Georgia Judge Throws Cornell West and Green Party Candidate Jill Stein Off the Ballot

Democrat-aligned judges will not permit any non-Regime-approved leftist candidates to run.

He also disqualified two other leftwing candidates, based on Democrat demands that he do so.

A Georgia judge ruled on Monday that four independent and third-party candidates, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West, are ineligible to appear on the state's presidential ballot. The final decision now rests with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
Key Details:
Judicial Ruling: Administrative Law Judge Michael Malihi ruled that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, Green Party's Jill Stein, and Claudia De la Cruz from the Party for Socialism and Liberation are not qualified to appear on Georgia's presidential ballot.
Legal Challenges: The Democratic Party challenged the eligibility of these candidates, citing concerns over siphoning votes from Vice President Kamala Harris in a crucial swing state.
Next Steps: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger must decide on the matter before September 17, when military and overseas ballots are mailed out.
Diving Deeper:
In Georgia, Administrative Law Judge Michael Malihi declared on Monday that four independent and third-party candidates, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West, are ineligible to appear on Georgia's 2024 presidential ballot. This decision follows a series of legal challenges brought by the state Democratic Party, which argued that these candidates might divert votes from Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, in a state where President Joe Biden won by a slim margin in 2020.
The ruling also affects Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Claudia De la Cruz from the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Judge Malihi's decision hinges on a technical interpretation of Georgia election law. He pointed out that, according to a 2017 amendment, petitions for independent candidates must be filed by the presidential electors rather than the candidates themselves. This interpretation was contested by the candidates' legal teams, who argued it was an incorrect reading of the law, especially since the Georgia Secretary of State's office had initially accepted their petitions without objection.

This is Kamala Harris charting her "New Way Forward."

Huh, looks a lot like the old ways.

Will Obama's lawyers also get to work unsealing divorce filings?

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:10 PM

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1 Democracy Dies in Dorkness.

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 27, 2024 01:10 PM (Kv0Z7)

2 I didn't know there were Hawaiian Judges in Georgia.

Posted by: Flyguy at August 27, 2024 01:11 PM (HA1lM)

3 The ruling also affects Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Claudia De la Cruz from the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Judge Malihi's decision hinges on a technical interpretation of Georgia election law. He pointed out that, according to a 2017 amendment, petitions for independent candidates must be filed by the presidential electors rather than the candidates themselves. This interpretation was contested by the candidates' legal teams, who argued it was an incorrect reading of the law, especially since the Georgia Secretary of State's office had initially accepted their petitions without objection.

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Judges making up law, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 27, 2024 01:11 PM (GBKbO)

4 Our Democracy!--Deep State and Dems

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2024 01:12 PM (ynpvh)

5 Does West have a name for his "party?"

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 27, 2024 01:12 PM (v6JzV)

6 Legal Challenges: The Democratic Party challenged the eligibility of these candidates, citing concerns over siphoning votes from Vice President Kamala Harris in a crucial swing state.

who knew that was illegal?

Posted by: anachronda at August 27, 2024 01:12 PM (oY6Yp)

7 Sounds like Mamala Dearest handlers aren't very confident...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2024 01:12 PM (IyPmt)

8 Speaking of orders, how many broken toilets have been ordered for Election Night?

Posted by: ... at August 27, 2024 01:12 PM (4DWWO)

9 What does the law in question actually say exactly?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2024 01:12 PM (oZhjI)

10 I'm sure Rafensberger will get right on it.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 27, 2024 01:12 PM (CIS44)

11 no one will respect judges unless the judges can do whatever they want. it's one of the enumbras of the pen.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 27, 2024 01:13 PM (CWTWj)

12 I'm not that worried about GA. I think this falls into normal "Democrats are jackasses" noise levels and won't matter.

If they needed 1.7 million fraudulent ballots in 2020 (which they did, according to the GA board of elections), and if they can't replicate that, then third party candidates aren't material to the consideration.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 27, 2024 01:13 PM (GBKbO)

13 Going to get a little spicy down in ol’ Georgia hey now?

Posted by: Justin Pinochet Castreau at August 27, 2024 01:13 PM (l5yVc)

14 Gaylord's way to power

Toss everyone else off the ballot through legal trickery

But demanding voters to have ID is racist.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 27, 2024 01:13 PM (vyHIp)

15 according to a 2017 amendment
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2017, eh? Sounds like someone decided something something was never going to happen again. Or in common parlance...

I question the timing.

Posted by: ... at August 27, 2024 01:14 PM (4DWWO)

16 I'm deprived of choice at every turn. It's fantastic!

Posted by: Democrat Voter at August 27, 2024 01:14 PM (hCzfy)

17 I have no doubt that Shemp and Ratshitburger will come through for the Dims just like they did in 2020.

Posted by: Bert G at August 27, 2024 01:14 PM (VARTN)

18 Stein and West should ask their Georgia supporters to vote for Trump.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 27, 2024 01:14 PM (7fVdQ)

19 “Technical” means wtf the judge says.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 27, 2024 01:14 PM (7PziG)

20 12 I'm not that worried about GA. I think this falls into normal "Democrats are jackasses" noise levels and won't matter.

If they needed 1.7 million fraudulent ballots in 2020 (which they did, according to the GA board of elections), and if they can't replicate that, then third party candidates aren't material to the consideration.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 27, 2024 01:13 PM (GBKbO)

I'm of the same mind. This decision HELPS Rs down ballot in GA. And if Trump can't win GA in a 1-on-1 race, he's not winning NC (or VA), so the race at the top is over anyway...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 27, 2024 01:15 PM (exHjb)

21 Will some of these screwees throw their support to Trump? I mean besides Kennedy.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 27, 2024 01:15 PM (pohLc)

22 And remember they insist on being called the Democrat*ic* Party

Posted by: ... at August 27, 2024 01:15 PM (4DWWO)

23 9 What does the law in question actually say exactly?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2024 01:12 PM (oZhjI)

Whatever Dem judges decide it says.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2024 01:15 PM (ynpvh)

24 The lights went out in Georgia again????

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 27, 2024 01:15 PM (Jq918)

25 Legal Challenges: The Democratic Party challenged the eligibility of these candidates, citing concerns over siphoning votes from Vice President Kamala Harris in a crucial swing state.

who knew that was illegal?
Posted by: anachronda at August 27, 2024 01:12 PM (oY6Yp)

It's always been assumed, they're just saying it out loud now.

Posted by: spindrift at August 27, 2024 01:15 PM (OguvZ)

26 Does West have a name for his "party?"

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 27, 2024 01:12 PM (v6JzV)

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"The Runt Is Too Damn High!" party.

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 27, 2024 01:15 PM (Kv0Z7)

27 Gaylord's way to power

Toss everyone else off the ballot through legal trickery

But demanding voters to have ID is racist.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 27, 2024 01:13 PM

Unless you're in Michigan, where they'll force RFK Jr. to stay on the ballot.

Posted by: Flyguy at August 27, 2024 01:16 PM (HA1lM)

28 22 And remember they insist on being called the Democrat*ic* Party

Posted by: ... at August 27, 2024 01:15 PM (4DWWO)

They should change their name to People's Democratic party...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2024 01:16 PM (ynpvh)

29
It's a little known fact, but after Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-five Theses to the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg on 31 October 1517 he was spotted driving off in his carriage with a whales head on the roof.

Posted by: Cliff Clavin at August 27, 2024 01:16 PM (RKVpM)

30 Nothing shall be permitted to penetrate the viscous, warm, protective cocoon of the anointed Democrats.

Posted by: RM at August 27, 2024 01:16 PM (WXucK)

31 What does Governor Abrams say about this?

Posted by: wth at August 27, 2024 01:16 PM (v0R5T)

32 .... citing concerns over siphoning votes from Vice President Kamala Harris in a crucial swing state.

I like how the "Our Precious Democracy" peeps would ultimately prefer there is only one candidate on the ballot.

They would boot Donald J. Trump off the ballot too, if they could, and I'm pretty sure they aren't done with that either. Any reasonably sane person realized 30 years ago there was nothing remotely "Democratic" about Democrats.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 27, 2024 01:16 PM (Nuidk)

33 26 Does West have a name for his "party?"

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 27, 2024 01:12 PM (v6JzV)

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"The Runt Is Too Damn High!" party.

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 27, 2024 01:15 PM (Kv0Z7)

I think if you're talking about Kumala, Runt is not the correct word...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2024 01:17 PM (ynpvh)

34 The GOP is yet again allowing the Democrats to steal another election. I can’t wait to see the sternly worded letter after Republican poll watchers are kicked out during counting in Fulton County.

What a f-ing joke of a country this has become. What a f-ing joke of an “opposition” party the spineless GOP cucks are.

Hello Madame President.

Posted by: Lurker at August 27, 2024 01:17 PM (FC8SQ)

35 This is what you want...

This is what you get

(Order of Death)

Posted by: Public Image Limited at August 27, 2024 01:17 PM (592Pr)

36 I'll never understand how GA became a swing state and Florida became a solid red one.

Georgia went for Dubya by 16 points.

Even McCain and Romney easily won GA.

Posted by: Blago at August 27, 2024 01:17 PM (wMRY8)

37 34 The GOP is yet again allowing the Democrats to steal another election. I can’t wait to see the sternly worded letter after Republican poll watchers are kicked out during counting in Fulton County.

What a f-ing joke of a country this has become. What a f-ing joke of an “opposition” party the spineless GOP cucks are.

Hello Madame President.

Posted by: Lurker at August 27, 2024 01:17 PM (FC8SQ)

The list of "Republicans" that say they'll vote for Whoris & AWOL speaks volumes on the subject.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2024 01:18 PM (ynpvh)

38 "He pointed out that, according to a 2017 amendment, petitions for independent candidates must be filed by the presidential electors rather than the candidates themselves."

Ummm . . . so third-party candidates must essentially get the blessing and active help from one of the main two parties before they can appear on the ballot in opposition to the main two parties?? That can't possibly be right.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 27, 2024 01:18 PM (iFTx/)

39 34 The GOP is yet again allowing the Democrats to steal another election. I can’t wait to see the sternly worded letter after Republican poll watchers are kicked out during counting in Fulton County.

What a f-ing joke of a country this has become. What a f-ing joke of an “opposition” party the spineless GOP cucks are.

Hello Madame President.
Posted by: Lurker at August 27, 2024 01:17 PM (FC8SQ)

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GA probably isn't going to be stolen again. The GA Board of Elections has been implementing a bunch of changes, over the objections of SoS and Governor, that will make cheating at scale significantly harder.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 27, 2024 01:18 PM (GBKbO)

40 As soon as you claim to be an elector for a candidate, they prosecute you for forgery. Very clever, these GA Democrats.

Posted by: spongeworthy at August 27, 2024 01:18 PM (DWqKI)

41 This makes sense in Georgia, as everything seems designed to create a majority as the arbiter.

Posted by: wferrin at August 27, 2024 01:18 PM (q/M8h)

42 They got the Dem primary winner removed

They tried to get the Rep primary winner removed

They are removing the primary winners for four other parties.

But remember...this is all to protect our sacred democracy...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2024 01:18 PM (oZhjI)

43
Any reasonably sane person realized 30 years ago there was nothing remotely "Democratic" about Democrats.

The Pro-Slavery Party is its true name.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 27, 2024 01:19 PM (xG4kz)

44 I'd show my dad but he would not understand. Or, just refuse to see is more accurate.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at August 27, 2024 01:19 PM (Z8Yh2)

45 I'm not that worried about GA. I think this falls into normal "Democrats are jackasses" noise levels and won't matter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 27, 2024 01:13 PM (GBKbO)

Trump's team needs to lean hard into "the Democrats REALLY don't want the people to have choices". They rigged the primaries so Joe wouldn't face opposition, then they replaced him with someone whose gotten 0 votes, then they fight hammer-and-tongs to prevent anyone else from getting on ballots. Maybe they should consider changing the name of their party.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2024 01:19 PM (IUd0M)

46
Last poll I saw out of Georgia had Trump at 60%. They can do whatever they want to do, throw 'Hail Mary' after 'Hail Mary' - but if Kamala spends even a single minute there she's too stupid to breath.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 27, 2024 01:19 PM (RKVpM)

47 34 The GOP is yet again allowing the Democrats to steal another election. I can’t wait to see the sternly worded letter after Republican poll watchers are kicked out during counting in Fulton County.

What a f-ing joke of a country this has become. What a f-ing joke of an “opposition” party the spineless GOP cucks are.

Hello Madame President.

Posted by: Lurker at August 27, 2024 01:17 PM (FC8SQ)

The White House becomes a Whore House...I mean, if a madam is running it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2024 01:19 PM (ynpvh)

48 1.7 million ballots out of 5 million in GA have no ballot images, against state election law, from 2020.

A full third of all ballots in GA in 2020 were arguably fraudulent.

That's the ceiling on cheating.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 27, 2024 01:19 PM (GBKbO)

49 Democracy isn't what they say it is

Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2024 01:19 PM (fwDg9)

50 36 I'll never understand how GA became a swing state and Florida became a solid red one.

Georgia went for Dubya by 16 points.

Even McCain and Romney easily won GA.
Posted by: Blago at August 27, 2024 01:17 PM (wMRY

GA brought a ton of film and tv industry to its state.
Hollywood East is not just a nickname.
So, you add Hollywood to their pre-existing high black population, and you turn a state quickly purple.

VA is purple b/c of NoVa fed gov and SoVa blacks - fed gov is bigger than Hollywood, so it's why GA is the easier win...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 27, 2024 01:20 PM (exHjb)

51 38 "He pointed out that, according to a 2017 amendment, petitions for independent candidates must be filed by the presidential electors rather than the candidates themselves."

Ummm . . . so third-party candidates must essentially get the blessing and active help from one of the main two parties before they can appear on the ballot in opposition to the main two parties?? That can't possibly be right.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 27, 2024 01:18 PM (iFTx/)

Totes Democratic...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2024 01:20 PM (ynpvh)

52 I'll never understand how GA became a swing state and Florida became a solid red one.

FL is easy to understand. DeSantis put in modest measures to combat voter fraud.

Overnight the FNM went from "fraud never happens!" to "these poor undocumented immigrants didn't even know they weren't allowed to vote!" and...the state turned bright red.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2024 01:20 PM (oZhjI)

53 Why would they do this, if "you can't beat the cheat?"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2024 01:20 PM (gH23d)

54 I'll never understand how GA became a swing state

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Bad plumbing.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at August 27, 2024 01:20 PM (sX1BW)

55 46
Last poll I saw out of Georgia had Trump at 60%. They can do whatever they want to do, throw 'Hail Mary' after 'Hail Mary' - but if Kamala spends even a single minute there she's too stupid to breath.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 27, 2024 01:19 PM (RKVpM)

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She started her campaign with an event in Atlanta. Cardi B performed.

Apparently a bunch of people in the crowd left after Cardi B and before Kamala.

I don't think Kamala has been back to the state since.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 27, 2024 01:21 PM (GBKbO)

56 I don't think Kennedy should be on the ballot since he withdrew but the others should be if they qualified

Posted by: SamIam at August 27, 2024 01:21 PM (oasF3)

57 49 Democracy isn't what they say it is
Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2024 01:19 PM (fwDg9)

I don't think that word means what you think it means

Posted by: Inigo Montoya at August 27, 2024 01:21 PM (IyPmt)

58 I don't think Kennedy should be on the ballot since he withdrew but the others should be if they qualified
Posted by: SamIam

Suspended.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2024 01:21 PM (3aXL2)

59 52 FL is easy to understand. DeSantis put in modest measures to combat voter fraud.

Overnight the FNM went from "fraud never happens!" to "these poor undocumented immigrants didn't even know they weren't allowed to vote!" and...the state turned bright red.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2024 01:20 PM (oZhjI)

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False.

FL went red because DeSantis is so unpopular because he took on culture war issues. He needs to tone it down so he can turn FL red.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 27, 2024 01:21 PM (GBKbO)

60 Funny how the libertarian candidate never seems to get thrown off the ballot.

Do you Republicans ever even try to litigate these things?

Posted by: Blago at August 27, 2024 01:21 PM (wMRY8)

61 54 I'll never understand how GA became a swing state

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Bad plumbing.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at August 27, 2024 01:20 PM (sX1BW)

And upside-down pineapples...or maybe 40's dancing.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2024 01:22 PM (ynpvh)

62 IDF commandos rescue another hostage in Southern Gaza.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 27, 2024 01:22 PM (jC7hV)

63 That's the ceiling on cheating.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 27, 2024 01:19 PM (GBKbO)

The ceiling was coincidentally the amount they needed?

Posted by: ... at August 27, 2024 01:22 PM (4DWWO)

64 36. Atlanta has changed bigly over the last 20 years. It is a haven for recent college grads throughout the south.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 27, 2024 01:22 PM (7PziG)

65 I'll ask again...does anyone have a link to the actual law that is being discussed here? The story just says the judge made an interpretation...but what does the actual text say...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2024 01:22 PM (oZhjI)

66 63 That's the ceiling on cheating.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 27, 2024 01:19 PM (GBKbO)

The ceiling was coincidentally the amount they needed?
Posted by: ... at August 27, 2024 01:22 PM (4DWWO)

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Yup.

The ceiling is however many they can create and courts will allow them to get away with.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 27, 2024 01:22 PM (GBKbO)

67 60 Funny how the libertarian candidate never seems to get thrown off the ballot.

Do you Republicans ever even try to litigate these things?

Posted by: Blago at August 27, 2024 01:21 PM (wMRY

those candidates may be too high to even care...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2024 01:22 PM (ynpvh)

68 RFKJ withdrew anyway, for Ds - between Kramola and West they would go for Kramola. So , no worries. Other than the judge is a crook !

Posted by: runner at August 27, 2024 01:23 PM (V13WU)

69 It's a little known fact, but after Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-five Theses to the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg on 31 October 1517 he was spotted driving off in his carriage with a whales head on the roof.
Posted by: Cliff Clavin at August 27, 2024

***
Jerry: "Wow. Luther must have been one hell of a fisherman."

Cliff: "Well, actually, your whale is a mammal, there."

George: "Whatever."

Posted by: Jerry S. & George C. Meet Cliff Clavin at August 27, 2024 01:23 PM (J2vNu)

70 Judge Malihi's decision hinges on a technical interpretation of Georgia election law. He pointed out that, according to a 2017 amendment, petitions for independent candidates must be filed by the presidential electors rather than the candidates themselves.

Allowing someone to vote without registering, ID, etc- saving Democracy.

Allowing someone to file paperwork to ru as a candidate in an election- anti-Democratic, and must be crushed.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 27, 2024 01:23 PM (JCZqz)

71 I think FL went red because every conservative refugee from the blue states finally got around to moving away from their hell holes.

AZ seems to have the opposite effect and all the liberals that got priced out of CA decided to move here.

Posted by: Blago at August 27, 2024 01:23 PM (wMRY8)

72 Viva Democracy!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 27, 2024 01:24 PM (i24o9)

73 Willowed:

His first and last names had 6 letters...did his middle name as well?

Hitler's birth certificate lists his first name as "Adolfus." He did not have a middle name.

Intertubes say he was born without a middle name and he was the bastard child of Maria Schicklgruber and Alois Hitler.

Alois was the bastard son of Maria Schicklgruber and an unknown man. Adolf was the son of Alois and his niece Klara Pozl.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 27, 2024 01:24 PM (Q0kLU)

74 38 "He pointed out that, according to a 2017 amendment, petitions for independent candidates must be filed by the presidential electors rather than the candidates themselves."

Ummm . . . so third-party candidates must essentially get the blessing and active help from one of the main two parties before they can appear on the ballot in opposition to the main two parties?? That can't possibly be right.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 27, 2024 01:18 PM (iFTx/)

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The only real question is what was done in 2020 as this is based on a 2017 amendment.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 27, 2024 01:24 PM (QDV8J)

75 36 I'll never understand how GA became a swing state and Florida became a solid red one.

Georgia went for Dubya by 16 points.

Even McCain and Romney easily won GA.
Posted by: Blago at August

You really don’t understand? When we learned how many fraudulent ballets there were? Coupled with locusts and voila!

Posted by: Piper at August 27, 2024 01:24 PM (pZEOD)

76 3 The ruling also affects Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Claudia De la Cruz from the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Judge Malihi's decision hinges on a technical interpretation of Georgia election law. He pointed out that, according to a 2017 amendment, petitions for independent candidates must be filed by the presidential electors rather than the candidates themselves. This interpretation was contested by the candidates' legal teams, who argued it was an incorrect reading of the law, especially since the Georgia Secretary of State's office had initially accepted their petitions without objection.

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Judges making up law, huh?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 27, 2024 01:11 PM (GBKbO)

Maybe. It's also a possibility that Raffensperger deliberately pulled a Lucy - setting the football down for the independent candidates, knowing that it would get pulled away before they had a chance to take votes away from Kamala.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 27, 2024 01:24 PM (q07c5)

77 In the end, there can be only one candidate...Fidel Castro.

But you're free to vote!

Posted by: t-bird at August 27, 2024 01:25 PM (GCKiK)

78 And supporters of Stein and West will still end up going out and voting for Kamala, despite her showing that she, and the whole democrat party, are against fair elections and just want them to be decided by a cabal of elites.

The democrats constant push to get every single person standing in their way removed from the ballots, should itself be disqualifying.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 27, 2024 01:25 PM (YC9ZG)

79 Also who came up with the 2017 amendment...?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2024 01:25 PM (oZhjI)

80 those candidates may be too high to even care...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2024 01:22 PM (ynpvh)

I was going go get on the ballot, but then I got high . . . .

Posted by: LP Candidate at August 27, 2024 01:25 PM (i24o9)

81 I get Cardi B and Amber Rose confused.

Posted by: runner at August 27, 2024 01:25 PM (V13WU)

82 I remember hearing from so many different quarters that getting Biden off the ballot in certain states was going to be a legal issue so late in the game.

Was this even challenged?

Posted by: Blago at August 27, 2024 01:25 PM (wMRY8)

83 Are the Dems still harping oon the Kennedy whale-head thing.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 27, 2024 01:25 PM (v6JzV)

84 ...The Devil went down to Georgia
He had an election to steal!

Posted by: Zombie Charlie Daniels at August 27, 2024 01:25 PM (vcOmj)

85 Do you Republicans ever even try to litigate these things?
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They probably don't know how. The RNC signed a "consent decree" that was in effect, I don't know maybe 20 years, agreeing they would never object to hinky hi-jinks with elections. True story.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 27, 2024 01:25 PM (Nuidk)

86 80 those candidates may be too high to even care...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2024 01:22 PM (ynpvh)

I was going go get on the ballot, but then I got high . . . .

Posted by: LP Candidate at August 27, 2024 01:25 PM (i24o9)

And probably damnably hungry, right?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2024 01:25 PM (ynpvh)

87 78 And supporters of Stein and West will still end up going out and voting for Kamala, despite her showing that she, and the whole democrat party, are against fair elections and just want them to be decided by a cabal of elites.

The democrats constant push to get every single person standing in their way removed from the ballots, should itself be disqualifying.
Posted by: Rbastid at August 27, 2024 01:25 PM (YC9ZG)

More likely, they get pissed and stay home, which is a total win for Rs in the state...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 27, 2024 01:25 PM (exHjb)

88 I'll never understand how GA became a swing state and Florida became a solid red one.
Posted by: Blago at August 27, 2024 01:17 PM (wMRY

DeSantis reduced vote fraud in Florida.
Kemp/Raffensperger insist that there's no fraud in Georgia.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2024 01:26 PM (IUd0M)

89 81 I get Cardi B and Amber Rose confused.

Posted by: runner at August 27, 2024 01:25 PM (V13WU)

Maybe you should try the blonde joke way and measure their cup size to tell them apart. Or their butt size.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2024 01:26 PM (ynpvh)

90 You really don’t understand? When we learned how many fraudulent ballets there were? Coupled with locusts and voila!
Posted by: Piper at August 27, 2024 01:24 PM (pZEOD)

——————

The ballerina is a dude!

Posted by: Fraudulent Ballet at August 27, 2024 01:26 PM (u73oe)

91 Posted by: Piper at August 27, 2024 01:24 PM (pZEOD)

Your Imperial Majesty!

*Kneels and kowtows*

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 27, 2024 01:27 PM (v6JzV)

92 they should be called the party of the people's democratic republic. fit right in with lil fat kim

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 27, 2024 01:27 PM (CWTWj)

93 When we learned how many fraudulent ballets there were? Coupled with locusts and voila!
Posted by: Piper at August 27, 2024

***
"The Nutcracker Suite" is a fraud??? Horrors! Christmas will never be the same again!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2024 01:27 PM (J2vNu)

94 Soviet Union stuff. Most American voters won’t know or care. Americans have the third world government they want.

Posted by: Ex GOP at August 27, 2024 01:27 PM (ezI4A)

95 Why would they do this, if "you can't beat the cheat?"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2024 01:20 PM (gH23d)

To make the cheat easier.

Posted by: ... at August 27, 2024 01:27 PM (4DWWO)

96 You really don’t understand? When we learned how many fraudulent ballets there were? Coupled with locusts and voila!
Posted by: Piper

__

I'm not disputing there's fraud, but it's not 16% fraud.

What I dont get is if its this easy to cheat, why cant Republicans start doing it? Why dont we have plumbing emergencies in deep red counties?

Posted by: Blago at August 27, 2024 01:27 PM (wMRY8)

97 88 I'll never understand how GA became a swing state and Florida became a solid red one.
Posted by: Blago at August 27, 2024 01:17 PM (wMRY

DeSantis reduced vote fraud in Florida.
Kemp/Raffensperger insist that there's no fraud in Georgia.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2024 01:26 PM (IUd0M)

And Baghdad Bob insisted there were no troops invading Iraq as a US tank went by...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2024 01:27 PM (ynpvh)

98 I thought Cardi B was a form of aerobics.

Posted by: wth at August 27, 2024 01:27 PM (v0R5T)

99 All state election regulations are Byzantine by design. The powers that be don't like "little people " horning in on their game. NY election laws are about three legal books wide

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2024 01:27 PM (FkiTJ)

100 "He pointed out that, according to a 2017 amendment, petitions for independent candidates must be filed by the presidential electors rather than the candidates themselves."

Ummm . . . so third-party candidates must essentially get the blessing and active help from one of the main two parties before they can appear on the ballot in opposition to the main two parties?? That can't possibly be right.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 27, 2024 01:18 PM (iFTx/)

I believe it means the slate of electors who would be ratified if that candidate won, not the electors from one of the major parties.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2024 01:28 PM (IUd0M)

101 The courts are increasingly becoming the firewall against socialist hegemony and as such judicial corruption will ultimately tear society apart.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 27, 2024 01:28 PM (N7vlX)

102 Why dont we have plumbing emergencies in deep red counties?
Posted by: Blago at August 27, 2024 01:27 PM (wMRY

We don't have the concentrated numbers of nonexistent voters that they do.

Posted by: ... at August 27, 2024 01:28 PM (4DWWO)

103 “ This is Kamala Harris charting her "New Way Forward."”

Democracy dies in Kamala’s pantsuit. Smothered.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 27, 2024 01:28 PM (mSy8I)

104 98 I thought Cardi B was a form of aerobics.

Posted by: wth at August 27, 2024 01:27 PM (v0R5T)

Given her past, probably.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2024 01:28 PM (ynpvh)

105 I think the SOS will accept the candidates.

Why would a public official deny a candidate their ability to get votes?

Oh wait . . . .

Posted by: Czech Chick at August 27, 2024 01:28 PM (fpVC1)

106 You really don’t understand? When we learned how many fraudulent ballets there were? Coupled with locusts and voila!
Posted by: Piper at August 27, 2024 01:24 PM (pZEOD)

——————

The ballerina is a dude!

Posted by: Fraudulent Ballet at August 27, 2024 01:26 PM (u73oe)

No need to be a Nutcracker about it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 27, 2024 01:28 PM (i24o9)

107 "...follows a series of legal challenges brought by the state Democratic Party, which argued that these candidates might divert votes from Vice President Kamala Harris,..."

no fuckin way...

they seriously didn't actually use THAT as the reasoning, did they? tell me that wasn't really part of the suit.

Posted by: SturmToddler at August 27, 2024 01:28 PM (nXhwP)

108 That meme of the pirates being hanged with Trump asking Stein, West and RFKJr - "First time?"

Posted by: Oglebay at August 27, 2024 01:28 PM (7fVdQ)

109 I dunno who wins this election but I do believe Kamala will be sworn in.

Posted by: breaking bogey at August 27, 2024 01:29 PM (69oK7)

110 The media are breathlessly promoting polls showing Kamala ahead everywhere, but here are Democrats scraping any votes they can from the fringiest of fringe parties. Draw your own conclusions.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 27, 2024 01:29 PM (CwhoI)

111 “ Why dont we have plumbing emergencies in deep red counties?”

Because they mostly use outhouses and honey buckets?

Posted by: Vengeance at August 27, 2024 01:29 PM (mSy8I)

112 102 Why dont we have plumbing emergencies in deep red counties?
Posted by: Blago at August 27, 2024 01:27 PM (wMRY

We don't have the concentrated numbers of nonexistent voters that they do.

Posted by: ... at August 27, 2024 01:28 PM (4DWWO)

Not as much sh*t in the election pipelines...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 27, 2024 01:29 PM (ynpvh)

113 106 You really don’t understand? When we learned how many fraudulent ballets there were? Coupled with locusts and voila!
Posted by: Piper at August 27, 2024 01:24 PM (pZEOD)

——————

The ballerina is a dude!

Posted by: Fraudulent Ballet at August 27, 2024 01:26 PM (u73oe)

No need to be a Nutcracker about it.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation

Y’all know where my head is at! I

Posted by: Piper at August 27, 2024 01:29 PM (p4NUW)

114 I thought Cardi B was a form of aerobics.
Posted by: wth at August 27, 2024

***
That's cardi-O.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2024 01:29 PM (J2vNu)

115 In the end, there can be only one candidate...Fidel Castro.

But you're free to vote!
Posted by: t-bird

Fidel Castro?
He's dead, Jim.

Posted by: Dr. Leonard McCoy at August 27, 2024 01:29 PM (vcOmj)

116 Imagine if it was any actual conservative Secretary of state.

And he responded, "I already interpreted the law, the legislature can change it if I'm wrong, if the people think I'm wrong-- not a judge. Besides, the ballots are already ordered and I'm not changing them. If the judge thinks I'm wrong, he can print and send out the ballots."

It's long past time for Republicans to start pissing on judges and daring them to do something about it.
Enough of this bullshit "respect for the law."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2024 01:29 PM (gH23d)

117 Democracy dies in Kamala’s pantsuit. Smothered.
Posted by: Vengeance at August 27, 2024 01:28 PM (mSy8I)
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Democracy is not dead!

Harris only makes democracy take the knee.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 27, 2024 01:30 PM (Jq918)

118 Ummm . . . so third-party candidates must essentially get the blessing and active help from one of the main two parties before they can appear on the ballot in opposition to the main two parties?? That can't possibly be right.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq.

Kind of like getting permission (a permit) from the government to stage a protest against the government. Jews in Chicago last week saw how well that works.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 27, 2024 01:30 PM (bysRM)

119 No need to be a Nutcracker about it.

I love the Nutcracker Ballet

Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2024 01:30 PM (IyPmt)

120 Posted by: Blago at August 27, 2024 01:27 PM (wMRY

You know the answer. Anyone in the right found doing this will have a 4am door kicker and a rifle shoved in his face and will go to jail forever.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at August 27, 2024 01:30 PM (lUhzf)

121 Why dont we have plumbing emergencies in deep red counties?

Because there are rules and roles and we like to keep getting paid.

Posted by: The Washington Generals at August 27, 2024 01:31 PM (GCKiK)

122 110 The media are breathlessly promoting polls showing Kamala ahead everywhere, but here are Democrats scraping any votes they can from the fringiest of fringe parties. Draw your own conclusions.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 27, 2024 01:29 PM (CwhoI)

=======

National polls showing her up by 7 but battleground polls showing her up by 1 or 2.

It doesn't add up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 27, 2024 01:31 PM (GBKbO)

123 "We need to throw people off of the ballot to preserve democracy." - Says the party nominee who received nary a vote to become said nominee

Dems are so lucky that their supporters have an infinite ball-chugging capacity.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 27, 2024 01:31 PM (KbCG3)

124 "citing concerns over siphoning votes from Vice President Kamala Harris in a crucial swing state."

who knew that was illegal?
Posted by: anachronda at August 27, 2024 01:12 PM (oY6Yp)

Pretty sure Trump is going to siphon a few votes away from Kams, so better kick him off while you're at it.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at August 27, 2024 01:31 PM (VGRuw)

125 Is there any evidence that Jill Stein voters are going to pull the lever for Harris?

Or will they go for Trump to thwart her?

Posted by: nurse ratched, certified weirdo at August 27, 2024 01:31 PM (gU5fc)

126 No need to be a Nutcracker about it.

I love the Nutcracker Ballet

Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2024 01:30 PM (IyPmt)

*gives It's me donna a wide berth*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 27, 2024 01:31 PM (i24o9)

127 Igor Stravinsky had four children. He had the right offspring.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 27, 2024 01:32 PM (v6JzV)

128 Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at August 27, 2024 01:30 PM (lUhzf)

How are things?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 27, 2024 01:32 PM (i24o9)

129 If that's Cardi B, imagine Cardi C.

Posted by: ... at August 27, 2024 01:32 PM (4DWWO)

130 Obviously, Harris wants to win GA as that would be it for Trump.

I think her real goal is to keep him in NC and GA and maybe AZ rather than the Great Lakes region.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 27, 2024 01:32 PM (7PziG)

131
The media are breathlessly promoting polls showing Kamala ahead everywhere, but here are Democrats scraping any votes they can from the fringiest of fringe parties. Draw your own conclusions.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 27, 2024 01:29 PM

Excellent point. My particular 'tell' will be when the 'Wise Latina' steps down for health reasons. I'll know then they can't manufacture ballots fast enough to win and they go into 'damage mode'.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 27, 2024 01:32 PM (RKVpM)

132 Atlanta: "Decent people shouldn't live here."

Posted by: The Joker at August 27, 2024 01:32 PM (9X60i)

133 The media are breathlessly promoting polls showing Kamala ahead everywhere, but here are Democrats scraping any votes they can from the fringiest of fringe parties. Draw your own conclusions.
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I'm wondering if it's usual that we are now 4 days post convention and, unless I'm wrong, not one poll from that time.
All the ones the media are pushing are from before and during the convention.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2024 01:32 PM (gH23d)

134 The Democratic Party challenged the eligibility of these candidates, citing concerns over siphoning votes from Vice President Kamala Harris in a crucial swing state.

That cannot possibly be the only argument they made.

"We want the opposition candidate off the ballot because we thing people will vote for them instead of out candidate"?

The only response that merits is "Do you even know what an election is?"

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 27, 2024 01:32 PM (hB7mE)

135
National polls showing her up by 7 but battleground polls showing her up by 1 or 2.

It doesn't add up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
___

Even Rasmussen is showing Trump losing ground.

Dems did just have their convention, so things will settle down, but I wanted an easy lay up election and we're not getting one.

Posted by: Blago at August 27, 2024 01:33 PM (wMRY8)

136 119 No need to be a Nutcracker about it.

I love the Nutcracker Ballet
Posted by: It's me donna at August

I don't. Sorry, Donna, but it's overdone. And it's all ballet companies focus on for three months out of the year. I find it boring.

Posted by: nurse ratched, certified weirdo at August 27, 2024 01:33 PM (gU5fc)

137 They probably don't know how. The RNC signed a "consent decree" that was in effect, I don't know maybe 20 years, agreeing they would never object to hinky hi-jinks with elections. True story.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 27, 2024 01:25 PM (Nuidk)

IIRC, the Dems sued in NJ, the GOPe settled with the provision you describe. It ran out a couple years ago.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2024 01:33 PM (IUd0M)

138 NBC: The Democratic convention's surprise guest: Covid. They came hoping for Beyoncé. They left with Covid. Fresh off of a jam-packed week of Democratic National Convention events, reports of attendees’ testing positive for Covid are rolling in...

Please keep everybody, especially Kamala & Tim, healthy. I wish they'd go back to safety protocols like masking around them. Their health is the most important thing, but I don't want either of them looking sick during debates & such. Unfortunately, optics matter. Of course it only applies to our side.

I know four seniors who didn’t even go to the convention that have Covid right now. I have to take someone to the hospital for a procedure today so I will be wearing a mask….again.

Not really a surprise...it's quietly surging again. With back to school, it will likely rise. Hopefully, the new booster will be available soon. People act like covid is gone, but the new strain seems to knock people on their butts pretty hard.

The Amount of People Masking at the convention seemed to be pretty minimal. I'm not surprised. DNC only allowed masking if necessary for people with disabilities.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 27, 2024 01:33 PM (JCZqz)

139 Remember in 2020 when the when Fulton county got 950 military absentees ballots and they were all for Biden?

Posted by: fd at August 27, 2024 01:33 PM (vFG9F)

140 @125 nurse, if they were going to vote for Stein I doubt they would vote for Harris or Trump, maybe Cornel West if he was in the ballot or whomever was the Communist party candidate

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2024 01:34 PM (FkiTJ)

141 If the American electorate prefers Harris they should get exactly what they want.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 27, 2024 01:34 PM (7fVdQ)

142 139 Remember in 2020 when the when Fulton county got 950 military absentees ballots and they were all for Biden?
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2024 01:33 PM (vFG9F)

========

I remember when the GA board of elections demanded ballot images of every ballot from 2020, and a full third of ballots had no images.

The fraud problem is much, much bigger than people want to admit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 27, 2024 01:34 PM (GBKbO)

143 I don't. Sorry, Donna, but it's overdone. And it's all ballet companies focus on for three months out of the year. I find it boring.
Posted by: nurse ratched, certified weirdo at August 27, 2024 01:33 PM (gU5fc)

We used to go every year to the SF ballet... Haven't been in 10 years.. Bums were everywhere even 10 years ago.. I won't go near SF at all anymore

Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2024 01:35 PM (IyPmt)

144 The Democratic Party challenged the eligibility of these candidates, citing concerns over siphoning votes from Vice President Kamala Harris in a crucial swing state.

———

Repubs ought to sue to kick Kamala off the ballot because of the Dems breaking the rules. At the very least her FEC paperwork is bogus.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 27, 2024 01:35 PM (9MTJm)

145 The media are breathlessly promoting polls showing Kamala ahead everywhere, but here are Democrats scraping any votes they can from the fringiest of fringe parties. Draw your own conclusions.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 27, 2024 01:29 PM (CwhoI)

=======

National polls showing her up by 7 but battleground polls showing her up by 1 or 2.

It doesn't add up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 27, 2024 01:31 PM (GBKbO)
______

Well, when they take the poll in San Francisco with D+15 participation, you tend to get a result with the Dum candidate -- whoever it is -- up by a substantial amount. I will bet anyone any amount of money their internal polls show her in deep shit. That's why they're acting how they're acting.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 27, 2024 01:35 PM (iFTx/)

146 Even Rasmussen is showing Trump losing ground.

Dems did just have their convention, so things will settle down, but I wanted an easy lay up election and we're not getting one.
Posted by: Blago

Trump was losing badly in the polls around this time in 2016 and 2020, so I'm not too concerned it's happening again.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 27, 2024 01:35 PM (JCZqz)

147 Even Rasmussen is showing Trump losing ground.

Dems did just have their convention, so things will settle down, but I wanted an easy lay up election and we're not getting one.
Posted by: Blago at August 27, 2024 01:33 PM (wMRY

Some polls I am seeing on X has Trump up by 1 in the GE. So who knows.

Posted by: IC - #FJB at August 27, 2024 01:35 PM (ZtyUu)

148 The fraud problem is much, much bigger than people want to admit.

I think prior to 2020 it generally was less then a couple of percent but since then we are talking tens of millions nationwide...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2024 01:35 PM (oZhjI)

149 Opera >>>> Ballet

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 27, 2024 01:35 PM (v6JzV)

150 Huh.

"On February 3, 2012, Judge Malihi dismissed a challenge to President Barack Obama's appearance on Georgia's Democratic primary ballot based on claims that Obama did not meet the Constitution's citizenship requirements. Malihi ruled that the evidence to support such claims was insufficient and unpersuasive. Malihi also ruled that challenges to the citizenship of Obama's parents were irrelevant since Obama was a U.S. citizen at birth due to his being born in the United States. In January 2012, Malihi had denied the Obama administration's motion to have a challenge to Obama's ballot eligibility dismissed without a hearing"

Posted by: fd at August 27, 2024 01:35 PM (vFG9F)

151 Let's see how fast Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger gets on it, you'll know the fix is in if he waits more than a day or two.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at August 27, 2024 01:36 PM (qZdIZ)

152 145 Well, when they take the poll in San Francisco with D+15 participation, you tend to get a result with the Dum candidate -- whoever it is -- up by a substantial amount. I will bet anyone any amount of money their internal polls show her in deep shit. That's why they're acting how they're acting.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 27, 2024 01:35 PM (iFTx/)

=========

She decided to put out an ad calling for the building of a border wall because Trump is losing ground.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 27, 2024 01:36 PM (GBKbO)

153 Please keep everybody, especially Kamala & Tim, healthy. I wish they'd go back to safety protocols like masking around them. Their health is the most important thing, but I don't want either of them looking sick during debates & such. Unfortunately, optics matter. Of course it only applies to our side.

Oh Lord.. Karen much ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2024 01:36 PM (IyPmt)

154 Obviously, Harris wants to win GA as that would be it for Trump.

I think her real goal is to keep him in NC and GA and maybe AZ rather than the Great Lakes region.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee

I don't think Harris has a ghost of a chance to wind Georgia.
The "Great Lakes Region"? Ohio will go solidly for Trump, as will Indiana. Illinois will go for Harris, as will Wisconsin and Minnesota. Probably Michigan too, as that state is so rigged up, it's laughable, in a kind of sad way. Pennsylvania is "sort of" a Great Lakes State (Erie, PA is on Lake Erie). Pennsylvania is the key to the election. Harris wins it, it's a hard way for Trump to get to 270. Trump wins it, and Harris has an equally hard way to get to 270 EV's.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at August 27, 2024 01:36 PM (vcOmj)

155 Seeing a lot of previous unknown doom-speakers in the comments today.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2024 01:36 PM (IUd0M)

156 Dems did just have their convention, so things will settle down, but I wanted an easy lay up election and we're not getting one.
Posted by: Blago

Those don’t exist anymore.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 27, 2024 01:36 PM (3aXL2)

157 Actually, the new Rasmussen video does not show Trump losing ground. Shows a modest convention bump for Kamala. He said they should get better data next week.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 27, 2024 01:36 PM (dDSBl)

158 129 If that's Cardi B, imagine Cardi C.

cardi o > cardi b > cardi c

Posted by: anachronda at August 27, 2024 01:37 PM (oY6Yp)

159 148 The fraud problem is much, much bigger than people want to admit.

I think prior to 2020 it generally was less then a couple of percent but since then we are talking tens of millions nationwide...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2024 01:35 PM (oZhjI)

========

Thinking of cities and how they obviously operate...I'd assume pre-covid cheating could have been 10-15% of all ballots.

Covid shot that up to a documented 33%, at least.

Republicans just need to campaign harder, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 27, 2024 01:37 PM (GBKbO)

160 National polls showing her up by 7 but battleground polls showing her up by 1 or 2.

==

Trump is leading Harris in Top Battleground polling.

Posted by: runner at August 27, 2024 01:37 PM (V13WU)

161 The Democratic Party challenged the eligibility of Trump, citing concerns over siphoning votes from Vice President Kamala Harris in a crucial swing state.

Posted by: fd at August 27, 2024 01:37 PM (vFG9F)

162 Posted by: Blago at August 27, 2024 01:33 PM (wMRY

An easy layup election against the people trying to jail and kill our candidate.

🤣

Posted by: ... at August 27, 2024 01:37 PM (4DWWO)

163 and that is a/o 8/27

Posted by: runner at August 27, 2024 01:37 PM (V13WU)

164 We used to go every year to the SF ballet... Haven't been in 10 years.. Bums were everywhere even 10 years ago.. I won't go near SF at all anymore
Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2024

***
Miss Linda got me to take her downtown to a performance of the Nutcracker the year before the Sniffle Scare. I've gotta say I enjoyed the music and the . . . athleticism, that's it, of the ballerinas. Even back then, the area around the Saenger Theatre was pretty scruffy. I doubt it's gotten any better.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2024 01:38 PM (J2vNu)

165 Not surprising that the Dems would rely on the technicality argument, since I doubt they want legal scrutiny of their petition signatures. Was it 2008 or 2012 that we found out after the fact that Obama didn't have enough valid signatures for the Indiana primary?

Posted by: pookysgirl lives with two rules lawyers at August 27, 2024 01:38 PM (dtlDP)

166 Fucked over the actual black guy for the indian chick. Back of the bus again. You hate to see it.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at August 27, 2024 01:38 PM (Z8Yh2)

167 I had hoped to hear the judge threw them out of the helicopter.

Posted by: Roy at August 27, 2024 01:38 PM (z+ik4)

168 149 Opera >>>> Ballet

firefox > opera > ballet

Posted by: anachronda at August 27, 2024 01:38 PM (oY6Yp)

169 If Fulton County pulls that election fraud shit again where there are no images, and no signature matches, they should burn the whole place down.

Enough of the fraud.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 27, 2024 01:38 PM (mSy8I)

170 36 I'll never understand how GA became a swing state and Florida became a solid red one.
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Atlanta. Florida is much moar diverse than GA.

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 27, 2024 01:38 PM (FmapG)

171 160 National polls showing her up by 7 but battleground polls showing her up by 1 or 2.

==

Trump is leading Harris in Top Battleground polling.
Posted by: runner at August 27, 2024 01:37 PM (V13WU)

========

I wasn't talking averages, but just how the narrative is shaping up. Kamala up by 7 nationally would probably mean something like a 10 point win in places like PA.

She can't be up 7 nationally but only up by 1 or 2 in state polls showing her ahead right now. It's literally not possible.

Unless CA votes a whole lot, but then the national polling is really disconnected from how American presidential elections work.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 27, 2024 01:39 PM (GBKbO)

172 I have the paranoid suspicion that a lot of these "polls" showing Harris being up by a lot are going to be used as evidence that Republicans committed fraud if Trump wins . "Look at these polls , it had to be fraud " and then Jaime Raskin can try and not certify

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2024 01:39 PM (FkiTJ)

173 The DNC may have been the mostly highly concentrated collection of vaxxed humans on this earth.

These people are beyond help.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 27, 2024 01:39 PM (KbCG3)

174 If that's Cardi B, imagine Cardi C

That sounds like hepatitis. Now that I think about it.... Yep! Checks out!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 27, 2024 01:39 PM (4XwPj)

175 >>>She decided to put out an ad calling for the building of a border wall because Trump is losing ground.

Exactly. Neither her nor her party are acting like the public polls are matching the internals.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 27, 2024 01:39 PM (CwhoI)

176 Enough of this bullshit "respect for the law."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2024 01:29 PM (gH23d)

More to the point, respect the law but stop pretending that every asshat in a robe is named Dredd.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2024 01:40 PM (IUd0M)

177

Legal Challenges: The Democratic Party challenged the eligibility of these candidates, citing concerns over siphoning votes from Vice President Kamala Harris in a crucial swing state.

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That was their actual argument to the court? Holy shit.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 27, 2024 01:40 PM (d4X7t)

178 Actually, the new Rasmussen video does not show Trump losing ground. Shows a modest convention bump for Kamala. He said they should get better data next week.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
__

You dont see the contradiction there?

Its a zero sum game.

Posted by: Blago at August 27, 2024 01:40 PM (wMRY8)

179 Didn't Rich Baris or some other respected pollster say that Harris had to be up by at least 8% after the convention or she was toast? I think she's toast.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at August 27, 2024 01:40 PM (RXJdG)

180 "Atlanta. Florida is much moar diverse than GA."

And everything within a 60 mile radius.

Posted by: fd at August 27, 2024 01:40 PM (vFG9F)

181 7-of-9 is still pissed at Obama.

Don't piss off 7-of-9.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 27, 2024 01:40 PM (w9Wax)

182 It’s been said earlier, but it’s worth pointing out that the “national pole” that has Harris 7 points ahead does it by claiming that Trump has only 38% support.

They polled the staff of CNN and MSNBC

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 27, 2024 01:40 PM (gBVkZ)

183 175 >>>She decided to put out an ad calling for the building of a border wall because Trump is losing ground.

Exactly. Neither her nor her party are acting like the public polls are matching the internals.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 27, 2024 01:39 PM (CwhoI)

If she goes 'drill, baby, drill' next week...

Posted by: IC - #FJB at August 27, 2024 01:40 PM (ZtyUu)

184 The final decision now rests with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

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That fucking weasel.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 27, 2024 01:40 PM (+oR7L)

185
I think prior to 2020 it generally was less then a couple of percent but since then we are talking tens of millions nationwide...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2024 01:35 PM

You honestly don't believe that Biden was not more popular then Barack Obama? By ten million or more votes?

This is why I have to move to Canada.

Posted by: Karen CheChe at August 27, 2024 01:40 PM (RKVpM)

186 175 >>>She decided to put out an ad calling for the building of a border wall because Trump is losing ground.

Exactly. Neither her nor her party are acting like the public polls are matching the internals.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 27, 2024 01:39 PM (CwhoI)

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Should I believe the polls showing Kamala up by 7 more or less than the polls in 2020 showing Biden up by 15 or so?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 27, 2024 01:41 PM (GBKbO)

187 Latest Rasmussen: https://tinyurl.com/4bpnnp87

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 27, 2024 01:41 PM (dDSBl)

188 Seeing a lot of previous unknown doom-speakers in the comments today.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2024 01:36 PM (IUd0M)

Why, I've been here since Ace put up his first shelf! Honest.

Posted by: Unknown Doom-Speaker at August 27, 2024 01:41 PM (0eaVi)

189 The wild card is that there won't be oodles of Zuckerbucks to fill those Black Lesbian Mayor's purses this time around. This might have tragic consequences in counting ballots.

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 27, 2024 01:41 PM (FmapG)

190 She decided to put out an ad calling for the building of a border wall because Trump is losing ground.

Exactly. Neither her nor her party are acting like the public polls are matching the internals.
Posted by: Citizen Cake
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I've never known a presidential campaign to just decide they arent going to seek every advantage possible because they are comfortably ahead.

Posted by: Blago at August 27, 2024 01:41 PM (wMRY8)

191 Joe Biden may be forgotten, but at least he'll be amusing Russians next year:

The Russian television channel TNT has begun production on a comedy series about U.S. President Joe Biden that is set to premiere next year, the network announced Tuesday.

The show, called “Goodbye,” revolves around the American leader traveling to Russia “incognito” to find out “why his sanctions aren’t working against Russians,” TNT said in a press release.

During the visit, Biden loses his passport and finds himself trapped in Russia. He is then forced to live in a Soviet-era apartment block and work as an English teacher to save money so that he can buy a new passport for his return home.

“Meanwhile, CIA agents whisk away Russian pensioner Ivanovich, who looks just like Biden, to the United States,” TNT said.

This mirrors the plot of one of the most popular Soviet comedies: "Ivan Vasilevich Changes His Profession", where a Russian experimenter creates a time machine, and sends his obnoxious apartment manager back to the court of Ivan the Terrible, and brings Ivan the Terrible to modern-day Moscow. (The apartment manager and Ivan the Terrible were played by the same actor.)

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 27, 2024 01:41 PM (uxCna)

192 Fraud has significantly affected all elections and primaries down to the local level for most of our lives. More than most of us care to know.

"Republicans" have benefited from it repeatedly which is why they all seem to be such traitorous assholes, *and* have kept mysteriously quiet about 2020.

Posted by: ... at August 27, 2024 01:41 PM (4DWWO)

193 National polls showing her up by 7 but battleground polls showing her up by 1 or 2.

It doesn't add up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 27, 2024 01:31 PM (GBKbO)

She's up by 108% amongst Democrats in California. -- strippers

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2024 01:41 PM (IUd0M)

194 182 It’s been said earlier, but it’s worth pointing out that the “national pole” that has Harris 7 points ahead does it by claiming that Trump has only 38% support.

They polled the staff of CNN and MSNBC
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 27, 2024 01:40 PM (gBVkZ)

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That Gallup survey showing Republicans actually outnumbering Democrats for the first time...ever? That's just nonsense! Republicans are only 38%! Democrats are 45%

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 27, 2024 01:42 PM (GBKbO)

195
Is there a worse ticket possible than Harris / Wolz?

Is there a stronger message the deep state can send by declaring they won?

Posted by: Auspex at August 27, 2024 01:43 PM (j4U/Z)

196 Blago makes a post believing in a fraudulent 2020 election not a couple hours ago, and is back to questioning it now.

Did you forget to change a nic, moby?

Posted by: ... at August 27, 2024 01:43 PM (4DWWO)

197 The show, called “Goodbye,” revolves around the American leader traveling to Russia “incognito” to find out “why his sanctions aren’t working against Russians,” TNT said in a press release.

During the visit, Biden loses his passport and finds himself trapped in Russia. He is then forced to live in a Soviet-era apartment block and work as an English teacher to save money so that he can buy a new passport for his return home.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 27, 2024 01:41 PM (uxCna)

If he starts cooking meth they'll have a hit on their hands!

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at August 27, 2024 01:43 PM (VGRuw)

198
The 'shy' Trump voter in regards to pollsters is still very much in play.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 27, 2024 01:43 PM (RKVpM)

199 Blago makes a post believing in a fraudulent 2020 election not a couple hours ago, and is back to questioning it now.

Did you forget to change a nic, moby?
Posted by: ...
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I really live rent free in your head, dont I?

Posted by: Blago at August 27, 2024 01:44 PM (wMRY8)

200 =========

She decided to put out an ad calling for the building of a border wall because Trump is losing ground.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 27, 2024 01:36 PM (GBKbO)
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It's all a failure. We're going to lose.
They're going to put us on trains and
ship us to camps.
WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!

Posted by: Braenyard at August 27, 2024 01:44 PM (yZU0/)

201 "Seeing a lot of previous unknown doom-speakers in the comments today.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2024 01:36 PM (IUd0M)

Why, I've been here since Ace put up his first shelf! Honest.
Posted by: Unknown Doom-Speaker"

Many of these people just lurk, but sometimes that man makes us so mad we have to speak up.

Posted by: A lifelong Republican and charter AOS commentator at August 27, 2024 01:45 PM (vFG9F)

202 198
The 'shy' Trump voter in regards to pollsters is still very much in play.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 27, 2024 01:43 PM (RKVpM)

========

The one pattern over the past few years that aggregates of polls have shown consistently is that they underestimate, very specifically, Trump's support by something like 2-3%.

Not necessarily where the Democrat will be, but specifically where Trump's numbers will be.

And, remember, that's a curated aggregate of the "best" pollsters, not every one of them.

Also, aggregates of polls are generally bullshit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 27, 2024 01:45 PM (GBKbO)

203 There are very few "easy lay up elections." We live in a hyper-polarized country.

Also, the Democrats always poll well in August (look at 2004-2020 polling in August) and there is response bias because of the switch/convention. And of course there's the fact that Trump has over-performed the (final) national and MI/PA/WI polling both in 2016 and 2020.

Posted by: mikeybates at August 27, 2024 01:45 PM (/4qWm)

204 Imagine if Trump had just "decided" to be the candidate? Like Kamala did?

Posted by: ... at August 27, 2024 01:45 PM (4DWWO)

205 No, I don't see a contradiction. Convention is supposed to show the Party and candidate at their best. Kamala has no platform, does no interviews and gets less appealing the more you hear from her. We don't really know the effect of the Kennedy endorsement. It may not be much, but there are definitely voters going for Trump that weren't before. That video I linked tries to get a handle on who those Kennedy voters are.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 27, 2024 01:46 PM (dDSBl)

206 Elections have been queered for decades. Even in the 1960s it was a given that any Republican nationally had to be up a million votes or so just to break even. We tend to think things stay static, and they don't.

It was a given that Philly, Chicago, and Detroit elections were hopelessly corrupt, but over time the whole state of California with a boatload of EC votes was flipped. Colorado.

Controlling a few key precincts in large cities, can flip a state. Flip a few key states - and Bob's Yer Uncle. I think 2000 was a good illustration of how far the wankery goes. There is an ebb and flow to politics, and much like economic cycles, the "experts" are determined to negate electoral politics to usher in one party rule. They can't "wait" any longer. Remember the "Office of the Prezzy Elect" business? And "He needs to take office Now! We can't wait till January" etc.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 27, 2024 01:46 PM (Nuidk)

207 200+ already???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 27, 2024 01:46 PM (FnneF)

208 Administrative Law Judge Michael Malihi

Hmm, sounds Hawaiian to me.

Posted by: Cheri at August 27, 2024 01:46 PM (oiNtH)

209 Biden as an English teacher?

"Repeat after me, Class: 'My butt's been wiped.'"

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 27, 2024 01:46 PM (v6JzV)

210 I spoke with a quant I know about the polls. Solid smart math guy who people rely on for their livelihoods. The guy barely ever misses and when he does it’s by a horseshoe. He was showing me, mathematically, what complete bullshit the current polls are and how they are statistically unsound. He was also comparing their past projections and how they move as we get closer to the election. One of his conclusions was the margin of error was more like 20% not less than 10. For any poll he showed me, and some were worse. His conclusion was they are completely tanking for Kamala. Why? Draw your own conclusions…

Posted by: Marcus T at August 27, 2024 01:46 PM (UEaNM)

211 202 198
The 'shy' Trump voter in regards to pollsters is still very much in play.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 27, 2024 01:43 PM (RKVpM)

I would never tell someone here I don't know that I am voting for Trump... I want to live

Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2024 01:46 PM (IyPmt)

212 I really live rent free in your head, dont I?
Posted by: Blago at August 27, 2024 01:44 PM (wMRY

You know you are supposed to take those pills on a schedule, and not skip them because you don't like how they make you feel.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 27, 2024 01:46 PM (D7oie)

213 Removing people from a ballot because they might take votes from the preferred candidate?

You will vote our way or not at all!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 27, 2024 01:47 PM (tT6L1)

214 I really live rent free in your head, dont I?
Posted by: Blago at August 27, 2024 01:44 PM (wMRY

Karen Gillan lives rent free in my head. You, on the other hand, are here to disrupt, deflect and deny.

Posted by: ... at August 27, 2024 01:47 PM (4DWWO)

215 Many of these people just lurk, but sometimes that man makes us so mad we have to speak up.
Posted by: A lifelong Republican and charter AOS commentator at August 27, 2024 01:45 PM (vFG9F)

I'll vouch for my long time, close, personal friend, A lifelong Republican and charter AOS commentator. We used to dominate the ONTs!

Posted by: Unknown Doom-Speaker at August 27, 2024 01:48 PM (0eaVi)

216 Geez you knew democrats are really obvious.

-- Joseph Kennedy

Posted by: Archer at August 27, 2024 01:48 PM (IDphi)

217 I don't trust Kemp will do the right thing after the election. He's a rat f*cker.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 27, 2024 01:48 PM (/U5Yz)

218 For any poll he showed me, and some were worse. His conclusion was they are completely tanking for Kamala. Why? Draw your own conclusions…

Posted by: Marcus T at August 27, 2024 01:46 PM (UEaNM)

Anyone who's done error propagation calculations should suspect any poll's reported MOE under 5 points.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 27, 2024 01:48 PM (i24o9)

219 peggy: al, you knew i wanted to be a ballerina!
al: well, you've always been my nutcracker.

[classic line from a 1990s show that was actually funny.]

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 27, 2024 01:48 PM (CWTWj)

220 New. Auto cucumbers

Posted by: Archer at August 27, 2024 01:48 PM (IDphi)

221 Interesting. I don't recall Nixon copying a single thing from McGovern's campaign.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 27, 2024 01:48 PM (dDSBl)

222

The one pattern over the past few years that aggregates of polls have shown consistently is that they underestimate, very specifically, Trump's support by something like 2-3%.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 27, 2024 01:45 PM

Rasmussen was in fourth place in best polling in 2020 and underestimated Trump by 1.5%. The three that finished ahead of him? Same thing.

If Rasmussen says it's Trump by around 3% right now? Kamala should start sending her resume around.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 27, 2024 01:49 PM (RKVpM)

223 Karen Gillan lives rent free in my head.
Posted by: ...

I don't believe you. I think she "pays" you something...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 27, 2024 01:49 PM (v6JzV)

224 Karen Gillan lives rent free in my head.

Posted by: ... at August 27, 2024 01:47 PM (4DWWO)

I will fight you for her.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 27, 2024 01:49 PM (i24o9)

225 Bobby has a big following from Libertarians, he will pull half of those to Trump the other half won't go to Kamalalalaa.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 27, 2024 01:49 PM (yZU0/)

226 "Republicans have benefited from it repeatedly which is why they all seem to be such traitorous assholes, *and* have kept mysteriously quiet about 2020."

Dot Dot Dot Johnson is right!

I think what happens is you go to a trusted persons house after election, you wake up disheveled, they show you the photos, and you fall in line. The bribes take some of the sting away as you sell out your nation.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at August 27, 2024 01:49 PM (Z8Yh2)

227 210 I spoke with a quant I know about the polls. Solid smart math guy who people rely on for their livelihoods. The guy barely ever misses and when he does it’s by a horseshoe. He was showing me, mathematically, what complete bullshit the current polls are and how they are statistically unsound. He was also comparing their past projections and how they move as we get closer to the election. One of his conclusions was the margin of error was more like 20% not less than 10. For any poll he showed me, and some were worse. His conclusion was they are completely tanking for Kamala. Why? Draw your own conclusions…
Posted by: Marcus T at August 27, 2024 01:46 PM (UEaNM)

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That's another thing about polls that you imply:

The margin of error. It's not 3% (or whatever) overall. It's 3% per data point.

A poll showing 45-45? It could be 42-48, or 48-42.

The margin for error on these things is actually quite large. What you end up just getting, at best, is a herding effect where people trying to do it right all kind of end up coalescing around similar numbers (why aggregates seem accurate but are still actually bullshit because if you average two statistics, it increases the MOE).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 27, 2024 01:50 PM (GBKbO)

228 Newly fatal epidemic disease discovered:

https://tinyurl.com/yc7pcdwb

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 27, 2024 01:50 PM (Jq918)

229 Karen Gillan lives rent free in my head.

Posted by: ... at August 27, 2024 01:47 PM (4DWWO)

I will fight you for her.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

I got winner.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 27, 2024 01:50 PM (CIS44)

230 peggy: al, you knew i wanted to be a ballerina!
al: well, you've always been my nutcracker.

[classic line from a 1990s show that was actually funny.]

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 27, 2024 01:48 PM (CWTWj)

I really thought the ballet puns were going to get legs.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 27, 2024 01:50 PM (i24o9)

231 I spoke with a quant I know about the polls. Solid smart math guy who people rely on for their livelihoods. The guy barely ever misses and when he does it’s by a horseshoe. He was showing me, mathematically, what complete bullshit the current polls are and how they are statistically unsound. He was also comparing their past projections and how they move as we get closer to the election. One of his conclusions was the margin of error was more like 20% not less than 10. For any poll he showed me, and some were worse. His conclusion was they are completely tanking for Kamala. Why? Draw your own conclusions…
Posted by: Marcus T
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The problem with polling is you cant force someone to participate or answer honestly.

The other is the raw results are then run through a modeling that no one agrees on. And always seems to favor Democrats.

They always mysteriously swing towards Republicans in the final days.

All that being said, I miss the flawed polls showing Biden getting slaughtered by Trump.

Posted by: Blago at August 27, 2024 01:50 PM (wMRY8)

232 I don't believe you. I think she "pays" you something...
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 27, 2024 01:49 PM (v6JzV)

I might be the one paying, even in my own head. I have very low self esteem

Posted by: ... at August 27, 2024 01:50 PM (4DWWO)

233
That was their actual argument to the court? Holy shit.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
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Well, it worked, didn't it.

Posted by: Zombie Harry Reid at August 27, 2024 01:50 PM (XeU6L)

234 If Rasmussen says it's Trump by around 3% right now?

If Trump gets a majority of the popular vote, he wins, and wins bigly.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 27, 2024 01:50 PM (uxCna)

235 It's all a failure. We're going to lose.
They're going to put us on trains and
ship us to camps.
WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!

Posted by: Braenyard at August 27, 2024 01:44 PM (yZU0/)

Which is why we declare we want the top bunk *now* rather than later. At least the smart Morons do, anyway.

Posted by: pookysgirl might be too klutzy for the top bunk at August 27, 2024 01:50 PM (dtlDP)

236 228 Newly fatal epidemic disease discovered:

https://tinyurl.com/yc7pcdwb
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 27, 2024 01:50 PM (Jq91

LOL... Good one

Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2024 01:51 PM (IyPmt)

237 they said, 'by any means necessary'

biased judges with thumbs on scales is part of that

Posted by: Don Black at August 27, 2024 01:51 PM (/7KEl)

238 I got winner.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 27, 2024 01:50 PM (CIS44)

Darn. If you wanted the loser I would give up now, big boy.

Posted by: ... at August 27, 2024 01:51 PM (4DWWO)

239 "I really thought the ballet puns were going to get legs.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon"

Me tutu.

Posted by: A lifelong Republican and charter AOS commentator at August 27, 2024 01:51 PM (vFG9F)

240 Karen Gillan lives rent free in my head. You, on the other hand, are here to disrupt, deflect and deny.
Posted by: ...
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You're obsessed with my and I'm flattered.

But just for the record, I literally discussed the real voter fraud that happened in GA and you're still whining?

Posted by: Blago at August 27, 2024 01:51 PM (wMRY8)

241 She decided to put out an ad calling for the building of a border wall because Trump is losing ground.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 27, 2024 01:36 PM (GBKbO)

Alll bad theater. I love her camp saying that Trump doesn't want mics unmuted throughout the debate because he might say something stupid. No, that's your candidate that you've hitched your star to. Enjoy.

Posted by: Cheri at August 27, 2024 01:52 PM (oiNtH)

242 I don't know enough ballet to terminology to make ballet puns.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 27, 2024 01:52 PM (v6JzV)

243 Behold the precious democracy democrats hold so sacred!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 27, 2024 01:53 PM (17s+e)

244 I don't know enough ballet to terminology to make ballet puns.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 27, 2024 01:52 PM (v6JzV)
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You're on point with this comment.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 27, 2024 01:53 PM (tT6L1)

245 Maybe Blado IS Karen Gillan...?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 27, 2024 01:53 PM (v6JzV)

246 You're obsessed with my and I'm flattered.

But just for the record, I literally discussed the real voter fraud that happened in GA and you're still whining?
Posted by: Blago at August 27, 2024 01:51 PM (wMRY

Just stop. I get what you're here to do and I'm mostly okay with it because others know too.

Posted by: ... at August 27, 2024 01:53 PM (4DWWO)

247 I'm a pessimist and even I don't believe Kamala has a lead... It's the cheat I'm worried about... Once bitten twice shy

Posted by: It's me donna at August 27, 2024 01:53 PM (IyPmt)

248 155 Seeing a lot of previous unknown doom-speakers in the comments today.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August

My doom is cyclical. I am trying though! My default is sunshine and I am doing my best.

Posted by: Piper at August 27, 2024 01:53 PM (pZEOD)

249 I don't know enough ballet to terminology to make ballet puns.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 27, 2024 01:52 PM (v6JzV)

But you'll tiptoe around the topic?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 27, 2024 01:54 PM (i24o9)

250 I think Harris wants Trump to make any sound while she is answering, so she can say her signature “i am speaking” garbage. Its all about memes for her.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 27, 2024 01:54 PM (7PziG)

251 At least we haven't had any 'Severely Conservative Decorated Military Veterans' show up yet.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 27, 2024 01:54 PM (XeU6L)

252 I saw Cylical Doom open for...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 27, 2024 01:54 PM (v6JzV)

253 I don't know enough ballet to terminology to make ballet puns.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 27, 2024 01:52 PM (v6JzV)

You're just not Gudonov.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at August 27, 2024 01:54 PM (RXJdG)

254 Karen Gillan lives rent free in my head. You, on the other hand, are here to disrupt, deflect and deny.

He's a little clever, at least. "Oh, no, everybody look at the fake polls I chose!"

He doesn't realize that these fake polls also trap the D's into keeping Kamala.

Posted by: t-bird at August 27, 2024 01:54 PM (7FFC8)

255 6 Legal Challenges: The Democratic Party challenged the eligibility of these candidates, citing concerns over siphoning votes from Vice President Kamala Harris in a crucial swing state.

who knew that was illegal?
Posted by: anachronda at August 27, 2024 01:12 PM (oY6Yp)

I didn't know it was openly acknowledged as cause

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at August 27, 2024 01:54 PM (xcxpd)

256 I think Harris wants Trump to make any sound while she is answering, so she can say her signature “i am speaking” garbage. Its all about memes for her.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee

He should just rip a huge belch into the mic while shes blabbering on about what has been.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 27, 2024 01:55 PM (CIS44)

257 Ace should bar ballet puns.

Posted by: A lifelong Republican and charter AOS commentator at August 27, 2024 01:55 PM (vFG9F)

258 244 I don't know enough ballet to terminology to make ballet puns.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 27, 2024 01:52 PM (v6JzV)
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You're on point with this comment.

and twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom

Posted by: anachronda at August 27, 2024 01:55 PM (oY6Yp)

259 I don't know enough ballet to terminology to make ballet puns.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 27, 2024 01:52 PM (v6JzV)

But you'll tiptoe around the topic?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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Let's try to stay on point.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 27, 2024 01:55 PM (XeU6L)

260 I don't know enough ballet to terminology to make ballet puns.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 27, 2024 01:52 PM (v6JzV)

I'm toe-tally the same.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 27, 2024 01:55 PM (LxER7)

261 I know nothing about Georgia but saw the Rinos there turn NeverTrump in 2020 and let it go to Sundowner and

Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2024 01:55 PM (fwDg9)

262 I don't know enough ballet to terminology to make ballet puns.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 27, 2024

***
Grand jete (I'm missing the accent over the second e), elevee, pas de deux. And that pretty much cleans me up with ballet. My one dance class in college was a looong time ago.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2024 01:55 PM (J2vNu)

263 Speaking of GA, I just ordered houndstooth socks for the studio and I have to hide this from J. We shall see what Alabama does under their new coach, but as always, Go Dawgs!

Posted by: Piper at August 27, 2024 01:56 PM (pZEOD)

264 256 I think Harris wants Trump to make any sound while she is answering, so she can say her signature “i am speaking” garbage. Its all about memes for her.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee

He should just rip a huge belch into the mic while shes blabbering on about what has been.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 27, 2024 01:55 PM (CIS44)

"I'm speaking."

"You, but you aren't saying anything."

Game. Over.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 27, 2024 01:56 PM (KbCG3)

265 Let's try to stay on point.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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*note to self: always read upthread before commenting*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 27, 2024 01:56 PM (XeU6L)

266
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 27, 2024 01:52 PM (v6JzV)

You've been thrown off the ballet.

Posted by: Georgia Administrative Law Judge at August 27, 2024 01:56 PM (wGerL)

267 248 155 Seeing a lot of previous unknown doom-speakers in the comments today.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August

My doom is cyclical.

my doom involves an abandoned base on mars crawling with monsters.

Posted by: anachronda at August 27, 2024 01:56 PM (oY6Yp)

268 I'm sorry. The Democrats' argument is that this puts Harris at a disadvantage?

Objection, your honor?

On what grounds?

I don't like it.

I concur. Overruled.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 27, 2024 01:56 PM (Ectld)

269 It was actually some pretty interesting stuff. He was showing how a small statistical analysis in a poll is related to other factors that are largely not considered, but are very relevant to a correct outcome. He was also showing how that small statistical analysis could be corrupted simply by bias in the core measurements, and that by deliberately not correlating to other factors, like say, turnout models, voter approval on key issues, even weather on Election Day the poll could usually immediately be disproven. He was also showing me some new analysis he was doing that looked at percentage of mail in ballots, and even harvesting that in many cases were actually responsible for more than 100% turnout in some places, which is obviously impossible.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 27, 2024 01:56 PM (UEaNM)

270 Let's try to stay on point.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 27, 2024 01:55 PM (XeU6L)

A plie that is sure to fall upon deaf ears.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2024 01:56 PM (TADI7)

271 You're just not Gudonov.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at August 27, 2024

***
I was in college before I realized that Boris Badenov's name was a play on that one.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2024 01:56 PM (J2vNu)

272 265 Let's try to stay on point.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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*note to self: always read upthread before commenting*

where's the fun in *that*?

Posted by: anachronda at August 27, 2024 01:57 PM (oY6Yp)

273 Funny this happened right after RFK Jr. endorsed Trump and moved to remove his name from swing state ballots, so it's really just removing the third party candidates who draw from Kumswalla under the guise that it applies to all third party candidates.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at August 27, 2024 01:57 PM (ssz2a)

274 "I'm speaking"

"Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Let me know when you're done."

Posted by: ... at August 27, 2024 01:57 PM (4DWWO)

275 You're just not Gudonov.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell

True. I'm not barre-ish enough.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 27, 2024 01:57 PM (v6JzV)

276 Oh, yes: plie (accent over the e) and pirouette.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2024 01:57 PM (J2vNu)

277 Go Dawgs!
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I find this tiresome.

[sips clear whiskey]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 27, 2024 01:57 PM (XeU6L)

278 240 Karen Gillan lives rent free in my head. You, on the other hand, are here to disrupt, deflect and deny.
Posted by: ...
___

I can see why the obsession, not my type, but I appreciate the obsession.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 27, 2024 01:58 PM (yZU0/)

279 might be the one paying, even in my own head. I have very low self esteem
Posted by: ...

Places finger under dotty's chin, lifts, draws finger nail to bottom lip traces line.....

You Will consider yourself remarkable from now on. Noncompliance will annoy me. Do. Not. Annoy. Me.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 27, 2024 01:58 PM (4XwPj)

280 262 I don't know enough ballet to terminology to make ballet puns.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 27, 2024

***
Grand jete

this is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: boeing at August 27, 2024 01:58 PM (oY6Yp)

281 I think Harris wants Trump to make any sound while she is answering, so she can say her signature “i am speaking” garbage

==

If your best play is known to the opponent....it ain't good no more.

Posted by: runner at August 27, 2024 01:58 PM (V13WU)

282 Two, two. Two punz in one!

Posted by: Nut Kraken at August 27, 2024 01:58 PM (DobEs)

283 you'll take these ballet puns tutu far, and then all bets are off

Posted by: Don Black at August 27, 2024 01:58 PM (/7KEl)

284 Brian Kemp appointed Malihi, not a "real" democrat.

Posted by: enough Bullshit at August 27, 2024 01:59 PM (2NXcZ)

285 "You Will consider yourself remarkable from now on. Noncompliance will annoy me. Do. Not. Annoy. Me."

Lol. Nothing causes self esteem to blossom quite like threatening someone and letting them know you're disappointed in them.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 27, 2024 01:59 PM (Ectld)

286 I was in college before I realized that Boris Badenov's name was a play on that one.

And here I thought the 'Gudunov' comment was a joke playing off the Badenov name. I went to the wrong college.

Posted by: t-bird at August 27, 2024 01:59 PM (7FFC8)

287 my doom involves an abandoned base on mars crawling with monsters.
Posted by: anachronda
---------------------------------

My doom is an empty liquor cabinet.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 27, 2024 02:00 PM (yZU0/)

288
Debate.

Let her look at her crib sheets. Let her interrupt Trump on the open mikes. Let little Steffi feed her the pre-arranged questions and shoot poisoned elephant gun rounds the other way.

Get her out in the open, scripted, coiffured, and filmed in Vaseline-covered lens in soft light.

Posted by: Auspex at August 27, 2024 02:00 PM (j4U/Z)

289 17 I have no doubt that Shemp and Ratshitburger will come through for the Dims just like they did in 2020.
Posted by: Bert G at August 27, 2024 01:14 PM (VARTN)

Shemp it is, and yes Malihi is his doing.

Posted by: enough Bullshit at August 27, 2024 02:00 PM (2NXcZ)

290 In the debate, Trump should fart and waive it at Harris.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 27, 2024 02:00 PM (UEaNM)

291 Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 27, 2024 01:58 PM (4XwPj)

LMAO, and get the hell out of my head woman.

Posted by: ... at August 27, 2024 02:00 PM (4DWWO)

292 @Madammayem, thing is, it's tempting to annoy you because you are the mistress of invective.

I, personally, will accept no substitutes.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 27, 2024 02:00 PM (tT6L1)

293 I'm sorry. The Democrats' argument is that this puts Harris at a disadvantage?

Objection, your honor?

On what grounds?

I don't like it.

I concur. Overruled.
Posted by: Ribbed
----

So much for 'Our Precious Democracy'.
Were it not for hypocrisy, Democrats would have no 'values' at all.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 27, 2024 02:00 PM (XeU6L)

294 "Vaseline-covered"

Didn't realize it was going to be that sort of "debate".

Posted by: Ribbed at August 27, 2024 02:00 PM (Ectld)

295 249 I don't know enough ballet to terminology to make ballet puns.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 27, 2024 01:52 PM (v6JzV)

But you'll tiptoe around the topic?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 27, 2024 01:54 PM (i24o9)

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Ballet puns are always en pointe!

Posted by: No One Of Consequence at August 27, 2024 02:01 PM (F4bAW)

296 Also, being cast as the Sugar Plum Fairy in a real ballet is something coveted. The Grand Pas de Deux is extremely technical. It’s a tradition and knowing what goes into it, from someone who danced but would never, ever, ever make it into a real ballet, something to watch when done by a strong company.

Posted by: Piper at August 27, 2024 02:01 PM (pZEOD)

297 I think Harris wants Trump to make any sound while she is answering, so she can say her signature “i am speaking” garbage. Its all about memes for her.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee

I think that you are right. Maybe a well timed fart from Trump would add to the ambience. Well timed as when she tells one her absurd lies he can let one rip. The most beautiful, biggest, and if you want to know the truth, the most stupendous flatulence that you've ever heard!

Posted by: Cheri at August 27, 2024 02:01 PM (oiNtH)

298 Shot myself in the head>>> opera

Posted by: nurse ratched, certified weirdo at August 27, 2024 02:02 PM (CDGpN)

299 @Madammayem, thing is, it's tempting to annoy you because you are the mistress of invective.

I, personally, will accept no substitutes.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing

She and YD make quite the team!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 27, 2024 02:02 PM (v6JzV)

300 Underwear drawer = Port de bras.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at August 27, 2024 02:02 PM (JCLJi)

301 283 you'll take these ballet puns tutu far, and then all bets are off
Posted by: Don Black at August 27, 2024

Sometimes they are pointless, though.

Posted by: Piper at August 27, 2024 02:02 PM (pZEOD)

302 The other is the raw results are then run through a modeling that no one agrees on. And always seems to favor Democrats.
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This is why--despite "unskew the polls" being one of the biggest cons we fell for-- I still won't trust the polls.

Because they all base, to some degree, their models on the news. And they all have unconscious bias simply from reading any news.
I take them as more of a temperature reported by an old man wetting his finger.
Close, yes.
Accurate, no.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2024 02:02 PM (gH23d)

303 One thing that surprised my about Karen Gillian - she got her career start because she's beautiful and then once she could start picking her roles she went with some unrecognizable superhero character where her hotness didn't matter or come through in the role.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2024 02:03 PM (oZhjI)

304 Because bras are boats. The french have such a fun way of approaching sexuality.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 27, 2024 02:03 PM (Ectld)

305 i THINK those are the words of the person who wrote the story, not the words that appeared in the actual complaint

Posted by: Don Black at August 27, 2024 02:03 PM (/7KEl)

306 you'll take these ballet puns tutu far, and then all bets are off

Posted by: Don Black at August 27, 2024 01:58 PM (/7KEl)

You have a pointe. Then the shoe will be on the other foot.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 27, 2024 02:03 PM (i24o9)

307 Underwear drawer = Port de bras.

==

It's not port de brasserie ????

Posted by: runner at August 27, 2024 02:03 PM (V13WU)

308 We can thank Seven of Nine Star Trek Voyager actress Jeri Ryan for Barkey getting into office.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at August 27, 2024 02:04 PM (JSF6W)

309 Gov. Kemp should order the Georgia National Guard (armed, live ammo), to stand guard over the ballots and counting, at every such location in the State of Georgia.

That's just to secure the facilities against interlopers or rogue "plumbers".

Tabulation Security to be effected by every County Sherrif in the State, while under the protection of the aforementioned National Guard.

I don't think the (d)ommunists would then be able to run the (r)etards out of the Counting Centers, but nor then would LaQuisha be double/triple running stacks of ballots through the counting machines, either.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 27, 2024 02:04 PM (kQgoX)

310 Who was that hottie ginger ballerina in The Red Shoes? Mmmmmmmmm...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 27, 2024 02:04 PM (v6JzV)

311 In the debate, Trump should fart and waive it at Harris.
Posted by: Marcus T

We're on the same wave length @ 297....scary!

Posted by: Cheri at August 27, 2024 02:04 PM (oiNtH)

312 302 This is why--despite "unskew the polls" being one of the biggest cons we fell for-- I still won't trust the polls.

Because they all base, to some degree, their models on the news. And they all have unconscious bias simply from reading any news.
I take them as more of a temperature reported by an old man wetting his finger.
Close, yes.
Accurate, no.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 27, 2024 02:02 PM (gH23d)

========

Unskew the polls could have worked, if you had gone back to the original data and applied a different model.

That's not what unskew the polls was doing, though.

Also, Brenda Sykes stealing Florida from her perch in Broward County had a say in the 2012 election.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 27, 2024 02:05 PM (GBKbO)

313 @309 Jim

Kemp would never risk irritating the Atlanta black voters.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 27, 2024 02:05 PM (Ectld)

314 If you open Xi Jinping pocket you'll find Kemp in there.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 27, 2024 02:05 PM (/U5Yz)

315 Underwear drawer = Port de bras.

==

It's not port de brasserie ????
Posted by: runner

Port de Thong

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 27, 2024 02:05 PM (m5o7j)

316 letting them know you're disappointed in them.
Posted by: Ribbed

Not disappointed, annoyed. Everyone on this board is worth their weight in gold. That some don't see that clearly is frustrating and annoying. There is a huge difference between those two and disappointment. I will continue to encourage people here to see and know their worth by any means I choose. Your approval is neither desired nor required.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 27, 2024 02:05 PM (4XwPj)

317 Let them carry M-14's. The butt of an M-14 can be quite convincing.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 27, 2024 02:05 PM (yZU0/)

318 I don't know any quants.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2024 02:06 PM (63Dwl)

319 Also, being cast as the Sugar Plum Fairy in a real ballet is something coveted.

Ballet? Is that what that is? Damn. -- Pete Buttigieg

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2024 02:07 PM (IUd0M)

320 Port de Thong
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices
---------------------------------

Parte di Thong

Posted by: Braenyard at August 27, 2024 02:07 PM (yZU0/)

321 Anyone wanna guess (no cheating !) what à tour de bras is ??

Posted by: runner at August 27, 2024 02:07 PM (V13WU)

322 "Your approval is neither desired nor required."

Yeah, noted. Back at you, toots.

Posted by: Ribbed at August 27, 2024 02:07 PM (Ectld)

323 Underwear drawer = Port de bras.

==

It's not port de brasserie ????
Posted by: runner

Port de Thong

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 27, 2024 02:05 PM (m5o7j)

Imma raid that port like frogmen on a secret mission.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 27, 2024 02:07 PM (i24o9)

324 Kemp's term is almost up and he's going to run for Senate. He's not about to burn any bridges.

Posted by: fd at August 27, 2024 02:07 PM (vFG9F)

325 I'll never understand how GA became a swing state and Florida became a solid red one.

Georgia went for Dubya by 16 points.

—

States don’t stay static politically.

California voted for Reagan by 16 in 1984. Vermont was one of only 2 states to vote against FDR in 1936. Today it elects Bernie as its senator.
West Virginia was once a solid blue state. Now it’s one of the most red. Things are always changing.

Posted by: Write it off Jerry at August 27, 2024 02:07 PM (smVi0)

326 Anyone wanna guess (no cheating !) what à tour de bras is ??
Posted by: runner at August 27, 2024

***
Literally, a "show of arms"?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2024 02:07 PM (J2vNu)

327 Our Democracy, Our Judges, Our Electors, Our Votes.

Who the hell do you think you are, citizen.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2024 02:07 PM (dGCAG)

328 If she wants to do the whole 'I'm speaking' thing, it's only effective if you are standing. Do that when you are sitting down and you look like a dumbass.

Posted by: IC - #FJB at August 27, 2024 02:08 PM (ZtyUu)

329 I don't know any quants.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2024 02:06 PM (63Dwl)

Gotta go to the farmer's market. You can pick quants there. All you want.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 27, 2024 02:08 PM (0eaVi)

330 Kemp's term is almost up and he's going to run for Senate. He's not about to burn any bridges.

Well, someone blew up his staffer/daughter's boyfriend in 2020 I suspect that is still on his mind...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 27, 2024 02:08 PM (oZhjI)

331 If she wants to do the whole 'I'm speaking' thing, it's only effective if you are standing. Do that when you are sitting down and you look like a dumbass.
Posted by: IC - #FJB at August 27, 2024

***
She'll look petulant.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2024 02:08 PM (J2vNu)

332 It's all a failure. We're going to lose.
They're going to put us on trains and
ship us to camps.
WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!
Posted by: Braenyard

I heard this in The Hysterical Sally Kohn's voice.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 27, 2024 02:09 PM (bysRM)

333 I think that you are right. Maybe a well timed fart from Trump would add to the ambience. Well timed as when she tells one her absurd lies he can let one rip. The most beautiful, biggest, and if you want to know the truth, the most stupendous flatulence that you've ever heard!
Posted by: Cheri at August 27, 2024 02:01 PM

Pffft.

Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA & Cuck-CCP) at August 27, 2024 02:09 PM (a3Q+t)

334
Which is why we declare we want the top bunk *now* rather than later. At least the smart Morons do, anyway.
----------------
Be sure to keep your wristwatch in your ass.

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 27, 2024 02:09 PM (FmapG)

335 Literally, a "show of arms"?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2024 02:07 PM (J2vNu)

...warm-ish

Posted by: runner at August 27, 2024 02:09 PM (V13WU)

336 Let them carry M-14's. The butt of an M-14 can be quite convincing.
Posted by: Braenyard
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With fixed bayonets.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 27, 2024 02:09 PM (XeU6L)

337 Bras means arm in French. So something to do with arms?

Posted by: Write it off Jerry at August 27, 2024 02:10 PM (smVi0)

338 NOOD

Bush staffer tards

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 27, 2024 02:10 PM (FnneF)

339 321 with all strength, might

Posted by: Piper at August 27, 2024 02:10 PM (pZEOD)

340 Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 27, 2024 02:05 PM (4XwPj)

I presume you know I wasn't being flip in my response to you btw. I appreciate you.

Posted by: ... at August 27, 2024 02:10 PM (4DWWO)

341 Nood. Lifelong Republicans.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 27, 2024 02:10 PM (IUd0M)

342 What is a Blago?

_________
20 dollars same as in town.

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at August 27, 2024 02:10 PM (nvKZ7)

343 I don't know any quants.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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John Derbyshire

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 27, 2024 02:10 PM (XeU6L)

344 Literally, a "show of arms"?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2024
*
...warm-ish
Posted by: runner at August 27, 2024

***
Well, then, I'll guess "a show of hands" or something to do with presenting weapons ("arms")?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 27, 2024 02:11 PM (J2vNu)

345 don't know any quants.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 27, 2024 02:06 PM

Given the blog's sneering disdain for math in any of its forms, you're unlikely to find many here.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 27, 2024 02:11 PM (a3Q+t)

346 Kemp's term is almost up and he's going to run for Senate. He's not about to burn any bridges.
Posted by: fd at August 27, 2024 02:07 PM (vFG9F)

Unless his son in law happens to be on that bridge.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 27, 2024 02:11 PM (dGCAG)

347 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 27, 2024 02:11 PM (Zz0t1)

348 Trump's response to Harris's "I'm speaking" should be "no you're babbling and cackling , stop it"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 27, 2024 02:12 PM (FkiTJ)

349 This decision follows a series of legal challenges brought by the state Democratic Party, which argued that these candidates might divert votes from Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, in a state where President Joe Biden won by a slim margin in 2020.

Um, so? That's the chance you take when you have multiple party ballots. You can't just complain they'll cost you votes, so they shouldn't be allowed to run.

I'm QUITE SURE, much like the illegal alien problem, if they were syphoning from Trump, you'd be A-OK with them running.

Democrats suck. They want one party rule, period. They're willing to destroy this country to do it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 27, 2024 02:13 PM (Zz0t1)

350 This is why--despite "unskew the polls" being one of the biggest cons we fell for-- I still won't trust the polls.

This 'fortification process' for the polls works for elections, too, and keeps the results in line.

Posted by: t-bird at August 27, 2024 02:13 PM (Rfq0b)

351 with full force , or with all might

Posted by: runner at August 27, 2024 02:14 PM (V13WU)

352 "Our Democracy" ?? Naah, they keep spelling it wrong: Properly, it's "our Democrats, see?"

Posted by: Doo-Dah, Doo-Dah at August 27, 2024 02:18 PM (f7l8l)

353 I'll never understand how Georgia became a swing state and Florida became a solid red one.

There are two main reasons. One is that Georgia has become much less white since 2004 (when as you say Bush won it easily). In the 2000 Census, it was 63% non-Hispanic white, now it is 50%. Florida had a similar shift, though, which brings me to the second point.

The black population of Georgia is about 30% whereas in Florida it is 15%. So the non-white vote in Georgia is much more Democratic (because a greater portion are black) as compared to Florida. A large number of black people from northern cities have moved to greater Atlanta, for example. So this is a big part of the reason that the GOP has done much better in Miami-Dade as compared to Fulton County.

As a result, a small drop in the white share voting GOP in Georgia (e.g., winning 68% instead of 71%) will now sink a Republican, whereas in 2004 it just meant the candidate wins by less.

And while I am not a Trump-basher, he didn't exactly help us win the Georgia senate seats in 2020/21 or 2022.

Posted by: mikeybates at August 27, 2024 02:27 PM (/4qWm)

354 Because in Dhimmieland democracy means limiting choices to those that Dhimmies approve of, no others are allowed. Just like in the USSR.

Posted by: Jane at August 27, 2024 03:25 PM (bXvrr)

355 If you are getting a $150,000 20% down payment assistance from the state, you are buying a $750,000 home and borrowing another $600,000 from a lender. To get that kind of money you have to be making roughly $200,000, as an illegal.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson Trump/Vance 2024 at August 27, 2024 04:02 PM (wGerL)

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