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(06-26-2021, 04:30 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 26-Jun-2021 World View: 2020 Election Fraud audits

The BBC World Service, which is heavily funded by NPR and is required
to report what the Democrats tell them to report, had a segment a
couple of days ago about the Maricopa Country Colorado audit -- which
incidentally is nearing completion.  The BBC report was close to
hysteria, loaded with accusations of racism, conspiracy theories, and
so forth.  The Democrats are scared to death of these audits, because
the audits are uncovering massive election fraud by the Democrats in a
number of states.

By altering ballots after the fact the "auditors" in Arizona have effectively made any further audit impossible -- and theirs unreliable. Strike 1.

Quote:For those who want to dig into the gory details, the following article
is a lengthy, up to date summary of the election fraud audit
proceedings in numerous states:

*** RedState.com, 6/25/2021 - A.U.D.I.T. of Elections: Is the Dam Breaking?
https://redstate.com/stu-in-sd/2021/06/2...ng-n401670

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RedState is not a reliable source. 





[url=https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/red-state/]Media Bias Fact-Check

Quote:Founded in 2004, RedState is a conservative news and opinion website. Until 2015, conservative radio and TV commentator Erick Erickson was editor-in-chief. The website does not have an about page and does not list a current editor.

In 2019, three senior contributors for RedState resigned after they noticed that they did not promote articles critical of President Trump via social media. In an article for The Bulwark.com, titled Why We Are Quitting RedState, Kimberly Ross and Andrea Ruth stated that “it’s hard not to note the irony that Salem Media, a company that targets “audiences interested in Christian and family-themed content and conservative values,” threw its full support behind Donald Trump, a thrice-married lying philanderer who utilized bankruptcy laws and debt to con tenants and contractors out of their money. Salem now promotes anyone who is pro-Trump, even if those people gleefully flout Christian principles.”

Comment on how Media Bias Fact Check sees RedState. It is far to the Right, which is suspect in its own right. But even more troubling is that with that bias is that its level of reporting is at best "mixed" in its results.  "Mixed" results of reliability in news reporting are basically worthless because about half of what is reported is false and about half is true. Unless propaganda is completely ludicrous, as one would expect with (North) Korean Central News Agency or The Institute for Holocaust Review (David Irving's Holocaust-denial site) the worst is that which has some occasional ring of truth.    

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Just because one wants something to be true does not make it so.  (The philosophical term for that position is called solipsism. People who practice solipsism get into deep trouble).  The audits have been made at the insistence of Donald Trump and his closest companions, which is without precedent in American history. Contrast how gracefully Al Gore went along with the official results. There is no evidence of any more shadiness in the 2020 Presidential election than in the 2016. I suspect dirty tricks in 2016, but nothing provable -- and such is now irrelevant except for the damage that Donald Trump has done as President. 

Quote:The following states are described in the article: Arizona,
California, Colorado, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania,
Wisconsin

We can dispense with two of those (California and Colorado) because Joe Biden won those states by 10% or more. Landslide margins aren't suspect unless ballots selectively disappear on a large scale. If one is cheating, it is to best to leave the suggestion of bare wins for "your" side.

Quote: The following states are described in the article: Arizona,
California, Colorado, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania,
Wisconsin

Better. We are down to the six barest wins of Joe Biden. States that were obliged to do recou8nts (including Wisconsin) did them and got roughly the same result.

Close electoral results  that decide an election are not rare in American Presidential elections (1960, 1976, 2000, 2004, 2016, and 2020) 2016 and 2020 were close to each other, and the easiest explanation for the difference is that voters under 40 are much more D than R (about 60-40) while voters over 55 are about 5% more R than D  (and this is similarly true of the Silent, Boomers, and early-wave X). The bulk of people exiting the electorate due to death and debility (not double-counting) is about 1.6% per year in a model that suggests an average span of one's career as a potential voter begins at roughly 25 and ends at 85. (people under 25 do little voting), and that the bulk of people dying off are over 55. Because the Silent, Boomers, and early-wave X (pre-1965 cohorts) vote much the same, one need make little distinction between them. New voters are mostly under 40, and a replacement of over-55 voters by under-40 voters is a 25% swing from R to D among voters replacing each other. Over four years that is a 1.6% swing, and that alone would have swung Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin alone. 

If you want to dispute a landslide margin, then you need proof of major dishonesty, like more people voting than votes counted, with a large number of votes destroyed or not transmitted. 

Trump was still Trump, and there was little ideological difference between Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. Ideological flexibility has not been a virtue of American voters over the last 20 years, and 2008 was an exception only because millions started to make comparisons between 2008 and 1929  (yes, that is the 80-year cycle of the saeculum recurring more-or-less the same)  So if nothing changed except the character of the electorate, then Donald Trump should have lost for that alone. A 1.6% swing in the popular vote from political demographics alone was enough to give Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to Biden in 2020.  This overpowers general assessments of the overall desirability of Trump as seen by voters from 2016 who still voted in 2020. 

Florida seemed to be within range of such a shift that one would have expected on that alone that Trump would lose Florida as well. He won it. He lost Arizona, Georgia, and the Second Congressional District of Nebraska instead. You could check the polling from 2020, and it consistently held that Biden would win Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin by small but reliable margins. Arizona got polled a lot, and almost all polls indicated that Arizona would be decided by a narrow edge.  Georgia got polled frequently, and Trump was underwater in approval numbers very consistently. 

Incumbents usually have the advantage, and Trump made the most of them. He successfully dominated the news cycles. He made the election much closer than partisan hacks like I expected. What he did to offend people on the Left consolidated his support on the Right. America has plenty of fascist-roaders who would be delighted to see someone like Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez dangling with a noose around her neck for her political views.  (That sort of pathology deserves its own death because it will solve absolutely nothing in America except to make possible torture chambers, concentration camps, and "disappearances"). 

But going after Donald Trump for his offenses and inadequacies as liberals would see it or his evident greatness as his most vehement supporters see him is irrelevant now. We have laws to determine who wins elections. In accordance with those laws, Biden won. The order in which the states count the votes for President does not matter so long as the states get fair and accurate counts. You may be troubled by the leads that Joe Biden got late that eventually decided four of the six closest states, but as I recall, Biden led the early vote count in Ohio and Texas. In both states, the mail-in and early votes got counted first, and as elsewhere those tended toward Biden. Later votes in those states went to Trump. Due to sheer volume, the votes in Maricopa County, Arizona*; Fulton County, Georgia; Wayne County, Michigan; Clark County, Nevada; Allegheny and Philadelphia counties in Pennsylvania; and Milwaukee County, Wisconsin were fully counted last. 

If you have watched election coverage as I do, then the results around 11 PM ET in Michigan typically look something like this as say the news analysts:

Quote:(the Republican) has a 20,000-vote lead with about 120,000 votes outstanding in Wayne County. it is too early to call Michigan.

As a raft of precincts mostly in Detroit come in with  about an 80% vote for the Democrat, the Democrat typically is called the winner when he gets about a 10,000-vote lead with a bunch more of such precincts getting complete counts. 

...Give credit to public officials for doing everything possible to thwart any possible electoral fraud. Votes are accounted for much as giant businesses account for fungible assets such as cash, inventory, and high-value raw  materials or subcomponents. Such has been the desire of public officials of both main parties, and those officials have reliably gotten their way. If someone tries to bring "late" ballots into the vote  count by some unapproved  method, then those ballots will be sequestered... and likely saved as evidence in a criminal trial. People have been caught for forging signatures of their deceased parents on ballot applications.  (There were two persons to whom I could do that  -- my now late parents, who would have caught on had I made a fraudulent signature on a loan application written a check for a large purchase. They would have caught on. Then again, I consider stealing of any kind repugnant. 

Quote: The article concludes with Miscellaneous news about the election.

It's simple enough. Joe Biden won 81 million popular votes and Donald Trump won 74 million votes... and where it really counted, Joe Biden won 306 electoral votes and  Donald Trump won 232. Donald Trump did what he could do to (in an Orwellian expression of linguistic fraud, "stop the steal") ensure that he would remain President despite the electoral results. As the Putsch took place, the Joint Chiefs of Staff made a clear, curt, and decisive statement that Joe Biden had been elected President and Kamala Harris had been  elected Vice-President and that they would be inaugurated on January 20.

In other news, as the Putsch was going on, the run-offs for the US Senate took place in Georgia, and Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, both Democrats, ousted  incumbent Republicans. That Putsch may have lost the Republican Party control of the  US Senate. Karma strikes again!

People are being prosecuted for participation in an act that looks more like the Bolsheviks storming the Winter Palace in Leningrad in 1917 than anything in American history. If people are mostly getting mild sentences so far, then such is largely for technicalities. Some participants have squealed like pigs, incriminating others to save themselves from long prison terms. The story isn't over. Consider that a plot to kidnap the Governor of Michigan is getting some long prison terms for participants. That plot happened less than a year ago, and only now is the State of Michigan dealing with the worst of the worst in that plot.

We don't yet know all the ramifications of the January Putsch.  I'm not in the prophecy business. Maybe my good friend "Eric the Green" can tell you what the Stars say -- and I don't mean Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks.  Or for that matter, Garth Brooks and Beyonce Knowles. Or Tom Brady and Martina Navratilova.   

      
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Quote:I have to go back and partially temper my criticism of the BBC at the
beginning of this article.  Yesterday, as Kamala Harris made that
super-farcical trip to El Paso but was nowhere near the the border,
the BBC World News TV service ran another lengthy segment on the
massive child abuse of thousands of children by the Biden
administration at the southern border.

Don't forget that it started with Trump. Bureaucracies such as the US government typically operate at a glacial pace.

Quote:Thousands of children are being crammed into "iceboxes" where they
have no chance to shower, they endure sexual abuse, they sleep on top
of each other for warmth, and spread lice, scabies, covid, and other
diseases.  The Democrats couldn't care less about the suffering of
these thousands of children, just as they couldn't care less about the
Chinese Communist torture, rape and enslavement of millions of
Uighurs.  However, the Biden administration child abuse is apparently
too much for at least one department at the BBC.

Maybe we can do nothing about Uighurs and Tibetans because China is a secretive, highly-authoritarian state. The Feds can't fire those from the Trump era who abused those children quickly enough due to civil-service rules that make firing federal employees difficult, especially when there is some partisan or ideological axe to grind.  

That segment follows a BBC documentary earlier this month:

*** 08-Jun-2021 World View: BBC's hidden documentary: Detained in America
http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=61698#p61698[/quote]


Whatever one's partisanship, let us clean that horrible mess up. Let's start re-uniting families, almost invariably better at nurturing their children than are bureaucratic employees who more cherish a paycheck and job  security than care for helpless children.  

*Maricopa County, Arizona does have large GOP-leaning areas such as Gilbert, Mesa, and Scottsdale; conservative votes from those communities also came in rather late which explains why the margin count narrowed in Arizona.