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On 11/20/2024 at 8:30 AM, immamac said:

Lol as much shit as everyone wants to talk about the president-elect, I'm really surprised people haven't piled on more against Kamala. She's become completely irrelevant overnight. 

She always was irrelevant. A major loser in the 2020 primary who was DEI'd onto the Biden ticket and then selected by the powers that be to be the candidate. There was some brief attention paid to her because we had no other choice, but at no time since her announcement in 2019 has she been the driving force behind any policy ideas or political shift. Never a whiff of substance or importance about her.

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I’m dead serious McConaughey could win the presidency in 2028.  
 

The Dems need one of the following: a younger version of Al Franken, Straight version of Mayor Pete, or White male version of AOC.  

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41 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

She always was irrelevant. A major loser in the 2020 primary who was DEI'd onto the Biden ticket and then selected by the powers that be to be the candidate. There was some brief attention paid to her because we had no other choice, but at no time since her announcement in 2019 has she been the driving force behind any policy ideas or political shift. Never a whiff of substance or importance about her.

LMFAO thinking Harris lost / Trump won because of fucking policy.  
 

Dems played loser identity politics.  If they’d ran a white male under 80 who kept quiet about trans and brown people, they would have won.  

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40 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

LMFAO thinking Harris lost / Trump won because of fucking policy. 

What are you talking about.

I was talking about Harris's (ir)relevance as a player in politics, not her campaign against Trump.

Keep up.

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I still chuckle at least once daily at the poster - can't remember who it was but they crawled from the sewer as soon as the election results were known - who was trying to say we're all bad people for calling our dipshit-elect a dotard. They thought it was a combination of Donald and retard and really I cannot think of a better allegory for what is going on right now.

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5 hours ago, Snake Diggity said:

LMFAO thinking Harris lost / Trump won because of fucking policy.  
 

Dems played loser identity politics.  If they’d ran a white male under 80 who kept quiet about trans and brown people, they would have won.  

First part I agree with.   The second part was that the DP put up women to run.  America allowed black men to vote in the 1870 but needed 50 more years to allow women to vote.    It had nothing to do with policy, qualifications, decency, or whatever.  

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5 hours ago, bad_teammate said:

What are you talking about.

I was talking about Harris's (ir)relevance as a player in politics, not her campaign against Trump.

Keep up.

wtf are YOU talking about?  Your comment literally said “at no time since her announcement in 2019 has she been the driving force behind any policy ideas or political shift. Never a whiff of substance”, bringing forward the idea that she lost because she wasn’t the driving force behind any policy ideas and substance, as if that fucking mattered.

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12 hours ago, aggie08 said:

This is some moral victory ass shit.

The writers seem to think that if they can convince enough people in media that Trump doesn't have a "mandate," that will somehow meaningfully restrain Republicans. To which the obvious response is, "have you ever met any Republicans?"

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10 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

The writers seem to think that if they can convince enough people in media that Trump doesn't have a "mandate," that will somehow meaningfully restrain Republicans. To which the obvious response is, "have you ever met any Republicans?"

I took it as a dumb ass attempt to get Team morale up

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On 11/20/2024 at 6:13 PM, DaysOff said:

Find yourself a Bill Clinton that can lie and be a piece of shit when need be. It's what the people want.

Starts with being white male, which isn't winnable by itself.  But it's very difficult to keep a coalition of different wants together.  Anglos can look back and say we want to go back to feeling like we're in power.  No other ethnic group can do that, and they all have different ideas about achieving their desired end goal.  Some of us said it's all about racism, and are seeing that unions ran against their interests based on anti tran and immigrant legislation. What platform can the Democrats rally around that promotes racism?  Their platform will have to come after the fact--some economic collapse that reminds Americans that it's cheaper and more stable to live together. 

Edit: The divide is the one that the rich created and continuously cultivate.  

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On 11/20/2024 at 8:30 AM, immamac said:

Lol as much shit as everyone wants to talk about the president-elect, I'm really surprised people haven't piled on more against Kamala. She's become completely irrelevant overnight. 

Weren't you the same person claiming on this very website that Kamala Harris ran a perfect and flawless campaign?

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On 11/25/2024 at 4:20 PM, Frank Drebin said:

Weren't you the same person claiming on this very website that Kamala Harris ran a perfect and flawless campaign?

There’s an easy to use search function here

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At least the spam emails begging for money from the Harris campaign that ended (checks notes) 3.5 weeks ago have finally stopped.

My lesson learned; never donate another fucking cent to any campaign.  Ever.

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8 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

At least the spam emails begging for money from the Harris campaign that ended (checks notes) 3.5 weeks ago have finally stopped.

My lesson learned; never donate another fucking cent to any campaign.  Ever.

You insensitive cad. You really expect 25-year-old Georgetown interns to go without their mid-afternoon soy lattes?

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2 hours ago, chainsaw said:

You insensitive cad. You really expect 25-year-old Georgetown interns to go without their mid-afternoon soy lattes?

The interns are not the problem.  They work for free or next to nothing.

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I spoke to my friend who runs a PAC (along with 6 others I learned tonight). His PAC does GOTV nationally and they had money left over. Learned some stuff that was news to me. Sorry if some or all is common knowledge here.

Prior to June debate, internal polling had Biden with a small but consistent lead over Trump. The day after the debate, his PAC, including him, met with Biden campaign, and the campaign was insisting that everything was fine. The key data that convinced Biden to drop out was internal polling showing he was a huge drag on House races. Biden purposely waited to drop out to make sure Harris would be nominee. GOTV operation was underfunded in battlegrounds. He said only 1m was allocated to all GOTV in Philadelphia. He thinks Harris campaign spent too much on broadcast ads not enough on targeted ads and GOTV (not surprised by his bias re: GOTV). The counties he was personally responsible for in FL Harris mostly won or did better than expected.

The difference between internal and public polling is huge according to him. Internal polling has voter lists that they use to target calls. Internals are in the field longer and more persistent with call backs. They ask better, more targeted questions. They have a much larger sample size.

He was very disappointed, not a surprise. I was surprised by how much he wanted to talk.

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Didn't see this posted. Delete if it was.

Interesting read. I assume this has gained traction in the news?

 

https://substack.com/inbox/post/165658733?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election.

How Leonard Leo's 2021 sale of an electronics firm enabled tech giants to subvert the 2024 election

 

To most, Tripp Lite was just a hardware brand—battery backups, surge protectors, power strips. But in America’s elections, Tripp Lite devices were something else entirely.

They are physically connected to ES&S central tabulators and Electionware servers, and Dominion tabulators and central servers across the country. And they aren’t dumb devices. They are smart UPS units—programmable, updatable, and capable of communicating directly with the election system via USB, serial port, or Ethernet.

ES&S systems, including central tabulators and Electionware servers, rely on Tripp Lite UPS devices. ES&S’s Electionware suite runs on Windows OS, which automatically trusts connected UPS hardware.

If Eaton pushed an update to those UPS units, it could have gained root-level access to the host tabulation environment—without ever modifying certified election software.

In Dominion’s Democracy Suite 5.17, the drivers for these UPS units are listed as “optional”—meaning they can be updated remotely without triggering certification requirements or oversight. Optional means unregulated. Unregulated means invisible. And invisible means perfect for infiltration.

 

After the Tripp Lite acquisition, Eaton stayed under the radar. But in May 2024, it resurfaced with an announcement that escaped most headlines: Eaton was deepening its partnership with Palantir Technologies.

Let’s be clear, Palantir wasn’t brought in for customer service. It was brought in to do what it does best: manage, shape, and secure vast streams of data—quietly. According to Eaton’s own release, Palantir’s role would include:
- AI-driven oversight of connected infrastructure
- Automated analysis of large datasets
- And—most critically—“secure erasure of digital footprints”

The Digital Janitor: also known as forensic sanitization, it was now being embedded into Eaton-managed hardware connected directly to voting systems. Palantir didn’t change the votes. It helped ensure you’d never prove it if someone else did.

 

According to New York Times reporting, on October 5—just before Starlink’s DTC activation—Musk texted a confidant:

“I’m feeling more optimistic after tonight. Tomorrow we unleash the anomaly in the matrix.”

Then, an hour later:

“This isn’t something on the chessboard, so they’ll be quite surprised. ‘Lasers’ from space.”

It read like a riddle. In hindsight, it was a blueprint.

Let’s review what was in place:

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This wasn’t a theory. It was a full-scale operation. A systemic digital occupation—clean, credentialed, and remote-controlled.

 

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2 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Well that's all fun, but even if true, what does it matter at this point?

It wouldn’t change the government, but it stands a chance of changing the narrative. 
 

4 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Vague and anonymous.

Although it seems plausible, maybe even likely, I'm not seeing enough evidence.

Agreed. Which is why I posted a link to sign a petition asking for a recount (of one fucking county in one state.) For the datapoint. 

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1 minute ago, Red Five said:

I’m sure they tried, because every accusation. The sad part is that it probably wasn’t needed.

Because I am unclear on the meaning of your second sentence, I was reminded of the Churchill quote about fighting (fascism) on every conceivable front.

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You don't need to go to deep to see the things that were covered every day in broad daylight and nobody cared.  I'm thinking Elon and the 290 million he spent.  And the dumb voter lottery fake out thing he pulled.  Thought I read somewhere that the winners were plants and they didn't get paid.  Could be wrong.

Anyway the very allowance of the amount of money in elections from billionaires openly seeking buying influence should be the issue imo.  Not some questionable thing in New York which wouldn't have changed the national outcome anyway but for some reason reddit has glomed on to as an 'election was stolen!' story.

 

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1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

Vague and anonymous.

Although it seems plausible, maybe even likely, I'm not seeing enough evidence.

I agree that it's vague, but in this age of political violence and right wing extremism I won't give anyone a hard time about being anonymous.

Their evidence boils down to the fact that the results are statistically nonsensical (in their opinion):

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The Outcome

Data that makes no statistical sense. A clean sweep in all seven swing states.
The fall of the Blue Wall. Eighty-eight counties flipped red—not one flipped blue.
Every victory landed just under the threshold that would trigger an automatic recount. Donald Trump outperformed expectations in down-ballot races with margins never before seen—while Kamala Harris simultaneously underperformed in those exact same areas.

If one were to accept these results at face value—Donald Trump, a 34-count convicted felon, supposedly outperformed Ronald Reagan. According to the co-founder of the Election Truth Alliance:

“These anomalies didn’t happen nationwide. They didn’t even happen across all voting methods—this just doesn’t reflect human voting behavior.”

They were concentrated.
Targeted.
Specific to swing states and Texas—and specific to Election Day voting.

And the supposed explanation? “Her policies were unpopular.”

Let’s think this through logically. We’re supposed to believe that in all the battleground states, Democratic voters were so disillusioned by Vice President Harris’s platform that they voted blue down ballot—but flipped to Trump at the top of the ticket?

Not in early voting.
Not by mail.
With exception to Nevada, only on Election Day.
And only after a certain threshold of ballots had been cast—where VP Harris’s numbers begin to diverge from her own party, and Trump’s suddenly begin to surge. As President Biden would say, “C’mon, man.”

In the world of election data analysis, there’s a term for that: vote-flipping algorithm.

I think it should be investigated.

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1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

Vague and anonymous.

Although it seems plausible, maybe even likely, I'm not seeing enough evidence.

In fairness, you wouldn't consider it enough evidence unless Elmo and the Palantir CEO signed sworn affidavits in blood saying they did it and attached photos of them doing it.

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18 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

In fairness, you wouldn't consider it enough evidence unless Elmo and the Palantir CEO signed sworn affidavits in blood saying they did it and attached photos of them doing it.

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2 minutes ago, Hookah Horns said:

This is amusing. The MAGAts are way, WAY too incompetent to pull this off. 

MAGAts alone, yes.

But the right wing?The dark money guys? Leonard Leo and Koch Bros motherfuckers? Who see Trump as a useful idiot and MAGA as a means to an end?

I think they know how to get it done competently, and to keep the Trump campaign as uninvolved as possible both for plausible deniability and because the more involved they are the more likely one of his incompetent sycophants will fuck it up.

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While there is a tiny part of me that thinks there was digital election interference, due to the strange voting results nationwide, that article says nothing of value. 

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1 hour ago, Brian Fantana said:

This reads like a bad movie version of how someone thinks tech works.

I'm not saying it isn't possible, but yeah.

This. Seems like enough to warrant an investigation on the technical side of things and if we could nail Peter Thiel for stealing elections I'd volunteer to be on the firing squad, but claims like "it's statistically impossible for all the blue wall states to flip" are ridiculous. Basically the same shit happens in every election, because voters in different states behave similarly. Swing voters in Pennsylvania and swing voters in North Carolina are influenced by the same media and thus tend to behave about the same.  The answer to "how did he flip so many counties and she didn't flip any" is "that's what it tends to look like when one wins and the other loses." Maybe it hasn't looked exactly like it did in 2024 before, but that doesn't in itself mean anything, because you're bound to find something new in every election. 

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1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

Vague and anonymous.

Although it seems plausible, maybe even likely, I'm not seeing enough evidence.

I posted this in another thread. I actually know one of the main people behind this (believe it's the person that created the Substack). They are former military intelligence IIRC. This person called me not long after the election with some of the tidbits that wound up in this piece. They were the first to tell me about the "bullet ballots" being wildly more numerous than in usual elections. (They also claim that Allred beat Cruz, which is where I began cocking my eyebrows.)

I want to believe this because at least that restores some faith in my fellow Americans but also want to avoid falling down the same "stolen election" BS that we accuse MAGA of doing. Plus, barring something absolutely insane coming out this will have zero effect. I wish them the very best of luck. As somebody said in response to my post the other day, if this is true this is probably the biggest scandal in the history of this country.

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