It would seem that election crazy is happening in the US again. I’ve no idea what will happen tomorrow, but whatever the result some people are going to be unhappy - either because their candidate lost, or because they feel the election was stolen in some way. Who knows, maybe those pesky Russians will weigh in again like they did in 2016? 😂
"Democracy is on the ballot" is the tune each and every gloablist party has sung for the past 20+ years though, so it's probably only newish in the US. We've heard that tune so much here that the younger generations, especially the children of Afrcian/Mid-eastern colonists,now associate "democracy" with disorder, financial problems, and the governement not getting anything done.
Yay?
And the more people vote according to their own choice, i.e. not gloablist, the more democracy is in danger apparently.
Pretty soon, free voting will be called fascist: "Mussolini/Hitler used democracy to take over the state; therefore freedom of choice and freedom of opinion and speech is fascism. Only the Right opinions and Parties may exist!"
I have to wonder why some people cling to those fantasies?
The people vote for candidates/parties, and in theory everyone who's a (natural) citizen may become a candidate and/or found a party: in short and without going into details, that's democracy.
That you are also a republic doesn't change that, anymore than us having parliament and governement changes the fact that we are also a hereditary and constitutional monarchy.
It’s a huge red flag when the party in power that worked to destroy election integrity comes out before an election saying that you must accept the results no matter what the result and no matter how long it takes to count the votes, otherwise you are a terrorist destroying democracy.
Mick Foley is a retired wrestler, so he is used to pushing fabricated, false narratives.
An unpopular brain-dead "president", runaway inflation, a tanking economy...in a fair election, the Democratic Party would face annihilation tomorrow. But we live in an oligarchy masquerading as a democracy, so it'll be close. A "miraculous" outcome for Biden's side is not out of the question.
I think the Democrats will "fortify" a few races tomorrow, but for now, it serves their purposes to drop a some close contests and focus on irregularities to stir up their base in preparation for the big enchilada in 2 years. Like J6, the media will unceasingly hammer (they like hammers, in this instance) home these irregularities and a narrative of Team Red stealing the election will spread. That's when they legally push to change voting laws. The Republicans, having recently helped pass legislation to disarm citizens (red flag laws), have more than enough traitors in their ranks to assist in this endeavor.
But I am not privy to Davos' time schedule. If they need to speed things up, election theft is on the menu on Tuesday.
If I was american, I'd worry about Antifa/BLM-style riots being arranged in crucial districts to prevent "the wrong'uns" from voting at all". As I understand, in some districts and states it now hinges on votes in the thousands?
If so, preventing say 10 000 votes to the other side might be all it takes - and far safer too than printing up fake slips or trying to fake out at the counting stage.
Arguably, both the US and all of the EU states need to start using ink-staining to prevent election fraud - cast your vote, dip your thumb in ink: presto, you can't vote again elsewhere bussing or no bussing.
Antifa does not travel well. Should they try to perform their shenanigans in Red America, they would end up as stains on the pavement. There are also laws preventing partisans from congregating at election sites. But there are also laws against looting and rioting when career felons come to untimely ends...
I think stuffing of the ballot box or Stalin's adage about the importance of counting votes is the Democrats hope to avoid a wipeout tomorrow.
In any event, we draw closer to tyranny and civil war.
Let's hope sanity and fairness and respect prevail, and that people concerned remember that power unfairly and unjustly gained always brings about bad ends.
Edit: As a swede, I can't help feel somehow responsible as several of the Antifa organisers of the riots in 2020 were high-ranking swedish Antifa.members who had travelled to the US for that express purpose.
Antifa here has a suit-and-tie front called EXPO, backed by bankers, communists and the Socialist Democrat party. They are frequently used to silence people by way of threats, harassment, lawfare and litigation, smercampaigns, arson, physical assaults and in (thankfully few) some cases outright murder.
From January 1st, sharing such information -especially if sourced and verifiable- with people or groups outside Sweden is to be made a crime with up to eight years in prison on the books.
I didn't realize that Antifa, like KFC, had franchises throughout the world.
So, if I read this right, sharing facts about EXPO is a criminal offense? Are they singled out for state protection, or does the law cover other groups as well?
The law - and it's being voted on next week, it's expected to pass and go into effect immediately rather than at year's end as is customary - is nebulously written.
An example of dirty dealings being exposed would be the reveal that Sweden in 2012 was planning to build weapons factories in Saudi Araba, due to swedish law being very prohibitive regarding the sales and exports of weapons - from Sweden, but not if produced outside Sweden.
Back then this reveal by the journalists involved was fully legal.Had the proposed law been in effect, it would have been been illegal to reveal something similar. For me to post names of funders and partners showing the relationsship between EXPO, state and the Party (which could also be a violation of our laws regulating the creation of registries). All of it is geared towards curbing freedom of the press and to make it dangerous for dissidents to report to foreign media what is happening here. "The spreading and sharing of information deemed injurious to Sweden's status and stature among foreign nations" is the definition used in the proposition.
Antifa grew out of the old Soviet-funded and backed AFA (AntiFascistischeAktion), so it's the US branch that's the franchise. The goal of AFA was always to use force against political opponents, ostensibly to "defend against fascism" but in reality as a vehicle to put soviet intelligence personell in place in all european socialist/communist movements to ensure they were Moscow-aligned.
It is very probable that the successors of the KGB (Putin's old outfit) after the chaos of 1991-1994 ca simply retooled the old network to use it as a dissent-producing organisation instead.
Edit: and of course, talking about the proposed law the way I am doing could be a crime against it...
Unfortunately, inked fingers isn't foolproof either, as it only addresses those attempting to vote more than once, at the polls, on election day (and even then, there would be those who would find a way to remove the ink). It also doesn't address early voting, mail-in voting, or vote switching.
I don't trust electronic voting and counting at all, and I believe that this was indeed one of the main tools used to manipulate the outcome of the last presidential election in the US, as the bragging of one voting machine executive, the shenanigans about the access to these machines later and some algorithmic analysis of the results impressively showed.
The UK and Germany are two countries with which processes I am familiar and (sofar) have trust in.
Both are based on voter ID and electoral registers, with Germany's being a bit more inclusive and accurate because it's automatic and derived off its mandatory ID/residency registration. The postal votes are also secure and a similar process in both countries. That process is actually quite simple to design safely- the fact that the US left refuses to address this is most telling in and by itself. A serious discrepancy between postal votes applied for and counted due to the corrupt postal service deliberately not delivering them, as seems to be a recurrent problem in the US, is unheard of in the UK/Germany and c/would also automatically be flagged if it happened- the latest election in Berlin had some such irregularities and was ordered to be repeated.
I don't know exactly how results are counted in the UK, but in Germany, they are still counted manually in the polling station, jointly by people of all the major parties present there, so the vote count can't be manipulated by people of one party or a manipulated electronic machine. The local result must then be signed off by them and the person appointed to be in charge in that polling station. It is then sent off to a regional/national/central body, which adds them all up and certifies the result in the end. Again, people of all major parties are involved, a bureaucrat/civil servant holds the top job and, above all, the local results and the additions, each individual input and the addition process, are public information, so that any mistakes or manipulations here can be spotted by mathematicians and/or the people who counted manually in the polling stations.
Even Banana Republics can and do have that organized properly, the fact that the USA can't because some don't want it to is again all one needs to know.
After having worked on trying to produce a robust enough e-voting system I'm not sure I trust them either! But this was trying to figure out a way voters could cast a vote from their own computers - a vote with the desirable properties listed.
In person voting, authenticated via some form of ID, is hard to beat - although not perfect either
Nov 7, 2022·edited Nov 7, 2022Liked by Rudolph Rigger
I qualify as an election denier. Not that I think voting machines were hacked, or millions of mailed ballots were forged.
The main problem and source of my skepticism is based upon massive violations of the US Constitution.
GA. MI, PA, WI, TX being the most conspicuous. In all of those states and others voting laws were altered by judges, election officials, and even back room deals that both RepubliCons & DemoCraps agreed to thinking they had gotten a good deal.
The problem is the UH6S Constitution is very specific that (Article I Legislative Branch
Section 4 Congress
Clause 1 Elections Clause)
"The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators."
Not one of the changes made, even those made to accommodate the #WuhanFlu bullshit weremade in accordance within Legislative process of the respective states.
The drop boxes, mass mailing of ballots, vote harvesting, and the irregularities in voting precincts all resulted in a fraudulent elective process.
Of course Trump could have challenged these changes prior to the election but the US Constitution contains no provision for correcting ex post facto occurrences, only to stop them from happening again
As someone else has commented (either here or in another thread), "I'm going to write in 'DEMOCRACY' on my ballot." I wonder what kind of message that would send to the PTB if *most* voters did this.
Off topic, but since mr Rigger is into all things gender-related maybe this recent little study made by a doctoral-thesis level student at Lund university in Sweden might be of interest? It's in english too, to boot.
The author looked at if and how grades changed for a group of students when their institution switched to work-at-home. I'll not spoil the findings.
In case the link is effed up, the author is named Adrian Mehic and the study is called "Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching".
I also think the tech drunkenness in light of the Valley's economic and scientific importance and influence must be a major reason for the USA's totally misguided pioneering and embracement of electronic voting.
And as I just read elsewhere, 'the doability delusion and conviction is correlated to the fear of losing control', see Covid, wars, climate change, electronic voting etc..
"Democracy is on the ballot" is the tune each and every gloablist party has sung for the past 20+ years though, so it's probably only newish in the US. We've heard that tune so much here that the younger generations, especially the children of Afrcian/Mid-eastern colonists,now associate "democracy" with disorder, financial problems, and the governement not getting anything done.
Yay?
And the more people vote according to their own choice, i.e. not gloablist, the more democracy is in danger apparently.
Pretty soon, free voting will be called fascist: "Mussolini/Hitler used democracy to take over the state; therefore freedom of choice and freedom of opinion and speech is fascism. Only the Right opinions and Parties may exist!"
History repeats as self-parody it seems.
Democracy is 2 wolves & 1 sheep voting on what’s for dinner. We’re a republic
I have to wonder why some people cling to those fantasies?
The people vote for candidates/parties, and in theory everyone who's a (natural) citizen may become a candidate and/or found a party: in short and without going into details, that's democracy.
That you are also a republic doesn't change that, anymore than us having parliament and governement changes the fact that we are also a hereditary and constitutional monarchy.
It’s a huge red flag when the party in power that worked to destroy election integrity comes out before an election saying that you must accept the results no matter what the result and no matter how long it takes to count the votes, otherwise you are a terrorist destroying democracy.
The fix is in.
Mick Foley is a retired wrestler, so he is used to pushing fabricated, false narratives.
An unpopular brain-dead "president", runaway inflation, a tanking economy...in a fair election, the Democratic Party would face annihilation tomorrow. But we live in an oligarchy masquerading as a democracy, so it'll be close. A "miraculous" outcome for Biden's side is not out of the question.
I think the Democrats will "fortify" a few races tomorrow, but for now, it serves their purposes to drop a some close contests and focus on irregularities to stir up their base in preparation for the big enchilada in 2 years. Like J6, the media will unceasingly hammer (they like hammers, in this instance) home these irregularities and a narrative of Team Red stealing the election will spread. That's when they legally push to change voting laws. The Republicans, having recently helped pass legislation to disarm citizens (red flag laws), have more than enough traitors in their ranks to assist in this endeavor.
But I am not privy to Davos' time schedule. If they need to speed things up, election theft is on the menu on Tuesday.
If I was american, I'd worry about Antifa/BLM-style riots being arranged in crucial districts to prevent "the wrong'uns" from voting at all". As I understand, in some districts and states it now hinges on votes in the thousands?
If so, preventing say 10 000 votes to the other side might be all it takes - and far safer too than printing up fake slips or trying to fake out at the counting stage.
Arguably, both the US and all of the EU states need to start using ink-staining to prevent election fraud - cast your vote, dip your thumb in ink: presto, you can't vote again elsewhere bussing or no bussing.
Antifa does not travel well. Should they try to perform their shenanigans in Red America, they would end up as stains on the pavement. There are also laws preventing partisans from congregating at election sites. But there are also laws against looting and rioting when career felons come to untimely ends...
I think stuffing of the ballot box or Stalin's adage about the importance of counting votes is the Democrats hope to avoid a wipeout tomorrow.
In any event, we draw closer to tyranny and civil war.
Let's hope sanity and fairness and respect prevail, and that people concerned remember that power unfairly and unjustly gained always brings about bad ends.
Edit: As a swede, I can't help feel somehow responsible as several of the Antifa organisers of the riots in 2020 were high-ranking swedish Antifa.members who had travelled to the US for that express purpose.
Antifa here has a suit-and-tie front called EXPO, backed by bankers, communists and the Socialist Democrat party. They are frequently used to silence people by way of threats, harassment, lawfare and litigation, smercampaigns, arson, physical assaults and in (thankfully few) some cases outright murder.
From January 1st, sharing such information -especially if sourced and verifiable- with people or groups outside Sweden is to be made a crime with up to eight years in prison on the books.
I didn't realize that Antifa, like KFC, had franchises throughout the world.
So, if I read this right, sharing facts about EXPO is a criminal offense? Are they singled out for state protection, or does the law cover other groups as well?
The law - and it's being voted on next week, it's expected to pass and go into effect immediately rather than at year's end as is customary - is nebulously written.
An example of dirty dealings being exposed would be the reveal that Sweden in 2012 was planning to build weapons factories in Saudi Araba, due to swedish law being very prohibitive regarding the sales and exports of weapons - from Sweden, but not if produced outside Sweden.
Back then this reveal by the journalists involved was fully legal.Had the proposed law been in effect, it would have been been illegal to reveal something similar. For me to post names of funders and partners showing the relationsship between EXPO, state and the Party (which could also be a violation of our laws regulating the creation of registries). All of it is geared towards curbing freedom of the press and to make it dangerous for dissidents to report to foreign media what is happening here. "The spreading and sharing of information deemed injurious to Sweden's status and stature among foreign nations" is the definition used in the proposition.
Antifa grew out of the old Soviet-funded and backed AFA (AntiFascistischeAktion), so it's the US branch that's the franchise. The goal of AFA was always to use force against political opponents, ostensibly to "defend against fascism" but in reality as a vehicle to put soviet intelligence personell in place in all european socialist/communist movements to ensure they were Moscow-aligned.
It is very probable that the successors of the KGB (Putin's old outfit) after the chaos of 1991-1994 ca simply retooled the old network to use it as a dissent-producing organisation instead.
Edit: and of course, talking about the proposed law the way I am doing could be a crime against it...
Unfortunately, inked fingers isn't foolproof either, as it only addresses those attempting to vote more than once, at the polls, on election day (and even then, there would be those who would find a way to remove the ink). It also doesn't address early voting, mail-in voting, or vote switching.
It may be harder to rig these elections than those in 2020. There are several reasons for this but a big one is that more people will be watching.
The last two years have been so bad that if the democrats pull off a ‘miracle’ all hell will break loose.....
I bet there will be people using the phrase "I'm back on Twitter for one day" more than ten times.
I don't trust electronic voting and counting at all, and I believe that this was indeed one of the main tools used to manipulate the outcome of the last presidential election in the US, as the bragging of one voting machine executive, the shenanigans about the access to these machines later and some algorithmic analysis of the results impressively showed.
The UK and Germany are two countries with which processes I am familiar and (sofar) have trust in.
Both are based on voter ID and electoral registers, with Germany's being a bit more inclusive and accurate because it's automatic and derived off its mandatory ID/residency registration. The postal votes are also secure and a similar process in both countries. That process is actually quite simple to design safely- the fact that the US left refuses to address this is most telling in and by itself. A serious discrepancy between postal votes applied for and counted due to the corrupt postal service deliberately not delivering them, as seems to be a recurrent problem in the US, is unheard of in the UK/Germany and c/would also automatically be flagged if it happened- the latest election in Berlin had some such irregularities and was ordered to be repeated.
I don't know exactly how results are counted in the UK, but in Germany, they are still counted manually in the polling station, jointly by people of all the major parties present there, so the vote count can't be manipulated by people of one party or a manipulated electronic machine. The local result must then be signed off by them and the person appointed to be in charge in that polling station. It is then sent off to a regional/national/central body, which adds them all up and certifies the result in the end. Again, people of all major parties are involved, a bureaucrat/civil servant holds the top job and, above all, the local results and the additions, each individual input and the addition process, are public information, so that any mistakes or manipulations here can be spotted by mathematicians and/or the people who counted manually in the polling stations.
Even Banana Republics can and do have that organized properly, the fact that the USA can't because some don't want it to is again all one needs to know.
After having worked on trying to produce a robust enough e-voting system I'm not sure I trust them either! But this was trying to figure out a way voters could cast a vote from their own computers - a vote with the desirable properties listed.
In person voting, authenticated via some form of ID, is hard to beat - although not perfect either
I qualify as an election denier. Not that I think voting machines were hacked, or millions of mailed ballots were forged.
The main problem and source of my skepticism is based upon massive violations of the US Constitution.
GA. MI, PA, WI, TX being the most conspicuous. In all of those states and others voting laws were altered by judges, election officials, and even back room deals that both RepubliCons & DemoCraps agreed to thinking they had gotten a good deal.
The problem is the UH6S Constitution is very specific that (Article I Legislative Branch
Section 4 Congress
Clause 1 Elections Clause)
"The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators."
Not one of the changes made, even those made to accommodate the #WuhanFlu bullshit weremade in accordance within Legislative process of the respective states.
The drop boxes, mass mailing of ballots, vote harvesting, and the irregularities in voting precincts all resulted in a fraudulent elective process.
Of course Trump could have challenged these changes prior to the election but the US Constitution contains no provision for correcting ex post facto occurrences, only to stop them from happening again
As someone else has commented (either here or in another thread), "I'm going to write in 'DEMOCRACY' on my ballot." I wonder what kind of message that would send to the PTB if *most* voters did this.
Heads I win
Tails you lose
Agree. Our elections are below the venezuela level.
This fits nicely with the article from our cat friend by the name of el gato. Which I'm sure you've already read, Rudolph.
https://open.substack.com/pub/boriquagato/p/accusations-of-electoral-fraud?r=xxyaa&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Yes, as ever, the Clever Kitty uses a hammer for its intended purpose and hits the nail firmly on the head
Off topic, but since mr Rigger is into all things gender-related maybe this recent little study made by a doctoral-thesis level student at Lund university in Sweden might be of interest? It's in english too, to boot.
The author looked at if and how grades changed for a group of students when their institution switched to work-at-home. I'll not spoil the findings.
[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016517652200283X?via%3Dihub]
In case the link is effed up, the author is named Adrian Mehic and the study is called "Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching".
Naomi Wolf just elaborated on that issue too. Paper rules. I remember waking up after seeing Dr. Shiva's presentation after the 2020 'election'. https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/proposed-the-optional-end-to-the
I also think the tech drunkenness in light of the Valley's economic and scientific importance and influence must be a major reason for the USA's totally misguided pioneering and embracement of electronic voting.
And as I just read elsewhere, 'the doability delusion and conviction is correlated to the fear of losing control', see Covid, wars, climate change, electronic voting etc..