A Tide of Fraud

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Yes, I am in fact QUITE aware that I sound like a loon when I say that fully 25% of total counted votes are fraud. And that those are mostly on the left side. Oh, 25% is my low estimate. It could be that a full 70% of votes for Biden were fraudulent and that instead of being a closely divided nation we are in fact an overwhelmingly anti-left nation held captive by a small minority that rules by fraud. Which would explain a lot of the things we see.

Yes, I know I sound like a loon because reasonable people estimate that fraud is something under 3%.

That’s fine. I’m used to reasonable people being full of shit. Mostly because reasonable people seem to expect everyone else to be reasonable, and that no one will try to shut down the world to tank an economy and win an election, say, to give a random example. Because no sane person would do that, of course. But 2020 should have shown you some people weren’t reasonable. Or sane. Or decent. Or socialized to be rational members of the human species. For some people naked power is the only motivator.

Another reason I sound like a loon is that a lot of us know people who buy everything the left sells, vocally endorse everything they hear on the MSM, etc. etc.

However, I respectfully would like to note that most of us “intellectuals” which is a broad word for “thinks and reads too much” and as good a definition of the readers of this blog as any (though not as good as plain Odd) runs in circles that are composed of the 20% or so of the nation that are GENUINELY leftist. Or if they aren’t, they keep their lips zipped in order to keep their jobs and position, since the left maintains power with a scorched Earth policy.

So, lest you think I’m a raving loon who hasn’t thought through things, I will lay before you all the means and ways in which the left commits fraud in the elections.

First let’s establish why it’s 99% the left committing fraud. This is known as “because the press exposes only the right.” I.e. by chance or design (likely by design because it was part of doctrine for the USSR for subverting other countries) the press was early on captured by Marxists. They in turn made sure to serve the cause over their profession (this is also always true of Marxists.) Which meant that while the right might be — probably is — as larcenous and idiotic as the left, it could not fraud for the longest time. When it tried to, it got jumped on like a ton of bricks. Meanwhile a blind eye was turned to the left’s fraudulent practices. While people whispered about it, the press did not report it, and no one investigated it. The left was allowed to be prolix in its fraud. The right could not fraud without being denounced.

This is why when fraud is brought up and the left screams “both sides do it” the only fraud they can bring up on the right is some race for dog catcher in Back of Beyond, South Nowhere. It’s not because the others weren’t caught, it’s because that was the only fool who dared, at a very small level. And he got caught.

Meanwhile the left thrives on institutionalized and diversified fraud.

First you have motor voter.

On the principle that it is racist to ask someone who does not look “from around here” and speaks with an accent or doesn’t speak the language for proof of citizenship, and on the idea that it would be easier to get people involved in the political process if they were registered to vote, you are allowed to register to vote when you get a driver’s license.

There have been cases of people getting accidentally registered to vote while showing a foreign passport as their ID. More than one case, but one was written up by a frequent guest poster.

“Now, Sarah,” you’ll say reasonably. “Just because people are registered, we don’t know if they vote. Most foreigners likely know they’re not supposed to. Why would they?”

We’ll ignore the harping we’ve seen in various magazines claiming the world should vote in US elections because they’re “So important.” And the fact many people have a loose idea of citizenship and confuse it with residency.

Recently there have been surveys that show that in fact a lot of people without citizenship do vote. This was merely the ones who were willing to ADMIT it and it was a vasty percentage. And at any rate, if they’re registered to vote, someone else can vote for them.

So what is our excuse for not requiring proof of citizenship to vote?

Well, it’s racist to. The left says so, and screams like a stuck pig if we try to change that.

Second, and mind you I’m going by order of how these things came about: There is no set day to vote anymore. Our election day is now an election month. Early voting is the norm anymore.

Every time I mention this is a bad thing people come over to belly ache, tantrum, drop on the floor and drum their heels rhythmically and tell me I just want to deprive them of their vote. Because they have to work on the day set aside for voting, damn it. How can I be so mean?

That’s right. I do. I want them to stop having the right to a ceremonial-only vote that gets submerged in a tide of fraud and is entirely meaningless. And if they don’t like that, they can gaze upon my middle fingers and contemplate the fact there were remedies for this problem long before this “waltz in whenever you feel like. Vote for convenience” bullshit.

Why am I so mean? Because I saw this in action in 2012. A full 1/3 of the people — middle aged, working people, who seemed quite sane of body and mind — who came to vote in the precinct I was watching were told they’d already voted. No explanation was given for this obvious tide of dementia that caused them to forget this fact. Instead they were appeased with “casting a provisional vote” which is a largely ceremonial, entirely meaningless gesture.

Why meaningless? Well, because whoever voted for you certainly didn’t mark their vote so it could be removed later. And provisional votes don’t get counted unless there’s more of them than the difference between the candidates’ totals.

I heard, though I wasn’t there, that in Denver there were 2/3 of people afflicted by dementia in some precincts.

This was the year that the democrats won a BARE MINORITY in the state legislative organs, and used it to sweep in vote-by-mail. … which we’ll get to.

Third: Week chain of custody for ballots.

Look, this year people have been snapping photos of this and sending it in, but it has always been a problem.

We mostly hear of it not when ballots go missing, because in the past how would we know, but when ballots are found in the back of a truck, mysteriously all voted to get the democrat over the top.

It is said this is how JFK won the presidency, and I have no reason to doubt it, having witnessed Boulder CO regularly find enough ballots to elect whatever crazy they were enthused about (Often, weirdly more ballots than there were voters in the area) and also having seen Al Franken elected by the same trick.

BUT if you try to bring these things up, even though their preponderance over the years is massive, the left screams like a stuck pig and calls you a conspiracy theorist. And the next time, the same ballots will show up. Oh, sorry, different ones. But the same machine.

Fourth: Lack of investigation of suspicious voting instances.

Precincts where 125% of eligible voters voting. Ballots found in the back of trucks. Machines that are out of order. Running out of ballots. Misprinted ballots. Buses full of voters showing up with out of license plates. etc. etc. etc.

EVERY instance of possible fraud should be investigated, of course. Because trust in our elections is essential if we’re to trust in self-government. But try it. Just try it. In 2021 that somehow became an actionable offense. Not the fraud. Trying to expose it. For some reason the left considers it a direct attack on “our democracy” to investigate the probity of our elections.

Fifth: Absentee voting.

This was always permitted of course for service members. And it’s the last thing I want to do to deprive those at risk of dying for the nation of their right to have a say in the elections. OTOH military voting has always been a point of contention. Oh, not for the right. But it seems military ballots have a tendency to not be counted/be lost/vanish in certain jurisdictions.

Now some of this might be because the US military is a bureaucracy and things aren’t super efficient, but some of it is almost for sure deliberate. Note above these mysterious losses of military ballots, or disqualifying them for not having this or that that is supposed to be waived, is never investigated.

Meanwhile for a while absentee mailed-in ballots have been allowed in other circumstances: travelers, people away from their jurisdictions, etc.

Some of this is reasonable, or would be if we had an at all secure system. There might be no other way of voting for some people, say those confined to the hospital.

However, this is where we must consider the risks and the pay off. There used to be a system for voting early/away if you absolutely couldn’t be there, and it didn’t involve the US mail. See, you’d contact the local election authorities, with proof you’d be away (in my case non refundable and very expensive plane tickets and a visa) on the date, and they’d send you a time and place to vote. You’d bring this paper in, and vote ahead of time. The numbers were relatively small, because you had to prove you couldn’t do it on the day.

Ideal? No. What about last minute emergencies, shut ins, etc?

However, it prevented the wholesale request of absentee ballots who are filled by who knows whom, in an industrial-scale operation. All the instances of mistaken registration feed this fraud machine.

Also as our population ages and becomes either physically or mentally impaired, there is ballot harvesting with this type of absentee ballot. It’s easy to get an elderly person to sign a ballot someone else voted. Not to mention the ability to confuse a dementia patient to vote the way you wish.

Look, my MIL voted in four elections when she wasn’t able to recognize her son and thought her husband was her father. Oh, she also thought that Trump had landed on the roof to steal her diamonds (she didn’t have any diamonds.) I’m not salty about that, really, because she, a long-time habitue of The View would have voted that way if she were compus mentis anyway, but really. Should I end up in that situation, I hope my kids take care because I wouldn’t like to vote for Marxists before I am dead.

The left will say something like better have ten wrongful votes than deny the vote to someone who is entitled to vote. This is nonsense. Because the vote is not something that exists in a vacuum. Ten fraudulent votes negate a rightful one, anyway. So again, the “right” retained is to ceremonially cast a vote for who you want, which is swamped by the fraudulent votes generated by the leftist machine. Now maybe the left is doing this out of misguided kindness. Do you believe that?

Sixth: Our voter rolls are a mess.

I didn’t know how much of a mess until I called/walked precincts in three election cycles.

Guys, on these supposedly curated, etc. lists, a full half had moved away/changed phones/someone else lived there/changed registration, etc. etc. etc.

And there are 145 year old people voting in Colorado Springs.

There is absolutely no reason for this. We should be able to purge voter rolls. Except that the left likes it that way. And will resist any attempt to purge the rolls.

Seventh: Our registration is system is a fricking mess. Beyond motor voter.

Since the nineties, people will register you on the street. No proof of citizenship. Heck, no proof of address.

This has been exposed several times, though I lack links, but there have been many many Mickey Mouses registered in vacant lots.

When I moved to our house before last in Colorado, in 2003, the next election cycle we got voting cards for… I no longer remember the exact number, but I want to say ninety some people.

Now this was a six bedroom Victorian, but really, there was no possible way that many people lived there at any point (And no indication they had) unless they were stacked everywhere, including the unfinished basement and one asked the other for room to breathe in.

Again, surplus registrations are a vehicle for fraud. But this loose registration system can’t be removed without the left bemoaning attacks on the holy right to vote being impinged.

Eighth: Same Day Voter Registration.

This is not extant in every state, but where it is, it should be obvious it’s insane. However people seem not to realize it.

For one, pardon me, but if you didn’t think to register until the morning of voting day, you probably aren’t very ready to exert your voting right in the manner a responsible citizen should.

The answer is always the same “But what about people who just moved?” (Well, they can frigging well vote where they came from one more time, or not vote for one election cycle. And I say that as someone who was in that situation a couple of times.)

Again, I must emphasize, if you try to account for every “off” instance, all you do is dillute your vote to the point it’s meaningless, because of all of the fraud it allows.

Take same day registration: to register you must show proof of residency. This might be sort of okay if that were a driver’s license — at least it’s a little harder to fraud — but no. Usually the “proof” is something like a utility bill in your name at the address you’re claiming.

Maybe this would have been okay in the eighties? Even then, relatively easy to fraud. But now, it’s trivial. I could print myself bills addressed to me at addresses in every neighboring state. Would take me maybe a few hours, including finding samples of the bills online.

However, try to remove that, and you’re racist. Because apparently being able to think and register ahead of time is something only those who don’t tan can do. (I object.)

Nineth: Many — though not all — states don’t require ID to vote.

This means all of the above available registrations, where people might or might not use them at all can be voted by a determined machine paying minimum wage to their flunkies, or better paying nothing to a bunch of brainwashed zombies who are convinced they’re fighting “for justice.”

However, if you want IDs to vote, you’re “racist” and the left will trot out some 94 year old black woman who SUPPOSEDLY doesn’t have an ID. How she doesn’t have an ID in this day and age, when you need an ID to have a bank account, to receive Social Security, to receive medical care, and to enter a courthouse is a good question. But the left screams very loudly that black people don’t have IDs and that it’s racist to require them. And they’re very good at being loud.

Tenth: Universal vote by mail.

I think 23 states have this now. You’re mailed your ballot whether you asked for it (and exist) or not.

How can this be even remotely legal? The possibilities for abuse should be obvious to the most obtuse: How do you know who voted it? How can someone in an abusive situation vote without oppression/override by someone else? How do you police that the ballots actually got delivered (someone was recently caught dumping piles of them) or that once picked up they’ll be counted? You’re not there to ensure it’s put in, and that another ballot isn’t substituted. Yes, there is email notification. Sometimes. My vote in 2020 never arrived. Mysteriously. It also lacked the privacy sleeve. Mysteriously. And this is before ballots taken from the trash and voted. Ballots mailed to office buildings and voted in industrial quantities. Etc, ad nauseum. (Well, I’m nauseated.)

Curiously, no state with universal vote by mail is uniformly republican (though the switch is sometimes relatively slow.) The left sells this as being a cheaper system, which has the advantage of chutzpah, because it must be the only instance of fiscal conservatism from them.

Eleventh: Dominion Machines.

Who have the arrant nerve of threatening any American citizen talking about their being insecure. Bite me.

They are a shady company that sold itself to various legislations, again, because easy and simple. Rumor has it they were created to fraud elections in Venezuela.

Whatever they were created for, if you follow that link, they are like rapid-intervention fraud, in case all other fraud fails.

There is no excuse for using these things to vote. And no one would. In good faith. The company’s lack of good faith is obvious in threatening to sue people. That is not how a reputable company goes about instilling confidence in its operations. It’s a mob tactic (Except dumber. My apologies therefore to any mobster reading this).

Twelfth: The new shiny this year! Foreigners ABROAD can register without showing proof of American Citizenship.

No. Really. I swear I’m not making this up.

Coincidentally (!) the left is saying our election this year might hinge on overseas votes. Sleep tight.

Thirteenth: Rapid distribution of illegal immigrants, primed to vote without even being legal in various Republican counties/areas.

Given how lax our registration to vote is, yes they are. Besides we know they have been given instructions at the border. And there’s plenty of instances.

Again, sleep tight, and you know how hard the left is fighting for open borders. Do you think it’s for nothing?

A plethora of links I didn’t include above:

https://ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/cheating-with-absentee-ballots

https://ericrasmusen.substack.com/p/329614-election-crimes-were-detected

https://nypost.com/2024/10/25/us-news/swing-state-county-reports-thousands-of-suspected-fraudulent-voter-registration-forms/

https://hosted.ap.org/theunion/article/5f4296fe3f6900c8a173f83181287413/12-colorado-mail-ballots-were-stolen-and-filled-out-3-them

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/10/22/texas-voter-verification-lawsuit-paxton/

https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/10/22/georgia-interference-sos-n2402578

But Sarah, you’ll say, just because there are all those chances for fraud, why do you think it’s happening? Or that all of them are being used?

Well, partly because the left fights like cornered cats when you try to take a single one away. This both tells you how few real voters they have — they need all the fraud — and that they’re making use of every instance of allowable fraud.

Partly because the US isn’t Portugal. We’re not a little country, known only for cork, wine and cream pastries. And even then, elections would get massively frauded in Portugal with this much room for fraud, because there’s always someone who wants to corner the market on cork, wine and cream pastries.

But the US controls the world’s only creditable military force (Except perhaps the IDF) and has enough money even if funny to sink or elevate entire economies. Every dodgy regime and every one of our world rivals wants a say in our governance.

And all of those Marxist horrors are getting it too, because we allow it. And that’s all that’s needed.

This discounts how awful the news are abroad. They make our news seem right wing and fair. And therefore how many well meaning people abroad might think they’re doing a good deed in saving us from “fascism.”

If three ballots were voted fraudulently in Colorado, thousands were. I bet you. And there’s nothing to prevent it.

Now, why I think the fraud is at that level?

It’s hard to tell, and in fact the range I’m giving is huge, from a quarter to really close to a half of total votes being fraudulent.

The thing is, the more the mass media loses its grip — and the fact they’re losing their grip is itself proof since the left still trusts them — the more it becomes obvious the majority — vast majority — of people are not WITH the left.

From “Let’s go Brandon” going viral, to the various buy and boycotts on the right, it’s becoming obvious that the left like the old USSR is a paper tiger.

They can only keep a pretense of being a majority by controlling the press/arts/teaching/all communication. Hence their new found lust for censorship.

This is not a sign of a majority or winning ideology. It’s the sign of a desperate clique fighting to keep control over a vast, restive population.

Oh, yeah, and they manage to fail, even with everything above. See, 2016 and the frantic panicky last minute cheating in 2020. Because they are a rump minority.

So, you ask, why bother voting? And what reason is there to vote?

First, vote because if you don’t their cheating looks more plausible than ever.

Second, vote because the majority of people — rightly — aren’t ready to reach for the last box.

Third, vote because this is the MOST INCOMPETENT “elite” ever to fraudulently seize control of a country. Yes, that means they’ve ruined us sometimes not even on purpose. But it also means all their schemes seem to bite them in the ass. Somehow. So stake in your vote to have a chance it will bite them in the ass again.

Fourth, there is always the chance, if everyone votes, they’ll be forced to invent a completely improbable number of votes for Kamala. I jokingly say 400 million votes but honestly 150 million votes would suffice and be enough.

Fifth, those who tell you not to bother voting and try to shame you out of voting are clearly and transparently glowies and agents provocateurs, sometimes to a ridiculous degree.

NOW SPIT OUT THE BLACK PILL.

There are reasons to vote and hope.

First, the left is acting like they’re not sure of winning at all.

Now, yes, a lot of this can be their paranoia/guilty conscience. In fact probably a lot of it. There is a reason they had national guard units and barricades around DC. Also after 2016 they are afraid that Donald Trump has some kind of magical abilities to beat their fraud.

Yeah, I hear you, but still. Look, they’re crazy and occasionally dumb, but not intrinsically stupid. If they’re panicking there are reasons.

Second, they are more coherent and unified than us — because they’re creatures of the pack, which we ain’t — but they’re not widgets in a vast apparatus. There are cliques and subgroups. And right now some of their subgroups have had enough. Which might cause some interesting glitches in the fraud.

Third, Tulsi Gabbard is a consummate politician. She would not change registration ahead of the election if there were no hope/if there were certainty of retaliation.
The fact is all of them, including the old commie RFK and the new commie, his running mate, are behaving like they expect an extinction event that leaves the GOP the only party worth fighting for.

Fourth, take it for what it’s worth, but Trump has vowed to fight the fraud. I suspect he’s still too naive and by the book to really do so, but I’d also bet he’s less so than in 2020. So, there’s hope.

Fifth, There are levels of fraud no one will believe. And people are already antsy about it. Right now. And ANGRY. This is not 2020.

Sixth, Even if they win, they lose. No, seriously. The culture has been slipping through their fingers faster and faster. They can’t get it back unless they get total information control. And at this point that ain’t happening. It hasn’t happened in Brazil or China, and it won’t happen here.

Seventh, Lord defend us and protect us, we do have the fourth box. We’d rather not use it. We really would rather not use it. But we do have it.

Eighth, in the end we win they lose. We’re just trying and praying to keep the damage to innocents to a minimum. May the Author be with us.

Now stop listening to this mad woman and go make your preparations. Because win or lose, the next three months are going to be a stone cold bitch.

Go.

134 thoughts on “A Tide of Fraud”

  1. Off topic. Not triggering get comments (yet). We are on the road (Tetons) until this weekend or Monday. Just didn’t want others to think we “disappeared”. Till later. (Voted before we left, JIC.)

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    3. Have fun. The lodge between Grand Teton and Yellowstone used to be very good, of you want a slightly upscale spot to eat. There’s a place in the park that’s also nice. As opposed to Yellowstone, where a bag lunch is a good idea.

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      1. Thank you.

        We are home now. Trip planned to catch last day roads were open, Oct. 31, for both parks.

        Tetons too socked in once the storms hit. Brief op to get some pictures with fresh snow on them. Also dark so we’ll see how they turn out. We have loads of pictures without snow.

        Not much on the animal front. Antelope, elk, deer, and bear, mostly missing in action. Saw a few but not as much as usual. Got good pictures of moose, including the big one that is supposedly the one to get a photo of.

        Bear? We knew we wouldn’t see 399 and her yearling. 399 was hit by a vehicle late at night (10:30 PM -ish) on the Snake highway corridor 30 miles south of the park Tues, Oct 22, before we left. Her cub ran off. Official report, now released, said the driver, driving slower than the speed limit, because dark (people do not know dark until they’ve driven the USFS highway river corridors, Snake river one is no exception) swerved to miss a yearling, and hit “something else”. Something else was mom, 28 year old grizzly known as 399.

        We however hoped to see other bears. Not in the Tetons. Saw one in Yellowstone.

        We came home via Yellowstone, south entrance through Hayden Valley, Canyon, Norris, and out West Yellowstone. Was going to go up to Lamar Valley (via Mammoth given Dunraven Pass was closed) but the snow on roads, and snow coming down, up through Canyon on the southeast side we decided on caution. Did not want to get stuck in Gardner, to have to head west. While Norris to and out Madison corridors weren’t bad snow wise, W. Yellowstone OTOH was not only snowy, but roads very icy and slick. Then the roads over the continental divide passes in the park started closing early (notification via park texts). Made the correct call.

        Trip home was good. Heavy snow coming out of W. Yellowstone until almost Idaho Falls, and I-15. Hit heavy snow again, coming across Oregon on Hwy 30 through Brothers, but turned to heavy rain in Bend. Passes snowy, but not much more than sleet coming down on Santiam (Hwy 126) pass. Though Hoodoo was socked in, pretty sure they were getting a lot of snow. Passes are suppose to get hammered this weekend. Yes, we did use TripCheck and check the cameras. Yes, we have chains. Didn’t need them. Don’t want to use them if possible (if don’t use can take back next spring – Les Schwab).

        Not our first, second, or even third, trip to either park, with or without an RV (FYI, campgrounds close mid September). We stayed at The Lodge of Jackson Hole. Great place (also off season prices). Strongly recommend. Ate at Bubba’s Barbecue (steak, because any other option even sharing is too much), and Sidewinders Grill across the main drag from the hotel. Otherwise cheese and crackers and sandwiches, material from home.

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  2. Yeah, I have nothing to say.

    What comes to mind has been said before.

    We have several hypotheses about what is really happening.

    When it comes to itemized lists of stuff to do, the good ideas are good in all cases. It is only the more extreme cases that absolutely require every item on the list.

    Japanese during WWII liked the single decisive blow model, and it proved a bit untrue where their plans and intent were concerned.

    Left thinks a lot about symbolic acts by the most powerful available source of leadership magic.

    In both theories, these are not theories that we should be orientating our hearts to.

    No matter what happens, we have a long path of reforms ahead of us to walk. Or to die trying. (Quite possibly of old age.)

    I’m not sure that any of the really important fundamentals can be changed by anything in the immediate short term.

    I dunno. We shall see.

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    1. Agreed. Much as I would like a chainsaw prezzie to cut out the rot in sweeping blows, a leader of such power could also cut out a good many things we ought to keep (such as rule of law…). Can we cut funding to departments hither and yon? Technically yes, but it would require a motivated and fearless Congress. Which we do not have.

      Similarly, we could bust up the departments, sell the land, and quarter them in bits and pieces out in the mid west. We could drastically simplify the tax code. We could slash through the regulations swiftly. We could also fire en mass whole battalions of petty bureaucrats, eliminating their jobs and sinecures.

      But could we keep such a state of being?

      The other side gets a vote, too. Sometimes even two or three. Hundred. Thousand.

      For enduring change, we need to change minds and move hearts. We need the people behind us. We need the culture to fight back against the cancer weakening it. That’s the long game.

      Sometimes making that change is nothing more than living life as best you can, teaching your children well, and speaking the truth even when the PTB try to force lies into your mouth.

      Stand tall. We are not a beaten people. We are the United States of America. Our culture is one of deep roots, learning, inventing, evolving in freedom. Our people are moral, faithful, hardworking, and courageous.

      A free mind and soul can be punished- and yes, we have been. But it cannot be broken. Live well, brothers and sisters. Defy a leftist today. Find some joy in your life.

      They really, really hate that.

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      1. For some reason, this made me tear up.

        Very true. We can’t expect our politicians, children or culture to be better than we are.

        Prayer and fasting my friends.

        Much prayer and fasting.

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    2. The Empire had the correct idea “End this war, quickly, decisively, and victoriously”.

      That wisdom was undone by their love of complex cunning plans, requiring vast coordination and no error.

      Pearl Harbor was brilliant. But its undoung was the failure to get the carriers and the failure to wreck the repair shops and dydocks. They counted on “no fail” intel and “no fail” nerve.

      A “Battle off Hawaii” would have been decisive. They couldn’t know our torpedoes were junk. But they did know they rather dramaticly outclassed us in aircraft, pilot training, readiness, ship design, and numbers. We had damage control and more durable ships and fighters, and support of a nearby base and aircraft.

      There are very few wargames of a notional Battle off Hawaii that end well for the USN.

      Keep it Simple.

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      1. True, but the Japanese commander at Pearl Harbor noted that he had traveled widely in America and their industrial might was awesome He feared that they had only awakened a sleeping giant. He was right. In WW2, half the steel produced in the world was made in America. A swamp on the Columbia in WA became a shipyard launching an escort aircraft carrier every week for a year. Another single shipyard in Maine built more destroyers than the Empire of Japan. A B24 heavy bomber rolled off the Ford Willow Run assembly line every hour 24/7. There was a shipyard in Denver, CO building destroyer escorts (in pieces, shipped to the west coast for final assembly). A profane alcoholic proved a genius in designing and building small landing craft, which would number half the vessels in the US Navy (by number, not tonnage). Then there was an experiment under the bleachers of Stagg Field in Chicago. A city disappeared from the maps of Africa, and secret cities sprouted in TN, on the banks of the Columbia River, and in New Mexico. The war with Japan would have ended the same, but probably would have been much worse.

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        1. without aircraft carriers, Japan ruled the Pacific essentially unopposed. And we ramped up from behind three survivor carriers. At one point, we were down to just one sort-of operational one.

          Absent those, Japan wrecks whatever we throw. Absent all those surviving men, leaders, and know-how, we get ass-kicked.

          There is a critical mass needed to hold the fort in the Pacific while we win in Europe. Did you realize that having to replace PacFleet would have meant defeat in Europe? That theater was kinda close as it was.

          A year delay of the European invasion meant Germany gained operational jet fighters in large enough numbers to make “air superiority” impossible.

          Also, the Soviets lose and drop out, either negotiated “quit” or outright defeat.

          Then we are invading against the whole wretched mass of Krauts.

          Yeah. It was that close. Because both our opponents had planned to win before we could convert over to war production. Japan kicked us in the ass, just enough time piss us off but not enough to say “why bother? It’s over”, and we all got annoyed enough to get industrially busy. Absent -that-, we -dont- ramp up. We exit ramp because we were not mentally prepared for Okinawa/Iwo levels of slaughter until we had some wins in our column.

          Yeah. That too. We had time to learn to beat our foes.

          Note also, a year delay of Overlord probably means nukes for Germany, and maybe Japan.

          Which means Hiroshima and Nagasaki have -lots- of company.

          And the “Final Solution” is essentially complete in another year. And the evidence largely concealed before a reconquest of eastern europe that may never happen.

          Ouch.

          So we dodged a nuclear semi-wasteland standoff with a surviving Reich and Empire, and essential extinction of the European and mideast Hebrew folk, because the IJN were just a little too cautious, a bit short of confidence, and went for “ambush” instead of their correct doctrine of “single decisive (and thus defeat demonstrative) battle to defeat the enemy”.

          “They didn’t beat us! They cheated!”

          Saved the world. All of it.

          in 1941, and again, by some other folks lacking confidence, in 2020.

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      2. So still do the air raid on the land based air, the drydocks and tank farms, and then pull back a bit and stooge around north of the islands, maybe run a couple more days of air raids to let them know you’re still up there, so the BBs can sortie and be sunk in deep water?

        Hm.

        The BBs didn’t end up being all that valuable all things considered. They wouldn’t get the CVs, since they were out west. Running the Pacific submarine campaign would be a lot harder with no oil in Hawaii. But I think in the end they still loose, just from industrial capacity imbalance.

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        1. ON second thought they might get the CVs – PacFleet does a BB sortie and calls back the CVs to do their “your just scouts” thing.

          That woudl be bad, but not the end of the war. I just don’t think there’s any way the US would negotiate terms given what the US saw as the loss of face being surprise attacked by asians.

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          1. Then we fail to defeat the Reich by 45. Which is why we were correctly on a Europe First agenda. Because an extra year before the Overlord attempt means the Reich survives, probably with a successful conquest of the European chunk of the USSR.

            And the whole mess goes nuclear by 46. And Jews go extinct outside North America and a few scattered places.

            Folks have forgotten just how freaking close we came to losing, again and again,

            and why.

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            1. Folks have forgotten just how freaking close we came to losing, again and again, and why

              WWII is a hobby of mine. Most histories present things in neat order, this, then that, thus the other, victory! Until you start noting all the many, many, many, many times the Allies beat the odds or pulled a rabbit out of their hat.

              The IJN (which was the de facto Japanese government) and the Reich did everything by accepted principles of war and made very few obvious mistakes, yet somehow things seldom worked out in their favor.

              After a while, it’s easy to get the idea that something was going on behind the scenes that we still don’t know about.

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              1. Like my dad’s refusing to dump his bombs in the ocean, so he dropped them on a, “cement plant,” that turned out to be an ammo dump.

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              2. Probably summarized in the adage “God protects fools, drunkards, and the United States of America”. The US took incredible risks in early WW2. The Torch invasion of North Africa at widely separated Algiers, Oran and Casablanca, with the invasion forces sailing across the Atlantic from US ports and from Britian. The Queens Mary and Elizabeth raced alone across the Atlantic carrying 12-14 thousand troops, with lifeboats for less than half of those aboard. And in the confined waters off Guadalcanal, sending battleships Washington and South Dakota into a night surface action at (for a battleship) shotgun range.

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        2. we didn’t have to rebuild them.

          And the carriers were the stooge-around target.

          And losing one to no real gain, especially Enterprise, loses the Pacific.

          -that- close.

          Because we lacked the capacity in 42 to replace PacFleet and invade Europe by 44. In 45, too late.

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          1. Agreed to all.

            I was trying to come up with an IJN plan to cleverly get what their doctrine called for, the “decisive battle,” out of the Pearl Harbor raid.

            It should be noted that, aside from Pearl Harbor itself, whenever the IJN went for the “clever plan” they inevitably stepped on their own, um, cleverness.

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      3. The first Essex-class carriers were already being built when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Additionally, half of the carriers were over in the Atlantic at the time. There was no way for the Japanese to get all of them. IIRC, Enterprise (which arrived literally just after the raid), and the two Lexington-class carriers were both in the Pacific. Yorktown, Wasp, and Ranger were in the Atlantic.

        Ranger couldn’t be transferred to the Pacific due to various issues with her. But the other two could. And Hornet finished her shakedown not long after.

        In short, there were always going to be trouble-making US carriers in the Pacific (and at one point, a British loaner), no matter how well the Japanese did at Pearl.

        On another note, you think that the Japanese had superior ship designs…?

        Uh…

        The more modern Japanese ships were Treaty-era ships that suffered from trying to cram too many things onto ship hulls that were already breaking the naval treaties of the day. Most of them were top heavy, though some of the issues from this were dealt with after Japan officially withdrew from the treaties. American treaty cruisers tended to have light armor, instead. Both the IJN and the USN had large numbers of pre-Treaty battleships, most of which were quite slow.

        However, post-treaty, the US went nuts with the redesigns and building. Unfortunately, the Baltimore-class wouldn’t be available until after the war had started. But in every ship category other than heavy cruisers, the USN was commissioning new designs that were better than their Japanese counterparts. The only possible exception might have been the Yamato-class, but even then the Iowa might have been better due to shell types, and superior fire control (and neither class had a commissioned ship at the time of Pearl Harbor). American ships didn’t carry torpedoes. But they had much better anti-aircraft protection, in part because of the excellent dual-purpose 5″ guns that all American ships carried.

        Meanwhile, the Japanese post-Treaty warships amounted to the last Mogami-class cruisers (this class was started while the Treaties were still in effect), the two super battleships, and a handful of carriers, most of which were largely forgettable. The notable exceptions were the two Shokakus (probably the best carriers that Japan built), Taiho (best known for the design flaw that caused her loss to a single torpedo), and Shinano (the converted Yamato-class). And the last two aren’t remembered for their excellence in combat.

        A special mention goes to the IJN carriers. Both the IJN and the USN were pioneers in aircraft carrier design. Both were confronted by many issues about how to design the ships that would house their air wings, and how best to utilize those air wings. Since the ships were a new type, there were no historical precedents to fall back on, or examples of past ships in combat to examine. So both navies had to come up with ideas on their own.

        It is surprising the number of times the IJN came up with an idea that sounded good in practice, but that eventually had fatal consequences. As an example, Kaga had the fuel tanks for the aviation fuel built directly into her structure. As a result, when the ship’s frame suffered stress due to multiple bombs at Midway, the fuel lines suffered micro-ruptures that were impossible to resolve. The result was as one might expect.

        You can argue about the results of a sortie by the USN at Pearl Harbor. But USN ship designs were superior to the IJN ship designs.

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        1. The IJN carriers were good enough to defeat what we had, and piecemeal Essex class.

          Where would you have gotten the pilots and crews for the new ships, with the PacFleet crews dead? As it was, they swam to shore, or were aboard when the carriers came home, then blooded by Coral Sea and convinced they could win by Midway.

          the first three Essex go into a meatgrinder, and get sunk likely. Not enough pilots with experience. And to secure Hawaii, would then take stuff away from Germany. Delaying us a year, thus preventing extermination of the Reich.

          You have to see it. It was -close-. Our win was hardly inevitable.

          all we had to do to lose is be a touch less confident. Just a smidge more cautious. And be delayed 1 year.

          one

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          2. Hawaii was not a realistic invasion target for Japan due to the distance. Even if an invasion force had managed to secure Hawaii, it would have been at the end of a very long supply chain. Transports running supplies to Hawaii would have been under constant attack from American submarines. While the Mark 14 torpedoes were buggy, captains did figure out work arounds. Further, only the Gatos were using the new torpedoes. Older subs were using older torpedoes, and those still worked without any issues.

            As for Coral Sea “blooding”, while Yorktown was blooded, the other two carriers at Midway were not. Hornet’s strike was an absolute disaster, mostly due to Ring. But Enterprise’s planes sank more carriers than Yorktown’s planes did despite the fact that they missed Coral Sea. In fact, “blooded” Fletcher made two very notable mistakes. He only sent four fighters to escort Yorktown’s bombers, and he held back half of Yorktown’s dive bombers, which likely is what allowed Hiryu to survive the initial attack.

            In short, Hornet’s package formed up properly, but Ring misdirected it and wasted it. Yorktown’s package was reduced by Fletcher, and not as effective as it could have been. Enterprise’s package split into three groups (the fighters actually linked up with Hornet’s torpedo bombers), but had the most success. So it was the commanders that appear to have had the most effect on the American strikes, and not the experience of the pilots.

            That’s not to say that experience is meaningless. But it doesn’t appear to have mattered much at Midway.

            Ranger was never going to be moved to the Pacific. So even if the Navy instantly lost with all hands every carrier sent to the Pacific for three years straight, there would still have been a cadre of individuals experienced in carrier operations to train up new crews.

            Finally, Germany was first. Events in the Pacific were not allowed to influence what was happening in Africa and Europe. The Reich would still have fallen on schedule.

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  3. Re the press: Then you have places like Chicago where political corruption and voter fraud by the machine weren’t reported because they weren’t really news. Everyone knew about it and and accepted it as the way business was done and nothing you could do about it anyway.

    (At least not until Daley the elder died. Then, miss cleaning snow out of the streets where some Aldermen’s mothers lived…. Hoo Boy)

    Not happily. My relatives in downstate Illinois often had choice words about the Chicago Machine and Cook County in general.

    Of course to your point, that was a Democratic Machine, on it’s way to being captured by the left after 68 and the demise of Daley the Elder.

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    1. “New Mexico – like Chicago but with tortillas,” as one resident put it. He was rather proud that the shenanigans were bipartisan, going back to the Territorial Period.

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  4. I’m sure you seen, heard, this one from Virginia.

    Governor of Virginia is trying to clean up our voter registration, DOJ is saying he started too late. That we have to leave these people on the register.

    https://www.kerrydougherty.com/allposts/2024/10/21/gov-glenn-youngkin-is-removing-non-citizens-from-voter-rolls-the-doj-is-suing-to-stop-him

    “Youngkin’s administration found more than 6,000 names of “self-identified” non-citizens on the voter rolls. These were Virginia drivers who reportedly told DMV that they were not citizens. Nonetheless they were registered to vote.”

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    1. That would be the same DOJ that threatened Arizona when it ordered an audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County.

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    2. Trump attempted to do something about vote fraud during his first term. He formed a committee that was set to investigate the issue.

      Unfortunately, voting is handled by the states, and most of the states refused to cooperate with the commission, insisting that they didn’t have any issues.

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    3. Sounds like there needs to be some mass firings at the DMV, or it’s likely to happen again.

      The clerks that allowed that need to be held personally accountable.

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    5. Earlier today:

      The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily blocked an order by a federal judge that would have required Virginia to return more than 1,600 people to the voter rolls. U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles found that since early August the state had canceled the registration of more than 1,600 voters – at least some of whom were U.S. citizens eligible to vote – under a program intended to remove suspected noncitizens from the voting rolls.  

      In a brief unsigned order on Wednesday morning, the justices granted Virginia’s request to put Giles’ order on hold while a challenge to it continues. Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson indicated that they would have denied the state’s request.

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      1. “Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson indicated that they would have denied the state’s request.”

        So, are the saying they will deny the petition, even before they see it, or that they voted against the writ of certiorari?

        Either way, this is my shocked face. :-/

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  5. Also the early burning of ballot boxes outside of voting centers give them great cover for all the right-side votes they don’t want to count. You *know* they have to be worried when they are burning boxes in Portland and southwest Washington state.

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    1. Have to dig a little deeper; this isn’t about the President. Both of those boxes are in a Congressional district that’s threatening to flip red.

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      1. Refer to Democratic Party plan 2 for the scenario where Trump beats the margin of fraud; Plan 1 is to subvert the electoral college by getting enough electors to flip to Harris; Plan 2 is to ensure (i.e. steal) the House so they can refuse to certify the election and block Trump from becoming President.

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    1. Exactly so.

      In most way are the Donks going to trust newcomers to be loyal to their team. Demonstrably, they are prone to non-cooperation, and many outright illegality.

      They just want enough “registered voters” to prevent the “oops” of a Donk win printing 101+% of the registered total.

      …oops.

      Which is why Judge S…head was such a blatant fool, ordering known noncitizens back on the rolls. He just gave a real ballsy Repub a chance to raise the bet and say “Placing noncitizens on the vote roll is a felony. Was that your order, Judge? If not, withdraw the order and we are done. If so, you will be arrested for ordering that crime.” And dare him to call the bet.

      And wont -that- get interesting?

      “No” is such a threat, they -have- to respond. And they have zero options.

      But don’t worry. The RINOs of the Stupid Party won’t dare.

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  7. There is a completely simple method to clean up the voter rolls (which is why it will never be done):

    Discard them in their entirety and start over.

    In fact, I’d like to see them dropped every two years and everyone has to re-register. “But that’s too complicated!” people will wail. Honestly, though, that’s simpler than trying to clean up the rolls we have or update them. Just require it every even-numbered year. Make it a New Year’s resolution. “Time to re-register!”

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      1. Set it to happen in the second or third week of April. Remind folks that yes, you can change what you pay in taxes- it’s as easy as changing who represents your interests in government.

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      2. It isn’t, but it would definitely bring out the usual Dem whine, “But minorities are too stupid to learn how to get ID, and so they’re too stupid to remember to register! Voter suppression! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!” :-x

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  9. I have a coffee mug with an idyllic picture of a mountain lake and Loons and which reads,

    Welcome to the Loony Bin, you must have heard our call!

    So yes, fellow Loon. We must vote. Make them cheat and know they cheated and know that we know they cheated and know that we know that they know they cheated. Rub their evil black hearts in the fact that real alive human beings have rejected them. They are definitely losing the hearts of the people, their grip on sanity, and the ability to even pretend all is well. And, if Himself so wills, possibly losing this election.

    This can’t go on, so it won’t.

    I’m practicing keeping things I might suddenly need where I can find them in the dark. Curse you short days!!!

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  10. Now stop listening to this mad woman and go make your preparations.

    You have to be at least a little mad just to believe what the Leftroids are doing. It’s one of their biggest advantages. Sane people go, “Nobody would do that!“

    But they do, they do…

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    1. There was a post on X saying the writer and friends were working to educate voters…and they have to soft-pedal what the Democrats are doing, because nobody can believe they’d do that …

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  11. With many of the Democrats panicking, I think we’ll see a Trump victory.

    But I’m worrying about what happens after he wins. [Frown]

    Oh well, I’ve voted (via mail because I don’t have a car) and I’m trying to NOT worry more.

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      1. Himself answers prayers. Not always in the way you or I would like, mind, but He does answer.

        Usually in the somewhat annoying way of having me do something I’d really rather not, but what makes me a better person, or helps someone else.

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    2. I’m very hopeful that all of the panic and desperation we’re seeing is the result of these people having polling data that is showing that Kamela is going to have a not fun spanking on Election Day. The sort of spanking that they can’t cheat their way out of and can’t lawfare their way out of.

      And there are members of the E!Democratic Party that are trying to get out of the sinking ship before they drown with their fellow rats. I suspect that’s why you’re seeing the “not-endorsing endorsements” of a lot of newspapers and the sudden interest in downplaying but not denying some of the worst Harris or Walz memes.

      If what I’m hoping is true happens, it’s going to be after the election that will be very interesting for all of us. At least a hundred million TDS sufferers getting slapped in the face by reality is going to be painful for everyone.

      Keep your powder dry.

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      3. The traditional equivalent would be the Song of Heritage. The short version only takes two or three days, tops. But you wouldn’t want to be in the line behind the dragon, though.

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  12. Although it’s possible to mis-program the vote tabulating machines, I don’t think that’s the main problem. I would peg the potential fraud at around 20%. Here’s my reasoning. Before 2020, no presidential election in the US had over 60% turnout. That leaves 40% of those eligible who are not motivated/interested enough to vote. Turning out that group in the old days used to be shutting down the workplace and bussing them to the polls. With the whole panic-demic of 2020 and universal mail-in ballot, the cheaters had it easy. Just go and collect the ballots from the folks who don’t care and do the voting for them. In bulk! Being generous about typical bureaucratic efficiency, I would halve that, so I’m saying 20%.

    Would that it weren’t so.

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  13. It’s reached the point where the narrative is failing. Even with media backing more than ever, the Harris fiasco is exposed as a situation comedy. If she is miraculously voted in, the backlash will lead to local voting boards finding they can’t make their way home any longer. That, and when the exposure of the fraud can’t be hidden any longer, the narrative of there is very little voting fraud will be ignored. How the fraudsters are handled is yet to be seen, but staking them out in the sun on an ant hill seems to be the best method of punishment.

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      1. [Gazes at anthill, chlordane in one hand, Dem apparatchik in the other]

        “Nah, I’ll feed ’em the chlordane; more humane.”

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  14. Excellent inventory of what needs to be worked on. I’m a bit worried, however, that instead of a Herculean cheat visible from Mars, they will simply refuse to accept the validity of an adverse outcome altogether. So, uh, clothes and weapons, and all that, gang.

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    1. This will sound strange, but the scenario you suggest might be the optimal result. A ballot-box defeat, even with all the machinations working in their favor, followed by a grasp for absolute power by force and fraud, would put them utterly in the moral wrong. It would be the best possible chance for nationwide revulsion against them, and their decisive rejection (assuming force, their force, doesn’t carry the day). With the Party, or at least its ideological vanguard, discredited, there would be a chance for the serious sweeping reform this country and its government need.

      Yes, it’s chancy. We are at the point where we mustn’t shrink from taking chances, where risking the worst may be the best way of averting the worst.

      What will happen, I can’t say. If I could predict the future, I would be typing from a mansion bought by my Powerball winnings. Or at least my science fiction would be a lot more prophetic.

      Republica restituendae. The Republic must be restored.

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  15. Oh, 25% is my low estimate. It could be that a full 70% of votes for Biden were fraudulent and that instead of being a closely divided nation we are in fact an overwhelmingly anti-left nation held captive by a small minority that rules by fraud. Which would explain a lot of the things we see.

    A good place to start would be to both look at rate of response, and to under-voting.

    Places that have unusually high turnout, or unusually different numbers of votes between different questions, are likely to have rather high fraud.

    Washington State’s Seattle blob manages amazing turnout– like 80, 90% of those sent ballots vote– which is amazing since it’s not unusual for animals and people who moved away a decade prior to still be on the voter’s list.

    I know I’ve heard of folks who were stationed there with the Army, never changed their residence to Washington, and are still on the lists.

    My husband was mailed ballots in Texas for years, and had to do some serious stuff including throwing a fit when they basically said “well, this clearly can’t be you, then.” For the registration at house we’d sold.

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    1. I like parts of Washington much better than I ever expected to, but you only have to listen to a bit of Seattle news radio to realize the city is bughouse nuts.

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  16. one person one vote show proof of ID and residency to register must register 30 days prior to election and no later thumb print on the ballot id shown at precinct and must be registered in that precinct iand on the list in order to vote absentee only for elderly, disabled or military overseas tabulated before midnight on voting day, make it happen or face inquiry and ALL ballots from that precinct are dumped.

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  17. The fraud campaign is already underway in the “swing states:

    https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2024/10/29/the-morning-briefing-let-the-election-2024-anomalies-begin-n4933736

    That’s right, Democratic Party election apparatus in Pennsylvania is actively working to not only manufacture bogus ballots in PA, but they are also attempting to stifle efforts to vote in traditionally Republican districts.

    The willingness of Democrats to fraud their way to power cannot be underestimated. Given that they have declared their opponents and their supporters to be “literally Hitler and the Nazis”, one should ask, if they believe that or are willing to go far that rhetorically, why wouldn’t they commit massive fraud. After all, anything is justified to stop “Hitler and the Nazis”, isn’t it?

    All of it is of course simply smoke being blown to cover the fact their real goal is absolute totalitarian power “by any means necessary”. Period,

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    1. I voted. Less, early but I feared if I didn’t I’d be in the “already bloated crowd”. So now I’m on the “stuff the boxes provided by our ‘Republican’ Secretary of State” count.

      But I expect to have Harris be awarded 100 million votes and if that’s not enough for Trump votes to disappear. For most of the year I predicted Trump would “get” fewer votes than Gerald Ford.

      I no longer expect them to attempt that.

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  19. This probably goes better with the prior post, but I am a just sitting here laughing at the whole “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off” thing at CNN.

    Call everyone who supports DJT an actual Nazi, that’s political discourse, but make a beeper joke about the dude who supports the Pallies, and that’s beyond the Pale, you are right out the door.

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    1. Video game streaming service Twitch is actively blocking Israeli accounts right now. At the same time, I’ve heard that some of the mods have been openly showing terrorist recruitment videos. There’s a push to reach out to advertisers about the situation. In particular, advertisers generally do *not* want to find out that their ad ran alongside a pro-terrorist video.

      Reddit’s senior moderators are very openly blocking any and all posts that they can find that support Republicans, while simultaneously allowing anything goes where support of the Democrats is involved.

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  21. My business insurance carrier just sent a checklist to prepare for potential civil unrest. 

    Saw this from a local connection who has owned her own business for almost 20 years.

    I guess my place of employment isn’t the only one that will be busy in the future.

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  23. It’s the waiting that gets to me, I guess.
    That, and a tremendous sadness for what must unfold, coupled with a natural hope that it will unfold as well as possible! And the experienced caution that it probably won’t.

    (This is the year I finally understood the necessary suspicion of “new” friends, of which I am one, I suppose. My desire to be useful is so terribly outmached by my lack of leverage! I am trying to prepare my small circle by degrees, as they become receptive to ideas, but it is an uphill steering.)

    Thanks to all, for being here, and there, and wherever you all are.

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  24. Vote, it is your duty, its also your duty to find out about the candidates, and get as many Democrats out of the process as possible. Yes, stop electing any of them, even for Dog Catcher. If you have no choice because some scumbag democrat is running un-opposed, Vote for Bullwinkle Moose, or Rocket J Squirrel. I live for the day when in some election somewhere a scum sucking vile democrat loses to Rocket J Squirrel. Fight however you can.

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  25. Do the people quoting betting odds on this election know something we don’t? RCP is currently sowing an average 28.5% advantage for President Donald J. Trump.

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  27. Well, here we go:

    Why we might not get a presidential winner on election night

    They’re already setting up to make it plausible that Kackling Kamela ‘won’. But-but-but:

    Delays don’t mean fraud! they say.

    Just like ‘stopping the count’ for middle-of-the-night deliveries of truckloads of mystery ballots didn’t mean fraud in 2020, right? We’ve heard this song before, and it sucked the first time too.

    40 years ago we filled out paper ballots, they were counted by hand and the job was finished by the morning after. Why can’t we do as well today?

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    2. In my state the paper ballots were counted incrementally at the polls and the running totals called into the Capitol every hour. Results were announced shortly after the polls closed.

      With the electronic machines, the results are announced the next day, and they’re not “official” for around a week. I never was able to find out what that was about.

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  28. I had a nightmare a couple nights ago, I was in the novel “Island in a Sea of Time.” by S.M. Stirling. I was the pregnant Martha Cofflin being kidnapped by the island’s resident libtards to be taken as a hostage sailing down to human-sacrifice happy Olmec land and I was desperately trying to argue with the ring leader, Pamela Lisketter, that this was a VERY stupid idea and it was going to end VERY badly for everyone, but she just wouldn’t listen and was stupidly and stubbornly insisting she was right and was just pushing on, and I realized it was pointless to keep talking to her and I should just wait for the inevitable disaster that I knew was coming. When I woke up I instantly realized my subconcious was warning me about the election.

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      1. It’s more a matter of things you fear rather than precognition. I clearly fear being back in the Air Force given the number of dreams I have about that. Don’t think the AF is going to want a 63 year old man these days however. ;)

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          1. I was having drama where I had a project due and hadn’t started it yet. Sometimes I didn’t know what it was.

            FWIW,my dreams lately have been unusually cheerful.

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  30. I agree with you Sarah that there is far more voter fraud than is being said. Unfortunately the courts, judges, and even the police can’t be bothered. If a conservative speaks out they are the ones arrested and punished. This morning there is video of clearly boarder crossers non English speaking people bussed into the early voting lines in Pennsylvania. They magically get to go to the head of the long line of actual citizen voters waiting patiently to vote early. Absolutely nothing is being done to stop this illegal activity. Oh, supposedly they all had Harris/Walz stickers on the clothes. After January 6 conservatives are afraid they will be ruined like those still being arrested and imprisoned without trial. This is not the United States of America any more but some third world shit hole the Dems have made out of fraud.

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    1. But surprisingly [not really]:

      ”Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan would not have granted Virginia’s request, according to the order.”

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  32. > many people have a loose idea of citizenship and confuse it with residency.

    —

    With only a public-school education, they’ve probably never been exposed to the idea that they’re different. At least, I never saw anything about the difference in any of the schoolbooks I had.

    You also have the ongoing battle between the Feds and the states. The Fed likes to refer to the citizens of the various states as “residents” and US residents in general as “citizens.” But my state is a real country, even if it has been occupied by the Feds since the mid-1800s. We have our own chief of state, our own legislature, our own courts, and our own laws. And our own army and air force too. Upon joining the United States, we let the Feds take over things like money, weights and measures, and international relations… but they’ve been taking over everything, a bit at a time. When the Fed gave itself the power to tax the citizens of the member states directly, it was the beginning of the end for state sovereignty.

    Back years ago, before my state recognized the Second Amendment of the Federal Constitution, I bought a concealed carry license. Along with being photographed, fingerprinted, and “instructed”, I had to sign a document vowing allegiance to the State of Arkansas and its Constitution. Which I had to track down and read. And when I signed my name, I took the oath seriously, which is why “state’s rights” is something I also take seriously.

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    1. Public school education was much better before Jimmy Carter’s Federal Department Of Education spent 45 years and $2 TRILLION ‘improving’ it.

      Fortunately, I graduated just before The Carter Years.

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    2. a) during debates people have yelled at me, because I landed one day and voted the next, so what do I know. (Er…. no.)
      b) My MIL told me before I even had a green card “You’re an American now.” (er… no. It was three years before I even decided I’d naturalize.)

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  33. I don’t know about 25%, but it’s definitely higher than 3% nationwide. Probably much higher than 25% in Blue urban areas where Dems control the electoral machinery. My rule of thumb is, it’s “just enough to steal the election,” most years. This year, with the rabid anti-OrangeMan baying at the moon, will be off the hook. But Kamala is so unpopular they might still lose. It’ll be way closer than it should be, though.

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    1. No. In 2020 it was most of the vote. They weren’t even running. They knew they could win without running.
      And they wouldn’t have had to fake it in front of G-d and everyone if Trump hadn’t done the impossible and had MORE votes second time around, despite their massive propaganda work.

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  34. Best reason to vote?

    To see if someone already frauded your vote or not.

    If your vote was frauded, DEMAND that your entire voting precinct be decertified. I mean it. If you vote doesn’t count, then nobody’s vote should count. Get a lawyer or an entire firm, and have the entire polling place shut down, everything confiscated, everyone arrested. If the Secretary of State objects, have him or her arrested too for election interference. I’m not saying burn the polls to the ground and destroy all the ballots, but that should be a final consideration also.

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  35. I really hope for a Trump and Republican victory at the polls. I am definiyely ready for less Marx in our capital. But I am even more eagerly anticipating an end to all the poltical ads from all parties, and the incessant text, phone, and email begging from the GOP.

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    1. It seems an “accident” like this crops up about once every election cycle. And for some reason, the “accident” always favors the Democrat running for President. What a happenstance, or coincidence, or whatever it’s called when it happens three times.

      Republica restituendae.

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  37. And there are 145 year old people voting in Colorado Springs.

    Hell, I bet Chicago has ‘voters’ that are pushing 200. ‘Voted’ straight Democrat in every single one of the last 85 elections.

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  38. And the CO Secretary of State put the voting machine passwords on a spreadhseet and published it…

    why do they have the crazy eyes?

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    1. Meanwhile, in Michigan…

      https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/10/30/what-the-hell-is-going-on-in-michigan-n4933794

      According to the state’s own QVF records, there are “114,545 Michigan voters who have cast 279,113 ballots from multiple addresses across the state. This results in 164,568 excess ballots as of 10/29/2024.” [Emphasis added for reasons that will become obvious in the very next line of this column.]

      Biden won Michigan in 2020 by 154,188 votes found largely in Detroit.

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  39. It’s Wednesday and KamalaWhorus has yet again pivoted to a new washed up and regurgitated failed attack. Just in time to stop any flicker of improvement after billions spent in attack ads on media, Dementia Boy Biden stabs a knife in her back by calling over half of America Garbage. Let the October surprises roll…Bwahahahaha
    Pass the popcorn and keep your powder dry.

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  40. https://blazingcatfur.ca/2024/10/30/devices-with-free-gaza-messages-found-at-ballot-box-fires/

    “Law enforcement officials cautioned that they had not yet determined a motive for the Pacific Northwest arson fires. But the messages have heightened the sensitivity of the investigation.”

    Arson fires at ballot drop-off boxes in the state of Washington demonstrate that their system was designed to make fraud easier. Who leaves VOTES in an unguarded box on the side of the road? Cheaters. That’s who.

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  42. It all becomes explicable when you realize that Dems literally think that Trump will destroy the human species and the entire planet.

    We know that global warming is rubbish, but they believe it in their cojones, even the women (who in Demland may indeed have cojones).

    This has been gelling for the last couple decades: the green-progressive religion. They have many tenets: food laws (veganism), forced conversion of infidels, sacraments (abortion) and of course Armageddon due to CO2.

    Thus they think they are righteous in stealing the election by any way or means because they think they are saving humanity. It’s the most incredibly over-the-top version of noble cause corruption ever.

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  43. About those fraud-by-mail ballots:

    Would you send $100 cash in the mail? With THIS ENVELOPE CONTAINS $100 CASH written on the outside? Only if you are an absolute idiot.

    So, if you wouldn’t trust the mail with $100, WHY would you trust it with your vote?

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