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-Land of the Free
First Lady refuses to meet Jill Biden until election is resolved.
[Daily Mail] Melania Trump follows her husband's lead: First Lady is refusing to offer meeting with Jill Biden while Donald claims he 'won' the election

Posted by: 3dc || 11/10/2020 00:57 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Took me a while. Donkey plus banana republic. :-)
Posted by: gorb || 11/10/2020 2:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Almost forgot to say, she's got more stones than Romney.
Posted by: gorb || 11/10/2020 2:29 Comments || Top||

#3  This year’s petty putschists relied extensively on social psychologist “experts.” Especially, the renowned Asch conformity study. In short, the Asch study found that people tend to go along with the crowd rather than buck the system.

Although much of what passes nowadays for “science” has been built on what has been determined to be research that is not replicable, the kind of effects found in the Asch study are pretty solid.

Yet the “experts” didn’t read the fine print. There always were those in the Asch study who didn’t bend the knee.
Posted by: cingold || 11/10/2020 2:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Yet the “experts” didn’t read the fine print. There always were those in the Asch study who didn’t bend the knee.

Well, not in the direction they were hoping for, anyway.

Posted by: gorb || 11/10/2020 3:01 Comments || Top||

#5  #2 Almost forgot to say, she's got more stones than Romney.

Pretty criminals rarely have any.
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/10/2020 7:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Gorb.

Priceless
Posted by: congold || 11/10/2020 8:02 Comments || Top||

#7  The Mouth of Uncle Joe Rides Forth.

relied extensively on social psychologist “experts.”

That's it.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/10/2020 10:36 Comments || Top||

#8  Not a kick in the nuts. A rape
Posted by: Ulaigum Glans7049 || 11/10/2020 10:56 Comments || Top||

#9  reliedextensively on social psychologist “experts.”

I notice last night, and maybe this is local so milage may vary, but one particular fast slop company who has been quite open on commercials with employees wearing logo masks, and so concerned about the covid that 'they could always frisbee the slop into your car'. Har har har.

Well last night, same fast slop was walking said slu food up to the door, knocking, handing off, and maskless smile.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/10/2020 12:06 Comments || Top||

#10  LOL, gorb. Snark of the day if you ask me.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/10/2020 13:18 Comments || Top||

#11  swksvolFF, Trump predicted that you won't hear much about covid after the election. Kinda makes you wonder, huh?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/10/2020 13:20 Comments || Top||

#12  I've been looking for those small things, like when the tinnitus stops and you wonder why its so quiet.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/10/2020 13:31 Comments || Top||

#13  Another:
Morning news did a national news segment, put together in NYC or someplace.

Topic: what to do with all this PPE being discarded outside of hospitals?

Video - people picking up masks, gloves with their bare hands, throwing it in trash.

That is, not in a space suit using a gripper tool.

Super bio-hazard stuff right?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/10/2020 14:03 Comments || Top||

#14  i look forward to seeing reams of 'Office of the First Lady Elect' letterhead dumped on eBay next month
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 11/10/2020 16:11 Comments || Top||

#15  They are STILL trying to count votes. I don't think the left can count that high. Math b hard.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 11/10/2020 19:40 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
U.S. Rejected Ukraine '04 Election Over Absentee Ballots, Opponent Observer Restrictions, And Wild Turnout Numbers
[National Pulse] A Clinton, Bush, and Obama-era Ambassador rejected the results of 2004’s Ukrainian Presidential election over the same plethora of fraud witnessed in the U.S. elections of 2020. Ambassador John Tefft even went so far as to admit such fraud is "extremely difficult to detect" when the political party organizing the frauds controls the local party apparatus.

Ambassador John Tefft, then-Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, said on December 7, 2004:

The OSCE/ODIHR's report said that the election did not meet "a considerable number" of international standards, and that, as in the first round, state executive authorities and the Central Election Commission displayed a lack of will to conduct a genuinely democratic election process. ODIHR assessed the second round "less favorably" than the tainted October 31 first round vote. A U.S.-funded foreign NGO observer mission also described "a coordinated, systematic pattern of major violations leading to an outcome that does not reflect the will of the Ukrainian people."

He said: "The following are examples of the most egregious, widely observed and reported examples of election-day fraud on November 21," and listed the following:
Posted by: Thusoting Big Foot1716 || 11/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I notice Jimmuah Cahtah is conspicuous by his absence since this installment of the sh*tshow began...
Posted by: Omith tse Tung3853 || 11/10/2020 1:42 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Cookie reset...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/10/2020 1:43 Comments || Top||

#3  We be Ukrainians now
Posted by: Blackbeard Smiter of the Texans5470 || 11/10/2020 9:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Looks like the shenanigans in the 2004 Ukraine election became a blueprint for our current election--just saying.

Posted by: JohnQC || 11/10/2020 10:47 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
CNN Says Arizona is now a Battleground
Trump down 15k votes, with 98% counted. Map at link.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/10/2020 12:53 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


How Zuck's 'Safe Elections' team bought Georgia
[Breitbart] Most of Joe Biden’s 221,751 vote margin gain in Georgia, compared to Hillary Clinton’s performance in 2016, came from three metropolitan Atlanta counties that received more than $15 million from the Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) "safe elections" project.

Those three counties — Cobb, Fulton, and Gwinnett—accounted for 168,703 of Biden’s 221,751 vote margin gain, or 76 percent.

In 2016, Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in Georgia by 211,141 votes, 2,089,104 to 1,877,963, according to the Georgia Secretary of State’s election website.

With 99 percent of precincts reporting as of 2:00 p.m. Eastern time on Monday, November 9, Democratic nominee Joe Biden was leading Donald Trump by 10,610 votes, 2,466,540 to 2,455,930, according to Real Clear Politics.

This currently represents a 221,751 vote gain in margin of votes cast for Joe Biden over Donald Trump in 2020 compared to the margin of votes cast for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in 2016.

The $15.8 million in "safe elections" grants these three counties in the Metropolitan Atlanta area—Fulton, Cobb, and Gwinnett- received from CTCL are a little more than four percent of the funding provided by Zuckerberg through CTCL to county and city election departments around the country in 2020.

"Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that he and his wife have donated an additional $100 million to a "safe elections" project run by the non-profit Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL), bringing their total contributions to that project to $350 million since September 1," Breitbart News reported in October.

"Critics say the CTCL project’s grants look a lot more like Democratic "Get-out-the-Vote" (GOTV) efforts in major cities around the country than good government efforts to protect the integrity of the electoral process of all Americans, regardless of their party affiliation," Breitbart News reported:
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2020 12:17 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just hold on to your end of the rubber band, Suckerpurge. It won't snap back...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/10/2020 15:20 Comments || Top||


'Whoa' – Faux News cuts off Kayleigh McEnany for 'illegal votes' spiel
[Guardian] Fox News has cut away from a briefing held by the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, during which she repeated Donald Trump’s refusal to accept defeat in the presidential election and doubled down on allegations of voter fraud, for which there is scant if any evidence.

Speaking to media on Monday night in her "personal capacity" during what she said was a campaign event at the Republican National Committee headquarters, McEnany said Republicans want "every legal vote to be counted, and every illegal vote to be discarded", prompting the conservative Fox News network to stop broadcasting the briefing.

From the studio, host Neil Cavuto said: "Whoa, whoa, whoa — I just think we have to be very clear. She’s charging the other side as welcoming fraud and welcoming illegal voting. Unless she has more details to back that up, I can’t in good countenance continue to show you this."

He added: "I want to make sure that maybe they do have something to back that up, but that’s an explosive charge to make, that the other side is effectively rigging and cheating. If she does bring proof of that, of course we’ll take you back. So far she has started saying, right at the outset — ’welcoming fraud, welcoming illegal voting’. Not so fast."

The decision to cut away was Cavuto’s, the Washington Post reported, citing people familiar with the show.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2020 11:03 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Please conduct an immediate anesthesia-free 'cut off' of the testicles of whomever directed the McEnany 'cut off.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2020 11:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Whoa whoa whoa!

*hands Fox Networks another gallon of gasoline*

Its quite the day when Joe Buck and Troy Aikman are the most honest reporters for the syndicate.

Allegations of Russian Election interference, allegations of improper conduct by a supreme court nominee, knees to the ceiling 30 hours of coverage each day.

"Among other things, kinda strange the party opposed to voter ID had 100,000 Al Frankens show up to vote after pub hours."

grrarrgh!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/10/2020 11:30 Comments || Top||

#3  The MSM and Fox consolidate to become Pravda.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/10/2020 11:59 Comments || Top||

#4  She’s charging the other side as welcoming fraud and welcoming illegal voting. Unless she has more details to back that up

There is that "making claims without evidence" thingie again. You are not allowed to make claims without providing the legal, physical, numerical evidence. And if you do have that, I'm sorry, we don't have time for it all in a short sound-bite interview.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/10/2020 12:00 Comments || Top||

#5  "Without evidence" claims:
Absentee ballots mysteriously piling into closed-door Democrat-run tabulating centers in the wee hours, with hundreds of thousands marked only for one race and all of them for one candidate in that race, is not evidence of fraud.

Dead-certain, gospel truth and/or "walls-closing-in"-style claims:
- One of the country's most respected jurists is a gang rapist.
- The most anti-Russian president in history us actually an agent of the Kremlin.
- Violent anarchists and left-wing self-proclaimed Marxist revolutionaries who've killed over 30 people in more than 150 nights of riots are "peaceful protestors."
- Joe Biden never involved himself in his son's business ventures with Chinese Communist officials

Posted by: Groluck Sforza6794 || 11/10/2020 12:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Rupert Murdoch = a whore who smells money from a new client.

Murdoch was a big supporter of Hillary too
Posted by: Whereling Hupunter6286 || 11/10/2020 12:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Wow this "journalism" sure sounds different to their false accusations of Russia meddling in the 2016 election helping President Trump win...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/10/2020 12:50 Comments || Top||

#8  Janine and Tucker better find a new site to broadcast from. Fox is smelling like fox pi$$, if ya know what I mean.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/10/2020 14:47 Comments || Top||

#9  The NKVD will be coming for Tucker soon I fear...
Posted by: magpie || 11/10/2020 15:43 Comments || Top||

#10  It's been said Murdoch goes whichever way the wind is blowing.

Meanwhile, I still await the sexual harassment/racial slur "allegations" against Tucker.
Posted by: Clem || 11/10/2020 17:55 Comments || Top||

#11  They cut away because she was "making claims without evidence". Cut away literally 15 seconds before she started producing that evidence.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/10/2020 18:47 Comments || Top||


WATCH: Tucker Carlson Throws Not-So-Subtle Dig at Fox News and Neil Cavuto For Cutting Away From Trump Campaign Press Conference
[Twitter]



Tucker Carlson took aim at Neil Cavuto and Fox News with a not-so-subtle dig on his Monday evening show on the network.

Cavuto, and Fox News, made waves earlier in the day by cutting away from a press conference held by White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany. He claimed that the network cannot continue to air her "false claims" in "good conscience."
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/10/2020 07:13 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm gonna miss Tucker when they fire him.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/10/2020 13:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Where will he go?
Where do (can) we go?
Posted by: Snainter Munster3316 || 11/10/2020 14:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Dammit! I always liked Neil!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 11/10/2020 19:58 Comments || Top||


Cindy (RINO) McCain joins Joe Biden transition team advisory board
[NYPost] Cindy McCain, the widow of "Republican" Sen. John McCain, is joining the board of Joe Biden's presidential transition team, according to a report on Monday.

As a member of the advisory board, McCain will offer her input while the Democrat's team turns his campaign promises into policies that can be enacted once he takes office, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The GOPer ‐ whose late husband served as Arizona senator and party stalwart for more than 30 years before dying of cancer in 2018 ‐ is expected to advise the team on issues affecting women and children, the report said.

She is the second Republican to sign on to formally counsel the president-elect's team, joining former Obama administration Veterans Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald on the board.

The board recently met for the first time and is expected to meet again in the coming weeks, the report said.

The announcement comes after McCain endorsed Biden over President Trump in September, saying he was the only candidate in the race who she believed would "stand up" for American values.

She appeared in a video at the Democratic National Committee in August celebrating her husband's unlikely friendship with Biden.

On Sunday, she congratulated Biden on his election win and urged Trump to do his part "by conceding in a gracious manner" ‐ as her husband did to Barack Obama, former veep Biden's boss, after overwhelmingly losing to him in the 2008 presidential race.
Posted by: Frank G || 11/10/2020 07:08 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The republicans and democrats are showing their true colors. Its all about them, not we the people.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/10/2020 9:51 Comments || Top||

#2  She's still bitter about not being named to Johnny's Senate seat. Remembering how well that worked out for Jean Carnahan, she should just calm down, but of course she won't...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/10/2020 10:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Will she bring the beer?
Posted by: Ulolump Grumble1426 || 11/10/2020 10:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Nothing RINO about Ms. McCain...
She is a All out Liberal.
Posted by: 08011982-1039-CCC || 11/10/2020 11:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Romney open up one of his Binders of Women?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/10/2020 12:29 Comments || Top||

#6  She's out of the closet now. Can't call her a RINO anymore. She's a Democrat.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/10/2020 13:13 Comments || Top||

#7  So, whose side is Mr. Meggie Moo (Ben Domenech) on right now?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/10/2020 15:27 Comments || Top||

#8  That whole Tokyo Rose McCain clan are vermin.
Posted by: Clem || 11/10/2020 18:54 Comments || Top||

#9  In charge of re-arraigning the deck chairs?
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 11/10/2020 20:49 Comments || Top||

#10  "Songbird" McStain's venom continues.

Fox News cuts ties with Air Force Lt. Gen. Tom McInerneyl who called POW John McCain

'Songbird John'



What do you expect from a guy who comes home to a wife who waited for him for YEARS, then DUMPS HER while she is recovering from an automobile accident.
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/10/2020 21:04 Comments || Top||

#11 
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/10/2020 21:06 Comments || Top||


System ‘Glitch' Also Uncovered In Wisconsin – Reversal of Swapped Votes Removes Lead from Joe Biden
[Gateway] We’ve reported on numerous events identified in the 2020 election already which are being referred to as ’glitches’ by the Democrats. Tonight we just uncovered another ’glitch’ in Wisconsin.

When this one is confirmed it will result in a 19,500 vote gain for Trump making the Wisconsin race a total toss-up.

There is now a pattern of events we have uncovered across the country where votes are being taken from Republicans at all levels and transferred to competing Democrats in offsetting amounts. These are not random because in every case votes are moved from Republicans to Democrats.

This is beginning to appear like a strategy used by the Democrats to steal this election.

We reported first on a system glitch, as it was labeled, in Michigan which switched 6,000 votes back to President Trump.

Then another example was uncovered in Oakland County Michigan where again a Republican won his race as a result this glitch being reversed.

Then in Pennsylvania a ‘glitch’ was uncovered where nearly 20,000 votes were moved from President Trump to Biden.

Then we found approximately 6,000 votes which were taken from Trump and moved to Biden in Georgia due to a ‘glitch’:

What a Mess – System ‘Glitches’ Favoring Democrats Are Becoming an Epidemic Across the Swing States – More Incidents Identified Today

Now tonight we have identified approximately 10,000 votes that were moved from President Trump to Biden in just one Wisconsin County.

This information came from an individual who saw this happen in Rock County Wisconsin.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2020 05:35 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Let me guess, all glitches will be in favor of Biden.
Posted by: gorb || 11/10/2020 5:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Just for grins, call your county election supervisor and ask if they're using the same system that flipped six thousand votes in Antrim County, MI. If so, ask when the recounting will be done.
Doesn't matter f they're honest as the day is long, the point is...they have to demonstrate it, not just assert it. Plus they'll know people are watching with a suspicious view.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 11/10/2020 5:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, one thing is clear: regardless of who wins at the end - depends on judges, and we know how they are - it's the most massive fraud in USA history.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/10/2020 6:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Human error... no need to examine anywhere else... move along... Biden is the winner! We’re making lists and taking names!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/10/2020 8:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Funny how these "mistakes" and glitches all go one way.

Sad thing is, if this isn't investigated, 71 million voters will think it was stolen.
If it is and they find lots of fraud, 75 million voters will believe the MSM that Trump stole it.

We are in for a wild ride the next couple years.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/10/2020 8:57 Comments || Top||

#6  If it is and they find lots of fraud, 75 million voters will believe the MSM that Trump stole it.

If they find lots of fraud, the number of unhappy ones on that side will be considerably less than 75 million.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/10/2020 9:09 Comments || Top||

#7  This is strategic. Nothing is fixed. They are just willing to flip the state in order to protect the system that allows glitches to occur in the first place.
Posted by: Iblis || 11/10/2020 9:38 Comments || Top||

#8  That is what I am hoping TW, but I know many true believers that will throw their Spaghetti in the air over it.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/10/2020 9:50 Comments || Top||

#9 
Posted by: Jiling Gravitch9209 || 11/10/2020 9:53 Comments || Top||

#10  YAHOO email system is diverting emails between people discussing the system glitch to the spam folder and not the inbox.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 11/10/2020 11:52 Comments || Top||

#11  Recount by hand with observers from both parties.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/10/2020 13:28 Comments || Top||

#12  Voting machines need to be outlawed
Posted by: 3dc || 11/10/2020 15:33 Comments || Top||

#13  Sad thing is, if this isn't investigated, 71 million voters will think it was stolen.

Most of them with firearms and ammo...many with very good skill sets thanks to Uncle Sam's training.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/10/2020 15:58 Comments || Top||

#14  @3dc

Somewhere in the fifties one of the computer pioneers told that cmputers should be banned for ever frm banking and from elections.

Also I don't understand why do you need those fricking voting machines. In Europe it is done by hand and despite this it only takes a few hours to count the votes
Posted by: JFM || 11/10/2020 18:55 Comments || Top||

#15  Mon Oncle, rebooted today:
American man, très passé
In a world of mod cons
And self-watered non-lawns,
Manufactures machines à voter.
Posted by: Sheba Phusoger3433 || 11/10/2020 19:39 Comments || Top||

#16 
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/10/2020 21:18 Comments || Top||


Lindsey Graham: Possible ballot harvesting in Pennsylvania involving 25,000 nursing home residents
[Washington Examiner] Sen. Lindsey Graham said on Monday he has learned about potential ballot harvesting in Pennsylvania nursing homes.

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee revealed that there were up to 25,000 cases that are being looked at as Pennsylvania remains a state President Trump's team hopes to turn its way after major media outlets called it for his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, giving him enough electoral votes to secure the presidency.

"I’ve got more information. We're now finding potentially that 25,000 nursing home residents in different nursing homes requested mail-in ballots at the exact same time," the South Carolina Republican said on Fox News.

"You can’t ballot harvest in Pennsylvania," Graham added. "What are the odds that 25,000 people in different locations of the same age group requested at the same time a ballot? Somebody is up to no good in these nursing homes."

Graham did not present any evidence, but he did allude to critics of Trump for refusing to concede the election as he awaits legal challenges and recounts to play out.

"We don’t need their permission to look into these allegations. We owe it to those who voted for President Trump and the country at large to test this system. If we don’t deal with voting by mail in 2020, we will never win the White House again," he said.

Trump currently trails Biden by about 45,000 votes.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2020 04:38 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gov. Cuomo’s Order To House potential BIDEN voters COVID Patients In Nursing Homes Scrutinized.

Critics have called for investigations to see if the Cuomo administration's directive forcing nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients from hospitals created a dangerous environment that allowed the virus to quickly spread in New York. But state officials are fighting back. Meanwhile, visits to residents in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities in parts of the country are slowly resuming and other nursing home news.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2020 4:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Looks like he might end up regretting killing all those folks after all.
Posted by: gorb || 11/10/2020 5:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Looks like he might end up regretting killing all those folks after all. Even if they were dead, they probably voted anyway - all for Biden.
Posted by: Grampaw Phavish2227 || 11/10/2020 10:58 Comments || Top||

#4  If we don’t deal with voting by mail in 2020, we will never win the White House again

If this fraud isn't overturned, we will cease to have a democracy.,
Posted by: Black Charlie Wholuse4347 || 11/10/2020 11:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Well, Lindsey, then DO something about it.

I know that we just reelected you with a pretty comfortable margin; but it is all in the hope that you will be more like President Trump and actually do things rather than just talking about them.
Posted by: Tom || 11/10/2020 11:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Pennsylvania is where Trump had his biggest lead of 700,000 votes. The wisdom Alito of the Supreme Court requiring all ballots counted after that evening would be the largest number of voter fraud required to beat Trump thus would be much easier to prove massive fraudulant votes.
Posted by: Angeater Omick2705 || 11/10/2020 16:35 Comments || Top||

#7  Well, Lindsey, then DO something about it.

Never going to happen.
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/10/2020 21:09 Comments || Top||


Mitt Romney has been asked to lead Health and Human Services in Biden administration
[Buffalo Chronicle] Sources are telling The Chronicle that Senator Mitt Romney has been asked by the presumptive President-elect Joe Biden to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. He is currently discussing the nomination with his family and is expected to accept the appointment.

Biden advisors expect that Romney — a former management consultant by training and a former CEO of Bain Capital — will be tasked with making the national healthcare system more affordable without legislation
...suggesting that the Biden team accepts they will not have functional control over both House and Senate...
that modifies the Affordable Care Act.

That work is expected to focus on a massive transition to tele-health services, expansion of digital appointment scheduling, expanded access to pharmaceuticals online, and the development of artificial intelligence technologies that will automate patient intake processing, make screening recommendations, and seamlessly sync medical record access between multiple providers serving a single patient.

It’s unclear if Romney will be tasked with creating open market pricing systems for a’la carte medical services, which could advance the work that the Trump administration has done to require providers to make pricing for their services public. That strategy is seen as key to creating a price competitive atmosphere between providers.

According to State law in Utah a Senate vacancy will be filled by gubernatorial appointment from one of three individuals nominated by the Legislature, each of whom must be a member of the political party of the prior officeholder.

Romney has expressed a desire for Governor Gary Herbert to appoint former Rep. Mia Love to fill the vacancy.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2020 04:30 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Get that RINO out of the way so you can elect a proper Dem in his place and take over the Senate?
Posted by: gorb || 11/10/2020 5:54 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2020 8:37 Comments || Top||

#3  So the uniparty cheated to win.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/10/2020 9:37 Comments || Top||

#4  I still wonder how much graft Romney took in from the Olympics.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/10/2020 10:20 Comments || Top||

#5  Quisling in charge of HHS?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/10/2020 10:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Romney did one good thing (the Olympics) in his life and has lived off that success ever since. If he leaves, it is profoundly hoped that the Utah wise men choose a non-Mormon (or a dependable Mormon from southern-most Utah) to fill his seat.
Posted by: b || 11/10/2020 11:16 Comments || Top||

#7  From NY and moved to Utah
Bringing NY liberal values with him...
But a suck up no matter how you label him....
Posted by: 08011982-1039-CCC || 11/10/2020 11:45 Comments || Top||

#8  Please just do not send him back to MAssaholia.

While I've moved to NH MA is still too close.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/10/2020 12:00 Comments || Top||

#9  Har har har har.

Yeah I'm convinced.
Why does Biden hate Obama?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/10/2020 13:06 Comments || Top||

#10  Head of HHS. Humpf. I figured Mitt for Vice Prez when Joe inevitably kicks the metaphorical bucket and has to step aside.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/10/2020 15:51 Comments || Top||


In case y'all are wondering who at the DOJ is in charge of election law matters (via Rantingly)
[Twitter]



Posted by: Thusoting Big Foot1716 || 11/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Darrel Issa won Duncan Hunter's CA-50 seat.
So he should be busy with oversight in the minority party.
Posted by: boomerc || 11/10/2020 2:05 Comments || Top||

#2  This is where Trump failed: he should have fired everyone associated with this at the beginning. Take the hits with the new people learning, but at least we wouldn't have thieves and crooks running things to the extent that they have been.

If he wins his challenges and remains president, its time for a figurative bloodbath at the DOJ, FBI, IRS, DIA and DOD.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 11/10/2020 2:15 Comments || Top||

#3  And if he doesnt stay in office, then whoever takes over after the coming Biden-Harris debacle MUST burn out the infestation on day one
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 11/10/2020 2:16 Comments || Top||

#4  The MSM is saying Pilger just resigned in protest.
Posted by: gorb || 11/10/2020 2:31 Comments || Top||

#5  "in protest" of having someone find out what he's been up to,
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/10/2020 7:15 Comments || Top||

#6  in Trump's defense, he probably didn't know just how infested with scum the government was. Draining the swamp is a task on par with cleaning the Augean Stables.
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 11/10/2020 7:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Agree with #6. Trump's whole career, like mine, was in the private sector where this sort of behavior is unthinkable.

It is amazing how people can act like this in the public sector and face zero consequences.
Posted by: Tom || 11/10/2020 11:36 Comments || Top||


Top DoJ Voter Fraud Investigator Quits After AG William Barr Authorizes Probe
See also here and here.
[NYT via ZH] Update (2140ET): In response to AG Barr's decision, NYTimes reports that Richard Pilger - who oversees voter fraud investigations - has quit:

"Having familiarized myself with the new policy and its ramifications... I must regretfully resign from my role as director of the Election Crimes Branch."

Does it not seem odd that when asked to investigate voter fraud, the gentleman who is in charge of investigating voter fraud chooses to resign rather than do his f**king job?
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Clem || 11/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Actually be seen doing my government job? Do you realize how dangerous that might be to my retirement benefits?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/10/2020 1:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Seeking non-USG legal sanctuary? Perhaps he is aware of what may be coming down the track.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2020 6:57 Comments || Top||

#3  I posed a thread about how the gatekeeper of criminal election fraud at the DOJ is Richard Pilger, who worked closely with Lois Lerner at the IRS in the Obama days (ie, when the DOJ rabidly pursued the president’s agenda — good, bad, or mostly ugly — to target Tea Party orgs. https://t.co/22MPpmzffl

— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) November 10, 2020

Richard Pilger, when subpoenaed to Capitol Hill by House Oversight, Darrell Issa in 2014, refused to answer over three dozen questions under oath on the advice of DOJ attorneys.

6/ Pilger, when subpoenaed to Capitol Hill by House Oversight, Darrell Issa in 2014, refused to answer over three dozen questions under oath on the advice of DOJ attorneys. https://t.co/cnCdOSiflk And despite this history, Pilger is STILL in charge of the same department at DOJ/

— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) November 8, 2020
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/10/2020 7:12 Comments || Top||

#4  And Pilfer still managed to hang on. Now why is that?
Posted by: Clem || 11/10/2020 7:45 Comments || Top||

#5  A 2fer!
Why wasn’t he fired 3 years ago?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/10/2020 8:38 Comments || Top||

#6  It has been published that Pilger not once opened a case in all the time he was head of the Election Crimes Branch. He was simply a deep-state seat-warmer.
Posted by: b || 11/10/2020 11:21 Comments || Top||

#7  Now if only Barr would only appoint somebody who will do the job...
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/10/2020 13:15 Comments || Top||

#8  @ #6 - Sounds like just the guy Barr'd want.
Posted by: Clem || 11/10/2020 18:55 Comments || Top||

#9 

F Barr.
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/10/2020 20:55 Comments || Top||


Trump campaign files another lawsuit - this time in Pennsylvania
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Listening to National People's Radio this morning, the Message of the Day appears to be
$NAME_HERE claims election fraud WITHOUT PROVIDING EVIDENCE

I wasn't counting at first, but after hearing WITHOUT PROVIDING EVIDENCE at least six times, even a rock would start to see the pattern.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/10/2020 10:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Don't look now--but Real Clear Politics has removed Pennsylvania from Biden's total. Which brings him down to 259 electoral votes, well short of 270. Watch this space.
Posted by: Tom || 11/10/2020 11:37 Comments || Top||


Trump campaign staff claims to have statistical evidence of fraud in Wisconsin
[Wash Examiner] As the president's path to 270 Electoral College votes narrows virtually every day, some members of his campaign say statistical evidence of fraud in Wisconsin could give him a victory.

One member of President Trump's reelection team who spoke with the Washington Examiner on the condition of anonymity said ballot data in Milwaukee indicates illegal activity by Democrats in the city. The distribution of those ballots in favor of presumptive President-elect Joe Biden, the individual alleged, violates Benford's Law ‐ an analytical framework used by statisticians when observing a set of randomized data points.

Benford's Law is often used by election analysts, both in the United States and abroad, to detect voter fraud or other sorts of improprieties in elections. U.S. government agencies, like the U.S. Department of Agriculture, often apply Benford's Law when auditing information from farmers who rely on federal subsidies.

"The farmer was asked how much of each crop he harvested in the past year. I put together all of the quantities produced of all possible crops," wrote one government analyst in 2006. "I find that more quantities produced begin with a five than would be suggested by Benford's Law while fewer begin with a four, six, or seven. I can reject that the data comes from Benford's distribution."

The Washington Examiner has not analyzed Wisconsin's voter data sets to see if they violate Benford's Law, nor is any purported violation proof that criminal activity took place in the state. Some statisticians question its applicability, particularly in an election where ballot counters are organizing returns in a manner that differs from precinct to precinct.

Still, an adviser to the Trump campaign believes pro-Trump internet sleuths are onto something when they say there is an artificial distribution of votes in favor of Biden.

"We think this is good news," the individual said. "If there's fire where there's smoke, it'll come out during the recount."

Roughly 20,500 votes currently separate Biden and Trump in Wisconsin. The two Trump campaign officials who spoke with the Washington Examiner say they believe there are enough irregularities to potentially flip the state back into the president's column and dramatically change the race's outcome.

Graphical Representation of 170,000 fraudulent WI ballots at 4AM
Read the twitter thread. Key graph:
This is the Wisconsin vote counting history log. Again, on the Y axis we have the ratio of D to R ballots in reporting batch, and on the X axis we have reporting time.

The following information is provided via an anonymous data scientist and another anonymous individual who wrote a script to scrape the national ballot counting time series data of off the @nytimes website.

This is based on their proprietary "Edison" data source which would ordinarily be impossible to access for people outside the press.
Posted by: Thusoting Big Foot1716 || 11/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But, math being hard and all (so hard some can't figure out whether to call it math or maths) we simply can't subject the sorts that watch The View or Oprah to such hideosity...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/10/2020 1:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Statistical evidence is not legal evidence.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/10/2020 10:28 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Statistical evidence is often introduced into the courts by expert witnesses if the expert is qualified by the court and the data analysis meets certain requirements.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/10/2020 11:05 Comments || Top||


AG Barr Authorizes Federal Prosecutors To Pursue ‘Substantial Allegations' Of Voting Irregularities, Report Says
[DailyWire] Attorney General William Barr has reportedly authorized federal prosecutors to pursue "substantial allegations" of voting irregularities from the 2020 election before the results are certified.

The memo from Barr, which was directed to U.S. attorneys and other federal law enforcement officials, praised the "strength of our democracy as more than 140 million Americans cast ballots to select their leaders."

Barr said that now that the voting has concluded, it was "imperative that the American people can trust that our elections were conducted in such a way that the outcomes accurately reflect the will of the voters." Barr said that the Department of Justice (DOJ) had an obligation to make sure that federal elections were conducted in a manner that voters can have "full confidence in their electoral process and their government."

Barr’s memo continued:
Posted by: Thusoting Big Foot1716 || 11/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Substantial allegations". I'm hearing that "substantial" as a lawyerly weasel-word.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/10/2020 0:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Barr is an ex CIA op, now I'm thinking he's not "ex" but an active op, and very subtle....
Don’t go there, 746.
Posted by: 746 || 11/10/2020 1:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Bullshift, where is the durham report?!

Crap can Barr, yesterday.

Posted by: Woodrow || 11/10/2020 7:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Rod Blagojevich said Dems Stealing Elections a ‘Time-Honored Tradition’

Maybe Barr's action will put a spotlight on something that should have been done long ago. Maybe, it will even change this election. Trump was winning in the battleground states at 3:30 a.m. Wed. after election day and before the vote dump of newly found and minted votes at 4:00 a.m.

Did anyone think CV-19 and mail-in votes was just a coincidence?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/10/2020 9:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Interesting how Barr finally decided to swing into action after Trump fired these other department heads.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 11/10/2020 11:03 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Yes, going from $250k per year to ZERO is an attention getter.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2020 11:15 Comments || Top||

#7  ^Shouldn't this be a consideration for all Trump's appointees?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/10/2020 11:28 Comments || Top||

#8  ok, out of line, but I am begining to see that he might be too crafty for the newbys in DC to realize the depth of subtlety and "deep state" inside influence masked as a legit AG
Posted by: 746 || 11/10/2020 12:06 Comments || Top||

#9  I hope he means that all the allegations he has heard are substantial, and need to be investigated.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/10/2020 14:42 Comments || Top||

#10  Barr will take a year to put a report together. He is a process wonk and will add no value to this election, hell, Biden will be gone, and the street walker will be president before he even gets a team together...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/10/2020 15:17 Comments || Top||

#11  ok, out of line,

Thank you for understanding, dear 746.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/10/2020 23:29 Comments || Top||


Whistleblower Saw People in Biden Van Opening, Filling, and Sealing Nevada Ballots, Trump Campaign Claims
[Epoch Times] The Trump campaign on Sunday described a sworn affidavit from a whistleblower in Nevada who alleges to have witnessed people inside a Biden-Harris van opening, filling out, and resealing mail ballots.

The whistleblower, who the campaign did not identify, witnessed the alleged incident while on lunch break. He said the people inside the van were using letter openers to open the ballot envelopes. Once the people became aware they were being watched, they formed a human shield around the van to purportedly cover up the activity.

The Biden campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

Trump campaign representative Matt Schlapp detailed the allegation during a press conference in Las Vegas on Sunday. Schlapp described other instances of potential fraud, including 9,000 ballots cast by people who have moved out of the state, two examples of ballots cast using the identities of dead people, and voter registrations issued to minors under the age of 18.

Schlapp said that the campaign is also working through documenting hundreds of cases in which Republicans were denied the chance to vote.

"The way we resolve division, even when you don’t get your way in an election, is to count every legal ballot and to make sure that illegal ballots do not reduce the civil rights and the votes of those who legally," Schlapp said.

Based on unofficial results reported by The Associated Press as of 11:35 p.m. on Nov. 8, President Donald Trump trailed former Vice President Joe Biden in Nevada by 34,283 votes, with 6 percent of the vote left to be counted. No state has certified the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Schlapp also referenced another whistleblower who told the campaign that during a review of some 14,000 ballots, a supervisor repeatedly overruled his objections about questionable ballots.

Schlapp said that the Trump campaign is basing some of its legal strategy around the allegations. Another member of Trump’s ground team in Nevada, Adam Laxalt, said that the campaign has not been able to see any of the signatures on the 600,000 mail-in ballots counted in Nevada to check if they matched the signatures on file.

Around 200,000 signatures were processed solely by a machine that reportedly had its accuracy settings reduced to a point where the matching was no longer reliable, Laxalt said.

Despite ongoing vote counts, pending recounts, and multiple legal challenges by the Trump campaign, Biden on Saturday declared himself the victor of the election. Trump rejected the declaration and claimed that fraud is the reason for Biden’s lead in several states.
Posted by: Thusoting Big Foot1716 || 11/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Because getting an unmarked, generic rental van is just such difficult tradecraft, this is very easy to believe...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/10/2020 1:49 Comments || Top||

#2  My thoughts exactly. Maybe someone trying to discredit other reports?
Posted by: gorb || 11/10/2020 2:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Because getting an unmarked, generic rental van is just such difficult tradecraft

Also leaves a paper trail. That's how the Oklahoma City and first World Trade Center bombers got caught.
Posted by: Thusoting Big Foot1716 || 11/10/2020 3:02 Comments || Top||

#4  this has marks of an attempt to poison the well
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 11/10/2020 7:28 Comments || Top||

#5  And no cell phone recording?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/10/2020 9:02 Comments || Top||


More Good News: AOC Contemplates Quitting Politics in NY Times Interview
[TRENDINGPOLITICS]Over the weekend, Radical Progressive Congresswomen Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez
Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore...
sat down with the New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

for an interview about the current state of the American political landscape. AOC explained her grief in being a far-left progressive in a country where we value our traditions and things like the United States Constitution.
Posted by: Fred || 11/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Right. She willingly gives up $200K/year + huge political power + fawning over like royalty to go back tending bar to drunks.
Posted by: Thusoting Big Foot1716 || 11/10/2020 2:08 Comments || Top||

#2  I believe she keeps that income for life, including her Cadillac health care plan. All paid for by the voters. The live ones, of course. Not the dead ones.

Either way, if something seems too good to be true . . . .
Posted by: gorb || 11/10/2020 2:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Congressional pension
Congressional pension is a pension made available to members of the United States Congress. As of 2019, members who participated in the congressional pension system are vested after five (5) years of service. A full pension is available to members 62 years of age with 5 years of service; 50 years or older with 20 years of service; or 25 years of service at any age. A reduced pension is available depending upon which of several different age/service options is chosen.
Posted by: Thusoting Big Foot1716 || 11/10/2020 3:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Her and every other pol there gets to convert their 'reelection campaign funds' to personal use when they retire.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/10/2020 7:03 Comments || Top||

#5  You better gimme what I want, or I'll take my ball and go home!

--Boom Boom Cortez
Posted by: Bobby || 11/10/2020 8:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Would I be going out on a limb by saying this could be a large part of our problem ? (AOC, front row third from left)
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2020 8:34 Comments || Top||

#7  IMO Boom-Boom likes the attention and the money too much to do that. Besides she just got another term. I'll take hope with a little salt, however.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/10/2020 9:39 Comments || Top||

#8  "AOC Contemplates Quitting Politics"

I sincerely doubt that will happen, but if it does, I'll help her pack. :-D
Posted by: Barbara || 11/10/2020 15:27 Comments || Top||

#9  Prolly thinking of pulling a Markle
's all about da Benjamins
Posted by: Fleregum Borgia3048 || 11/10/2020 15:47 Comments || Top||


Trump Is Not Budging: Won't Allow Biden Transition Team To Begin Moving Into White House, Nor Give Them Transition Funds
[TRENDINGPOLITICS] As political tensions continue to rise amongst Americans, tensions are even higher in Washington.

Monday morning, it was reported that the Trump Administration is refusing to sign documents allowing the Biden Campaign to begin the "transfer of power" process.

Every incoming administration has been allowed a federal stipend to begin taking over office space and putting their own employees in nearly every federal agency - that amount this year is nearly 10-million dollars.

The reluctance to sign such documents is no surprise, given the fact that Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant...
has no officially been named as the President Elect, but only, the projected President Elect. Some states are still counting ballots as of Monday afternoon.

The documents, if signed, would be a step toward President Trump conceding, which he has no intention of doing until federal investigations take place across the country on the issue of massive, nation-wide voter fraud.

The Washington Post reports:

"An ascertainment has not yet been made," Pamela Pennington, a spokeswoman for GSA, said in an email, "and its Administrator will continue to abide by, and fulfill, all requirements under the law."

The GSA statement left experts on federal transitions to wonder when the White House expects the handoff from one administration to the next to begin — when the president has exhausted his legal avenues to fight the results, or the formal vote of the electoral college on Dec. 14? There are 74 days, as of Sunday, until the Biden inauguration on Jan. 20.

"No agency head is going to get out in front of the president on transition issues right now," said one senior administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. The official predicted that agency heads will be told not to talk to the Biden team.

And courtesy of Thusoting Big Foot1716:
Trump Admin Denies Transition Funds to Biden Team as Dec. 14 Electoral College Vote Looms

[Mediaite via Rantingly] The federal government General Services Administration has declined to provide funding to the Biden campaign’s transition team as President Donald Trump contests the results of the 2020 election.

"An ascertainment has not yet been made. GSA and its administrator will continue to abide by, and fulfill, all requirements under the law," GSA spokeswoman Pamela Pennington said in a Sunday statement.

Congress allocated $9.9 million to the agency in February to assist with transition activities, which includes the provision of office space, equipment, and background investigations for incoming personnel. The agency historically moves within a day of the election, which took place on November 3 this year.

The Trump campaign has called or is expected to call for recounts in several states, including Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, meaning the administration could likely delay the transition until members of the Electoral College vote for president on December 14. Certificates recording the results of that vote must be delivered to the Senate by December 23.
Posted by: Fred || 11/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  December 14, eh? I foresee Dem stalling and a constitutional crisis.

Maybe tell Joe they're due December 32?
Posted by: gorb || 11/10/2020 2:36 Comments || Top||

#2  that's the first time I've seen a date over a month away described as 'looming'
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 11/10/2020 7:34 Comments || Top||

#3  This is pseudo-news.
Posted by: Grampaw Phavish2227 || 11/10/2020 11:59 Comments || Top||

#4  No.
In this fold, I hold the terms:
We will investigate election fraud with vigor, and expose the machine.
We will pursue financial recovery of expenses incurred during such investigation.
Defamation suit on the way for using "Office of the President Elect" in video backgrounds.
Investigation underway for contacting foreign officials.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/10/2020 13:21 Comments || Top||


In 353 U.S. Counties, 1.8 Million More Voters Registered Than Eligible Citizens
[DAILYWIRE] On Monday, a report was issued indicating that among 353 U.S. counties, 1.8 million more voters might have been registered than eligible voting-age citizens.Judicial Watch (JW) revealed the results of their 2020 study showing that the total in the counties of registration rates surpassed 100% of eligible voters. The eight states where state-wide registration rates exceeded 100% included Alaska, Colorado, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

"The September 2020 study collected the most recent registration data posted online by the states themselves. This data was then compared to the Census Bureau’s most recent five-year population estimates, gathered by the American Community Survey (ACS) from 2014 through 2018. ACS surveys are sent to 3.5 million addresses each month, and its five-year estimates are considered to be the most reliable estimates outside of the decennial census," Judicial Watch explained.

Judicial Watch pointed out that certain states might have excluded "inactive voters" from their data. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton concluded, "The new study shows 1.8 million excess, or ’ghost’ voters in 353 counties across 29 states. The data highlights the recklessness of mailing blindly ballots and ballot applications to voter registration lists. Dirty voting rolls can mean dirty elections."

In June 2019, Los Angeles County issued notices to as many as 1.5 million inactive voters after JW had reached a settlement agreement with the county. That agreement stated:

All registrations that come to be placed on Los Angeles County’s inactive file of registered voters in the future that are associated with registrants who do not respond to a Section 8(d)(2) Notice shall be cancelled within 90 days following the second of the next two general federal elections occurring after the registration is placed on that list, unless, prior to that time, the registrant votes, appears to vote, or corrects their voter record or Defendants are otherwise able to confirm the registrant’s eligibility to vote.



Posted by: Fred || 11/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Seems like a tax return or a statement from a parole officer should be the minimum requirement to enter a polling station...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/10/2020 1:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Curiouser and curiouser
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 11/10/2020 1:46 Comments || Top||

#3  The excess of registered voters over the presumed actual # of eligible voters in areas all over the USA has been noted for YEARS before the 2020 election, and very little was done about it. You snooze, you lose, is the saying.
Then there was the already known shortage of PPE in strategic warehouses prior to COVID-19. The only thing done about that prior to 2019 was to let it get worse, year by year. Fauci could have at least mentioned the situation in public, but he didn't.
Then there is the widely know vulnerability of the national grid to sabotage, which has also been known for many years, with as little as possible being done about that.
Then there is ... Well, fill in the blanks, folks!
Posted by: Grampaw Phavish2227 || 11/10/2020 11:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Nothing here to see. Move along...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/10/2020 15:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Is SPOD still alive?
Anyway, wait a day.
Posted by: Sheba Protector of the Hohlraums47 || 11/10/2020 17:01 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
The head of the UNESCO calls on president-elect Joe Biden to re-commit the US to international institutions.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
And gladly he would — or Kamala Harris on his behalf after he signed his X where she indicated to give her durable power of attorney— but at the moment he has not yet been given the government funds he needs to start presidenting in earnest.
Posted by: Fred || 11/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This election was a rejection of unpopular globalists.

If biden gets to be president openly supporting globalists would ensure the dems lose the other parts of government.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/10/2020 2:25 Comments || Top||

#2  pretend relief organization can play with pretend president
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 11/10/2020 7:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Audrey Azoulay calling for the return of state level corruption. Surprise.

She is the daughter of Katia Brami a moroccan writer. Her aunt, Éliane Azoulay, is a journalist for the French magazine "Télérama". She indicates having "grown up in a very left-environnement"," politicized on the israeli-Palestinian conflict".

Other activities
Generation Unlimited, Member of the Board (since 2018)[18]
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) (Clinton bribery cash cow), Ex-Officio Member of the Committee of Cosponsoring Organizations (since 2017)[19]
International Gender Champions (IGC), Member[20]

Posted by: Woodrow || 11/10/2020 8:05 Comments || Top||

#4  U.S. Exits Corrupt, Communist-led UNESCO
by Alex Newman October 12, 2017

Additional sources - UNESCO corruption
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/10/2020 8:06 Comments || Top||

#5  A page from the history books; UNESCO and fifty years of Marxism:
Attacks on U.S. and Western culture at the [1972] Mexico City meeting marked the second World Conference on culture. The attack was nothing new at UNESCO. The first was in Venice in 1970 and the tone was anti-capitalist and pro-socialist. In Mexico City, Director General of UNESCO, Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow of Senegal, opened the conference by leading the charge against Western media and cultural products.
Posted by: b || 11/10/2020 11:32 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Computer Network Attack (CNA), a short primer
BLUF:
[LAB 52] Apart from these "3D", and also in modern doctrines, there is a four tactic in CNA operations: manipulation, to control or to change information, the systems that support it or the target’s networks in a manner that supports the attacker’s objectives (in this case, denial in all of its modes: degradation, disruption and destruction). So, which one is the difference between a manipulation that achieves a degradation or a direct degradation as a tactic? It’s a very subtle one: mainly, manipulation refers to a manner that is not immediate apparent or detected. A DDoS (degradation or disruption) or a ransomware attack (destruction) are immediately identified by the victim... if the tactic was manipulation, the attack wouldn’t have been immediately detected, and would extend in time, so impact would have been higher a priori.

In summary, while talking about CNA capabilities or operations, we identify four big tactics to be considered: degradation, disruption, destruction and manipulation. So, where are the techniques linked to each of them? This work is more complex and with less references, so it’s an ongoing work for a new post...
Emphasis added
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2020 06:31 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It’s a very subtle one: mainly, manipulation refers to a manner that is not immediate apparent or detected.

"Subtle" unless implemented by desperate amateurs on a grand scale.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2020 6:50 Comments || Top||


Government
Trump Fires Mark Esper as Defense Secretary
[NYTIMES] President Trump on Monday fired Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper, the latest casualty in the president’s revolving door of top national security officials who fell on the wrong side of their boss.Mr. Trump announced the decision on Twitter, writing in an abrupt post that Mr. Esper had been "terminated."

The president wrote that he was appointing Christopher C. Miller, whom he described as the "highly respected" director of the National Counterterrorism Center, to be acting defense secretary. Mr. Miller will be the fourth official to lead the Pentagon under Mr. Trump.

The president noted that Mr. Miller had already been approved by the Senate for his current position, perhaps as a way to argue that the firing of a defense secretary should not be viewed as a sign of turmoil in the highest ranks of the nation’s national security structure.

Mr. Esper’s departure means that Mr. Miller would — if he lasts — see out the end of the Trump administration at the Pentagon. While Mr. Trump has over two months left in office, it could still be a significant time, as Defense Department officials have privately expressed worries that the president might initiate operations, whether overt or secret, against Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
or other adversaries in his waning days in office.



Posted by: Fred || 11/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  General Flynn would have been better.
Posted by: gorb || 11/10/2020 2:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Word.
Posted by: cingold || 11/10/2020 2:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Perhaps he yet will be.
Posted by: Cesare || 11/10/2020 7:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Yes, General Flynn or Gen. Thomas McInerney.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/10/2020 9:35 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: Jiling Gravitch9209 || 11/10/2020 9:55 Comments || Top||

#6  Trump is not a happy man after voter fraud.
Posted by: Angeater Omick2705 || 11/10/2020 10:26 Comments || Top||

#7  Interesting how Barr finally decided to swing into action after Trump fired these other department heads.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 11/10/2020 11:01 Comments || Top||

#8  Why is Christopher Wray still in charge of the FBI?
Posted by: Grampaw Phavish2227 || 11/10/2020 11:05 Comments || Top||

#9  /\ Living, breathing example of pi** poor performance and dawdling loyalty ?

Just a wild guess.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/10/2020 11:13 Comments || Top||

#10  Dear Ebbomoger Speaking,

Re: “Interesting how Barr finally decided to swing into action after Trump fired these other department heads.

Word on the street is that:

Barr wanted to greenlight federal prosecutors to take overt steps in election cases weeks ago, before the election. Political leadership in the Criminal Division pushed back, and thought they had won. Then Barr issued his memo Monday, blindsiding them.

https://twitter.com/mattzap/status/1326017947165396992?s=21

This is not the USA’s first rodeo. It’s not the first time, either, that globalist elites encountered a tough fight from Americans, who they have never forgiven for exercising and protecting their G_d-given liberty against tyranny.

It may win the Benedict Arnold contest, though.

For a couple hundred years globalist elitists just haven’t known what to do with us. Never have, never will. The wind blows where it likes.

“I have not yet begun to fight.” — John Paul Jones (1779).

I expect we’ve long had a dedicated SCIF

pursuant to FISA warrant (no doubt)

& no leaks, anywhere.

We didn’t ignore Hunter’s laptop, did we?

The Quisling-Libs (note: not all Libs are quislings) should be terrified. Very terrified.

Both the Quisling-Libs and the globalist elitists misgauged the pulse of the PEOPLE. It’s a big mistake to overlook our rage and indomitable spirit. Unlike Japan, these arrogant fools have not just awakened a sleeping giant; they’ve woken a very wise Sleeping Monster — who is VERY ANGRY.

And, they’ll whine when there’s hell to pay.
Posted by: cingold || 11/10/2020 12:25 Comments || Top||

#11  Reasonable-minded good people on the “Left” and the “Right” share the same common enemy:

dark elitist *would-be* platonic philosopher kings with voracious avarice in their cold hearts, and lacking in any basic human empathy or even shreds of decency.
Posted by: cingold || 11/10/2020 12:28 Comments || Top||

#12  ^ there's a realignment in the making.

Dems are now the party of the oligarchs, left-wing proles, identity-politics grifters and their self-hating white dupes.

Trump's party appeals to millions of ordinary, apolitical, patriotic Americans including millions of blacks and Hispanics who want what most Americans have always wanted: ordered freedom and the chance to stand and compete fairly in their own two feet.

Not sure which is the majority but the old coalitions have been smashed.
Posted by: Titus Hapsburg6965 || 11/10/2020 13:07 Comments || Top||



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