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"Chaos" In the France As Macron Refuses to Choose a Prime Minister, Leaving Country Without a Government; Critics Say He's Keeping All Power to Himself, Like a Tyrant, and May Be Impeached
Macron did a dirty deal with the communists to eke out a... draw with the National Rally.
Part of the deal, I guess, was that he would appoint a communist or far-left socialist as Prime Minister. It's the Prime Minister who actually forms and runs the government in France. But Macron isn't following through on his deal, leaving France without an actual government -- and drawing complaints that he is currently an illegal tyrant.The leftist coalition, the NFP, says negotiations are over, except to discuss which far-left asshole to appoint as PM.
France has been plunged into further political chaos after Emmanuel Macron refused to name a prime minister from the leftwing coalition that won the most parliamentary seats in the snap election last month. The president had hoped consultations would break the political deadlock caused by the election that left the Assemblée Nationale divided into three roughly equal blocks -- left, centre and far right -- none of which has a majority of seats. After two days of talks with party and parliamentary leaders to break the stalemate and allow him to name a prime minister with cross-party support, Macron's decision not to choose the New Popular Front's candidate was met with anger and threats of impeachment. ... A government formed by the leftwing alliance the New Popular Front (NFP) -- comprising France Unbowed (LFI), the Socialist party (PS), the Greens (EELV) and the Communist party (PCF) -- would lead to an immediate vote of no confidence and a collapse of the government, Macron said explaining his decision. "Such a government would immediately have a majority of more than 350 MPs against it, effectively preventing it from acting," Macron added. "In view of the opinions expressed by the political leaders consulted, the institutional stability of our country means that this option should not be pursued."
... After Monday's announcement, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the LFI president, accused Macron of creating an "exceptionally serious situation". "The popular and political response must be swift and firm," Mélenchon said. LFI called for demonstrations urging the president to "respect democracy" and said it would present a motion of impeachment of Macron. "The president of the republic does not recognise the result of universal suffrage, which placed the New Popular Front at the top of the polls," it said in a statement. "He refuses to appoint Lucie Castets as prime minister. Under these conditions, the motion of impeachment will be presented by LFI MPs. Any proposal for a prime minister other than Lucie Castets will be subject to a motion of censure." Marine Tondelier, secretary general of the Greens, said the president's action was "a disgrace" and "dangerous democratic irresponsibility".
Leftwing leader Melenchon issued the "solemn warning" to impeach Macron.
But LeMonde thinks this is unlikely to go anywhere:
In an open letter published in the newspaper La Tribune dimanche, Mélenchon and his top deputies accuse President Emmanuel Macron of an "institutional coup de force" and "abuse of power." In their "solemn warning," they call on the president to "accept the results of the legislative elections" and appoint the NFP's candidate Lucie Castets as prime minister, failing which LFI would trigger Article 68 of the Constitution, which allows the president to be removed from office in the event of a "dereliction of duty." LFI's initiative was prepared in secret, without its NFP allies. They only warned their partners by text message on Saturday that the text would be released the following day.
Realistically, an Article 68 procedure would have no chance of success, given the current parliamentary balance. A resolution must first be passed by a two-thirds majority in both chambers of Parliament. Then a high court made up of members from both chambers has one month to give its verdict, again requiring a two-thirds majority. The legal legitimacy of the move would also be questioned. "The head of state is in his constitutional role. In the absence of a majority, he consults the political groups in order to appoint a prime minister," said the Elysée Palace, denouncing "a fuss that is hardly in keeping with the spirit of the Republic and the letter of the Constitution" and adding that LFI has a "taste for disorder that is hardly reassuring."
Via Al Jazeera, Macron is claiming that the communists who he did a dirty deal with must now "cooperate," by which he means: Even though I did a dirty deal with them that gave them the most seats, I want them to agree to a PM from my minority party.
"The Socialist Party, the Greens and the Communists have not proposed ways to cooperate with other political forces. It is now up to them to do so," he said. ... [W]hile he mentioned the Greens, Socialists and Communists in his statement, he left out the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI), which also forms part of the NFP. Macron has previously referred to the LFI as an "extreme movement". The centre and right-wing parties also criticised the NFP's big spending manifesto, as it comes at a time when the country faces a budget deficit and a debt mountain.Although Macron has picked a "caretaker" acting PM, that PM has not been voted on by the National Assembly and therefore has no actual constitutional right to govern. I'm not sure what all this means. My hope would be that the crisis continues and forces Macron to call for another snap election, with the far left this time unwilling to play along with Macron, but I didn't see anyone discussing that as a real possibility.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2024 02:21 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: callsign claymore at August 28, 2024 02:22 PM (JcnCJ)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2024 02:22 PM (igHxU)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2024 02:23 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 28, 2024 02:23 PM (igHxU)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 02:23 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 28, 2024 02:23 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Critic . . . at August 28, 2024 02:23 PM (TX4bP)
Who would impeach me? Le Checkmate, bitches! -- Macron
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 28, 2024 02:23 PM (T7iTv)
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Taking the election for the far left so that actual righties don't take power has consequences.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 02:23 PM (GBKbO)
"Macron" -- isn't that French for "closeted gay"?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 28, 2024 02:24 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 28, 2024 02:24 PM (pohLc)
Posted by: The CEO of Telegram at August 28, 2024 02:25 PM (Dnobf)
Posted by: Pudinhead at August 28, 2024 02:25 PM (FmapG)
Posted by: Flyguy at August 28, 2024 02:25 PM (HA1lM)
It's clear some signal has gone out to WEF / EU types to speed up their work of destroying their assigned countries.
Posted by: callsign claymore at August 28, 2024 02:25 PM (JcnCJ)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 28, 2024 02:26 PM (pohLc)
Who was the last Frenchie to try that?
Dr. Guillotine, please pick up the red courtesy phone. Red courtesy phone for a Dr. Guillotine!
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 28, 2024 02:26 PM (iqPkc)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 28, 2024 02:26 PM (N39Ws)
Posted by: jmel at August 28, 2024 02:26 PM (RWHIh)
Posted by: illiniwek at August 28, 2024 02:26 PM (Cus5s)
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F. Joe Biden is tanned, roasted, and available!
Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 28, 2024 02:26 PM (y5V8D)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 28, 2024 02:26 PM (MpVUb)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2024 02:27 PM (ByB3C)
I always knew Macron was a sleazy scumbag. But it's glorious that his sleazy scumbaggery is fucking over the filthy stinking French commies. Let them all die miserable deaths.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 28, 2024 02:27 PM (iFTx/)
New Hotness: Let them drink the Sienne.
Posted by: Flyguy at August 28, 2024 02:25 PM (HA1lM)
After all, it was safe to swim in. Unless you swam under a bridge and felt things brush up against your leg that should never be spoken of in polite company.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 28, 2024 02:27 PM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2024 02:27 PM (dIske)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 28, 2024 02:27 PM (pbPTf)
Posted by: brak at August 28, 2024 02:27 PM (yanYw)
It's clear some signal has gone out to WEF / EU types to speed up their work of destroying their assigned countries.
Posted by: callsign claymore
Ze bugs are banging zher tin cups on zher cells' bars and zhey are demanding to be eaten!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 28, 2024 02:28 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 28, 2024 02:28 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at August 28, 2024 02:28 PM (Hpgos)
Posted by: ... at August 28, 2024 02:28 PM (4DWWO)
Posted by: Pudinhead
There's some movie that's got a scene where Claudia Cardinale and Brigitte Bardpt get into a knowck-down, drag-out fight. Saw it on YouTube.
Was kinda ashamed of how much I enjoyed it.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 02:28 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at August 28, 2024 02:28 PM (y8Vy1)
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at August 28, 2024 02:28 PM (Pe0AA)
I always knew Macron was a sleazy scumbag. But it's glorious that his sleazy scumbaggery is fucking over the filthy stinking French commies. Let them all die miserable deaths.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 28, 2024 02:27 PM (iFTx/)
It may come to just that. More and more world events are spiraling out of control. Revolutions begin this way.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 28, 2024 02:28 PM (N39Ws)
Posted by: tankdemon at August 28, 2024 02:28 PM (kE/Zd)
Posted by: Oglebay at August 28, 2024 02:29 PM (7fVdQ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 02:23 PM (GBKbO)
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Democracy Dies in Fake Orgasms.
Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 28, 2024 02:29 PM (y5V8D)
and England and Oz and Us
soon, the rest of the western nations
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 28, 2024 02:29 PM (s3qiR)
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There is no shame in being a manly man.
Posted by: Pudinhead at August 28, 2024 02:29 PM (FmapG)
Posted by: Ribbed at August 28, 2024 02:29 PM (IHRQq)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 28, 2024 02:28 PM (tT6L1)
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I could see this happening (almost exactly) in Canada in the not too distant future.
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2024 02:29 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 28, 2024 02:30 PM (jC7hV)
New Hotness: Let them drink the Sienne.
Posted by: Flyguy at August 28, 2024 02:25 PM (HA1lM)
I-- I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 28, 2024 02:31 PM (kE/Zd)
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True. This is why Wilson got us into WWI to protect the loan portfolios of the US. Never extend too much credit or someone else's son will have the cover the bet.
Posted by: Pudinhead at August 28, 2024 02:31 PM (FmapG)
Posted by: Ce gars qui pense toujours que ça commence. at August 28, 2024 02:31 PM (VdhcA)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 28, 2024 02:28 PM (tT6L1)
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I could see this happening (almost exactly) in Canada in the not too distant future.
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2024 02:29 PM (dIske)
I love how easily "Fuck it, we were gonna start burning shit down anyway" translates between french and english.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 28, 2024 02:31 PM (VoAdT)
Posted by: tankdemon at August 28, 2024 02:28 PM (kE/Zd)
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... and Make Trebuchets and Crossbows Great Again!
Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 28, 2024 02:31 PM (y5V8D)
Whoever nukes Davos during a WEF meeting will be declared King of the World by acclamation
Posted by: Chuck C at August 28, 2024 02:31 PM (yOPBE)
Posted by: Ribbed at August 28, 2024 02:31 PM (IHRQq)
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 28, 2024 02:31 PM (1FWWQ)
I could see this happening (almost exactly) in Canada in the not too distant future.
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2024 02:29 PM (dIske)
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The people have spoken! ....hahahahahaha..yeah, so what.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 28, 2024 02:32 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 28, 2024 02:32 PM (pohLc)
Macron, like Kamala, needs to have a parent with him when he carries out his constitutional duties. Macron's wife looks like his mom, so I guess that keeps the circle tight.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 28, 2024 02:32 PM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 28, 2024 02:32 PM (vsXBg)
Posted by: Cheri at August 28, 2024 02:32 PM (oiNtH)
A sane solution would have the centrist party and a rightist minority party work out a coalition government. But since Le Pen's National Rally is beyond the pale to Macron's Party and the Left, that's impossible. Macron said that there would be no coalition that included the Communists or France Unbowed, and the whole purpose of the Dirty Deal was to make sure that National Rally didn't take an outright majority in Parliament.
Posted by: mrp at August 28, 2024 02:33 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 28, 2024 02:31 PM (1FWWQ)
Mohammed's second cousin Steve went there for spring break. It's in the Hadiths, look it up.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 28, 2024 02:33 PM (VoAdT)
Posted by: Pudinhead at August 28, 2024 02:33 PM (FmapG)
When I was a pup, there was constant pressure that the parliamentary system was more responsive and our more republican system was regressive and unresponsive.
HAH
Posted by: mustbequantum at August 28, 2024 02:33 PM (eRfHZ)
No election for Ukraine until the 'conflict' is over.
AP, World News, August 20, 2024
Libya’s instability will worsen further without a unified government and elections, UN envoy says
Macron...
Looks like a plan rather than a fault.
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at August 28, 2024 02:33 PM (NFX2v)
https://tinyurl.com/34a73zks
Speech Note uses OpenAI’s Whisper speech recognition to perform local speech recognition (no remote voice capture or processing).
If you use Linux Mint, it is available in the Software Manager
>>>Speech Note let you take, read and translate notes in multiple languages. It uses Speech to Text, Text to Speech and Machine Translation to do so. Text and voice processing take place entirely offline, locally on your computer, without using a network connection. Your privacy is always respected. No data is sent to the Internet.
https://flathub.org/apps/
net.mkiol.SpeechNote
Does translation, too.
I am running it on an hour long meeting audio file, and it is incredible that it can pick up indian-english and asian-english pretty well.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 28, 2024 02:33 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Cheri at August 28, 2024 02:34 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 28, 2024 02:30 PM (jC7hV)
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Macroleon?
Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 28, 2024 02:34 PM (y5V8D)
Was kinda ashamed of how much I enjoyed it.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 02:28 PM (v6JzV)
No link? There really should be a link.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 28, 2024 02:34 PM (kE/Zd)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 28, 2024 02:30 PM (jC7hV)
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Macroleon?
Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 28, 2024 02:34 PM (y5V8D)
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Macredeux
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 28, 2024 02:34 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 28, 2024 02:34 PM (Rbu5d)
Posted by: Darth Macron at August 28, 2024 02:34 PM (OUMaO)
Libya’s instability will worsen further without a unified government and elections, UN envoy says
Macron...
Looks like a plan rather than a fault.
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Libyan Sweet Crude makes Euros Hard.
Posted by: Pudinhead at August 28, 2024 02:35 PM (FmapG)
I don't much care. Western European politics is basically insane, and all those countries deserve whatever they get and then some.
Posted by: Bunch Pinkos at August 28, 2024 02:35 PM (x5Jan)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 28, 2024 02:35 PM (pohLc)
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2024 02:35 PM (xw/ji)
The people have actively or passively worked to degrade their societies. No helping them. Just enjoy what remains and run out the clock.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 28, 2024 02:35 PM (GcNJ2)
Posted by: Oglebay at August 28, 2024 02:36 PM (7fVdQ)
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Today it'd Whoopie v. Lizzo.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at August 28, 2024 02:36 PM (L/fGl)
That's how politics works now.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2024 02:36 PM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2024 02:36 PM (ByB3C)
Posted by: tankdemon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV5p4ERHx2E
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 02:37 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2024 02:37 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Ahmed at August 28, 2024 02:37 PM (IHRQq)
Posted by: no 6 at August 28, 2024 02:37 PM (PXvVL)
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 28, 2024 02:37 PM (iFTx/)
Quelle bonne!
Macaron, probably.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 28, 2024 02:37 PM (Rbu5d)
And no one is going to do anything about it.
Until.....
And that will end in tears.
Posted by: Just Lily at August 28, 2024 02:38 PM (9jWlQ)
Posted by: Xipe Totec
Europe is too fucking stupid to self-rule any longer. Too bad their likely conquerors are probably worse.
Posted by: Brother Tim learned to stop quibbling and love the Protestant Reformation at August 28, 2024 02:38 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 28, 2024 02:38 PM (jC7hV)
Yeah, at least we get taco stands.
Posted by: Ribbed at August 28, 2024 02:38 PM (IHRQq)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 28, 2024 02:39 PM (3FjLK)
Posted by: Ribbed at August 28, 2024 02:38 PM (IHRQq)
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Spicy black bean sandwiches FTW!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 28, 2024 02:39 PM (VdhcA)
Coup in France! Can we have guillotines?
Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at August 28, 2024 02:28 PM (y8Vy1)
Coup de grace de France!
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 28, 2024 02:39 PM (Rbu5d)
Yeah, at least we get taco stands.
Posted by: Ribbed at August 28, 2024 02:38 PM (IHRQq)
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Maybe Putin can make it to Paris by Spring.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 02:39 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2024 02:37 PM (dIske)
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Never interrupt your enemy when he's in the process of destroying himself. That's attributed to Napoleon, but I'm pretty sure Sun Tzu said the same thing much earlier.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 28, 2024 02:39 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: El Mariachi at August 28, 2024 02:40 PM (nLFEI)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 28, 2024 02:40 PM (w9Wax)
Posted by: rhomboid
Basque? Northern Spain?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 28, 2024 02:40 PM (IG4Id)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 02:40 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2024 02:40 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Orson
Possibly or they are playing the long game, Chinese style, and letting the West eat its own.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 28, 2024 02:40 PM (jC7hV)
Sean Penn making a documentary about how Maduro is saving democracy, or something?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 02:40 PM (GBKbO)
We're not going to have to go rescue them again, are we?
Posted by: Ribbed at August 28, 2024 02:41 PM (IHRQq)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 02:41 PM (v6JzV)
China has traditionally played a cautious long game - which is why Red China still exists when most other communists regimes are gone.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2024 02:41 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 28, 2024 02:35 PM (pohLc)
Can we import the Maille mustard store in Paris before we do? I love that stuff.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at August 28, 2024 02:41 PM (k9OZB)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles
He'll be lucky to retake Kursk by midwinter.
Actually I wonder if Russia getting exposed got the Chinese asking some hard questions about how good their military and economic situation actually is...
Posted by: Brother Tim learned to stop quibbling and love the Protestant Reformation at August 28, 2024 02:41 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: occam's brassiere at August 28, 2024 02:41 PM (pXeye)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 28, 2024 02:40 PM (jC7hV)
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Or Chinese strength is a paper tiger, there are massive issues at home, Xi just had a stroke, and China couldn't exert strength over North Korea if it had to?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 02:41 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 28, 2024 02:26 PM (MpVUb)
Personally I am thinking of abandoning the board-certified MDs and using a curandera from now on.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2024 02:41 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 02:41 PM (v6JzV)
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How about Audrey Tautou?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 28, 2024 02:41 PM (VdhcA)
Posted by: Voter theater. at August 28, 2024 02:41 PM (FCPbW)
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 28, 2024 02:39 PM (iFTx/)
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I get that....but they have a potentially short window of time to move on Taiwan. If someone other than Harris gets in they Oval Office they go back to square one. That's quite a risk unless they are confident Harris wins.
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2024 02:42 PM (dIske)
Posted by: rhomboid
And then what? Sudden death overtime?
Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 28, 2024 02:38 PM (jC7hV)
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Russian Roulette?
Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 28, 2024 02:42 PM (y5V8D)
Remember we have to spend all the money to save Democracy in Europe by stopping Vlad from uh...annexing the provinces of Ukraine that voted to join Russia.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2024 02:42 PM (oZhjI)
We're not going to have to go rescue them again, are we?
Posted by: Ribbed
Oh eff that. Let the Rooskies and muzzies duke it out over that degraded dumpster fire. If we go back to Europe it needs to be to resettle an empty continent.
Posted by: Brother Tim learned to stop quibbling and love the Protestant Reformation at August 28, 2024 02:42 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 28, 2024 02:42 PM (pohLc)
Posted by: El Mariachi at August 28, 2024 02:42 PM (nLFEI)
I'll give daily on-the-ground reports to AoSHq.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks
I believe Scampydog may already be there on an extended vacation with his wife. Prayers for all you. Head on a swivel stuff.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 28, 2024 02:42 PM (jC7hV)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 28, 2024 02:42 PM (GcNJ2)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 28, 2024 02:42 PM (pohLc)
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Syria invaded France.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 02:42 PM (GBKbO)
I wouldn't even know who to root for. That would be epic.
Posted by: Ribbed at August 28, 2024 02:43 PM (IHRQq)
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There's virtually no chance of any coalition of parties obtaining a majority in the National Assembly, prior to the 2027 presidential election, even if a new parliamentary election were called. For that matter, it seems doubtful if the new president will be able to obtain majority support from the National Assembly, even after new parliamentary elections are held in 2027. France is consigned to a constitutional crisis for at least that long and might be facing prolonged legislative gridlock. Macron is setting a precedent, however, for the president in this situation to exert complete control over the executive, which is to the benefit of the 2027 presidential election winner, whoever that will be.
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at August 28, 2024 02:43 PM (Pe0AA)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
Never heard of her. Just looked her up. Yeah, I like her, too.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 02:43 PM (v6JzV)
eh. it happens.
Posted by: volodomir zelenskyy at August 28, 2024 02:43 PM (oY6Yp)
Their topless protestors look better then ours...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2024 02:43 PM (oZhjI)
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Well, then. Have your Parliament throw him out.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 02:43 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson Trump/Vance 2024 at August 28, 2024 02:43 PM (wGerL)
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2024 02:42 PM (dIske)
Frankly I am surprised we have not been attacked yet. Our president is missing, VP is campaigning, senate in recess..
Posted by: IC - #FJB at August 28, 2024 02:44 PM (ZtyUu)
I wonder who is getting his hand cut off this time?
Posted by: Darth Vader at August 28, 2024 02:44 PM (oZhjI)
Does anyone know what Macron's ideology is, or whether he has one? Is he just a guy who wants to stay in office but who knows he has extremists on both sides on his hands and he has to pacify them all at the same time?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at August 28, 2024 02:44 PM (T3es0)
Posted by: El Mariachi at August 28, 2024 02:42 PM (nLFEI)
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I'm just a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it!!
Posted by: The Joker at August 28, 2024 02:44 PM (VdhcA)
The problem with France is it's full of the French. And muslims. And Africans. Oh. I see what you mean.
Posted by: Ribbed at August 28, 2024 02:44 PM (IHRQq)
Now come the testing phase, wherein the Phas3 shelves are loaded progressively with items. Previously, this has been when the 'rubber meets the road', or perhaps more precisely, the shelves meet the floor.
Please keep Ace in your thoughts and prayers, as he enters the Phas3 testing phase this weekend.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 28, 2024 02:44 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of
Nanny Banger
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 28, 2024 02:44 PM (FxH7T)
https://is.gd/wjRp89
Her only defense is that she's a complete f*ck*ng idiot. Unfortunately, it's a perfect defense.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at August 28, 2024 02:44 PM (L/fGl)
Moe, Larry the cheese! wowowowowowowo
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2024 02:45 PM (LkLld)
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He likes to fuck old ladies?
Posted by: Pudinhead at August 28, 2024 02:45 PM (FmapG)
Posted by: callsign claymore at August 28, 2024 02:45 PM (JcnCJ)
Posted by: Voter theater. at August 28, 2024 02:41 PM (FCPbW)
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"You've got ami ..."
In Italian, that would be "You've gotta me ..."
Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 28, 2024 02:45 PM (Kn+1R)
Nah the guy is very hetero. He's got quite the Oedipal complex though
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2024 02:45 PM (oZhjI)
It's unlikely that any state-wide or Wayne County election for 3 decades is any more credible than "elections" in Belarus, Zimbabwe, or North Korea. That's how pathetic much of America's election integrity is.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 28, 2024 02:45 PM (GcNJ2)
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A "fuss."
Reneging on your agreement and essentially stealing an election by giving it a false predicate is a mere "fuss."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 02:45 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Hunter Biden at August 28, 2024 02:46 PM (xakWh)
Their topless protestors look better then ours...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2024 02:43 PM (oZhjI)
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France has the 3rd largest economy in Europe, behind only powerhouse Germany. It's also behind the UK, but only barely. France actually has real exports and real industry. It's not a basket case like Greece et al.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 28, 2024 02:46 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at August 28, 2024 02:46 PM (et1vG)
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2024 02:37 PM (dIske)
everyone is out of money and pretty much out of credit. The fight now is who collapses first.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2024 02:46 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Cheri at August 28, 2024 02:34 PM (oiNtH)
But "toot sweet" is a very good approximation of how it really sounds in spoken French.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2024 02:47 PM (C4m9I)
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I wonder what he has on them. Or if he has a stash of polonium somewhere.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 02:47 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2024 02:47 PM (Dm8we)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 02:47 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2024 02:43 PM
Assuming one prefers hirsute axillae.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 28, 2024 02:47 PM (a3Q+t)
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He likes to fuck old ladies?
Posted by: Pudinhead at August 28, 2024 02:45 PM (FmapG)
She's a man, baby!
Posted by: A. Powers at August 28, 2024 02:47 PM (Hpgos)
We spent our money on welfare for illegals and paying off oligarchs.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2024 02:47 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Orson
I think you are quite correct.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 28, 2024 02:47 PM (iqPkc)
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A "fuss."
Reneging on your agreement and essentially stealing an election by giving it a false predicate is a mere "fuss."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 02:45 PM (HnUIn)
________
"It isn't?"
-- GOPe
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 28, 2024 02:48 PM (iFTx/)
I tend to agree with you and Orson. Their economy, right now, is only sound on paper. The danger is, even as a paper Tiger, they can still add fuel to the conflagration that is the current world stage.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 28, 2024 02:48 PM (jC7hV)
Thin with hairy pits > Spherical with blue hair...and hairy pits
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2024 02:48 PM (oZhjI)
It's unlikely that any state-wide or Wayne County election for 3 decades is any more credible than "elections" in Belarus, Zimbabwe, or North Korea. That's how pathetic much of America's election integrity is.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 28, 2024 02:45 PM (GcNJ2)
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And the RNC is suing to have more Republican poll watchers in Michigan, particularly Detroit.
It makes me wonder if, should the lawsuit prevail and Republicans have more poll watchers, will Detroit be able to pull this off again?
It makes one wonder about the utility of polling that operates with something like Detroit cheating as a baseline for partisan makeup.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 02:48 PM (GBKbO)
For my house? No. For my car? As if.
For a refrigerator.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 02:48 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 28, 2024 02:48 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 02:48 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2024 02:47 PM
True, but spelling it that way in comments disappoints Ace.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 28, 2024 02:48 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2024 02:49 PM (pp/iw)
-- GOPe
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 28, 2024 02:48 PM (iFTx/)
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Indeed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 02:49 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 28, 2024 02:49 PM (Zz0t1)
is it ok to notice Communism is sweeping across the globe or nah?
Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at August 28, 2024 02:46 PM (et1vG)
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It's not communism. There isn't even rhetoric about communal ownership of property. There isn't a movement to nationalize anything.
This is just straight up technocratic-fascism.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 02:49 PM (GBKbO)
France is, like the USA, a Muslim country.
Posted by: Barack O at August 28, 2024 02:50 PM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Orson
Well, we've had Chinagate, 1996;
Break-ins to OPM Federal Personnel Data (O&Joe admins.)
CBS Bay City News, 08/02/2018, Details Emerge About Chinese Spy Who Worked For Sen. Feinstein
Axios, Exclusive: Suspected Chinese spy targeted California politicians, 12/8/20;
2023 Chinese Weather Balloons;
The Wilson Center, Addressing China's Monopoly over Africa's Renewable Energy Minerals, May 2, 2024
And, Walz?
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We don't know what we don't know.
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at August 28, 2024 02:50 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: IC - #FJB
What exactly would it accomplish that most of our enemies don't expect to get by just waiting?
Posted by: Brother Tim learned to stop quibbling and love the Protestant Reformation at August 28, 2024 02:50 PM (OUMaO)
China showed the left a new way. Of course that "new" way was basically German style National Socialism.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2024 02:50 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: XTC at August 28, 2024 02:50 PM (UnA8+)
Is this a thing?
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2024 02:50 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at August 28, 2024 02:50 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2024 02:51 PM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 28, 2024 02:51 PM (XV/Pl)
If Macron is doing this strictly to keep France out of the hands of commies, I'm okay with it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at August 28, 2024 02:51 PM (T3es0)
He is a dedicated hunter, and he has a surprisingly gentle mouth for a cat.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2024 02:51 PM (D7oie)
It's not just about eating protein we can't process well, and will make us sick.
Satanists eat disgusting things for ritual purposes. And they want us defiled and degraded, too ... maybe for the same reasons.
Posted by: callsign claymore at August 28, 2024 02:51 PM (JcnCJ)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2024 02:50 PM (oZhjI)
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With a big dose of cultural revolution, which is where the long-term power comes.
The contemporary left is the spiritual descendant of Mao, not of Marx.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 02:51 PM (HnUIn)
If Macron is doing this strictly to keep France out of the hands of commies, I'm okay with it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at August 28, 2024 02:51 PM (T3es0)
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His bullshit put control of the French government within reach of control of the communists.
He orchestrated their rise because they were more acceptable to him than La Pen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 02:52 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 28, 2024 02:45 PM (GcNJ2)
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And the RNC is suing to have more Republican poll watchers in Michigan, particularly Detroit.
It makes me wonder if, should the lawsuit prevail and Republicans have more poll watchers, will Detroit be able to pull this off again?
It makes one wonder about the utility of polling that operates with something like Detroit cheating as a baseline for partisan makeup.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 02:48 PM (GBKbO)
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The whole idea of "poll watchers" as in actual physical people standing there in person is obsolete. Yes, there should be watchers physically there. But how hard or expensive can it be to rig up 100% video coverage? Try going into a bank or even a fucking 7-11 and not be on camera every inch of the way.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 28, 2024 02:52 PM (iFTx/)
Satanists eat disgusting things for ritual purposes. And they want us defiled and degraded, too ... maybe for the same reasons.
The left then: Religion is the opiate of the masses!
The left now: This Satan guy has some interesting things to say...of course we don't worship him or anything. Honest to Satan!
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2024 02:52 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Boulder Terlit Hobo, not dead at August 28, 2024 02:52 PM (Z29Hm)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 28, 2024 02:49 PM (Zz0t1)
I'm waiting for Taylor Swift to explain it to me. She was over in Europe recently, she'll know what's going on.
Posted by: spindrift at August 28, 2024 02:52 PM (OguvZ)
I tend to agree with you and Orson. Their economy, right now, is only sound on paper. The danger is, even as a paper Tiger, they can still add fuel to the conflagration that is the current world stage.
Posted by: Sock Monkey
Their economic situation is worse than Japan's, which is saying something. This is sort of economic no man's land, as no nation has been this bad off in history. Even the collapse of the Spanish Empire didn't have debt loads like this.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2024 02:53 PM (lTGtQ)
He orchestrated their rise because they were more acceptable to him than La Pen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 02:52 PM (GBKbO)
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Yup.
"French Nationalists are so dangerous to France that I'd rather cut a deal with international communists instead" is his position.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 02:53 PM (HnUIn)
For various reasons this isn't talked about as much but the German National Socialists had that too.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2024 02:53 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: occam's brassiere at August 28, 2024 02:53 PM (pXeye)
https://is.gd/Bf0zio
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
___________
I got a skateboarding bulldog at the link. Which I'm not complaining about.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 28, 2024 02:53 PM (Dm8we)
Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at August 28, 2024 02:46 PM (et1vG)
It is not communism, it is corporatist oligarchies that mouth Commie platitudes.
It is setting up industrial counts and earls to control economies effectively for those players/
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2024 02:53 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 28, 2024 02:53 PM (pohLc)
I won't know what to think about this whole France thing until I hear what Candace Owens has to say about it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 28, 2024 02:49 PM
Candance Owens explained in one image:
https://t.ly/aOGF4
Posted by: Barack O at August 28, 2024 02:53 PM (RKVpM)
http://tiny.cc/smzjzz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 02:53 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 28, 2024 02:52 PM (iFTx/)
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Video. Faraday Cages. Paper ballots.
Any discrepancy in counting compared to the paper ballots leads to jail time and fines. One day for every number of ballots miscounted, and $100 for the same. No appeal.
Innocent mistake and they're off by 100? Well, 100 days in jail and $10,000 fine. Don't fuck up. Also, you're never allowed near an election again.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 02:53 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: XTC at August 28, 2024 02:50 PM (UnA8+)
Wouldn't be hard or take long. "No Go" zones already exist. Simply expand the boundaries.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 28, 2024 02:53 PM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2024 02:54 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 28, 2024 02:53 PM (oZhjI)
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They did, but it wasn't the basic cornerstone of the system. It is under Maoism. The cultural revolution isn't a means to an end, it's the end in and of itself.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 02:54 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 28, 2024 02:52 PM
Everyone has a surveillance plan until they get toilet-punched them in the face.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 28, 2024 02:54 PM (a3Q+t)
Not sure that poll watchers, esp. in a place like Wayne County, can make any difference, maybe. Any trouble they'd cause would have to come *prior* to certification, and actually hold up the train. Note that MI's law (which might have been changed, dunno) about recounts did *nothing* to address massive fraud or lack of apparent integrity (the federal judicial standard, more/less, for intervention) in 2020. It just prevented a recount. Because the most cursory examination of the situation revealed massive irregularities. So - no recount, but ...... official election, oh yeah!!! Hilarious!
Posted by: rhomboid at August 28, 2024 02:54 PM (GcNJ2)
Tucker competing with Trump and Musk for Troll King of the Universe!
https://is.gd/Bf0zio
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wreck
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That's a skateboarding bulldog on The Dodo, but okay.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at August 28, 2024 02:54 PM (T3es0)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at August 28, 2024 02:51 PM (T3es0)
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His bullshit put control of the French government within reach of control of the communists.
He orchestrated their rise because they were more acceptable to him than La Pen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 02:52 PM (GBKbO)
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Macron is a filthy commie. He has no issue with filthy commies running the country. He just doesn't want those particular filthy commies running the country. This is a power play among fellow filthy commie travelers.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 28, 2024 02:55 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 02:55 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2024 02:55 PM (pp/iw)
https://is.gd/Bf0zio
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at August 28, 2024 02:50 PM (L/fGl)
I'm betting that link isn't what you thought it was.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 28, 2024 02:55 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 28, 2024 02:55 PM (D7oie)
>>Try going into a bank or even a fucking 7-11 and not be on camera every inch of the way.
The Atlanta Vote Tabulation Centers were being recorded for the duration of the voting, two poll workers, a mother and daughter team, pulled trunks of ballots from under tables and began running them through the tabulators after all of the poll watchers were escorted out because of a broken water main.
All of this malfesence was caught on camera and simply waved away, and the two poll workers sued and won a 100 million dollar law suit against Rudy Giuliani.
It doesn't matter if it's recorded if the rest of the system is just as corrupt as two random democrat poll workers.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 28, 2024 02:56 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 02:53 PM
No hirsute axillae there.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 28, 2024 02:56 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 28, 2024 02:54 PM (GcNJ2)
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In my mind it could work like this:
Precinct captain: "I'm marking the totals."
GOP watcher: "You added several zeroes."
Precinct captain: "So?"
GOP watcher: "I've been taking video of this the whole time. I have evidence of you committing fraud."
MI SOS: "Not a problem."
The people of MI: *rabble noises amidst the crackle of the kindling of fire for torches*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 02:56 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Thomas Paine
What I keep waiting for is for some group of nations to come together and basically cancel out each other's debt, sort of a "member's perk". Could be a persuasive idea, even if it would probably be a bad one ultimately.
Posted by: Brother Tim learned to stop quibbling and love the Protestant Reformation at August 28, 2024 02:56 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: mrp at August 28, 2024 02:56 PM (rj6Yv)
https://is.gd/Bf0zio
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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I got a skateboarding bulldog at the link. Which I'm not complaining about.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
I blame global warming.
https://is.gd/YwyrMR
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at August 28, 2024 02:57 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 02:55 PM (v6JzV)
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Looks like someone shot themselves in the foot.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 28, 2024 02:57 PM (VdhcA)
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2024 02:57 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: mrp at August 28, 2024 02:56 PM (rj6Yv)
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If the cornerstone of Detroit's fraud is just making up numbers and writing those on ballot boxes, it's the place where poll watchers could make a real difference.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 02:57 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Captain Obvious
Ah, OK. I thought someone has just spilled something.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 02:58 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2024 02:58 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Brother Tim learned to stop quibbling and love the Protestant Reformation at August 28, 2024 02:56 PM (OUMaO)
I'm just waiting to see how Russia and China agree to divide up the Slaves when they finally make their move.
My guess is : Russia gets the whites, China gets the asians, everyone else is killed off.
Posted by: XTC at August 28, 2024 02:58 PM (UnA8+)
We were generous enough to deed you lots of land all over the country!
Posted by: CharlesBrun'sDildo at August 28, 2024 02:58 PM (d9fT1)
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2024 02:55 PM (pp/iw)
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Yeah, it does. This is starting to feel like it does when all the media outlets all use the same catch phrase. You know there is collusion behind the scenes to work it that way. It makes you wonder if these acts in government are now being orchestrated on a massive level to shape policy....I mean, we know that happens, but this seems to be on a massive scale.
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2024 02:58 PM (dIske)
It is setting up industrial counts and earls to control economies effectively for those players/
Posted by: Kindltot
Emmanuel ' Martel' Macron.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 28, 2024 02:59 PM (jC7hV)
......
Just print more euros.
Posted by: wth at August 28, 2024 02:59 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 28, 2024 02:59 PM (Kk+82)
French military efforts in recent history required the command and theorizing of an Italian. And even his talents did not serve him when Graf (later Fürst) Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher decided that Europe had had enough Frogginess and teamed up with Anglo-Irish children's entertainer Arthur Wellesley to take out the trash. (What? You thought Werner would have an unbiased view of the Battle of Waterloo? Please.)
Werner had a point somewhere here, but many have already weighed in on the autopsy of French failure. Also, is Werner the only one who hoped for a live blogging of the construction, arrangement, and placement of the fabled shelves and their content?
Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at August 28, 2024 02:59 PM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 28, 2024 02:59 PM (pohLc)
Ah, OK. I thought someone has just spilled something.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 02:58 PM (v6JzV)
It was posted by Barack, so I figured he was just some foot fetishist and 'finished' there.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 28, 2024 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at August 28, 2024 02:59 PM (paSBy)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at August 28, 2024 02:59 PM (9mfKN)
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2024 02:59 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Brother Tim learned to stop quibbling and love the Protestant Reformation at August 28, 2024 02:56 PM (OUMaO)
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Too many moving parts and too many counterparties and too much inflation. Debt jubilees are unfair and also unworkable.
There is a mechanism for this, and the development of it was a key event in the history of civilization: bankruptcy. The borrower loses everything and the lender loses his capital. Rational, legal bankruptcy processes do exactly what you're describing, according to fixed rules.
Now nation-state bankruptcy could lead to war or other forms of conquest, but how that pans out is yet to be seen. It hasn't happened recently at any kind of scale, mostly because the US and a couple of other countries have shored up the system to help prevent it. We're tapped out now, so we'll see how this goes over the next decade or so. We may go bankrupt ourselves. We're hurtling toward that outcome.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 02:59 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 28, 2024 02:59 PM (QNSds)
Busty lesbian porn?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2024 02:58 PM (LkLld)
I mean, if you're in to bulldogs skateboarding, maybe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 28, 2024 03:00 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 28, 2024 03:00 PM (ByB3C)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 28, 2024 03:00 PM (Zz0t1)
Marx was a satanist. So are inner circle communists. I'd argue it's very probable Saul Alinsky was one of them, too.
The atheistic talking points are for the outer party and the dupes they're trying to recruit.
I bring this up from time to time because it's a crucial missing piece for folks who want to understand what's driving the shot callers.
Posted by: callsign claymore at August 28, 2024 03:00 PM (JcnCJ)
Posted by: Joe Mannix
neo-marxism is the programming. American maoism is the praxis. Trans-national fascism is the end-state.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 28, 2024 03:00 PM (IG4Id)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at August 28, 2024 03:00 PM (hKoQL)
Posted by: Inogame at August 28, 2024 03:01 PM (53oGX)
Posted by: Inogame at August 28, 2024 03:01 PM (53oGX)
You forgot extremist. Far right EXTREMIST!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 28, 2024 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)
His bullshit put control of the French government within reach of control of the communists.
He orchestrated their rise because they were more acceptable to him than La Pen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I wonder exactly how bad/good Le Pen's party would be if it got control.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at August 28, 2024 03:01 PM (T3es0)
Voter ID.
In-person voting.
Very secure/policed absentee ballots (in place for years).
Only simplest optical scan, or mechanical, tabulation. No electronics past ballot scanner, all paper.
NO "curing" or "adjudication" of ballots, period. Voter responsibility to get it right, just as its their responsibility to register, and vote. Period.
Universal video monitoring/recording of every step, as noted by many above.
All obvious, all logical, all inarguable, most of it SOP in most of the world, much of it SOP in the US for two centuries.
That something like this isn't in place = America choosing, actively or passively, to not have a real election system. That simple.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 28, 2024 03:01 PM (GcNJ2)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at August 28, 2024 03:01 PM (T3es0)
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Apart from immigration policy, they're still pretty socialist. So, no immediate miracles.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 28, 2024 03:02 PM (VdhcA)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at August 28, 2024 03:01 PM (T3es0)
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Socialists who wanted more welfare spending for native Frenchmen while kicking out more immigrants.
So, industry would probably falter...more, but the crime problem would probably decrease.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 03:02 PM (GBKbO)
https://is.gd/YwyrMR
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at August 28, 2024 02:57 PM (L/fGl)
LOL!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 28, 2024 03:02 PM (C4m9I)
That something like this isn't in place = America choosing, actively or passively, to not have a real election system. That simple.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 28, 2024 03:01 PM (GcNJ2)
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False.
Mail in ballots are the most secure ballots.
It's why cardinals vote for pope by mail.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 03:02 PM (GBKbO)
One phrase that is even scarier: "German sex farce."
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 03:03 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 28, 2024 02:28 PM (tT6L1)
Agree.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2024 03:04 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 03:02 PM (GBKbO)
So that's why it's always a dude.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 28, 2024 03:04 PM (VoAdT)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 28, 2024 03:00 PM (IG4Id)
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French Postmodernist philosophy with German Critical Theory action framework, hybridized in US universities.
Both Postmodernism and Critical Theory were created by disaffected Marxists after the Great War, but neither could get the job done. One was a philosophy without a means for action and one was a means action without a coherent philosophy - and the creators of each hated each other. Good 'ole open-minded American academics put two and two together to create the chimeric monster that is now eating the planet.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 03:04 PM (HnUIn)
http://tiny.cc/smzjzz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 02:53 PM (HnUIn)
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She doesn't skip squats day.
Whats French for callipygian?
Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 28, 2024 03:04 PM (HJlAN)
Ce n'est pas un hasard si la gauche s'empare du pouvoir par tous les moyens. Ille tente de lui donner un vernis de légitimité en corrompant le processus électoral. Cependant, je ne doute pas que si cela ne fonctionne pas, ils passeront à l'autoritarisme total.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2024 03:04 PM (pp/iw)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 28, 2024 03:04 PM (Hkcdp)
One phrase that is even scarier: "German sex farce."
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 03:03 PM (v6JzV)
Not if you're into getting pissed on.......
Posted by: Keith Olbermann at August 28, 2024 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 28, 2024 03:05 PM (pohLc)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA
France has nukes. Hans doesn't.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 28, 2024 03:05 PM (jC7hV)
He orchestrated their rise because they were more acceptable to him than La Pen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I wonder exactly how bad/good Le Pen's party would be if it got control.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at August 28, 2024 03:01 PM (T3es0)
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Le Pen is socialist too. They just don't like sharing the socialism with invading goat-fucking darkies. So under Le Pen, not much would change other than fewer goat-fucking darkies. Which, admittedly, would be a major improvement. The goats would be very very happy.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 28, 2024 03:05 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 28, 2024 03:04 PM (HJlAN)
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My *guess* is that it's "callipygian," albeit with whatever the French construction would be. My bet is on a common root, though.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 03:05 PM (HnUIn)
I get the sense that most Europeans can only pick from various shades of blue. How did socialism get to be so popular over there? Or is it not so much popular as addictive?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at August 28, 2024 03:05 PM (T3es0)
Posted by: French Revolution 2.0 at August 28, 2024 03:05 PM (ufFY8)
I get the sense that most Europeans can only pick from various shades of blue. How did socialism get to be so popular over there? Or is it not so much popular as addictive?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at August 28, 2024 03:05 PM (T3es0)
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When you effectively don't have to pay for your own national defense, it opens up a lot of avenues for buying votes through government services like single payer healthcare.
You literally breed dependence into the people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 03:06 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bastion of Hate at August 28, 2024 03:06 PM (CV8a5)
Posted by: brak at August 28, 2024 03:06 PM (NGHTx)
This is starting to feel like it does when all the media outlets all use the same catch phrase.
GRAVITAS!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 28, 2024 03:06 PM (63Dwl)
That's like watching 3-card Monty. We should all be able to go in after the fact and PROVE that each person get such-and-such votes. That means voter rolls, IDs, preserved physical ballots, canvassing. Removal of secret balloting? Not sure.
I don't know if the USPS patent on block-chain voting is a solution to this, but, at the moment, we can't prove a thing, at any level, because 'the system' is intentionally designed for cheating.
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2024 03:07 PM (33Cgj)
Posted by: brak at August 28, 2024 03:06 PM (NGHTx)
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If the GOP is defeated by paper on windows again, then it deserves to lose.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 03:07 PM (GBKbO)
It was posted by Barack, so I figured he was just some foot fetishist and 'finished' there.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 28, 2024 02:59 PM
Some people are willing to admit their sock puppet failures and not just slink away. Apparently I'm door #2.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 28, 2024 03:07 PM (RKVpM)
If the GOP is defeated by paper on windows again, then it deserves to lose.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 03:07 PM (GBKbO)
Exactly. Baseball bat to the knees of the guy hanging the paper this time. Do NOT leave the room. Under any circumstance.
Posted by: Keith Olbermann at August 28, 2024 03:07 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 28, 2024 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)
wide angle lens is never flattering
look how big it renders her hand
would take home to meet my Mom
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2024 03:08 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office
I think it comes from monarchy. One guy or gal bossing everyone around.
The ones that didn't like that got the hell out and went to other continents. The ones that stayed were fine with being bossed around by unelected nobles and a hereditary monarch.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 03:08 PM (v6JzV)
You literally breed dependence into the people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 03:06 PM (GBKbO)
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Even before that, it was used for what it, at the end of the day, is: a means of control.
Socialized medicine was a part of Bismark's unification of Germany, long before communism was a real thing to be dealt with, and before "third-way Eurosocialism" was even a glint in someone's eye. But it served it's purpose: control.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 03:08 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 03:07 PM (GBKbO)
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Perhaps they need the X-Rays Specs from the previous thread.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 28, 2024 03:08 PM (VdhcA)
Some people are willing to admit their sock puppet failures and not just slink away. Apparently I'm door #2.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 28, 2024 03:07 PM (RKVpM)
I am the poster child.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 28, 2024 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: callsign claymore
Not what. Understand Who is driving.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 28, 2024 03:08 PM (jC7hV)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2024 03:09 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Don Black at August 28, 2024 03:09 PM (/7KEl)
That sounds inherently stable, but they forgot the LMFAO party.
Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2024 03:09 PM (33Cgj)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2024 03:09 PM (LkLld)
*insert Nelson Muntz laugh here*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 28, 2024 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)
You know who else hung paper...?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 03:09 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2024 03:09 PM (LkLld)
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*reads tea leaves*
This means that SCOTUS knows that Vance actually did fuck a couch, and that it's so hilarious that it's awesome.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 03:09 PM (GBKbO)
http://tiny.cc/smzjzz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
.....
But she does seem to like wedgies.
Posted by: wth at August 28, 2024 03:10 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: rhomboid
You're 100% right.
But, Electronic Poll Books could be this Presidential election's debacle. (See Pennsylvania)
NCSL org Electronic Poll Books
Updated June 17, 2024
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at August 28, 2024 03:10 PM (NFX2v)
That name may be a bit of a misnomer. In many cases they do much more than that. They can watch the overall process and things like signature matching or validity of ballots.
There is a reason Democrats and in particular Detroit doesn’t want a “poll watcher” allowed by law, to be there.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2024 03:10 PM (pp/iw)
Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 28, 2024 03:04 PM (HJlAN)
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My *guess* is that it's "callipygian," albeit with whatever the French construction would be. My bet is on a common root, though.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 03:05 PM
Callipyge
How did you know that, Mr. Mannix, when so many JMW 'blondes' aren't true blondes?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 28, 2024 03:10 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2024 03:04 PM (pp/iw)
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Well, technically, in the US they have already done that. By compromising the DOJ and the court system on such a magnitude, there is no way to counter the Authoritarianism. They seem to be testing the waters on what the public will swallow....and as always, the Left always over reaches....and that mistake is coming I'm afraid.
Posted by: Orson at August 28, 2024 03:10 PM (dIske)
Huh? The "people of MI" elected their state officials including governor. Who have no more scruples or even remotely American mindset than a mid-level Einsatzgruppe functionary in Ukraine in 1942.
Battle of Athens was the real thing, micro-scale, and only possible in the context of freshly returned WWII vets and a very different America. 2010 was the last voter's revolt of any significance (leaving aside Trump's snatching the GOP nomination in 2016).
It's possible America will recoil from the outlandish lawlessness and idiocy of the last few years, even with a big election result. But extremely unlikely. And MI and many other states have long shown their inability to react to increasing abuse and incompetence.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 28, 2024 03:10 PM (GcNJ2)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at August 28, 2024 03:05 PM (T3es0)
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When you effectively don't have to pay for your own national defense, it opens up a lot of avenues for buying votes through government services like single payer healthcare.
You literally breed dependence into the people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 03:06 PM (GBKbO)
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I agree but think it's actually the reverse: you breed independence out of people. I think people are innately dependent and want to be told what to do. That was the state of human existence for 100s of thousands of years, right up until the enlightenment. But the light of that movement has long since faded, and people are back to their natural state of dependence.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 28, 2024 03:10 PM (iFTx/)
Battle of Athens was the real thing, micro-scale, and only possible in the context of freshly returned WWII vets and a very different America. 2010 was the last voter's revolt of any significance (leaving aside Trump's snatching the GOP nomination in 2016).
It's possible America will recoil from the outlandish lawlessness and idiocy of the last few years, even with a big election result. But extremely unlikely. And MI and many other states have long shown their inability to react to increasing abuse and incompetence.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 28, 2024 03:10 PM (GcNJ2)
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If Detroit has been stealing elections for decades by just making up numbers, did the people of MI actually vote those people into power?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 03:11 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: DominicanVoices at August 28, 2024 03:11 PM (kZa/k)
Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 28, 2024 03:04 PM (HJlAN)
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My *guess* is that it's "callipygian," albeit with whatever the French construction would be. My bet is on a common root, though.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 03:05 PM (HnUIn)
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"It's called 'back,' fool! [Shakes head]"
-- Sir Mix-A-Lot
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 28, 2024 03:12 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Marcus T at August 28, 2024 03:12 PM (pp/iw)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 28, 2024 03:12 PM (w9Wax)
How did you know that, Mr. Mannix, when so many JMW 'blondes' aren't true blondes?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 28, 2024 03:10 PM (a3Q+t)
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LOL. Because it's a Greek word that shifted into common Latin usage, and being a Romance language, French probably uses a word derived from the then-Latin root.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 03:12 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
Ja, that is not something that should be viewed, like ever. Filmstock would combust rather than act as an accomplice to such a Stygian monstrosity. Also, the Serbs specialize in far, far worse productions.
Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at August 28, 2024 03:12 PM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 28, 2024 03:12 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 28, 2024 03:13 PM (3JBJh)
How did you know that, Mr. Mannix, when so many JMW 'blondes' aren't true blondes?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 28, 2024 03:10 PM (a3Q+t)
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LOL. Because it's a Greek word that shifted into common Latin usage, and being a Romance language, French probably uses a word derived from the then-Latin root.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 03:12 PM (HnUIn)
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And here I thought I was the guy with the doctorate in THOT . . . .
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 28, 2024 03:13 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Bastion of Hate
I always wondered why Mr French was British.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2024 03:14 PM (lTGtQ)
Good 'ole open-minded American academics put two and two together to create the chimeric monster that is now eating the planet.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 03:04 PM (HnUIn)
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"Oh no, there goes Harvard Yard
Go, Go Godzilla!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 28, 2024 03:14 PM (jXhe1)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 03:14 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: BurtTC at August 28, 2024 03:15 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at August 28, 2024 03:15 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 28, 2024 03:13 PM (iFTx/)
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My dissertation was on the intersection between THOTism and etymology. Low-hanging fruit, really. I just happened to get there first.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 03:15 PM (HnUIn)
Alinsky dedicated “Rules for Radicals” to Lucifer….a dedication removed in later editions of his book.
Posted by: 7man at August 28, 2024 03:16 PM (HW3+n)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
Why am I laughing so dang hard?
Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 28, 2024 03:16 PM (jC7hV)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 28, 2024 03:12 PM (/U5Yz)
Lui enlever La tête !
Posted by: It's me donna at August 28, 2024 03:16 PM (IyPmt)
Go, Go Godzilla!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 28, 2024 03:14 PM (jXhe1)
History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 28, 2024 03:16 PM (dGCAG)
Military Times, Roughly 100,000 U.S. service members are stationed throughout Europe today, including about 20,000 who were surged to countries like Poland and Romania in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Apr 10, 2024
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at August 28, 2024 03:16 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 28, 2024 03:16 PM (jC7hV)
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Because it's funny!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 03:17 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 03:17 PM (HnUIn)
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I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 03:17 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2024 03:17 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at August 28, 2024 03:17 PM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2024 03:18 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 28, 2024 03:10 PM (iFTx/)
Younger generations may see monarchies making a comeback.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2024 03:18 PM (g8Ew8)
Perhaps, perhaps not, depends on each election I guess (tho I don't think MI has had many state-wide non-Dem electeds for years, MI people can correct).
In any case, just saying there will be no consequences of blatant artless corruption, any more than there have been so far, there or elsewhere. Contra your intimation of a revolt of some kind.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 28, 2024 03:18 PM (GcNJ2)
Posted by: wth at August 28, 2024 03:18 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
Why am I laughing so dang hard?
Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 28, 2024 03:16 PM (jC7hV)
See, I went back to my schoolboy days, and thought chaos in the france meant the ladies wear no pants.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 28, 2024 03:18 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 03:19 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2024 03:17 PM
30 minutes until what? Ace starts the initial load testing of Phas3?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 28, 2024 03:19 PM (a3Q+t)
Why do we still have troops in Europe? Why are we protecting these third world shitholes?
Posted by: BurtTC at August 28, 2024 03:15 PM
"They pretend to pay us, we pretend to work" during the Soviet era has now become - in France, 'We pretend to pay them, they pretend to protect us."
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 28, 2024 03:19 PM (RKVpM)
Supreme Court refuses to revive Biden's latest student loan debt relief plan
Republican-led states challenged the plan aimed at reducing the burden on borrowers, including a provision that would reduce their monthly payments.
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at August 28, 2024 03:19 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 28, 2024 03:13 PM (3JBJh)
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LOL. And THERE'S a Fellini movie ...
Did TJM ever analyze his portfolio of work?
Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 28, 2024 03:19 PM (HJlAN)
Posted by: wth at August 28, 2024 03:18 PM (v0R5T)
Carefully?
Posted by: BurtTC at August 28, 2024 03:19 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2024 03:17 PM
30 minutes until what? Ace starts the initial load testing of Phas3?
Posted by: Duncanthrax a
The weekend starts!
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2024 03:19 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: Candidus at August 28, 2024 03:19 PM (5JD2v)
Supreme Court refuses to revive Biden's latest student loan debt relief plan
Republican-led states challenged the plan aimed at reducing the burden on borrowers, including a provision that would reduce their monthly payments.
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at August 28, 2024 03:19 PM (NFX2v)
Yeah, that's not what they were doing.
You don't hate the media enough. You really don't.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 28, 2024 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: wth at August 28, 2024 03:18 PM
With élan.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 28, 2024 03:20 PM (a3Q+t)
In any case, just saying there will be no consequences of blatant artless corruption, any more than there have been so far, there or elsewhere. Contra your intimation of a revolt of some kind.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 28, 2024 03:18 PM (GcNJ2)
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I'm not predicting a revolt. If I had to put money down, it would be on America accepting the cheat again like they did last time. 2020 wasn't exactly subtle.
But, I'd still like to see one. 100,000 good ole boys from the rural areas of PA showing up in Philly to help count. that sort of thing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 03:20 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 03:17 PM (GBKbO)
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IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THE TEXT AS WRITTEN CAUSES THE READER TO FORM A MENTAL IMAGE - IN THIS CASE, A HUMOROUS IMAGE (A CONCEPT THAT FALLS UNDER "RHETOGRAPHY")!
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at August 28, 2024 03:20 PM (HnUIn)
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The ghost of Coleman Young wants to have a word with you.
Posted by: Pudinhead at August 28, 2024 03:20 PM (FmapG)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2024 03:20 PM (Y6Nj5)
Posted by: wth at August 28, 2024 03:18 PM (v0R5T)
Don’t know, but if anyone has it figured out, it’s the French.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 28, 2024 03:20 PM (3JBJh)
yeah, crazy to have Dems "watching" Dems cheat. So far, not a lot has changed from 2020, except they are becoming more brazen, as if they don't care what the populace thinks.
Yeah .. Maduro lost something like 40-60 from exit polls, but no problem. It matters who counts the votes, and who has the guns, and will to use them.
"MI Dem SOS Benson Makes THREATENING Video Warning Election Officials Not To Question The Next Cheat… If You Don’t Certify The Election Results…”We will come for you!” (VIDEO)" Gateway Pundit
Posted by: illiniwek at August 28, 2024 03:20 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 03:17 PM (GBKbO)
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IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THE TEXT AS WRITTEN CAUSES THE READER TO FORM A MENTAL IMAGE - IN THIS CASE, A HUMOROUS IMAGE (A CONCEPT THAT FALLS UNDER "RHETOGRAPHY")!
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at August 28, 2024 03:20 PM (HnUIn)
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So, it's a joke?
Oh, I get jokes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 03:21 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 28, 2024 03:21 PM (Kk+82)
A woman walks into a library in France and asks to see a copy of the constitution. "Madame," the librarian sniffs, "we do not carry periodicals."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 28, 2024 03:21 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 28, 2024 03:16 PM (jC7hV)
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Because it's funny!
Posted by: Joe Mannix
Yea, but it's more than that. I believe I have been radicalized by the grey boxes. Do not ask what means because that would just lead to a moron level discussion, dissection, disagreement Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 28, 2024 03:21 PM (jC7hV)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 03:21 PM (v6JzV)
Much less ride a unicycle......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 28, 2024 03:21 PM (Zz0t1)
320 NBC News, an hour ago
Supreme Court refuses to revive Biden's latest student loan debt relief plan
Republican-led states challenged the plan aimed at reducing the burden on borrowers, including a provision that would reduce their monthly payments.
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at August 28, 2024 03:19 PM (NFX2v)
Yeah, no slant there... No slant at all
Posted by: It's me donna at August 28, 2024 03:21 PM (IyPmt)
Where do you work?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 03:21 PM (v6JzV)
Not sure he does.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 28, 2024 03:21 PM (Zz0t1)
Much less ride a unicycle......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 28, 2024 03:21 PM (Zz0t1)
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Uhhhh, subscriptions?
Posted by: OnlyFans "Entrepreneur" at August 28, 2024 03:22 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
in AMT school, skipping tomorrow so I get a 5 day weekend
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2024 03:22 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 28, 2024 03:22 PM (GcNJ2)
yeah, crazy to have Dems "watching" Dems cheat. So far, not a lot has changed from 2020, except they are becoming more brazen, as if they don't care what the populace thinks.
Posted by: illiniwek at August 28, 2024 03:20 PM (Cus5s)
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That's my state, and I've heard from people that poll-watcher positions for Detroit went fast.
Curiously, almost no Republicans will be watching the Detroit vote count....
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2024 03:22 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 28, 2024 03:20 PM (GBKbO)
The Perry and Juniata County Boys aren't driving 2-and-a-half hours to Philadelphia when they could be drinking.
Posted by: XTC at August 28, 2024 03:22 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at August 28, 2024 03:23 PM (Z8Yh2)
Posted by: Piper at August 28, 2024 03:23 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 03:23 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 28, 2024 02:52 PM (iFTx/)
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True, but then again Atlanta had cameras in it's processing center and it didn't stop them from dumping the same ballots into the counting machine over and over again.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 28, 2024 03:23 PM (QDV8J)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 28, 2024 03:13 PM (3JBJh)
This is the kind of thing AI image generators were made for.
Posted by: spindrift at August 28, 2024 03:23 PM (OguvZ)
Posted by: XTC a
The DelCo kids could get a bit rowdy if they wanted to though
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2024 03:23 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 28, 2024 03:24 PM (Y6Nj5)
Posted by: Candidus at August 28, 2024 03:19 PM (5JD2v)
I really know nothing about this guy, but when I saw his pic I thought he's awfully cute for a bazillionaire, and I bet he can use his looks to get a lot of people to do what he wants.
Including closeted gays like the president of fraunce.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 28, 2024 03:24 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: David French at August 28, 2024 03:24 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: BruceWayne
Ah.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus a
Gotta get a jump on tailgating for OU and Sparty games fri night hahah
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2024 03:24 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: Piper
Nah, I prefer to yell "HEY PIPER, WAKE UP!!!!!!" at the top of my voice.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 03:24 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: XTC a
Offer them free cheesesteaks.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 28, 2024 03:25 PM (/U5Yz)
Gotta get a jump on tailgating for OU and Sparty games fri night hahah
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2024 03:24 PM (CIS44)
OU finally playing it's competition by taking on high school teams, I see. Friday Night Lights n' shit.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 28, 2024 03:25 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 28, 2024 03:26 PM (CIS44)
Riddle me this.
Just what the hell was the Cold War and WWII about if all of the You'reaPeein's and US -
were just going to roll over and become Commie/Fascist Totalitarian Dickweeds?
We coulda cut out the middle man and gone straight to !984.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 28, 2024 03:26 PM (eDfFs)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 28, 2024 03:24 PM (v6JzV)
++++
See also: "FIRE! FIRE! WAKE UP! RUN!"
That'll get the blood pumping!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 28, 2024 03:26 PM (HnUIn)
"Oh, you say you have some ballots found after the deadline that need delivering?"
"I'm making a citizen's arrest!" "Impound the van!"
Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at August 28, 2024 03:26 PM (Z8Yh2)
Then you duct tape a baguette to it...
Posted by: Mayo Pete at August 28, 2024 03:27 PM (v0R5T)
Republican-led states challenged the plan aimed at reducing the burden on borrowers, including a provision that would reduce their monthly payments.
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at August 28, 2024 03:19 PM (NFX2v)
You know what else will reduce your monthly payments?
Getting a job and paying it yourself.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 28, 2024 03:27 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: wth at August 28, 2024 03:18 PM (v0R5T)
I have some experience in this matter.
Posted by: Maria Schneider at August 28, 2024 03:27 PM (w9Wax)
Yeah, that's not what they were doing.
You don't hate the media enough. You really don't.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden
Headline, NBC News
In part, WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday rebuffed a Biden administration plea seeking to revive the latest plan to tackle federal student loan debt.
The court in a brief order denied an emergency request filed by the administration seeking to lift a nationwide injunction imposed by an appeals court. There were no noted dissents.
The order said the appeals court that is currently handling the case should "render its decision with appropriate dispatch."
Much more in article.
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at August 28, 2024 03:27 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Anna Puma
They were finally outlawed in the 1960s. I seem to recall that Christopher Lee attended the last official guillotining.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 28, 2024 03:28 PM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 28, 2024 03:20 PM (a3Q+t)
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Musk's parents should have named him that.
Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 28, 2024 03:28 PM (WyzGk)
"I'm making a citizen's arrest!" "Impound the van!"
Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at August 28, 2024 03:26 PM (Z8Yh2)
Nope. You burn the van (and the ballots). Oops.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at August 28, 2024 03:29 PM (g8Ew8)
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THIS IS WHY YOU’RE ALREADY ON YOUR FIFTH REPUBLIC.
Posted by: Axeman at August 28, 2024 03:30 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: wth at August 28, 2024 03:18 PM (v0R5T)
Don’t know, but if anyone has it figured out, it’s the French.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
This is wisdom. Werner would only add that in France it would be subsidized by the government, and they would make it a prominent feature in the opening events of the Paris Olympics. Wait, did they do that? Werner watched it through small gaps through the hands he held over his face, as he watches the horrific spectacle of Hereditary or Frozen.
Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at August 28, 2024 03:33 PM (tmPIh)
Sadly, this won't result in the French "right" actually gaining power, or any benefit for the common French citizen, but I got a good chuckle or two out of it, so I'd call it a win.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 28, 2024 03:33 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Thatch at August 28, 2024 03:34 PM (S6lKJ)
Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 28, 2024 03:04 PM (HJlAN)
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My *guess* is that it's "callipygian," albeit with whatever the French construction would be. My bet is on a common root, though.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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Pretty as she is the word you are looking for is disproportionately large thighs and butt. Or, the photographer could use a better lens.
Posted by: Braenyard at August 28, 2024 03:37 PM (SP4ma)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2024 04:16 PM (LkLld)
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