Will it be orange – or red?
We’ll know in about 48 hours. Or maybe not. For some very odd reason that we’re being conditioned to accept as routine – so that it can be routinized – it now takes days or even weeks to determine which of two candidates received the most votes. This is particularly off-putting given most of these votes are collected electronically. Isn’t the whole point of electronic vote-collection to make the process more efficient?
Of course, all it has done is make the process more opaque.
The Great Gripe many have about the last selection is that no one really knows who won. Well, no one outside the ambit of the rather undemocratic entities – the private companies – who have a lock (literally) on the workings of the voting machines, over which they assert a proprietary claim. This, too, is odd – yet accepted – because it has been routinized. Like the appalling (to those who remember when it was not routine) business of having to submit to being physically touched in intimate areas – to being touched, at all – for absolutely no reason specific to you by a government worker in order to be allowed to board a commercial flight. Once upon a time, people who weren’t criminals or suspected of being criminals were free to travel unmolested, if you can imagine that. It was kind of like being free to speak.
You had to be there.
There were, of course, attempts to find out who won. These were styled “insurrections” and a “threat to our democracy”- an interesting construction. These were summarily dismissed as well as disparaged – not on the merits but rather because (said the courts) the complainants lacked “standing.” This is also an interesting construction in that everyone who is a voting age citizen arguably has “standing” – to know whether an election outcome that directly affects them was or was not legitimate.
Never mind. The courts “ruled” – that is, the courts decreed – otherwise. They decreed that the votes that were cast could not be retroactively vetted, something that ought to have been done prior to the votes being counted. These are facts. And so it is that to this very day – just two days before another election – it is still not known who actually won the last one.
Both sides claim they did, but that is not the same thing. The skullduggery and opacity have greatly delegitimized what was once regarded by most – rightly or delusionally – as at least an honest process. Whether it is honest to vote to have this rhetorical entity styled “government” – which is just other people who wield the power of government – take away some people’s money and give it to others and things of that nature is a subject for another time.
What is about to take place in 48 hours from now could be the last election held in what is still referred to delusionally as the United States of America – which are about as “united” as a mob of angry cats because no matter the outcome, neither side is likely to accept it as legitimate for precisely the same reason the last election held is widely and understandably regarded by many as illegitimate.
The votes that were cast ought not to have been recounted; they ought to have been vetted.
Ideally, prior to the first count.
This is a basic – arguably foundational – competence absent which no system that is based on voting can retain its legitimacy. The voters show up – on Election Day, which was once one day before 2020 – when “because COVID” it became election months. They establish they have a right to vote by producing the same ID everyone is required to produce in order to buy cough syrup or cash a check – and that everyone who isn’t a vagrant or someone who has no right to vote already possesses. They are then allowed to cast a paper ballot that correlates with their legal person, so that both can be checked and verified in the event any questions arise about the legitimacy of the vote – or the voter.
It is a crashing imbecility – no, something worse – to suggest that vetting voters is “voter suppression” and that paper ballots that can be checked by the people is some kind of “threat to our democracy.”
It is of course precisely the opposite – magnifying and distilling the effrontery of it.
If the voters were vetted prior to their being allowed to vote – and if the votes cast were not ones and twos in a lock-box laptop that is owned by some private company rather than the property of the people, as it ought to be in a democracy – then both sides would at least have the comfort of knowing that if their side lost, it was because more people voted for the other side. This may not make it right – as voting to take away what’s not yours can never be right – but at least you had an honest chance to vote not to take what isn’t yours.
And that others not take what isn’t theirs.
There is also the hope that – come the next election – the vote will go in a better direction.
That hope is now gone, no matter which side is declared to be the “winner” in about 48 hours – or several weeks from now. Neither side is going to accept it and it is highly likely that one side will do more than just not accept it.
The results of that vote may well prove to be as consequential as the vote taken by the states of the Souther Confederacy in 1861. The people of those states also felt the system was illegitimate – and they were right, because it was. The more industrialized and more populous North had effective control of the federal government and they had elected a man – Abraham Lincoln – who was regarded by them as an existential threat because he represented the money power of the North, which sought to enslave more than just the South. Abe would end up enslaving everyone – North and South.
But he was at least elected and no one disputes that he was.
Imagine what may happen in just 48 hours from now.
. . .
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Burn this MOFO down.
Here is a remarkable table, courtesy of Charlie Bilello. It shows that during the past 95 years, only four presidential terms resulted in stock market losses:
Herbert Hoover … 1929-1933 … -73%
Frank Roosevelt … 1937-1941 … -27%
George W Bush … 2001-2005 … -7%
George W Bush … 2005-2009 … -26%
https://ibb.co/r5QSQsN
Evidently, Hahhhhhvid Business School didn’t teach the Retarded Chimp how to make any money for you and me.
Potentially, Trump could be number 5 in this list. A recession is brewing, which will push stocks down. The question is how badly Big Gov panics in response. If it’s covid stimmies times three, Trump could still eke out a nominal stock market gain. But a cup of coffee at Starbucks would cost 30 dollars by the time Orange Man and Melanie wave goodbye.
Winter is coming.
And you know this exactly how/ just asking.
PravdaPBS leaks the election results:‘On the eve of the 2024 presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris holds a 4-point lead over former President Donald Trump among likely voters nationally, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll. Harris has the support of 51 percent of likely voters to Trump’s 47 percent – a lead just outside the poll’s 3.5-point margin of error.’ — pbs.org
LOONEY TUNES! Remind me to defund PBS next January, should I be appointed Treasury secretary. I will seize the pbs.org website and replace its landing page with this image:
https://ibb.co/Cz60wsm
Hi Jim,
You and I may be the only two obsessed about this, but
A potentially useful map….
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/early-vote
NC, AZ, NV, and GA are going to go red.*
WI still a toss up.
Trump is in trouble in PA.
MI is looking promising.
VA and NH could be tomorrow night surprises.
* Note: This does not take in effect any potential Dominion software updates, water pipes breaking, or boxes of additional ballots hiding under tables.
Mike Benz paints a pretty chilling scenario in the event that it becomes apparent that Trump won the election.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTrZLHQOJkg
Thanks, ML. I watch a lot of Patrick’s podcasts and I can’t believe I missed this one. I will definitely sit down tonight and watch it.
‘Trump is in trouble in PA.’ — Raider Girl
Pennsylvania is a microcosm of the US as a whole: a sea of red, with a handful of Democrat cities. Graphic:
https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/pennsylvania/
If Pennsylvania’s eastern tier, Delaware River counties could be ceded to New Jersey, the rest of the state would look a lot like America.
Sad that the original 13 states, being the oldest, also tend to be the most corrupt.
More from New York … excerpts from a comment by The Gipper Lives:
UPDATE: VOTING RECORDS INDICATE PEANUT AND FRED THE RACCOON CAST MULTIPLE BALLOTS FOR KAMALA WHILE IN CUSTODY
THE PAIR OF DISSIDENTS WERE ALSO ABLE TO CAST HUNDREDS OF OVERSEAS BALLOTS FOR VICKY NULAND’S PERMANENT WAR REGIME IN MOLDOVA, DESPITE BEING, YOU KNOW, DECEASED … AND PETS
MEANWHILE, MILLIONS OF NYC RATS GIVEN PROTECTED STATUS AND OBAMA PHONES
Manufactured News Network: “To This Rabid Beast Regime, YOU are the Squirrel!”
https://tinyurl.com/mth5dpnf
Soviet humor, comrades: it’s one of our few comforts under communism.
Just a friendly reminder, if you’re planning to loot tomorrow:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GXaNc6HbwAQMY_d?format=jpg&name=small
Well, I guess I won’t be making a run on Hermes. I could stock up on a good amount of chocolate croissants and bottles of Patron though.
Regardless of which clown gets featured in the center ring for the next 4 years, U.S. foreign policy will not be altered.
These murderers:
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-hospitals-israel-civilians-d066117ec80bce83657447add762b2e7
will be wholeheartedly and enthusiastically supported with your tax dollars.
How does it feel to be an unwilling accomplice to genocide?
Like a retired unwilling non contributor to genocide.
‘Today there are no fully functional hospitals in all of Gaza – just 16 out of 39 hospitals are partly operational, according to the World Health Organization.’ — AP News
That’s ‘health care,’ Israeli-style — kill the sick. Even ol’ Massa on the cotton plantation took better care of his slaves — because they had some value to him.
Why do the Israelis do this? A stunning exposé, in the NY Times of all places, spells it out for those who refuse to see:
‘Arabs are citizens of the country of Israel, but not members of the Jewish nation — they are “citizen strangers,” as the George Washington University historian Shira Robinson has put it.
“We don’t want them to be part of us,” Hillel Cohen, a professor of Islam and Middle East Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, told me, summarizing the mainstream position (which is not his personal view). “They can never be full Israelis.”
https://archive.ph/T6CpA#selection-1385.297-1389.356
Apartheid: raw, real and rampant — our tax dollars at work.
raw, real, rampant and ugly.
“How does it feel to be an unwilling accomplice to genocide?”
That is one of the primary reasons I do not vote. How could I live with myself if I consented to; gave my vote of confidence to, and helped to empower this disgusting system and it’s psychopathic ‘rulers’, rather than opposing it with every ounce of my being?
To vote is the opposite of opposing it. It is to legitimize it, consent to it, and perpetuate it.
Mush from the Lügenpresse wimps:
‘Right-wing groups, which use the social media platform Telegram to organize, are urging followers to watch the polls in a harbinger of potential chaos.’ — NY Slimes
Watching the polls! How sinister. How threatening.
These mossback deplorables shouldn’t even be allowed outside. /sarc
Being a politician…part of the slave owning control group… has benefits….
Cause harm…never be held accountable….above the law…sovereign ….same as the AGM…the enforcers….
Control group leader runs over boy on a bicycle with his free ….tax payer paid for vehicle….gets off…no charges….the moron can’t drive….probably drunk or texting….
A slave would be prosecuted…put in prison…
https://www.rebelnews.com/second_bombshell_emergency_call_exposes_dan_andrews_crash_claims
Good news goyim tax slaves, the 2024 election has only 2 more days to go and who knows what hell lies in wait.
The Gateway Pundit reports that Doug Emhoff said: “Kamala Did What Kamala Always Does. She Put Her Head Down and Went to Work”
Ok LOL
“Kamala Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff hit the campaign trail in Atlanta, Georgia with Tim Walz on Sunday.
The crowd showed up to see Bon Jovi.
Sunday’s campaign event in Atlanta was another concert disguised as a Kamala Harris rally.”
———————
https://electionbettingodds.com/President2024.html#chart
note how the odds are rapidly changing back to 50/50
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IMO election are stage managed entertainment for the masses. Did you notice they had you on the edge of your seat the entire time? They want you to believe, to participate, to vote, to endorse the system that brutally rules over us. Governments are criminal rackets who force us into obedience to them, they force us to use their worthless script, pay tax, get drafted into illegal and immoral wars.
Have you ever noticed that elections change nothing? Have you ever noticed the wars and deficit spending go on regardless of who is installed? Have you noticed that Amerika keeps moving toward totalitarianism, militarized police, higher taxes, more brutal government control? Have you ever concluded that voting got us to where we are today, hoping that some orange buffoon loyal to Israel saves us?
More and more people are waking up why Hitler happened, because Jews ruined Germany just as Jews ruined Amerika. How is Trump going to fix this nation when he endorses the nation wreckers? Hope in Trump IMO is false hope.
Some say the government is the real enemy, so why vote for any of them? Our government is banking rolling and arming genocide. You should not vote for any of them, you should send them all to a gallows or the guillotine.
> “Kamala Did What Kamala Always Does. She Put Her Head Down and Went to Work”
Yeah, we know that, Doug.
Even if he only knows it second hand. 😉
“Put Her Head Down and Went to Work”
if cackles/joy gets in it will be worse then stalin….
job one will be…… getting the great reset back on track….lockdowns, camps, white slave replacement agenda, etc.,
Finish this agenda…..
https://stopworldcontrol.com/fema/
commie la’s new boss….
The slave owners…. control group…the masters…
The Council of Europe is the New World Order central government to run the planet…
On September 18th of this year 2024…….Alain Perset became the Secretary General of the Council of Europe……is the head of it now….
European council logo. Stylised 6 and twelve stars (6 and 6) = 666. The mark of the Beast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7R2AjUF6kE
The Council of Europe is the New World Order central government to run the planet…
then the only escape will be to leave the planet….
commiela future….
The World Economic Forum publicly state that they want to bring humanity to an end, and enter a new era of neo-humanity, where most people will be replaced by humanoid robots.
Everyone else will be forced to become a cyborg: a symbiosis between man and machine, hooked up to the cloud…
turning people into appliances plugged into an all-seeing internet, more transhuman robots than people, dutifully following orders but unable to produce anything beyond what is programmed into their quantum microchips, bereft of the sparks of inquiry, innovation and joy in a electric panopticon that’s sterile and joyless, you are better off dead.
they implant an operating system in you and connect you to the grid, they also connect an AI robot to the grid, this is so you can train the robot to do your job. you won’t be needed then = soylent green.
https://stopworldcontrol.com/endhumanity/
The rain let up so I went for an awesome November ride in the mountains here is southern Oregon. Lots of snow starting at 5500′. No global warming here, froze my ass off, I had to stop to thaw out my hands when I came around the mountain pass to the west slope, parked in the sun, and thawed out.
On the way home I listened to KMED, repeat. Cuckservative talking heads talking about Demoncrap “Trump is Hitler” BS. Trump is not Hitler – because Hitler said Jews were the enemy of the volk and he put them in work camps. Trump loves Jews and Israel, Trump is the opposite of Hitler. Duh!
(BTW the Holocaust is really the Holohoax – post WW2 propaganda. No lampshades, no gas chambers, total Jews who died as 284,000 according to the Red Cross. 6 million is a Jew magic number they use again and again, over 100 times before WW2 – if you don’t believe me then look it up and quit being duped)
Trump, on the other hand, loves Jews and Israel, is bankrolled by rich bankster Jews, and Trump wants to deport antisemites. Trump wants to protect Israel, maybe war with Iran. Hitler did do something immoral – he put the Jews into Palestine, which they are now a big problem – committing genocide against the locals. It is immoral to send Jews into another nation, because they are nation wreckers, just look at what happened to Amerika because of Jews:
https://www.pdf-archive.com/2019/10/27/the-complete-list-of-the-1030-jewish-expulsions-in-human-history/
Federal Reserve act 1913 – Jew banksters issue the currency. Look up who put sellout Woodrow Wilson into power.
FDR (Jew) confiscates free peoples gold and enslaves them to fiat, debt, and inflation.
Income Tax – communist Jew scam to charge us for using their unconsitutional fiat FRNs. Now houses cost 500K and cars 50K. Inflation and taxes is pure evil Communism, Jews invented Communism, the Bolsheviks were Jews.
World wars – all wars are started by Jewish banksters. WW1 and WW2 were started intentionally to get the USA in debt to the Jewish banksters. Look it up. WW2 killed like 66 million people (less than 300k Jews killed, sob)
911 – Jews did 911 as a false flag, Muslims are the patsies, no Muslim put explosive charges in the WTC complex, but Israeli art students did. Look it up!
Gulf Wars all for Israel. 8 trillion more in debt, millions killed. Thousands of Amerikan GIs poisoned by Depleted Uranium, and PTSD, maimed and killed – all for evil Israel which can not get along with any Arab nation.
Ukraine war. Jewess Victoria Nuland (married to arch Neocon Robert Kagan) overthrows the democratically elected in Ukraine and installs gay Jew Zelensky – who wages war against Russia, so far over a million killed.
AIPAC/Zionist controlled Clowngress has bankrolled and armed Israel to kill about 200,000 Gazans thus far. Trump is in bed with AIPAC and Jews, IMO the reason why Trump sucks is that he is NOT Hitler.
Commiela wins…
Fill up the already built camps with non compliant slaves, tons of new mandates, 10 more years of lockdowns, destroy all small businesses, end of 1A, 2A, 4A, etc….., white slave replacement agenda accelerated, CBDC, ban ice cars…then all cars….., off to the 15 min city/camps,
Destroy the slave’s health….ban all healthy food… meat, raw dairy, fresh fruit, etc….bug meals and corn flakes only….part of the slave cull….
10 more years of lockdowns….locked inside = slow death…..people have to be outside in the sun or their health is destroyed….that is their goal….
forced masking, oxygen deprivation, also = slow death…so a mask is FOAD….
commiela wins…lockdowns back within 30 days?
Trump saved a lot of people……
Warpspeed Stopped The F EM A Camps
Lockdowns were supposed to last 10 years or more….destroy all small businesses….
https://stopworldcontrol.com/fema/
What’s at stake.
Singapore to increase road capacity by tracking all vehicles with GPS
“Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) estimated last week that by tracking all vehicles with GPS it will be able to increase road capacity by 20,000 over the next few years.”
See! It’s for your benefit! Through tracking, tolls and auctioning off “Certificates of Entitlement” (@$10,000 for 10 years) the LTA thinks it can allow an additional 20K vehicles. Think of the revenue! Think of the control over the people!
Singapore is actually the best embodiment of Orwell’s 1984: small geographic area; control-freak government with the high-tech means for total surveillance; compliant people.
Spent a day there on a business trip; never had any desire to return. Only 3.6 million of its 5.9 million population are citizens. The rest live there to make money. They dare not utter a peep of protest about anything. Drug dealers get hanged.
Jim,
Singapore had the cheapest subway fares Anywhere…may 98. The damn place is humid as “Shit”…….And wait for it…..smells that way as well!!😂….
Dang have you ever smelled cut open Durian fruit???
Man that stuff stinks like shit!!
NO SHIT 😂😂😂🎯
Forgot to add….. the same way you see the
No Smoking/ No Clover/ … red diagonal slash indicating “Nien”…..
The elevators have the exact red slash across a depiction of Durian fruit!!
NO SHIT😂🎯
Democracy? Fuck mob rule. Ref. Article 4 Section 4 of the Constitution. As to election legitimacy, I haven’t recognized any of the ‘selections’ as legitimate. Voting is a scam to put the next grifter in ‘office’ to give the plebes a false sense of security… they need a leader.
[…] Guest Post by Eric Peters […]
The voting system could be fixed, so it’s transparent and secure.
It would not even be hard.
The fact is, however, that neither party wants to do it. They both hope to benefit from the corruption.
This is just one of many symptoms of just why the national decline is terminal.
Nobody knows the final ‘expiry date’, but that there is one is beyond dispute.
It is ‘fixed’.
I’m voting for the Felon! Not the one that should be, the orange man!
We should all be keeping up with Infowars while this is going on.
Worst case bury the guns.
What good is a buried gun?
If Harris wins there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth but, the only violence would be from the FBI in a false flag.
Should Trump win the Antifa/BLM/Soros/Gates shock troops will decimate mostly blue cities. This violence will be blamed on Trump’s “divisiveness”.
And, we can’t rule out, should Trump win, Israel to attack Iran and light up the ME. At that point an attack on a carrier fleet brings full U.S. involvement with Joe declaring martial law and stepping down to allow Kamala to “run the show”.
Or, something else entirely. But, expect violence should Trump win.
As a reminder, the Democrats have ‘the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization’ in history.
Straight from the horse’s mouth.
How can you lose when you lie, cheat and steal?
An Epoch Times story today states that Nevada has nearly 2.4 million voters. I did a double take — REALLY? In fact, the latest report from the Nevada Secretary of State shows 2,430,310 registered voters.
https://www.nvsos.gov/sos/home/showpublisheddocument/15131/638660661343770000
Let’s do some arithmetic. Nevada’s population: 3,177,772. But 21.5% are under 18, not eligible to vote. Thus, 3,177,772 * 0.785 = 2,494,551 adults in Nevada.
However, only 91% of Nevadans are US citizens. So we apply another haircut: 0.91 * 2.494,551 = 2,270,041 eligible adults.
So, with 2,430,310 voters, Nevada apparently has registered 107% of its eligible adults to vote. This is fake and gay on its face.
Where is ‘attorney general’ Merrick Beria Garland [not his real name] to prosecute this obvious, flagrant fraud? *sound of crickets chirping*
Las Vegas was well known for having the largest population of illegal aliens in US in 2015.
Im sure the rhinestone cowboy mob there cleaned it up since then. . .
This is the one that counts!
There may never be another election if we don’t vote hard enough, this time!
If you’ve never voted before, vote in this ‘un!
Yeah….every four years.
If we don’t cast a vote for whose lies we believe the most, we might lose our freeeeedommmmmmm!
Oh, wait, we’ve already lost it.
They’ll always be elections. They have ’em in China; They had ’em in the Soviet Union….
It’s when they stop having elections, -whether THEY cease to feel the need to put on such a show because their police-state is so all-encompassing, or because people wake up and stop giving their consent (Suppose they threw an election and no one came?)- THEN, and only then would we reach the point where we might have a shot at overcoming the level of tyranny that we’ve all become accustomed to.
Now let us go eat our Freedom Fries (Made from Grade-A USDA INSPECTED potatoes (or reasonable facsimile thereof) cooked in 100% government-subsidized hydrogenated oils, and coated liberally with government subsidized HFCS, and served to us by a teen who has obtained their working papers and whose pay is more diluted by the IRS than the HFCS-and-smidge of chemical flavoring that you’ll be drinking is by water.
😀
Justice for Peanut and Fred!
https://apnews.com/article/new-york-pet-squirrel-seized-peanut-pnut-e6318ee7e74492465bb6b0fc22f085ad
It is obvious that Joe, Kamala, and NYS hate animals. 😢
Squirrels Lives Matter!
Queen HOchul owns the forest, and all the animals within it:
‘Forests were designated as hunting areas reserved for the monarch or (by invitation) the aristocracy. [By] the late 12th and early 13th centuries, fully one-third of the land area of southern England was designated as royal forest.
‘Afforestation figured large in the folk history of the “Norman yoke”: “the picture of prosperous settlements disrupted, houses burned, peasants evicted, all to serve the pleasure of the foreign tyrant.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_forest
All your squirrel are belong to us! :angry face:
>All your squirrel are belong to us!
AYSQUABTU
I love it. 🙂
NYS hates everyone and everything. I should know. I’m stuck in this hellhole for now.
Me too, im in NY. We need to move to FL or TN.
Hi RG, was shocked to hear about this whole thing with Peanut…. a 5 hour raid on a house to catch a squirrel – then to make sure he didnt have rabies they killed it?!? I originally thought it was a joke or a meme…
Assuming there is no more crime left in New York that they are spending resources like this catching an “illegal” squirrel !!
Hi Nasir,
They are starting with squirrels and will move onto to citizens. Once again, government dominates and even when they unequivocally and forcefully break the law there are no repercussions. They are going to take what they want and there is nothing that anyone is going to do about it.
‘Squirrel Lives Matter!’ — RG
Heil Hochul! [jpg image]
https://tinyurl.com/2xks8dhz
I don’t know what this says about me, but when I first saw your pic, Jim, I immediately thought of Harry the Hunter in Beetlejuice. You have to admit there is an amazing similarity.
https://beetlejuice.fandom.com/wiki/Harry_the_Hunter
EP: “Imagine what may happen in just 48 hours from now.”
One word: *Rage*
State of Washington (not DC) governor Enslee mobilized his national guard due to possible election violence. Really governor…? State of Washington is going to vote same as Marxist Democrats have voted for 25 years. I know it’s just a political stunt, but I wouldn’t be surprised Dark Brandon does the same.
Actually, Washington DC is preparing for violence as well.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/decision-2024/dc-bracing-for-possible-riots-and-civil-unrest-around-election/3753468/
It makes me think a Trump victory is inevitable or the Steal will be so apparent that even the blind will see it and react accordingly.
Things could get ugly. People might resort to “hate speech”!!!!!!
I think it will be more than hate speech if Trump is declared the winner. The Left is going to lose it, but that is what TPTB want. They need a Civil War to lock down the citizens of this country.
“One word: *Rage*”
Only if Mr. Just Grab ‘Em By The Pussy wins. Then the free-shit army will mobilize.
If Kommie-lala wins…well…
There’ll be a lot of folks expressing their outrage by saying “Well…”
Have yet to see an explanation of drop off ballot boxes other than to allow for unaccounted voting. How can any of the votes submitted be verified? What is preventing someone from printing and dropping off hundreds of ballots in a drop off box?
Twilight of the presstitutes:
‘Ignore all the push polling that will surface today and in the next 48 hours. Everything you see, read, hear and view on electronic devices is now part of an influence operation that has reached its desperate apex. The pull-the-goalie phase of the manipulation effort to influence the 2024 presidential election is upon us.
‘In essence, the scripted play was to set up a Sunday blitz of polling from the New York Times/Siena to outline the 2024 presidential contest as a tossup; anyone’s’ race.
‘All other polling has President Trump beating KamalObama by around 8 to 10 points in Iowa. [Ann Selzer’s] USA Today/DMR poll of Kamala +3 is nonsense. As Richard Baris said funnily, “It’s like Selzer polled the Starbucks line in Manhattan.” — Sundance
https://tinyurl.com/3t7h3xar
Presstitutes and pollsters aren’t journalists. They are leftist flacks for the Democratic party. Remember, they did this in 2016 too. Fool me twice, shame on me …
This just in …
https://s.abcnews.com/images/GMA/160615_gma_dowd2_4x3_992.jpg
All these the same people that conducted the same Iowa poll showing Harris up by three? I always find it fascinating that that the tabulations never equal 100%. Did Bloomberg expect third party contenders to carry 14% of the vote?
This is why I run my own internal polling. Right now Trump is down 1.5 points in Virginia.
Which is way better than the 6-point Harris lead claimed by 538.
If only NOVA could be annexed by the District of Columbia …
I could only hope, Jim, I could only hope.
Can we plueeeze dispense with the democracy bs! Those credited with founding the nation despised democracy. They called it a republic. (if we could keep it, per Franklin) They even overthrew the first constitution in favor of one that put ‘the People’ where they belong. The bottom. Well,,, it’s now obvious we couldn’t ‘keep it’.
The upcoming event is hilariously called an election. Actually a circus would be a closer description.
A contestant serving fries at McD’s has said his main ambition is MIGA. A hundred million bucks from Adelson should go far in that endeavor. Either that or we are called garbage/deplorable says the other side that has finally decided to call us what they actually think of us.
In 48 hours we’re going to be the laughing stock of the world…. again. Mencken was spot on when he said Americans would reach their hearts desire when a complete idiot would occupy the White House. That actually happened years ago. Today we are just maintaining tradition.The movie Idiocracy now a documentary more precisely describes American democracy/kleptocracy and democracies/kleptocracies around the world.
Pity Americans that actually think their vote counts. In reality it simply provides the parasites the means to throw the vote whichever way they want. Tell me,,, did you vote to murder Palestinians in Gaza? How about Lebanese in Lebanon? Syrians?, Iranians? Afghans? Serbians? Iraqis? Did you vote to send armaments to Ukraine and fund its dictatorship government led by a penis piano player sicko? Did you vote to defend Taiwan? South Korea? Did you vote to send your jobs to Asia? Did you vote for millions of unvetted border jumpers? Did you vote for FEMA to prevent Americans from helping each other? Did you vote for any of the crazed green environmental BS? Did you vote to take away incandescent light bulbs and a plethora of other things government said Nein. Did you vote to have government confiscate 40-50 percent of your earnings? Did you vote the yearly lease you have to pay to continue living in ‘your home’? The majority of graduated children today cannot spell,,, write,,, do any math yet did you vote to maintain a system like this?
Was any of those important issues even discussed! Nope! Wait!,,, we know that one side can fry and serve French fries with their bs. The other side is short on any skills. While pushing for higher illegal immigration because the birthrate is too low due to their simultaneously pushing the deaths of babies as some kind of great ideal.
For years the American Dream was ‘land of opportunity’. Today the dream is a mortgaged to the hilt house,,, two financed cars in the garage,,, a maxxed out credit card,,, a fancy sail phone and a partridge in a pear tree. Today many/most are in the poorhouse, slaving 2 or 3 yobs while food cost twice as much as it did 5-10 years ago while their betters call them names and make fun of the only work available to them today.
‘Tell me,,, did you vote to murder Palestinians in Gaza? How about Lebanese in Lebanon?’ — ken
No, I did not. In fact, I bitterly complained, again and again. I suggested to Senator Kyrsten Sinema, who’s not running for re-election, that she is now free to speak out, like Eisenhower ripping the MIC on his way out the door. Here is how she replied:
https://ibb.co/19PqYvF
‘While I am not able to respond specifically to the concerns you outlined in your message, I encourage you to continue to share your questions and comments.‘
*PUNT* She’s a short-timer, just going through the motions until slithering away with a fat pension entitlement. So what / who cares. Meet the new clown, same as the old clown. I break wind in your general direction, Senator.
Let’s get back to congress selecting the president.
Heck, Ken, I’ll go a step further. In my opinion, the idea of “democracy” isn’t just a bad idea, it’s a retarded fairy tale that only imbeciles can continue to support in light of where it has taken all of us. I mean, it was always a dumb idea. It’s something a kindergarten teacher tells her class, “we all get a vote kids! YAAAAAAY!”.
First, look at the amount of *meaningful* participation any common person has with the decisions and operations of government. Just like that list that you have above, not only did I not vote for any of that shit, but neither did the fucken lunatics that support those bad ideas! It was never up for a vote in the first place!
But even if it was up for a vote, or anything of any importance really was up for a vote, look at the number of fucken idiots in our population. As Eric has written about several times, these people wouldn’t dare kick your door in and rob you personally, but they’ll cast votes to allow the government to do precisely that and worse.
Even if it wasn’t the majority, how many million idiots in this country and across the globe, would happily see people forcibly needle raped, and/or jailed if they refuse to allow it. I don’t want one iota of my life to be voted on by people like that.
Hell, look what “our precious democracy” has done to the country of Germany. A republic if we could keep it, and we couldn’t, but why? “Democracy”, or pseudo-democracy if you prefer the “it just hasn’t been done right” theory, is exactly why we couldn’t keep it.
And then it’s not enough that the vote is just for show. No, no. Once the vote doesn’t go the way that the establishment wants it to go, then they’ll make a circus farce out of it. And they do it specifically in our faces to prove to us that we have no meaningful participation, that it works for them, regardless of what “populists” want in “our precious democracy”.
How any of this ever gets unfucked, I don’t know. I’m pretty sure that I won’t see it in my lifetime. I doubt any of us will TBH.
XM: “How any of this ever gets unfucked, I don’t know. I’m pretty sure that I won’t see it in my lifetime. I doubt any of us will TBH.”
It can’t be fixed. When a huge institution that is so intertwined and established in not just a small locale, or even a large country, but on a global level, takes hold, there is no going back. Ditto for a society that supports such an unjust institution and which has become so grossly dysfunctional that it can not even maintain the basic unit of society, -a strong family. Nay…any family; and which tolerates it’s own destruction while even supporting the institution and people who are assaulting it’s culture and institutions and even the lives of it’s individuals.
It can not be fixed, nor can it continue indefinitely. We are seeing the decline all around us; even experiencing it. Like Ancient Rome, it can only self-destruct. How long that will take, and how long the remnants of it will linger on…. Well, you are right…not in our lifetime.
It certainly cant be fixed in our current state. It would require hundreds of us to take one for the team. Numerous soft targets exist where pressure would be highly effective. And yet, the clown show continues with no accountability
The whore media keeps gaslighting the country every two years because they can. No one ever holds them to individual account. Hoping when the rage finally boils over, it makes their lives a living hell
“Can we plueeeze dispense with the democracy bs!”
Right on Ken!
Gang rape is democracy in action.
Democracy is inherently an evil concept.
As Hans-Hermann Hoppe eloquently explained in his 2001 book ‘Democracy: The God That Failed’.
The book can be found as a free PDF. Very much recommended!
MIGA Brilliant.
How droll it is, to watch the last-minute antics of the conniving presstitutes. ‘Why are Democrats having such a time time beating Trump?’ moans the New York Slimes, which endorsed Harris in a harsh, bold-faced anti-Trump protocol penned by ‘The
elders of theEditorial Board.’To avoid demoralizing the leftist rank-and-file, they averaged their biased ‘polls’ over the past 10 days:
https://tinyurl.com/bd4p9468
They show Harris leading in four swing states, tied in two, and behind only in Arizona. I DON’T BELIEVE IT. But I don’t trust our clownish election procedures either, which are the joke of the free world. Email comment from a liberal Democrat relative yesterday:
‘Like Colorado, voting in Vermont is super easy. Ballots are automatically mailed. You can then return them by mail or drop them off at various locations or take them to your polling place on Election Day. I never heard complaints about the system from either party in Colorado and no one has an issue with it here.
‘***** said there are scores of comments on the Dripping Springs [suburb of Austin] neighborhood forum page about people who have moved there, went through all the appropriate steps to get mail-in ballots, but never received them. Texas is an absolute shitshow.’
While I generally disapprove of fedgov intrusions on state sovereignty, it should take charge of federal elections and blow away ludicrous systems like Pennsylvania’s two-envelope ballot system. How many Americlowns can read instructions and properly sign and date two different envelopes? Fifty percent? Thirty percent?
But as Eric suggests, it’s probably too late. Commiefornia is not going to accept a fascist [their term] Orange Man Bad presidency. I expect the entire Left Coast from San Diego to Seattle to secede, as we wave them a fond goodbye. If New England, New York, and New Jersey (the eight ‘new’ nutcases) leave too, it’ll be kind of an East Pakistan/West Pakistan situation … which lasted 15 years. Actual Americans will end up with about 36 states, which should be enough to carry on. 🙂
> I expect the entire Left Coast from San Diego to Seattle to secede,
Yeah, west of the Santa Ana Mountains, with the possible exception of Orange County, formerly the domain of such luminaries as John Schmitz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Schmitz
Here in western Riverside County, we are “represented,” if you can call it that, in Clowngress by none other than Jabba the Hutt, his own self, a.k.a. “Ken Calvert.”
I’m voting for Trump. What’s the alternative? Besides, Ron Paul favorably reacted to Elon Musk’s comment that RP would be a great add to the “dept of government efficiency”.
Anyhow, maybe the best thing to come of the vitriol is a renewed interested in secession. I don’t want to live with me and why would they want to coexist with a bitter clingin’ deplorable piece of garbage, anyhow?
Lawd the time change and lack of caffeine…
…I don’t want to live with _*them*.
Grrr.
DST … brought to you by cockamamie Congress Clowns since 1918.
Mike: Actually, most of the time I am not happy living with me.
I switched from RFK to Trump over this. I’m glad I didn’t vote early.
My new favorite meme:
https://coingape.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Dogecoin-Fan-Elon-Musk-Department-Of-Government-Efficiency-DOGE-2-11-24.png
Lenin said it best – “it matters not who votes but rather who counts the vote”.
Also Mark Twain – “if voting made a difference they wouldn’t allow it”.
I think we’re all screwed no matter which candidate is ultimately selected, the National Security State is not going to let go of power easily, even if it means ‘destroying the village to save it’ per a Vietnam war general.
>“it matters not who votes but rather who counts the vote”.
I believe that was Joseph Stalin, Mike.
https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780191843730.001.0001/q-oro-ed5-00010383
>I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.
said in 1923
We had our taste of shenanigans here in WA 2004 when “D” Gregoire beat “R” Rossi for governor after several recounts which included post first recount “found” ballots that were allowed to be counted by the Lib court system. Of course the D beat the R after the second recount. It was a disgusting mess. Some local bloggers investigated registration records dozens registered at one address, bogus addresses, PO Boxes and so on. Just like the current national elections NOTHING was ever done to fix this and of course no legal prosecution.
Also as Eric points out, and I’ve told family and friends for years – mail in ballots once they are pulled from the envelope it’s too late to catch fraud. Lax vetting on receipt who knows what’s legit and what’s bogus in those boxes of now naked ballots. No serial numbers, no marks to indicate how many times they’ve been run through a machine for counting and here we are again. All the R poll watchers are watching are ballots through a machine. Too late now.
Of course the media is all in on “government good, questioners bad/crazy”, I caught this interview on the radio this morning the media bias and gov propaganda was laid on thick. AZ is going to be just dandy! Worth a view/listen to see how the media will spin this for any denials of legitimacy:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/arizona-secretary-state-adrian-fontes-2024-election-worries-115127766
One look at my mail in ballot told me the same thing. Ain’t no way no how this can be legitimate. I signed it, mailed it and I am positive of one thing only. This ballot could be anywhere. Including the garbage, the back of the post office or under a desk.
“still referred to delusionally as the United States of America – which are about as “united” as a mob of angry cats”
The USSofA is more divided than ever and will be more divided in the future. Demographics is destiny like some say. In my opinion the country is currently about 57% European White people and rapidly shrinking. White school age children are already a minority. Most people don’t understand that there are 1.5 billion people in India, 1.5 billion people in China and maybe 1 billion people in the rest of Asia and about 1.5 billion people in Sub-Saharan Africa. These are staggering numbers. If open borders keeps up we will be ruled by races who only have their own interests in mind. Imagine that, White people built the infrastructure and invented most of the things we use and see today but soon will be ruled by others simply because of democracy(numbers).
There will be war unless of course the police/army etc can keep the peace. Will the army/police be controlled by the minority elected coalition?
It has been my belief for quite some time that there is simply no way they are going to let Trump win a second term, period. He snuck past them in 2016 because they didn’t take him seriously but they sure do now. They actually think he is Hitler and that you people are “Nazis.”
The things they have done to him since 2016 are unreal. The FBI infiltrated his campaign and spread false allegations that he was a Russian agent and that prostitutes urinated on him in Moscow. They arrested his NSA appointee, his attorney, his political advisers, and ultimately Trump himself on almost 100 bogus felony charges. They convicted him on 34 bogus counts. They are trying to bankrupt his company and seize Trump Tower. They sued him for an alleged “rape” some 30 years ago with zero evidence and gave the supposed victim $5 million, and then another $80 million when he denied it and said she was nuts. The impeached him on the testimony of a Ukrainian Jew serving in the U.S. Army when Trump tried to get the Ukrainians to investigate the bribes paid to Hunter Biden. They impeached him a second time — after he had already left office.
Then they tried to shoot him — twice in one month.
There is no opposition to any of this from anyone in power. There are no principled civil libertarians or “liberals” decrying the abuse of power. Literally everyone in any position of power thinks Trump deserves all of it and more and that it is all 100% justified to “save democracy.”
They are a corrupt, insular cadre of queers and foreigners and swindlers with total power and they are lining their pockets by gorging on the carcass of the former USA like a pack of jackals. There is no fucking way they are going to allow you white peasants and bumpkins to vote for your guy who will put the kibosh on their bullshit.
The only thing that surprises me is that Trump Force One hasn’t had an Omar Torrijos-style mysterious plane crash.
Yet.
I wouldn’t put it past them.
The kind of stuff that they pulled on Trump is crazy. That’s why I voted for Trump. Yes he has a lot of worts but the other side is bat-shit crazy. Itz kind of like Trump the Nationalist versus the Internationalists.
> he has a lot of worts
Really? I did not know Mr. Trump was a brewer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wort
>Wort (/ˈwɜːrt/) is the liquid extracted from the mashing process during the brewing of beer or whisky.
Did you mean “warts?”
You are correct that I meant warts. You see I’m not an English native speaker. I came to this country as a 6 year old. I’ve had problems with my English for a long time. Back in Catholic grammar school the nuns used to preach “Vocation, Vocation”. I thought they meant Vacation and that’s when all my problems started. BTW my first English word learned here was “Shut Up” This was spoken by the teacher in first grade at the local public school. Not knowing a single word of English I Immediately noticed itz effect on the other children. I started using this word my first day in America.
I am rooting for misogyny. I would like to root for intelligence, but with the USSA having an IQ averaging 98 that isn’t going to happen. As I have stated before this is an election that will be decided by men, particularly young men.
The enthusiasm for Trump is overwhelming. The ground surge doesn’t match the polls. The only saving grace I see is can enough people vote that the votes aren’t available to cheat? In 2020, people were fearful because of the Plandemic. They didn’t vote. There were enough votes to mess with to get the desired results. I believe this go around the steal will be much harder to achieve. I am prepared either way. God help us if she is selected though.
RG, I’m sure your tongue is firmly in your cheek, but very few men are actual misogynists. They do, however, and increasingly resent and despise the theft of their rightful place in this world by the femmunists.
We see what is being done to fellow men by the femmunist courts, and what is being done to defenseless children (brainwashing, indoctrination, castration, breast removal, et effing center a) and our anger has boiled over and distilled into a steely resolve. Some are there, many are getting there.
We see rights and freedoms trampled, and continuing, ongoing attempts to neuter men’s power to protect and defend all the good things.
In no way is this misogyny, we don’t hate women, any more than anti zionists hate Jews.
But there will be a reckoning.
I have no idea how autocorrect made “cetera “ into center a. The tyrannical autists of Silicon Valley do deserve the hate they’ve earned. They are, after all, the enemy.
Autocorrect = self driving algorithm
‘Mistakes were made …’ 🙁
>‘Mistakes were made …’
Got to love that passive voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvaqL9wGl9M
“And then, an ‘officer involved shooting’ occurred.”
Tonight, dark, with widely scattered lead showers.
Becoming widely scattered light, with *dead* bodies* by morning.
Hi Ernie,
Yes, it was tongue in cheek. But, I don’t think we can ignore that there are still cultural convictions that women are not ready or possess the ability for certain jobs and positions. Yes, there are women like a Margaret Thatcher, Elizabeth I, or even a Tulsi Gabbard, who promote and possess strength, but I consider them a rarity and not the norm.
Whether women, and even some men, want to admit it the world is not ready for a female President from the US. Could any of us imagine a Harris or even a Clinton across the table from a Putin, a bin Salman, or an Al-Bashir? Our country maybe ready for it, but the world is not. Those cultural and gender differences still exist and they will account for some of Tuesday’s vote.
>Our country maybe ready for it, but the world is not.
I beg to differ, RG.
If Pakistan is “ready for it,”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benazir_Bhutto
Then we should be.
And as you have said, Maggie Thatcher…
Great leaders are *always* rarities.
JMO.
But, puhleeze, do not insult our intelligence with the likes of the Pantsuit Apparition and her fake “entitlement” credentials. Makes me want to barf.
It is quite an experience to watch a Wealthley College undergrad sit cross legged on the carpet, clad in her pre-tattered blue denims, and listen to her piously mouth Marxist cant such as “property is theft,” while smiling coyly. (BTDT) Would that include your parents’ house in Darien, ya coont?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien,_Connecticut
>In 2019, the median household income was $232,523 and the per capita income for the town was $116,564
Hi Adi,
I said nothing about Clinton being accredited to run the country. I just stated there was no way she was going to be able to hold her own against world dictators.
If I recall Pakistani’s Bhutto was also assassinated (although I do believe it was after she left office). Someone wasn’t happy with her tenure.
RG: “ I am rooting for misogyny “
Hey I do my best every election. Here in Wa it’s mail voting only for decades, so, being a married guy I make sure both my ballots are turned in on time!
“I didn’t get married to risk having my vote nullified!” St. Sparkules
My daughter back in the day “mom is this why all your friends hate dad?”
I’d then remind her that in their hearts they know I’m right, I’m always right.
So humble too.
LOL. Thank you, Sparkey.
My father called each of his daughters this morning reminding us there was only one way to vote. He then told all of our husbands the same thing. 😳
While most American men are not misogynistic, contrary to popular belief, the leaders of Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea are…and so are the leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS, and Al Qaeda.
They will neither fear nor respect Harris.
Hi Bryce,
I agree with you. We are already a laughingstock with Uncle Joe at the helm. We will be looked upon (and probably will be) a third world country if she is the face of the nation.
JFK said “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country’.
I know that sounds shocking today but GovCo exists now only to take almost everything that you can earn away in taxes and proceeds to give it to people who hate you. The hatred espoused by the left will in the end destroy us.
Somehow we went from “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you” to ” Do unto others before they do unto you” and I don’t when decency and courtesy will ever return.
Sad. 🙁
[JFK said “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country’.] Landru
Doesn’t work today.No borders, no culture, no country. These things can’t be voted in or purchased. They must be embedded in society’s fabric.
The united States are the worlds dumping ground for humanities worse,,, which is why citizens are considered garbage to Americas so called elite.
As I mentioned to Eric on another thread:
IDK about others’ ballots, but on MINE, issued in part of Sacramento County, CA (the county is split between three US Congressional districts, two State Senate and two State Assembly districts, and numerous cities, school districts, and water districts, so obviously there are different ballot versions, county-wide), if folded and inserted a certain way, the choice for Trump/Vance is VISIBLE through the vent holes. I made sure mine wasn’t, but I took precaution to drop it off at a drop box operated at a polling place, which happened to be open at the time, and bypassed the Postal Service, even though the postage was prepaid…like it’ll make any DIFFERENCE.
Said best by Mark Hamill, voicing the Joker, at about 1:20 : https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Batman+Animated+Judge+Joker&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D4IwLlHFbTHQ
Good, like the vast majority (regd. repugs and demons) you still have faith in the system.
@Eric – The man buns are not visible on the Soy Boys in the picture.
Any gathering of Soy Boys in Austin includes one man bun in the group, often several.
They all seem to have dogs.
Now that’s irrelevant. I LIKE dogs.
Theres something about that that’s particularly fitting. Usualy male Dogs too
I know that you’re right about neither side will accept it, but one side has lost its “standing” to make that claim, haven’t they? The same ones that claimed the last election was unquestionable and that it was the “most secure in history” or whatever outrageous bullshit. They need to just STFU about it. Of course, you know that, if the election just so happens to get stolen in their direction, they’ll do the exact same shit they did last time, i.e., it’s “insurrection” and a “threat to our precious democracy” to question it.
It’s like having an argument with a schizophrenic that is claiming it’s night time when the sun is at high noon. I mean, what do you even say to that?
It’s a fucken cult. So are the Trump side to different degrees, but they’re spot on when they talk about election fraud. But that cult also has elements claiming that Trump actually was some kind of president in exile or some other bizarre shit.
My prediction is that the “election” (scare quotes intentional) will go precisely and exactly the way that the establishment and its owners want it to go, dingbat Harris or “beautiful vaccine” Trump. They will surely win regardless of how the play is conducted.
I think the only variable in the equation is how long they’ll drag out the second act, i.e., the post election day farce.
I do hope that Orange wins over Red, if nothing else, just to see the bellyaching and misery of those fucken cunts that have undying love for the murderous establishment. And maybe that way we’ll get a speed bump on the road to the disastrous climate hoax agenda and EVs in particular.
Ditto – and amen – to all of that, XM.
I, too, want to drink a draught of Leftist tears in the aftermath of an Orange Sun rising.
Oh no, Eric. You don’t want to drink those, you use them to oily your “assault weapon”
https://liberaltears.net/shop/liberal-tears-gun-oil-bacon-scented-4oz/
After the 2000 election hanging chad debacle, Florida fixed its election process. Show up to the poll, show your id, sign your name – it must match the signature on file – and you are issued a paper ballot. Fill in the bubbles on the paper ballot and scan the ballot through the machine. Results are available on election night.
If a recount is required, all the paper ballots are available. Also, if you are voting at home, the drop boxes are at the polling places and are monitored. You aren’t allowed to have more than 2 ballots to drop into the drop boxes.
The reason we can’t count all the votes on election day is that THEY don’t want a fair process. The longer THEY can drag it out, the more opportunity there is for mischief (cheating). THEY can discover more ballots. There is time for lawsuits. Allegations of Russian collusion. Multiple rounds of hand recounts.
We are a banana republic.
After 2000, Florida became a patchwork quilt of voting technology when The Chimp’s brother, Jeb! (aways include the’!’) and the Secretary of State Katherine Harris declined to push for a state-wide standard to replace the much-maligned Vote-o-Matic, out of concern for their own political futures, Jeb! facing reelection in 2002 and Harris contemplating a Senate run.
Supervisor of Elections offices in Florida are elected county offices, and the Republicans, just beginning to solidify their political power on a statewide level, were wary of challenging popular Dems elected to those positions in those county, including Pam Iorio in Tampa/Hillsborough, who ended up being elected Mayor of Tampa.
Interestingly, Pam Iorio ran a flawless election in 2000, even managing two recounts of the ballots that night without any of the problems seen in Dade and Broward Counties.
OK – am I mistaken? I assumed all of FL now votes according to the same standard that I encountered in my county.
Different counties, different systems. This is the latest breakdown by county as provided by the Florida Department of State.
https://files.floridados.gov/media/707512/voting-systems-in-use-by-county_website_20240110.pdf
The long knives were out for Vote-o-matic in Florida after the extremely close Senate race in 1988, which was the catalyst for the 30 year march to Republican dominance in the state.
The systems were reevaluated/replaced again in some jurisdictions after Janet Reno lost the 2002 Democrat Gubernatorial Primary and the machines were blamed for her loss to establishment pick Bill McBride
“We are a banana republic”
So true!
Wrong. We’ve long since ceased being a republic. And, yes, we have no bananas.
>We are a banana republic.
Aber, ohne bananen.
More “global warming,” please.
If you are going to be a “banana republic,” you need bananas.
I like bananas,because they have no bones
Excellent vid on flying, sure we all miss those days