@adamamin said in unregistered torrent and ratios:
@serenity no, because you're not uploading anything to anyone since the torrent doesn't technically exist.
Essentially true..
Technically, while you may actually be uploading or downloading data (because those are site-to-site connections - without involving the tracker or the site), when that UL or DL data gets reported to the tracker, there is no torrent to assign it to, so it doesn't count - in either direction.
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@lololulu19 said in What is MORAL?:
Actually, the word "Morality" comes from the word "mores". Mores are mereley behaviors practiced by the majority of society - which is hardly a credbile way to govern one's life. For instance, at various places and times, the majority of populations accepted slavery, bigotry, cannibalism, infanticide, incest, Barbra Streisand, etc.
Indeed - morals are "societally agreed upon acceptable behaviors"... In Greek times, older men had younger boys who "helped" them sexually - though neither orally or anally - the older man would "fuck" the boy between his legs, never penetrating any part of his body (which would have been "unclean"). In Roman times, older men had a collection of younger men and women he could do with as he pleased... even killing them... without legal penalty (the crime of murder only applied to Roman Citizens, not mere slaves!).
The issue with "morals" is not one of society - society's rules change - sometimes quickly (when I started out my professional life, I could have lost my security clearance by simply admitting that I had ever had sexual relations with another male! Now, 35 years later, my employer is not allowed to discriminate against me over the issue - I'm a "protected class" because I suck dick!).
The issue with morals is that some people refuse to follow the "morals" of their times. Even when they know something is wrong, they do it anyway. Children who steal candy - knowing it is wrong - are acting "amorally" (or immorally, if you must)... which takes you to the "strength" of the rules that make up morals:
There often are not easy answers there.
A human with a functional brain should realize what is right and what is wrong.
As you just said in your first paragraph: the ideas about what is right vs. wrong are societally put there! While it is fictional, read "The Lord of the Flies" sometime!
For instance, I am not proud of the fact that I eat meat, but I realize that as a human, I must eat meat as sure as I must breathe. We can eat LESS meat, and as fully grown adults are not as dependent upon it, but we need to consume other animal products to develop.
So, depending upon who you ask, eating meat is just part of nature - we (humans) are omnivores - we can subsist on any combination of plants and animals, though we are "healthiest" when we consume a mixture of both.
I know plenty of "vegans" who would argue that eating animal protein at all is "immoral" - and I would disagree with them. A classic case of how individuals can have "morals" that do not agree!
Now, getting to sexuality.
What is sexuality? Frankly, it is overwhelmingly a behavior which elicits pleasure - and even then overwhelmingly in the form of masturbation.
When it comes to genders.. what is worse?
- two males stimulating each other - essentially as a form of masturbation - to achieve a sense of pleasure and satisfaction?
OR- a male and female stimulating each other - with the risk of producing an unplanned, unwanted offspring - 24% of which are intentionally aborted in the USA, and quite a few more lost in miscarriages - and quite a few more who are born and neglected, unloved, and unsupported?
I'm with you there! Too many unwanted pregnancies! But I think you'll have a rough time convincing straight men they should be fucking each other solely for the purpose of avoiding unwanted pregnancies!
But let's get something straight here (no pun intended): the desire to have sex (more specifically, to orgasm) is PRIMAL - which is why, when there is no one to have sex with, we do it ourselves! The urge to "get off" is a basic biological one - tied DIRECTLY to the biological drive to procreate!
Still, what "turns you on" is entirely mental - but not on a conscious level (at least, not that we've been able to discern yet!) In general (and I teach my kids this) your body will tell you what you're attracted to: your dick gets hard, your pussy gets moist! You - as an adult human - have to figure out what to do from there!
But keep in mind: your being attracted to someone is only 1/2 the equation! You only have a right (these are morals here!) to ACT on those attractions when the attraction is mutual - and even then, as humans, we also have the right to act counter to our attractions - so there must also be consent!
Also consider that in biblical times, birth control was virtually unavailable other than to take poison risking the death of the woman.
If someone asked JC "I have decided I am going to seek sexual stimulation instead of living my entire life as a virgin. What should I do, have sex with a man which will not result in a child OR have sex with a woman - doing everything possible to avoid a pregnancy - and hoping it does not happen - and if it does, killing or neglecting the baby?
You are trying to impose the morals of THIS society onto a historical figure 2000 years in the past. This isn't then, and then isn't now.
In the times of JC, the bible told you that you must "be fruitful and multiply" - there was no such thing as an "unwanted" child! Children were the PURPOSE!
Biologically speaking, that is exactly right! As with all other animal and plant life - our primary purpose is to procreate the species!
That said, as we've already pointed out - societally, we've come a long way baby! With nearly 8-Billion people on the planet, we can focus on things OTHER than making more people! And that brings into play the whole morality issue again: some religions (societies) continue to believe that it is the moral obligation of every woman to find a husband and to have (and raise) children. Other religions (societies) have other, differing views: that women can have other roles to play, and that we don't really need that many MORE people! (And there are an INFINITE number of other "moral" viewpoints out there - and that's the crux of the matter again: your "morals" may not be the same as my "morals" - they are not universal!
I realize that at certain times with young people in their 20's and 30's, they actually want to have children, and that is wonderful. However, realistically, that motivation for having sex is EXTREMELY RARE.
I suspect you just don't see them... check out your local listings for fertility clinics and OB-GYNs! There are LOTS of people TRYING (in some cases, DESPERATELY TRYING) to have children!
Even then, when this rare motivation for sex IS practiced, that makes women virtual breeding receptacles who spend their entire lives popping out more children and nursing them like cows - without having any other purpose in life other than propagation. Somehow, I don't think women would like to live their lives that way.
Biologically speaking, that is the female role: provide the vessel into which new lives grow, and feed the infants until they can subsist on other foods.
SOCIETALLY, (which, we you've pointed out - that means morally) we have agreed that we're above all that now... but you can't ignore biology either!
Interesting points!
@raphjd said in Pfizer Confirms COVID-Vaccinated People Can ‘Shed’ Spike Proteins And Harm The Unvaccinated:
What a piece of shit "reporting"... this is a right-wing Australian publication who is twisting a report of "all claims" as somehow a "confirmation" from Pfizer...
Once again, just a little "critical thinking" debunks some of these baseless claims:
Vaccines are not DRUGS - they are "cheat sheets" for your immune system. YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM HAS TO DO THE WORK - which is why the vaccines don't work well (in some cases, at all) for immuno-compromised people.
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@raphjd said in Teen shreds school board over mask mandates:
You can't read.
I was saying that the school board trusts the science when it goes their way and doesn't trust the science when it goes against them.
And I agreed with that - completely.
"No Shirt,....." rules are by business choice or by health code for food safety.
"No Shirt...." rules are for public health... the same as mask rules during a pandemic where the pathogen is aerosol spread
@raphjd said in Sheriff Presents Evidence of Felony Fraud in Election Commission's Actions: Wisconsin:
Another lie Feng Feng loves to tell is that I'm only against voter fraud because Trump lost.
My posting history on the topic, on this very site, proves he's full of shit.
Also, he claims to be a Republican. His 10 favorite "Republicans" are against the extremely vast majority of the party. There are 252 Republicans total in Congress (both Houses) and he only like 10 of them and he usually sides with Democrats on every issue I bring up. His 10 BFFs are Pelosi whores.
He claims that the vast majority of Repubs in Arizona are liars, but the proven liars in Maricopa are telling the truth. If Maricopa County is telling the truth, then why did they violate numerous court orders and state Senate subpoenas?
His version of libertarianism is exactly what we see in every dystopian movie, novel, video game, etc. People have no rights, while businesses have all the rights. He supports the Build Back Better mantra of "you will own nothing and you will be happy" because the businesses will own everything and people will have nothing. I guess we should not be surprised, he is after all a well know agent of the CCP/DNC.
He also voted for Chop SueyJoe and Dirty Kamala, but claims that's because he's a good Republican.
Old news intended to goad me into another flame war...
pass...
@raphjd said in Teen shreds school board over mask mandates:
Science doesn't matter to the Covid cultists.
Science mandated 1 mask, then 50, then 23, then 68, then 2 and now none.
The cultists love all but one of those mask mandates.
They scream that the "science" can go fuck itself when it says no masks are needed.
It's not about the science and never has been.
You once asked me if I knew more than actual scientists because I was able to read the official definition on the NIH website and compare that to the funding grant for Eco Health's Wuhan GOFR (turns out, I was right all along, thanks to NIH finally coming clean), but now you are saying school board twats know more than the county health board.
You are demonstrating, yet again, that you cannot read worth a shit!
My post said it was a local decision - and that the local SCIENTISTS said that, locally, they had reached the levels of COVID-19 sufficient to remove the mask mandate... and so it should be!
You don't "trust the science" and then "don't trust the science" just because it means you have to change!
It changed when we learned that COVID-19 wasn't spread by contact, but rather by aerosol (which is where the masks came in), and it's going to change as we begin to see it "burn out".
But the decisions still need to be made locally! If my county has a really low COVID-19 rate, but Miami-Dade still has a really high one, then we should be able to reduce our COVID-19 response level, while Miami-Dade should have to keep theirs at a higher level! (And if the data says the opposite, then so be it!)
COVID responses can be coordinated, and data corroborated - and analysed - nationally, but the responses need to be managed locally - and that was a HUGE Trump mistake (locking down the whole country, even though large areas had virtually NO COVID in them at the time!)...
We're still learning here... but, as I said in my post above... there is a little light at the end of the tunnel... we've a long way to go yet, but let's celebrate the wins we can get - including the areas where COVID is under control - and work that much harder on the places where COVID is still being a bitch!
But people -in general- do not like change - any change! So just as we're settling into "wear masks", people are going to bitch that the direction now is "not so much"... the same as the Trumpites who screamed bloody murder when the mask mandates came out!
I'm still clueless about one thing: just how was "wearing a mask" supposed to be controlling you? In any way beyond the "no shirt, no shoes, no service" rules?
@raphjd said in Youngkin (R) wins:
Youngkin (R) has won the Virginia Governorship
Thankfully, the DEMs attempts to plaster Trump all over Youngkin failed. If anything, it turned out MORE Republican voters!
NJ is a close race - too close to call as I write this... which is A-W-E-S-O-M-E, as NJ is usually a reliably BLUE State!
Another Republican candidate who didn't shove Trump away, but also didn't embrace him either!
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@blackheart88 said in Sheriff Presents Evidence of Felony Fraud in Election Commission's Actions: Wisconsin:
ok first, i said potential for errors and irregularities in my granny case. I never said she could turn in both ballots under her name. The other two ballots under previous occupants, weren't they uniquely coded like you said? couldn't they be filled out and turned in?
If the entries on the Voter Rolls were still present AND the person filling out the ballot could successfully pass the ID tests (signature or notarized witness or copy of photo ID - different jurisdictions use different methods to ensure the person who returned the ballot is legit the same person on the Voter Roll.
People who insist there was "so much fraud" in the mail-in-ballot process seem to literally think that the people who make running free and fair elections their professions are stupid, new-at-this, and/or part-time... none of which is true!
There are LAYERS of protections - and yet, there CAN be some "bad ones" that get through... but that is the case in the in-person balloting as well (witness the old man who attempted to vote while impersonating his son! If the poll worker hadn't personally recognized the man, he'd have gotten away with it!)
2nd. I didn't say any specific citizen should be deprived of their right to vote. just pointed out the reason video claimed voter fraud because a severe cognitive impaired elder couldn't remember anything beyond JFK, cast her ballot one month before she passed away. Check Doe vs Row, 2001.
There are all kinds of scenarios that make end-of-life balloting tricky: what about the man who keels over of a heart attack while literally walking out the door of his precinct's polling place? What about the LOL (Little Old Lady) who dies the morning of Election Day, but mailed her ballot in a week earlier?
There are published rules in each jurisdiction about those cases - and they're all different. But the fact is, voting is SELDOM about 1 - or even 1000 votes. While it DOES happen that some are decided by a tiny fraction of votes, by far most elections are decided by full percentage-points, representing 1000's of votes...
3rd I didn't say mail in ballot a new thing. I'm aware of its existence in several states. I'm sure those states have done it for a long time, fine tuning to the point of "a stable of our election for over 30 years". But there were other states in which mass mail in was a first time thing. how do you know "they had plenty of practice" in those states? they properly cleaned up their voter roll/registration databases? Also I don't question their capability but their interests.
Mail-in-balloting isn't new (wasn't new) in ANY State (and it's wrong of you to believe that there are only 50+ State Elections Systems - when, indeed, there are over 1000 separate "elections systems" in the US - all very local. For example, here in Florida, each county administers its own elections, under the supervision of a state official. Next door, in GA, they again have a county-level "Supervisor of Elections", but instead of reporting to a single person, the "state supervision" is separated out to different officials.
Interesting read here about the strength and weakness inherent in the "distributed" nature of US Elections.
The change in 2020 was not an INTRODUCTION of mail-in-balloting in ANY jurisdiction - it was just the explosive GROWTH of it!
4th over 2000 year we didn't have covid-19 pandemic. Your point? Trump lost, ok so? What election officials said, believe what you want. Arsonists don't go out and publicly announce that they caused the fire (Coumo's and Whitmer's nursing home death coverup).
I don't know how to parse that... My only point about "Trump lost" is that is the only real evidence most Trumpites have to back-up their "massive elections fraud" claims from 2020 - as-if it's EVER a foregone conclusion someone will win! - is that Trump actually lost! (How could that have happened legitimately?)
This isn't unprecedented!
5th you compared voter fraud to rape and murder. Lol I have no comment there; not interested in discussing ethics. I didn't say i have solutions for anything nor I brought up any. I'm not an altruistic person nor a saint. just pointed out the potential due to mass mail in in relation to the discussion of linked video.
I didn't compare the offenses - I'm sorry the analogy "didn't work for you" - they are simply human actions we (as a society) abhor and want to prevent from happening.
The point was simply: when you have populations of people, there will always be some "bad apples" who try to cheat/game the system or who just have "bad intentions" altogether.
You can't predict where those "bad apples" will strike next, so you have to mix protective measures (attempting to stop the behavior before it happens - like putting up streetlights in Central Park reduced the number of rapes there drastically, and how requiring voter ID would stop a lot of "impersonation" vote fraud!) with reactive measures (like detecting vote fraud and stopping those votes from being counted, or hunting down the murderers and putting them in jail)
If you can find a way to stop bad people from doing bad things before they do them, THAT is when you'll win the Nobel Peace Prize for a decade!
All to the point of: you cannot ELIMINATE vote fraud, you can just minimize it!
6th what far cry from what, I don't really care at this point. You have dragged the whole discussion too far out of its original topic.
Again, I'm sorry if the analogy threw you... I think you read way too much into it! LOL
You have a weird and twisted way to put words into other people's mouths. Also if you don't believe in my "granny" story, please just don't respond and waste your time. Attempting to read people intention by using assuming and inferring tones doesn't make you appear intellectual, just plain weird and creepy.
I didn't claim your "Granny story" was false - only that it didn't represent a pattern of "mass fraud" resulting in a "stolen election"...
Understand that I am a registered, and loyal Republican voter (since 1980!)... I want Republicans to win in 2022!
To do that, we (as a Party) need to let go of 2020 (where we can DO nothing but bitch, moan, lament, and whine) and focus instead on 2022 (where there is still very much to do!)!
@raphjd said in Teen shreds school board over mask mandates:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1455382258131644419
STEM School Highlands Ranch, Colorado school board was happy to go along with the mask mandates put in place by the health bard, screaming "follow the science". Now that the health board ended the mask mandate, the school board is suing them to put it back in place, the school board doesn't want to follow the science.
Mask mandates are "science" when they are in place, but garbage when they are not.
This shows the truth about maks mandates.
We already know that masks are part of the cult.
Hell, Joy "I was hacked" Reid, Rachel "mad cow" Maddow, the Bopsy Twins, and Fatboy over at CNN and countless DNC politicians. Rachel Maddow even said, on-air (pre-recorded, actually) that because of mask mandates going away, she would have to change her mindset and stop viewing unmasked people as evil Trump supporters. Countless others have said similar.
Here's a shocker - people (in groups) abhor change (ref: Who Moved My Cheese?)
For those who insist on retaining mask mandates, I ask this simple question:
The goal of wearing masks (and getting vaccinated) was to defeat the spread of the virus.
Argue, if you will, that the Trumpite anti-vax, anti-mask mantras slowed down the progress in slowing the disease progression (and cost many tens - if not hundreds - of thousands of lives as a result), but the GOAL of all the anti-COVID protocols was to "get us back to normal" -- NO?
That's not to say that COVID is beaten... but like politics, all COVID should be local. (Trump's national shutdown was a mistake - only about 1/3 of the geography and 1/2 the population was in the throes of a serious COVID outbreak - for the other 2/3 of the geography and 1/2 of the population, it was an expensive boondoggle, and contributed to the anti-[other measures] efforts as well.)
I believe the "magic number" is supposed to be 3%? (That's 3% positivity in those being tested for COVID-19)
I presume the CO Health Board says they've reached that for the requisite length of time... in which case, the mandates can be lifted...
That doesn't stop people still concerned about getting the virus from continuing to wear masks... it's their choice, their freedom (maybe not a bad idea for Flu season!)
In any case, populations of people don't like change - and here we're still getting adjusted to the "change" to needing to wear masks and the scientists tell us we can change again (and, of course, the politicians - elected and otherwise - insist we MUST change).
Don't worry - Science won, but both political parties will claim that they are responsible:
The SCIENCE is: it was always going to burn itself out - that wasn't the issue. The ISSUE was whether it "burned through" 1-million human lives, 5-million lives (where we are now), 20-million lives - or even more!
Sadly, if this were a test, we failed. We will likely eventually reach 6-7 million lives lost (while the virus is "under control" in many areas of the US, that is not the case in other areas of the country, much less the globe!)
We ARE NOT OUT OF THIS YET - but there are some bright spots, and while we shouldn't all jump out of our masks and ditch the booster shots just yet, we can look with some joy at the fact that the "return to normal" is beginning...
@raphjd said in Virginia Gov election is all about Trump, not the issues, says Biden and other DNC:
Biden, Kamala, and countless other DNCers say that the Virginia Gov election is about Trump, not about the actual issues.
Biden has even expressed his love and admiration for Gov "blackface", the outgoing DNC governor. You may remember the photos of the governor in college dressed in blackface, but his excuse was that he wasn't the one in blackface, but rather he was the one in the KKK outfit as if that made it better. Other photos proved it was him in blackface though, so he lied, and Democrats still loved him.
Of course the Dems want to paint this election (VA Gov) as a Trump race - they win when Trump is on the ballot!
If you didn't see it, the DNC mailed out flyers to NOVA (No. Virginia) residents touting (falsely) how close Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin is with Trump! It VERY MUCH looked like a typical candidate mailing - something the RNC might have put out, were Trump a positive in this election... but he is NOT, so it was the DNC sending out that mailer in a kind-of reverse Trump "booster"...
Time will tell if it works...
But hopefully this tactic fails - Youngkin is a good candidate. He should have no trouble beating well-known McAuliffe - even in a State that's been leaning Blue lately. The Dem (McAuliffe) comes with a lot of baggage!
@raphjd said in Minnesota surgeon fired from hospital for saying parents, not government, .....:
I wonder if Feng Feng realizes that virtually no US hospital is 100% private. I would say that 100% of them get at least some government money, which makes them quasi-government agents.
It's the same for ALL businesses, schools, hospitals, etc, etc, etc, etc that gets government money.
Also a correction. About 1/3rd of UK hospitals are privately owned and this number is rising. Most doctors at private hospitals double-dip by working both at the NHS and privately. My private ENT doctor is also the head of the ENT depart at the NHS for my city.
It doesn't matter who owns the hospitals in the US, because the hospitals don't actually hire DOCTORS to staff them! They hire "consulting companies" to provide the physicians...
It's all part of a corporate shell game intended to thwart personal injury attorneys from getting massive payouts for medical mistakes/failures/omissions/malpractice/etc.
SOMETHING had to be done to stop the PI lawyers, and attempts at legislating a solution were successfully blocked by the PI Attorney lobbies... So, this is the "fix" - wrap everyone around "corporate shields" that insulate each layer from liability from any other layer.
Unfortunately, as I pointed out, this Dr is now employed by a private company, meaning he has no 1st Amendment right to free speech. His employer can fire him for his speech, for his haircut, or for having improperly groomed pinkie fingernails... and his employment contract makes that very clear.
This isn't right - he shouldn't have been fired. Don't take my description of why it's legal as an agreement that it should be!!
Hmmm... filed 24-hours before the on-site voting happens in Virginia...
Certainly worth investigating, as accepting foreign funds for campaigns in Federal Elections is illegal (not so sure about State campaigns - I think that would be up to States' own laws - but I'd be shocked if any State did NOT make it illegal!). Despite the claims of some of the sites contributing to Breitbart's story, I don't think Federal Elections laws apply to non-Federal elections. That's a hallmark of our democracy: elections are local, and our system is entirely de-centralized... making the kind of system-wide "conspiracy" that is central to the "Trump 2020 lie" almost impossible to achieve!
That said, I'm not a lawyer at all - and that means I'm definitely not an elections lawyer.
But the timing of the complaint smells...
I don't think the Republican Candidate against McCauliffe (Glenn Youngkin) needs any "shady" help... he should be able to defeat this Dem fair and square! Even in a State (VA) that's been leaning Blue lately...
@lololulu19 said in Rep "CryBaby" Kinzinger won't run for re-election:
Pelosi committed itself in a 2016 deal to stepping down as the leader of the House democrats in 2022.
I wonder how that will affect her influence over the democrat lemmings in the House. Since they know she is toothless after 2022, they don't have to fear her reprisals anymore.
We can only hope that Pelosi actually adheres to her 2018 "campaign" promise to NOT seek re-election to Speaker in 2022... then again, we can also hope that the point is moot, as Dems shouldn't be in control of the House in 2022 to begin with! (NOTE: Technically, the election happens in 2022, the next Speaker election won't happen as a result until early 2023!)
Love her or hate her, Pelosi has been an effective Dem leader... in all the ways that make Republicans revile her!
So, losing her would be a benefit to us! But again, the point should be moot and she should retire from Congress and annoy her grandchildren!
As for Kinsinger, as you noted in your piece above, he was essentially gerrymandered out of his seat. And that comes as a surprise to anyone?
Dem States are gerrymandering their delegations to be more Dem, Republican States are gerrymandering their delegations to have more Republicans... shocking!
What REALLY should happen is that we should fix this broken system where partisan politics feeds on itself and extremes on both sides get to advance their agendas because of a lack of a NEED for there to be a middle-ground.
If we drew our district boundaries in a less partisan (non-partisan is a pie-in-the-sky impossible dream) fashion, we'd have more competitive districts and the Legislature would be able to accomplish more... more that's GOOD for America - all of America, not just one extreme or another.
Let's get something straight:
All vote fraud is bad - we can (maybe) agree on that?
Maybe we can even go so far as this: We all would like to see vote fraud reduced, and confidence in our election systems increased.
Where we seem to differ is where we are at now!
Election (vote) fraud is bad... but so is rape and murder... and if you have a solution that can solve all vote fraud, then the same process can be used to solve all rape and murder! (And you will rightfully so earn the Nobel Peace Price for a decade!
But, let's be equally clear: not all "vote fraud" is created equally:
Is a far cry from:
And that is a far cry from:
And none of that addresses the "vote accountability" issue that this Sheriff is accusing the Wisconsin Election Board of creating/violating!
I know @raphjd will pull out his hair and teeth over this, but as a quasi-governmental body, they (the Election Commission as a group, as well as each of its members) are immune from prosecution for doing their governmental function - even if it turns out that a court agrees with the Sheriff, and their decisions violated Wisconsin law. (The original use of "absolute immunity" under US law!)
I would caution my fellow Republicans who are so keen on letting partisan politics enter our election mechanisms though... your assumptions in allowing partisan politics into that "world" - where it has been kept out for so long - are faulty! You assume, for one, that Republicans would control those partisan bodies (like State Legislatures)... that will not always be the case! Won't we (Republicans) be screaming bloody murder if the makeup of the legislatures in, say TX, NC, PA, IA, AZ, & MI -- all of whom are less than 10-seats away from flipping Democrat - were to change and all-of-a-sudden it's Democrats overruling Elections Supervisors and declaring their own victors in elections? That's a very slippery slope and you can't "have your cake and eat it too!"
I'm not sorry Trump lost... but attacking the very voting infrastructure that put him into office (in spite of losing the popular vote) in 2016 is disingenuous at best, and just being a sore loser in any case.
Can we PLEASE move on and focus on 2022! If we're laser-focused on 2020, we'll LOSE in 2022 - even though we have ALL KINDS if historical trends that say we should win BIG in 2022!
@raphjd said in Sheriff Presents Evidence of Felony Fraud in Election Commission's Actions: Wisconsin:
The Carter/Baker Commission was absolutely against pretty much everything that happened in 2020, because, as they said, it would lead to and allow rampant voter fraud.
My older brother and my dad were on the 2020 voter rolls. My brother died at 14, so he never registered to vote. My aunt reported my dad's death and he was taken off the voter rolls, but through some miracle, he was back on it in 2020. This happened in 2 completely different states.
As I noted above - y'all seem to imply that mail-in balloting was NEW for 2020.
PRIOR to the 2020 election cycle, FIVE States authorized local jurisdictions to hold all-mail elections (Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, & Washington)... in those states, the localities don't even HAVE TO OFFER in-person voting!
ANOTHER THREE States and DC also had "automatic mail-in ballot distribution" policies already in place (by law, not by executive actions): where every voter receives a mail-in-ballot by default. In these places, you still have an in-person option. (Those States are Nevada, Vermont, & California)
Also: "mail-in ballot" is almost a misnomer... I received such a ballot in Florida - I didn't put it into the US Mail, I put it in a collection box (that was monitored) at my local library.
Mind you: I am TOTALLY IN FAVOR of increased voter ID requirements - but that's a double-edged sword: if you REQUIRE the use of a "State issued Drivers License or ID", then obtaining one of these IDs has to be free to low-income voters. (One State - I don't recall which - is moving towards this: low income residents can get a free State ID card (but not a free DL!) if they are on Gov't assistance already).
In many States, the cost of getting a State ID can be over $100 (it's nearly that high in Florida)... if you make having that kind of ID a voting requirement, and it costs $100 - then you have a Poll Tax - which is unconstitutional (see 24th Amendment).
Personally, I think giving poor people a (free) State-issued ID card could be useful in stopping all kinds of fraud - not just voter fraud! There is MASSIVE fraud in the public assistance systems - people claiming children who don't exist, or exist in multiple households simultaneously, people continuing to claim benefits after someone dies, and so on... in The Information Age we shouldn't be allowing this!
@blackheart88 said in Sheriff Presents Evidence of Felony Fraud in Election Commission's Actions: Wisconsin:
@bi4smooth what are you trying to imply? since republicans (commission/judge) involved, it's somehow less severe or 100% fair? "there were FEWER in 2020 than there were in 2016" this statement has no basis because there was a mass mail-in in 2020 due to covid-19, none in 2016. If anything, mass mail-in created a higher potential for errors or irregularities, yet you claimed fewer. My granny lives alone but received a total of 4 ballots (2 for her and other 2 for the previous occupants). Same thing happened at my place, people who rented our basement moved out a few years ago, yet their ballots came in regardless. sign you name on the back of your credit card, then give it to someone and tell them to buy something at some stores, see if they can commit fraud; the same concept leads to dead people voting, out of state voting, and non-resident voting. BTW if you watched the video, the main fraud event is cognitive impaired elders cast the ballots with the "help" of nursing home staffs which you conveniently left out, assuming you watched the video at all.
You downplay my facts that the OVERALL numbers of irregularities (challenged ballots, recounts that had statistically differing results, charges of attempted vote fraud [mind you, those are actual charges, not partisan claims that never made it to court) were LOWER in 2020 than in 2016.
And then in the same breath (paragraph) claim that mail-in-ballots are inherently irregular! The fact that your "granny" received multiple ballots IS NOT irregular! Anyone who has done vote-by-mail in the past knows this! The issue isn't how many ballots you RECEIVE, it's how many you RETURN! ICYMI: Those mailed out ballots aren't just blank pages with a list of names on them - they are coded... the local Supervisor of Elections knows exactly who each ballot was mailed to... and when they get them back, they are checked to ensure that - if 100 ballots were mailed to "Granny" by accident, only 1 would be allowed to count as a vote.
If you don't believe me - PLEASE in 2020, take one of your "Granny's" mail-in ballots and return it as your own! Go ahead! Then show these discussions to the Sheriff's investigators who come find you... "It was just a test" you'll tell them... "It's voter fraud" they'll tell you while they fit you with some fine new silver bracelets!
I know this is a shocker - but Elections Officials didn't "invent" vote-by-mail for 2020 - it's been a staple of our elections for over 30 years! They've had plenty of practice in rooting out ways to "fool" it, and as opposed to the 3.4 seconds you appear to have spent "thinking critically" about this, they've had entire staffs considering these things for decades.
But let's get back to the article here:
This Sheriff isn't claiming any knowledge of any voter being intimidated or influenced... he's claiming that the elections board erred in their ruling that staff at the nursing homes (which were in lockdown to protect the residents from COVID-19) could assist their residents in filling out mail-in-ballots.
This isn't an accusation of FRAUD so much as a disagreement over interpretation of the voter laws of their State... which is why ALL of the board members - Dem & Republican alike - have decried the accusation and affirmed their unanimous collective belief that they acted properly.
As I noted above: this will be determined by a Court... and if they were wrong, and the Court determines that they overstepped their bounds, there will be penalties of some sort.
But lets look deeper here: Is your intent to show that these older people shouldn't have been allowed to vote from within their retirement home? That if they WANTED to vote, they should have had to expose themselves to COVID-19 "like the rest of us?"
Voter fraud (REAL voter fraud) is an ongoing ISSUE in every election - and EVERY election has some people trying to "game the system"... Elections officials in general around this country do a damned good job of rooting out irregularities and detecting fraud.
One last comment: Because of the extra scrutiny of the 2020 elections, there HAS been an up-tick in FELONY attempted voter fraud charges filed so far... but in a "people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" bit of karma, it's been our own Republicans who have - by a wide margin - been caught attempting to illegally vote!
@raphjd said in Republicans demand answers from Biden Cabinet on reported $450,000 payments to illegal immigrants:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/murphy-letter-cabinet-secretaries-horrific-decision
While $450K seems a bit steep, paying something families who were illegally separated by Trump Administration officials that violated US laws and UN rules does seem reasonable. We really wouldn't want to be hauled into the US or World Courts with what they did... they potential payouts could be MUCH MUCH higher!
NOTE TO @raphjd and other Trumnpites: when Trump told his Federal Employees to do things that were a violation of US law, he didn't protect them, or the US Government from lawsuits arising from those illegal activites. Doing something illegal because the President told you to might protect the individual, but will not protect the US Government itself from liability.
Remember: he was President Trump, not Emperor Trump!