Software “Glitch” in Voting machine takes 6,000 Trump votes in one county. Used in 30 states

Here in Australia all we are hearing is how Trump’s claims of election fraud are baseless, and without any evidence at all. If only The ABC could afford to get the internet…?

The ABC here has spent more time telling Australians that Trump is isolated, and being abandoned by a few RINO’s rather than investigating actual known high risk areas of fraud.

One Glitch, but many machines:

Dominion Voting Machine

Dominion Voting Machine

In one county in Michigan Joe Biden was well ahead, but the tally didn’t match with the past voting patterns. In the last 135 years the voters of Antrim County voted Republican in 32 of 34 elections. It turned out the software used in the voting machines had flipped as many as 6,000 votes. After the error was fixed, Donald Trump was 2,000 votes ahead of Biden. That’s some glitch.

Another computer glitch in Oakland County Michigan caused a similar flip. What are the odds? Strangely, it didn’t flip votes up for Trump, only down. Not so much a bug perhaps as a design feature? ‘

The Republicans asked for another 47 counties to recount their votes, but it’s worse than that.  Dominion Software is used in 30 other states across the USA, including every single “key” swinging state. Some of their machines were also reportedly faulty on the day of the election and voting hours were extended for those counties to try to help those who couldn’t vote due to the breakdown.

Dominion logo

Guess which philanthropy group worked with Dominion from 2014 – 2017  to provide “access to Voting Technology” for “emerging democracies”?  The Clinton Foundation. Looks like they also work with diverging democracies too.

These voting machines may also have chinese parts. There are three large manufacturers of Voting Machines.

What could possibly go wrong?

Study finds Chinese Hardware Powers U.S. Voting Machine

Efforts by the federal government and campaigns to keep state sponsored hackers from Russia and China out of U.S. elections may have overlooked a one major source of vulnerability: the hardware and software ‘guts’ of voting machines.

A study by the security firm Interos has found that one fifth (20%) of the hardware and software components in a popular voting machine came from suppliers in China. Furthermore, close to two-thirds (59%) of components in that voting machine came from companies with locations in both China and Russia.

December 2019:

Chinese parts, hidden ownership, growing scrutiny: Inside America’s biggest maker of voting machines

BC News examined publicly available online shipping records for ES&S for the past five years and found that many parts, including electronics and tablets, were made in China and the Philippines, raising concerns about technology theft or sabotage.

During the tour, Burt said the overseas facilities are “very secure.” He said the final assembly of voting machines takes place in the U.S.

Chinese manufacturers can be forced to cooperate with requests from Chinese intelligence officials to share any information about the technology and therefore pose a risk for U.S. companies, NBC News analyst Frank Figliuzzi, a former assistant director of the FBI for counterintelligence, said. That could include intellectual property, such as source code, materials or blueprints. There is also the concern of machines shipped with undetected vulnerabilities or backdoors that could allow tampering.

States may be asked to do recounts perhaps all 30 of them?!

Georgia counties use these machines too. Yet the counts are so slow in all the swing states. Could it be that people are tying to analyze their Benford patterns to “fill in some gaps” or are they wondering if they need a large lead just in case Trump wins a court case or two?

Even assuming people were honest and wanted to get the bottom of this, could Election 2020 be unscrambled?

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UPDATE:  The lawsuits will be filed Monday

Rudy Guliani: If you have nothing to hide, you allow inspection.

Republicans have not been able to observe the vote counting

 
“When the Republicans got a court order to get within 6feet of the ballots, they finally got in, only to find the counters moved six feet further away. ”
 

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Hmm. Odd pattern of Biden-votes fails an easy first test for Tax Fraud

Red Flag anyone?

Tax auditors use Benfords Law to detect fraud. They look at the first digits of the income data and figure out how often the different digits pop up. If the deposits are random we’d see lots of one’s, and less of every other number in an ordered pattern.  Two would be the second most likely, three the third…. and so on down to nine. If there were lots of sevens, say, the Tax Auditor will start hunting there.

So if precincts call in ballot results there is a certain pattern we would expect them to arrive at, and that’s the pattern we see for every candidate, … except Joe R.Biden and Kamala D. Harris.

For some reason their results in Chicago, Milwalkee, and Allegheny were all clumpier, with 2, 3 or even 5 being among the most common for ballot results? Soon someone (or 500 people) will test out and see if Biden and Harris voters were clumpier in all districts or just the states that mattered to the Democrats.

You don’t need a Stats degree, just look at the graphs.

Credit to Smoking Gun of Democrat Cheating, by vbmoneyspender. Thanks to graphs by ‘cjph8914’ on Github. And explained in a twitter thread by StatsguyPhD  who notes the respective p-values in their 16 digit glory:

Biden 1.5076774999383611e-27  (note the ‘e’)
Trump 0.00048111250713426005
Statsguyphd sedately describes this difference as “extreme” and says “What is undeniable is that the first digit frequencies of Biden’s vote totals is extremely anomalous in comparison to Trump’s. “

So Joe Biden needs to come up with some convincing reasons about why these clumpy voter numbers group the way they do. Readers may want to help them below by dreaming up the best excuses they can think of to explain these patterns.

Do Democrat voters in Chicago vote in class sizes of 30?

Vote fraud Chicago Wards
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Vote fraud Chicago Wards
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Vote fraud Chicago Wards

 

Or do these clusters leave the signature mark of the sizes of the packets handed out by the head honcho of vote riggers?

Statsguyphd posts all his code and thoughts here.

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Thursday Open Thread

There may possibly be something happening in the world that isn’t the US election.

 

PS: Site traffic up 400% and site is struggling with the load. Hello to many new US Friends. I am trying some emergency upgrades and hope to resolve something asap. Apologies for the error messages. For the moment I am reloading to get past that. (Temporarily).

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Could it be true? A sting operation by Trump and Intelligence watermarked ballots to catch voter fraud

UPDATE: So it’s fun to imagine. File this under “movie script” at the moment.

Could there be a counter-coup against the Bidens?

Knowing that the Democrats were likely to cheat, did Donald Trump find honest Intelligence Agents who were still prepared to work for their President and their nation and keep a secret? Did they manage to watermark ballot papers with QFS blockchain encryption codes in a way that will allow them to catch and prosecute voter fraud? Steve Pieczenik says “arrests are coming”. “It was Trumps initiative”. “He’s been brilliant”. Apparently, they set the trap and waited for it to spring. I supposed we’ll know pretty soon if this is attention getting hype or one of the biggest stories in years.

I’m watching this with red flags thinking: this is exactly what we all want to hear. Too good to be true? I’m also thinking that there must surely still be some patriots in intelligence, and that Trump and everyone have known for months that they would use mail in ballots to cheat. Could they have kept this a secret? Will the evidence actually stick? Can they really identify the chain of corruption at the top, or will this just catch a few low level moles? If it is true, will anyone get prosecuted that matters? Would the media report on it if they did? Could they bury this like the Hunter Biden laptop? Did anyone leak this to the Dems, and if so, could they have still cheated but protected themselves?

But it’s sure a story worth discussing. (Would make a great movie script).

Watch this video. Keep your skeptical hat on.

This is an interview by Owen Shroyer  of”Info Wars”, an odd choice to release the biggest political story in decades (if it’s true) said by a guy in a Hawaiian shirt. (Why?)  But, this is Steve Pieczenik, who has worked was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance and James Baker.[2] He served the presidential administrations of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush in the capacity of deputy assistant secretary.[7]

The original video is found at this Banned.video link. (When the Youtube below gets banned).

A photo search confirms that it is definitely Pieczenick. Who, while having a remarkable background has also made some dubious claims and hyperbolic headlines. He also claimed a “counter coup” in 2016 saying then it “threatens to indict and convict the President of the USA as well others who were involved in the corruption “cover-up of the Clinton Foundation.” But we all know how many actual convictions occurred in that case.  Of course, we also know that the Deep State has some grip over the FBI — how many months did they have the laptop of Joe Biden’s son, full of incriminating evidence, and do nothing?

h/t Analytik

If this is true,

Some of the claims:

  • The ballots used in the election were printed by the Department of Homeland Security.
  • Every legitimate ballot across America was watermarked with QFS blockchain encryption codes.
  • Trump was fully aware of the sting operation and is still allowing the Dems to dig themselves deeper into their election fraud.
  • The sophisticated sting operation was intended to catch and expose the massive vote fraud of the Democrats.
  • Everything you’re seeing right now with the ballot fraud was completely expected by Trump’s people.
  • “Thousands and thousands of National Guard [troops]” have been sent to 12 states right now, to assist in securing the legitimate ballots and throwing out the fake ballots printed up by Democrats as part of their fraud operation.
  • This sting will expose the entire Biden family and get them all convicted and sent to prison.
  • “We watermarked all the ballots with QFS blockchain,” and sent 20,000 or more National Guard troops to the ballot centers.
  • The few members of the media who were allowed to be read in on this operation were able to keep it secret all this time, and Pieczenik thanks them for doing so.
  • “This has been a set up by Trump for a long, long time,” he says. “This is our counter-coup against the Bidens.”
  • Arrests are coming right away. “As of tomorrow,” he says, and it will continue for a long time to come.
  • “This is the biggest sting operation” in the history of America.

 

Commenter Richard Illfeld reminds us that even real fraud doesn’t stop people being elected:

In most cases, even if a court takes the case and finds fraud, it will make no difference. The case of Senator Al Franken is instructive. He was eventually, many months in, found to have been seated with fraudulent votes. The court decided it had not the power to unseat him, nor order a new election, these being legislative issues. It could only suggest the legislature reform the process to avoid such fraud in the future. He served two full terms in the senate. This has been the general pattern except where there has been a criminal conviction of the candidate.

The US Supreme Court is an appeals court. There is unlikely to be original action there in any case.
A case will have to raise a constitutional issue to arrive there.

State courts are highly variable. SOme are elected. Some are appointed. Some are judicial and honest, some often overturned.

If there is a promising, large scale avenue, it MAY lie in the fact that, claiming “COVID” necessity, state courts and governors made ad hoc changes in electoral procedures, close to the election and outside statutory requirements.

There is no doubt this happened, in fact it happened in every state where there is a dispute as mail-in ballot and extend forms and terms of voting and counting were added by governors, courts, and sometimes election commissars.

The GOP will argue that all votes under these provisions are invalid. The perps will argue that the emergency forced their hand and generic state law allows them some freedom of action in an emergency. The case law cited will be thing like voting after floods, tornadoes, and hurricanes. It will be noted that other states somehow proceeded without issues.

Vote dilution, which is unconstitutional, happens if large numbers of invalid ballots are accepted.

A special case will occur if the court finds that a disputed process can’t be audited because the evidence was improperly preserved. This claim is likely in Nevada and Pennsylvania.

There will be statistical evidence proving that certain suspect classes of ballots drove turnout to improbable levels and had improbable splits. This is true, and we will all know that it is the proverbial looks like, walks like, quacks like, is, but a court will not find this “proof”. Vote counts larger than the population of a district will be suspect, but a quick look could not find a case prior where a court could specify a remedy for this.

To my mind, therefore, the only likelihood for success is a credible whistleblower, strong physical evidence such as security camera footage, or a truly exogenous event we can’t anticipate. The court will split the baby; note that all kind of awful things happen and reccomend we make better rules so that they don’t happen next time.

This is why vote fraud, especially in certain well known locations, has been persistent for generations. It is generally treated as a civil matter without penalty.

There is fraud, and then there is fraud.

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And you thought elections were decided by The People?

Look who decides when a state is “won”?

What if they were wrong but the loser set up a government anyway, and the people accepted that?

NY Times says The MEdia Choose

The NY Times deleted their own tweet when they realize they’d said too much. But Twitter deleted half of Trumps tweets since Election Day.

Look at how effective this was in stopping Trump setting the agenda. The Total replies and retweets was in the order of 100 every 10 seconds but fell by three quarters almost instantly.

A group called Election Integrity Partnership (who voted for them?) decided that Trumps tweet “made unfounded claims about the legitimacy of mail-in ballots and the Election, while fomenting fear of violence.” So they tagged the message with a warning, but that wasn’t going to stop the tidal wave, so they deleted the content entirely, leaving their own loaded interpretation in it’s place. They were using the Trump account to tell Trumps followers that he was fomenting violence, and without leaving his words there so anyone could judge for themselves.

Trumps tweet apparently criticized the Supreme Court of PA’s decision.  He questioned the legitimacy of mail in ballots, which of course is a blasphemy.  All mail-in ballots, verified, or found in car boot-buckets three days after the election are always legitimate.

Twitter censors President Trump

Election Integrity Partnership   Breitbart

 

Surely it’s time for Trump with his 88 million followers to move to Gab or somewhere else? The only reason Twitter don’t block Trump entirely is that they are afraid he will do this. It’s so much better for them to string it out and use his own Twitter thread to advertise his flaws with loaded labels. Trump, no doubt aware of this, is playing his own game to get what he can out of Twitter. Nonetheless, surely it’s time to start giving the competitors some free prime time mentions?

Honest Dems work awfully  hard to stop people watching them count votes

In Pennsylvania, the Trump team had a court order to observe the vote counting, (why does anyone need a court order to watch votes being counted?) But it wasn’t enough, they still weren’t allowed in. The Sherriff would not come down to enforce a court order.

If the video doesn’t show up below, see it here.

 

In Pennsylvania, another 23,277 votes were found in Philadelphia this afternoon, all for Joe Biden.

True groupthinkers in action.

Michigan mysteries continue

Gatewaty Pundit reports: “In a secure area there appear to be suitcases and coolers moving in at 4am.

A woman monitoring the ballot counting in Detroit has asserted that at least 130,000 ballots, all for Joe Biden, were brought to the center in three vehicles at 4 a.m.

It’s worth watching (on Twitter, or Gateway Pundit).

“GOP members have been removed from the room. We haven’t been allowed to have one republican for every precinct, since about 5am when the 130,000 votes arrived….”

Perhaps it’s just a typo?

It’s worth watching this woman speak about what was happening in Michigan:

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USA 2020: Looks like a coup, smells like a coup…

With 200,000 and 138,000 Votes For Biden suddenly appearing at 4am in Michigan and Wisconsin, they are not even trying to hide that something very wrong is going on. But since the media collective were able to suppress the biggest political scandal since Watergate in the last two weeks, presumably they will try to do it again. The best thing anyone can do right now, is share the message asap.

UPDATE: See below for the two explanations that have been sent in or found about MI and WI.*

The way elections are normally called, Trump has already won (listen to Rudy Guliani), but the media are working hard to keep the Biden case looking as though it is on top.

 The strange appearance of 200,000 votes 4am in the morning:

As Rudy Guiliani says, in many states it was impossible for Biden to win by the usual methods the Television networks have used for all past elections. But whoever it is that decides these things held off announcing states that Trump had won. The Trump states were delayed or not declared, Biden states (like Arizona) were called with many votes yet to be counted. In key states at critical moments the counting of votes were stopped. In the dark of night suddenly 200,000 pure Biden votes appeared. What are the odds? 200,000 people in a row did not pick any other candidate?

China will be very happy

 Gateway Pundit and  @Trollasaurus

MI votes jump 200,000 for Biden overnight.

MI votes jump 200,000 for Biden overnight. (Click to enlarge)

Same thing happened in Michigan, 138,000 votes appeared: 96% of them were for Joe Biden. Steve Bannon talks to an expert who says this has never happened on this scale ever before. He also said, unlike previous elections they didn’t have data on absentee numbers, or the usual metadata in advance. They didn’t expect votes to be added at 4am. They were told it would be the “next day”.

@ScottAdamsSays:   The Michigan legislature refused to allow counting mailed ballots ahead of Election Day like other states do. What reason other than planned fraud would explain that?
Michigan, Votes leap by 138,000

Michigan

Perhaps this is why Biden could stay quiet and not campaign in the last few weeks?

Vote counting with step jumps:

How many voters do instant group-voting — However many are needed to get the blue line over the red line.

Michigan Wisconsin voting

….Click to enlarge.   Source: Fivethirtyeight

GatewayPundit:

Throughout the evening last night, Big Tech prevented President Trump’s tweets to be shared and the media all night never allowed VP Biden to ever be behind. Florida and Texas were in the Trump corner very early on but the media would not call these big states for Trump. This prevented President Trump from being seen as the clear leader in the race. The media did however, call Arizona and Virginia for Biden even though in Arizona the Republican leadership says they still have a lot of votes to count. Wisconsin was another story.

One county, Brown County, where the President is ahead by 14,000 votes only 50% of the votes are counted.  Why was this stopped?  The other three remaining counties to count are all counties where President Trump is in the lead.

Last night President Trump was ahead all night in Wisconsin but the vote counters slowly continued counting and then stopped once VP Biden took the lead.  Currently FOX News shows VP Biden up by 11,085 votes with 5% of the votes remaining.

 Exit polls show Trump won over the undecideds (54% DJT to 40% JB). This was a much bigger win in Exit polls than in 2016 (45% DJT to 42% Hillary).

Twitter are shutting down these messages and in the last 30 minutes @trollasaurus has been suspended. Trumps Twitter account is littered with deleted posts with “security messages”. Is he the leader of the free world or is Twitter?

Trump wrote this, but Twitter censored it. Why is this message so dangerous?

Last night I was leading, often solidly, in many key States, in almost all instances Democrat run & controlled. Then, one by one, they started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted. VERY STRANGE, and the “pollsters” got it completely & historically wrong!

It’s all about managing expectations, and as long as Democrat voters think they have won there will be riots in the streets if they get anything less. Joe Biden has apparently said he will announce he won “by 5pm” and start to set up a Cabinet and assume the title President Elect. They told us the election would look like a Trump win on the day, but a Biden win later. Twitter and Facebook warned us yesterday that they would be tagging and deleting any posts that claimed a victory before it was justified. Nancy Pelosi warned us the House will decide the winner if no President is decided by January 2. The polls have been saying “Biden” relentlessly for months.

Many honest people are going to believe Biden won legitimately, and once “gripped” they may never let that go…

Steve Bannon interviews Rudy Guliani (and others)

UPDATE: Found the interview here: https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1324012340149395458. This is from today, after the 4am vote dump, and was the most detailed description of what was going on in depth in the counties of Wisconsin and Michigan. Listen to Rudy Guliani at 13 minutes and onwards. It’s the best commentary I’ve heard on the election. Make sure you listen to it.

If you can’t see it below, follow the link above. It really is extraordinary. (Can someone copy it?)

 

If you copy anything from Twitter or youtube, do your best to screenshot it or download it. Keep the back up.

Read how fishy it sounds when Fox even calls Arizona when Republicans only need 61% to swing the state and the ballots coming in are from Republican friendly areas. ht/ Bill C

Did Fox think 98% were counted?

“New York Times editor Patrick LaForge tweeted, “An error was found in the data feed from Edison Research (used by @nytimes and other news organizations) for Arizona results – 86 percent of ballots have ben counted, not 98%. NYT has not called the state for Biden, though he still leads.””

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UPDATE: More information

The sudden appearance of 200,000 votes in MI is claimed to be a typo. Perhaps it was? It could have been a decimal point error, and was apparently corrected, which sounds plausible. President Trump has apparently launched lawsuits against the incident (and no doubt a thousand others). Perhaps there’s more going on, perhaps not. That doesn’t explain why tweets asking about this were censored (the answer could have been resolved so much faster, surely?).

But no one has any specific answer for the Wisconsin dump which also happened in the early hours before dawn.  Politifact and USA today just say generically that more votes came in from Pro-Biden city seats. It still needs explaining.  John Hinderaker also points out that there has been an 88% turnout. The turnout for Trump in 2016 was only 67% and the highest turnout in the last 18 years was about 75%. No state in the US recorded a turnout over 80% since 2002. Gateway Pundit has seven wards where they claim there are more votes than registered voters.

Perhaps the Michigan error was a decimal point typo. (h./t Gee Aye)

Caroline Wilson, county clerk for the central Michigan county of Shiawassee, told AFP by phone, “I added an extra zero accidentally,” thereby reporting 153,710 votes for Biden instead of 15,371. 

 The central Michigan county only has 55,612 registered voters.

When Biden’s 153,710 votes were lowered to 15,371 votes in a correction, 138,339 votes were removed from the Democrat’s total tally without any changes to Trump’s numbers.

Though graphs posted on the Detroit Free Press prove nothing at all:

An hour-by-hour update from Associated Press data shows that there was no point in time when Trump did not post an increase in votes.

Note that they provide an “hour by hour” graph (clever wording isn’t it?). That just spreads the leap at 5:04 across the whole hour. Naturally other votes would have been counted from other places in that hour, which adds in Trump votes and dilutes the effect. The sharp upturn in that graph from 5:18 – 6:18am is the largest rise in the graph.

 

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There is something remarkable going on in America

America choosing between Woke versus Traditional.

Polls are open, Queues are long, the National Guard has arrived, and random piles of bricks are already in place (ready for Civic celebrations by the Party of Tolerance?) Walmart has pulled guns and ammunition off its shelves (maybe they don’t want them stolen?) Shops are boarded up. It’s everything you need for an election.

Trump Trains are everywhere.

What a phenomenon. There’s even allegedly a 96 mile Trump Train in Arizona. Holy Smoke!

Whatever happens today, that passion, that fervour and dedication is not going to go away. This kind of energy just can’t be put back in a box.  (And if the youtube should vanish, see it at this tweet).

Some members of the Party of Love are pretending the US Flags on these cars could be ISIS banners, calling the Trump Trains “Vanilla ISIS”. Yeah. Like, that’s not divisive.

But people who love America are having a lot of fun.  Through their sheer exuberance, they must be pulling people in. Would you rather join the party of Optimism and Pizzazz or the Woke complainers?

Listen to the effect the sight of a Trump Train pursuing a Biden Bus has on the policeman driving alongside (Starts at 2:03). (Click the link above if there is no video here.)

h/t Michael Smith News

Later in this video cars keep piling in, including a white car that drove erratically and swerved into the truck, which pushed back. In Australia, this incident of a Trump supporter nudging a “Biden car” was national prime time news. But the execution of a Trump supporter in the last month, not so much. (Search the ABC for Bernell Trammell). If only Trammell wanted to vote for Biden, his black life might have mattered to the ABC?

Big Bankers support Billionaires people who they can get bail outs from

Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden is raking in Wall Street cash from all the big banks at five times the rate of President Trump, a CNN report admits. The securities and investment industry donated just $10.5 million to Trump’s presidential campaign and outside groups aligned with it, according to a new tally by OpenSecrets. It has sent nearly five times as much cash, $51.1 million, to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

This should be enough to scare anyone into voting

The Democrat-led House of Representatives is ready to decide the 2020 presidential election if the results are disputed, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.

Trump takes the biscuit race

A Pennsylvania bakery that has successfully predicted the last three presidential elections with its cookie poll has revealed the final tally in its Trump-Biden contest ahead of Election Day. They show President Trump leading former Vice President Joe Biden handily, with a staggering 27,903 red Trump cookies sold compared to just 5,114 blue Biden cookies.

In the Censorship Race

Google edges ahead in the Censorship race by sending Breitbart traffic to junky plagiarists instead of Breitbart. Naturally all fellow canceled skeptics will respond by linking to Breitbart as often as possible, and warning their readers to use a different search engine. In July, Breitbart News published data showing that Breitbart’s Google search visibility is down 99 percent compared to the same period in 2016. RealClearPolitics later published data corroborating this, and showing that the same silent expulsion from Google search results has happened to a variety of other conservative news websites as well.

Facebook meanwhile, is warning of unrest, and to save the nation it will postwarning labels on posts declaring early winners.

Zuckerberg stated: “If any candidate or campaign tries to declare victory before the final results are called, we will put a notification to the top of People’s Facebook and Instagram feed letting them know the results aren’t final yet and we’ll put an informational label on the candidate’s post.” Zuckerberg added that Facebook was taking the initiative as “There is a risk of civil unrest across the country, and given this, companies like ours need to go well beyond what we’ve done before. Obviously we can’t have Democrats doing any premature wrecking. The Trump Campaign has a set of phone numbers to call if you see any funny games going on. Not only are SUV’s for TRUMP roadtrolling America, but the Amish are doing it too:

Then there’s the Amish for Trump too:

Nigerians for Trump (in Nigeria)

.. Trump for Trump:

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Just in case #Election2020 #electionday #Vote2020 pic.twitter.com/677oX9HzkM — Melissa Tate (@TheRightMelissa) November 3, 2020

Want some spare bricks?

The bolts on the chair have been taken out, and in comments on the tweet there are plenty of people, shocked and willing to pick up the bricks.


A few small results are already starting to come in: @PpollingNumbers says Trump is 1% ahead in Florida, (but without Miami Dade). CNN has no tallies yet.
The phenomenon in Butler PA is an “indictment of the ruling class”. Donald Trump is still a vote against The Swamp.

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Tuesday Open Thread

It’s a Tuewednesday thing. Sorry. Distracted.

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Thank Bigotry from The Party of Peace for the shy voter effect

The bullies in the media and academic wings of The Democrats made it dangerous to reveal voting intentions

US FlagIn the Media-Bubble Donald Trump is a psychopathic, narcissist, and cowardly Nazi. And what kind of person would vote for that?  Mostly bad people. Hillbillies, old people. Toxic males — and who wants to be one of those? Even though 60 million Americans voted for Donald Trump, the ABC and CNN seem to find the gun toting militia and lonely hermits with a 6 inch beard. The only attractive Trump voters were reformed ones who were voting for Biden.

Psychology Today reviewed Trump voters and actually talks of “dog whistles” Trump sends to “bigoted supporters”, especially the evil kind of whites that don’t mix with minorities. Trump voters suffer from Authoritarian Personality Syndrome. Indeed, “support for Trump is correlated with a standard scale of modern racism.” So there. The strongest predictors of Trump support were the zip codes with more racial and ethnic isolation … because Trump voters were post code robots.

The Party of Tolerance created the toxic hate-fest of Trump voters with righteous indignation, degradation and humiliation. Everyone got the message.

Bullying is a brittle facade

A phase shift can happen once there is a critical mass. When people realize that it’s OK to shout from the rooftops, boats and highways, the bluff cracks. Is that why spontaneous rallies are breaking out all over the US? (There are two images here, and they may not show in  Firefox. If you can’t see it, watch the top one here.



When nearly all the pollsters were spectacularly wrong in 2016, the Trafalgar group correctly predicted the key swing states. They found a way to count the silent Trump voters.

Bookworm says “the Trafalgar Group Might be undercounting.

Instead of asking people how they planned to vote, it asked them how they thought their neighbors would vote:

[T]he secret sauce used by Trafalgar to try to find “hidden” Trump voters is asking people whom they think their neighbors will vote for. The idea is that someone might be more candid about their own preference for Trump if you couch your question in terms of whether someone they know might support him. Is there any method to that madness? According to a new study, yes.

A new online study finds that Republicans and independents are twice as likely as Democrats to say they would not give their true opinion in a telephone poll question about their preference for president in the 2020 election. That raises the possibility that polls understate support for President Donald Trump.

Some 11.7% of Republicans and 10.5% independents said they would not give their true opinion, vs. 5.4% of Democrats, according to the study by CloudResearch LLC…

Which sounds like a good trick to get people to fess up. The problem is, when they live in an inner city stronghold their neighbours probably will all vote for Biden so the trick fails to find the Trump support deep in enemy territory (such as it may exist).

After four years of RussiaGate Hate, the Trump voters are even more shy than in 2016:

Positive Trump Polls Spark Debate by Johnathon Easly, The Hill

Trafalgar’s Robert Cahaly says there is a hidden Trump vote that is not being accounted for in polls that show Biden on a glide path to the White House.

“There are more [shy Trump voters] than last time and it’s not even a contest,” Cahaly said, adding that it’s “quite possible” that the polling industry is headed for a catastrophic miss in 2020.

But don’t go counting chickens yet, especially Chickens-We-Really-Want-Hatched. The Uni of Southern California’s Dornside Center had Trump winning the popular vote in 2016 but now it has him 11% behind. Crazy right? When they try to pry out the shy voter, they ask who do they think their social circle will vote for, and that narrows to lead to 5 points. When they ask, “who do you expect to win” the people watching relentless Biden-Winning-Polls put Trump ahead by just one point.

Beware, Manners Matters…

While Trump voters feel they have to keep a low profile in certain circles, there are other circles where there is only one permitted view of Coronavirus, and it applies in opposite ways to both ends of the political spectrum. In nearly every other democracy, the polls rewarded leaders that dealt with the virus decisively, and who stopped it getting  in.  One US leader is the obvious choice for border control, but it’s not even on the agenda.

There may be a silent Covid vote too.

 

 

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Glorious audacity meets brazen audacious gaslighting

Nothing like American sheer brazen audacity.

Will Trump take California?

h/t MichaelSmithNews.

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A lot of people are getting a thrill, “goosebumps” even from this video. Read the comments under the twitter feed.

It’s easy to scoff (what are the odds) but there is a place for this naked ambition. Gotta love the showmanship. Sure, it’s over the top, but some might just be inspired to do great things.

Gotta be amazed that this competitor is the best the Dems could find.

Meanwhile a different kind of brazen is coming from the left

The message from the left is just as audacious, but it’s pure Gaslighting. People are saying things that are absurdly untrue as if they were obvious, and doing it repeatedly.

Tonight the Australian ABC  News finally mentioned the Hunter Biden scandal, but then wrapped it all as something created by an anti-China group (nobody mention Taiwan). They carefully implied –without saying it — that the laptop was released in dirty power plays outside America (dissident Chinese).  At no point did they say that Hunter left it at a Repair Shop, signed for it, and never came back. Nor did they mention Tony Bobulinski’s independent accounts, or the 26,000 emails provided by Bidens jailed former partners.  ABC viewers won’t know that there are three entirely separate sources of scandalous evidence against Hunter Biden and some that directly implicate Joe Biden. In this way, without actually lying overtly, they lied by omission. Though I could be wrong. They may have flat out lied. The ABC has changed “iview” and we can’t fast forward it now making it much harder to quote them exactly. Coincidence? Nah. It’s just the government coming to help us.

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ANZ bankers kneel to carbon God, betray Australian farmers, miners — “don’t deserve a banking licence”

How to incense whole industries ANZ style

They declared some law abiding businesses were unworthy of their loans, and thousands of Australians in the steel industry, farming, and manufacturing are livid. The bank is now telling its customers that interest payments are not enough, and those with 50% or more of their operations in coal must diversify. They may well diversify right out of ANZ — a boycott is being discussed. And for shareholders this preening would seem like a dumb way to lose customers. But in Australia it’s worse than that.
The right to earn interest by loaning money they mostly don’t have (by creating paper currency from thin air) is a glorious gift bestowed on them by an Australian banking license. It’s a perpetual money making machine, granted by a government group called APRA. ANZ is one of The Big Four Banks in Australia. It is supposed to provide an essential service, and in return APRA protects it by using the power of the state to run any new competitors off the ranch and right into jail for counterfeiting. It thus behooves ANZ to serve all law abiding Australian customers equally, and not discriminate based on religious beliefs about weather control.

Don’t look now, ANZ is selling carbon credits

Rather than saving the planet though, ANZ’s climate passion looks like an extortionate scheme to enrich ANZ. To twist the knife, it appears the ANZ sent out a note to clients explaining that it would grow its own business while it “helped” them to reduce carbon by selling them carbon credits and giving them advice on how to make money off the great carbon credit ponzi scheme themselves. ANZ calls this practical, Ian calls it bastardry.
Banking Credits, ANZ Get rich Quick Scheme on carbon

ANZ explains how customers forced to “diversify” can buy carbon credits from … ANZ

Ian W writes again to the entire board of the ANZ (and most of the Australian parliament).

“Acts of bastardry… don’t deserve a banking license”

A Very Good Evening to you ANZ Board,
I am a long term Shareholder of your Bank and a passionate supporter of Australian manufacturing, mining and farming.
With your Bank’s recent anti-coal announcement – which attacks every single Australian involved in steelmaking, aluminium smelting, food processing, manufacturing, plastics, fertilisers, explosives, other metal smelting and farming, it is clear to me as a Shareholder that the ANZ Management group has lost the plot – and need to be stood down by the Board forthwith.
Your Bank has extreme arrogance and disregard for genuine shareholders and the Australian people – epitomised perfectly by the fact that as a result of our phone conversation and several emails, Shayne Elliott is now blocking my emails and refuses to talk.

He has no right to treat genuine shareholders with such contempt – even if he disagrees with 99% of what I have to say. Somebody needs to tell him, thousands of genuine Shareholders like us own the damn Bank and he works for us! Please pass this email on to Shayne Elliott because this country cannot have Chief Executives of organisations like your Bank destroying our businesses and futures.
Now we in the Australian Steel Industry understand perfectly what false virtue signalling is and we understand why the ANZ is engaged in exactly that.  It is because the Bank has, is and can in future, make an absolute fortune out of ripping off innocent Australians through rent seeking activities including carbon trading and funding renewables.  Secondly it is because the ANZ Management just go to water when confronted with feral environmental activists at head office and when pressure is applied by partly overseas funded organisations like Market Forces and the Australian Conservation Foundation.
You see, ANZ, we know – that you know – that the concept of Human induced Climate Change is hotly scientifically contested – and in fact that the most powerful Nation in the Free World right now has rejected Paris – and the most powerful Nation in the non-free world is also not bound by Paris – by using the bulldust concept of being a “developing” nation.
Who installed such weak, gutless management into the ANZ Bank that they attack all of our businesses just to appease a few feral overseas funded activists? The Board of the ANZ must stand down every senior leadership person of the Bank immediately please.
A link below from the ABC describes the mad, recently released policy of ANZ – and the additional links below describe exactly what the ANZ has been up to with your customers over the last few years.

With that consistent behaviour from the Bank, you expect us to believe that your renewable objectives are honourable!!!!?????

Could someone from the ANZ Board please contact me, Shayne Elliott isn’t game to talk and this needs to be discussed with a human being at the very top level of the Bank.
About now is a very good time for every one of the hundred thousand people in the Australian steel industry, everyone associated with smelting of other metals, papermaking, mining, manufacturing food processing and farming to put a total boycott on the ANZ Bank.
 Acts of bastardry, like the ANZ has just executed, deserve nothing less!
Morrison should withdraw the licence of the ANZ Bank to operate.
I look forward to being contacted, thankyou and best regards,
Ian W

Ian helpfully included links showing that “Saving the Planet” doesn’t fit ANZ’s pattern of behaviour:

What’s wrong with overcharging, laundering and gouging a few customers on the way to saving the Earth?

Thomas Brookes – Victim of ANZ | Bank Victims Stories | Bank Reform Now Australia

ANZ CEO Shayne Elliott finally admits documents they used in a court were “altered” (nice soft bank description for forgery) and gives an unreserved apology for 20 years of unconscionable misconduct. But then does not give any further explanation, or offer proper financial compensation, and instead offers a small token gesture “goodwill payment.”

ANZ admits ‘unfair and unethical’ behaviour towards rural customers at banking royal commission – NZ Herald
The commission also heard a case involving Arthur and Rhonda Cheesman, and their son Reuben and his wife Katrina, who ran a farm in western Victoria.

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Weekend Unthreaded

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Hunter Biden under FBI investigation for money laundering

 BLM: Bidens Laptop Matters

The allegations about Hunter Biden are all fake news, debunked before they were made, but the FBI says they have him under investigation for money laundering. And they’ve been investigating him all year, but forgot to mention that.

 Department of Justice (DOJ) official confirmed Thursday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) opened a criminal investigation into Hunter Biden and his associates in 2019, focused on allegations of money-laundering, and that it remains “open and active,” according to Sinclair investigative reporter James Rosen.

 The FBI has admitted they have the laptop and they interviewed Tony Bobulinski on October 23 for five hours. Nothing to see here.

Hunter only matters because of what it might mean about about Joe.

Trump supporter Road Trolling Biden bus

Biden Bus runs red lights to escape a Trump fan in a Hearse called the Democrat Cemetary Vote Collector

When censorship is running strong, people find other ways to get out the message. This a new artform called #Roadtrolling as invented by a Trump fan in Houston. Apparently the Biden bus (which doesn’t have Joe Biden in it) has been seen running red lights to try to get away from the hearse.

The side of the hearse also says:

“Collecting Democrat votes one dead stiff at a time.”

“Dig ’em Deeper, Bury ’em Cheaper Funeral Parlor”

“Clinton Foundation Suicide Limo Service – 1-800-HANG-URSELF”

It’s a Texas thing but I think this will catch on.

Road Trolling

“Collecting Democrat Votes One Dead Stiff At A Time”

h/t Bill C

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Winning! Australian Govt writes laws to protect people like Peter Ridd at universities

The Australian government admits Peter Ridd should never have been sacked for criticizing standards of James Cook University

Peter Ridd, High Court battle for Free Speech

Peter Ridd is still fighting for his right to speak

Great News: In an era of absurd censorship, it’s good to get a win. Thanks to all those who wrote letters and emails, and obviously, thanks to the IPA, the government is insisting that Professors be allowed to decide what professors say, rather than Vice Chancellors. Soon, if fraud should occur at James Cook Uni, people will be able to suggest it gets investigated without getting fired for being “uncollegial.”

As Education Minister Dan Tehan told Sky News this morning:

“[James Cook University] wouldn’t have been able to prosecute Peter Ridd if these laws had of been in place.”

“By defining academic freedom in legislation, Education Minister Dan Tehan is ensuring the dismissal of an academic like Peter Ridd can never happen again,” said Mr Rozner.

 — Institute of Public Affairs (IPA)

To recap Peter Ridds crimes: he said “for your amusement” in an email once. (Illegal satire). He said “ We can no longer rely on our science institutions.” He talked about the replication crisis in science, which was borne out in research, and he spotted duplicated photos that appear to be fraudulent by a JCU researcher who was separately was found guilty of fabricating data in Sweden. JCU have spent something like $2 million fighting for their right to sack Ridd. Not surprisingly in the current environment, JCU staff are frightened to use their emails.

 

Of professors, there are only a few,
Who dare challenge or doubt peer-review,
Of all topics climatic,
Which is so problematic,
For alarmists who think it taboo.

–Ruairi

The legislation still needs to pass the Senate, but this is likely.

This Act is the Higher Education Support Amendment (Freedom of Speech) Act 2020.

Academic freedom means the following:
(a) the freedom of academic staff to teach, discuss, and research and to disseminate and publish the results of their research;
(b) the freedom of academic staff and students to engage in intellectual inquiry, to express their opinions and beliefs, and to contribute to public debate, in relation to their subjects of study and research;
(c) the freedom of academic staff and students to express their  opinions in relation to the higher education provider in which they work or are enrolled;
(d) the freedom of academic staff to participate in professional or  representative academic bodies;
(e) the freedom of students to participate in student societies and  associations;
(f) the autonomy of the higher education provider in relation to the choice of academic courses and offerings, the ways in which they are taught and the choices of research activities and the ways in which they are conducted.

This won’t help Peter Ridd of course. The High Court will decide whether to allow his appeal next February.

High Court to consider the Peter Ridd Case in February

From Peter Ridd

Peter Ridds, Book, Reef Heresy.

Click to buy the book.

Dear All,
We got some good news today. The High Court has reviewed our documentation and set the date for the hearing to decide if it will hear our full appeal. It will be February next year. The great majority of applications are rejected on the documentation, so we have passed the first hurdle. If we succeed in February, the actual hearing could be many months after that. Go Fund ME.

We got some other very good news on Wednesday with the Commonwealth education Minister Dan Tehan, announcing the introduction of a University Free-Speech bill in parliament. Minister Tehan said “the legal advice that I have is that they [JCU] wouldn’t have been able to prosecute Peter Ridd if these laws had of been in, place.”

Thankyou Minister! I have been told on the grapevine that there has been a lot of lobbying to get this Bill into parliament and I thank the likes Senator Hansen, George Christensen and doubtless many others for their efforts. More information at https://www.facebook.com/Inst.ofPublicAffairs/posts/10160441718078858

Irrespective of whether JCU win in the High Court, they now have a piece of legislation introduced to stop their disgraceful behaviour happening again. Unfortunately, we have to fight on what the law was in 2018. But JCU is now in no doubt about where the Government stands on this issue.

Finally, my book on the Great Barrier Reef, and why it is not as badly damaged as is often claimed, is coming off the printing press (in Victoria). Despite the virus it is available for order through Connor Court Publishing

Keep reading  →

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Democrats: vote for us, we’ll wear you down, dox, and bully you but know we care…

Finally, an honest Democrats advert (made by someone other than the Democrats)

Too good not to share:

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If they didn’t have double standards they’d have no standards at all.

This is the great work of Allie Beth Stuckey  — her channel.

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Thursday Open Thread

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Third world censorship in the USA: 1000% Joe Biden is “the Big Guy” in China CCP dealings

The media are concealing a Bigger-than-Watergate scandal about the “leading” presidential candidate a week before the election in the most powerful nation on Earth. How easy then is it for the same media to ignore thousands of independent scientists in an esoteric debate about radiative physics? If Biden is elected, he will have to be removed from office.

History unfolding: Tony Bobulinski is a democrat who served his country, who had tops secret clearance with the NSA and DOE.

Tucker Carlson:

“Never before in American history have more power centres combined to kill a legitimate news story …”

“Last night we experienced an extraordinary attempt to interfere with our reporting on the Biden family…”

Bobulinski went to the Biden camp in the last week, after they said this was Russian disinformation (calling Bobulinski a traitor effectively). He asked them to do the right thing. Their response (like concern trolls) was to warn him he’d have press trucks outside his house, he’d have to move, he could lose his job… “but basically” Rob Walker, the spouse of Jill Biden’s former top personal White House aide, told Tony Bobulinski “you’re just going to bury all of us, man” .


UPDATED: See the whole hour on bitchute
Search for Tucker Carlson Tonight 10/27 or Bobulinski “most recent first”.

Youtube version: First half. May not last long.

The Transcript for those who’d rather read it. Jim Biden, is Joe Biden’s brother:

Tyler Durden:

When Hunter Biden’s laptop became national news, Rep. Adam Schiff suggested it was Russian disinformation, implying that he was a Russian asset. Bobulinsky made it explicitly clear that he would go public if Schiff didn’t retract his Russia smear — to which Biden family adviser Rob Walker said “You’re just gonna bury all of us.”

“… it’s “crystal clear” Joe Biden lied when denying knowledge of Hunter’s business dealings”

“The Biden response has been “disgusting” and I had to go on the record”

Where were the FBI? Where is The Media? What Bobulinski discusses was mostly about Joe Biden in 2017, but the story begins in Dec 2015 while Biden was VP. What was going on  during the Obama years? And what might never have come out at all if Joe Biden wasn’t running for President of the United States a week from now.

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Bargain! $2 billion in solar panels powers SA for whole hour on Sunday in Spring!

The ABC, Australian public broadcaster, is excited. For the first “phenomenal time” in the world —  one state, South Australia, managed to produce enough solar power so that (in theory) the whole state was powered by solar electrons for one hour on a Sunday at midday in Spring. It was one of the lowest demand days of the year in one of the smallest markets in Australia. The ABC and AEMO don’t mention that it took about $2 billion in capital infrastructure to achieve this trivial feat.

TonyfromOz points out that during this hour the ABC also don’t mention that natural gas plants were running in SA. Apparently SA was exporting electricity to Victoria and with a magic filter at the border so only fossil powered electrons were sent there. He also points out the ABC forgot to say that South Australia only uses 5% of the National Electricity Market.

SA electricity on October 11 2020

How many versions of natural gas and diesel keep the lights on in SA?  Anero.id

 

In reality, I assume Victoria was the dumping ground for the solar surge — otherwise generators in SA would have to have been shut down or disconnected. Did Victorian baseload generators lose some income while they sat around on standby for the surge to fade?

Phenomenal gushing and free advertising on their ABC:

 All of South Australia’s power comes from solar panels in world first for major jurisdiction

By Richard Davies

South Australia’s renewable energy boom has achieved a global milestone. The state once known for not having enough power has become the first major jurisdiction in the world to be powered entirely by solar energy.

For just over an hour on Sunday, October 11, 100 per cent of energy demand was met by solar panels alone.

“This is truly a phenomenon in the global energy landscape,” Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) chief executive Audrey Zibelman said.

Alternately, they could have spent that $2b building a coal plant which would last for generations and power the whole state whenever they felt like they wanted electricity, even if that included every single minute of the day.

Alternately, the SA Government could have spent $30m and kept the old coal plant running at Port Augusta.  That would have left $1,970 million dollars for South Australians to spend on food, health, education or trips to see the Great Barrier Reef before it evaporates.

Don’t miss the magic hour of solar supremacy

Reneweconomy, magic hour of SA solar supremecy.

Reneweconomy marks up the magic hour of SA solar supremecy.

Adding up the $ 2 billion cost of all that solar infrastructure

  • The Tailem Bend Solar Plant (95 MW) cost $200 million.
  • Bungala Solar PV Plant, Port Augusta (220 MW) cost  $315 million USD.
  • Around 270,000 electricity customers in the state have rooftop solar, adding up to some 1.5 gigawatts of capacity. Current cost (lowest) is $6,000 for 6kW.  So in today’s market, that’s about $1.5 billion dollars for all that solar. Most of it would have cost more at the time.
  • Plus there are subsidies.

In September 2018, the South Australian Government announced that it would offer $100M in state government subsidies for up to 40,000 households to install battery storage in their homes. Eligible home owners and renters could receive $500 per kWh up to a maximum of $6,000 for eligible solar and battery systems [42]

The real total is so much higher. This barely considers all the soft subsidies, the interconnector cost, the transmission lines, the batteries, the extra costs for FCAS (frequency control) and spinning condensors etc etc to make up for the lack of system inertia.

The Grid is like “lungs” (that breathe once a day?)

The price of solar includes rearranging your day and night so that you do everything at midday or pay big money to install batteries to compensate for the uselessness of your solar panels for 60% of the day.

Paul Roberts is SA Power Networks spokesman. He says “get excited”.

“It’s an exciting future for South Australia and we have a whole number of things that we are putting in place to manage that,” he said.

That includes making it cheaper for people to use power during the day and encouraging people to switch on dishwashers, pool pumps and hot water systems in the middle of the day.

The next step is convincing more people to connect batteries to store cheap energy during the day.

“The grid needs to become increasingly like a set of lungs,” AEMO chief external affairs officer Tony Chappel said.

“During the day, the lungs would breathe in and excess energy can be stored and then in the evening when the sun’s gone down, that energy can be fed back.”

We the people are excited. Once, we got power anytime and everytime we wanted it, which was predictable, boring and cheap. Now we are part of a living grid that breathes free electricity into our homes at lunchtime but otherwise eats $100 bills straight from our wallet.

The ABC claps and asks no hard questions like, how much will it cost? Will it really stop storms? How many degrees cooler will the world be? Are there cheaper ways to reduce CO2 emissions? Does reducing man-made CO2 even change atmospheric CO2 levels? Will we be able to measure the benefit of this ever by any means? Are the Chinese rolling on the floor laughing at our pagan stupidity?

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Tuesday Open Thread

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Roving organic MAGA crowds bypassing censorship

Fueled and Moving:  Remember 2009? The Climate Skeptic world was set on fire as the ClimateGate hide-the-decline pure corruption was both verified and then ignored by the media.  Now the Bidengate expose and audacious censorship is fueling the same indignation, brazen confidence and sheer determination on in a much bigger scale across the US of A.

Suddenly people who just had suspicions or hunches that things were wrong have been converted into campaigners with a mission. Doubts get replaced with confidence, and as the groups grow, so does the sense of “I’m not the only one”.

If the media won’t act as an outlet, then people find another way…

Trump’s Grassroots MAGA Army Working Around Platform Controls…

Sundance, ConservativeTreehouse

The MAGA rallies, parades and grassroots events are breaking out independent of each-other and literally happening all over the place on any given day.  Miles and miles of cars with Trump flags… same with boats… and sometimes just marches in the street where thousands of people just gather and walk with American flags, Trump banners, and other gear.

The media not only have to put out the Biden-fires, they have to censor the censorship-flames too.

So they blow the smoke back. Any friend of Big Gov is a friend-to-defend, so the mainstream media are covering for the Twitter and Facebook bias:

CNN blames a shadowy “right wing offensive” plan to discredit social media:

A right-wing offensive” is the 2020 narrative equivalent to Clinton’s vast Russian conspiracy theory.  The truth is Big Tech is getting their ass kicked by the American electorate and they are freaking out about how visible, in-your-face, unapologetic and dramatic the MAGA activism has become.  Thus blame-casting is needed.

 It’s not like social media companies are naughty for denying half the population’s right to speak, it’s a Russian plot.

h/t Another Ian

Speaking of dramatic activism. Footage on Twitter (that isn’t censored yet) shows some remarkable organic gatherings. Not only are Trump events packed solid and filled for hours before they start, Trump supporters are gathering spontaneously, even going right outside Biden and Harris events. Apparently there are rolling lines of SUV’s, many with American flags, driving in convoys .

 

MY LYING EYES

Byron York describes “The big Trump rallies you don’t see.”

“I can’t believe there aren’t any newspeople here,” said Linda of Greene County, Pennsylvania, as she stood among hundreds of cars and pickup trucks. … Indeed, although there were carloads of Trump supporters as far as one could see, and many more on the way from Ohio and West Virginia, and this enormous political event was happening less than two weeks before the presidential election, as far as I could tell, I was the only newsperson there.

It was the biggest political rally no one saw.

John Hindraker:

We see, for the most part, what the people who run news organizations want us to see.

Much more at the link. An obvious question is, where are the thousands of people spontaneously turning out to support Joe Biden? To take just one example, where were the Biden boat parades? There weren’t any, of course. On the contrary: when Biden and Kamala Harris made a joint appearance in Yuma, Arizona, not a single person showed up.


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What are we to make of the crowds? In 2016 Hillary played to half-empty rooms too, but she still got 60 million votes.

The passion of the top ten percent is not necessarily an indication of what the middle ten percent are thinking. But it’s hard to believe a man who can’t get a crowd in a carpark  can win the US presidency.

The media IS the problem.

If we had better media, we’d get better politicians.

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