Recently, I spoke at an event about my book, “The Indispensable Right,” at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Appearing on the panel with me was a New York University professor and one of the Facebook board members directing “content moderation.” We had a sharp disagreement over the record of Meta/Facebook on censorship, which I described as partisan and anti-free speech. Now, Congress has released the internal communications at Facebook, showing an express effort to appease Biden officials by censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story before the election.
In a new report released by the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government, Facebook executives are shown following the lead of the FBI, which gave them prior warnings to prepare to spike such stories before the election. The FBI knew that the laptop was authentic. They had possession of the laptop, and American intelligence concluded that it was not Russian disinformation.
One Microsoft employee wrote, “FBI tipped us all off last week that this Burisma story was likely to emerge,”
However, these communications also show a knowing effort to appease Biden and Harris and effectively assist them in their election efforts. Facebook’s then-Vice President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg reportedly wrote to Vice President of Global Public Policy Joel Kaplan, “[o]bviously, our calls on this could colour the way an incoming Biden administration views us more than almost anything else.”
One of the most interesting communications came from a Facebook employee who recognized that they would be accused of seeking to influence the election: “When we get hauled up to [Capitol] [H]ill to testify on why we influenced the 2020 elections, we can say we have been meeting for YEARS with USG [the U.S. government] to plan for it.”
The Facebook files go beyond influencing the election. At one point, Nick Clegg, the company’s president of global affairs, asked, “Can someone quickly remind me why we were removing—rather than demoting/labeling—claims that Covid is man made.” The Vice President in charge of content policy responded, “We were under pressure from the administration and others to do more. We shouldn’t have done it.”
Notably, Democrats opposed every effort to seek this information, and Facebook only recently relented in turning over its files years after Elon Musk ordered the release of the “Twitter files.” I raised this issue during the NCC event to counter the glowing self-appraisal of Meta over its record. Despite its claims of transparency, it refused calls from many of us for years to release these files. When finally forced by the House to do so, CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a perfunctory apology and moved on. As shown at the NCC event, it is now spinning its record as a defense of free speech.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
Mark Cuban — an official Harris campaign surrogate — just doubled down on Biden’s Trump-supporters-are-garbage comment, indicating specifically that Trump supporting *women* are garbage, namely, weak and dumb. (This although Trump is the best choice for women in this election, as only he wants to keep men out of women’s sports and women’s locker rooms, end the sex-trafficking at the borders, and stem the flow of fentanyl ruining women’s lives.) Kayleigh McEnany asks, in response, if these women are weak and dumb: herself, Kellyanne Conway, Brooke Rollins, Ivanka Trump, Hope Hicks, Sarah Sanders, Nikkey Haley (who still supports him), Amy Coney Barrett (whom he appointed to Scotus), Suzie Wilds, Caroline Leavitt . . . and you can probably name 100 more strong, intelligent women who support Trump or work closely with him.
https://x.com/kayleighmcenany/status/1852036454798532862
They always project.
OldManFromKS,
Good on McEnany to call Cuba out for his dumb comment.
“Mark Cuban — an official Harris campaign surrogate — just doubled down on Biden’s Trump-supporters-are-garbage comment, indicating specifically that Trump supporting *women* are garbage, namely, weak and dumb.”
This isn’t merely desperation, it’s culpable stupidity in a lame, misguided attempt to alleviate it. How much further damage have the Demons done to their Presidential campaign via these recent idiotic insults out of Biden, Harris, and Cuban? Don’t get me wrong, I welcome these failures increasing the odds of a GOP sweep on Tuesday, it’s just that the depths of their stupidity simply boggles my mind.
Anon – some on the left are slowly being red-pilled by the lunacy of their leaders. Here is Ana Kasparian, of the left-wing TYT broadcast (The Young Turks), who is starting to see the light concerning the moral rot at the center of today’s Dem party. I have high hopes for her:
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1852071947145740726
* The clientele is different now. There’s the lower class and the underclass. These are People living without food, shelter and clothing not to mention medical care. They’ve been abused from birth on. Many are handicapped and life is a daily struggle to survive. They’ve no really had a family of any kind as a safety net.
The question has become are they greater than 50% of the population in numbers. The future is a working class supporting a non working class.
Bill Clinton just said layken Riley would be alive if the border were checked. He then said we must import people to do the work because you don’t have enough babies. Could this be the essence of the pro life movement anti abortion? Just more workers?
No abortions because we need workers.
The upshot is you will give half your earnings to others not working. That’s the plan. Add to it, we’ll steal 99% of the money meant for the non working people. 450 000 dollars for one apt for the homeless. That’s seriously happening and they’re made of cardboard, pressed cardboard.
* It’s theft, fraud, money laundering, etc. And the homeless remain un-sheltered.
* So the Democrats are now saying they know what a woman is? Kbj , what is a woman? A woman is garbage.
It’s projection. I can’t psychoanalyse it but it’s compare and contrast and still misses the point.
Trump is appealing to the selfish a-hole constituency.
He must be really proud to have such people as his constituents.
Awww…what is it you demand of me that I’d prefer you keep your useless greedy hands off?
How many shares of stock have you paid into America?
The Hunter Biden Laptop Scandal will one day be regarded as the greatest scandal in American history. It involves the intersection of the respective corruptions of: the supposedly incorruptible FBI; the leaders of the intelligence agencies, who are supposed to know something; the MSM, who are supposed to be dedicated to the “The Truth”; Social Media, who are supposed to be non-political; Joe Biden, a man at the forefront of American political life for many years, with a special Brief as VP in Eastern Europe; and the Democratic Party as a whole. What was involved? The selection of our political leaders for four years, which could turn out to be the difference between nuclear war and peace.
“the supposedly incorruptible FBI”
That is a laugh and a half. Since when, and according to who?
There’s also the betrayal of a sitting president by various government actors and agencies to help unseat the president. It involves treason and election interference. And Joe was able to take advantage of it and lie to the country so as to get elected and live his dream.
I wish that we had better candidates, but Trump was wronged — and so was the entire country — by these people and they should be held accountable. I’d be surprised if Harris would lift a finger if given the chance.
We need a general who will man-up and conquer Ukraine, despite how the Russians feel about it, like MacArthur conquered Japan and Korea.
There are no generals like that anymore. Obama replaced them all with political hacks. And if there was one, I am sure the Russians would stand back and let him conqueror the Ukraine so they would not have too.
It is irrational to let Ukraine turn into a new East Germany after all of Reagan’s efforts: ” Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”
OBAMA WANTS TO KNOW EVERYTHING WE’RE DOING
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“’Why We Influenced the 2020 Elections’: Facebook Files Reveal the Coordinated Effort to Bury the Laptop Story”
– Professor Turley
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The communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs) in America did a little more than “Influence the 2020 Elections” after Hillary commenced Russia, Russia, Russia.
They’re still doing it.
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“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
– Barack Obama
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“We will stop him.”
– Peter Strzok to FBI paramour Lisa Page
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“[Obama] wants to know everything we’re doing.”
– Lisa Page to FBI paramour Peter Strzok
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“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way he gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before 40.”
– Peter Strzok to FBI parmour Lisa Page
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“People on the 7th floor to include Director are fired up about this [Trump] server.”
– Bill Priestap
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The Obama Coup D’etat in America is the most egregious abuse of power and the most prodigious crime in American political history.
The co-conspirators are:
Kevin Clinesmith, Bill Taylor, Eric Ciaramella, Rosenstein, Mueller/Team, Andrew Weissmann,
James Comey, Christopher Wray, McCabe, Strozk, Page, Laycock, Kadzic, Sally Yates,
James Baker, Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr, Priestap, Kortan, Campbell, Sir Richard Dearlove,
Christopher Steele, Simpson, Joseph Mifsud, Alexander Downer, Stefan “The Walrus” Halper,
Azra Turk, Kerry, Hillary, Huma, Mills, Brennan, Gina Haspel, Clapper, Lerner, Farkas, Power,
Lynch, Rice, Jarrett, Holder, Brazile, Sessions (patsy), Nadler, Schiff, Pelosi, Obama,
Joe Biden, James E. Boasberg, Emmet Sullivan, Gen. Milley, George Soros, John McCain,
Marc Elias, Igor Danchenko, Fiona Hill, Charles H. Dolan, Jake Sullivan, Strobe Talbot,
Cody Shear, Victoria Nuland, Ray “Red Hat” Epps, Don Berlin, Kathy Ruemmler, Rodney Joffe,
Paul Vixie, L. Jean Camp, Andrew Whitney, Lisa O. Monaco, Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg, Matthew Colangelo,
Merrick Garland, Juan Merchan, George Clooney, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries,
David Axelrod et al.
My fellow free citizens have been more intrusive to me than the government ever has been.
All that and you missed McCord. Hmmmmm
Gee, ya think? Pfft. Sorry, but this is like saying water is wet. Zuckerburg is no Musk, and he can eff right off. There was plenty of opportunity to do the right thing before, he and his company very consciously chose not to. Do not expect sympathy from us, Mark. May his fall be as dramatic as his idiotic rise way back when was in the first place. No one sane ever believed in that fool of a kid, and that has not changed. Mark is still a pathetic loser that could not get a girlfriend because he is very much a creepy sociopath.
“We have the ability to see what can be, unburdened by what has been, and then to make the possible actually happen.”
– Kamala Harris Quoting Karl Marx In The Communist Manifesto
All the MAGA crowd was so gleeful about the bimbo eruptions for Clinton.
Now that you have your own convicted sex offender (Clinton was not a convicted sex offender, he lied in front of a federal judge). It’s ho hum. trump is a sexual abuser, so what.
@Anonmi
For Pete’s sake: MAGA is not a thing for those of us that are just overwhelmingly done with the DNC. You are flipping idiot that almost certainly lives in a generational brownstone in NYC. F*** off, already. Really, none of us care. Your lack of ability to parse logic is the only phenomenal thing about you, and it’s why we all think you are just another ActBlue avatar. Pfft. And if you aren’t that, you are just sad.
There’s a difference between justice and corruption. Clinton’s most egregious crime was raping Juanita Broaddrick when he himself was the law, the Attorney General of Arkansas. Of course, his serial rape persisted for decades. It is difficult to fathom the depth of the personal rot and political corruption of Bill and Hillary Clinton, two people whose personal lives were so rotten and corrupt that they produced but one politically perfunctory child in order that they not be “childless cat [candidates].”
Trump’s civil suit was a railroad BS trial of manipulation and deception reportedly created in George Conways living room and funded by a TDS afflicted billionaire. Bill Clinton has been accused by victim that he forcibly raped Juanita Broderick and was never even charged. I wouldn’t think anyone looks at this in it quite the same way as you’re trying to spin it.
Back on Topic; Is this the “October Surprise,” albeit a little late, that we have been expecting; only this time from the Right!
As someone famous (I forget who) said: “You can fool All of the people Some of the time; and you can fool Some of the people All of the time. But you can’t fool All of the people All of the time.”
“One can fool some men, or fool all men in some places and times, but one cannot fool all men in all places and ages.”
– Jacques Abbadie, 1684
Well yeah of course it was immoral, and it was wrong, and it may have even been illegal and conspiratorial, if not a violation of the Constitution, and all of that. But, it only effected the useful idiots who continue to put stock in anything they see on socialist media, like in this case. The fellow cited in JT’s article; “The Vice President in charge of content policy responded, We were under pressure from the administration and others to do more. We shouldn’t have done it.”
Right, the devil made us do it… “I committed armed robbery of the bank cause my kids needed food.” And in the modern extremist leftist vernacular it is translated by the media into: it wasn’t an armed bank robbery, it was a mostly peaceful undocumented withdrawal.
One sure fire way to change all that is to stop using the blasted stuff. Unless one is only wanting to be titillated by the pearls of wisdom some lost and lonely soul posts every fifteen minutes concerning the sorry life they have, or what they had for breakfast, or the latest selfie they took before falling backwards off a ledge, or their pet cat chasing a potentially eye damaging, perhaps eye blinding laser toy for the fortieth time…
Stop being manipulated. But where to get the truth? Ah, that’s another story. If that is what is actually sought. Read. Read news from around the world, not just what you’re comfortable with. Read the news from several different countries. (You’ll be surprised at what “isn’t” reported in this country on what serves as the “news” broadcasted here. Even the ultra leftist Japanese news on cable gives more information on what is happening in the US, than the US news does. I’m sorry, not, but anyone using social media for anything beyond comedy just doesn’t make sense.
Most of all this comes about due to a lazy populace who wants to sit and be fed enlightenment at the price of accepting lies as truth from those with agenda’s rather than do a bit, and only a slight bit, of searching for the news and then discerning wisely as to what is actually true and what was fed to you by who knows who, to persuade you into someone else’s narrative.
While Facebook was censoring the story, the NY Post published it. Others published it. And someone believed what they saw on Facebook???
In a world where good is called bad, and bad is called good, and a growing majority of the populace can no longer even define reality… It’s about the best shot you have at separating yourself from the herd stampeding headlong towards the edge of the cliff. The brain – use it or lose it.
As the old joke goes; Patient: “Doc my arm hurts when I move it like this.” Doctor: “Well then, don’t move it like that.”
As federal environmental law compliance regulator once told me that in order for the law to work, there must be an occasional enforcement action that nails the wolves hide to the barn. In doing this all the other wolves take note and stay out of the shepherd’s pasture.
I believe this and this is the fundamental reason why these political criminals must be held accountable. I saw Bannon pushing for a Hunter Biden pardon, I say BS, if it were YOU, would you get a pardon? Ask any J6er serving years in federal prison what they think?!
You have to have a law with “fair warning” before that law can be enforced. I can guarantee the masterminds behind the Hunter-Laptop-cover-up were trained lawyers, schooled in political psyOps (Mike Morrell for sure), and knew that pushing out a counter-narrative (public fraud) was NOT ILLEGAL — unless it defamed someone. So, they were careful not to defame anyone in devising their whopper.
People are starting to understand, just because you are deeply offended by Biden-Blinken-Morrell’s sleazy, deceptive infowarfare to tilt the election outcome — that doesn’t make what they did illegal.
We need Public Frauds torts law (modeled after defamation law, but with lightning-fast subpoenas) to make that kind of devious, conniving, manipulative behavior too risky to try. When we achieve that, it will change the behavior of partisan hacks like Marc Elias and Mike Morrell (their forerunner was Lee Atwood).
Ergo, “All the appearances of Russian disinformation.” Time to end the wordsmiths ability to sidestep what their intent truly is, and that is subversion and sedition of a duly elected president.
Pbinca: When we achieve that, it will change the behavior of partisan hacks like Marc Elias and Mike Morrell (their forerunner was Lee Atwood).
You are lying by omission yet again, pbinca. You deliberately and knowingly skipped right past the Clinton/Obama/Biden/DNC illegally commissioned and paid for 2016 “Trump Russia Dossier” (that both Marc Elias and Mike Morrell took part in creating and defending) to go back to Lee Atwood/Atwater. He did NOTHING even remotely illegal as Marc Elias did, nor hide evidence of criminal conduct by the White House as Mike Morrell did. As a citizen only, he was a consultant on strategy. Never gave false statements, never acted as a bagman for political corruption?
How can you hope to have any credibility here with all your insinuations of criminal behavior and weird memory quirks seem to be associated with Democrat Memory Holes?
I can guarantee the masterminds behind the Hunter-Laptop-cover-up were trained lawyers, schooled in political psyOps (Mike Morrell for sure)
How about the masterminds behind the Democrats’ Big Lie that they didn’t do anything to rig the 2020 election – most transparent and fair election in American history? Marc Elias and his lawyers finding bureaucrats willing to unconstitutionally change state voting laws, the judges in those states allowing them to do that, Zuckerburg’s hundreds of millions of dollars selectively dumped into reliable Democrat voting districts to “get out the vote”, etc?
What would we call those posting here who claim ‘The Big Lie’ was Trump still saying all of that rigged the 2020 election? Know any of the Democrat apparatchiks who push that as the Democrat response, pbinca?
You’re a pathetic false flag sailing around in waters that aren’t as gullible as those you’re more at home in.
The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
https://time.com/magazine/us/5936018/february-15th-2021-vol-197-no-5-u-s/
Gloating confession about how they defeated “Trump’s election plot”, while claiming it was just self defense – Trump (being virtually Hitler and all that) forced them to unlawfully change state voting laws, Zuckerbucks, orchestrating the timing of the Floyd nationwide riots, etc.
Wait! Is the Valor-Stealing 82nd Lil Bow Wow Sans MOS attacking the Stalwart Sailors again?
Wait! Is that the child molesting gun bunny that got tossed out of the military just like Hunter Biden because a paratrooper turned him in after he saw him soliciting little boys outside the naval base?
You shouldn’t take his posts so hard, little cut like a marshmallow Airsoft Warrior Gun Bunny… it’s not like his posts are Hunter Biden’s dick.
A public fraud that cost taxpayers $42M and subverted the duly elected President from his and the deplorables that elected him agenda.
“You have to have a law with “fair warning” before that law can be enforced”
Ignorance of the law is not an excuse.
That whole comment was pretty funny. I often wonder how many people can not draw the obvious conclusion. Folks I know, and myself, knew right away as being obvious:
The Russia collusion accusation was nonsense.
The laptop was legit.
The virus came from the lab.
Joe was corrupt regards influence peddling.
And not right away, but pretty quickly, that Blasey-Ford was lying.
That our government is now corrupt is no longer in question. The only thing that remains to be seen is if we can turn things around. It could start with a Trump adminstration holding democrats accountable for the same actions that they have taken against Republicans. In his deranged monologue last night, Jimmy Kimmel stated- “If you want to vote for Trump, vote late. Vote very late. Do your voting on Thursday or maybe Friday.”
Just as a reminder, the DOJ prosecuted Douglass Mackey and sentenced him to 7 months in prison for a meme he created telling Hillary Clinton supporters to vote by text. We were told at that time how serious it was to provide misleading information to voters and anyone doing so would be punished.
Can anyone tell me why the two circumstances are different, with the exception that Jimmy’s statement reached far many more people?
Not just Democrats, corruption is not a single party issue. All corruption, lobbyists, grifters, bureaucrats, donors and politicians alike.
This is true. This is also why cheneys, bushes, bolton, flake, the big hedge fund guys, and media/advertising/and most tech are on team harris and also why Trump destroyed 17 or so establishment repubs in 2016 and took over the party – the rank and file conservatives wanted the corrupt war mongers out. Trump/RFK/Gabbard are a way towards ending some of that corruption.
I’ll explain it. The law as written by Congress determines what is legal vs. illegal. The law is NOT what you and I perceive as corrupt — until the law makes that specific misconduct the basis for a lawsuit or criminal charges.
Apparently, there is a law forbidding deliberate attempts to steer people away from voting who intend to vote.
And, yes, currently, pushing out a whopper to dupe a slice of the electorate about Hunter’s laptop being “Russian hacking”, with intent to tilt the election outcome — that’s not illegal unless it defames someone.
This is a legal-themed blog site. It’s amazing how few commenters understand legal vs. illegal, and confuse it with OK in my mind vs. corrupt.
The suppression of the truth by the FBI in collusion with the Harris Biden Administration is election interference. Same as Obama’s IRS campaign against conservative non profits. It’s against the law as is the undoubted shake down selling our government by the Biden brand.
You didn’t explain it all. Why is creating a meme telling people to vote by text chargeable with an offense for “conspiracy to interfere with potential voters’ right to vote”, while telling people to vote on the wrong day is not charged as the same? What makes the meme illegal and Jimmy’s statement legal, when neither is correct about how to vote?
pbinca ran up her/his/its false flag: I’ll explain it. The law as written by Congress determines what is legal vs. illegal.
Where did you and Marc Elias and the Democrats find written law from Congress that said it was legal during the 2020 election campaign for Marc Elias and dozens of lawyers on his teams to go to critical battleground states and find unelected bureaucrats to change those states’ voting laws?
When the Constitution explicitly says that state voting laws can only be amended by the elected representatives of the state? Can you even explain how Congress can pass a law allowing Marc Elias to subvert that section of the Constitution? Never mind give us a reference to where Congress wrote and passed a law (signed by Trump, as the president) making that legal?
No… of course you can’t explain it. Because it’s not legal.
Apparently, there is a law forbidding deliberate attempts to steer people away from voting who intend to vote.
Does that law say that it’s only deliberate if it’s a barely known blogger with what most would call a mocking meme?
But NOT a deliberate attempt if it’s a mocking line out of the Democrat trash mouth of a Democrat apparatchik named Jimmy Kimmel? Democrat Different Two Standards Of Justice?
It’s amazing how few commenters understand legal vs. illegal, and confuse it with OK in my mind vs. corrupt.
What’s not amazing is that Democrats here like you post as though they’re clear on what’s Constitutional and how Congress can apparently give Democrats permission to go right around the Constitution as well as the written laws of Congress. Never mind pretending much of it was also straight out illegal corruption.
Whether it’s Obama/Biden ignoring the Constitution and rule by way of his phone and pen.
Or Obama/Clinton/Biden/DNC/FBI/DOJ violating both the Constitution and the written laws of Congress with their ‘Trump Russia Dossier’. Know anybody involved that Obama/Biden sent to those FISA courts to perjure themselves to get those warrants that ever spent a day in court as a result?
You picked the wrong theater to attempt your unending kabuki theater act, pbinca.
At least Dennis McIntyre doesn’t attempt his lies in the guise of being an even minded impartial commentator; I’ll give him that.
pbinca – while you are correct that the 51 former intel officers, and the biden campaign did not violate any laws.
Niether does anyone else NOT acting as an agent of government, if they tell lies regarding an election.
Any law that asserts that an ordinary person can not lie about an election is unconstitutional.
Congress or states can not make any law the wish.
Our law makers can no make breathing a crime.
They are not different
Neither Mackey not Kimmel committed a crime.
Laws to the countrary are unconstitutional.
America’s election(s) have become so convoluted where we now even award lazy procrastinators to mail their ballot on election day yet close early voting days before election day, ain’t that something. This colossal subversion of the electoral process lies at the feet of the Democratic Party. A nation with hopes to soon travel to Mars is incapable of accurately reporting exact result of an election within minutes of closing, (Wall Street has results within milliseconds with volumes of millions of shares traded at the NYSE not including NASDAQ or CBOE). Continuing with the election process, protections to prevent fraud have been cast aside for expediency and to open the door for victory with stuffed votes. I’m sorry to say I haven’t had trust in a Presidential election since the 1960’s.
True, if we had secure electronic voting, results could be posted when the polls close. But that would require secure individual ID as a supporting infrastructure. The same with the Census. We could have a database census, where births go into the national database, and deaths are similarly entered — then we wouldn’t have to pay half a million census-takers to do a nose count every 10th year. Could govt. be trusted to manage a population database, keep it secure from theft/fraud, and police it to detect any illegal insider use? That trust factor is what it would take, and right now, the answer is “no”. But someday?…possibly. Then, government could know who its citizens are and aren’t, and eliminate vast opportunities for benefits fraud and tax evasion. We could vote directly on policy issues (would need an Amendment to Constitution).
Other countries (New Zealand) have a national biometric population database, and we should follow how it’s working with interest. If we had trustworthy public servants, the USA could be in the lead on such modern, secure infrastructure.
pbinca
I am an embedded software developer.
I have code in the Linux kernel.
I have developed projects far more sophisticated than electronic voting systems.
I am also an absolute hard NO to electronic voting of any kind.
While there are ways – in theory to design it well and secure it.
It will ALWAYS be a black box that requires voters to trust multiple parties without establishing a foundation for that trust.
Trust is incredibly important.
But we should never rest critical systems on trust when we have alternatives that do NOT require trust.
Voting that is near impossible to defraud is almost trivial.
While I personally prefer voting ONLY on election day – that is a choice, it is not a requirement for security.
Though the longer an election takes place the greater the oportunities for fraud.
The first requirement for election security is transparency.
That is a major reason you do NOT want electronic voting systems.
And that if you have any, you MUST have random manual audits.
I think electronic tabulators are fine – so long as where is a system of random audts.
Run your ballot through the scanner and it cans and tabulates your vote.
Every ballot that goes through a specific tabulator is marked by that tabulator, so that it is possible to later hand count the ballots and compare to the results of the tabulator.
Manufacturing process control has worked out long ago the statistics on random testing to validate against defects. Fraud is just a form of defect. Further random audits serve as a deterent to fraud – so long as they are truly random.
Which raises another issue – there MUST be severe consequences for actual fraud.
Today there are not. People are convicted all the time. When they are charged with thousands of counts, they plead to a handful, and get suspended sentences, and often get their record expunged in a few years.
The criteria for safe secure voting were established long ago by the australian or “secret Ballot” – which is written into the constitution of 28 states – and ignored.
A secret ballot has 4 requirements.
1) an official ballot being printed at public expense,
2) on which the names of the nominated candidates of all parties and all proposals appear,
3) being distributed only at the polling place and
4) being marked in secret.
Ballots might as well be Money, and they should be printed and handled exactly like they are.
AZ’s new system where ballots are printed at the polls by laser printers is an open invitation to election fraud.
Ballots should be treat like Money. They should be difficult to forge, blank ballots should be carefully acounted for, hauled arround by armoured cars, and have chain of custody requirements that get people fired, and sued if they are violated.
Filled in ballots should NEVER leave the “precinct” where the vote takes place.
There is no way to secure mailin voting – just get rid of it.
Having it makes fraud – not only in mailin voting but every othr kind of fraud easier and harder to catch.
Once ballots leave control of election officials – even if you detect fraud at a later time, you can not figure out how that fraud occurred.
Do you know why Costco checks receipts as customers leave the store ?
It is NOT primarily to prevent shoplifting – though it accomplishes that.
But to prevent employees takin products out the back door which is a larger problem.
If there is Zero or near zero shoplifting – then all losses must be from employee pilfering.
Employees KNOW that and therefore employee pilfering is radically reduced because the likelyhood of catching them increases.
All the same things are true of voting.
Everything that you do that puts ballots in more hands means even if you detect Fraud, you probably will never be able to catch the person who committed the fraud.
While there are many ways to conduct trustworthy elections,
I will propose a really simple one.
Eliminate voter registration entirely. It serves no purpose.
But require voter ID to vote. Photo ID, proof that you reside in the precinct, and that you are a citizen.
Most states now report citizenship on drivers licenses and State IDs.
Or you can bring a birth certificate, passport, Passport card, Global crossings Card, TSA ID, or any of many other ways to prove citizenship.
No registration, you just show up to vote and provide the appropriate ID. Simple.
No ID, no vote. Wrong address on ID – no vote. No citizenship – no vote.
We can have FOR CAUSE Absentee balloting – done exactly the same as voting at a precinct.
Show up at a county election office or a US Embassy or a military election office, have your ID, fill out your ballot, double seal it in envelopes and have it securely transported by election officials to the precinct in which you live for counting on election day.
For actual shutins we do exactly the same thing – except that we send an election official, with observers and a ballot to your home.
The Ballot never leaves their control.
If you want “early voting” – that is Still done at your precinct no different from election day voting.
No precinct should ever be larger than 15,000 citizens.
If you want to make voting even easier – allow voting by paper ballot at any notary.
Pay the notaries for each ballot tabulated. Again ballots do not leave the place in which you vote.
all of the above operates such that nearly all voters come to a poll to vote – only a very small percent do not vote at polls.
This is incredibly important – because it allows the media to conduct exit polls that WILL accurately reflect the election.
With 10% or 50% of voting by mail – exit polls are worthless.
With 98% of voting at the polls – exit polls are an independent audit of the election.
You want the results of voting to be broadcast electronically nearly immediately – BTW that is actually already the case.
As ballots are scanned by tabulators, and the Data cards are pulled the results are transmitted both to the county and state election officials and the press. This is where the realtime information that we saw in 2020 showing spikes in the wee hours after the election.
But much more important is exit polls. Exit polls are a real time audit by the media of the election.
If the exit polls and the vote tallies are significantly off – we start looking for Fraud.
But exit polls are useless when you have mailin voting.
I would note that while I am NOT opposed to using tabulators so long as here is random auditing.
If you really want trust – hand count ballots with the public and press overseeing the counting.
And again DO NOT transport ballots away from polls to counting centers.
I would note all of the above inccluding hand counting should still give you realtime results by midnight on election day.
Places all over the world have election results in hours.
Many of those very large countries.
At the same time – if precincts are small – no more than 15000 citizens. And with very few exceptions people vote only in their precinct – the counting problem is simply – can you count 15000 ballots from start o day election day through a few hours after the close of the polls.
It does not matter if there are 1 million voters or a billion. No poll must count more than 15000 ballots.
Show up at a county election office or a US Embassy or a military election office, have your ID, fill out your ballot,
Stop right there. How do they have a ballot for your precinct? They can’t stock ballots for every precinct in the USA! The only answer is that they have to be able to print one on demand, as they do in Arizona. But you don’t like that.
allow voting by paper ballot at any notary.
Again, that only works if notaries can print ballots on demand. And what a security nightmare that would be.
This works in other countries because they only have elections for one or two offices on the same day. So the ballots each remote location has to stock are limited. Take Australia; at a national election each voter gets only two ballots, one for the House and one for the Senate. There are 150 districts in the House, 6 states, and 2 territories. Therefore every remote voting location has to stock a reasonable number of 158 different ballots. You show up and give your address, they look up what district and state/territory you’re in, and give you the appropriate ballot. On election day you can show up at any polling place anywhere in the country, and they all have a small stock of all 158 ballots.
That can’t work in the USA where in each precinct there can be a dozen races or more, and a voter gets one ballot that has all the races going on in that precinct. There are hundreds of thousands of precincts, each with their own ballot. You can’t stock all of those at all remote voting locations.
“THE FOUNDERS DENIED THE VOTE TO PERSONS AS ARE IN SO MEAN A SITUATION THAT THEY ARE ESTEEMED TO HAVE NO WILL OF THEIR OWN, OF INDIGENT FORTUNES, OR SUCH AS ARE UNDER THE IMMEDIATE DOMINION OF OTHERS, AND PERSONS WHO ARE SUSPECTED TO HAVE NO WILL OF THEIR OWN.”
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The Founders gave States the power, as approved by Congress, to conduct elections in times, places and manner and to qualify or deny voters. Early elections required ID and the presentation of the State-qualified voter at a polling place. Early voter qualifications were generally male, European, 21, 50 lbs. Sterling or 50 acres.
America was established as a restricted-vote republic.
America was never to be a one-man, one-vote democracy and turnout was merely 11.6% in 1789.
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“the people are nothing but a great beast…
I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.”
– Alexander Hamilton
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“The true reason (says Blackstone) of requiring any qualification, with regard to property in voters, is to exclude such persons, as are in so mean a situation, that they are esteemed to have no will of their own.”
“If it were probable that every man would give his vote freely, and without influence of any kind, then, upon the true theory and genuine principles of liberty, every member of the community, however poor, should have a vote… But since that can hardly be expected, in persons of indigent fortunes, or such as are under the immediate dominion of others, all popular states have been obliged to establish certain qualifications, whereby, some who are suspected to have no will of their own, are excluded from voting; in order to set other individuals, whose wills may be supposed independent, more thoroughly upon a level with each other.”
– Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 1775
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“[We gave you] a [restricted-vote] republic, if you can keep it.”
– Ben Franklin, 1787
“America was never to be a one-man, one-vote democracy and turnout was merely 11.6% in 1789.”
Yes, it was, you fvcking spastic.
Notice the Founders (capitalized because you’re an idiot) also designed ways to change what they originally laid out. The fact that you dont like the changes is immaterial.
Get a clue.
actually, before 1960. Everyone knows the 1960 election was decided by ballot-stuffing in Illinois.
* OT. Glad I waited to vote. After the Trump ride in the garbage truck with sign, he’s it.
He should buy the right to use Stevie Ray Vaughn and the Thunderbirds song—> Tuff Enuff.
Love it 😂
WhenIf we get hauled up to [Capitol] [H]ill to testify on why…At this point, what difference does it make. And that’s the strategy, isn’t it? Time. That one thing that cannot be undone. So when elections are on the clock, schemes like censorship and violations of election law are not on the same clock. It’s always time-late and the penalties amount to a slap on the wrist. Compare that to the J6’ers imprisoned for “parading”. Threats to democracy! And yet 51 former intelligence officials, media outlets, Google, FB, Twitter, DNC, IC, etc. enjoy freedom, celebrity and contracts to continue their tactics for the Regime.
Exactly right, Olly. I’m looking forward to the day their own rules will be used against them.
JAFO, until the punishment fits the intent of the crime, nothing will deter more of this from happening. Consider what Clinesmith received for his “crime”. 12 months probation and 400 hours of community service. He kept his law license. Oh, he only altered an email, so that was the “crime”. But the intent of altering the email was to defraud the FISA court to renew a surveillance (spying) warrant on Carter Page and of course anyone in his orbit, including Trump and his administration. If we punished the provable intent and not just the crime, he should be looking at treason or espionage charges.
Olly, at the very least, those in the FBI who did not uphold their oaths should have immediately lost their jobs, security clearance and pensions. If a layperson did what was done by some FBI officials, they would have been punished to the maximum. Since the FBI used their clearance and power, they should be punished at least twice as much.
Olly, it’s not just the ones who committed the actions, but also those who knew and did nothing. They, at the very least, should have been suspended without pay. If they were in the military, the penalties would have been harsher. This is about accountability, and it should be the same for everyone.
In the broadest of terms, all people with special licenses should be penalized much more severely than others when they misuse that license. That should include doctors, lawyers, teachers, etc.
Olly, glad you mentioned “time-late” factor. I have refined Justice Harlan’s dictum in regards to “free speech”:
“The antidote to false information is true information, but only if the truth emerges fast enough to still matter, and only if a legal toolset exists to achieve that timeliness”.
pbinca, I don’t believe that’s the antidote to the “poison” of false information. If someone was bit by a snake, it does them no good to simply know it was a rattlesnake. It’s the damage that will happen until they receive the antivenom. We have to realize that we have vipers in positions of power and they either need to be defanged, or removed. The punishment should reflect the intended affect of the lie, not just the lie.
olly – MORE SPEECH is the “antivenom”
All that is necescary is to thwart government suppression of speech.
MORE SPEECH is the “antivenom”
John Say, while I agree that MORE SPEECH is necessary, exposing their lies with truth has resulted in what exactly? Exposing this brood of vipers hasn’t rid us of them and they certainly haven’t lost their ability to do harm. I’ve lost count of the number of whistleblowers that have been punished for exposing the truth.
Absent government censorship in the modern era there is no “truth emerging fast enough” issue.
The only time the Truth has not arrived very quickly today – is when govenrment is actively supressing it.
Hear, hear!
@OLLY
Yup, and it is basically the core of the modern dem playbook. Let’s push it so far into oblivion this election they don’t know what to do.
Facebook, Twitter, and especially the FBI’s coordinated censoring of the Hunter Biden Laptop story was the crown jewel of how a government can (and did) suppress damaging information for political gain to successfully influence a presidential election. It’s also the reason the FBI needs to be eliminated. Give them green shirts, transfer all of them to the U.S. Border Patrol and reassign them to the southern border. Most of the agents would quit of course, but at least it would be a start Jonathan……
So we knew that we were doing something wrong but now we’re so sorry. We knew that we were helping the government to take away the right of the people to be heard but now we are so sorry. How would things be different if the leaders at Twitter and Facebook would have blown the whistle on the FBI, the CIA and the Biden Administration? But Trump so bad man we had to put our thumbs on the scale of justice to make sure the nation knew that the bad man was a bad man. Pretty common with the left. If you don’t like the outcome just change the rules. I say cowards one and all.
Thinkingitthrough posted: So we knew that we were doing something wrong but now we’re so sorry. We knew that we were helping the government to take away the right of the people to be heard but now we are so sorry.
pbinca has posted serveral times here that Trump’s Big Lie is for him to say the 2020 election was rigged.
And she/he/it from Kalifornia doesn’t even say “so sorry” every time she/he/it posts that.
We can at least expose them every time they show up either to lie, dissemble, divert, or channel their guilt on others as a form of self-confession.
But silence when confronted with that is consent.
Jonathan: In the waning days before the election you seem fixated on Hunter’s laptop and the alleged effort by the Biden campaign to have Facebook “moderate” its content to get Biden elected. It’s a little late for that now, Jon. Hunter is going to prison and Joe Biden is no longer the candidate. But you think it’s worth a try to tie Kamala Harris to the 2020 campaign. That’s as likely to happen as for me to be the next 4-star general! Do you think voters this year will be swayed by desperate conspiracy theories being pushed by the MAGA Republicans on the “Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government”? The name of the Committee itself indicates this in not a serious investigation but a theory in search of evidence! Anyone remember Jim Comer? The guy who was going to get Joe Biden impeached?
Fifty million voters have already cast their ballots. Do you really believe their decisions were based on any of your columns trying to make the case for impeachment of Joe Biden? Get serious. What will be on the minds of voters who will wait to vote in person? Could it be DJT’s disastrous rally at MSG where he endorsed the racist trope that Puerto Rico is one big “garbage dump”? Except maybe for Cuban Americans in Florida do you think any Puerto Rican or other Latino who will now vote for DJT?
And what about Elon Musk who is spending a lot of money to get DJT elected? He is not only illegally bribing people to vote but he now has a new ad out referring to Harris with the “C-word”. Have you seen the ad? It says “America really can’t afford a ‘C-word’ in the White House…”. The ad refers to Harris as “A BIG OLE C WORD…She’s a tax hiking, regulation-loving, gun grabbing…Communist”. Musk is insane if he thinks that kind of language is going to appeal to the majority of women voters. But Musk is coordinating his ads with the DJT campaign–proof positive there are lot of mentally unstable people in the circle around DJT!
So Dennis McIntyre tries to give Harris a pass. She was right there scheming with Joe Biden and telling us he was sharp as tack until she wasn’t. Dennis is saying that Harris is not the same as Biden but when she was asked what she would do different from Biden she said “”Nothing comes to mind.”” Dennis, what two things are exactly like the other? You get a sticker if you answer honestly. At this rate these stickers are going to last a very long time. That will be good for the elementary school budget.
Dennis, I haven’t seen the ad that you write about. Please sight your source. If you have trouble copying and pasting I’ll be happy to give you a quick tutorial. I will be anxiously awaiting your presentation. Look it up for yourself will not hold water as an educated response.
House formally subpoenas ActBlue as feds confirm suspicious activity tied to Democrat fundraising
“House investigators formally subpoenaed the Democrat donations platform ActBlue in a rapidly expanding probe into possible illicit foreign funding in the 2024 election after the Treasury Department confirmed to Congress its money laundering detection system has generated hundreds of suspicious activity reports related to the online fund-raising giant.”
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/congress-subpoena-actblue-feds-confirm-suspicious-activity-tied?utm_source=breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=offthepress&utm_campaign=home
https://x.com/america/status/1849926411001413740
The video itself has been deleted, but the headline remains.
Biden poised to crash through regulations records
“Regulations under the Biden-Harris administration have become so burdensome and costly that JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon this week called on corporate America to fight back.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3209904/biden-poised-to-crash-through-regulations-records/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=offthepress&utm_campaign=home
Internal CIA documents, presentation show effort to mandate DEI at the center of the intel agency
“He also confirmed that DEI has impacted promotions at the agency. “I can tell you in the last two years of panels, we’ve lifted people up and we’ve pushed people down based on those meetings.”
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/hdinternal-cia-documents-presentation-show-effort-enshrine-dei-center
Is the Left Preparing for War If Trump Wins?
https://realclearwire.com/articles/2024/10/29/is_the_left_preparing_for_war_if_trump_wins_1068515.html
* That’s right. They’ll start 100s of fires if not 1000s. Add to that the corrupted judicial system. Trump will need a strong DOJ and cabinet.
Trump will have to be free to do positive work. Perhaps secretaries to the secretaries doing the dodge ball work while the other cabinet does real work.
From ‘deplorables’ to ‘garbage,’ Democrats embrace insults, intolerance in the Trump era
“The former president has argued that the rhetoric prompted two assassination attempts against him and has potentially normalized targeting his supporters. Democrats have long been pretending to support “civility” but desperation in Harris’ campaign changed all that.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/wedfrom-deplorables-garbage-democrats-embraced-intolerance-trump-era
The Kindergarten Intifada
“There is a well-coordinated, national effort between teachers, activist organizations, and administrators to indoctrinate American children against Israel. A Free Press investigation.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/abigail-shrier-the-kinderfada-revolution
* I watched the video and my gut response was to rush the table and choke them. (Just being honest).
Parents must send their children to school or truancy and other charges can be a result. The public must pare back the contents of education. History is being destroyed , as well, to meet CRT DEI specs.
The feds will soon be deleted from education
States’ will decide. It’s pitiful.
Upstate, I smile every time I see your posts—this time, six in a row. I read Shrier’s op-ed, but I already had the book at home. I listened to some videos and noted how little these teachers know about history. It’s not my history; it’s history that preceded my birth and confirms that these teachers are wrong.
The answer is multi-pronged, but the first thing that needs to be considered is shutting down the teachers union. James O’Keefe previously had videos showing how the union protected teachers from being fired for physical violence against students, rape and other things. I would consider charging teachers with criminal acts. We have hate laws; perhaps they can use them personally against individual teachers.
This anti-Semitism is produced by leftists and taught to the children. The videos didn’t recognize that the Jews were living in Israel for over 3,000 years and never left it. This fact is the tip of the iceberg when it involves their ignorance.
Dennis is that all you have,you are sad,very sad!!!!!!!!!
Dennis – there is no “alleged” here.
The receipts have been made available. Further most o thos involved have admitted their role.
Are you saying this is all “russian disinformation” ?
Are you saying the emails are fake ?
Are you saying the testimony before congress is perjury ?
You are absurd. There are many involved trying to say – The censorship by Government was constitutional – it was not.
But almost no one aside from you is saying it did not occur.
There is no alleged here.
I would further note – This was ELECTION FRAUD.
We can debate whether almost a million illegally harvested ballots were dumped in 7 cities across 7 states in 2020.
We can debate lots of other claims of election fraud in 2020.
But there is absolutely no doubt that the Biden/harris campaign as well as those in the “deep state” – the actual “enemy within”.
sought to have Social Media censor a True story about the corruption of the Biden’s, and while they did not succeed in completely killing it,
10’s of millions of voters either did not know, or beleived it was a hoax. and would have voted differently had they know the truth.
Nor is this the only example of mass government censorship by those on the left.
There is no debate this happened.
There is no debate that it is election fraud.
There is no debate those o you on the left did it.
There is no debate who the REAL threat to democracy is.
Facebook “moderate” its content to get Biden elected. It’s a little late for that now, Jon. Hunter is going to prison and Joe Biden is no longer the candidate. But you think it’s worth a try to tie Kamala Harris to the 2020 campaign. That’s as likely to happen as for me to be the next 4-star general! Do you think voters this year will be swayed by desperate conspiracy theories being pushed by the MAGA Republicans on the “Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government”? The name of the Committee itself indicates this in not a serious investigation but a theory in search of evidence! Anyone remember Jim Comer? The guy who was going to get Joe Biden impeached?
Fifty million voters have already cast their ballots. Do you really believe their decisions were based on any of your columns trying to make the case for impeachment of Joe Biden? Get serious. What will be on the minds of voters who will wait to vote in person? Could it be DJT’s disastrous rally at MSG where he endorsed the racist trope that Puerto Rico is one big “garbage dump”? Except maybe for Cuban Americans in Florida do you think any Puerto Rican or other Latino who will now vote for DJT?
And what about Elon Musk who is spending a lot of money to get DJT elected? He is not only illegally bribing people to vote but he now has a new ad out referring to Harris with the “C-word”. Have you seen the ad? It says “America really can’t afford a ‘C-word’ in the White House…”. The ad refers to Harris as “A BIG OLE C WORD…She’s a tax hiking, regulation-loving, gun grabbing…Communist”. Musk is insane if he thinks that kind of language is going to appeal to the majority of women voters. But Musk is coordinating his ads with the DJT campaign–proof positive there are lot of mentally unstable people in the circle around DJT!
Sorry, cant edit posts.
Part of Dennis’s nonsense got reposted in my reply.
Apologies.
John Say,
I was tracking you.
Good comment.
No one is impeaching Biden.
He will be gone Jan 21, 2025.
If you think Hunter is going to jail – your nuts.
Musk may be coordinating with Trump – he is free to do so.
But US Federal Govenrment agencies are NOT free to censor.
That is unconstitutional.
Sorros is free to coordinate with Harris.
Zuckerberg is free to coordinate with Harris.
NONE are NOT free to coordinate with the federal govenrment to censor.
I think you meant “you’re nuts”.
Works either way
“But US Federal Govenrment agencies are NOT free to censor.”
OK, but can USG push out an “alternative narrative”? That works just as good or better than censorship
in terms of opinion-shaping, it’s much more efficient, and doesn’t spark blowback from the censored party.
Wake up. We could solve the censorship boogeyman, and be right back where we started by defending too broad a notion of “free speech” which allows inauthenticity. A well-crafted, compelling “alternative reality” beats clumsy censorship every time., essentially accomplishing it without any need for coercion.
Why didn’t the US “push out an “alternative narrative”? Their intention was to censor speech so no one could discuss it. That is illegal and fascist. That is what your political party has been doing for years.
Dennis, You lost the “garbage” cycle. Hingecliff was an outrage commedian – it was a poor choice to include him – just as it was a poor choice to allow George Lopez to make a joke at a Walz rally that mexicans were theives and would steal everything used to build the wall.
But even John Stewart said – “Get a Life people – its a JOKE”.
Further Hingecliff was booed – you failed to note that. Even he noted the joke bombed.
Regardless, even a democrat superpac is telling Harris to left go of the Nazi nonsense – it is NOT working.
It is likely backfiring.
Most people KNOW who abused power – and it was not Trump.
Do you know what other big political event was at Madison Square Garden ?
the DNC convention that nominated Bill Clinton as the democratic candidate for president.
It was amazing to see the Trump Nazi Rally at MSG – Jewish flags all over the place.
Blacks and hispanics through the crowd and speakers.
What says “Fascist Nazi” more than a crowd of Jews in Yamaka’s waiving Isreali flags?
There was even an actual Hollocaust survivor.
But please keep up the Nazi nonsense through the election.
And the Garbage nonsense too. Trump is driving arround in a garbage Truck.
You blew several more critical news cycles.
Lots of people have voted already – personally I think that is a mistake.
Few states are counting and reporting votes, But they are providing us information on the voters.
So far we see several things.
the election in Nevada is likely over. Trump is likely leading from the early vote, an the inperson vote will significantly increase that lead.
In comparison to 2020 – the Democrats GOTV drive has performed abysmally – there are about 1/3-1/2 as many democrats voting early as in 2020, While there are 4-5 times as many republicans.
The early vote has more women – both republicans and democrats, and more older people – but that is normal.
Before 2020 early voting was primarily older Republicans.
Regardless it is likely Harris is winning in most of the states early voting. But she is WAY WAY WAY behind where Biden was in early voting in 2020.
The other big deal about Republican early voting – is it is NOT Republican voters that normally show up on election day.
Trump is now 1/2pt ahead in the popular vote in polling, and 1pt ahead in swing states.
Early indications are that voting by Suburban women is up by 6pts – that may help Harris.
But black voting is WAY DOWN. That is likely more important than the possibility that Trump may get alot of black men.
There have been claims that “enthusiasm” among Harris voters is really high – and that is the secret to democrats winning.
Everyone knows that Trump voters are absolutely voting.
And there is little doubt that there are SOME classes of democrats who are highly motivated. ‘
But there are strong signals that is not universal.
union members and blue collar workers are either not voting, or voting for Trump.
Regardless, the working class is NOT enthusiastic about Harris.
Blacks are NOT enthusiastic about Harris. Muslims are NOT enthusiastic about Harris.
It is unlikely that Trump will win VA, MN, NM, NJ, NY, NH – but all are in play.
With absolute certainty Trump will do better in those states than in the past.
* Last time to say this, PR has been repeatedly cited for garbage by the EPA. HE MEANT GARBAGE bottles, cans, paper. What is a woman? KBJ could have said garbage , apparently?
😂 the best! Ramaswamy joins in and others. 😂
Election interferance by the FBI starting in 2015 unrelated to Crossfire Huricane and without any investigative foundation
https://youtu.be/44Ss3plgUqQ
Significant numbers of Ballots going out in Washington to the same address for many different people who do not live there.
https://youtu.be/-Vam3f4Z_vs
Can I get you to agree Dennis that a Mailin Ballot should never go out to a person that is NOT real, and has NOT requested that Ballot ?
Do you understand the incredible potential for Fraud if blank ballots are all over the place ?
Joe Rogan on why the Harris interview fell through, and on how the left has run away from its roots.
Dennis McIntyre is outraged! Jonathan: In the waning days before the election you seem fixated on Hunter’s laptop
How DARE anyone provide reminders of how the current Secretary of State, current FBI Director, and other elected and bureaucratic Democrats hid the Biden Bribery Laptop for YEARS from both Congress and the voting public – and then rigged a fake news denial that it was just Russian election disinformation – before the last election!
Because Dennis demands that instead we agree that this is actually Dennis McIntyre’s blog, because this Democrat parasite living on Professor Turley’s blog demands that everything must be BBBBUUUTTTT…. MUH TRUMP!!!!
Run away and hide as you always do Dennis… hopefully this is the only deuce you’ll lay here today.
Dennis McIntyre: what’s the difference between a Biden/Harris denier and a pink haired vegan?
The vegan won’t willingly accept Democrat meat in its mouth.
Do i think Hispanics will vote for Trump ?
Yes, in record numbers.
You lost garbage wars when Biden called Trump supporters garbage and Trump started driving arround in a garbage truck.
Most people are not as stupid as left wing nuts.
They know the difference between what comedians say in stand up – such as George Lopez calling all mexicans theives in a joke about the wall at a Walz rally, and Hillary, and Biden calling half the country garbage and deplorable.
Harris has spent weeks trying to pretend that “the enemy within” means Democrats. When most of the country KNOWS,
that is not the “enemy within”.
That would be those like the FBI Agents spying on Trump in 2015.
Most people are just not morons, and do notbeleive things just because some left wing nut said them.
“We were under pressure from the administration and others to do more. We shouldn’t have done it.”
And you listened to the government, why?
I said I’m sorry what do you want from my life.
I said I’m sorry so what do you want from my life. I want you to have the courage to resist the shakedown of the mob bosses and blow the whistle. I understand, just like with Jeff Bezos they will call you a coward because you wouldn’t support the mob bosses. Imagine that, from sniveling coward to American patriot in one day. Keep up your guard up Jeff, just like the mob boss Chuck Schumer said the have “seven ways from Sunday to get you.”
If the election was influenced, then that should have been the first indication that we are not complying with the requirements for the process to elect the president established by Article 2 Section 1 and the 12th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States!
Even if you aren’t aware, or don’t understand, the process to elect the president is protected making it impossible to influence, tamper with, or corrupt. And it’s totally impossible for any entity or faction, foreign or domestic, to raise one of their own to the Presidency.
If this was a recipe, which chemical engineers like myself depend on to design a reaction mechanism to synthesize a material, the order you do the steps of the process matters, and the electoral process to choose the President starts with appointing the electors in every State. So the first thing you must know is the number of electors each state is entitled. The number of electors each State is entitled is the whole number of Senators and Representatives each State “may be entitled” in the Congress.
How is the number of electors each State is entitled determined?
The keys to determining the number of electors is the “whole number of Representatives” and “each State may be entitled”, because that is not 435, which is the number the States are unconstitutionally given, the whole number of representatives the States are entitled in the congress is 11,021, the whole number which does not exceed 1 representative for every 30,000 persons which reside within each State based upon the 2020 census, and 1/30000 is a proportionality “constant”, which means it cannot be changed for any reason, and it’s not a maximum, it’s a constant! Therefore the whole number of Senators and Representatives the States may be entitled in the Congress is 11,121 which is the number of electors required for the process.
There is also a requirement that Congress shall determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States. Which makes it impossible for any State to know who the other States are choosing for their electors, and more impossible for the electors of any State to know the persons the electors of other States are considering and putting on their State’s lists.
By the 12th amendment “the electors shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice President, and the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate”.
Furthermore, “The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and the House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted.” “The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such a number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President.” “But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken states, the representation from each State having 1 vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from 2/3 of the states, and a majority of all the States shall be necessary to a choice.”
Note: it says the representation from each State shall have 1 vote, not the representatives, meaning each State has 1 vote, and a majority of All the States is necessary to the choice.
The same process is used to determine the vice president where only the top two persons on the aggregate list for Vice President are considered by the States assembled as the Senate to determine the choice by vote, 1 vote per State, and a majority of All the States is necessary to a choice.
It should be quite obvious why this double blind and indirect process can not be influenced or corrupted in any way, and why separating how the candidates are identified and vetted from making the choice in Congress, makes it impossible for any entity or faction, our political parties, from raising one of their own to the Presidency. No one can “run” for the presidency, and the presidency cannot be won!
* Is the census corruptible? Is the voting corruptible? I’ll be interested in responses to your comment.
The answer to you question is no on both counts, because only the electors are voting, on their own distinct ballots, and the majority consensus is immutable, a majority of the electors is a majority of ALL THE PEOPLE, and a majority of All the States is necessary to the choice, there’s nothing that can be interpreted for any of those requirements!
* The votes of the populace?
Migrating populations? Even 30 thousand or 100 thousand for census? That’s mutable and subject to corruption?
What you forget is that next Tuesday is not when the electors vote, but when we choose the electors. There has very rarely been any corruption in the actual voting by the electors, but by the time that happens the election is already over. The electors’ voting is a formality, because we already know how they’ve pledged to vote, and in many states they are required to vote as they have pledged.
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court. Secession is not prohibited by the Constitution, and everything Lincoln did subsequent to his illegal and unconstitutional denial of secession was and remains unconstitutional, and on January 1, 1863, existing immigration law denied admission to become a citizen to and required the compassionate repatriation of freed slaves. American freedom persisted for a mere 71 years. The entire communist American welfare state is unconstitutional and would not exist if Article 1, Section 8, of the Constitution were adhered to and enforced. Indeed, the Supreme Court acted retroactively by 50 years to overturn and correct Roe v. Wade. The Supreme may certainly act retroactively by 150 years to correct Lincoln.
“The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.”
The multiple times a week whining complaint from the Confederate wing of the Democrats. Because the Supreme Court allowed the KKK to continue exercising their right to preach their hate speech – but didn’t allow them to keep their freed darkies as third class citizens.
This is wrong on several counts:
1. 1/30,000 is a MAXIMUM, not a constant. A state’s House delegation has a minimum of 1, and a maximum of 1/30,000 of its population. It can have any number in between. Congress decides how many representatives there should be, and over a century ago it fixed the total at 435.
2. Congress says when the electors are chosen, but they are not chosen in secret. And the time they are chosen is NOT the same day they cast their votes. There is plenty of time between those dates for them to coordinate, as they have done in every election since 1788.
3. The House voting by state delegation only happens if nobody gets a majority of the electors. That has only rarely happened, and no one expects it to happen again any time soon. For it to happen there has to be a 3rd candidate with regional support strong enough to carry some states.
An Anonymous Nuclear Engineer posted If the election was influenced, then that should have been the first indication that we are not complying with the requirements for the process to elect the president established by Article 2 Section 1 and the 12th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States! …Even if you aren’t aware, or don’t understand, the process to elect the president is protected making it impossible to influence, tamper with, or corrupt. It should be quite obvious why this double blind and indirect process can not be influenced or corrupted in any way
Is that you attempting to post Anonymously, pbinca? Smells like you! Never tell the whole story: instead, only tell small, select parts of the whole story.
Would it be impossible to corrupt and influence if a political party were to send lawyers with names like “Marc Elias” to go to all the critical “blue wall” states won by Trump in 2016 and go bureaucrat and judge shopping to find those willing to corrupt and rewrite the existing state voting laws? And then do just that: change all those voting laws to eliminate voter ID, allow vote harvesting, allowing selected spoiled ballots to be cured, etc.
Could that possibly corrupt and influence an election if it happened? Which it did…
Did you read ANYTHING before you got to Article 2 of the Constitution?
Like Article I, Section 4, Clause 1: “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof”
If this was a recipe, which chemical engineers like myself depend on to design a reaction mechanism