Oceanslider
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GQ magazine..."and much more" 
Just the thought of questioning if she'll be President, wow
Just the thought of questioning if she'll be President, wow
US Elections (& Politics) :)
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Sept 07 , 2022
More important than ever - Stay Vigilant
Dear Patriots,
It is more important than ever that you stay politically vigilant. This is not the time to take a vacation from caring and fighting the enemies of freedom.
1- In the recent election in Alaska, Sarah Palin fell victim to yet another Democrat voting scam, Rank Choice Voting. Watch out for this ploy in your states. It is great to see elected Republicans saying something about it.
The Epoch Times
Republicans Issue Statements Against Ranked Choice Voting After Alaska Election
QUOTE: "Ranked-choice voting is a scam to rig elections," Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) wrote on Twitter after Wednesday's results. "60% of Alaska voters voted for a Republican, but thanks to a convoluted process and ballot exhaustion—which disenfranchises voters—a Democrat 'won.'"
Republican lawmakers have taken aim at the ranked choice system used in Alaska after former governor Sarah Palin lost to Democrat Mary Peltola on Wednesday in a special election.
Peltola, a former state lawmaker, defeated Palin by three percentage points at 51.47 percent to fill Alaska's only U.S. House seat. Palin received 48.53 percent.
The results mean that Peltola will finish the remainder of the term of Republican Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), whose seat was left vacant after died in March this year. Young's term expires at the end of this year.
However, GOP lawmakers took to social media this week to slam the voting system used in the election, with some calling it a "scam" that "disenfranchises voters."
Republican National Committee (RNC) national press secretary Emma Vaughn said in a statement to The Hill that the Alaska special election results "prove what we've known all along—ranked-choice voting disenfranchises voters."
"Our Republican nominees earned nearly 60% of Alaskans' votes on the ballot, and now every single one of those voters lost their voice to choose their representative in Congress. Alaskans deserve an equal and fair process, two things this special election were not," Vaughn said.
2- Ballot curing is another method of cheating used by Democrats. After two years, the RNC is finally addressing voter fraud.
The Federalist
RNC, Other Conservative Groups File Lawsuit Against Pennsylvania For Illegally Altering Ballots
QUOTE: The Republican National Committee (RNC) announced on Friday that it will lead a lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania over the issue of illegally "curing" ballots in elections, a process whereby election workers alter incomplete or unreadable ballots rather than treating them as the law requires.
"The RNC is joining with the NRSC, NRCC, Pennsylvania GOP, and concerned Pennsylvania voters to sue the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for unequal treatment of its citizens at the ballot box. Pennsylvania Democrats, led by Governor Tom Wolf, are unconstitutionally flouting the law by failing to adopt uniform rules for how elections in the Keystone State are run," said RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel in a statement. "This lawsuit will ensure that Pennsylvania voters have confidence in their elections and underscores the Republican Party's commitment to making it easier to vote and harder to cheat in Pennsylvania and nationwide."
According to the RNC press release, the lawsuit seeks to challenge "the illegal and unfair practice of some [Pennsylvania] counties allowing voters to 'cure' defective mail ballots while others do not."
Ballot curing is a process by which an election worker adds information to an absentee ballot that has a noticeable defect, such as missing personal information. The law does not allow for anyone but the voter to fill out a ballot. The law says mail-in ballots that are not filled out as legally required must be declared invalid rather than altered by election workers so they can be counted.
Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf has regularly blocked efforts by the state's GOP-controlled legislature to bring transparency and security to state and local elections.
3- It is slow and full of obstacles but voter integrity is the responsibility of the states. Measures to improve integrity of the vote are being fought for in state after state.
AL. Com
Alabama voting machines challenged as unreliable in court hearing
QUOTE: Montgomery County Circuit Judge Greg Griffin held a hearing on a lawsuit that seeks to block Alabama's use of electronic ballot-counting machines in the November election.
Plaintiffs in the case claim the machines are unreliable and susceptible to hacking and tampering that can change election results. They have asked the court to order the state to count ballots by hand through a process outlined in their lawsuit.
Jay Hinton, an attorney for the plaintiffs, told Griffin that the lawsuit is a voting rights case. Hinton said it's not meant to challenge the outcome of any previous elections but is to protect the constitutional right to have votes counted accurately. Hinton said he did not believe there was a reliable way to use computers in the vote-counting process.
"Hand-counting, it may be difficult," Hinton told the judge. "But you know what? Constitutional rights are often difficult to preserve."
4- This is a long but classic Victor Davis Hanson piece that we suggest you read in full. It encompasses many of the stories and situations we have been discussing in this newsletter for the past 20 months.
It is important to understand where we are and how we got here to be able to mount a resistance. Hanson is one of our best thinkers and explainers.
American Greatness
How Old Bad Ideas Become Wonderful
QUOTE: We in America are regressing—now returning to the distant neanderthal past, now embracing the worst of what the 19th and 20th century had to offer.
There is no end of history. Instead, civilization is a constant fight to embrace what has worked for the common good through the ages—and to reject what in the past has failed abysmally.
Bad and bankrupt ideas, protocols, and ideologies—like McCarthyism, communism, various cults, or fascism—resurface not because of their intrinsic or lasting value or record of success, but because civilizations become less vigilant and allow human vanities, ignorance, arrogance, and evil to reassert themselves.
QUOTE: Look at Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, or Iran or the many failed states of Latin America, Asia, and Africa and the message is clear that statism, communism, and socialism ruin societies and render them impoverished and without freedom.
No matter. In America, radical statists in major cities are doing their best to pass rent-control legislation in Florida. Canceling hundreds of billions of student debt by executive fiat is now a serial federal agenda. Nullifying millions of private rental contracts between landlord and tenant is now in the power of the federal and state government. Each new reconciliation bill is yet another socialist success in upping taxation and redistributing wealth, while depriving the individual of freedom, both economic and political.
A $30 trillion unsustainable national debt is no obstacle to printing trillions of new dollars. Apparently, the more money created, the more the poor are likely to have some, and the less the value of the money of those who have too much.
READ. KNOW. STAY VIGILANT. PRAY.
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So what you're saying is your generation (and following generations) allowed it to happen. Your "tough as nails" attitude obviously fell off at some point allowing this to happen.
I mean, minimum wage hasn't followed annual inflation for decades so it's more of a system problem. You could make ends meet with minimum wage in the 80s, but when it hasn't increased to the level it should've then what happens?
Somebody said Something they will soon regret.
Hillary Clinton on whether Trump should be indicted: "No one is above the law."
(web snapshot image reduced in size so as to spare everyone's eyes the horror.)
https:/twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1567539781822779393
Hillary Clinton on whether Trump should be indicted: "No one is above the law."
(web snapshot image reduced in size so as to spare everyone's eyes the horror.)
https:/twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1567539781822779393
Sybertiger
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I would think that those who have skills that merit a wage higher than "minimum wage" would receive the higher compensation. If you are 50 years old and have the same skills as an 18 year old who is earning the minimum wage then I'm not sure why you'd get paid more for just being old. And if you do have more and better skills that would be useful for a business then I would assume you'd change jobs to get the higher pay. Basic supply and demand for labor is what drives wages unless artificially set by the gubermint.
More/better quotes available at this guy's twitter feed. Enjoy....
Sybertiger
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Hears firecrackers then goes to find the nearest black man to hold at gunpoint. Sounds exactly like someone with poor judgement.
Parley
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He sounds like a racist to me.
Our daughter just turned 14, she couldn’t wait until her 14th birthday so she could get a job. She found one at a local ice cream shop. Starting wage was $10 a hour.
Im sorry, I don’t feel bad for anyone making minimum wage. Quite frankly, if you are a adult and making minimum wage, you suck at life. If a 14 year old girl can get a job for above minimum wage, you have problems.
For our daughter, she’s been working for just over a month. She averages at least another $5 a hour additional on tips. And has already gotten a raise because she is willing to work after school and her boss raves about how good of a worker she is.
In my book, unless you are a child looking for your first job, this minimum wage discussion shouldn’t even be on the table. Because if you are over 18 you should be making well above that.
If we are to have minimum wage, it should be below $5 a hour.
Parley
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Wisconsin judge sides with GOP in absentee ballot fight
A Wisconsin judge on Wednesday ruled that state law does not allow election clerks to fill in missing information on witness certification envelopes that contain absentee ballots, delivering a victory to Republicans nine weeks before the election in the battleground state.
The lawsuit, backed by the GOP-controlled Legislature, is the latest move by Republicans to tighten restrictions on absentee voting in the swing state where Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republican Sen. Ron Johnson are on the ballot in November.
Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Aprahamian on Wednesday granted GOP motions to immediately block the practice, known as ballot curing. The case is expected to ultimately go to the conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court, which in July ruled that absentee ballot drop boxes located outside of clerk offices are illegal.
Local election officials do not have the authority under the law to modify absentee ballot certificates, nor does the state elections commission have the right to order that they take that action, the judge said. He accused the elections commission of “stubborn and unjustified adherence to its guidance” that was contrary to state law.
SNIP
The judge agreed with Republicans that 2016 Wisconsin Elections Commission guidance issued to the state’s 1,800-plus local election clerks saying that they can cure ballot certificates without contacting the voter is illegal. Clerks only address problems on the witness certificate, which doubles as an envelope, and not the ballot itself. Republicans did not contest the practice until after Donald Trump’s narrow loss in 2020, when nearly 1.4 million voters cast absentee ballots and COVID-19 vaccines weren’t available yet.
“This isn’t a case about counting votes,” said George Burnett, attorney for the Republican Party of Waukesha County, which brought the lawsuit. “This is a case about stopping the issuance of guidance that violates Wisconsin law.”
Wisconsin judge sides with GOP in absentee ballot fight - Channel3000.com
My comment: In my opinion the election officials in too many cases are not following the law as written.
A Wisconsin judge on Wednesday ruled that state law does not allow election clerks to fill in missing information on witness certification envelopes that contain absentee ballots, delivering a victory to Republicans nine weeks before the election in the battleground state.
The lawsuit, backed by the GOP-controlled Legislature, is the latest move by Republicans to tighten restrictions on absentee voting in the swing state where Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republican Sen. Ron Johnson are on the ballot in November.
Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Aprahamian on Wednesday granted GOP motions to immediately block the practice, known as ballot curing. The case is expected to ultimately go to the conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court, which in July ruled that absentee ballot drop boxes located outside of clerk offices are illegal.
Local election officials do not have the authority under the law to modify absentee ballot certificates, nor does the state elections commission have the right to order that they take that action, the judge said. He accused the elections commission of “stubborn and unjustified adherence to its guidance” that was contrary to state law.
SNIP
The judge agreed with Republicans that 2016 Wisconsin Elections Commission guidance issued to the state’s 1,800-plus local election clerks saying that they can cure ballot certificates without contacting the voter is illegal. Clerks only address problems on the witness certificate, which doubles as an envelope, and not the ballot itself. Republicans did not contest the practice until after Donald Trump’s narrow loss in 2020, when nearly 1.4 million voters cast absentee ballots and COVID-19 vaccines weren’t available yet.
“This isn’t a case about counting votes,” said George Burnett, attorney for the Republican Party of Waukesha County, which brought the lawsuit. “This is a case about stopping the issuance of guidance that violates Wisconsin law.”
Wisconsin judge sides with GOP in absentee ballot fight - Channel3000.com
My comment: In my opinion the election officials in too many cases are not following the law as written.
What is so TERRIBLY concerning is, we've seen far too much corruption in the last few years.
If it's that small a portion by comparison, there are some HUGE red pills coming.
If it's that small a portion by comparison, there are some HUGE red pills coming.
bigredfish
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Yep
IRS Official in Charge Of 87,000 New Agents Played Key Role In Obama-Era Targeting Scandal
www.zerohedge.com
The Daily Signal first reported that IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig had appointed Nikole Flax, commissioner in charge of the IRS’ Large Business & International Division, to lead the establishment of the agency’s centralized office.
In 2014, Flax was among seven IRS employees who said their computers had crashed, making it impossible for them to provide information sought by the House Ways and Means Committee in investigating the agency’s targeting of tea party and other conservative groups.
Flax made 31 visits to the Obama White House from July 2010 through May 2013.
In 2014, then-House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) accused the IRS of “lying” by attempting to hide two years of emails from Lerner and other officials.
“Despite their attempt to bury the missing Lerner emails on page 15 of a 27-page letter that arrived late Friday, we now know documents from other central figures, like Nikole Flax, are missing,” Camp said in a joint statement with Rep. Charles Boustany (R-La.), then-chairman of the Ways and Means oversight subcommittee.
The two Republican lawmakers added:
“The fact that Ms. Flax was a frequent visitor to the White House and the Eisenhower Executive Office Building only raises more questions. Who was she visiting at the White House and what were they talking about? Was she updating the White House on the targeting or was she getting orders?
“These are answers we don’t yet have, because—surprise, surprise—a few computers crashed. Plot lines in Hollywood are more believable than what we are getting from this White House and the IRS.”
IRS Official in Charge Of 87,000 New Agents Played Key Role In Obama-Era Targeting Scandal
ZeroHedge
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
www.zerohedge.com
The Daily Signal first reported that IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig had appointed Nikole Flax, commissioner in charge of the IRS’ Large Business & International Division, to lead the establishment of the agency’s centralized office.
In 2014, Flax was among seven IRS employees who said their computers had crashed, making it impossible for them to provide information sought by the House Ways and Means Committee in investigating the agency’s targeting of tea party and other conservative groups.
Flax made 31 visits to the Obama White House from July 2010 through May 2013.
In 2014, then-House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) accused the IRS of “lying” by attempting to hide two years of emails from Lerner and other officials.
“Despite their attempt to bury the missing Lerner emails on page 15 of a 27-page letter that arrived late Friday, we now know documents from other central figures, like Nikole Flax, are missing,” Camp said in a joint statement with Rep. Charles Boustany (R-La.), then-chairman of the Ways and Means oversight subcommittee.
The two Republican lawmakers added:
“The fact that Ms. Flax was a frequent visitor to the White House and the Eisenhower Executive Office Building only raises more questions. Who was she visiting at the White House and what were they talking about? Was she updating the White House on the targeting or was she getting orders?
“These are answers we don’t yet have, because—surprise, surprise—a few computers crashed. Plot lines in Hollywood are more believable than what we are getting from this White House and the IRS.”
bigredfish
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Typical liberal "progressive" Democrat. Vile, hypocrite, dishonest, scum
Project Veritas: Democrat South Carolina US Senate Candidate Krystle Matthews: You Gotta Treat White People Like Sh*t (AUDIO)
Project Veritas: Democrat South Carolina US Senate Candidate Krystle Matthews: You Gotta Treat White People Like Sh*t (AUDIO)
Parley
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I hope this is used by the Republicans in a TV add.
Gargoile
Getting comfortable
It all started with the chopper moms ( or helocoptor moms) why should a child stand up for themselves if mom is going to do it for them. Where was the tough love in raising a child by teaching actions have consequences.
Gargoile
Getting comfortable
As a Gator fan, I can reach across the aisle and support this Bulldog.
Parley
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Whistleblowers accuse FBI of breaking security regulations, endangering classified documents
An FBI whistleblower has told the House Judiciary Committee that he witnessed the bureau’s deputy director violating security policies and putting classified information at risk.
The special agent told lawmakers that Paul Abbate, who oversees all FBI domestic and international investigative and intelligence activities, used his smartphone in an FBI sensitive compartmented information facility, or SCIF, which is a violation of bureau security protocols.
Just bringing a phone into the SCIF is a security breach.
The senior agent accused Mr. Abbate of walking around in the SCIF while talking on the smartphone and sending text messages and emails.
Another FBI whistleblower said senior FBI officials routinely break the no-cellphone rule in SCIFs.
The Washington Times viewed a letter the whistleblowers’ attorney sent to Judiciary Committee Republicans that described the accusations against Mr. Abbate. It is part of a flood of FBI whistleblower complaints about politicized investigations and misconduct at the bureau. This time, the subject of the complaint is in the top tier of FBI leadership.
The FBI bristled when asked about the whistleblowers’ accusations. “This reporting is categorically false,” the FBI said in a statement to The Times.
Whistleblowers accuse FBI of breaking security regulations, endangering classified documents - Washington Times
An FBI whistleblower has told the House Judiciary Committee that he witnessed the bureau’s deputy director violating security policies and putting classified information at risk.
The special agent told lawmakers that Paul Abbate, who oversees all FBI domestic and international investigative and intelligence activities, used his smartphone in an FBI sensitive compartmented information facility, or SCIF, which is a violation of bureau security protocols.
Just bringing a phone into the SCIF is a security breach.
The senior agent accused Mr. Abbate of walking around in the SCIF while talking on the smartphone and sending text messages and emails.
Another FBI whistleblower said senior FBI officials routinely break the no-cellphone rule in SCIFs.
The Washington Times viewed a letter the whistleblowers’ attorney sent to Judiciary Committee Republicans that described the accusations against Mr. Abbate. It is part of a flood of FBI whistleblower complaints about politicized investigations and misconduct at the bureau. This time, the subject of the complaint is in the top tier of FBI leadership.
The FBI bristled when asked about the whistleblowers’ accusations. “This reporting is categorically false,” the FBI said in a statement to The Times.
Whistleblowers accuse FBI of breaking security regulations, endangering classified documents - Washington Times