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God I fucking hate keeping tabs on things through 4chan!

Scale Smerch said:
Oh boy :story:

Besides Pelosi's husband getting his head bashed in by a half naked, drug-fuelled lunatic (media sure stopped talking about this one quickly once the BLM affiliations came out), we had the Pennsylvania senate debate which effectively torpedoed Fetterman's campaign and both the New York and Michigan gubernatorial races increasingly entering toss-up territory.

It was a hell of a week, so naturally troons had to interfere and stop us talking about it.
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Week was a barrel of fun. You forgot Ye sticking to his guns and the retards proving him right.

I would love some detailed takes on Fetterman shitting himself.
 
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Crescent Fresh said:
Finally, we're fucking back, on Tor so far.

Anything happen while we died?
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Orange County FL had a dem turn on the local party after the fucked her over, and is giving lots of details about how the local ballot harvesting is handled (ballot harvesting is a crime in the state).
iirc the state's shiny new election fraud task force is involved in investigating
 
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This is the sort of thing that sounds true in theory, but in reality most people live paycheck to paycheck. What that means is people who have kids spend money on their kids, then themselves. While people without kids just spend money on themselves. It’s economically better to spend money on investments that have room for growth (little humans) than investments that don’t (your fat ass).
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It's like they never learned about the difference between needs and wants.

Meanwhile, lots of people are leaving Securities and Exchange.


(Reuters) - Senate Republicans want the SEC to explain why staff are leaving the nation's corporate watchdog at the highest rate in 10 years amid a flurry of proposed rules, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Sunday.

The private letter dated Oct. 27 from Senate Republicans to the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Gary Gensler, adds to mounting criticism that the U.S. regulator lacks the internal firepower it needs to accomplish its ambitious rulemaking plans.

Gensler, a veteran Wall Street regulator who was chosen by President Joe Biden, a Democrat, has already clashed with Republicans over the watchdog's proposals on corporate climate-related disclosures.

Gensler has previously contended that his new rules are critical to ensuring the U.S. capital markets remain the global "gold standard."

Republicans have claimed he has overstepped his authority and adopted a hostile stance toward the financial industry.

The SEC has introduced 26 new rule proposals in 2022, more than double the number in 2021 and the highest total of any year in the last five years, the Republican letter says

The letter, signed by six of the 12 Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee, references a public Oct. 13 report posted on the SEC's website from the Office of the Inspector General, the SEC's own internal watchdog, detailing staff attrition and reports of discontent.

Republicans want Gensler to explain how he will address the concerns in the report and also to allow more time for industry feedback on the new rules.

The SEC was not immediately available for comment.

Employees interviewed for the internal watchdog report said they received little feedback on rules they had written, according to the report.

Staff feared an increased risk of litigation because of shortened industry comment periods, the report said.

The SEC is losing employees at its highest pace in 10 years, said the Inspector General's report. The agency expected attrition in senior officer positions to be 20.8% this fiscal year and 8.4% for attorney positions, it said.

The letter concludes that "efforts to ram through hurried rulemaking without proper analysis, deliberation or consideration of downstream negative impacts is nothing short of regulatory malpractice."

Senate Republicans Thom Tillis from North Carolina, Mike Crapo from Idaho, Tim Scott from South Carolina, Michael Rounds from South Dakota, Bill Hagerty from Tennessee and Steve Daines from Montana signed the letter.
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Oxous said:
Uh... there was the Pennsylvania Senate and NY Governor debates, Paul Pelosi, new polls painting a pretty ugly picture for the Democrats, Elon getting into the driver's helm at Twitter, the whole debacle with the Progressive Caucus letter... a lot went down this week, actually.
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Some highlights from the last 8 days




Andrew over at Don't Walk, Run released a video covering Biden's biggest Gaffs (so far).

The dems want to naturalize oil and gas.

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Facebook lost like 20%+ of its value on the stock market this week. Stocks keep going higher and higher. Probably a crash after midterms. Whether its the big one or not is yet to be seen.
 
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Polyboros2 said:
I've said it before, pinning stuff on Trump criminally isn't about preventing his ability to run for President, it's about covering the GOP who are going to try to not let him run on their ticket.

I'm not saying they will, things may be at as position they don't even try, but I'm sure that's a plan the higher ups in the GOP have on the table.

"They would never do that; it'd be political suicide of the party beyond the greatest scope of satire of how far the GOP will go to lose!" The GOP was blatantly complacent in allowing the Democrats to cheat to a degree that isn't even subtle. The Steal was allowed and assisted by Republicans, very publicly in Georgia, and I don't think any of them suffered politically for it. I know I'll get Trash Cans and called a Doomer, but it's not just the Democrats that we need to worry about.
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There are absolutely still elements within in the GOP that want Trump to just disappear. People forget that in 2016 Trump was not welcomed with open arms into the presidential race, almost as soon as they saw he was serious they circled the wagons and tried to attack him whenever they could, but this failed miserably after Trump skull fucked Jeb. Even now you can see how wishy-washy they are about supporting Trump's selected picks for Congressional races across the US, they dread the thought of the party being completely consumed by Trumpism (or whatever the fuck you want to call it).

The Uniparty hasn't been entirely defeated yet, but it needs to be, and I think Trump has made strides toward this, purging RINOs and getting more MAGA-friendly Republicans in place especially once we can see how the midterms shake out in November but if Trump's power play is successful it might be the most successful comeback in the history of the office (assuming he runs and wins in 2024 but he seems poised to run).
 
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XYZpdq Jr. said:
Orange County FL had a dem turn on the local party after the fucked her over, and is giving lots of details about how the local ballot harvesting is handled (ballot harvesting is a crime in the state).
iirc the state's shiny new election fraud task force is involved in investigating
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This I've heard nothing about. Any more deets?
 
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This I've heard nothing about. Any more deets?
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' new election crimes unit has recommended state police open a full criminal investigation into a Democrat whistleblower's detailed complaint of a long-running, widespread ballot harvesting operation in the African-American communities in politically important central Florida.

Former Orange County Commissioner candidate Cynthia Harris filed a sworn affidavit in late August with the Secretary of State's office alleging that illegal operations to collect third-party ballots have been going on for years in the Orlando area where voting activists are paid $10 for each ballot they collect.

She described an intricate system funded by liberal leaning organizations that dispatch ballot brokers into black communities to pressure voters to turn over their ballots. The $10 fee per ballot is divvied up among the parties who help complete the harvesting.

The collection and delivery of ballots by third parties is illegal in Florida.

The newly created Office of Election Crimes and Security did a preliminary inquiry on Harris' allegations and concluded there was sufficient evidence to warrant a full criminal probe by the state police, the Florida State Department told Just the News on Wednesday.

"The Florida Department of State, Office of Election Crimes and Security (OECS) was made aware of this issue around September 1, 2022," the department said. "After further inquiry, OECS received additional information related to the allegation on October 17, 2022, and performed a preliminary investigation.

"Since OECS is an investigative entity and does not [have] authority to make arrests, the office forwarded the complaint to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for possible violation of section 104.0616, Florida Statutes," it added.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement told Just the News on Thursday that it "has received a complaint regarding alleged ballot harvesting in Orange County, which is currently under review to determine if an investigation is warranted."

The development in Florida adds an explosive new allegation to concerns nationwide that ballot trafficking is widespread in some battleground states, a claim made famous by the research of the conservative watchdog group True the Vote and a documentary released earlier this year by filmmaker Dinesh D'Sousa called "2,000 Mules."

Arizona prosecutors have achieved several convictions in that state for ballot harvesting, most recently securing the guilty plea of a former Democrat mayor in Yuma County. True the Vote filed a complaint in Georgia alleging thousands of ballots were harvested in the 2020 election, but those allegations have not yet been corroborated as authorities negotiate with the nonprofit group for its evidence. A Wisconsin investigation unmasked a sophisticated ballot harvesting effort targeting vulnerable nursing home patients in communities like Racine, Wisc.

Harris, who narrowly lost her election for county commissioner in August, described to Just the News her years-long knowledge of ballot harvesting in the black communities in central Florida. She even recorded a ballot broker coming to her home in 2017 to collect her ballot, and obtained the script that harvester was given by her bosses to make the pitch for a voter to turn over their ballot.

"So what happens is in our community when absentee ballots are mailed, you the candidate or any political party can find out when the absentee ballots are mailed and to whom what happens is these ballot harvesters, they know which batch has gone out, they go to the door and they ask you for your absentee ballot," Harris told the "Just the News, No Noise" television show on Wednesday night.

"Well, in communities that don't look like me, no one does this," she said, referring to white neighborhoods. "But in our community it's kind of like an accepted practice that the man is coming by to pick up my absentee ballot or the lady is coming to pick up my absentee ballot."

In her sworn affidavit, Harris identifies specific individuals who direct and act as ballot brokers and were paid to collect ballots and provides intricate details on how the system allegedly works, along with emails, receipts, video footage and other evidence.

"Ballot brokers typically work up to a year in advance," she stated. "Ballot brokers visit individuals in their residences and assists the individual with filling out a request for a mail-in ballot. After the mail-in ballot arrives, the voter is instructed to wait for the ballot broker returns to the individuals residence. They are asked to not seal the certificate envelope."

"In rare circumstances, if the voter has filled out the ballot and sealed the envelope certificate, the ballot broker will take the ballot and then steam open the sealed envelope," the affidavit added. "The ballot broker will either correct any votes, if necessary, that were not voted according to their wishes or just throw them out."

Harris described how, much as in Wisconsin, vulnerable patients in rehabilitation centers and nursing homes in Florida were targeted for ballot trafficking.

"For nursing homes ... ballot brokers get the list of residents by cross referencing the address with the voter registration list," she explained. "The ballot broker figures out the best way to make contact, usually thru friends and family that may or may not know they are even part of a scheme. They help the resident fill out the mail-in-ballot or just take the mail-in-ballot from the nursing home and deliver it to the ballot broker."

Harris, who has worked as an election poll worker in the past, said her biggest concern in coming forward is that ballots collected by third parties have no chain of custody, making it easier to commit fraud such as destroying a ballot or altering it.

"You know, it's just utterly ridiculous that people don't understand that once that ballot leaves your hand and it's not placed in the mailbox, or it's not directly given to the supervisor of elections, you don't know where it goes," she said. "It's possible that they throw them away. We've seen evidence of that.

"You see them steam open the ballots and then they mismark them so that if it's not for their candidate, then that ballot is spoiled. So when people think that the numbers are low, it's really not low, it's just that someone has intercepted before it gets to the proper authorities."

Harris alleged that the Orange County supervisor of elections, who has held the office for 26 years, has turned a blind eye to ballot harvesting in her community.

"[T]his has been going on for so long, you have to look at the supervisor of elections himself. He's been there since 1996. That's 26 years that this has been a blind eye turned on our community, the people that we entrust in the fair elections and the democratic process.

"It has been flawed for a long time because this only happens in our community. It happens all over the nation, but we are the ones that suffer from it because we're the most disenfranchised, we don't have the resources to fight back, and we don't know how to fight back by telling our story."

The office of Orange County Supervisor of Elections Bill Cowles said in a response to a request for comment regarding Harris' claim that he "is not aware of any issues regarding ballot harvesting," so he is "unable to comment on that at this time."

The office added that "if there are any issues" that Harris is "concerned about, we would recommend her filing a complaint with the state for investigation."

After voting ended in the August primary, Harris was in second place with a total of 3,158 votes on election night, which was supposed to trigger a runoff election because the candidate with the most votes didn't receive 51% of the votes.

There was supposed to be a recount, according to Harris, but somehow she "kept losing votes instead of gaining votes," she said. "So when they certified the votes, I was a total of 14 votes missing.

"I know how to do basic math, I don't understand how you could go down in numbers versus going up. But the story that they told me was that the machine was fed extra ballots, and that's why I was six votes ahead of the person that came in third place. Well, if I'm six votes ahead of the person that came in third place at the end of the night, how do you lose 14 votes within a couple of days?"

Florida has had other issues with regard to ballot harvesting over the years.

In 2005, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer was indicted on a felony charge of paying a campaign worker to collect absentee ballots before his 2004 election, along with three others on similar charges. The charges were dropped by the prosecutor, who said that none of the persons indicted had intended to break the law.

In 2013, a ballot harvester in Hialeah received one-year probation as part of a plea deal after police said she collected at least 31 absentee ballots for the 2012 August primary election. While a felony charge was dropped, the woman pled guilty to two misdemeanor counts of illegally possessing more than two ballots from other voters.
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She's done a few interviews too
 
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Exterminatus said:
There are absolutely still elements within in the GOP that want Trump to just disappear. People forget that in 2016 Trump was not welcomed with open arms into the presidential race, almost as soon as they saw he was serious they circled the wagons and tried to attack him whenever they could, but this failed miserably after Trump skull fucked Jeb. Even now you can see how wishy-washy they are about supporting Trump's selected picks for Congressional races across the US, they dread the thought of the party being completely consumed by Trumpism (or whatever the fuck you want to call it).

The Uniparty hasn't been entirely defeated yet, but it needs to be, and I think Trump has made strides toward this, purging RINOs and getting more MAGA-friendly Republicans in place especially once we can see how the midterms shake out in November but if Trump's power play is successful it might be the most successful comeback in the history of the office (assuming he runs and wins in 2024 but he seems poised to run).
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To build on this, CNN has spent the day trying to further gaslight into existence conflict between Trump and DeSantis because they know deep down there's nothing of the sort (media 'sources' is now a confirmed euphemism for drug-fuelled desperation). It's increasingly obvious most people are aware what Trump will announce early next year, but you have to give them credit for (increasingly desperately) trying to stop the inevitable.

Hubris thy name is Never Trumper.
 
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Yes my Friends, we are indeed back!

The Senate races are actually looking as good as feasibly possible.
  • Masters looks like he is going to edge it out despite having zero support from the Establishment.
  • Walker is likely going to make it despite the Roy Moore style hackjob lies perpetrated against him.
  • Oz, though I am not excited for him, looks like he is going to win after that shitshow of a debate.
  • Hell, there's a better than half a chance Laxalt lands his spot.
As for the Governor races.
  • Kari Lake looks like she is going to blow Hobbs a new asshole, again despite having no establishment support.
  • Lombardo has a decent chance of pulling through.
  • That blasted Rat Kemp is going to win, but who knows if that will be helpful.
  • The most unfortunate race is Doug Mastriano, who looks like he is going to be behind. Establishment GOP has been actively campaigning against the poor motherfucker, and that matters in Pennsylvania.
The Establishment Republican will have thrown Pennsylvania to the Democrats for the next decade because these Midwives of the Mono-Party Regime hate Mastriano with roughly the same fervor they hate Trump.

Is there a chance Mastriano wins? Yeah, the "Shy Trump Voter" effect is stronger with Mastriano than just about any other candidate I have seen. I just don't know it will be enough.
 
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Scale Smerch said:
Oh boy :story:

Besides Pelosi's husband getting his head bashed in by a half naked, drug-fuelled lunatic (media sure stopped talking about this one quickly once the BLM affiliations came out), we had the Pennsylvania senate debate which effectively torpedoed Fetterman's campaign and both the New York and Michigan gubernatorial races increasingly entering toss-up territory.

It was a hell of a week, so naturally troons had to interfere and stop us talking about it.
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I support FRACKING and I support FRACKING
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Yes my Friends, we are indeed back!

The Senate races are actually looking as good as feasibly possible.
  • Masters looks like he is going to edge it out despite having zero support from the Establishment.
  • Walker is likely going to make it despite the Roy Moore style hackjob lies perpetrated against him.
  • Oz, though I am not excited for him, looks like he is going to win after that shitshow of a debate.
  • Hell, there's a better than half a chance Laxalt lands his spot.
As for the Governor races.
  • Kari Lake looks like she is going to blow Hobbs a new asshole, again despite having no establishment support.
  • Lombardo has a decent chance of pulling through.
  • That blasted Rat Kemp is going to win, but who knows if that will be helpful.
  • The most unfortunate race is Doug Mastriano, who looks like he is going to be behind. Establishment GOP has been actively campaigning against the poor motherfucker, and that matters in Pennsylvania.
The Establishment Republican will have thrown Pennsylvania to the Democrats for the next decade because these Midwives of the Mono-Party Regime hate Mastriano with roughly the same fervor they hate Trump.

Is there a chance Mastriano wins? Yeah, the "Shy Trump Voter" effect is stronger with Mastriano than just about any other candidate I have seen. I just don't know it will be enough.
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Drazan has a chance in Oregon. I'm hopeful, but not too hopeful.
 
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BONE_Buddy said:
Yes my Friends, we are indeed back!

The Senate races are actually looking as good as feasibly possible.
  • Masters looks like he is going to edge it out despite having zero support from the Establishment.
  • Walker is likely going to make it despite the Roy Moore style hackjob lies perpetrated against him.
  • Oz, though I am not excited for him, looks like he is going to win after that shitshow of a debate.
  • Hell, there's a better than half a chance Laxalt lands his spot.
As for the Governor races.
  • Kari Lake looks like she is going to blow Hobbs a new asshole, again despite having no establishment support.
  • Lombardo has a decent chance of pulling through.
  • That blasted Rat Kemp is going to win, but who knows if that will be helpful.
  • The most unfortunate race is Doug Mastriano, who looks like he is going to be behind. Establishment GOP has been actively campaigning against the poor motherfucker, and that matters in Pennsylvania.
The Establishment Republican will have thrown Pennsylvania to the Democrats for the next decade because these Midwives of the Mono-Party Regime hate Mastriano with roughly the same fervor they hate Trump.

Is there a chance Mastriano wins? Yeah, the "Shy Trump Voter" effect is stronger with Mastriano than just about any other candidate I have seen. I just don't know it will be enough.
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Roy Moore was always an awful choice. Stop trying to meme Bannon's worst electoral mistake into anything else.

Sure, Brooks turned out to be a dipshit too, but he was in their corner for the outset and had little real baggage.
 
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Besides Pelosi's husband getting his head bashed in by a half naked, drug-fuelled lunatic (media sure stopped talking about this one quickly once the BLM affiliations came out)
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That shit is weird. I've seen allegations he was a gay manwhore Paul Pelosi was banging on the side.
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That would be quite the scandal for Nancy Pelosi if that proved to be the case, wouldn't it?

EDIT: Here's David's house, in case you were wondering what SanFran MAGA Country looked like:
https://twitter.com/jvanderbeken/status/1586111590188732416
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Takayuki Yagami said:
Roy Moore was always an awful choice. Stop trying to meme Bannon's worst electoral mistake into anything else.

Sure, Brooks turned out to be a dipshit too, but he was in their corner for the outset and had little real baggage.
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Stop trying to put words into my mouth motherfucker. Did I say Roy Moore was a good candidate? No. I didn't.

That doesn't stop the fact that he lost because of slanderous libel. Libel so wrong and cynically pushed that it was found to be so even in the eyes of the American Court System.

I was merely trying to say that it is a good thing that the Walker campaign appears to have weathered the nastiest of the attacks this cycle. It feels like the Republican base is finally learning not to take moderately well crafted Democrat accusations at face value.
 
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