged 3,000 voters under the age of 9.
A parallel analysis of the voter registration dates showed these voters registered as early as 1952.
Many of the voters were shown, in the official State of Pennsylvania voter roll to be born in the future — as far into the future as November 27, 2024 — on a voter roll dated October 24, 2024.
The StopBogusBallots.com team believes Pennsylvania may be the first state to register the unborn.
StopBogusBallots.com is publishing videos in many of the swing states of the wildly anomalous data — people registered in hotels, parking lots and abandoned buildings.
This is the first of several such videos demonstrating that Secretaries of State, in every swing state, have voter rolls so wildly anomalous they cannot claim to run a free, fair election.
Odd, that many GA Counties can print, fill-out and deliver 1000's of fake ballots at 2am on demand. But the Cobb co. Board of Elections, just can't seem to MAIL absentee ballots with many weeks prior notice.
Election officials in Cobb County, Georgia — one of the top battleground counties in the 2024 presidential election, per U.S. News — are scrambling to deliver more than 3,000 absentee ballots past the state’s Oct. 25 deadline, prompting lawsuits from the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Party of Georgia and civil rights groups.
Plaintiffs and more than 3,000 other lawfully registered Cobb County voters are on the brink of disenfranchisement in the November 5 election because the Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration was unable to issue their absentee ballots on time, a complaint reads from the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Georgia and Southern Poverty Law Center, which was filed on Friday in Cobb County Superior Court.
“This occurred twice in 2022, and in both instances, this Court granted judicial relief to protect the affected voters’ fundamental right to vote,” notes the DNC and DPG in a separate complaint filed Friday, which was first posted by Democracy Docket. “In this instance, the Cobb County Board of Elections failed to timely send more than 3,000 absentee ballots in accordance with Georgia law. Cobb County has publicly admitted to missing the statutory deadline. Judicial relief is thus required to remedy this legal violation and prevent disenfranchisement.”
Both lawsuits argue that Cobb County election officials violated state law by failing to send mail-in ballots within three days to voters who made absentee ballot requests before the statewide deadline. The suits outline how Atlanta suburb’s Board of Elections publicly admitted on Oct. 31 that it had not sent the aforementioned ballots on time, nearly a week after the Oct. 25 deadline.
For both suits filed against the county, the involved parties are asking that Cobb County’s Board of Elections extend the ballot-receipt deadline for all of the affected voters — moving it from Nov. 5 to Nov. 8, which is the same deadline that overseas voters have to return their ballots. They also ask that the county be required to segregate any of the affected ballots received after 7 p.m. on Election Day to ensure that they don’t become subject to “post-election legal challenges,” according to DNC and DPG officials.
Cobb, according to U.S. News, is one of the top counties to watch in the 2024 presidential election as it continues to be a pivotal piece of political real estate in Georgia — a major battleground state.
Shifts in racial and ethnic diversity have flipped the county from red to blue in the past two elections after Mitt Romney won in 2012.
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Has anyone else noticed the pattern? The swamp things are proactive and the GOP re-active. That is they're always a beat behind the the tempo.
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...once again, its because of the judiciary playing games. 'You have to show injury' to bring the case. Problem is that when you can, its beyond addressing the problem.
[THEHILL] Washington Gov. Jay Inslee ...Governor of Washington state, failed candidate for the 2020 Dem presidential campaign, mainly because nobody outside the state and some inside had ever heard of him. He complained, complained, complained that the Trump administration wasn't doing enough to help the state, then returned an Army field hospital and 400 ventilators that didn't get used... (D) activated the National Guard to be on stand-by in the event it is asked to support local law enforcement and the Washington State Patrol during election week, a blurb issued Friday said.
The National Guard will be activated from Nov. 4 to 7 until just after midnight, according to the release. The adjutant general will determine how many members of the Guard will be called.
"This is a purely precautionary measure taken in response to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s nationwide warnings regarding threats to election infrastructure and other recent activities that have occurred in southwestern Washington," the release read.
In a letter activating the National Guard, Inslee cited recent instances of election-related unrest leading up to election day.
Last week, two ballot boxes were burned in Oregon after an incendiary device was placed inside a ballot box. In Washington state, nearly 500 ballots were recovered after an incendiary device was placed inside a ballot box, causing them to burn, The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported.
Still, some national security experts told The Hill last week that a repeat of election violence to the scale of the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection is unlikely.
Amy Cooter, an expert at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism of the Middlebury Institute, said that while the threat of election violence is a concern, the conditions for it appear to be lower than in late 2020. Though, the situation could change quickly, she said.
"These landscapes are so volatile that [the assessment] today could dramatically change based on something that happens later," she had told The Hill. "But as of right now, I am most concerned with sort of small outbreaks of violence, not like we saw at January 6."
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I myself am most concerned with random mass shootings (increasingly in the news for the past year) breaking out at a wide variety of public assemblies. The only situations free of this have been (to date) political rallies. There will be long lines of would-be voters outside polling places on Tuesday...
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Tucker Carlson publicly took down a New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... news hound who requested comment about his 'Proud Boys tie.'
In a post on X, political commentator and media personality Tucker Carlson revealed a request he received from news hound Adam Satariano, who prefaced that he was writing a story about how groups affiliated with the Proud Boys use the chat app Telegram to communicate.
The inquiry read: 'In some Telegram posts from chapters of the Proud Boys, they discuss Mr. Carlson wearing black and gold colors at the recent MSG rally for former President Trump in New York.
'Members of Proud Boys have interpreted this as a sign of support for the Proud Boys, which use black and gold as their official colors...was Mr. Carlson's choice of wearing black and gold a sign of support for the Proud Boys?'
Looking at the photo under decent light, I note that the tie is dark blue and gold, not black. And while Proud Boys are not known to be fashionistas, one would expect a NYT journalist to know his colours — even ones like midnight blue in the 96 count box — making the entire gotcha question and resulting attack article moot.
Carlson did not hold back in his response, mocking the news hound for his conspiratorial insinuations.
He responded facetiously: 'Yes, this is an official Proud Boys necktie. I received it at my Proud Boys initiation several years ago, after swearing a blood oath to the global fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... revolution and the sacred principles of Q Anon.
'As you can imagine, I wouldn't normally admit this. The rules of secret societies being what they are, anything related to dress code is supposed to be confidential. But in this case, I've been outfoxed by your relentless shoe-leather journalism.
[RacketNews] The New York Times and Media Matters, along with the Washington Post and CCDH, align in a last-minute, tag-team blitz to silence Democratic Party critics.
Nico Grant of the New York Times rode shotgun with Media Matters of America to shoot down 30 conservative broadcasters as unfit to appear on YouTube:
YouTube, which is owned by Google, has prided itself on connecting viewers with “authoritative information” about elections. But in this presidential contest, it acted as a megaphone for conspiracy theories…
Kayla Gogarty, a research director at Media Matters who led the analysis, said that “YouTube is allowing these right-wing accounts and channels to undermine the 2024 results.”
Grant’s story garnered huge pre-buzz thanks to conservative targets pre-empting his “scoop” with colorful early responses. “I do hope… you’ll note that I told you to fuck off,” was the acid reply of Tucker Carlson, accused of participating in one of “286 videos containing election misinformation” reaching “more than 47 million views.” Ben Shapiro ripped Grant’s exposé as an “October surprise,” saying the purpose was to “pressure YouTube to demonetize and penalize any and all conservatives” a week from Election Day.
As Grant’s story roared across social media, eliciting outrage from Democrats and Republicans alike, a trio of Washington Post reporters published a similar piece: “Elon Musk says X users fight falsehoods. The falsehoods are winning.” Instead of a Media Matters report, the Post worked off new “analysis” by the Center for Countering Digital Hate, the Labour-connected advocacy group featured last week in Racket and The Disinformation Chronicle.
Musk created “Community Notes” on X/Twitter as a crowdsourced alternative to censorship, but CCDH was not happy with its results:
X is poised to play a prominent role in the U.S. presidential election, a race in which Musk is a major backer of Republican nominee Donald Trump and spreading unfounded claims of voter fraud — most of which go unchallenged by his fact-checking program… The CCDH’s analysis… tracked how Community Notes responded to 283 posts that contained election claims identified as false or misleading by independent fact-checking organizations.
CCDH’s annual priority this year is “Kill Musk’s Twitter” through “Advertising focus” to drive away X’s corporate advertising revenue, the chief weapon being shrieking reports claiming “hate” proliferates on the platform. This now-exposed contempt for Musk and free speech was evident in the Post conclusions:
Table of priorities can be seen at the link.
The Times/MMA “studied” 286 videos, while the Post/CCDH analyzed 283 Notes. Yet each outlet used a format so common in the “anti-disinformation” era, it now reads more like spam or clip-art than journalism. A DNC-aligned group produces a “report” documenting a sciencey-sounding quantity of “misinformation” incidents, then passes the scary number to a politically willing mainstream news outlet, which trumpets the new “facts” while publicly and privately pressuring platforms to remove offending material. Welcome to the new “accountability journalism.”
The problem with the Times piece is it defines “false claims” and “election misinformation” so broadly that legitimate questions or analyses and even jokes get wrapped in with far-out conspiracy tales. The MMA report denounced content that could “undermine confidence in the 2024 election results even before any votes were cast,” which apparently didn’t include its own headline, “YouTube let right-wing figures undermine the 2024 election results even before any votes were cast.”
Carlson made it for a clearly sarcastic crack: “I don’t think we’re allowed to talk about voter fraud on YouTube, which tells you that it’s real.” Shapiro made it for saying opposition to a Voter ID proposal suggests Democrats were fine with not showing ID, “which suggests they are fine with the possibility of voter fraud.”
Tim Pool was approached by Grant and mentioned in the Times piece seemingly as a way to get in a line about his work for Tenet media, through which Russia Today “allegedly funneled… money.” Neither the Times report nor the MMA version cited an instance of election misinformation by Pool, however. “The New York Times piece was remarkably tame,” Pool said. “There was nothing substantive in it.”
Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch made the list of 286 bad videos by referring to criminal indictments of Trump and saying that if he loses, “people are rightly going to say, well, they had their thumb on the scale, so it’s no surprise.” Again, you can disagree, but is that an issue of fact? Asked if the purpose of the piece was to get him removed from YouTube, Fitton said “probably,” and noted the Post had already sent him queries about yet another article seemingly calling for censorship of podcasts.
Even comedian Greg Gutfeld somehow made the list for saying Democrats would win with “votes, legal or illegal,” though there’s “very little evidence on that, but that hasn’t stopped me before.” This is a self-owning joke and could be interpreted almost as the opposite of a charge of voter fraud. “It’s almost hilarious how desperate they are for content,” Gutfeld said. “They now report on jokes!”
It’s no accident Media Matters and CCDH worked this “censorship two-step” to America’s two papers of record at the same time. They have a history of tag-team action with these papers.
John Fetterman eventually admits to Joe Rogan that Democrats' 'Border Bill' merely converted illegal immigrants into legal immigrants, rather than preventing illegal immigration: John Fetterman: "I've never witnessed those kinds of a thing." [Illegals voting] I don't think… pic.twitter.com/sEs6Xd0pEJ
… I don't think there's that level kinds of organization."
Joe Rogan: "But there is an organization that's moving these people [illegals] to swing states. There's a significant number of these people that are illegal immigrants that have made their way to swing states.
And then there's been calls for amnesty. There's been calls for allowing these people to have a pathway to citizenship and allow them to vote.
The fear that a lot of people have is that this is a coordinated effort to take these people that you're allowing to come into the country, then you're providing them with all sorts of services like food stamps and housing and setting them up and then providing a pathway to amnesty.
And then you would have voters that would be significantly voting towards the Democrats because they're the people that enabled them to come into the country in the first place, first place and provided them with those services. This is a big fear that people have and that you're rigging this system and that this will turn all these states into essentially locked blue like California is."
John Fetterman: "Well, you know, it's what immigration's always going to be a tough issue in our nation.
I voted for for the border deal and that and that went down. They had an opportunity to do a comprehensive border bipartisan and that went down because Trump he declared that that that's that's a bad deal after it was negotiated with with the other side."
Joe Rogan: "But was didn't that deal also involved amnesty and didn't that deal also involve a significant number of illegal aliens being allowed into the country every year? I think it was 2 million people. So still the same sort of situation. And their fear is exactly what I talked about, that these people will be moved to swing states and that that will be used to essentially rig those states and turn them blue forever."
John Fetterman: "Undeniably, immigration is changing our nation. And I think it's generally for a good."
Joe Rogan: 'Democrats are importing illegals into swing states to rig elections'
John Fetterman: 'Immigration is changing our nation, and I think it's generally for a good'
BREAKING: The Colorado Libertarian Party just sued to force the entire state to decommission all voting machines and move to a total hand count of the ballots after Jena Griswold LEAKED the passwords
They point out that machines were decommissioned in the past for the exact same… pic.twitter.com/A9Jt6QCGTq
… decommissioned in the past for the exact same nature of leaks, "On August 12, 2021, the Secretary issued Election Order 2021-02, which ordered the decommissioning of 41 voting system components in Mesa County affected by the exposure of the BIOS passwords, forcing the purchase of new equipment at the county’s expense."
The lawsuit is conclusive, and any judge who isn't compromised will side with them. Even if a judge doesn't, at least there's now legal scrutiny on the corrupt Secretary instead of just powerless letters.
Shoutout to the
@LPCO
for being so quick on their feet.
[NYPOST] Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib ...the very first ever Paleostinian-American ever sworn into Congress in 2019. She is a member of The Squad and consistently votes against the U.S. national interest. She's a Dem, naturally, from a safe district you wouldn't want to live in (Michigan's 12th congressional district). She wants the country to be kinda like Gaza only without any Jews for neighbors... publicly refused to endorse Vice President Harris during a rally in bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... — a critical decision that could tip the scales against Democrats ...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... in Michigan. The move carries significant electoral implications, with Michigan part of the Democrats "blue wall" of must-win states in the 2024 presidential election. A Trump triumph there would hamper Harris’ chances of winning the White House. Tlaib, a member of the House’s far-left "Squad," is upset with the Biden-Harris administration’s support for Israel.
I don’t know why they’re so upset. Despite the Biden-Harris administration’s occasional pretty words on the subject, they're standing firmly at Israel’s back as they choose the next place to stick in their knife.
The only Paleostinian-American in Congress, she has been openly supportive of Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... during her time in office and has been censured by her colleagues for defending Hamas.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....
...Governor of Washington state, failed candidate for the 2020 Dem presidential campaign, mainly because nobody outside the state and some inside had ever heard of him. He complained, complained, complained that the Trump administration wasn't doing enough to help the state, then returned an Army field hospital and 400 ventilators that didn't get used...
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
..always the voice of sweet reason...
