It makes more sense, from thebishop I know here, that you would have been referring initially to Squidly’s announcement, so thanks for clarifying that. I share your fears and feel plenty of anger, but, as you say, it’s a matter of temperament. And I am sure we all have our ups and downs, times when we are so upset that we just need to vent, and times when we are calmly determined and resolutely focused on what we can do to resist.
All of us here will stick together. Of that I am confident.
Yeah, I noticed that, too. And it seems that the UK played a more important role than the U.S. in these negotiations. There are more moving parts than reporters have had a chance yet to identify.
Showing yet again that CPAC is not in contact with reality.
Paul Mason too.
Well, have a good evening all.
I leave with music from yet another Canadian group who may have coined the phrase “We love you, Cleveland!”.
This song makes more sense with each passing year.
One un-explained graph? Okay, fine, I watched the effing video, at 1.5x playback speed
And here are some notes that I made as I went along. A bit raw, and please don’t take any of this as a personal attack. But I’m just not buying it.
At 3:30 (and throughout the rest) the line is that because none of the swing states were close enough to trigger an audit, that is the suspicious part. Sorry, but that hits one of my primary anti-consipiracy theory filters. Anything that is by its nature non-falsifiable is highly suspect.
“this could be a potential algorithm changing or deleting votes”
My question is the same as it was to the other side in 2020 - what the flaming foxtrot is this “algorithm” and how does it work?
An algorithm is a defined series of steps that solve a mathematical problem. So you might have an algorithm for sorting a linked list. An algorithm for collision detection in a video game. An algorithm for calculating a network route. And so on.
What you do not have is some dark magical entity that flips facking votes.
12:40 “Utilizing a binning technique, we can see indication that manipulation occurred.”
Okay, what’s a binning technique?
From WP:
Data binning, also called data discrete binning or data bucketing, is a data pre-processing technique used to reduce the effects of minor observation errors. The original data values which fall into a given small interval, a bin, are replaced by a value representative of that interval, often a central value (mean or median).[citation needed] It is related to quantization: data binning operates on the abscissa axis while quantization operates on the ordinate axis. Binning is a generalization of rounding.
Okay, so “binning” tells me that “stuff wasn’t like we expected”.
Yeah, I actually already knew that. There were several significant demographic shifts in this election, including younger and nonwhite voters going, in some cases outright trumpy, and in others just less dem, that had a significant impact.
But that basically lines up with polling and other indicators. A lot of Biden voters did not come out for Harris. We’ve seen that. And we don’t need any doddam algorithms or binning techniques to see it. It’s not a pleasant thing to see … but it is a thing.
Then at 25:00 or thereabouts, I hear about “synthetic votes being fed in” and it starts sounding like Rudy talking about 2020 Georgia.
So the basic argument, as far as I can distill it, is “2024 doesn’t look like 2020.”
32:45: 70% of tabulation equipment may be compromised (slides were black on my video).
Question: How can you tell the difference between an “anomaly” as presented in this video, and an actual demographic shift in an election?
If we can’t resolve that question, then we can stop before we even get into the “how the heck would this actually work, in the machines, in practice” part. Because it’s just not relevant. I can cherry-pick data any way I want to show sinister patterns. But where did it happen? How did it happen? Why is vote tabulation borked for early voting but not for mail or same day?
THERE WAS A SHIFT IN THE ELECTORATE.
Enough trumpy voters showed up to vote for the disloyal orange sumbitch, and not enough Dem voters showed up to vote for Harris/Walz.
Finis.
Sorry, no disrespect intended, but none of this clears my bullshit filters.
Welcome to the multipolar world of the future? The dismantling of the security system that has kept most of the world on an even keel for the last 80 years is frankly terrifying. And the fact that the system is being dismantled by the power that created it and has benefited tremendously from it is just … well … stupid.
None of the MAGA nitwits have any clue what “great” actually means.
I’m gonna go sleep now
G’nite all me peeps
Sleep well
Speak truth to power
I understand from TPM’s “About” statement that:
"We are particularly focused on reporting on abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust. "
“We also devote extensive resources to critical policy stories…”
“We keep close tabs on the political fringe — militias, white nationalists, conspiracy theorists and more…”
What TPM is not committed to covering are the opposition and resistance to the abuses of power (and so on). Which is be fine, so long as its readers learn about all that elsewhere. Muckraking plays a vital role so long as those reading about the muck don’t get stuck in it. As George Bernard Shaw said, “I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”
The reports I’ve read - CBS, NYTimes said he has voted in several Republican primaries since 2012. But had voted in Democratic priorities prior to then.
Yes, I read this to. I don’t think we can learn much about Prevost from his voting habits except, maybe, by investigating the issues in every one of those elections. Not worth the trouble. We shall see what we shall see.
Sleep tight, darr.
The hottest planet in our solar system isn’t Mercury, which is closest to the Sun, but Venus.
Take that, Big Catadioptric!
They fucked up on Venus. Looks like the Martians did too.
Maybe they just didn’t want to be like us.
Either Trump is bullshitting again or he’s completely caved.
He [Trump] has suggested the discussions were initiated by China. Beijing said the US requested the discussions and that China’s policy of opposing US tariffs had not changed.
Voracious?
We are in an imbalance.
