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  1. 9 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Also, at the Law and Crime sight, which is pretty decent, if a bit of a scandal sheet like abovethelaw, I found Terpsiwhore's affidavit, the second one in this pdf.  https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.azd.1255923/gov.uscourts.azd.1255923.1.5.pdf

     

    Pretty insane and incoherent.  Among other insanity, it attempts to imply that Akamai is some insidious foreign-controlled entity exercizing some vague control over US election security and voting machines.

    One of my favorite things about the baroque Storm-Powell-Wood fantasy was the constant fanfic about the “305th Military Intelligence Battalion”, which is a training unit in Arizona. This barking mad affidavit (first one) gives the game away by admitting that the witness was only ever in training. 

    Also part of the theory was that Trump was going to deploy the 305th from Arizona on the eastern seaboard to secure voting machines despite having a three brigade sized units of military intelligence at Ft. Meade. 
     

    TLDR; CSB the people believing this shit have a mall ninja level grasp of the military. 

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  2. On 12/29/2020 at 6:48 AM, Neonmoon said:

    That’s a shame 

     

    Good on them for doing the right thing but it’s bullshit that a hotel in our nation’s capital, likely hurting from COVID like all of the hospitality industry, has to lose business for three days because these dingleberries like to stay there and be racist assholes. Trump and Co. have turned us into a clown show of a country. 

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  3. Texas Smoke in Harlingen puts together a nice tray. So awesome to have legit bbq in the RGV. Brisket was excellent. Ribs had good flavor but were on the pit just a bit long, I like some chew to ribs. Sausage was very good. Befitting a valley place, the charro beans are peppery and superb. My buddy had the Mac and cheese.

    My only other improvement- an RGV joint should serve with fresh flour tortillas instead of wonder bread. Overall, leaps and bounds beyond what the 956 offered when I was a kid here.

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  4. 22 hours ago, pyrohornIII said:

    They will. It replaces the Stars and Bars.   S&B represented racism.  Trump 2020 represents racism and a whole lot of other shit (deregulation, unemployment, stock market, economy) that can conveniently be used to deflect from the fact it's really all about race.

    This is accurate. Supporting Trump isn’t so much a political act as it is embracing the idea of vicarious assholery for people who are too cowardly to just be real assholes.

    Saying the n-word, ranting about how there are too many Mexicans around— that’s being a real asshole and you’ll get trashed for it or maybe even your ass kicked. In the past, the battle flag allowed you to do that and if forced to defend yourself—- it’s “heritage not hate.” But now that shit won’t fly, either. It’s more socially acceptable to crap in the frozen food aisle than wear Confederate flag gear in most semi-civilized zones.

    But MAGA hats? Trump flags? How can anyone dare attack you for supporting POTUS? And it also effectively tells the world that you think there are too many Mexicans around. 

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  5. I hate articles that purport to disclose “Trump’s mood” or “his plan” or “what he is really thinking.”

    Thoughts rattle around Trump’s head like a BB in a tin can, his brain is an AM radio scan than never quite catches the signal. And he blurts out exactly everything that fires one of his flickering synapses at any given moment.  This shit is worse than useless, it’s damaging because it gives us the illusion of him being predictable and rational. 

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  6. 31 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

    From what I can tell: the usual. Rudy brings loud, brash character actors to hearing, and commences sound and fury. Democrat politicians in the room seem thrown off because they were blindsided by this "evidence"...as is the intention. Rudy wins the day for his OANN viewers who believe they just witnessed the smoking gun. This "expert" is never attached to any of their court cases where they can be cross-examined by real lawyers, and they eventually are found out to be just a dude working at Best Buy. But, by then, their allegations are already gospel to a certain crowd, and none of the facts actually matter.

    I'm just spit-balling. Sound about right?

     

    From all I’ve seen, there are some security vulnerabilities with Domion (and all machines).  By the same token, I am sure that any decent IT pro— to say nothing of the GRU or Chinese intel— could get into my laptop in short order. That means all those late night Amazon purchases when I was drunk are FrAuD!1!

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  7. 9 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


    This is the Rubicon that not enough folks realize has already been crossed. The standard has now been set, even though the GOP didn’t have the numbers to make the ultimate result happen.

    If the GOP controls Congress when a Dem wins the presidency in the future, they will do what they have already told us they will do. We should believe them. And then, we will have a war. A real one. With lots of dead people.

    What’s really galling is that Congress has happily and extensively abdicated their real and extensive Article I powers and responsibilities and scraped before the imperial presidency. And now, instead of rediscovering them and using them to govern, they’re just trying to ensure the imperial president is one of their own.  To be sure, Democrats have hardly covered themselves in glory and no modern POTUS has acted to restrain the power of his office. But the bulk of the blame for Congress being either a lapdog to the President or a pure obstruction—- like a log or a big hole in the ground— lies with the party that “loves the Constitution.”

    These efforts for subservient legislators to prop up and install an imperial President are tyranny of the purest sort. An educated ancient Roman or Athenian who was wormholed to the future would recognize them immediately. 

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  8. 51 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

     

     

    Thus far, this is only normal for a single party.  We can still back off this ledge, but it would require the GOP base to punish their crazies in primaries instead of reward them. And for the big donors to cut off cash to anyone who gets too Trumpy.  That’s a pipe dream though.

    The big story about the Trump presidency, despite the constant whining from his corner—- how NORMAL the democrats treated him.  Even as he was leveling an all-out assault on the institutions that support our democracy.

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  9. On 12/24/2020 at 12:13 PM, washparkhorn said:

    Hawley and Rubio are gunning for that "cleaned-up version of trump" lane (trumpism with a professional demeanor). Hawley has the momentum there for the moment. It appears Rubio is gunning for 2024 and may choose that same lane.  

    Hawley may be unbeatable, if the never-trumpers head back to the Republican Party. He is in that Pete Buttigieg mold of efficient and effective governance, which makes his present as normal. Rubio wants that energy for himself.

    TLDR: Rubio and Hawley are competing for the same lane in 2024. 

    Thanks for the link.

    They’re competing for the same lane— but there’s no such thing as Trumpism without Trump. Trumpism, if it’s anything, is a congealed mass of grievances expressed as semi-coherent broadsides against the libs, the media, bad immigrants, RINOs and anyone else that is Not Trump. 
     

    This incoherence is key to his success. His most loyal supporters are also driven by grievance and anger. It’s directed against everyone and no one. It’s directed at the people who are doing Very Bad Things and who are making life Totally Unfair.  And Donald Trump is the one who shares in being upset at the Seriously Bad People and will demand that Something be done.  The “what” is tangential, if it was actually expressed then there would be something to disagree with and debate and the whole gimmick falls apart.
     

    Hawley and Rubio can’t recreate that, perversely their ability to articulate what should be done and what they plan to do will actually hurt them. 

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  10. This whole story is amazing.

    https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/12/trump-betting-markets-sportsbooks-offshore-2020-election-gambling.html

     

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    That, to me, reads like baiting the gullible. But even then: Trump supporters were doing it to themselves. It’s not the sportsbooks’ fault if someone doesn’t realize that businesspeople aspire to separate customers from their money.

    The sportsbooks won untold millions off a political movement’s refusal to accept reality. It wasn’t the oddsmakers’ plan to win by such large margins, and doing so despite making Trump a relative favorite was largely good fortune.

    The 2020 election had many losers: Trump, his supporters, and American democracy chief among them. But almost by accident, the race created huge winners beyond Joe Biden. The biggest, arguably, were based not in Washington but in places like Panama City, and entirely unregulated by the government Biden was elected to lead.

     

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  11. 6 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    History does repeat itself.

     

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-a-flat-earther-refused-to-concede-and-all-hell-broke-loose?ref=home?ref=home

     

     

     

     

     

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    Now at the helm of Dowie’s “Christian Catholic Apostolic Church,” Voliva effectively ruled the city. Zion had a mayor and a government, but all of them answered to Voliva, who held the title of “general overseer.” After wresting control from Dowie (who died soon thereafter, a broken and betrayed man), Voliva set about making Zion even less fun. Alcohol and dancing were banned, smokers were hauled into jail, and many newspapers were verboten.

    When Voliva named his political party the “Theocratic Party,” it was a simple statement of fact.

    By 1909, anti-Voliva mutiny was brewing. In this town where theaters, dancing, and eventually even whistling were banned, rivals wrote “a little song concerning Voliva which is hummed sotto voce by some of his opponents,” the Chicago Tribune reported that April. The lyrics of the song unfortunately are lost to history, but the verse was “most decidedly unscriptural in its composition,” the paper wrote.

    While unholy verses about Voliva drifted around Zion that month, the city was preparing for one of its most consequential elections ever. For the first time, a slate of anti-Voliva candidates stood a decent chance of beating the preacher’s stooges, who controlled the entire city government.

    The two groups’ warring slogans sounded eerily like those of 2020. The anti-Voliva “independents” accused him of trying to build a “wall” around the city—an echo from the future when Democrats would campaign against Trump’s border wall. Voliva’s side accused the independents of being degenerate Satan-worshippers. “Down with the devil’s ticket!” they chanted, according to Chicago’s Inter Ocean newspaper.

    Voliva even deployed one of Trump’s favorite insults more than 100 years before the eventual president, calling his opponents “haters.”

    Voliva’s camp printed cards contrasting his “Zion Ticket” with his opponent’s “Devil’s Ticket.” The pamphlets accused the independents of lobbying for “free whiskey,” “free theatre,” “doctors,” “dancing,” and “democracy,” as opposed to Voliva’s platform: “anti-saloons” “no theatres,” “divine healing,” “no dance halls,” and “theocracy.”

    Incredibly, the advertisements for joyless theocracy did not inspire voters, and the independents won by a narrow margin. Voliva accepted his loss about as well as Trump has.

    Much as Trump would later accuse his opponents of relying on illegitimate voters, Voliva accused the independents of smuggling in votes from farmers who lived outside the city. “Voliva contends that at the most there are not more than 735 bona fide voters in Zion City,” the Kenosha News wrote three days after Voliva’s candidates came up short. “The returns on Tuesday revealed 837 ballots had been cast.”

    Furious and alleging voter fraud, Voliva’s Theocratic Party simply refused to leave office.

    The pro-Voliva mayor denounced reports of his loss as fake news. “You are therefore warned to pay no attention to the foolish statement upon the streets or in print as to there being any other officials at the present time than the old mayor and council,” ousted mayor W. Hurd Clendinen wrote in a proclamation.

    The police sided with Voliva. “Zion City is trembling on the verge of riot,” the Detroit Free Press wrote on May 2. “The city hall there is filled with heavily armed policemen, supporters of Voliva, while the independent or anti-Voliva faction insists that it will seat its newly elected officers.”

    “It means war,” Voliva said in a proto-Trumpian speech, reported by the Inter Ocean on May 2. “We are fighting for the right and for religion and we do not intend that these men shall gain control of the city through illegal voting. The old city officials were re-elected and must be given the offices. I’ve hired two big attorneys to prosecute those who perpetrated these election frauds. I mean business.”

    In a press conference that day, pro-Voliva police chief A.K. Walker (who, by rights, should have left when his party lost the election) hinted that he would use force to keep power. “I’m for law and order,” Walker said. “I’ll guard the city hall if I have to swear in half the men in town as deputies.”

    The pro-Voliva faction was willing to beat their opponents with clubs, should they try to take office. After a rumor claimed that the newly elected officials were about to swear themselves in at an administrative building, Mayor Clendinen called up Walker, who sent out a call to arms among Voliva supporters, who took up guns and clubs and marched to the building.

    The rumor turned out to be a false alarm, and everyone went home.

    While physically barring their opponents from City Hall, the Theocrats started holding sham city government meetings. Due to an anti-Voliva attorney seizing the keys to the city’s lockboxes, the Theocrats lacked access to important documents like ballots. They attempted to hold a recount during a May meeting, but “having no records, no treasury, and no ballots, the council merely re-appointed A.K. Walker chief of police,” the Inter Ocean reported.

    It took a 300-person fistfight to finally oust the Theocrats from office. Fed up with being called frauds, the independent mayor, five newly-elected independent councilmen, and hundreds of their supporters stormed city hall in an all-out melee: “With Bare Fists From Early Evening Until After Midnight,” one headline read. The report logged hundreds of injuries.

    The Theocrats retreated to the upper floors of City Hall, where they barricaded themselves while the independents finally swore themselves in.

    Even then, the power struggle wasn’t over. A.K. Walker, the pro-Voliva police chief, blockaded himself in the local jail with stockpiles of food and water, preparing for a siege.

    “Don’t come a step nearer or I’ll shoot,” he bellowed through an upstairs window at the new anti-Voliva Chief John Jaap, according to an Inter Ocean report on May 5.

    “I’m the regularly appointed chief of police,” Jaap replied.

    “You are not!”

    “I demand that you give up the city jail!”

    “You’ll never get this jail!” Walker shouted. “I’m here to stay for two more years.”

    Ultimately, as with Trump’s attempt to overturn the election, courts ruled against Voliva’s candidates. Raging from the pulpit, Voliva threatened to assemble a 4,000-man army to defend his throne, and even called on the courts to be abolished.

    I am not through fighting yet, I want you all to know!’ shouted Voliva. ‘I’ll carry the whole matter to the Supreme Court of the country. I will not stand for this lying, stealing, and cheating. I’m in the fight to stay. I want to make a formal announcement right now that in 10 years I will own every foot in Zion City. Take that and remember it.”

    Unfortunately for the progressives, Voliva was sort-of correct. The independent candidates were able to take office, and lawsuits from independents briefly stymied Voliva’s political ambitions. But he was effectively able to take over Zion again the following year by purchasing much of the land back from a state bankruptcy receivership, which had held the properties ever since Dowie spent the city into debt.

    Enshrined again in power, Voliva implemented even more draconian morality rules. Couples were prohibited from bathing within 50 feet of each other, historian Christine Garwood writes in her book Flat Earth, and bathing suits were criminalized. He enforced his rules with an 800-strong “Zion Guard,” members of which carried Bibles in their gun holsters.

    Within four years of regaining control of Zion, Voliva went all-in on flat Earth, dissolving the city’s public schools and creating a new district under his control, which taught that the globe was a Satanic lie.

    But the fringe beliefs under which Voliva ruled also led to his undoing. Through the ensuing decades, the flat-Earth schools became a crucible for political opposition in Zion, with school-board elections acting as proxy wars for the city’s political fights. A victory by independent school board candidates in 1934 would spell the beginning of the end of Voliva’s reign.

    By the end of the decade, a secular government took over Zion and closed Voliva’s flat-Earth schools. One of the new government’s first tasks was designing a new vehicle-tax sticker to display on cars. As a last, great good-riddance to the former theocrat, the new officials chose a globe.

    Like Trump fleeing New York City for Mar-a-Lago, reviled in the city where he’d made his fortune, Voliva soon slunk away to Florida to spend his final days fantasizing about rising to power once again.

     

    Stories like these are important to remind Americans exactly how damn crazy we can be. We allowed an actual flat earther to seize control of a town in the 20th century.  We’re not immune to fanaticism at all.

    The baroque Q conspiracy reminds me a lot of ideas I heard when I was living in Pakistan.

  12. 7 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    I guess I can’t copy paste a Facebook post but this has to be Q

    https://m.facebook.com/home.php#!/story.php?story_fbid=4258215854201301&id=100000387858865

    anyone know what’s true and what’s not in that web?  When she is asked to source, all she says is it’s easy to find just do some research (instead of here’s the links of the research I did).

    Your time would be better spent blocking that person and anyone else who tells you to do “research” on the internets.

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  13. 6 hours ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

    OMG! You're so warm! You're staring right at it!

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    When you post unverified information on our board dedicated to decoding secret messages from the President about Satanic pedophile cults, it just makes us look NUTS!

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