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Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

THE FACTS: True the Vote didn’t prove this. The finding is based on false assumptions about the precision of cellphone tracking data and the reasons that someone might drop off multiple ballots, according to experts.

“Ballot harvesting” is a pejorative term for dropping off completed ballots for people besides yourself. The practice is legal in several states but largely illegal in the states True the Vote focused on, with some exceptions for family, household members and people with disabilities.

True the Vote has said it found some 2,000 ballot harvesters by purchasing $2 million worth of anonymized cellphone geolocation data — the “pings” that track a person’s location based on app activity — in various swing counties across five states. Then, by drawing a virtual boundary around a county’s ballot drop boxes and various unnamed nonprofits, it identified cellphones that repeatedly went near both ahead of the 2020 election.

If a cellphone went near a drop box more than 10 times and a nonprofit more than five times from Oct. 1 to Election Day, True the Vote assumed its owner was a “mule” — its name for someone engaged in an illegal ballot collection scheme in cahoots with a nonprofit.

The group’s claims of a paid ballot harvesting scheme are supported in the film only by one unidentified whistleblower said to be from San Luis, Arizona, who said she saw people picking up what she “assumed” to be payments for ballot collection. The film contains no evidence of such payments in other states in 2020.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The Wisconsin GOP’s Latest MeltdownWhy do Republicans seem so determined to lose the November elections?

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The Wisconsin Elections Commission this week was supposed to pick its next chairman, who by law must be a Republican, since the current one is a Democrat. Yet the news at Wednesday’s meeting was the sudden resignation of GOP Commissioner Dean Knudson, who lamented that he feels he no longer adequately represents his party’s viewpoint.

“I’ll put my conservative record up against anyone in the state of Wisconsin,” he said, “and yet now I’ve been branded a RINO,” a Republican In Name Only. “There’s no evidence that election fraud is the reason Trump lost Wisconsin, and that’s not for lack of looking,” Mr. Knudson later told the press. His advice to his party is to “pivot away from conspiracy theories” and “focus on the issues that affect Wisconsin families and their pocketbooks.”

The other Republican commissioner who’s eligible to be chairman, Robert Spindell, put in a pitch for the job. But Mr. Spindell served in 2020 as one of the pretend Trump electors who met to cast fake votes for a losing candidate. Rather than elevate him, the commission kicked the decision to a future meeting. “You can’t have an election unless you have two people available,” a Democratic commissioner said.


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Mr. Knudson’s replacement will be appointed by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Mr. Vos “has not ruled out anyone, including former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman. ” This is a bad idea. Mr. Gableman’s recent claim to fame is accusing the commission of committing criminal fraud in 2020, while calling for the Wisconsin Legislature to decertify President Biden’s victory, which is impossible.

Mr. Trump lost Wisconsin in 2020 by 20,682 votes, and why it happened isn’t all that complicated or mysterious. Forget the chatter about “ballot dumps” in Milwaukee and look at the data in the state’s official returns. “Republicans across Wisconsin did just fine at all other levels in the 2020 election,” Mr. Knudson said. He’s right. Voters elected five Republican congressman. Mr. Trump lagged them all.

In the 8th district, which includes Green Bay, Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher won 268,173 ballots. Mr. Trump earned 241,140.

In the 1st district, including Kenosha and Racine, Republican Rep. Bryan Steil won 238,271 votes. Mr. Trump? Only 220,668.

In the 5th district, anchored by Milwaukee’s suburbs, Republican Rep. Scott Fitzgerald won 265,434, to Mr. Trump’s 255,803.

Across those five districts, Mr. Trump ran behind the GOP congressmen by 63,547 votes, or three times his losing margin statewide. Mr. Biden’s numbers are almost a mirror image. He over-performed the Democratic candidates in those districts by 64,880. The hard truth for Mr. Trump is that thousands of Republicans cast ballots for the GOP House but didn’t want to give him four more years.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-wisconsin-gops-latest-meltdown-dean-knudson-election-commission-donald-trump-11653689063?st=kjx2ifh9x1ke2yk&reflink=share_mobilewebshare

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The former president also called for arming teachers and the end of gun-free school zones.

"Surely, we can all agree our school should not be the softest target. Our schools should be the single hardest target in our country," Trump said.

Robb Elementary School had both doors that lock from the inside and a hired security officer at the time of the shooting.

It was unknown if the school used metal detectors, though Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District had its own police force, fencing around all of its schools, threat assessment teams at every campus and was using threat reporting and social media monitoring software at the time of the attack, NBC News reports.

Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said on Friday that the school's officer was not on the campus when shooting near the school was first reported but immediately proceeded to the scene.

After arriving at the scene, the security officer drove past the shooter and instead confronted a teacher, McCraw said.McCraw said the shooter gained access to the school through a door that had been previously propped open by a teacher.The classrooms in which the shooter entered and shot the students and teachers also had doors that locked from the inside.The Border Patrol tactical agents that breached the door to kill the suspect after he was in the school for around 80 minutes did so after receiving keys from a janitor to unlock one of the doors, McCraw said.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.cisa.gov/rumorcontrol

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.axios.com/2022/05/27/trump-nra-meeting-houston-uvalde-elementary

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

States around the country have made halting but commendable progress in passing sensible gun safety measures — red flag laws, background checks and age of purchase requirements. They face stiff headwinds. A federal court this month struck down a California law that set the age limit for purchasing semiautomatic weapons at 21. But the legislature is now considering other promising bills that would limit the advertising of certain guns to children and allow Californians to sue gun makers. Anything that introduces friction into the system of gun acquisition is to the good.

In New York this week, a federal judge tossed out a challenge from gun groups to a law that allows civil lawsuits against companies that have endangered public safety. And Gov. Kathy Hochul called on the legislature to raise the age limit to purchase some assault weapons to 21. The shooter in Texas waited until his 18th birthday to buy a pair of assault weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.

In Washington, D.C., there is talk that Republican and Democratic lawmakers might make a deal on some type of national red flag law, which would allow the police to take guns away from people judged to be an imminent danger to themselves or others.

Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, has been leading a bipartisan group of senators that is considering establishing a more comprehensive federal background check system, a reform supported by 88 percent of Americans.




Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

We have seen these bipartisan efforts on gun safety measures come and go without results. Still, in the face of Republican intransigence, Democrats — Mr. Biden, in particular — should do whatever they can. Senator Murphy, who has led the charge for tougher gun regulations since Sandy Hook, put it well on the floor of the Senate this past week:

“What are we doing?” he asked his colleagues. “Why do you go through all the hassle of getting this job, of putting yourself in a position of authority” he wondered, if the answer is to do nothing “as the slaughter increases, as our kids run for their lives?”

It’s a question that speaks to the Senate directly and the entire system of American government more broadly. Yes, the country’s democratic system represents the diversity of views in this country on guns. But as currently structured, Congress is fundamentally unresponsive to the needs of its most vulnerable citizens and has been corrupted by powerful interest groups, allowing those groups to block even modest changes that the vast majority of Americans support.

We Americans all share this vast country and need to figure out how to make it better and keep one another alive and thriving. Right now, we’re failing at that primary responsibility. There are glimmers of hope, especially at the state level, that things are changing. But even there, progress is agonizingly slow and won’t be enough for the hundreds of Americans who will be shot today and tomorrow and every day until action is taken.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/28/opinion/school-shooting-texas-buffalo-gun.html

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

At the behest of the NRA, Congress has tied the hands of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) as the federal agency responsible for overseeing gun regulation on the grounds that intervention threatens constitutional rights. The ATF is limited in its ability to monitor gun shops, which is one reason Mexican drug cartels arm themselves with weapons bought in Texas. Congress also barred the ATF or any other federal agency from keeping centralised records of gun ownership or sales.

The firearms industry has also worked to prevent Americans from understanding the true cost of largely unregulated firearms ownership. The manufacturers were so alarmed by a groundbreaking 1993 study showing that the dangers of having a gun in the house far outweighed whatever protection it might offer that the NRA worked on Congress to put a halt to such research.

Three years later, Republicans pushed through a law cutting virtually all federal funding for studies about gun deaths. As pressure grew from the victims of gun crimes to hold the weapons manufacturers to account, the gunmakers and their lobbyists engineered a 2005 law limiting liability claims against gun manufacturers who were facing lawsuits from cities seeking compensation for healthcare and law enforcement costs resulting from gun violence. Mike Fifer, then CEO of Sturm Ruger, one of the country’s leading handgun manufacturers, told the NRA that the law had probably saved the gun industry.


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The Trump side of the Republican party is the most dangerous in modern history.

There are glimmers of hope but right now, even people like you keep going along the dark path.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

America’s great appeal to the world was its promise of possibility. It presented itself as virgin territory, a tabula rasa where a society could form anew, free of the past, and where individuals might do the same, reinventing themselves, renewing themselves, starting over.

It was a myth, of course: it took no account of those people who were already there, and whose lives and lands were taken, or of those who had been brought to America in shackles. But it was a powerful myth all the same, one whose grip on the global imagination lives on: witness the success of the stage show Hamilton in seducing yet another generation into the romance of a new world and its revolutionary creation.

But now we see something else: a country uniquely burdened with the dead weight of its past, and therefore powerless either to deal with a danger in its present or to make a better future. The land of possibility stands paralysed, apparently unable to make even the smallest change that might save the lives of its young.

The evidence came again this week in the Texan town of Uvalde, where an 18-year-old walked into an elementary school and killed 19 children, aged between eight and 10, and two of their teachers. It was the 27th school shooting in the US this year, and it’s not yet June.

There are so many stats like that. In the US, 109 people die of gun violence every day. There have been more mass shootings in the US in 2022 than days of the year. There are more guns in America than there are people. It was Uvalde this week, but last week it was Buffalo, where another 18-year-old walked into a supermarket and killed 10: his animus was directed at black people rather than children, but his method was the same

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...


Trump Is Trapped in the Past
May 29, 2022 at 6:43 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 13 Comments

Dan Balz: “Some Republicans have simply had it with Trump as a result of what happened when his loyalists attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Others probably still admire him but want to move on to more traditional Republican issues. Others may want him to be president again but feel that the political establishment, the media and Democrats won’t let that happen.”

“That’s a rocky foundation upon which to build a presidential candidacy. Trump isn’t going away. But he is in danger of seeing his power and influence eroded as rank-and-file Republicans assess a future both with him and without him as their leader.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

It was the 27th school shooting in the US this year, and it’s not yet June.

Roger Amick said...

The Trump side is going after Mitch McConnell

Bush Republicans and old school ‘conservatives’ became Never Trumpers and opposed Trump on MSNBC with the same petty viciousness as Democrats. McConnell probably doesn't want Trump to win the White House in 2024 any more than a far-left Democrat does.

This is the biggest risk after the midterms in November. The GOP may take back the Senate and the House, but the power will not be used to bring about real change.

Instead, the likes of McConnell will be focused on foreign wars and other gratuitous pursuits that are disconnected from the well-being of the citizen.

McConnell may get back his power owing to MAGA votes, but once he gains power, he could collaborate with the Washington Democrat establishment to wage war against President Trump and his supporters.

Republicans like McConnell are still marginally better than far-left Democrats; McConnell, after all, did enable the vote on conservative judges in the Supreme Court and helped Trump pass the tax cuts that helped the economy.  But McConnell could also commit an act of betrayal when you most need him. We have seen in the past that it often takes one vote to repeal or pass a bill or convict in an impeachment trial.

McConnell is hence an untrustworthy ally which is often worse than a sworn and committed foe.

The adversary is expected to attack you and hurt your interests, and when the adversary causes you to harm, you are prepared for it. But when the putative ally colludes with the adversary to act against you, it causes betrayal in addition to the harm, which is infinitely worse.


Myballs said...

WTF Roger

Get a fuckin life

Caliphate4vr said...

ATF is limited in its ability to monitor gun shops, which is one reason Mexican drug cartels arm themselves with weapons bought in Texas. Congress also barred the ATF or any other federal agency from keeping centralised records of gun ownership or sales.

What a load of shit. The cartels are still armed to the teeth thanks to Fast and Furious

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

In June 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled a unanimous U.S. District Court decision that partisan gerrymandering in North Carolina violated the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Although Chief Justice John Roberts acknowledged that the practice leads to results that “reasonably seem unjust,” he maintained that partisan gerrymandering is a “political question,” beyond the reach of federal courts. Each state, Roberts indicated, should manage its own redistricting process.

Four justices dissented. In an emotional statement, which she read from the bench, Elena Kagan warned, “Left unchecked as the court does today, gerrymanderers like these may irreparably damage our system of government.”

The maps drawn to comply with the population count of the 2020 United States Census demonstrate that partisan gerrymandering — a legal form of vote stealing used by politicians who disregard the political composition of the electorate in their state to ensure they retain power for themselves and their party — is stronger and more resistant to reform than ever.



Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Reformers should also try to pass amendments to state constitutions defining and then banning extreme partisan gerrymandering. Although they do not always prevail, electoral commissions and constitutional amendments force gerrymanders to defend their maps to potentially skeptical judges. And putting these measures on the ballot can help remind Democratic, Republican, and independent voters that democracies cease to be democracies when the outcome of elections is predetermined.


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Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3505157-gerrymandering-a-legal-form-of-vote-stealing-more-entrenched-now-than-ever/

rrb said...

There Have Been 13 Mass School Shootings Since 1966, Not 27 This Year

Don't conflate mass shootings with school shootings.


https://reason.com/2022/05/26/uvalde-texas-mass-shooting-statistics-gun-crimes-misleading/

Idiots and their histrionics are always part of the problem, never part of the solution.


rrb said...



Well this is awkward, eh alky?

OMG-LOL, just delete it! Lefty rag Raw Story quietly issues YUUUGE correction after claiming Trump ‘failed to fill arena’ at WY rally

While Trump was president, we wrote a lot of stories about lefty rags and outlets having to correct their anti-Trump nonsense over and over again. It became sort of a joke around here, how it would be more newsworthy if they actually got one RIGHT about the president they hated so very much.

It was nice to see Raw Story tripping all over itself again, sort of like old times.

Take a gander.


https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/05/29/omg-lol-just-delete-it-lefty-rag-raw-story-quietly-issues-yuuuge-correction-after-claiming-trump-failed-to-fill-arena-at-wy-rally/

Good old 'Raw Sewage.'

Scott.

Scott!

SCOTT!!!

I LOOK AT BOTH SIDES SCOTT!!!



rrb said...


What changed? The mainstreaming of nihilism. Cultural decay. Chemicals. The deliberate destruction of moral backstops in the culture. A lost commonality of shared societal pressures to enforce right and wrong. And above all, simple, pure, evil.

Before you retort that we can’t account for the mentally ill, they existed forever.

Paranoid schizophrenics existed in 1888 and 2018. Mentally ill students weren’t showing up in schools with guns even three decades ago.

So it must be something else.

Those who have been so busy destroying the moral backstops in our culture won’t want to have this conversation. They’ll do what they do — mock the truth.

There was a time in America, before the Snowflakes, when any adult on the block could reprimand a neighborhood kid who was out of line without fear.

Even thirty years ago, the culture still had invisible restraints developed over centuries. Those restraints, those leveling commonalities, were the target of a half-century of attack by the freewheeling counterculture that has now become the dominant replacement culture.

Hollywood made fun of these restraints in films too numerous to list.

The sixties mantra “don’t trust anyone over thirty” has become a billion-dollar industry devoted to the child always being right — a sometimes deeply medicated brat who disrupts the classroom or escapes what used to be resolved with a paddling.

Instead of telling the kid to quit kicking the back of the seat on a plane, we buy seat guards to protect the seat.

If you think it’s bad now, just wait until the generation whose babysitter is an iPhone is in high school. You can hardly walk around Walmart these days without tripping over a toddler in a trance, staring at a screen.

The high school kids who shot rifles in school in 1985 were taught right and wrong. They were taught what to do with their rifle in school, and what not to do. If they got out of line, all the other students and the coach would have come down on them hard. There were no safe spaces, and that was a good thing.


https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2018/02/15/flashback-30-years-guns-schools-nothing-happened-n124076

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I will be watching the Indianapolis 500.

I have seen Indy car racing in the Los Angeles area. Long Beach was great fun.

My Uncle Carroll Amick started Amick Racing in the early 70s and his grandson Lynn Amick is still running and winning.

Dirt tracks 👣

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

One of the real Republicans 💯

Adam Kinzinger exposes NRA 'grifting scam' after gun group capitalizes on Uvalde shooting

David Edwards

May 29, 2022

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) blasted the National Rifle Association (NRA) on Sunday after the group held a conference in the same state where nearly two dozen people were killed in a school shooting in Uvalde just days earlier.

The congressman told ABC host Jonathan Karl that he recognizes the need for gun control as a supporter of the Second Amendment.

"The reaction of my colleagues, of the NRA to say, 'Hey if you want to come and take my guns, I'm going to walk around -- I'm going to go into the Michigan state capital with my AR because I can,'" Kinzinger explained. "By the way, can I make a point that open carry, especially with ARs, is one of the more insane things?"

"These are the kinds of things that are doing Second Amendment supporters no favors," he added. "The NRA basically said Kinzinger is a RINO or whatever their language was and I realized, especially then, the only thing the NRA cares about is raising money on your back. They don't really give a lot of money to people. They can get people upset."

Kinzinger said that the NRA "has become a grifting scam."

"All you have to do is look at the last few years of the grifting scam NRA to know that that's true," he concluded.


Caliphate4vr said...

In the shared social room at Shady Acres?

You might have a mutiny if the other geezers are binging on reruns of In the Heat of the Night

LOL

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Right now some of the very conservative people believe that the United States is a Christian country.

"Conservative democracy regards biblical religion as the only firm foundation for national independence, justice, and public morals in Western nations," Hazony writes. But it does not follow from the belief that biblical religion cultivates moral virtues that government should cultivate biblical religion. Indeed, Hazony fails to acknowledge, much less address, defining elements of America's tradition of religious liberty: for example, Puritan Roger Williams's contention in The Bloody Tenent of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience (1644) that Christianity opposes recognizing government officials as "judges, governors, or defenders of the spiritual, or Christian, state and worship"; the Founders' conclusion, embodied in the Constitution, that government promotion of religious unity hurts religion; and Tocqueville's observation in Democracy in America (1835-1840) that religion in the United States sustains free and democratic institutions precisely because the Constitution declines to give religion a direct role in government.

anonymous said...

https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams


Fuck you and PJ media and the fake analysis neither of you are capable of!!!!!!!!! There is no doubt the all the NRA has done is to provide the officers a lavish and exclusive life style while faking their core mission of safety, which no longer exists!!!! BTW,,,,,edgy music from drunk and drug influenced talentless assholes fits right into your wheel house, shorty......>BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA

Caliphate4vr said...

At least I don’t listen to the Moody Blues while sucking dick like you, fatman

Probably wash the splooge down with a Coors Light

LOL

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Instead, Hazony contends that "[i]n America and other traditionally Christian countries, Christianity should be the basis for public life and strongly reflected in government and other institutions, wherever a majority of the public so desires" even as he allows that "[p]rovision should be made for Jews and other minorities to ensure that their particular traditions and way of life are not encumbered."

In the United States as it is and not as Hazony might like it to be, government's institutionalization and promulgation of Christianity confronts at least three major problems.

First, Hazony does not provide empirical evidence to show that majorities in the United States—or even a majority of those who consider themselves Christians—think the national government should establish Christianity. Ensuring, consistent with the First Amendment's free exercise clause, that the public square remains open for the expression of religious belief, or even permitting some forms of prayer in public school are different matters insofar as they respect choice rather than coerce performance.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

It's not funny.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/redefining-conservatism-to-remake-america/

anonymous said...

I don’t listen to the Moody Blues while sucking dick like you, batman


BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! All you sucked on was your music and a fat doobie, the total sum of your college career!!!!!!!! BTW.....your short stature !!!!! Great day here in north Ga as you hang at your hovel in Atlanta.....Now that to me is most amusing!!!!!

Caliphate4vr said...

Sure you are fatty, sure you are

Hey fatty this is on the market 1 street over, come on down

https://www.trulia.com/p/ga/atlanta/2592-winding-ln-atlanta-ga-30319--1072257134

LOL

C.H. Truth said...

https://freebeacon.com/politics/redefining-conservatism-to-remake-america/


Did you read it?

Did you understand what it was about?

Anonymous said...

Bidenomics

Here come price controls.

Diesel ⛽ prices are starting to "pass thru" to the consumer.

Anonymous said...

Bidenomics
"The Price Gouging Prevention Act 2022"

Yea, that will fix supply problems.

Caliphate4vr said...

West Virginia woman with pistol shoots, kills man firing at graduation party: 'Saved several lives'

The woman then waited for police to arrive, and she and several witnesses have cooperated with the investigation.

"Instead of running from the threat, she engaged with the threat and saved several lives last night," Chief of Detectives Tony Hazelett told news outlets Thursday.

Hazelett said no charges would be filed against the woman.

In an interview with MetroNews' "Talkline" Thursday, Police Chief Tyke Hunt said Butler was a convicted felon who had "been to prison a few times."

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Hunt said Butler illegally possessed the gun he fired, adding the matter was still under investigation.


Fatty don’t PRESUME the AR was legally owned, as you are want to do

Lmao

Caliphate4vr said...

Did you read it?

Did you understand what it was about?


Maybe to the first question but definitely no to the second

anonymous said...


Hey fatty this is on the market 1 street over, come on down

In your delusional world shorty I avoid slums like yours!!!!.....you will never have what I got .......BWAAAAAAAAAAAA Living in a shit hole that you will never escape from!!!!! LOLOLOL

Caliphate4vr said...

No I have more. My house is worth more than both of your trailers

LOL

Caliphate4vr said...

Our new Lexus i worth more than your retirement account. And we paid cash

Caliphate4vr said...

This administration of dumbfucks can’t do ANYTHING



Forest Service says it started all of New Mexico's largest wildfire

Get rid DC and start over

anonymous said...

Yeah shorty.....the controlled burn they started got out of control......why are you such a dumb fuck?????????? Get rid of you and clear the gene pool of stupid hillbilly salesmen!!!!

anonymous said...

Anonymous Caliphate4vr said...
No I have more. My house is worth more than both of your trailers

LOL

May 29, 2022 at 12:52 PM
Anonymous Caliphate4vr said...
Our new Lexus i worth more than your retirement account. And we paid cash


Funny your envy is sooooo great shorty.......My hovels are paid for and you got a fucking stupid car that you lease.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! BTW......My 2 pensions earn more than your piss ass salary peddling used cars....LOLOLOL