The Fraud Is Afoot

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Before I post this, I’ll not that I’m not holding THE OFFICE in Colorado as guilty. Maybe, but this was, at least until recently, the most conservative small suburban town in Colorado. It might have changed, but their elections were scrupulously clean before. In fact, my DIL worked for them in 2018 as a temp and was impressed with how thorough they were, for vote by mail. In fact, our younger son’s signature got flagged while living there because he had done something stupid to his hand and signed with his left.

Now, I don’t know if that particular office is still that scrupulous. But even if it is, all it takes is one person going through old voter records and reviving a few.

The staging for this: BEFORE LEAVING COLORADO, acutely aware of how corrupt our voter rolls are, and that vote by mail is essentially vote by fraud, and while knowing it meant nothing in the vast sea of fraud (people dead forty years are still voting in Colorado Springs, of all places and we won’t talk about the machines.) However, let’s say that I didn’t want it to be done in my name, so I carefully withdrew my voter registration and made sure there was no active registration for me a few months later, when they had a local election. There was no record for me, it was absolutely clear.

So, imagine my surprise when I received this amazing email yesterday:

Note, I’ve thoroughly anonymized this email, because I’m assuming no malice on the part of the office itself. I’m assuming this was some clerk deep in the bowels of the bureaucracy, not the office itself. And I don’t wish to dox innocents. That’s not the way to proceed.

Note also that there’s a reason I call this thing “fraud by mail.” They obviously sent at least a ballot to the house after I’d cleared the voting registration. Probably for 2022. It was the right-hand marine’s assessment of the buyers that they weren’t leftists (he did this whenever anyone moved to the area. That’s what he did.) So, being not-leftists, they sent the ballot back to the office with “doesn’t live here anymore.” Why it took them this long to contact me is something else yet again.

At any rate, being placed on inactive status is not the security you might think, because what it actually means is they don’t mail the ballot but someone can show up with a fake ID or a bill addressed to me at that address — and note the later is trivially easy to do — (or perhaps the ballot can be harvested. I don’t remember if they now made that legal) and vote that ballot. It’s actually more reliable for fraud than mailing it out and risking an honest new owner.

The first thing I did, of course, was go to the site (no, not by clicking. The address seems legit and all, but I wasn’t born yesterday) to search for and withdraw my registration. This amiable intention was thwarted by the fact that proving my identity requires me to log in with my Colorado Driver’s license…. Which I no longer have.

So far I’ve sent back the following response:

Attached find the notice I received today.

Be aware that not only have I been residing outside the state for almost two years, but – before leaving – withdrew my voter registration and made sure that it didn’t show in the searches.

Having received this today, I can only conclude it was fraudulently recreated for the purpose of electoral fraud. I am neither amused nor tolerant of this nonsense.

On visiting the indicated website to withdraw my registration – again – I found that I cannot do so since I – obviously – no longer possess a Colorado driver’s license.

I hope this flagrant attempt to create a fraudulent registry is deal with forthwith, and look forward to your assurances it has been. After which I will search the site to ensure it was indeed removed.

Sincerely,

Sarah A. Hoyt.

I have not heard back, but then again it’s only about 10 am in Colorado and it’s entirely possible they have a massive batch of these, and the area doesn’t keep a lot of clerks. It will hire a lot of them just before the elections, of course, temporarily, but not now. So it’s entirely possible it will come later. If it does not, I will call them tomorrow, and try to resolve this. If I don’t receive an answer or receive a scathing one, then it will be time to post about this again, perhaps with slightly less anonymity.

In their SLIGHT disfavor, my attempt to anonymize my registration, so it doesn’t show in searches and it didn’t reveal my then address, was thwarted in 2019 because even though it’s a slight fee, you have to prove there is a need. While they were sympathetic to a blogger being at risk, the particular employee — one hates to judge by appearances, but blue hair, nose ring — refused to believe a registered GOP voter, and therefore a “right wing” blogger could be at risk. After all, we’re the Man, you know? We intended to come back later, but then I got what was almost surely the first wave of wu-flu which floored me for a month, and just as I emerged from it, the lockdowns slammed shut.

Anyway, note how completely, bizarrely insecure our elections are. This has been a point brought up often. See Francis Turner’s article here. The fact that they’re not supposed to make you feel bad or excluded (this is ridiculous for adults, btw) has morphed into not asking for proof of citizenship when your ID is a foreign passport, for instance.

In fact, being as insecure as they are, the only way to prevent fraud — yes, in enough numbers to sway elections — is for 90% of the people to be saints. And by saints I mean the sort of people who would not take a twenty dollar bill, left on the pavement when they were in dire need of a meal. (A thousand dollar bill a lot of us would balk at, that’s evil. We might take it to the store or bank and let it be there for someone asking for it. Have done it. Once they even called to give it to us after a month, as no one had claimed it.) Because the fraud is built in and throughout.

All it takes is an unscrupulous home-owner who votes the previous owner’s ballot. A mother who — yes, there have been cases — stands over the adult children living at home, to make sure they vote the “right” way. A caretaker who votes for the demented elderly.

While I’m sure some of this goes both ways, the overwhelming majority of such cases, or at least the ones who brag about it on social media, but also the cases we all know of — my house in Colorado Springs, downtown, the first elections, I received voter cards for some improbable number of people, all registered D (I want to say it was 90 people, but you know, it’s been 20 years.) The previous owner had been leftist and in fact an activist — are leftist.

This by the way makes perfect sense. For the right at least right now, politics is a nuisance rapidly becoming a life-threatening one. Most of us, in every election, vote not for a messiah — and for the leftists reading this, no, Trump is not and never was my messiah. He is right now, IMO inevitable, but also probably the one most instrumental to my purpose which is to metaphorically put a stake up the deep state’s tuchus because rule by bureaucrat is beyond the pale — but for the least of all evils. We pinch our nose every d*mn election.

Meanwhile, the left is convinced that they’re one messiah away from that perfect communism where they can all live off their “not for sale” art or poetry, or smoke pot to oblivium, or whatever. For the older and more proactive, they’re one election away from showing us all how STUPID we are for not appreciating the genius of the Marxist crap they’ve been spouting since they were 12. (And some of the later are older than I.) So, to them it is vital — vital — to harvest every vote and fraud every possible ballot. They are absolutely sure the invalid or absentee voter would vote their way if they were in their right mind or “educated.” They’re only doing it for the person’s own good after all.

If you sincerely believed you could usher in paradise with one (or a thousand) fraudulent vote(s) wouldn’t you do it? If you were absolutely sure? Think carefully, because I myself am not sure. Not if I KNEW absolutely that by doing it I’d make the world utopia.

My only defense against it is knowing that paradise is impossible, and there is no messiah that can save us from our mess. Oh, and that perfect systems never are, because humans aren’t perfect.

Anyway, I want to take a little cheer from the fact that, with vote by mail and SO MUCH baked in fraud in place, they’re still scrambling for more fraudulent registrations. They really are panicky and “couldn’t pass a bean.”

Which is — I think — good and bad news, since the wounded beast is the most dangerous.

But there’s no way out but through. Buckle up, buttercup. There’s fuckery afoot and we must cope with it.

Or in other words, everything is proceeding as I expected and may G-d have mercy on our — but particularly their — souls.

On their other attempt at fuckery: I will NOT wear a mask, part two.

I’m with him. I will not wear the mask. I will not be shut down. I will not be shut up. I will not move to your 15 minute hellholes, I will not eat the bugs, and I will not submit.

Or in other words, dear left FAFO. …. And being unable to learn, I’m sure you will.

128 thoughts on “The Fraud Is Afoot”

        1. It turns out that a lot of maverick politicians in the ancient world wanted to associate themselves with Hercules imagery and/or ancestry, because: he fought crime, spoke plainly, was honest, acted boorishly but kindly, loved winning his own achievements (philotimia), and was primarily thought of as just having too much appetite for food and drink, not for gain. (And he was a hospitable host and loyal guest-friend, as well as being willing to go undercover badly.)

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                1. Hercules dressed up as a woman when working for Omphale as a temporary slave/hiding out. He also dressed up as a slave when going undercover to investigate Syleus, a guy who was kidnapping travelers and forcing them to become slaves in his vineyard.

                  Hercules was not a convincing slave, so he basically ended up killing Syleus.

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                    1. Achilles was a cross-dresser and an unsuccessful draft dodger – unsuccessful probably because he still looked like a man no matter how he dressed, or possibly because Oedipus in his role as the Selective Service of ancient Greece anticipated some men would dress as women and toured the country in disguise with a trick to catch such men, or at least the ones you’d want at your side in battle.

                      Cross-dressing is common in mythology as well as in skit shows like “Benny Hill” because it is funny if not overused. It adds a bit of humor to a long tale, and Homer’s recitations needed that. The tale of the Greeks gathering their forces was long and boring – except for when it cited your ancestor, which was why traveling bards couldn’t just skip over it – so inserting a funny story helped.

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        2. It turns out that a lot of maverick politicians in the ancient world wanted to associate themselves with Hercules imagery and/or ancestry, because: he fought crime, spoke plainly, was honest, acted boorishly but kindly, loved winning his own achievements (philotimia), and was primarily thought of as just having too much appetite for food and drink, not for gain. (And he was a hospitable host and loyal guest-friend, as well as being willing to go undercover badly.)

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      3. True. I’ve mentioned that as a comment on a dozen articles so far. There’s something good to say about almost every GOP candidate (I’m not sure if Christie has any good points.) However, NONE of them have the sheer orneriness, and staying power in the face of unrelenting persecution that Donald John Trump has displayed over most of the past decade. Which means every one of them are likely to fold and go poof if the Dems turn their weight and blowtorches on them.

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        1. I didn’t see that from Trump, either. You have NO idea how much I’d like to run. I trust nobody else to have the sheer ruthlessness to get the job done.

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          1. To be honest, I almost ponied up the $1000 fee to register as a GOP primary candidate for President here in NH.

            If you want on the general election ballot, the fee is less ($250), but you’ve got a bunch more stomping around the state to do. (It requires the names of 3,000 registered voters, 1,500 from each United States congressional district in the state, to nominate by nomination papers a candidate for president, United States senator, or governor.) You also have to declare your VP and file a $250 fee for him or her too. Oddly enough, I had nearly 500 votes for me for select board in my town alone, so getting 3000 registered voters total as an independent might not be that big of a hurdle.

            The difficulty is the cost and logistics of getting campaigns going in the other states and territories.

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        2. They’re already coming for us. But I still appreciate the cover that Trump provides, however limited it is. As long as they’re going after him so ferociously, they have less bandwidth to spare for us.

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    4. He is the political version of The Punisher; he is the politician that is needed to deal with the swamp and uniparty.

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        1. He had plenty of zing. What he didn’t have was a system of law (or a Party) that would back him up.

          And I still maintain that if he does anything effective, he’ll be removed from office one way or another.

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        2. I suspect that this time around, he will be much more revenge motivated. That seems to be his thing and they have certainly dealt him enough injuries, both great and small.

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            1. It was only a surprise that it was a hit to those who publish the music industry charts and who run the music industry, and their fellow wokesters and uniparty members. Everyone else has been waiting for people to put out stuff like this an eagerly embrace it, listen to it, and buy it.

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      2. Sadly, in term one, he was “The Amateur”.

        In term two, I think we see “The Punisher” or “Donald The Barbarian”.

        Which is why the opposition is likely to overplay their hand, just a smidge.

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  2. In fairness (?) bad organization at Board of Elections isn’t new. We haven’t been able to get the daughter off the rolls despite her leaving NJ 7 years ago. Hell, I would be willing to wager I’m still registered in NYC and I moved out in 1988.

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    1. I had my voter registration cancelled at the same time as the woman who occupied the apartment before I did (probably in response to a lawsuit by Judicial Watch). So I’ve seen the offices screw up. But she says she confirmed her registration was taken care of before she moved. That suggests that someone purposefully reactivated it.

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    2. Here in Indiana, someone with the unlikely name of “Major Apple” registered to vote while giving my address as his residence back in 2020.

      I’m pretty sure I’d have noticed if we’d started taking in boarders.

      I think I successfully got the fictitious fellow thrown off the rolls (after the election, unfortunately), but the county clerk, my elected representatives, and the state party were completely uninterested. To the point of not even acknowledging messages, or the words I was saying over the phone. (My wife stomped on me when I was going to go to a public meeting and rabblerouse. She does not appreciate me “acting the fool”, especially in public.)

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      1. Anyone around, even tangentially, have Native American ancestry or kinfolk?

        “Apple” is a racial slur.

        Heck -yes- use their BS racism against them!

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      2. “county clerk, my elected representatives, and the state party”

        Sadly, I think that means all of them are unredeemable, and need to be eliminated if you really want to take care of the problem. How you do that is up to you; just make sure it’s effective.

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    3. My dad died five days before a May election.
      They had him off the rolls by the election. I was extraordinarily impressed. (And two of those were weekend days. We hadn’t even got the notice printed in the paper yet!)

      Not all Boards of Elections are equal. Some are staffed by competent adults who presumably get messages from the funeral home or something.

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  3. I’ve had a lot of fun talking to lefties who dismiss the idea of election fraud cheating Trump out of a win and pointing out their beloved Bernie was cheated out of a win in the Dem primairies in favor of the Lady Macbeth of Little Rock.

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    1. You might also mention how it was apparently determined, several months in advance of the first ballot being cast, who would win the 2020 Democratic primary. Why else make such a big furor over a phone call to Ukraine probing into allegations of corruption (ahem)? Why else was there such a wave of viable candidates dropping out just before Super Tuesday and all promptly endorsing one (Big) guy? (Due to the Democrats’ rules of delegate distribution, numerous candidates would have gotten significant blocs of delegates in a fully contested Super Tuesday, enough so that there probably could not have been anyone with an absolute majority by the end of the primaries. The nomination fight would have gone to the convention, and anything could have happened. The Party wasn’t having that.)

      Okay, my Mister Know-It-All session is over. Just had to get it off my chest.

      Republica restituendae

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      1. Because the Swamp looks after its own.

        Because he would taint Obama by association, and Obama was still useful.

        Because they needed to keep him in reserve. Every primary, it seemed, they had a new hope who failed in the next primary. They could not get the voters to unite behind anyone. They had to fall back on their reserve.

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  4. A preview of my own blog post for Friday:

    All those who wish me and mine to wear a mask this Autumn/Winter/Year/Next Year… I will consider it under ONE SIMPLE CONDITION:

    YOU WEAR A NOOSE FIRST. You will have earned it, by your self-declaration.

    Nice and simple.

    “That’s extreme!” you say?

    But inducing lethal asthma attacks is just fine, huh? And the masks DO NOTHING (“Chicken wire to keep out mosquitoes” is wrong, yes. But only because the chicken wire is more effective .) It is NOT about disease at all, but entirely about CONTROL. So, take your control-freakness, fold it 17 ways until only sharp pointy bits stick out, sit on it, and SPIN! Maybe it’ll clear your mind.

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  7. Also: I know it’s so non it can’t even see “sequitur” from where it is, but I would like to take this opportunity to announce my personal crusade to make “Three million souls and a vanilla cookie” a meme of some kind. Thank you.

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    1. I’d like to know the origin story of that idea. I presume it is far more interesting than “$DRUG was involved.” Though “DOUG was involved” would be so very wonderfully Far Side-esque.

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  11. In somewhat related news, it was announced today that Jordan Peterson CAN be forced to attend re-education indoctrination, at his own expense, by the Ontario College of Psychologists. Apparently he said mean things on Twittler.

    https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/08/23/he-admires-their-basic-dictatorship-83/

    Note that most likely no one at the OCP cares a single damn about Jordan Peterson and what he says. This is not a message meant for him.

    This message is being sent to every licensed practitioner of anything at all in Canada. The message is “SHUT UP!!!” If you say a single damn thing, you will lose your license to practice medicine, dentistry, law, psychology, radiology, engineering, nursing, et cetera.

    Example, if you are a lawyer and somebody wants to hire you to fight election fraud, you -better- not take that case. Because if they can do it to rich and famous guy Jordan Peterson with 10 million subscribers on YouTube, they can damn well do it to -you-.

    We shall see what it takes to create a mass-resignation by every licensed individual in Canada. Having watched then duck-and-cover during WuFlu, I suspect even a nuclear war wouldn’t be enough.

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      1. As I said at SDA on the comment thread, it feels like Germany in 1932. All the bullshit is juuuust getting started. It took 13 years and millions of lives to get rid of that one, and to me it seems that the poison took hold all across the Western world.

        On the other hand we have the Truckers Freedom Convoy and the Bud-Lite phenomenon. So there’s a limit to how far election fraud and government coercion will be allowed to proceed. They came -very- close to hitting that limit in 2022 and backed off pretty quick.

        Jordan Peterson just tweeted “Bring it on” so I guess we will see what’s what.

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  14. In sort of related news, a private jet carrying Prighozin (leader of the Wagner group) just crashed in Russia. No survivors.
    Don’t know whether the grab the popcorn or go, “Oh, manure.”

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    1. At least it ought to end all of the “The mutiny was 4-D chess by Putin to have Wagner invade Ukraine from Belorus / take over Belorus” (take your pick) conspiracy mongering.

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      2. It gets even worse: there is a real possibility that the shootdown was (yet another) screw up by Russian air defense, and Putin is staying quiet to make it seem like everything is under his control.

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        1. There was apparently a second plane that was ignored, so I’m inclined to think it wasn’t a screw-up. But there is the possibility that one of the generals Prighozen was feuding with ordered it under his own initiative.

          If so, and if Putin decides to take action, it will likely happen quietly.

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    5. Crashed as the result of being shot down is much more like it. Which should surprise no one.. Prighozin was dead the minute his non-coup coup failed.

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  15. In more upbeat news, India has become the fourth country to successfully land on the moon (following the US, Russia/USSR, and PRC).

    You wouldn’t think it would be so difficult, and yet…

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    1. I should look up the info on how hard (cost and tech) it would be for a private citizen to get a remote controlled camera into space and “soft” landed on the moon. Travel time isn’t critical for that. I’m thinking high altitude balloon, escape thruster of some kind, a solar sail to get to the moon, and a descent rocket and cushions to get it down in one piece.

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      1. There are two problems. Both are very definitely solvable though.

        The first is that you have to achieve a soft landing on the moon which means you need to be able to have a rocket that can fire in the right direction to slow you down (Mars is actually easier because there is some atmosphere so a parachute works)

        The second is that you have to have a rocket on the balloon that points very precisely in the right direction and/or can be steered to the right direction so that you enter an orbit that gets your craft too the moon.

        Both of these fundamentally boil down to steering and orientation

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  16. What everyone needs to do is write down these stories and send them to the Trump defense team. Better if, like Sarah, there is proof. I suspect Sarah didn’t save proof that she removed herself from the Colorado voter rolls before leaving Colorado, but she has proof that they know she’s moved out of state (how else did she get the letter?). She has proof, return letter, that she is calling fraud (politely). If nothing else shear numbers give Trumps team something to point to, to say “You question anyone’s presumption on election fraud?”

    FYI. Not the last few elections, including 2020, but both son and hubby, have been called in to verify their signatures on mail in ballot envelopes, before. Their signatures are lousy and not even close to the ones on their voter registrations, except that both are barely readable. My point is, they should be called in every single election. Mine isn’t exactly the same every time, but it is more consistent.

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      1. Before now? Wouldn’t have thought about it. Now? Yes. OTOH most likely to “put it somewhere safe” which is code for “now I can’t find it”. Not that we are moving anywhere anytime.

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  17. Dear Liberals, a warning to you, since you don’t follow history, since history is racist. I will put it as simple as possible so even an ignorant Communist Liberal like you can understand.
    “Whenever you take away the power of the Ballot, through corruption or other shenanigans, all the people are left with is the power of the Bullet. Given enough cause, they will use it. They always have, they always will*”.

    In the last four years we have had almost a million guns a month sold. That Army that you so disparage and then cling to for defense, is manned not by liberals, but by conservatives. It doesn’t matter if the Officer Corps is Liberal, the ones doing the maintenance and driving the tanks are ours. Planes and Tanks can’t drop bombs or shoot people if the troops sugar all the gas. No one in their right mind wants another civil war. Please review the last time you scum sucking evil vile little democrat scum started the last Civil War. It did not end well for you.

    *See Bastille Day or the American Revolution for examples.

    P.S. I can’t wait until Liberals make the first all electric tank….

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    1. Your vision of the US Armed Forces is a decade out of date. (if not two).

      The leadership is purged. The Flag Ranks ( Generals and Admirals, O-7 and up) are willing and obedient participants to the current regime. They -will- obey and comply. A few might not, and will either be examples or vanished. (Probably to locked psych wards)

      Remaining leadership will lean heavily “obey”. Note that not one single officer threw the BS flag, career be damned, over the Foxtrot in Afghanistan.

      “Surely things will change next administration. Tough it out.”

      “Congress will intervene if this is truly illegal. Wait.”

      “SCOTUS will stop this crap. Give them time.”

      Do -not- count on the Armed Forces thwarting swamplords.

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      1. Which is why James Madison was 100% behind the 2nd Amendment. The armed citizen militia was ALWAYS supposed to be armed on par with the standing army, and vastly outnumber them.

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        1. I am blessed. Thanks.

          O-5, Lieutenant Colonel. No 0-7+ Generals/Admirals. Too far from the top to make a splash.

          Plus, of course, the media can hush up a rogue minion or three.

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      3. What ever became of that one guy, the one as went viral a couple years ago, military, maybe Marine? Can’t remember if it was over Afghanistan or the Vax or both . . . had been in long enough to assume he was giving up his career rather spectacularly.

        Anyone else remember him or who he was?

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      5. Hence the sugar in the gasoline/water in the diesel, a thousand other ways privates can gum up the works. FOD on the runways, snipped wires/loose connections, here and there, bad code, need I go on?

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      6. You are full of nonsense.

        For starters, remember the guys doing the purging are so stupidly incompetent that Justice Thomas blows their mind not because he’s that awesome– which he is– but because he is black and not a liberal.

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        1. For a reality check, DURING kung flu nonsense, the Pentagon’s internal TV system “somehow, accidentally” got set to all be showing Newsmax. For at least most of a day.

          Most of the folks that said anything at all were happy about it, although quiet.

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  18. I wonder what impact streaming will have on the debates, because Cable is slowly dying, being killed off by streaming services. Why pay for all those channels you never watch when you can get the same shows for less or free? I read an article, Breitbart/Nolte where Cable Households have now dropped below or to 30%. Another reason CNN and all the other’s are in such financial trouble. All their free royalties money is gone.

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    1. We’re a cable Housthold, but 90% of my viewing is streamed on the computer. I keep telling the wife to cancel the TV portion, but she keeps hold on to it, even though she rarely watches it. Guess I’m going to have to make her pay that bill each month for a while before she gets it.

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      1. We’ve talked about pulling that trigger too. Just haven’t. Near as I can tell, to get everything we want, we’ll be paying about the same, but we’ll get extras too.

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      2. That’s what my spouse did earlier this year. She’s the main show watcher, and has been watching mainly streaming channels for the past couple of years. So she canceled the cable channels and we bought an antenna to pick up the over-the-air channels that might still interest her.

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    2. As long as we’re on geosynchronous satellite services (Dish TV and Dish/Hughesnet data), we won’t stream. The Internet is bandwidth limited, and sufficiently such that I watch very little video.

      $SPOUSE watches local news (the ABC affiliate in Medford does a tolerable job on regional news, especially in fire season), Weather Nation and a handful of cable channels. (She’s fond of the Buzzer Channel for old game shows. ’80s vintage Concentration FTW.) I’ll watch DVDs with her, and when things aren’t too crazy, we’ll watch a show, usually country music. Gave up on the broadcast shows a few years back. When NCIS got boring, that was the end.

      The neighbors nearest the road went with CenturyLink fiber service and stream their shows. Getting a fiber link to our house is doable, but would require a long run, in ground barely above a layer of shale hardpan. Not fun nor cheap. I keep mulling over StarLink. If we can get the local news, it would work.

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      1. Not fun nor cheap. I keep mulling over StarLink. If we can get the local news, it would work.
        ………………

        I’m remembering comments made on multiple “off grid build” shows: “Solar and personal wind, with multiple battery banks, and long term upkeep, is cheaper less expensive than having the power company install power lines.”

        We are in town. Comcast cable = $100 to install a line (because an installer has to come out). Still think that is a ripoff. OTOH they were getting about $10/hour by the time they got the line installed at mom’s. Seriously. Not sure what they thought when Xfinity service (in person no less) was told “House has never had cable. House was built in 1963. A cable will have to be ran to the house from the nearest junction, because it has never had cable. We think one or two neighbors have cable, but we don’t know.” Not in one long sentence but throughout the conversation. I was there. Next time I am going to demand to look at the notes. That way when the installer gets there and is blindsided (felt sorry for the sub-contractor, new to the job, young person), can ask to see the notes. Seven hours to get the cable hooked up to the junction box installed for the old Direct TV/Dish box on the house, over the house, across the yard, then attached to the junction up on the above ground utilities (to be fair the last was the hardest, not easy, and rather precarious, to get to). Then they had to send out someone else to make sure the utility pole connection was tight, and tighten the line.

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  19. We got our place brand-new built so there was no former owner and the address didn’t even exist until the place was built. We, the delightful Mrs. and myself, have never had an issue voting and have always done so in person. With that I get tons of mail to names I have never, ever heard of showing up here; political and everything else. The junk mail I get as it may just be errors in their lists or a version of “robo-mail+ where they make up a name and send stuff out. However, I’ve received hospital and clinic information at my address for nobody I know.

    Last one was from local hospital about some tests and a follow up appointment reminder. I contacted the hospital and they had that patient name and it was linked to my address – I got that fixed and didn’t hear back. It has happened several times with many different names. Our mail carrier and I talked and she doesn’t even deliver the junk mail in the wrong name but marks it as an address error and kicks it back into the system. Funny thing is that my address is the only one in the whole neighborhood that she has seen with this problem and having it ongoing. It got reported to the Postal folks but nothing ever came of it. I’m cynical about it all and only hope it will confuse any one who keeps me “on a list” ;-)

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    1. You might want to see how many of those names show up on your local voter rolls…. and if they voted in the last election.

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      1. Amplify: A common tactic, since streets and addresses are surveyed and planned out well before anyone lives there, is to register fake voters there.

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        1. Good point to check the rolls – I should follow up on that.

          The address thing was weird as the development, as started, went bankrupt and the new developer a couple of years later, with pressure from the city, changed a chunk of the layout and the “Planned Urban Development” was modified. Onward with the construction.

          One house west of me is in a section with only a couple of streets and it has one address number with a three number add-on for each unit almost like apartments. East are traditional individual homes (still the same development) and each has an address. Our segment, the last one built and in a different style, size etc. got numbered like the homes to the west as if it was a continuation and it was at the last minute and the original addressing scheme (like to the east) was scrapped. That snafu also caused a bunch of heart burn with the post office but was still implemented. Somewhere in there the county also got involved with the issue as we are in the county by only a couple of blocks – weird lines for the boarder zig all over in my area.

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          1. “Somewhere in there the county also got involved with the issue as we are in the county by only a couple of blocks – weird lines for the boarder zig all over in my area.”

            Which means checking the voter rolls for both…..

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    2. A “friend” signed me up for all sorts of mailing lists.

      The folks who mail you stuff you want often sell their lists.

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      1. The email variant of that is a pain. I use a provider (originally for dialup(!) ) but kept them as my email address when I went to satellite internet. The Nigerian Princes gave up back in the late ‘aughts, so my junk/spam was minimal.

        Until I signed up for the local radio club’s forum. That’s hosted on groups.io, and since then, I’m getting 30 messages a day, with a rich mix of spam, potentially legitimate adverts, phishing attempts, and conceivably malware. (“Your cloud storage is full.”) I love the ones that have my name as the sender. Not getting a better breed of grifter nowadays.

        I have the filters set to dump that crap, but sure wish they hadn’t gotten my email address.

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    3. Heh. I used to get phone calls to my personal number all the time by various people and organizations looking for some guy named McGyver. We had a blast teasing them all about it.

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    4. We are getting the “We’ll buy your house for cash as is.” mail for our address and mom’s address. My sisters are both getting the same for their addresses and mom’s too. Each of our own makes kind of sense. Started after Oregon and Washington adopted the “infill housing initiative”. Less sense for sister in Washington since they are sitting on 5 acres in a rural development that requires minimum of 5 acres, but whatever. What puzzled us though is why are we getting the mail for mom’s house? Yes, she is 88. She is still alive. She is still living on her own. Yes, she gets it for her own house too (which bothered her until we told her, we all get them too). Then we figured out that because mom has filed a form that immediately give us 3 title to the house on her death (requires death certificate), that is how whomever is associating our married names with her address. It is public information.

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  20. Report the voter registration mess to law enforcement, if you truly believe something criminal is afoot. CYA. Do you have an attorney to consult?

    You are a public figure, with extended middle fingers. “Once” may be “enemy action”.

    Or, just do it out of Tallman-spite.

    (Grin)

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    1. No, I don’t have an attorney to consult. I also of course don’t’ have proof I withdrew the registration. Stupidly, I didn’t take screen shots.
      The thing with logging in, I think is just bureaucratic stupidity. I’ll have to call.

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  21. If the GOP wants honest elections, they are going to have to cheat.

    At a minimum, hold ALL results from Republican precincts until AFTER the cities report. Don’t tell the Dems how many votes to fake up. But the real trick is to dump fraudulent ballots into the system.

    Never forget that reprisals are a legitimate countermove to violations of the Laws of War.

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  23. My \father in law, may he rest in peace, voted in two elections after his death- democrat of course. My brother in law has the same name as his father, except he is a junior; and here, you have to sign your name beside the printed name on a voter roll. After you sign and are verified, the poll worker hands you your ballot and puts a red check beside your name, And each time my brother in law voted in a state election or a federal one, there was his Dad’s name, still on the green printout of the voter rolls, red checkmarks and all He mentioned each time that his father was deceased…. eventually they did remove the name but of course, that was long after the votes were in,

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  24. Sarah, I fully believe they have you registered and voting automatically in at least 5 precincts.

    But they have forgotten there is One Who Sees and their deeds are being recorded. And there is a reckoning at the end of the line.

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  25. I’m home from returning Mom to Memphis.
    I forget where now (here or Discord) but I mentioned my cousin is registered as a Dem in Louisiana and recorded as voting in primaries and General elections every election year. Cousin hasn’t lived in Louisiana since possibly before 2000 (he and I were trying to remember when it was that he left. He thinks I was at the airport but not for the second company yet, and that would be pre-2000, but time and his then issues with alcohol and a few drugs fogged it). I found it by trying to ensure I wasn’t on the rolls still in Lousyana. My name didn’t show for either address I lived at when registered, but his name and a woman’s did for the one we shared for a time.

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  26. Please don’t fall for the ‘massive fraud’ idea. It only takes 6 carefully selected counties to flip the Electoral College. See The Deep Rig for details on how this was done in 2020.

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    1. Yeah, that was the last minute fix. The massive fraud was before.
      I’ve known since 2012 when I poll watched. The fraud was uncountable, even then, in a red city. Unless you believe 1/3 the people coming to the polls forgot they voted earlier. If you believe that, there’s some swamp land I’d like to sell you.
      The fraud is 75% of the left probably. Bah.

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