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Weird all this Aukus shit & this week's Pitch Black Jet Crashes...
tbb lives under a Chopper Flight path...Yeah! One of those!
Get trainees Circling @ night & ADF fly thrus all the time...but just then a little Pitch Black Fart!
Pitch Black chopper was heading south over Central Goldie Reedy Creek
Dead Set without the word of lie just heard a volley of shots as Chopper passed overhead
Neighbourhood Gromz instantly started screaming & for a good while...
tbb clocked the ADF chopper flying over the roof South towards Goldie Airport...
Not heard of any terror incident just that we know what we all just heard from that chopper!
[factcheck] There is a deserted Yank WWII gunners outcrop @ Isolated Proposed Quarry!
Few would know this...Old coach rogue historian tbb knows exactly where...
Yanks would then fire off rounds 5.5kms aligned with Talle Creek Mouth..no residents in their path.
That seems to have been the pot shot target if they were game enough to fire rounds in our town!
Highly risky as Bikes / 4wds still fuck around in there!
This creepy USA Aukus WAR is now normalized in Qld...we gotta suck it up!
Brizzo Nuke [P] + Tank exploding on CBD [M1] + Chopper Squad takes out GBR Resort Havens!
Now in tbb's town...wasn't expecting it to get this close so soon...but there ya go! Your town next!
Any crew think tbb is making this up for a laugh...afraid not...Deadly serious, this is real!
Crew can read this about this ADF chopper near tbb's last central Goldie residence only last month!
[Factcheck] Both target ranges 'could be considered' within former makeshift WWII airfield precincts
Note (Also Sat) 8 June ADF Aborted smoking Chopper Blowing up on (Central GC) Golf Resort
Yep! This comes after the Northern Resorts & Seaworld Resort (Mass Chopper crashes).
You'd reckon they learn to keep well away with these War Machines.
Luv a weekend Goldie Bash...err No! FUCK OFF with yer Gun totin' exploding Yankee war machines!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-07/adf-helicopter-lands-on-queenslan...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-08/adf-chopper-incident-at-gold-coas...
Other explanation > They often Fly Craft for upcoming Air Shows...
eg: Possibly lighting up a Close Range Target @ River Fire Air Show.
Kinda like finding their bearings in a City as they now fly lower than Buildings...
They're fuckin' stupid enough to incorporate Live Firing exhibitions in their Kiddies CBD Show!
Reckon to expect next level shooting up shit at River Fire...our Top Gun Heroes!
Roadkill wrote:RealKamalaHarris…is a workplace bully according to some/many.
It all comes out eventually.
it's all coming out now...
https://m.
her honeymoon was as quick as trump's ear clipper reprieve...
a week sure is a long time in politics nowadays
she's a record breaker!
impressive numbers
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/vp-kamala-harris-had-92-staff-turnov...
media gone back to full battle mode...
(they actually appeared objective for 2 weeks following the debate them the ear clip)
now we're back to 'managed reality'
Managed Reality, from another angle.
The News media, before and after the new talking points.
This is why the party tolerates no independence and why I, as a 'conspiracy theorist', want to go on NPR, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, etc. to discuss how this can be organic with those doing it. https://t.co/ICxqoXrrpz— Eric Weinstein (@EricRWeinstein) July 26, 2024
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Roadkill wrote:RealKamalaHarris…is a workplace bully according to some/many.
It all comes out eventually.
lolol. Has there ever been a bigger bully in US politics than Trump, and do you not think that goes for every other aspect of his human interactions?
they can argue the title all they want...
'border czar'
and the argument is pretty bloody childish, from both sides
but, truth is, she had ' one job to do...'
talking points... (that kjp knows nothing about... cough cough...) distributed, and utilised (weaponised) in a very timely fashion...
like clockwork
Those leaked DNC talking points may as well have been an instruction manual for the media.
Just look at this. They're practically reciting the list point-by-point. pic.twitter.com/w365u927nY— Bill D'Agostino (@Banned_Bill) July 25, 2024
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“Working for Harris is a nightmare, not just because she rides her staff hard, but also because she does so without the competence, decisiveness, and effectiveness that inspires people in politics to suffer under demanding bosses,” Dan McLaughlin wrote in a January 2022 National Review article titled, “People Really, Really Do Not Want to Work for Kamala Harris.” from Sypkan's Zero Hedge article.
That's some damning stuff from an ex employee, perhaps a disgruntled one, who knows.
Here's what some of Donald's ex employee's had to say about their experience under Trump.
1. His vice president, Mike Pence: “The American people deserve to know that President Trump asked me to put him over my oath to the Constitution. … Anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be president of the United States.”
2. His second attorney general, Bill Barr: “Someone who engaged in that kind of bullying about a process that is fundamental to our system and to our self-government shouldn’t be anywhere near the Oval Office.”
3. His first secretary of defense, James Mattis: “Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people – does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us.”
4. His second secretary of defense, Mark Esper: “I think he’s unfit for office. … He puts himself before country. His actions are all about him and not about the country. And then, of course, I believe he has integrity and character issues as well.”
5. His chairman of the joint chiefs, retired Gen. Mark Milley, seemed to invoke Trump: “We don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator. We take an oath to the Constitution and we take an oath to the idea that is America – and we’re willing to die to protect it.”
6. His first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson: “(Trump’s) understanding of global events, his understanding of global history, his understanding of US history was really limited. It’s really hard to have a conversation with someone who doesn’t even understand the concept for why we’re talking about this
7. His first ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley: “He used to be good on foreign policy and now he has started to walk it back and get weak in the knees when it comes to Ukraine. A terrible thing happened on January 6 and he called it a beautiful day.”
8. His presidential transition vice-chairman, Chris Christie: “Someone who I would argue now is just out for himself.”
9. His second national security adviser, HR McMaster: “We saw the absence of leadership, really anti-leadership, and what that can do to our country.”
10. His third national security adviser, John Bolton: “I believe (foreign leaders) think he is a laughing fool.”
11. His second chief of staff, John Kelly: “A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law. There is nothing more that can be said. God help us.”
12. His former acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, who resigned as US special envoy to Ireland after January 6, 2021: “I quit because I think he failed at being the president when we needed him to be that.”
13. One of his many former communications directors, Anthony Scaramucci: “He is the domestic terrorist of the 21st century.”
14. Another former communications director, Stephanie Grisham: “I am terrified of him running in 2024.”
15. His secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, who resigned after January 6: “When I saw what was happening on January 6 and didn’t see the president step in and do what he could have done to turn it back or slow it down or really address the situation, it was just obvious to me that I couldn’t continue.”
16. His secretary of transportation, Elaine Chao, who resigned after January 6: “At a particular point the events were such that it was impossible for me to continue, given my personal values and my philosophy.
17. His first secretary of the Navy, Richard Spencer: “…the president has very little understanding of what it means to be in the military, to fight ethically or to be governed by a uniform set of rules and practices.”
18. His first homeland security adviser, Tom Bossert: “The President undermined American democracy baselessly for months. As a result, he’s culpable for this siege, and an utter disgrace.”
19. His former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen: “Donald’s an idiot.”
20. His White House lawyer, Ty Cobb: “Trump relentlessly puts forth claims that are not true.”
21. A former director of strategic communications, Alyssa Farah Griffin, who is now a CNN political commentator: “We can stand by the policies, but at this point we cannot stand by the man.”
22. A top aide in charge of his outreach to African Americans, Omarosa Manigault Newman: “Donald Trump, who would attack civil rights icons and professional athletes, who would go after grieving black widows, who would say there were good people on both sides, who endorsed an accused child molester; Donald Trump, and his decisions and his behavior, was harming the country. I could no longer be a part of this madness.”
23. A former deputy press secretary, Sarah Matthews, who resigned after January 6: “I thought that he did do a lot of good during his four years. I think that his actions on January 6 and the lead-up to it, the way that he’s acted in the aftermath, and his continuation of pushing this lie that the election is stolen has made him wholly unfit to hold office every again.”
24. His final chief of staff’s aide, Cassidy Hutchinson: “I think that Donald Trump is the most grave threat we will face to our democracy in our lifetime, and potentially in American history.”
While I'm posting quotes, here's one from Donald himself, made in the last day, to a group of Christians, where he's saying the quiet part out loud...
" You have to get out and vote. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four years, it will be fixed, it will be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore.. In four years, you won’t have to vote again."
"That's some damning stuff from an ex employee, perhaps a disgruntled one, who knows."
one?
check out those numbers!
at least she doesn't need to fire them...
'you're fired!'
they quit...
sypkan wrote:"That's some damning stuff from an ex employee, perhaps a disgruntled one, who knows."
one?
check out those numbers!
at least she doesn't need to fire them...
'you're fired!'
they quit...
Well Syppyy, that was the only statement by an ex Harris employee that I have ever read.
Are there any more?
kamala's social media game is pretty high calibre...
(high $$$)
'slick' to quote peter fitzsimmons...
but this one is pretty good
https://www.instagram.com/realdonaldtrump/reel/C95Pd4iuDhp/
if trump could just cool his jets a bit, he's still in this race
but sadly, he cannot
literally...
"A lot of the Promises Trump is making above , sound Left Wing"
not much in that ad most people cannot get behind
I still think the momentum's with kamala...
women
younguns
poc etc.
and probably the biggest one...
trump fatigue
(he is exhausting)
but it would appear, it's gonna be very close
odds still on trump
with a long long way to go...
it's gonna be nasty
election hilary nasty
and then some
with a bag full of 'october surprise'
bags full!
from both sides...
Syppy, were you not pushing a "Biden's actually dead" trope last week?
adam12 wrote:sypkan wrote:"That's some damning stuff from an ex employee, perhaps a disgruntled one, who knows."
one?
check out those numbers!
at least she doesn't need to fire them...
'you're fired!'
they quit...
Well Syppyy, that was the only statement by an ex Harris employee that I have ever read.
Are there any more?
the numbers in the article tell the story
and it was big news 12-18 months ago...
not that it got widely covered
but the original 'the atlantic' article broke the story
damning, coming from the atlantic...
blackers wrote:Syppy, were you not pushing a "Biden's actually dead" trope last week?
he is, isn't he?
figuratively...
politically...
inside...
I did mention I don't buy into it...
physically...
but some of you only remember the convenient bits
...won't somebody... pleeeease... think of the athletes....!
https://apnews.com/article/olympics-2024-paris-jill-biden-99efa3f779312e...
"Wishin' and hopin' and thinkin' and prayin'
and leapin' and sprintin' and turnin' and votin'"
This is our little lady when we rescued her from a farm. She’d fallen behind her litter in training and wasn’t able to catch up.
Farmer was going to have to ‘get rid’ of her.
sypkan wrote:adam12 wrote:sypkan wrote:"That's some damning stuff from an ex employee, perhaps a disgruntled one, who knows."
one?
check out those numbers!
at least she doesn't need to fire them...
'you're fired!'
they quit...
Well Syppyy, that was the only statement by an ex Harris employee that I have ever read.
Are there any more?the numbers in the article tell the story
and it was big news 12-18 months ago...
not that it got widely covered
but the original 'the atlantic' article broke the story
damning, coming from the atlantic...
Sorry Syp, but all that is a nothing burger.
You think that two year old story is gonna get any traction?
She's got momentum alright.
It has surprised me.
She's gonna win it IMO.
She's gonna smoke him.
Where's Burls?
Still taking bets?
I'm up.
If Harris wins Burls, you go.
If Trump does, I'll go.
Are we on Burls?
sypkan wrote:blackers wrote:Syppy, were you not pushing a "Biden's actually dead" trope last week?
he is, isn't he?
figuratively...
politically...
inside...
I did mention I don't buy into it...
physically...
but some of you only remember the convenient bits
Some "only remember the convenient bits"? Talking about yourself again? Mate, you post the weirdest shit you can find that supports your world view. Which is all good, go for gold. But you post it for a reason, don't play naive.
etarip wrote:
Thats the one. Ripper.
And now:
No longer a sheep dog, but still working looking after 4 chickens, a couple of young boys and occasionally the neighbours aloof orange cat. Sweet natured, a little anxious but the most loving loyal hound.
Why don't you both stay and the winner can sit back, stroke their beard and bask in the satisfaction of I told you so.
Cool dog Eta, and pretty cat too.
Looks a little Japanese- almost has a Shiba inu look about him.
@etarip,
Wow!
What a dog!
It's the ginger cat I'd be keeping a close eye on.
Those things are crazy!
^ haha, yeh @etarip, kamala (l) vs trump (r). don't blink.
but, good God, man! Leaves in the galley isn't Bristol fashion!
blackers wrote:sypkan wrote:blackers wrote:Syppy, were you not pushing a "Biden's actually dead" trope last week?
he is, isn't he?
figuratively...
politically...
inside...
I did mention I don't buy into it...
physically...
but some of you only remember the convenient bits
Some "only remember the convenient bits"? Talking about yourself again? Mate, you post the weirdest shit you can find that supports your world view. Which is all good, go for gold. But you post it for a reason, don't play naive.
I have explained myself before, sometimes I post for humour... sometimes I post for serious...
but most times, it's to show the ridiculous media bubbles the world has now created...
that's the real danger!
I'm sorry you (still) partisan nutters take it all so seriously...
so personally...
if I gave a fuck (about who wins) I'd lay off the ridiculous
but I don't, it's same same with window dressing...
(we're all fighting the 'perceived' enemy)
"...Sorry Syp, but all that is a nothing burger.
You think that two year old story is gonna get any traction?..."
probably not... the media will bury it... as they do...
but it does show she probably has a higher revolving door of staff than trump...
which is impressive, of sorts...
but more importantly, it shows her incompetence, her flakeyness...
as per the quote you lifted, she's ill prepared and all over the shop
I liked her when biden picked her, thought it was wise, and offered real hope - as he was pegged as 'transitional'...
her resume is impressive, and the coloured/woman thing just adds calibre from my perspective...
(despite the impression I may give)
but she's proven to be fukn useless, embarrassing...
her record is woeful, her speeches plain odd, and her demeanor nauseating...
(I guess the primaries - in which she so abysmally failed - exposed this)
she's the antithesis of DEI hire theory
ie. she's not that bright, but she made it anyway...
despite being woman
despite being of a minority
she confirms the opposite of DEI theory...
you can still make it in amerca! despite the odds...
(if you come from a privelaged background, a bit nerdy, and are pushed through the private school university machine network system)
good argument for class politics...
not much else
but yeh
probably...
"She's got momentum alright.
It has surprised me.
She's gonna win it IMO.
She's gonna smoke him."
flakey venn diagram lovers love her
sypkan wrote:blackers wrote:sypkan wrote:blackers wrote:Syppy, were you not pushing a "Biden's actually dead" trope last week?
he is, isn't he?
figuratively...
politically...
inside...
I did mention I don't buy into it...
physically...
but some of you only remember the convenient bits
Some "only remember the convenient bits"? Talking about yourself again? Mate, you post the weirdest shit you can find that supports your world view. Which is all good, go for gold. But you post it for a reason, don't play naive.
I have explained myself before, sometimes I post for humour... sometimes I post for serious...
but most times, it's to show the ridiculous media bubbles the world has now created...
that's the real danger!
I'm sorry you (still) partisan nutters take it all so seriously...
so personally...
if I gave a fuck (about who wins) I'd lay off the ridiculous
but I don't, it's same same with window dressing...
(we're all fighting the 'perceived' enemy)
It’s all okay syp, I laugh at all your posts.
@Sypkan,
here's one for you.
I read a while back that she and some of her aides were the targets of one of those Russian sonic weapons that causes Havana Syndrome in 2021.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58322593
Make of that what you will.
Hiccups wrote:Roadkill wrote:RealKamalaHarris…is a workplace bully according to some/many.
It all comes out eventually.
lolol. Has there ever been a bigger bully in US politics than Trump, and do you not think that goes for every other aspect of his human interactions?
Thx, Captain Obvious.
100% Trump is the worst creature ever to get elected.
Harris has a far greater chance of winning than Trump at the moment.
I'll get to wear my Trump Make America Great Again T-Shirt a 2nd time
Don’t think I’ll be putting out my Hillary t-shirt. ‘Forward Together.’ Didn’t quite catch on, by comparison.
'The left can't meme'
I'd extend that to...
'the left can't internet'
re. politics, they really seem to struggle with the game changing disruptions that the internet has unleashed...
harris's social media reminds me of the clueless cautious vanilla that albo's team pumps out
I'm sure this shit impresses those in the tent, but to me, it is all just comes across as all so contrived and fake
nothing genuine about it at all
BREAKING - YOUR REACTION: Barack Obama (@BarackObama) and Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) endorse Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) for President; give her a phone call, say they are proud of her. WATCH pic.twitter.com/tQ7gJer2UU
— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) July 26, 2024
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This is probably the closest thing you'll get to knowing the real Kamala Harris. pic.twitter.com/mYOHVz1ATo
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) July 26, 2024
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brother anton
telling it how it is...
A woman said the only reason she’s voting for Kamala Harris is because she’s black. She gets immediately schooled for it. pic.twitter.com/TzrZ8ScOGw
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) July 26, 2024
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Some retrospective knowledge.
If it’s all about memes, where does the 100 mil Super PAC money, famously raised over the first two days of Harris’s candidacy go? What do they spend that on these days? Their best meme ever, apparently, the brat meme, apparently, is an ‘organic’ meme, apparently, so don’t even have to touch any of the $100 mil for that. But surely it doesn’t cost a million or two to meme, or make a meme, or however it goes.
I suppose a vast network of grizzled, battle hardened veteran ballot harvesters doesn’t come cheap. So there’s that.
"After years of railing against the practice of collecting and delivering other voters’ ballots, Republicans are vowing to mount their own “ballot harvesting” operation ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
Following Democrats’ success encouraging their supporters to use alternative voting methods in recent elections, Republicans are seeking to change their tune on practices like mail-in voting and “ballot harvesting,” as conservatives have derisively referred to it in the past, seeking to close the gap.
But the GOP’s effort is running up against base voters who are skeptical of the practice, as well as laws to prevent ballot collection in key states that the party itself pushed.
In a Newsmax interview in late April, Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump said the party’s ballot collection plans are “well underway.”
“The plans for that are going to be huge,” she said. “We’re firing on all cylinders.”
An RNC official, who requested anonymity to speak candidly, said the party is focusing its efforts on the battleground states of Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia and North Carolina. But thanks in part to Republicans around the country who have long claimed that ballot collection is a vehicle for fraud, the practice of having political volunteers or operatives collect and deliver ballots for other voters is explicitly legal in just one of those states, Nevada."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/republicans-ballot-harves...
...so there's that too...
https://x.com/ImMeme0/status/1816639361858810171. Hard to pick a winner in this shit show
I dont usually click on these twitter/X links but i just noticed Sypkan and Supa shared the same post pretty much but some URLs above are twitter some X?
It got me thinking wasn't twitter/'X supose to be dead and gone by now?..
What happened?
Curious i googled it and there is a recent article from five days ago on the topic.
"Twitter Won’t Die
The platform has always been in the doomscrolling business, and business is booming."
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/07/joe-biden-x-annou...
Kinda makes sense Elon supporting Trump, trump being elected would make X actvity boom, even Trump being up for election im sure would see X actvity jump.
;)
https://m.
https://m.
indo-dreaming wrote:I dont usually click on these twitter/X links but i just noticed Sypkan and Supa shared the same post pretty much but some URLs above are twitter some X?
It got me thinking wasn't twitter/'X supose to be dead and gone by now?..
What happened?
Curious i googled it and there is a recent article from five days ago on the topic.
"Twitter Won’t Die
The platform has always been in the doomscrolling business, and business is booming."
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/07/joe-biden-x-annou...
Kinda makes sense Elon supporting Trump, trump being elected would make X actvity boom, even Trump being up for election im sure would see X actvity jump.
Elon doesn't like it being called "twitter", he keeps posting saying "don't call it that".
It's weird because some days my home firefox page has the X logo then others it is the old blue twitter bird.
Anyway, fuck him. Fucking dickhead.
You may have noticed there's no twitter reposts here anymore, it seems they have stopped that.
I don't understand the logic of that move, you would think it would be beneficial to X for people to be able to repost full tweets on other social media but appears you can't anymore.
The site is borked.
I got suspended out of nowhere. Hadn't posted or reposted anything, just scrolling. They told me I was in breach and when I appealed got no response, after five appeals they then, without notice, reinstated my thread but restricted it so very few of the people I follow appeared and it was flooded with Musk tweets, all this male self improvement shit, weird South American murder and shooting videos and pro Trump bullshit. To get my "unrestricted" feed back, guess what, he wants money from me. Fuck him.
He's fucked it I reckon, but it is here to stay.
And his tweeting is an insight into what a fucked up ketamined unit he is. He thinks he is funny too, which he ain't.
The funny thing is listening to all the Australian politicians and journalists that bag it and call it a menace and the cause of all these social ills, then put out plenty of crap on it themselves.
The cat and dog videos are good though. At least I still get them.
I’ve rarely posted on twitter/X and left it for about 6 months then rejoined . I’ve only ever had about 6 people follow me back but since coming back to X , I’ve now got 78 followers, all hot looking babes that I’m guessing are some type of bot . I certainly don’t follow any of them back and block them . It seems all a bit weird and X has way more fruitcakes since Elon took over . There is still some interesting stuff and good organisations to follow though. Be interesting to see how much of his 45 billion has been recouped .
The hot looking babes could actually be real, Supa.
I was thinking the same.
After all, they're only human.
velocityjohnno wrote:The hot looking babes could actually be real, Supa.
I followed back the first one and got hit with, “ do you want raunchy photos and blah blah blah , just some porn sites trying to grab some dollars . After following back the first one the flood gates opened .
https://m.
adam12 wrote:"After years of railing against the practice of collecting and delivering other voters’ ballots, Republicans are vowing to mount their own “ballot harvesting” operation ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
Following Democrats’ success encouraging their supporters to use alternative voting methods in recent elections, Republicans are seeking to change their tune on practices like mail-in voting and “ballot harvesting,” as conservatives have derisively referred to it in the past, seeking to close the gap.
But the GOP’s effort is running up against base voters who are skeptical of the practice, as well as laws to prevent ballot collection in key states that the party itself pushed.
In a Newsmax interview in late April, Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump said the party’s ballot collection plans are “well underway.”
“The plans for that are going to be huge,” she said. “We’re firing on all cylinders.”
An RNC official, who requested anonymity to speak candidly, said the party is focusing its efforts on the battleground states of Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia and North Carolina. But thanks in part to Republicans around the country who have long claimed that ballot collection is a vehicle for fraud, the practice of having political volunteers or operatives collect and deliver ballots for other voters is explicitly legal in just one of those states, Nevada."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/republicans-ballot-harves......so there's that too...
Lara Trump calling for the party to lift it’s game on legal ballot harvesting in response to the Dems 'distasteful' (understatement of the year) behaviour. Holy shit! And an unnamed Republican operative? Whoa! What a scoop. Not even a 'well placed' Republican operative. Sounds like Ms. Timm walked out of her Midtown office and spotted a fella in a MAGA hat. A tourist from Ohio. The only Republican to be found in the bastion of the liberal bubble. Been to one Trump rally this bloke, when the Orange One swung through Cincinnati in 2015. Salt of the earth fella, reckons his red team might as well get down into the cesspit with the other crowd after what happened in 2016.
Funny she couldn’t get a similarly highly placed Democratic source to go off the record ‘in order to speak candidly' about the little operation the Dems have got down to a fine art. I mean she does specialise in ‘elections and the people who shape them’. Surely she’d be supping at fancy restaurants with the great and the good every night in Midtown. Thousands of highly placed Democratic officials and donors in the enclave. You'd think. The heartland for heavens sakes! And she couldn’t come up with one? Odd indeed. Why was no Democrat willing to dish the dirt? The mind boggles. But well done Lois Lane, bagged us a rote statement from some Democratic flunky attacking the Republican State Houses who have had the temerity to legislate against this dodgy practice. This is Nick Mckenzie stuff, rooting out the corruption. Go Jane.
And the damning evidence of ACTUAL Republicans engaging in ballot harvesting? And you just know she got on the tools and dug and dug. Her DNC friends cranking up the excavator and digging down proper deep. And what did the come up with? An obscure North Carolina district in a state election, and a mayoral primary – a PRIMARY for god’s sake, ha ha - in backwater Connecticut. Stop the presses, get Ben Bradlee on the line, Woodward and Bernstein have nothing on GI Jane.
Think you buried the lede anyway A12, with the sections of the article you posted. I would have gone with the part that acknowledged the, ‘Democrats success in recent elections collecting and delivering other voters’ ballots.’ That's the Dems, not the Republicans. Think that's important to point out. There I agree with Jane, or at least the subby responsible for the subhead, who’s probably gonna get sacked for his unhealthy and unhelpful relationship with the facts.
Hell, even good old Jane’s not totally shameless, “Democrats, for their part, have long enjoyed successes in mail voting, fuelled… by ballot collection.”
When the Dems sued to get their beloved practice reinstated in Arizona, I’m sure we can take them at their word that they were merely seeking to uphold the spirit of the 15th amendment. Right.
Good patriots all. I’m sure the fact that prior to the ban, “it was common for Democratic campaigns and organizations to visit the homes of voters who hadn’t yet cast their ballots and collect them to mail themselves” wasn’t a factor in their righteous quest. And we can all read a little between the lines there, if we’re being fairdinkum, about what happens when the Dem Harvesters ‘visit the homes of voters.’ No pressure.
Arizona’s AG puts it succinctly, “The ability to conduct elections with integrity and transparency is absolutely vital to the continuation of our republic, as the events of the last election demonstrated.”
And that’s really the crux of it. Democrats have so convinced themselves they are on the side of the angels, that they are now utterly incapable of any honest self-reflection or auto-examination. The thought that highly dubious practices undertaken by their own side might be just that - dodgy as fuck - and that the same practices are contributing to the growing distrust in the electoral system is inconceivable to them, dismissed every time, no ifs and buts, as mere misinformation and disinformation.
The arrogance is staggering.
@Roker,
No intent on my part to "bury the lede". It was a long article, so just put up the first paragraphs, and the reference if interested.
Nice post, had to read it twice. A lot in there and can't say I disagree.
Only posted what I did because I had read about the issue awhile back and that they were both now doing it. Balance and all.
The US electoral system has plenty of flaws, the Electoral College, redistricting, gerrymandering, etc.
There's a laundry list. Harvesting is another.
Kind of makes you appreciate ours, kind of.
Ours isn't perfect either.
VJ, I think this will be up your alley:
Shipbuilding in the US. Can congress revive it?
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/war-on-the-rocks/id682478916?i=100...
. Important to read the comments to get the gist . BN looked a bit unsteady though
Septic Tanks are going to Septic Tank