A deep red enclave in rural Northern California has recently seen the balance of its local governing body shift to the far right. Now it’s about to embark on an experiment tried in few other jurisdictions across the country: counting all of its paper ballots by hand.
Dipshits.
My mom would call them StumpJumpers
Shasta County is a beautiful area but it’s been going full wingnut crazy over the past decade or so.
Quite a bit of this is due to Bethel Church - a megachurch which advocates Christian control over all aspects of society. And that’s exactly what they’re trying to do there.
These assholes prove that man’s search for ignorance knows no bounds.
The omnipresent stupidity of the election deniers is impressive. They seem to think elections are much like their golden days when they used to elect a class president with 30 to 40 hand counted slips of paper. These folks are going to stupid the rest of the world into submission or die trying.
After they spend the million bucks they’ll generate numbers that are consistent with what had been seen before with Dominion equipment. They can then consult with Lindell on how to make that out to be bad.
They can’t all be from Indiana (h/t mike royko)
It should be fun to observe the total chaos and self-owning that ensues in November 2024. This is gonna be a clusterfuck.
This is a perfect outcome for anti-government types of the far right.
Trick a bunch of dummies into dismantling critical parts of their own government. By the time those chickens have come to roost, the community is too crippled to reinstate the old battle-tested system, and the only people with enough money to bridge that gap are ultra-wealthy cranks who will only fund modified versions of government that are corrupted in their favor by design.
I lived in California for 30 years and due to my occupation became familiar with most of it. Everyone thinks of California as solidly blue. But like most states, the rural areas often are quite red. Much of rural California is heavily agricultural and the workers in those counties are primarily Hispanic. I now live in rural Colorado and my county has gone purple or bluish. Last election all partisan contests went Democratic with between 50 and 55% of the vote. This is the result of immigration over the past 30 years of folks like us who were attracted to its substantial arts colony. Our Republican Party has gone nuts and from what I hear, we do have a militia group.
And that is certainly a legal understatement.
Population is about 187,000. And about 87% white.
Used to be timber country, But the mills consolidated and computerized.
Noting that what is obvious is that the “Big Liars”, which is what I think we should be calling people who support the big lie, is that it is the results they are fanatic about, this quote from the article is interesting.
Rickert told TPM that her brother, a psychologist, once said that Americans have replaced their spiritual life with politics. “I think that’s a fairly good description,” she said, “because these people are religious fanatics about their politics.”
That is are they religious fanatics about their politics or their power?
So if I understand it correctly, it’s just under a million for the office equipment to do the hand counts, and then another million-plus for the labor (assuming no hijinks and no overtime).
Understood. I was speaking more of the Central Valley and many central and south coast areas.
So what you’re saying is that the “maroons” have taken over Shasta County, CA?
And over/under on if they will run hat in hand to the Commies in Sacramento begging for money to pay for the tally?
So those immigrants with calves the size of grapefruit didn’t take their jobs?
I definitely read it as “about their politics.”
Politics is increasingly central to a person’s life and sense of identity, in the way that religious belief used to be. Consider the way support for Trump has become a common litmus test in the world of dating apps, to the point that there are now separate apps for red hats.
It used to be that only religious denomination was meaningful enough to most people to be a deal-breaker. Now it’s politics, owing to both decreasing religiosity and changes in how America does politics (media and candidates focus on keeping people wound tight in order to open our wallets).