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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Photo Emerges Of Garcetti Adviser Holding Hand Near Man's Crotch While Garcetti Gives Thumbs Up
[DailyWire] A photo emerged of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti posing next to one of his top advisers in 2017 giving a thumbs up while that advisor had his hand near another man’s crotch. The photo raises new questions about Garcetti’s claim that he had no knowledge of inappropriate conduct by the adviser.

The adviser, former Deputy Chief of Staff Rick Jacobs, was accused of sexual misconduct by journalist Yashar Ali, who said that Jacobs used to "forcibly kiss me when I worked in politics."

Garcetti, a Democrat, has recently worked for Joe Biden’s vice presidential search committee and has been floated as a potential cabinet pick in a Biden administration.
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-Land of the Free
FEC Commission Chair: Trump Campaign Has Legitimate Claims of Election Fraud
(RedState) While some in mainstream media have attacked the Trump campaign and Americans raising questions about voter fraud and/or irregularities in the election, the Federal Election Commission Chair Trey Trainor said that the Trump campaign is bringing "legitimate accusations" to court in the form of affidavits of credible witnesses and other evidence in their challenges in various states.

From Just the News:

Trainor said his review of evidence, including numerous affidavits claiming voter fraud and a sworn statement by a prominent mathematician flagging up to 100,000 Pennsylvania ballots, met the first level of legal scrutiny under what’s known as motion to dismiss or "Rule 12(b)(6)" of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which would dismiss less credible claims. [....]

"When considering a motion for summary judgment, a judge will view all evidence in the light most favorable to the movant’s opponent," explains Cornell University Law School’s Legal Information Institute website.

"What I would be concerned with, if I were on the other side of these election contests that are going on around the country, is that if you look at the level of evidence that has been provided by these affidavits — hundreds of affidavits that corroborate events that have happened on the ground — in a summary judgment phase of these cases, you have to take the evidence of the plaintiff as being true," Trainor told "Just the News AM" television show Friday morning.

Trainor said that the massive amounts of affidavits shows there was indeed fraud that took place and "the other side really needs to answer these questions."

Trainor said these are "legitimate accusations" that are going to be tried in court and that we should "let the legal process play out." He hoped that they were able to come to conclusion that everyone would think was "legitimate."

As we reported previously, there have been all kinds of affidavits submitted showing problematic issues, from machines appearing to have been wrongly opened/tampered with prior to use in the election, counters giving Trump votes to Biden and hundreds of pristine non-creased ballots suddenly showing up all marked "Biden." Some of those affidavits are even from people who say they are Democrats. Clearly there was fraud/irregularities. The question is: can you show that there was sufficient issues that will change the results?

One of those questions that could show sufficient issues is questions about uncounted votes and the Dominion systems that happened in Georgia for example and the transposition of votes in Antrim County, Michigan. How do you get a transposition of votes in Antrim County because an election official didn’t do a system update? That’s what the "explanation" was. Then we were told that the system crashed temporarily in one county in Georgia when they did do an update. So it begs the question: how could you have such a transposition and what’s going on with the "updates?" Those would have been good questions to ask Dominion Voting Systems. But they begged out of a public hearing in Pennsylvania and according to the GOP representatives there, the company has "lawyered up." The GOP representatives blasted the company, declaring, "Why are they hiding?"

Posted by: 746 || 11/22/2020 00:15 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Vegas wasn't build using slot machines that played fair. The "House" controls the percentages. Just something to keep in mind.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/22/2020 9:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Software that tallies votes with floating point values instead of integers: riiiight. No manipulation of the results there.

These fuckers are as stupid as they are corrupt
Posted by: Lampedusa Smith8463 || 11/22/2020 9:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Why only now you Americans noticed this?
Posted by: Thorong Grundy1520 || 11/22/2020 12:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Americans notice many things. It's whether they are willing or able to do anything about it is the problem.
Posted by: Clem || 11/22/2020 12:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Trey Trainor is nobody, he's not even at the top.
Posted by: Maggie Uleregum1042 || 11/22/2020 12:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Rudy or Sidney needs to ask the Dem

"Don't you want the elections to be fair? If so, help us investigate, if all the claims of fraud are false the investigation will strengthen your mandate."
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/22/2020 15:59 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Biden faces politically thorny decision on Trump prosecutions
[The Hill] One of the biggest tests awaiting President-elect Joe Biden after he takes office is how his Justice Department will handle calls from some Democrats to investigate and prosecute President Trump.
The hits just keep on comin'!
Trump will lose expansive legal protections after Jan. 20, and the new administration will have to decide whether to follow up on congressional and local law enforcement investigations or try to turn the page on the Trump era and avoid the political risks that could come with such an unprecedented court case.

No former president has ever been charged with a crime after leaving office, but Trump is already the subject of a number of probes. In New York, the state attorney general and the Manhattan district attorney are conducting fraud investigations into his past business practices.

And Biden will likely face pressure from some Democratic lawmakers and voters to go after Trump for what they believe has been a presidential term rife with abuses of power.

"Donald Trump along with his worst enablers must be tried for their crimes against our nation and Constitution," Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.), a veteran of the House Ways and Means Committee, said in a statement this past week. "Importantly, any further abuse of the sacred pardon power to shield criminals would itself be obstruction of justice, and any self-pardons would be illegal."
Posted by: Bobby || 11/22/2020 12:06 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If they do, it will slow any other actions and guarantee a Republican majority in Congress in 2022, and a Republican backlash in state legislatures and the public which could be leveraged for election reform to prevent fraud again. And it will pave the way for a GOP president in 2024,
Posted by: Greater the Anonymous5721 || 11/22/2020 16:14 Comments || Top||

#2  is how his Justice Department will handle calls from some Democrats to investigate and prosecute President Trump

I've seen some of this in the media. They'd best not unless they want to kick off a shit storm the likes of which they have never before seen. Most likely, those lefties who are sitting cozy now will be at risk too. Not a threat, just a prediction.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/22/2020 16:50 Comments || Top||

#3  They have no crime but that never stopped them before.
Posted by: Rjschwarz || 11/22/2020 19:35 Comments || Top||

#4  I think the establishment deep state knows the minefield that is a Trump prosecution. They will launch investigations, sure. It will appease the rabid amongst them for a time. Drag it out a year and then end with a slap on the wrist and then sweep the whole thing under a rug.

Any real push towards a full lockup of Trump and his main supporters will move the needle full into civil war.

The real test is keeping the New York rabid idiots in check.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/22/2020 20:24 Comments || Top||

#5  If they try it, that opens everything up to Trump discovery. Allowing Trump’s investigators to go through the files is the last thing they want
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/22/2020 20:48 Comments || Top||

#6  Why would there be discovery? Or a trial?

Once the decision is made to criminalize opposition to the Democrats, there's no reason to obey due process. No doubt the crimes will be "too serious" to waste effort on things like discovery -- and we've already had the Do"J" hiding exculpatory evidence during a political prosecution.

Any attempt to touch Trump in anyway has to be treated as beyond the pale -- a modern crossing of the Rubicon.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/22/2020 20:54 Comments || Top||

#7  send Durham to investigate Trump
Posted by: Pliny Elmineling2878 || 11/22/2020 22:15 Comments || Top||

#8  There is enough dirt on Hunter to be sent to prison for life. Some of those illegal acts were done in Republican jurisdictions with Republican district attorneys.
Posted by: Sheque Flereting6003 || 11/22/2020 22:21 Comments || Top||

#9  Are they trying to incite another civil war?
Posted by: One Eyed Tingle5652 || 11/22/2020 23:19 Comments || Top||

#10  Good luck with that. You have to provide actual evidence n court, not here say from an unknown ‘whistleblower’.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/22/2020 23:23 Comments || Top||


Sidney Powell Claims That Dominion Is 'Shredding Documents'
[Townhall] Sidney Powell joined Larry O'Connor for an exclusive interview about her legal case on behalf of the Trump campaign in the 2020 presidential election. In her much talked about press conference with Rudy Giuliani on Thursday, she claimed that President Trump won re-election in a landslide, and they were going to prove it.

O'Connor pushed her about her claims that computer software used in the election, particularly Dominion Voting Systems, has been tainted, and he wondered how she would prove it. For starters, Powell said that her legal team has pictures of votes being manipulated in real-time.

"It is terrifying, and it is a huge national security issue," Powell said. "Why the Department of Justice and FBI have not done something, Dominion is closing its offices and moving. No doubt they're shredding documents. God only knows what else. More than 100 Dominion people have wiped any connection with Dominion off the internet."

She also claims that they have testimony from witnesses opening military ballots and trashing them if they were for Trump, and substitute ballots were put in for Biden.

"I'm essentially staking my personal and professional reputation on these allegations, and I have no hesitation from what I've seen in doing so," she noted. "In fact, I think it would be irresponsible if not criminal of me not to come forward with it."
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 11/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Are there any volunteers who will do the work of archiving these sites related to voting systems and their employees before the sites get deleted from Google search.
And also to collect this information from archiving sites like the Wayback Machine before they get deleted from these archiving sites.
Also there needs to be a purge in the CIA, FBI and NSA because there must be many people in there who knew about this voting fraud and covered it up for Biden.
Posted by: boomerc || 11/22/2020 3:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Why not legally charge and get documents seized to prevent this sort of thing?. Hope they have copies of evidence.
Posted by: Rjschwarz || 11/22/2020 8:18 Comments || Top||

#3  I feel helpless. All i can do is support Trump and pray that g-d saves this nation. I put no trust in a cpngress that was elected by people like my sister.
Posted by: james || 11/22/2020 10:05 Comments || Top||

#4  This certainly doesn't smell right. When I worked for a large bank, I would get notices from Legal NOT to shred or erase or delete anything for a period of time. Where is Dominion's Legal Department? Or are they just way more corrupt than I can imagine?
Posted by: Tom || 11/22/2020 12:59 Comments || Top||

#5  You think may Sidney has someone or someones on the inside?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/22/2020 13:06 Comments || Top||

#6  No, she's making stuff up is all.

The US Justice Department is silent. Bob Barr runs it.

The CISA outfit Trump created signed off on a clean election, then Trump fired the man.

Damn people, this is obviously a bunch of low grade propaganda. This Powell woman is a liar and has no data( like FoxNews had to report after they tried to get her on), her and Guiliani are being paid to keep us inflamed so Trump can make a fortune off "Trump TV" starting here in about 4 months, watch and see.

Posted by: Flater Forkbeard8651 || 11/22/2020 13:56 Comments || Top||

#7  When I worked for a large bank, I would get notices from Legal NOT to shred or erase or delete anything for a period of time. Where is Dominion's Legal Department?

Panicked management CYA decision by people whose ethics were long since badly tainted by the business they engage in, Tom, about which the Legal department was deliberately not consulted or informed. Because everyone knows they are legally obliged to advise not to do such things. Legal may well be doing shredding of their own, thinking that convictions are much harder without physical evidence.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/22/2020 15:33 Comments || Top||

#8  Who was the Chris Christie fan from yesterday?
Posted by: Clem || 11/22/2020 16:42 Comments || Top||

#9  Trump's legal team is distancing itself from Sydney Powell Sunday Evening. A HUGE mistake.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 11/22/2020 18:57 Comments || Top||


Jill Biden Chief Of Staff Visa Sale Site Removed After National Pulse Exposé
My apologies, Sheque Flereting6003 — your article was hit with a stray gamma ray attack. I was able to reconstitute everything except your pithy comment, so if you would add that in the comments below, I would be grateful.
[NationalPulse] EB5 Visa Funds, A For-Profit Firm That Sells American Citizenship To Wealthy Foreigners, Has Pulled Its Website Down Following A National Pulse Exclusive Report Linking Jill Biden’s Chief Of Staff To The Company.

Julissa Reynoso, who would serve the First Lady, is listed as a member of the advisory board at the Florida-based company where her previous positions of U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central American, Caribbean and Cuban Affairs in the Obama administration are prominently displayed.
Posted by: Sheque Flereting6003 || 11/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Oregon: Local Officals, Cops Tell Governor Brown To Get Stuffed For Thanksgiving
Apparently, Governor Brown deciding that Antifa rioting is legal has given conservative Oregonians -- of whom there are very many outside of Portland -- the idea that this whole law and order thing is a lot more flexible than they had thought.
[OregonLive] Gov. Kate Brown has imposed a new round of statewide restrictions on businesses and social gatherings -- just in time for Thanksgiving. The emergency orders, intended to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, include limiting gatherings to six people even in private homes.

But Oregon’s sheriffs and other local officials are struggling to figure out how to enforce the orders -- or whether they should enforce them at all -- as the deadly virus rages through their communities. A few sheriffs and police chiefs have said they will disregard the orders and not make arrests or otherwise seek to punish people.

Clackamas County Commissioner Tootie Smith gained national attention this week for saying she will hold a large Thanksgiving celebration with "as many family and friends" as possible, despite the governor’s orders.
"We are adults. We do not need to be treated like second-rate slaves," she said.
Tootie, what part of being a conservative in Kate Brown's Oregon are you not understanding?
Another county's commissioners said "We cannot in good conscience condone citing or potentially arresting people for gathering with family to give thanks on Thanksgiving or for attending Church services."
Which would cause the NYT to call them "far-right extremists".
A local mayor said one of the most surprising comments that the Governor made was, "I am not asking you, I am telling you."
Hey Antifa guys things, here's some actual fascism for you. Knickers on full twist!
She also has said that she is working with the Oregon State Police who will be working with local law enforcement to enforce her orders.
"Mein Fuhrer! I can valk!"

Related: Every sheriff in Los Angeles region refusing to enforce Gavin Newsom's COVID curfew
Posted by: Matt || 11/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  In France a stupid woman is called a female turkey (dinde). Is the Thanks Giving Turkey stuffed?
Posted by: JFM || 11/22/2020 3:48 Comments || Top||

#2  ..traditionally. Usually a breading put into the turkey cavity prior to putting the bird into the oven.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/22/2020 6:04 Comments || Top||


Law Firm Withdraws From Representing Boockvar in Trump Campaign's Pennsylvania Lawsuit
[THEEPOCHTIMES] Law firm Kirkland & Ellis has requested withdrawal from representing Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar in a lawsuit brought forward by the Trump campaign, with Kramer Levin attorney Barry Berke stepping in as a substitute.Kirkland & Ellis attorneys made the request in a notice of substitution of counsel filed on Nov. 20 (pdf), noting that Boockvar would be represented by law firm Kramer Levin, Myers Brier & Kelly, and the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, until the end of legal proceedings.

This is not the first time Berke is to confront President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
’s legal team, with the National Law Journal reporting that Berke served as special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee as it built its impeachment case against Trump.

The move to switch legal representation comes after Linda Kerns, a lawyer leading the Trump campaign’s efforts to dispute the election results in Pennsylvania, complained to a federal court that she received an abusive voicemail from a Kirkland & Ellis attorney, with Kerns saying the message "by any measure falls afoul of standards of professional conduct."

In a response, Kirkland lawyer Daniel Donovan said he thought the call was "discourteous and not appropriate" but disagreed with how Kerns had described it.

He said the company associate was "acting unilaterally, in his personal capacity, without the knowledge or authorization of undersigned counsel or the firm."

Kerns has been placed under official protection after allegedly being subjected to various forms of harassment, with a Nov. 18 filing (pdf) saying she was "the subject of threats of harm, to the point at which the involvement of police and U.S. Marshals has been necessary to provide for her safety."

She wrote on Nov. 16 that she had "been subjected to continuous harassment in the form of abusive emails, phone calls, physical and economic threats, and even accusations of treason—all for representing the President of the United States’ campaign in this litigation."

Kerns later sought permission to quit working on the case, and Judge Matthew Brann allowed her to be "withdrawn as counsel" for the Trump campaign, according to a court filing.

There have been reports of harassment targeting lawyers representing Trump in election-related legal challenges.

The Trump campaign and Republican allies have filed several lawsuits in Pennsylvania, including challenging a deadline extension that allowed mail-in ballots received up to three days after Election Day to be counted, another alleging poll observers were kept too far away from vote counters and that Democrat-majority counties received preferential treatment, and another challenging Boockvar’s deadline extension for absentee voters to provide missing proof of identification.
Posted by: Fred || 11/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Threatening or Intimidation of Court Officials & Counsels....

FELONY 3 to 5 years

So where are the arrests?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/22/2020 4:52 Comments || Top||


CA-21 Republican David Valadao defeats Democrat Incumbent TJ Cox
[REDSTATE] It looks like Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, 21 is another District that has flipped from Blue to Red. Republican David Valadao has defeated first-time incumbent Democrat TJ Cox for the U.S. House of Representatives seat.After the latest update from Kern County, Valadao’s lead of 2,644 votes in the race shrank on Friday to 1,618 votes. The number of votes left to count from Fresno, Kern, Kings, and Tulare counties has dwindled, the lead was enough for Dave Wasserman, U.S. House editor for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report and NBC News contributor to call the race.

Like Young Kim in CA-39, this District was another one stolen by ballot harvesting in 2018. David Valadao was elected in 2012, and had already served three terms. In the 2018 race, the AP had already called the race for Valadao, when late-counted ballots put TJ Cox ahead of him by 862 votes. After two years of Cox, a businessman with a trail of corruption in his wake, voters appear to once again want Valadao to represent them.

AP has not yet called this race, but local publications like the San Joaquin Valley Sun are already making the call:


"Nov. 20, 2020, 4:21 p.m.: With an update of 11,472 provisional ballots breaking 53.67 percent for Rep. TJ Cox (D—Fresno) and putting an insufficient dent into his deficit, The San Joaquin Valley Sun is projecting that former Rep. David Valadao (R—Hanford) will reclaim his seat in Congress.

"Current estimates for remaining uncounted ballots in Kern County — the bluest portion of the south Valley district — sit in the 8,000 ballot range, requiring Cox to win more than 80 percent of remaining ballots."



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Sidney Powell: Some 'May Need Witness Protection' After Our Exposé
[TOWNHALL] Trump Team attorney Sidney Powell on Friday told Newsmax's Howie Carr that once the campaign drops evidence of voter fraud there will be a number of people who will need to be in witness protection. "When are we going to have some positive developments in the president's case here?" Carr asked.

Powell said evidence of fraud will be released this coming week.

"This was very widespread, very deliberate, well-funded and everybody and their pet rock is trying to stop me from exposing it," the attorney said.

According to Powell, the various election software that was used went far beyond just the presidential election and was used so specific people were put in government positions. She believes it was also used against John James, the Republican candidate for Senate in Michigan, and Leon Benjamin, the Republican candidate for Virginia's 4th Congressional District.

"I think they did it to any particularly strong Republican candidate this time around," she said.

When Carr pressed the former federal prosecutor about whether or not there will evidence of a "smoking gun," Powell stated the Trump Team has it.

"We have a number of smoking guns," Powell said. "And we may have to get witness protection for them."

Powell has repeatedly said software and election officials have the ability the flip votes, in this case from Trump to Biden. She claimed the Trump Team also has evidence of dead people voting in the election, something Corey Lewandowski talked about in Pennsylvania earlier this month.

Based on her estimates, Powell believes roughly seven million votes were purged from President Trump and given to former Vice President Biden. She estimates that Biden received at least 10 million fraudulent votes. Although the Trump Team is still verifying the data they were provided with, Powell said if it ends up being solid, several million dead people voted in the 2020 election.

"We've also got evidence of people being paid, check stubs of people being paid to ballot harvest and do fraudulent voting," she said.
Posted by: Fred || 11/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  kyle Rittenhouse is now available.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 11/22/2020 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  I hope she has good bodyguards and avoids Public Parks...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/22/2020 1:38 Comments || Top||

#3  I keep hearing that the good guys will win and great things are coming.... but I have lost hope. Latest example is the fizzle that was Barr and his swamp poodle "prosecutor", and that lawless judge in the Flynn case running the clock all the way past the election.
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 11/22/2020 2:47 Comments || Top||

#4  The fix is in. Behind the scenes the establishment RINOs are supporting this effort to remove Trump. MSM is not hiding their agenda, FBI, big city police... do not even care about ignoring laws and evidence while ginning up charges against Trump & supporters. Buckle up as we have officially slipped into Banana Republic status.
Posted by: Airandee || 11/22/2020 7:24 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ I've reached a similar conclusion Airandee. The suspense in Georgie has yet to fully play out.

If I were Donald, I'd smile, wish everyone the very best, and rotate my remaining days between Turnberry and Aberdeen. Reading, golfing, fishing, birding, enjoying the family.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/22/2020 7:33 Comments || Top||

#6  The problem with banana republics is that you are no longer safe and secure in your own home, you are no longer protected by the Bill of Rights. If they can rig a presidential election we might as well be living in China.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/22/2020 9:29 Comments || Top||

#7  When the wintry wind starts blowing
And the snow is starting to fall
Then my eyes go southward knowing
That's the place that I love best of all
Venezuela I've been blue
Since I've been away from you

Venezuela, here I come
Right back where I started from
Where boxes of ballots arrive overnight
Each evening the shock troops assemble and fight
A nonbinary freak said "Don't be late!"
That's why I can hardly wait
Open up that hellish gate
Venezuela, here I come

Venezuela, here I come, yeah
Right back where I started from
Where fortunes for swampies arrive in the chute
Obamas and Bidens partake of the loot
An oligarch said, "Don't be late!"
That's why I can hardly wait come on, come on
Open up, open up, open up that golden gate
Venezuela, here I come
Posted by: Fat Bob Jump9742 || 11/22/2020 9:30 Comments || Top||

#8  South Dakota is looking better and better.

Posted by: Clem || 11/22/2020 9:36 Comments || Top||

#9  I fear a civil war is coming. At least my kids are young and given where we are it shouldn't be much to us but I get the feeling for many, if Biden steals this election, it's a line too far. And I suspect many democrats will regret all they've done to normal people over the years as they will discover that mercy and compassion got beat out of us and the answer to their treason will be disciplined, ruthless rage. They made it war to the knife and will reap what they've sown.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/22/2020 9:58 Comments || Top||

#10  It will begin with the Harris inauguration.
Posted by: Thimp Clusort2035 || 11/22/2020 10:55 Comments || Top||

#11  It starts now.

Before the other side's thugs beat us into submission.

Before every election in this country becomes suspect.

Before the borders are opened up to hordes of COVID-positive illegals.

Before we permanently hand over our industry supply chain including (all our active pharmaceutical ingredient production) to Biden's Chinese handlers.

Before the fracking industry is destroyed and we revert to endless wars in the Middle East.

Before our historical memory is effaced entirely from the schools and our children are branded as racists along with Mincoln, Jefferson, Washington and Martin Luther King.

Before our Republic is gone forever.
Posted by: Clinesing Mussolini7089 || 11/22/2020 11:12 Comments || Top||

#12  Zinger: She'll need protection from Trumpers once they realize she's bluffing.
Posted by: Maggie Uleregum1042 || 11/22/2020 12:43 Comments || Top||

#13  ^ Fuck off, troll. Your idiot was caught red handed.
Your attempted theft won't stand.
We will fight back -- and we're better armed
Posted by: Vinegar Grumble7784 || 11/22/2020 12:49 Comments || Top||

#14  It might be time for this, VG:
Posted by: Clem || 11/22/2020 12:59 Comments || Top||

#15  Hey Dims, it's gonna be a low down cryin shame for you in GEORGIA baby.

* Joe Biden votes being "weighted" at 1.25 times and President Donald Trump votes being parsed at 3/4.

* Algorithms that gave Democrats 35,000 extra votes.

* Modifications made to voting machines after statutory cutoff dates for changes.

* Past election victories, including Hillary Clinton's primary victory over Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., being forced decided by Dominion Voting Systems.

* Alleged pay-for-play kick backs to public officials, potentially even Georgia GOP Gov. Kemp for a late grant to use Dominion Voting Systems.

"Georgia is probably going to be the first state I'm gonna blow up," (Sidney) Powell said rhetorically with her pending lawsuits alleging massive voter fraud.

Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 11/22/2020 14:11 Comments || Top||

#16  ^ IN OTHER WORDS this ain't about just this election regarding Sidney's prosecution process, it's gonna be about the whole sordid show that has been taking place for years, globally. She is gonna sink the Dim's Ship all the way to bottom of the ocean, baby!
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 11/22/2020 14:22 Comments || Top||

#17  rainy (tainted) night in Georgia
Posted by: Don Vito Elmereper2203 || 11/22/2020 14:23 Comments || Top||

#18  If true, no wonder Facebook and the other Tech companies, the media, and not a few RINOs (staring at you Romney!) are going full press to silence anyone who dares to question the vote or the 'projected winner'.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/22/2020 16:32 Comments || Top||

#19  * Past election victories, including Hillary Clinton's primary victory over Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., being forced decided by Dominion Voting Systems."
Yep. California.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 11/22/2020 22:03 Comments || Top||

#20  LOL Trump Legal Team disavows Sidney Powell
Posted by: Pliny Elmineling2878 || 11/22/2020 22:06 Comments || Top||

#21  The circus continues.
Posted by: Clem || 11/22/2020 22:12 Comments || Top||

#22  Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, Joe DeGenova and others are donating their time to the Trump election litigation. They are not paid and therefore "not a member of the Trump Legal Team".
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UPDATE: Sidney Powell is donating her time and her teams time. She does not work for the Trump Campaign. This was just clarity folks, there is no reason to panic.

The Leftist Mainstream Media is of course in full spin mode here. Sidney never worked for the campaign.

— Matt Couch (@RealMattCouch) November 22, 2020
Posted by: Sheque Flereting6003 || 11/22/2020 22:17 Comments || Top||

#23  Trump told allies that Sidney Powell was too much, even for him, after Thursday. He sees the fight as uphill but fleeting and doesn’t see her as helpful anymore, per several advisers.
Posted by: Pliny Elmineling2878 || 11/22/2020 22:19 Comments || Top||

#24  Yeah Pliny, right.
Posted by: KBK || 11/22/2020 22:47 Comments || Top||

#25  Let's reiterate: The Leftist Mainstream Media is of course in full spin mode here.

Trump can tell the volunteer lawyers to knock it off at any time. He hasn't. We will know this week if Sidney has the goods on Dominion vote cheating or not.
Posted by: Sheque Flereting6003 || 11/22/2020 22:49 Comments || Top||

#26  UPDATE: Sidney Powell is donating her time and her teams time. She does not work for the Trump Campaign. This was just clarity folks, there is no reason to panic.

Thank you for finding this, Sheque Flereting6003
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/22/2020 22:58 Comments || Top||

#27  And to think Barr & Durham were getting paid....
Posted by: Clem || 11/22/2020 23:14 Comments || Top||

#28  In either case let’s hope Sidney has a good bodyguard team and lives to present her case in court.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/22/2020 23:20 Comments || Top||


Georgia SoS Backtracks on Announcement the State Has Certified Election
[REDSTATE] It appears someone in the Georgia secretary of state’s office got a bit over their skis, after Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced today that Georgia had certified former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run. If you believe Tara Reade you probably shouldn't vote for him....
as the state’s presidential winner, which our own Streiff reported earlier on Friday.

Now, the office is backtracking on that. In a live update, under a banner reading, "Georgia secretary of state issues correction, saying certification of its general election results is still under way," the Washington Post reports:

Despite an earlier announcement, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) said the office is still completing its certification. The office issued a correction, reversing an earlier announcement that had declared the certification was complete. Raffensperger said he expects certification to be completed later Friday.

A revised update from WaPo included this depiction of the "error":

His office then stumbled on the final step, prematurely announcing that the certification was complete while only unofficial results remained on the public website. Forty minutes after the big news, the secretary of state’s office corrected its news release and said the results would be released later.
[...]

State law requires Raffensperger to certify the election results by 5 p.m. Friday. Then, Gov. Brian Kemp has until 5 p.m. Saturday to certify the state’s slate of 16 presidential electors.


There was also this more reality-based take from the Washington Examiner:

The snafu was just the latest embarrassing turn in what has been a chaotic electoral process in the traditional Republican state.

Earlier at the state Capitol, Raffensperger had declared: "Working as an engineer throughout my life, I live by the motto that numbers don’t lie."

"As secretary of state, I believe that the numbers that we have presented today are correct. The numbers reflect the verdict of the people, not a decision by the secretary of state’s office or of courts or of either campaign," he said.

Posted by: Fred || 11/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How could anyone certify an election that used the same corrupt system and processes for the recount?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/22/2020 4:56 Comments || Top||

#2  LOL trolls were right
Posted by: Pliny Elmineling2878 || 11/22/2020 22:13 Comments || Top||


Pennsylvania House Approves Audit of Election Results, To Be Reported in February 2021
[PJMedia] Thursday evening, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives voted to approve an audit of the 2020 election.

The Republican-controlled chamber voted 112 — 90 to instruct the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to conduct the audit and report back by early February or hire a contractor to do so. House Democrats objected to the measure, calling it unconstitutional.

The resolution doesn’t require approval by the state Senate or Democrat Governor Tom Wolf.

The Trump campaign is currently contesting the results of the presidential election in Pennsylvania.

According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the committee will generate a report which will include county-by-county and statewide audits.

• For both absentee and mail-in ballots, the number of applications received, the number that were approved by the county board of elections, and the number returned by voters that were subsequently canvassed.

• The number of qualified voters who used provisional ballots.

• The number of applications for absentee ballots from people who were not registered to vote, but subsequently did submit a voter registration application in time for the election — and the same information concerning mail-in ballots.

• For each county, the date and time that the county board of elections began pre-canvassing absentee ballots and mail-in ballots.

The report will also include "reviews of incidents with voting machines; of ’any inconsistent treatment’ of mail-in ballots received after 8 p.m. on Election Day; of any inconsistencies in the way counties processed ’deficient’ ballots; and of access given to poll watchers and ’authorized representatives.'"
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/22/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I would also like to see

- number of naked ballots (those without security envelop) counted and number of naked ballots uncounted

- number of mail in ballots with illegible signatures and no/false address on security envelop counted

How do we assure that no tampering occurs between now and audit?
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/22/2020 10:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Horse ---> passage of time ---> barn door...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/22/2020 10:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Sequester the votes and guard them and then guard the guards.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/22/2020 12:58 Comments || Top||



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