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Jose posted:lol at getting tucker carlson to say socialism is good on fox Tucker's fundamentally a Strasserite socialist: he believes that hard working, fundamentally good (y'know, Aryan ubermenschen) people should get access to all kinds of government services that help them through tough times, but lazy freeloaders (swarthy untermenschen) should be punished, shamed, and locked out of government programs. The Strasser brothers were early nazis who only broke with Hitler because they didn't like the idea of absolute leaders within the master race. If anything they were on the extreme side of anti-Semitism and racism within the nazi party. In other words, Tucker Carlson is an OG national socialist, and he's going to get more and more dangerous as people look for help in desperate times. There are a lot of racist idiots out there who desperately want to buy his combo of "people who look like you are good people and deserve help" and "people who don't look like you are scum, they shouldn't get anything, and you should feel superior to them."
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Strong Sauce posted:https://twitter.com/JimDabakis/status/1307120855454044160 All the "moderates" are racing for their hall passes.
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Sep 19, 2020 02:12
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Pick posted:The most striking electoral phenomenon is the genders splitting out into the two parties. gently caress it, it's time to start pumping propecia into the water supply
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Sep 19, 2020 18:52
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I said come in! posted:Can he legally do that? He can't run for office anymore. Obama made his money in his second term by speaking at events that wanted to host him. Who is going to do that for Trump though? He can raise money for Trump MAGA SuperPAC until the day he dies. Theoretically, that money has to be spent on political advocacy, but the same thing is true for his presidential campaign money. There are all kinds of ways for him to launder donations into his own pockets.
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Sep 28, 2020 01:37
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LabyaMynora posted:100% inheritance tax now. The tax returns show that Trump paid his family for do-nothing "consulting" work (while they were also considered regular employees) to get around the gift/inheritance tax. His daddy ran the same scam for him. 100% inheritance tax now, plus funding for the IRS to go after
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Jose posted:is she pro-assad or just that the US shouldn't stick its dick in yet another countries conflict Both, to some extent. In 2017, she took a trip to Syria, sat down for a personal meeting with Assad, and came back with a "we shouldn't be involved" take that happened to include a lot of regime-friendly talking points about the good guy Assad who only wants to stop terrorist attacks in the country he loves. Anybody who took an honest look at the Syria situation in 2017 and came away with the take that Assad was only fighting Al-Qaeda militants is either dishonest, willfully ignorant, or deeply stupid. "We shouldn't get involved in fighting in Syria" is a legitimate political stance, but it's one you have to make in light of the fact that Assad has committed a lot of terror attacks on civilians. "The situation is terrible, we should condemn what Assad is doing, but we can't send the Marines because that would make the situation even worse" is reasonable. "Actually, the rebels are all ISIS and Al-Qaeda, and Assad isn't worthy of condemnation" is not. In the primary debates, she walked back some of what she said earlier, and called Assad a "brutal dictator" when she was called on it. Space Gopher fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Sep 29, 2020 |
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LabyaMynora posted:Also, for those outside the country, tonight's moderator, Chris Wallace, is from Fox News - the right-wing, Rupert Murdoch owned news channel founded by former Republican Party insider, Roger Ailes, with the explicit intent of making it impossible for another Republican president to lose the support of the American people the way Richard Nixon did by curating and manipulating the news "conservatives" (i.e. Republicans) watch. Wallace had also very obviously tried to come up with questions to help Trump. He was asking Biden about the dangers of "anteeeee-fa" and why he's supporting expensive environmental boondoggles like "give people modest tax breaks for greener buildings." Trump was too stupid to accept any help and ended up fighting with the "neutral" guy who had come in trying to help him.
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Once again the language they're not using is doing a lot of work. He was first diagnosed Thursday evening. When did he start to show symptoms? When were his last negative and first positive tests? 🤷🏻♂️ "Not saying!" 🤷🏻♂️
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Oct 3, 2020 19:45
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Ehud posted:lol those poor 2 people who are stuck inside a confined space with our superspreader president "well boys, the good news is that the presidential Suburban is equipped with state-of-the-art defenses against chemical and biological attack that can easily filter out or neutralize viruses." "and the bad news?" "the designers assumed that the biological attack would be coming from outside the car"
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Oct 4, 2020 23:00
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exquisite tea posted:I see those of you who haven't been following much of Trump these past four years take this tweetstorm as delirium. Regrettably, this is the first sign that he's probably recovering. Or just a sign that he's desperate about what the stock market will do when it opens, and thinks that some proof-of-life tweeting will keep the markets happy.
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Hazo posted:Wait is FuckJerry bad? I used to see it on my instagram feed and thought it was amusing you could literally just push play on that video to answer this question. the answer, by the way, is yes. their feed is almost entirely made up of two things: content they copy from other people and use without attribution or compensation, and sponsored posts that cost as much to run as a new car
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Oct 9, 2020 22:14
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AHH F/UGH posted:what the hell is 5-5-6? The 5.56mm ammunition used by US military rifles. It's a very 2020 take on the "Seven. Six. Two. Millimeter. Full. Metal. Jacket." scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmemuvnhaPY Space Gopher fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Oct 11, 2020 |
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Oct 11, 2020 02:07
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:Please remember to post the update on this when it's released This is probably it, or one of them. Biden up 12, hopefully Trump's blood pressure is doing the same: https://mobile.twitter.com/NilesGApol/status/1315140926432587778
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Sound posted:surely it can’t be this simple to stall things right? Not that this piece of poo poo wouldn’t end up caving in return for permission to lick the bottom of the republicans shoes. It's that simple to stop the committee hearing. Mitch, as majority leader, can bypass the committee entirely and just put her nomination up for a vote in front of the full senate. It's not a meaningful roadblock, but the goal here is to make the Republicans go big and obvious in bypassing all the norms and rules, not to directly stop anything. That's effectively impossible unless a bunch of Republicans come down with bad COVID cases all at once.
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Oct 12, 2020 01:53
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:307 will be enough to throw the map in their faces forever  305 is good enough! Trump won in 2016 with 304 electoral votes, because faithless electors from Texas cast one vote for John Kasich, and one vote for Ron Paul.The 2016 electoral college vote was low key wild; it also featured the first-ever electoral vote for a Native American, Faith Spotted Eagle, as well as one successful and two failed votes for Bernie Sanders, and a SCOTUS challenge about whether states can force electors to vote a certain way.
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Oct 18, 2020 08:30
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pro starcraft loser posted:Has the computer actually been traced to Hunter? I mean the entire story about how it got to the Post's hands is outrageously unbelievable. The Post got some of Hunter's private photos one way or another. Also, everything that's come out so far has been really boring - stuff like Hunter's business contacts saying "let's get coffee" or "hey can you get me a meeting with your dad." There aren't any records of actual meetings, none of the "after this email there was a big and sketchy no-bid contract" followups like the NYT has extensively documented out of all the Trump clubs' membership records, or anything like that. If they were making it up you'd think they would try to go a bit bigger.
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Oct 18, 2020 16:54
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appropriatemetaphor posted:Is it anti-fa or an-tifa? I always said the first but? Depends on whether you're taking about anti-fascist activists ("anti-fa") or the deadly conspiracy that will take over America by rigging votes for socialist sleepy Joe and killing our Hero Cops with nonviolent resistance ("anteeeeeeeeee-fuh")
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Oct 18, 2020 23:05
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Junk posted:yeah, no. people who park like that suck, but you don't mess with a person's car. seriously, do you not pick up on the irony when you admonish them for being "entitled pricks" while entitling yourself to gently caress with their property? or is this all part of the long game of your tiresome gimmick as a self righteous rageaholic? oh, no, not someone's car, which is basically an extension of their body if not their very soul it's not a tool for getting places and moving objects around, that can be enjoyable to use and even work on but is ultimately just another machine no, it is a symbol of their very existence, their freedom to do 70 in a 45 around blind corners, their massive wealth that allows them to make each of the 96 monthly payments on time most of the time, and their power over people in smaller cars and especially pedestrians. a removable sticker might make them feel the slightest sense of transient, meaningless consequences for their behavior, and one would never do such things to a noble Motorist Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Star Trek now Avengers no Bautista? e: BrigadierSensible posted:Again, apologies for this potentially silly question regarding US voting. No - there are usually bans on electioneering (promoting or rooting for a candidate) within a couple hundred feet of polling places during an election. There have already been some Trump supporters who have gotten really angry they couldn't wear head-to-toe Trump gear when they went to vote. Political parties will often mail you things like "official xyz Legislative District Democrats/Republicans Sample Ballot" with all their endorsements filled out, though. It's generally legal to take that kind of material into a voting booth for an in-person election, as long as you bring it yourself and don't try to hand it to other people. For mail-in votes, of course, you can do whatever you want. Space Gopher fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Oct 20, 2020 |
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Tarquinn posted:So, that’s basically cheque fraud if they turn that in, right? No, because it's not a real check. The bottom of a check should have the routing number, account number, and check number printed in a weird 1970s machine-readable font, with separator characters (the "|:" thing) in between them. The routing number "001200124" doesn't exist, the account number is all weird, and there isn't even a separator for the check number. Obscuring that part is a good idea if you're ever posting pictures of checks on social media, but this is obviously just a fake check somebody whipped up in photoshop, in about the time it took to write this post. Woke Pob posted:100% illegal. Your entire post is about a computer shop's policies, not US law. Thanks to the reality of the US political system, Rudy's not going to go to jail, even if he's caught red-handed faking the whole thing. But, also, nobody outside the Trump bubble is going to believe the story - if for no other reason than "we found child pornography on a political opponent's computer, had it sitting around for a while, didn't tell anybody about it for a long time, and then decided not to lead with that story when we shopped it around to sleazy tabloids" is... kind of obviously not the full picture for anybody who's not already a QAnon-level true believer.
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Plant MONSTER. posted:Catching up on this thread and I'm getting a genuine feeling of... positivity reading about AOC and Ilhan Omar playing vidyas. They've been consistently great since first appearing in the political sphere. I really like them and hope they set the new standard for newcomers to politics. Nah, this is just what it feels like when politicians pander to you, your generation, and your hobbies
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Asterite34 posted:Okay call me stupid, but where did the whole "Mike Pence hosed a horse" thing come from? I feel like I'm missing some context here He posted a tweet with pictures of him playing cowboy, with the caption "the best thing for the inside of a man is the outside of a horse." So, technically, it wasn't Mike Pence doing the (implied) loving. https://twitter.com/VP/status/863182608552906755 Fluffy Bunnies posted:I am shocked that he doesn't have his finger on the trigger. Oh don't worry he was following the "trigger discipline" part of gun safety rules. Jury's still out on "never point the muzzle of your gun at something you're not willing to shoot" one though. jury's not actually out because he is going to escape any significant consequences
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Oct 25, 2020 19:56
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Tarquinn posted:They have separated white voters into those with and without a degree. Why only those? I dunno. White respondents are probably the only group large enough to break down further and still get statistically relevant results. The margin of error on cross tabs is already incredibly high. Eventually, if you start breaking down categories enough, you just have no data or you're effectively presenting a single respondent as representative of the entire group. It's an "All 18-30yo white Hispanic males voting for Biden with some college but no degree in our thousand-person survey are named Alfredo, because that's what the one person we talked to meeting those criteria said his name was" scenario.
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Fun fact: every state has their own election calendar, that has a deadline for certifying the final vote total. Most of those deadlines are around a month after Election Day. Even states which are very strict about "must receive absentee ballots by Election Day, postmarks don't count" still have to validate provisional ballots, the absentee ballots that made it in just before the deadline, and so on - not to mention dealing with any recounts or other disputes. No state will have its final total on Nov 3, or on Nov 10 for that matter. As pointed out below, the actual federal deadline is Dec 8, 2020, 6 days before the electoral college meets, as set by the US Code in relation to the constitutionally-established date for the EC. Space Gopher fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Oct 27, 2020 |
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biznatchio posted:That's not true. The federal deadline is actually 6 days before then, per 3 USC 5. That 6 day deadline was actually the key factor in Bush v. Gore, because the proposed recounts could not be completed before that date in 2000. You are absolutely right! The federal deadline for presidential election results is actually December 8. The larger point of "thinking anybody will have a final count on November 3 is some real bullshit" still stands, though.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:the midwest and south would have all the nukes and military infrastructure and simply reconquer the northeast and pacific coast This is not going to happen. But if it did, Washington would be one of the world's preeminent nuclear powers. The world would tremble in the face of Cascadia's tech startups and megatons of Trident-backed eco-neo-liberalism.
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Boba Pearl posted:There's also a surveillance state that black bags people who are trying to revolt. Like literally grabbing protesters off the street and sending them to god knows where, where they disappear forever. Any resistance is met with military grade weaponry, and if you risk protesting, it's proven that you'll be risking your life, and not everyone is ready to die quite yet. The tactics used against protesters are scary as hell, deliberately threaten dictatorship-style "we will disappear you" actions, and are blatantly illegal - but this is still wrong. Protesters have been kidnapped, and police, right-wing terrorists not formally affiliated with the police, and federal agents have seriously injured and killed protesters, but none of them have been disappeared forever. There are risks involved in protesting but this is just doomposting that discourages people from going out with half-truths.
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Why not? Civil wars aren't a thing that just kind of pops up because hey, why not, haven't had one for 150 years or so. The US has seen 2020 levels of crazy in living memory. 1968 was, if anything, even worse - imagine if Bernie Sanders was murdered halfway through the primary, with a war and a draft on, in addition to BLM protests but with even more violent suppression, and you're starting to get a picture of 1968. We didn't have a civil war then. If you think that conditions for a civil war exist, then it's on you to demonstrate how it's going to happen.
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feelix posted:Can someone explain to me why the Democrats seem to be doing zero to combat the dumb gently caress notion that Biden will turn the USA into Cuba or USSR? Biden has said "no, that's ridiculous," and similar statements, quite a few times to people who have tried to paint him as far-left. The "I'm not a socialist, I beat the socialist [Bernie Sanders]" take got some negative attention from Bernie supporters, actually. It's not worth spending a long time on breaking it down and refuting it, because the people spreading it are never going to change their minds or admit that Biden is actually not some kind of left-of-Marx megacommunist (as awesome as that would be). A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:Republicans are absolutely going to pack the court during November and brave resisters like Feinstein and Schumer will help them. If the Republicans wanted to pack the court then they wouldn't need Feinstein or Schumer's help; they'd just push it through the Senate. Just like how Feinstein and Schumer both voted against ACB but she was confirmed anyway. Not controlling the House would be a much bigger obstacle to those plans, because packing the court requires legislation. But please do continue with your 100% realistic useless-Dems fanfic.
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Loden Taylor posted:man, I hope we get another staged as gently caress photo where our junkie president sits at a table and tries to look serious and tough and the joint chiefs all look like they want to be anywhere else One of the all-time great lols of the Trump presidency is when they tried to copy this picture  and came up with this  War Wizard posted:Is this a euphemism? I've never heard this. "Free helicopter rides" is an alt-right meme. It's a dogwhistle for assassinating political opponents. South American right-wing dictators would disappear leftists, religious leaders, and anybody else they didn't like by drugging them, flying them out over the ocean on helicopters, then pushing them out, usually after they were tortured half to death.
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Catastrophe posted:I once sold a handheld ham radio to a police officer in my podunk hometown. Bear with me. There's a point. I had modified the radio so it could transmit on the police bands, one of them came into the computer shop I worked in at the time and saw me using it, and asked to buy it off of me. It was way smaller and more modern than the police radio he was given to use. So I became a bit of a regular pal of his and he'd stop into the shop just to chat here and there. So I'd hear weird stories. Like I heard about how their department got super stoked to get these heat vision cameras so a bunch of officers drove out to a nearby RV dealership at night and would run around together playing with them. So, to sum up: You did a favor for the cops, and were on the outer edges of a small-town good ol boy network because of it The cops always treated you nicely, because you were part of that good ol boy network This means the cops actually aren't bad, guys!
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They don't actually think that Fox News is going to decide the election. The dumb ones who desperately want to live in a third-rate spy thriller see it as a last-minute plot twist: there was an enemy mole in Fox News the whole time, but the good guys caught him! The slightly smarter ones, who know that the most likely way for Trump to hold on to power is to sow chaos in a closer-than-expected Biden victory, are trying to pre-seed a stolen election narrative. And, if Trump does get kicked out, then they're going to want to grift off "fighting the stolen election" for as long as they can. If the Trumpiest major news network calls it for Biden, they know that they'll have a harder time with those narratives, so they're trying to create some distrust of Fox News among the base. I'm supposed to say "lol" here but I'm not really feeling it.
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SwissDonkey posted:Did this obese gently caress ever turn up for his fox and friends propaganda interview this morning? Yeah, he said a few very tired-sounding words about how they had a good run and tried hard. Hard to judge how much of it just exhaustion and how much is him knowing he's going to lose, but he sure sounded like crap!
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nosleep posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZWRhLW7Y8w This is just doomposting with good lighting and production values. A president who could legitimately call on an organized militia and start an insurgency focused on messing with vote counts would be dangerous as hell. That's the sort of thing that has toppled plenty of developing countries, not to mention Italy and Germany back in the day with the Blackshirts and SA. A competent fascist who could strike while the iron is hot and create confusion around legitimate votes might just be able to pull off a coup. But - in this case, the votes are already largely counted, Trump is sulking at his golf club, and his "militia" isn't an organized paramilitary, it's just a bunch of idiot hicks. He is going to keep whining for a long time, and he's going to be an annoying presence for an annoyingly long time. He's abandoned or actively hosed with all the people who could execute the kinds of doomsday "end of democracy" scenarios you're worried about. He is so bad at being a strongman that he's pissed off the Secret Service, his bodyguard corps - rule number one of strongman dictatorship is that you let all the people who carry guns in your presence in on whatever grift and luxury they want in exchange for absolute loyalty. Instead, he exposed them to COVID, forced them to work grueling overtime during his government shutdown, and they hate his guts. Trump might have access to the tools he'd need to end American democracy, but if he could pull it off, he wouldn't be Trump. There might be a smarter, scarier fascist in the future. But Trump is just a whiny idiot who can't even manage to seize power when he already has it.
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Tip posted:Trump is planning his own inauguration to compete with Biden's, lol It's absolute bullshit and nothing more than a scam to run on his supporters, brought to you by the people who invented the 1000% match and "Donald Trump was looking over his supporter lists and asked where you were, personally." The Rose Garden is a grass lawn that's less than 10,000 square feet. A closely packed party is 5 square feet per person - so, less than 2,000 people, even without accounting for stages or security or whatever else. Even if you assume that most of the government would be at the other inauguration and there's plenty of room for supporters, any kind of major event held there is in the "$10,000/head ultra-VIPs only" range, not fifty bucks for two.
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Gutter Phoenix posted:Speaking of grift, Check this out: "It's not that we couldn't sell them at $40; it's just that the core target demographic is so used to buying unnecessary toys on payments that we had to change our pricing structure to match their expectations."
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pro starcraft loser posted:How does matching signatures on a envelope prove fraud? Are they hoping to find my signature on my drivers license doesn't look exactly like the one on the envelope? If it's part of the process from the beginning, the signature checking is done by relatively unbiased professional staff, and there's an opportunity for the voter to fix any issues, it's a decent way to stop "oh, the family ballots arrived, but Justin's off at college/Grandpa moved into a home. I'll just fill this out for him, the right way." That kind of small-scale voter fraud is rare but it happens, and if it's done right, signature verification is not much of an obstacle for the voter, but is a significant challenge for anybody else trying to vote their ballot. Some states also use it as a voter suppression mechanism, by allowing politicized challenges and providing voters little or no notification and opportunity to fix issues. Right now, though, it's just a way to throw doubt on the election. Arizona, like most states, guarantees a secret ballot. So, even if you go back and find signatures that were incorrectly matched, and even if you assume every single one of those was part of a great voter fraud conspiracy instead of being some perfectly normal, common issue like a person's signature changing over time, and you decided to pull every ballot with a signature mismatch - then you still wouldn't be able to go back and identify which votes are tied to those signatures. The whole system is set up to prevent connecting signatures to specific votes - the signature is on the outside of an envelope, and once you verify the signature, you pull the ballot out, put it in the "these are legit, count these" pile, and get rid of the envelope. It's hard to tell whether Trump and Giuliani know this and are deliberately cooking up unfalsifiable "evidence," or if they're just screaming about things they doesn't understand.
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veni veni veni posted:I will never understand why these guys think Jesus would be on their side and not horrified by them. I think the real horror would be in the other direction. How do you think they'd feel about a radical Jewish peace activist who was tortured to death as a terrorism suspect?
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dick wizard posted:I live about 30 minutes from where this lady is from and I can explain this. A real estate agent from Frisco doesn't pull enough money to commission a private jet without going splitsies with several other people and it would be their one giant splurge for the year. Also she and her buddies didn't actually charter a private jet; she was riding in a Piaggio Avanti turboprop. They cost around $2k/hr to fly, so it's still a pseudorich white middle age real estate agent's instagram flex that she was definitely going to try to justify as a business expense next year. But it's important for the world to know that she's not the private jet flying QAnon capitol invader, she's the wishes she was on a private jet but had to settle for the cheaper option QAnon capitol invader.
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Inzombiac posted:I wonder how many hedge fund managers sweating their asses off right now are rich financially versus rich culturally. The entire point of a hedge fund is to play with other people's money. Also, a few midsize funds ate poo poo, but other massive funds that happened to hold GME made out like crazy. Don't fall for the "we did it we beat Wall Street" nonsense that's mostly coming from... lower-tier Wall Street guys on wsb who are angry they have to drive BMWs instead of Lambos https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/blackrock-may-raked-2-4-160353188.html quote:Jan 27 (Reuters) - BlackRock Inc, the world's largest asset manager, could have made gains of about $2.4 billion on its investment in GameStop Corp as retail investors pour money into the video-game retailer's shares. They probably didn't cash out the full 2.4 billion but they definitely made a lot of money here.
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