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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Low-Wattage Justice Sotomayor's Attack on the Bill of Rights Makes Her the Left's New Supreme Court Bobblehead
BLUF:
[Red State] Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the self-ordained "wise Latina" who believes that the law’s protection should vary according to color, ethnicity, and sexual proclivity, has improbably emerged as the successor of Ruth Bader Ginsburg as the soul of the Supreme Court they wish to create.

She reasoned that it is perfectly fine for unelected bureaucrats to ignore the constitution so long as they were doing it for the right reasons.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/28/2020 02:31 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nope. Roberts has that role nailed down.
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/28/2020 8:38 Comments || Top||

#2  "The Notorious S.S."?
Posted by: Winky Spineling8082 || 11/28/2020 10:53 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Parler Is A Great Place For People Who Are Into ‘Crazy Stuff' Says Bill & Melinda
[YourNewsWire.com] Bill Gates is not a fan of the social media platform Parler and has mocked its users by saying it is a safe space for people who are into "crazy stuff".
It’s a free world, Mr. Gates, so you are free to not join something that does not interest you. Just as others are free to escape the plantation and hang out somewhere that pleases them.
According to Gates "If you want Holocaust denial, hey, Parler is going to be great for you."

Gates said he believed that social media platforms need to face stronger regulation in the U.S. to help manage the spread of fake news and says Facebook and Twitter are doing a far better job in monitoring misinformation than Parler.

Truth is Mr Gates just does not like the idea of ’free speech’ and is against a platform that does not censor anything that might go against the offiicial narrative.

Parler has promoted itself as a proponent of "free expression without violence and censorship"

It describes itself as "unbiased social media focused on real user experience and engagement."

It’s promise of less censorship has attracted users who have been censored or banned on mainstream social platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

Numerous Conservative journalists, media personalities and politicians have joined Parler over the past few months.

Following election day, the platform has seen a huge increase in new users and it will continue to grow if Facebook and Twitter continue their censorship of conservative opinions.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  also MeWe
Posted by: Frank G || 11/28/2020 6:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Sure thing Clippy.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/28/2020 16:41 Comments || Top||


Trump said Twitter Has Become a National Security Threat
[AE] Others have been writing in that they have now censored Pat Buchanan as well. It seems that anyone who they dislike is being censored. President Trump has come out against Twitter saying their censoring of Republican lawmakers is now creating a matter of national security. He has ample grounds to arrest Dorsey — NOW! Section 230 cannot overrule the Constitution. It is unconstitutional and he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

This is an outright coup to try to take over the United States to create this one-world government of George Soros. These people have crossed the line. This is a deliberate attempt to overthrow the government and destroy all our lives and they have been using this virus and the pretense for this invasion. I did an interview in Canada and the death toll from COVID-19 outside of nursing homes was 165 in the entire nation. This is by no means justification to lockdown everyone which is really to destroy the economy for their "Build Back Better" agenda coming from the World Economic Forum.
[Boris, what a sell-out.]
Posted by: Clem || 11/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And Twitter thinks Trump is a national security threat; guess who wins.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/28/2020 9:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Twitter is a private company. You use it at their discretion, not yours.
Posted by: European Conservative || 11/28/2020 10:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Twitter is a private company.

You mean, a private media company that dominates information flow in the public square. AKA a publisher with all the Fairness Doctrine and do no harm obligations of same.

You use it at their discretion, not yours.

Wrong again. They use you and your scribblings to sell advertising.

They're the publisher, hiding behind that outdated, foolish, bullshit legislation (Section 230) that pretends otherwise.

Twitter Google and Facebook have done more harm to our democracy than 10,000 Russian trolls or spies ever could.
Posted by: Voldemort Big Foot3460 || 11/28/2020 11:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Trump is the last person to complain about Twitter.

Read their terms and conditions. Btw only the government can "censor" people. You have no "right" to be published on a platform, somebody else owns.
Posted by: European Conservative || 11/28/2020 11:23 Comments || Top||

#5  "Platform" LOL

Enough with the techno-bullshit words already. They're a publisher. They need to abide by the Fairness Doctrine like any other publisher. That Doctrine outlaws the policing of political opinion by publishers and broadcasters.
Posted by: Gleager Schwarzeneggar9395 || 11/28/2020 11:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Well, there was once a time Fox was "fair and balanced".
Posted by: Clem || 11/28/2020 11:32 Comments || Top||

#7  To #5 GS's point: we've just seen real news censorship swing a presidential election. Not jus Sh#tter but the entire news media imposed a blackout in the story of the year: the wholesale purchase of the Biden family by the Chinese military's private equity front organization.

Sh#tter and the others were censors in every sense of the word. They also completely eliminated any and all mentione of the Biden business partners' violations of US sanctions on Russia, plus Hunter's money laundering for Russian government-aligned billionaire criminals.

And then they allowed Biden to lie shamelessly about it, ignoring eyewitness testimony to the contrary and a sworn affidavit from the Bidens' own business partner whom they selected to run their JV with the CCP's stooges.

I don't know which part of Europe this kind of blackout and censorship exists in, but it's not consistent with American definitions of "conservative" behavior. It's fascistic.
Posted by: Punky the Fragrant6643 || 11/28/2020 11:56 Comments || Top||

#8  Twitter is a private company. You use it at their discretion, not yours.

They are a publicly traded company, as such there are rules related to fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders.

They have liability protections as a carrier under section 230. These protections preclude them acting as a publisher, which is what they are doing.

They do not enforce their usage terms equally across the board. This is also a violation of section 230.

You would be well advised to mind your own business and refrain from commenting on things you know little about.
Posted by: Spanter Speaking for Boskone3320 || 11/28/2020 12:01 Comments || Top||

#9  Do we start going after the networks as well? Should Chevy Chase and NBC been stifled 45 years ago for his Chase's Gerald Ford antics? Not censorship, but a blatant one-sided attempt to influence under the guise of humor.

Posted by: Clem || 11/28/2020 12:04 Comments || Top||

#10  "You would be well advised to mind your own business and refrain from commenting on things you know little about."

Given the topic of this thread, this is quite a statement.
Posted by: European Conservative || 11/28/2020 13:36 Comments || Top||

#11  You would be well advised to mind your own business and refrain from commenting on things you know little about.

If everyone did that, the entire Interwebs would go dark.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/28/2020 13:53 Comments || Top||

#12  Curiously, the phone company is also a private company, and they're not allowed to deny service to people based on politics.

Restaurants? Private companies -- not allowed to arbitrarily deny service.

Their Terms of Service doesn't matter -- you cannot enter a contract to violate the law.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/28/2020 14:06 Comments || Top||

#13  The phone company doesn't publish your calls.
Posted by: European Conservative || 11/28/2020 15:15 Comments || Top||

#14  p-p-publish, you say?
Posted by: Glung Tholurong2562 || 11/28/2020 15:20 Comments || Top||

#15  if you're a Hungarian or a Pole I'll give that you could be a conservative, otherwise not so much
Posted by: 746 || 11/28/2020 15:22 Comments || Top||

#16  If you post something, it's published, just like it is here.
Posted by: European Conservative || 11/28/2020 15:26 Comments || Top||

#17  #15

Bavarian. Senior member of a conservative party.
Posted by: European Conservative || 11/28/2020 15:28 Comments || Top||

#18  So did your country's entire newsmedia impose a complete blackout on any mention of Gerhard Schroeder's controversial dealings with Merrill Lynch and with Russian business entities?

If not, then what makes you think we should tolerate such media censorship here? Because Trump?

Also per #8 Spanter's point: maybe you should spend a bit of time reading up on Section 230

Posted by: Pearl Ulogum6289 || 11/28/2020 15:39 Comments || Top||

#19  You're speaking out of ignorance of American rules/responsibilities. The IT Techs can be idea-neutral or face discrimination suits for discriminating using American "airwaves". Can't have it both ways
Posted by: Frank G || 11/28/2020 15:40 Comments || Top||

#20  ^ To EC
Posted by: Frank G || 11/28/2020 15:41 Comments || Top||

#21  "If not, then what makes you think we should tolerate such media censorship here?"

So how did you learn about all this?
Posted by: European Conservative || 11/28/2020 15:46 Comments || Top||

#22  He's probably referring to Tucker Carlson and a few writers at the New York Post, who together reach an audience amounting to about 2% of eligible US voters. The rest of the media didn't even bother to refute the volumes of evidence presented.

It's safe to say that most US voters were shielded from any knowledge of Biden's lies corruption and obvious unfitness for the presidency.

17% of of early Biden voters polled have recently stated that has they known about Biden's corruption, they would have shifted their vote to his opponent.

Had this story been reported fairly, professionally and honestly Trump would have been easily re-elected.
Posted by: Squinty Wholuse1325 || 11/28/2020 16:05 Comments || Top||

#23  I believe you are all rather missing the point. Twitter is part of The State because The State isn't simply the government in it's various forms. Rather, The State exists at the intersection of where government, media (including social media), academia (including rioting graduate students), and big business's (including Hollywood) interests meet. Where those powerful groups align in common purpose, you will find The State acting in full force.

We are all living inside of that space whether we like it or not. One has to take the clear pill, rise above it, and see if for what it is to get a full picture. Because of The State, Twitter and the government aren't separate competing entities. They are one.
Posted by: Secret Master || 11/28/2020 16:18 Comments || Top||

#24  If I could learn about the whole thing, any U.S. voter could, too.
Posted by: European Conservative || 11/28/2020 16:23 Comments || Top||

#25  ^ Don't think you have. I "follow" German politics as reported. No idea if it's accurate, in-depth, and un-biased. I suspect "No" on all three
Posted by: Frank G || 11/28/2020 16:59 Comments || Top||

#26  /\ Chuckle. Some have. Others have not. My lovely wife of 49 years hates the Donald so much, she believes every word she reads on social media and the dead tree media and ABC news. She reads a lot, just not a lot of variety.

Give yourself a little credit, EC - you seem like a fairly bright guy!
Posted by: Bobby || 11/28/2020 17:03 Comments || Top||

#27  How does this - Facebook Rigged Algorithm to Favor Pro-Biden Over Pro-Trump Media - fit into the above discussion?
Posted by: Bobby || 11/28/2020 17:08 Comments || Top||

#28  So an small business (a "private company") can be sued/taken to court because the owners refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.

That the Silicon Valley slime can "discriminate" at will and without any ramifications because they are "private companies" is o.k. how?
Posted by: Clem || 11/28/2020 18:04 Comments || Top||

#29  The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to bake a cake to celebrate the marriage of a same sex couple because of a religious objection.
Posted by: European Conservative || 11/28/2020 18:21 Comments || Top||

#30  Good. I couldn't remember if the baker won his case. That is correct and proper. And if the Silicon Valley slime are private entities, is much as one might dislike it, it is proper and their call to delete what they want.
Posted by: Clem || 11/28/2020 18:33 Comments || Top||

#31  EC - your baker didn't provide domestic/international service. Just local. At som point, you should quit trying to argue finer points of American law/jurisprudence. I would do the same for Germanic law/politics.

It's embarrassing
Posted by: Frank G || 11/28/2020 18:53 Comments || Top||

#32  You are the second person in his thread who tells me to shut up. The irony seems to be lost on you.
Posted by: European Conservative || 11/28/2020 19:00 Comments || Top||

#33  Declare Twitter and Facebook 'Infrastructure' like the old Telco's used to be and strictly regulate them...
That'll fix em.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/28/2020 19:47 Comments || Top||

#34  Not "shut up", more like "you're embarrassing yourself". I respect your opinion globally, but you have no clue locally on American laws/ethics/mores. I wouldn't even try to do the same on local German institutions. Humility - learn some
Posted by: Frank G || 11/28/2020 19:52 Comments || Top||

#35  Most of those on the internet, including Facebook, Instagram and YouTube are low information users by choice. They go to catch up on the doings of their friends and relations on Facebook, of their favourite celebrities on Instagram, and music and How-To videos on YouTube. They get their news from the local newspaper and television station, and actively avoid being exposed to more than that because they simply don’t care — and they don’t want to have to argue with those of us on both sides who do care. And because they are competent and trustworthy in their work and areas of expertise, they do not question that those providing theses websites and reporting their news are also trustworthy.

Nor is this in any way a matter of intelligence or education. Back before the internet was used for much more than email, a dear friend of mine, with a BA in journalism and an MBA, who had been the marketing VP for the largest hospital complex in Los Angeles before settling down with husband and child to fill her spare time by masterfully running all the local charities that appealed to her, once explained to me that she never read the front section of the newspaper because there was nothing in it that she could impact. I was shocked — I generally avoid everything beyond the front section because anything I need to know about local events I’ll hear from my local friends, so I needn’t bother, whereas news about national and international events will inform me whether I need to worry about Mr. Wife as his work takes him through it all.

But low information users are easily led to chosen conclusions by sites which curate what information they are exposed to, as workers at Facebook, et al have been caught admitting to doing — a fact we high information users are aware of, but which the others have been protected from knowing. And so millions of high information users have indeed been migrating away from those controllers to sites that offer similar services without that curation, leaving a billion or so Facebook users like Mrs. Bobby who do not know that they have been manipulated.

Project Veritas has a collection of undercover videos from various popular sites boasting of how they manipulate their users and control those who would think and speak beyond their bounds. Go to https://www.projectveritas.com/ and scroll down, European Conservative.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/28/2020 21:36 Comments || Top||

#36  Very few adult voters with full time jobs fit the high information voter profile. Most people don't have time for it, and therefore rely on filters of one kind or another.

Those filters used to be the 3 national broadcast networks and the local newspaper which in turn took its cues from the 3 national newspapers NYT WaPo and WSJ.

Their influence over the definition of what's newsworthy and credible, while diminished somewhat, is still formidable. They remain gatekeepers of information for at least 60% of voters. If they decide to relegate a story to the memory hall, the most of the voters will never hear about it.

This is absolutely what happened with the story of Biden's sellouts to the CCbillionaire mafia wife of the Moscow ex-mayor / Kazakhstan
Posted by: Angusorong Borgia8532 || 11/28/2020 21:53 Comments || Top||

#37  #35 - there was a time - 5 or 10 year ago, when Mrs. Bobby's husband proposed marriage to Trailing Wife [chuckle] which she politely declined.

But she is a very smart cookie, and I love her! Thanks, TW!
Posted by: Bobby || 11/28/2020 23:31 Comments || Top||

#38  #32 - EC - bitte, hier stehen. Kommen Sie zuzammen zuruck. Haben Sie mich verstunden? (A little crude, I imagine - 1966 high school) This is a great thread, with differing points of view, none of which are mutually exclusive, all of which are interesting and have merit. That's why I love the 'Burg!
Posted by: Bobby || 11/28/2020 23:46 Comments || Top||


Europe
Clipping Erdogan’s wings
Hope springs eternal.
[AlAhram] This year has marked the beginning of the end of Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
’s regional ambitions as well as the end of his political honeymoon with Europe.


In a year that has witnessed a lot of political changes, Ottoman Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has also had much better years in his long political career. This year’s events have not only brought Erdogan’s megalomaniac ambitions in the Mediterranean and the Middle East to a halt but may also have witnessed the end of his honeymoon with Europa
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Smack the Punk
Posted by: Frank G || 11/28/2020 6:25 Comments || Top||

#2  In late 2016 Ali Ertan Toprak, the leader of the Kurd community in Germany -- having very detailed information on Turkish activity in Germany -- informed Deutschlandfunk public radio that "Imams posted to [Erdogan sponsored] Ditib mosques in Germany are Turkish civil servants. ... And they are also utilized to control the Moslem communities they look after and to report critical remarks to the [Turkish] state," Toprak added, "these are Stasi methods that should not be allowed in Germany," he added, referring to the former East German intelligence service.
On December 5, 2016 in remarks to KNA in Dusseldorf, Ercan Karakoyun, the chairman of a Gulen-related education trust, claimed: "Every imam functions concurrently as an informant for Turkey."
Posted by: b || 11/28/2020 8:39 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ But we have the CUBE ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/28/2020 8:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Are those uniforms for real? They look silly.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/28/2020 12:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Don't look like no Grey Wolves to me. More like Red Binder Clip-Heads
Posted by: Dino de Medici7193 || 11/28/2020 12:40 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Heh
Posted by: Frank G || 11/28/2020 12:42 Comments || Top||

#7  This is the first I've read of a Turkish connection to the attempt on JPII. It's always been portrayed as a lone wolf -- insane, maybe a tinge of Islamic motivation, but never connected to anything bigger.

I'll grant they may not have had Turkish government sponsorship back then, but I have little doubt they do now. Erdogan and the AKP need to go.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/28/2020 14:02 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Fresh from the Deep State playbook - Here comes President Joebama
Posted by our own Bangkok Billy as a comment this morning.
[The Spectator] ’So you’re seeing a team develop that I have great confidence in,’ said former president Barack Obama this week when asked about Joe Biden’s incoming administration. Obama sounds a bit of a World King these days, but you can’t blame him for feeling chipper. He has his third book of memoirs out (he only writes about himself, it seems), he’s making millions through publishing and Netflix deals, his great nemesis Donald Trump appears finally to have been vanquished — and his gang is taking charge of Washington again.

Biden revealed a number of his cabinet ’picks’ this week, and it’s a case of jobs for the old Obama boys and girls. Antony Blinken, deputy secretary of state under Obama, is to be the next secretary of state. John Kerry, the secretary of state under Obama, will be ’climate envoy’. Janet L. Yellen, a chair of the Federal Reserve under Obama, will be secretary of the Treasury. Alejandro Mayorkas, deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security under Obama, will be secretary of homeland security. Avril Haines, deputy director of the CIA under Obama, will be director of national intelligence. Perhaps the freshest face is Jake Sullivan, the next national security adviser, who turns 44 this week. Yet even he was director of policy planning under Obama, as well as national security advisor to the then vice-president, Joe Biden.

In fact, the incoming Biden administration is arguably more Obamaish than the original Obama administration. In 2008, when Barack won the White House, he was a Washington neophyte who had to contend with the considerable power of the Clintons. His campaign chiefs could only stand aside and gripe as Hillary Clinton, the woman Obama had beaten to become the Democratic nominee, became secretary of state and pushed her allies into the best positions. This time, it’s the Biden campaign people grumbling as Team Obama swoops back in. ’The Obama staffers are now cutting out the people who got Biden elected,’ an anonymous Biden staffer told Politico this week.

It’s a centrist coup too. The so-called ’radical left’ of the Democratic party, which grew in influence over the Trump years, finds itself cast aside. Yellen is, by current Democratic standards, an economic conservative. And the anti-war crowd is having to make way for a bunch of liberal internationalist hawks who support the continuation of war in Afghanistan as well as greater involvement in Libya and Syria. Blinken and Sullivan are already making humanitarian noises about Ethiopia, which suggests a military intervention coming soon. The NeverTrump faction of the Republican party, the dreaded neocons, are cock-a-hoop. Not all Democrats are quite so thrilled.

For now, the Joebama machine can just about brush over any party discontent. The refrain is that after Trump anything is better. Wouldn’t you rather be bored by a dull government than terrified by a chaotic one? That message essentially won Biden the election. But voters might not find the Biden administration so reassuringly tedious if new wars break out and more American troops have to go and die.

What is certain is that under Team Biden-Obama, the executive messaging will be more joined up than Trump’s Twitter commands. The new administration will all sing from the same comms sheet, at any rate. We can already see that from the video that @JoeBiden tweeted on Monday to announce his foreign policy and national security team. It featured the new cabinet appointees taking turns to spout grandiose yet meaningless statements while the algorithmically generated string-and-piano music stirred in the background. ’Historic challenges demand historic new approaches,’ said John Kerry, Mr Climate, over an image of a forest fire. ’We understand that the United States must lead not just with the example of our power, but the power of our example,’ added Avril Haines, robotically, as the Statue of Liberty appeared. ’America is back at the table,’ concluded Blinken.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/28/2020 09:01 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This will last until Joe's -er- forced retirement after which President Harris will start replacing them with dedicated leftists.
You can bet she's already making up her list.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/28/2020 9:33 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Maybe. But Harris might find a formidable opponent in Dr. Jill Biden. It might be fun to watch.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/28/2020 12:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Maybe Harris would call her a racist, too.
Posted by: Clem || 11/28/2020 13:16 Comments || Top||

#4  The advantage of suppressing your own paper trail is that you can then say anything you want to about yourself.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 11/28/2020 16:59 Comments || Top||


Victor Davis Hansen describes 'Monastery of the Minds' (video)
[PJ] We are fortunate to have some truly great thinkers in the United States. Unfortunately, almost none of them enter our political class. And they certainly don’t slink through the halls of our bureaucratic agencies. Luckily, they can still appear on some platforms and share their thoughts and knowledge with us. Academic and author Victor Davis Hanson did just that last night on Tucker Carlson Tonight.

Host Tucker Carlson took note of the increasing rhetoric about how to deal with President Trump and his supporters after he is no longer in office. He talked about the Trump Accountability Project and tweets from Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Then he spotlighted an MSNBC appearance by Washington Post "conservative" columnist Jennifer Rubin. In it, she talked about the president and his supporters as people who need to be shunned and basically destroyed:
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/28/2020 08:22 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And I thought I was the only one.

"Academy Awards - Turn it off."
"Emmy Awards - Not watched it in years."
"NFL/NBA - I'm through"
"Polsters - I never talk to them."

Posted by: Besoeker || 11/28/2020 8:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Truly "great thinkers" will keep their "great thoughts" to themselves. If they know what's good for them...
Posted by: Grampaw Phavish2227 || 11/28/2020 19:47 Comments || Top||


What the Election Will Come Down To
[American Thinker] We need to begin with what most people almost surely know, despite the predictable disclaimers and pro forma expressions of doubt emerging all over the infoscape, namely, the 2020 election is in process of being stolen in what amounts to an insidiously deceptive coup d’état. It is fair to assume that this is common knowledge.

The circumstantial evidence is dispositive.

1. Biden was rarely able to manage a rally of more than a dozen or two stalwarts while Trump’s rallies could top 50,000;
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/28/2020 02:16 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There was no love for Biden but the hatred of Trump was deep and wide, and fanned by the media. It included a lot of never-Trump Republicans, which is why so many down-ticket offices went more Republican than the Presidential ballot. Also, a broad swath of potential voters who normally didn't bother were persuaded by the ease of the mail-in ballot and the incessant attacks on Trump to cast a vote against Trump and leave the rest of the ballot blank. We may not believe the above account for the Biden victory margin but it will be virtually impossible to prove otherwise (without a smoking gun from voting machines - unlikely.)
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/28/2020 10:05 Comments || Top||

#2  We may not believe the above account for the Biden victory margin but it will be virtually impossible to prove otherwise

In other words, and other absentee ballot fraud work.

The clear message to any future candidate in any future election in this country is, Up your ballot harvesting and absentee ballot manipulation game or else you'll lose.

Thanks to this crap election we've crossed the Rubicon of widespread voter fraud. This is just a repeat of how other formerly-unpalatable election tactics became accepted by everyone, right left center or whatever, as necessary and normal: first it was wall-to-wall negative TV ads, then billions of dollars of "dark money" campaign funding.

And now mail fraud and configurable software to enable manipulation that adjust vote counts in line with desired outcomes.

And eventually, intimidation and political violence, which we already saw with Blamtifa warning, Vote for Biden or well burn your city down, motherf----- in city after city. All of these will become standard if this joke of an election is not struck down.
Posted by: Omusong White1335 || 11/28/2020 11:43 Comments || Top||


All 900 Military Ballots in Fulton County, Georgia Went to Sleepy Joe Biden ‐ NOT A CHANCE IN HELL!
[Gateway] President Trump won military vote 60% to 34% in 2016.

Trump led the phony polling this year with a 52% to 42% lead over Joe Biden with US veterans. Or, more likely 60 to 30 percent lead if this poll was like all the other garbage mainstream polls.

But President Trump lost EVERY SINGLE MILITARY VOTE in Fulton County, Georgia this year.
What absolute BS!

ALL 900 MILITARY BALLOTS IN FULTON COUNTY WENT TO JOE BIDEN!
An ABSOLUTE lie.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/28/2020 02:08 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Go ask them.

Simple Process being a Military Absentee Ballots.
These ballots are close to 90+% traceable to the voter source. Given they are COUNTY Based and the limited number of Soldiers activity serving in that County.

With ALL of the Absentee Votes for BIDEN. All it takes is few willing a sign an affidavit saying they DID NOT VOTE, or VOTED for Trump to cast the whole process as tainted/suspicious. Then redo all 900 Absentee ballots.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/28/2020 7:01 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't think there is a legal authority for a re-do of those ballots.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/28/2020 10:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Thanks to the joke that is absentee balloting -- no verification possible, no witnesses or chain of custody -- these fraud revelations will never end.

There are solid reasons that Carter and other lefties like Bernie and Warren and Ron Wyden complained about absentee ballots and Dominion's crap "systems." They're easily manipulated. Ripe for fraud, in any and every jurisdiction they're implemented.
Posted by: Clyde Prince of the Trolls5261 || 11/28/2020 11:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Assume 90% of military vote for Biden

Chance of having 10 votes out of ten is around 0.4.

Chance of having 900 cotes out of 900 is around 1 on 10 to power 40. The number of cells in human body is around 10 power 34 so 10 power 40 is the number of cells of a million people.

That is assumming 90% for Biden but if we assumme 50% then the cahnce is around 1 in 10 power 270 (two hundred and seventy). Number of atoms of the unverses is estimated at 10 power eighty two so 10 power 270 is the number of atoms of 1 10 power 188 universes.

I love maths
Posted by: JFM || 11/28/2020 13:39 Comments || Top||

#5  All 900.
None for Mickey Mouse, or Major Asshole. No wrongly filled ballots.
All 900.
For Plugs and the Endless War Team.
All 900.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/28/2020 13:53 Comments || Top||

#6  If I were to write-in anybody for any position, it'd have to be Pat Paulsen.
Posted by: Clem || 11/28/2020 13:58 Comments || Top||

#7  The legal remedy is rejecting the ballots. The same should be applied for all batches that are that improbably skewed.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/28/2020 13:59 Comments || Top||

#8  Attorney Lin Wood has requested that Fulton County military voting absentee, contact him. Will be interesting to see the response. Betting they are gonna be angry...
Posted by: Sherry || 11/28/2020 18:31 Comments || Top||

#9  Rally round The Big Guy
Say hey, Jack
Hunter needs his crack

And take one for The Big Guy
The Big Guy..
The Big Guy..
Take it for the Big Guy
For Xi
...an' me
......an' you & me & all of us

Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!
Posted by: Otto Peacock2597 || 11/28/2020 18:38 Comments || Top||

#10  I looked for & didn't find any link documenting the "900" military ballots.
Posted by: Grampaw Phavish2227 || 11/28/2020 19:57 Comments || Top||

#11  I think Mr. Wood, esq. is collecting the evidence rather than posting it, Grampaw Phavish2227.

Posted by: trailing wife || 11/28/2020 23:03 Comments || Top||


The Coming Bolshevik Reign of Terror, USA
[FRONTPAGE video] This new Glazov Gang episode features Will Johnson, the Founder of UniteAmericaFirst.com.

Will focuses on The Coming Bolshevik Reign of Terror, USA, unveiling how The lockdowns - and the “list” of Trump supporters - are only the beginning.
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Why Authoritarian Elites Hate President Donald Trump (short video)
[Parler]
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  puts it in perspective, gonna need a game plan here.....
Posted by: 746 || 11/28/2020 1:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Agreed. The abortion supporter becoming an advisor to the Pope is pretty damning.
Posted by: Ptah || 11/28/2020 8:32 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Creeping in through Syria, Iran is just a border fence away from Israel
[IsraelTimes] Via its proxy Lebanese Hezbollah terror group, Tehran has all but succeeded in opening a second front against the Jewish state; in Gazoo, Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, wields coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
to deflect unrest


In the summer of 2018 it seemed Israel could breathe easy regarding Iran’s presence across the northern border. The Russians, so we were told, had successfully brokered an agreement between Iran, Syria and Israel that Iranian and Hezbollah forces would retreat some 70 kilometers from the border on the Golan Heights.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


-PC Follies
Staffers Crying Over Jordan Peterson Book Cured By Forcing Them To Read Jordan Peterson Book
[Babylon Bee] ONTARIO‐After distraught staffers at Penguin Random House Canada complained about the publication of Jordan Peterson's new book Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life, the publishing company quickly solved the problem by forcing the crying employees to read Jordan Peterson's book. According to sources, employees have been completely cured of their whining, self-destructive victimhood.

"It's like a miracle," said office assistant Xandy Dutheriadux. "I didn't realize how much of my time was spent on behaviors that aren't particularly useful-- such as whining and blaming others! It's time for me to get my house in order and refine my competence in order to achieve my goals! Thanks, Dr. Peterson!"

Sources within the company say that productivity and employee satisfaction have risen by 3000% since they forced everyone to read the book.

"I am very pleased with the outcome of my publisher making its employees read my book," said Peterson to a reporter. "And I bloody-well hope it helps thousands more people who read it. That would be quite a positive outcome."

The reporter blinked and responded, "so you're saying you hate women?"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/28/2020 11:50 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


YouTube Removes All Cooking Videos Featuring Recipes That Serve More Than 6
[Babylon Bee] SAN BRUNO, CA‐To combat harmful online material during the pandemic, YouTube will be removing any cooking videos that show you how to cook for more than 6 people. They have also stated that any channels that continue to post videos of large family-style meals with instructions for how to cook them will be permanently suspended from the platform.

"We know that millions of people rely on YouTube as their sole authoritative source of truth, wisdom, and instruction," said YouTube's CEO Susan Wojcicki. "We cannot allow content that could cause real-world harm by encouraging people to gather in large groups during a pandemic. We are fully aware of the fact that without us carefully curating your content, you dumb plebes might do something we don't approve of!"

YouTube will also remove videos that include depictions of human contact such as hugging, shaking hands, and close-quarters fighting unless said contact is shown occurring at a BLM rally.

"We will also be banning all toy unboxing videos," said Wojcicki. "Not for reasons relating to the pandemic, but just because they're the worst."
Posted by: Frank G || 11/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Held my breath while pushing the button.

Still not sure this is Bee.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/28/2020 13:47 Comments || Top||

#2  ^Today it's the Bee. Tomorrow ...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/28/2020 14:14 Comments || Top||

#3  "Hey Google - ask Nest how many distinct human body-heat signatures she records in the house now (and tell the governor)"
Posted by: Speager Bluetooth8300 || 11/28/2020 14:21 Comments || Top||

#4  "Hey Siri - how many unique human accelerometers did you record the house just now (and tell the governor)"

"Hey Zuckerpunk - how many faces did you count around the table in the photo that was just uploaded to FB (and tell the governor)"

rinse repeat for TikTok Snap Insta etc etc
Posted by: Flolush Wittlesbach3841 || 11/28/2020 14:26 Comments || Top||

#5 
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