…ok, folks…I know it’s not altogether convincing when I say I try to cut down on the amount of mouthing off I do to accompany these…the idea of an open thread isn’t an obvious place to park a soapbox when you think about it…although, having said that…if anyone happens to fancy parking a soapbox hereabouts to fill a open thread shaped hole in our vaguely scheduled programming feel free to say so?
…because otherwise…well, it looks a little like this
Covid-19 Risk Doesn’t Depend (Much) on Blood Type, New Studies Find
51 Days on a Ventilator: How ‘Miracle Larry’ Survived
…either way, being as yesterday was a slew of links somewhat in excess of what might be considered reasonable & hopefully I haven’t had time to accrue a similarly out of control crop in the scant hours since…although…you know…2020
Federal authorities said they would bring order to Portland, Ore., after weeks of protests there. Local leaders believe the federal presence is making things worse.
Several people involved in the events that took down Twitter this week spoke with The Times, giving the first account of what happened as a pursuit of Bitcoin spun out of control.
How to Report on Internet Culture and the Teens Who Rule It
Millions of unemployed Americans face imminent catastrophe.
Suspect Is Arrested in Grisly Killing of Tech C.E.O. Fahim Saleh
…but here’s the bit where the tinfoil hits the hat…individually it’s easy to sort of shrug off the various avenues by which the postal service has been getting kicked in the teeth…but there are a lot…leading from the top
…be it sketchy shit pertaining to electronic voting machines & the ballots that they tally
.@DonSiegelman, Alabama’s last Democratic Governor, explains how 6k votes disappeared from his vote total in the dead of night in his race for re-election. Karl Rove’s client, Alabama’s AG, seized the paper ballots b4 Siegelman cld recount them & illegally certified the result.1/ pic.twitter.com/16ULwcyYBP
…if they can hold up the mail by creating some timewasting internal logistical snafu (I did mention the tinfoil up front) then the number of ballots they could throw out…& the manner by which they could define that in a targeted manner based on districts & demographics…is not insignificant at a statistical (& thereby potentially electoral) level
…so all this determined effort to ham-fistedly foreshadow an accusation that China has an interest in fraudulently interceding in November’s election in order to favor Biden’s cause
Especially gutted over John Lewis. Just happened to meet him and march near him at the Women’s March. He was treated like the saint that he was.
“I want to see young people in America feel the spirit of the 1960s and find a way to get in the way. To find a way to get in trouble. Good trouble, necessary trouble.” — John Lewis https://t.co/L7N3gb1sr8
— David Hogg (text vote to 954-954) (@davidhogg111) July 18, 2020
“…if they can hold up the mail by creating some timewasting internal logistical snafu (I did mention the tinfoil up front) then the number of ballots they could throw out…& the manner by which they could define that in a targeted manner based on districts & demographics…is not insignificant at a statistical (& thereby potentially electoral) level”
Likewise, if TrumpCo’s Goon Squads are patrolling the streets in D-leaning cities on election day, and remanding thousands of potential D-side voters on Election Day, as “Republican Poll Watchers” cast aspersions on BIPOC voters, *and* we potentially have roving crews of CosPlay-Militia folks conducting “Citizens’ Arrests”…
We would have the “By Hook” part of TrumpCo’s attempts to win “By Hook, or By Crook.”
With the Crook, of course, be the defunding of USPS, purging of the Voter Rolls, Voter ID laws & their inherent disenfranchisement, the *security* of voting systems, and any other assorted tampering of/hacking of voting machines.
If TrumpCo gets away with these 4th-Amendment violations, and are able to expand them to cities (LIKE MINE!) outside Portland…
We may WELL & Truly be fucked, as a Democracy.
And I’m honestly EXTREMELY worried about this, y’all.
It scares the shit out of me, that ^^^THAT (election day) may be what all of this is REALLY about…
Trump’s people KNOW that they can’t *win* on just his base, they only won LAST time,because of apathy & enough folks thinking Hil was a shoo-in, that they stayed home (PLUS the disenfranchised in heavily-Blue parts of states like WI!)…
If they can SCARE enough folks in Blue States/Cities into staying home, and rally enough racial hatred to turn the Red areas out HUGE (plus profit off of Russian, Saudi, and assorted *other*) interference online & via things like power/internet/information outages…
They COULD keep their hands on power…
And it would mean the final fall of a once-powerful nation, into a full-on Kakistocracy/Banana-Oligarchic-Republic.
going postal?
best movie evar made!
right…ill go actually read your post now….soon as ive finished singing the song
And, because 2020 continues to be the worse:
“Two towering figures of the American civil rights movement died Friday, a major loss for a nation still grappling with protests and demands for racial equality decades later.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/18/us/john-lewis-ct-vivian-dead/index.html
Especially gutted over John Lewis. Just happened to meet him and march near him at the Women’s March. He was treated like the saint that he was.
“…if they can hold up the mail by creating some timewasting internal logistical snafu (I did mention the tinfoil up front) then the number of ballots they could throw out…& the manner by which they could define that in a targeted manner based on districts & demographics…is not insignificant at a statistical (& thereby potentially electoral) level”
Likewise, if TrumpCo’s Goon Squads are patrolling the streets in D-leaning cities on election day, and remanding thousands of potential D-side voters on Election Day, as “Republican Poll Watchers” cast aspersions on BIPOC voters, *and* we potentially have roving crews of CosPlay-Militia folks conducting “Citizens’ Arrests”…
We would have the “By Hook” part of TrumpCo’s attempts to win “By Hook, or By Crook.”
With the Crook, of course, be the defunding of USPS, purging of the Voter Rolls, Voter ID laws & their inherent disenfranchisement, the *security* of voting systems, and any other assorted tampering of/hacking of voting machines.
If TrumpCo gets away with these 4th-Amendment violations, and are able to expand them to cities (LIKE MINE!) outside Portland…
We may WELL & Truly be fucked, as a Democracy.
And I’m honestly EXTREMELY worried about this, y’all.
…that stuff about the unmarked vans full of “officers” pulling people off the streets of portland is disturbing to say the least
…but the voter stuff is more than worrying me, if I’m honest
It scares the shit out of me, that ^^^THAT (election day) may be what all of this is REALLY about…
Trump’s people KNOW that they can’t *win* on just his base, they only won LAST time,because of apathy & enough folks thinking Hil was a shoo-in, that they stayed home (PLUS the disenfranchised in heavily-Blue parts of states like WI!)…
If they can SCARE enough folks in Blue States/Cities into staying home, and rally enough racial hatred to turn the Red areas out HUGE (plus profit off of Russian, Saudi, and assorted *other*) interference online & via things like power/internet/information outages…
They COULD keep their hands on power…
And it would mean the final fall of a once-powerful nation, into a full-on Kakistocracy/Banana-Oligarchic-Republic.