Post #437,503
12/7/20 10:50:22 AM
12/7/20 10:50:22 AM
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God damn it, this might be real
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Post #437,505
12/7/20 12:26:14 PM
12/7/20 12:26:14 PM
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Did you see the affidavit from the investigator?
What he describes sounds plausible, but also demonstrates how easy it is to take 30 seconds of footage out of context and make it look suspicious.
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Post #437,518
12/7/20 5:08:24 PM
12/7/20 5:08:24 PM
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Must have missed it, is it in that post?
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Post #437,543
12/8/20 2:10:44 AM
12/8/20 2:16:40 AM
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Yes, it was in your link
Edited by drook
Dec. 8, 2020, 02:16:40 AM EST
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Post #437,550
12/8/20 9:18:11 AM
12/8/20 9:18:11 AM
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Okay got it
It'll never be trusted. It doesn't matter if it was all okay. They didn't have the monitors in the room.
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Post #437,552
12/8/20 9:23:34 AM
12/8/20 9:23:34 AM
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True, but it was never going to be trusted anyway
It's like people said during Obama's second term, and I agreed: Republicans are going to oppose everything, so stop catering to them and do what you want.
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Post #437,509
12/7/20 3:28:34 PM
12/7/20 3:28:34 PM
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Um, no.
Georgia has re-certified the presidential election results after the latest recount requested by Donald Trump’s campaign affirmed Joe Biden’s win in the state.
It was signaled earlier today that the state would once again certify the results and now it’s just happened, the Associated Press and Reuters report.
What is normally a routine, uncontroversial bureaucratic step – but has become in this election a high-drama, fraught act of preserving American democracy – was performed by Georgia’s Republican secretary of state Brad Raffensperger moments ago.
The recertification followed a hand recount that was triggered by an audit and a formal recount that was requested by Trump’s re-election campaign, both of which upheld Biden’s victory in the state, a press release from Raffensperger’s office stated. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/dec/07/coronavirus-covid-19-joe-biden-donald-trump-us-election-live-updatesbcnu,
Mikem
It's mourning in America again.
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Post #437,513
12/7/20 4:34:01 PM
12/7/20 4:34:01 PM
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The poison that Trump has introduced
…since 2015, to be sure, but especially since the election? It’s as though he’s ass-fucked the Republic while HIV-positive, and between thee and me, the country’s political immune systeme was already compromised. We are never coming back from this. The GOP will never again submit tamely to a presidential loss, and this will not end, or even begin, well.
cordially,
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Post #437,515
12/7/20 4:45:10 PM
12/7/20 4:45:10 PM
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That is a worry.
But I'm more concerned about the 74 million. How do we survive them? bcnu,
Mikem
It's mourning in America again.
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Post #437,524
12/7/20 6:38:28 PM
12/7/20 6:38:28 PM
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Is that a trick question?
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Post #437,529
12/7/20 7:15:39 PM
12/7/20 7:15:39 PM
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(Goes without sayin') but: shall either of us see the {Arecibo ..in slo-mo?}
(Indeed, we solipsists tend towards, not wanting to miss out on Endings).
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Post #437,522
12/7/20 5:30:36 PM
12/7/20 5:30:36 PM
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More like rabies than HIV
Drives the individual mad and violent, and is ultimately fatal.
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Post #437,528
12/7/20 7:10:16 PM
12/7/20 7:10:16 PM
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Perspicuous ✓
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Post #437,514
12/7/20 4:41:46 PM
12/7/20 4:41:46 PM
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And ...
bcnu,
Mikem
It's mourning in America again.
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Post #437,527
12/7/20 6:56:53 PM
12/7/20 6:56:53 PM
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The entire Year* repeatedly prompts a recollection ..from a P.K. Dick short story.
* OK maybe since McCarthy, HUAC Ronnie--to be truthful.
An hour before his morning program on channel six, ranking news clown Jim Briskin sat in his private office with his production staff, conferring on the report of an unknown possibly hostile flotilla detected at eight hundred astronomical units from the sun. It was big news, of course. But how should it be presented to his several-billion viewers scattered over three planets and seven moons?
Peggy Jones, his secretary, lit a cigarette and said. "Don't alarm them, Jim-Jam. Do it folksy-style...
"Folksy-style," Jim Briskin said glumly. "I grin and say, Hey look comrades - it's happened at last, the thing we all feared, ha ha..."
"Is there any lighter piece of news?" Peggy asked. "By which you could open your program? The sponsor would like that... See what you can do. Mutant cow obtains voting franchise in court case in Alabama... you know."
[From Stand-By, by Philip K. Dick].
Published by Not known in 1963
"Just in case you thought that the trend toward news as entertainment was a recent idea".
Source, cross-refs of such scifi X-refs: Technovelgy
(PKD actually lived in Santa Rosa area; I met one of his Ex- SOs a ways back, a friend-of-friend. Some enthrallingStories from that. He Knew in '63 all the BS as has dribbled-into the daylight). Imagining PKD as present, hale, hardy and possessed of Ǣ-class Imagination, being enroute to the WH? is....too painful to imagineer any further. Did you know that the jelloware has Two hippocampii? One of mine continues to flag, Adressad Unbekannt, so have to Web that which I Know, but not so much, as the amygdala adds noise. Oh. Well.
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Post #437,533
12/7/20 8:18:03 PM
12/7/20 8:18:03 PM
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Wait! That thing with the cow was fake news?!
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Post #437,535
12/7/20 9:36:22 PM
12/7/20 9:36:22 PM
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For half-a-sec I thought, Jeez! a post-mortem PKD reading ..today, er, 'granularly'.
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Post #437,523
12/7/20 6:22:47 PM
12/7/20 6:22:47 PM
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While you were distracted...
https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-55220570Trump's sturmabteilung now directly going after elected officials and their family Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson says armed demonstrators gathered outside her home to protest against alleged election fraud.
She said "dozens" of people arrived at her home on Saturday evening as she was putting up Christmas decorations with her son.
Protesters shouted "stop the steal!", echoing claims of voter fraud made by President Donald Trump. Police responded to a public disturbance call around 21:50 EST Even on the peninsula, that is well after total darkness this time of year.
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