jennofark.bsky.social
Involuntarily retired childless cat lady. Would rather be sleeping.
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advantage, any time we let down our guard.
Maybe it might be more helpful to, instead of gauging success by getting everything we want, to gauge it in terms of making things very painful for the bad actors. And I promise you, silos or no, that yesterday was a painful day for Trump and MAGA.
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I'm sorry, but were you under the impression that the fight for justice can ever be suspended? It can't. And yes, it has gotten harder with the flood of propaganda and a third of the country siloed in media loonyland. But this is just how the world is. There are always bad actors waiting to take
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I'm in Arkansas.
I feel your pain.
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That's a good issue to work on, then. Without a paper receipt, they have nothing to use to audit machine totals.
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Well, 8,000 is 3.9% of the city population. The district has 775K, so it would only be a little over 1% of the entire district. But then we would also need to add the numbers from protests in other parts of the district; there were at least 2 other towns in the district with protests.
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Everyone should get a paper receipt! If your state doesn't require it, that's a good thing to demand and push for. Otherwise you have no way of verifying your vote was correctly cast or recorded.
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And EVERY ONE of the 12 million who showed up to protest yesterday PISSED on his parade.
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Reminded me of this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLJ8...
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My thought as well. If I was a soldier who hates Donald Trump and received orders to go march in a stupid parade to stroke his ego, I would not be all that concerned about marching in step.
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What the hell are you talking about? 98% of US voters in the last election either voted on a paper ballot or got a paper printout receipt of their ballot they could use to double-check. That receipt then went into a locked ballot box, where it could be used for doing a hand recount if needed.
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the need for a full hand count of ALL precincts.
It's not like someone can go in and change the numbers in a tabulator or machine and there's NO WAY to detect it.
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Every state performs random partial audits. Which means, they hand count the ballots from a handful of precincts, and compare the results of the hand count to the results from the machines/tabulators in those precincts. For the express purpose of detecting fraud. If fraud is detected, that indicates
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That article is from 5 years ago. It includes this:
"These two tech experts also agree on the path forward, saying they are comforted by the fact that most Americans will vote this year on hand-marked paper ballots which are counted by machine and can be recounted by hand if the situation warrants."
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I don't know who is doing the *official* tabulating. I saw a crowdsourced spreadsheet but don't know who set it up.
But there were a million in Boston alone. And more showed up in LA, San Diego, and most places than at the one in April.
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But if there was, get to work on proving that and stop wasting time with bullshit theories about "manipulation of votes over the internet" which would be impossible.
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I'm confident because MACHINES THAT LACK THE CAPABILITY TO CONNECT TO THE INTERNET cannot be manipulated over the internet. The "Elon used Starlink to change votes" theory is bullshit. Because it would be impossible to do that on machines that are not internet-capable.
Was there other fraud? Maybe.
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You laugh, but this might be the only thing that will get him to fire Hegseth.
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Sorry, but the Starlink changing votes thing is rubbish.
Voting machines and tabulators are purposely not capable of connecting to the internet. And 98% of us voted on paper ballots - and every state does a partial audit (handcount of paper ballots) to detect fraud.
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Their estimate of numbers is way off, though.
There were over 5 million at the April 50501 protests. There were WAY more people out yesterday.
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Eh, sorry but the math is off there. 10% of 27K would be 2,700. 270 would be 1%.
Not a bad showing in temps like that - and here in Little Rock, we went from 250 at the 50501 in March to over 8,000 yesterday (April event was cancelled due to severe weather). You may see the same trend in your town!
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abusing the company or watching someone else do it without intervening, would they continue to be your employee? You are OUR employee; don't think we won't do the same."
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will no longer be in office.
I also took the opportunity to take him to task for voting to harm his constituents and sitting aside passively watching them be abused and violating his oath of office. He's a business guy, so I asked him, "If you found out one of YOUR employees was either actively
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A word to all: Yes, this will not automatically run Trump out of office.
Here's what it can do, however: scare the hell out of the Republican who represents your district. I've already written the letter to mine, pointing out that when >8,000 show up on a 90-degree day, he will pay attention or he
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Dem-Gazette said 8,000.
In my own feeble attempt to estimate crowd size, I did a count of how many people passed going onto the bridge in a minute: 130 per minute. In an hour, that would give you 7,800. So I think the D-G's number is correct, since some came later and never went all the way across.
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That squeaky tank reminded me of this, which it turns out is an apt metaphor for the whole parade:
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The rage tweetstorm should commence in about an hour.
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That's because you actually have friends.
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Whenever I get down, the thing that always can cheer me up is remembering that Donald Trump has never been truly happy for a single day of his entire miserable life.
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The squeaky tank made me think of this. Actually, this is a good representation of the whole parade:
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Finally figured out who her "work" was modelled after:
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It was like this
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Donnie's tank parade be like
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Most pitiful self-stroking birthday celebration since Kendall Roy's.
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Reminded me of the beater with the flaccid dildo taped to the hood they gave Not Sure for Monday Night Rehabilitation. At 0:59 in the clip.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLts...
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We're edging dangerously close to Subsidized Time, like in Infinite Jest. With Trump in the White House, it would be only fitting if the first sponsored year is The Year of the Depends Adult Undergarment.
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I am completely convinced that when Kristi had work done, she told the surgeon to make her look like BJ Betty.
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For context, Little Rock has a population of 203K.
The 8,000 (or more) who showed up to protest represent 3.9% of the entire city's population.
French Hill will ignore that at his own peril.
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Reminds me of Not Sure's car for Monday Night Rehabilitation with the flaccid dildo taped to the hood. (Starts at 0:59 in the clip.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLts...
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Rage tweeting starts at 2 am.
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Most pathetic birthday celebration since Kendall Roy's birthday party.
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A shitty cover version, no less.