Hey @stephen_richer & @billgatesaz, remember your friend Walter Ringfield Jr that you EMPLOYED and then he stole critical access fobs from MCTEC and you said it was “not politically motivated”?
Well the firm that paid him while he stole from YOUR OFFICE, Fieldworks, is now under investigation for massive voter fraud in multiple counties in Pennsylvania.
Do you still stand by him being “not political?”
Or perhaps he was paid by Fieldworks to steal your key fobs and now he’s being held in a jail cell for five months and counting. Is he being held there to keep his mouth shut?”
“Part three of an investigation into how the Harris-Walz campaign is manipulating social media sites to artificially boost their popularity, spread election disinformation, and skirt election laws.”
“So… after centuries of living in the Stone Age, we can put a man on the moon, create computers that are intelligent, create a phone that carries ridiculous amounts of data, connect with people on different continents, and put a giant aircraft 30,000 feet in the air…
But we can’t count all of the ballots on election night even though we could do it for decades before 2024?”
A recent study shows that it takes 29 years to go from mineral discovery to production. The Chinese government has already restricted deportation of some minerals that they mine. Twenty-nine years is a long time when a critical mineral is needed.
While much study must be done to assure good ecological decisions, most of this is regulation and lawsuits by environmental groups. This is a national issue, although many don’t realize it.
“Wow, I’m so shocked that propagandist Rupar cut it off before this line: “They’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying ‘Oh gee, let’s send 10,000 troops into the mouths of the enemies.’ She always wanted to go to war with people.””
Welcome to Colorado…South American theft groups??!!! How about illegal invaders welcomed at the border by the Biden administration and Polis???🤬
ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. (KKTV) – Calling them the “Dinnertime Burglaries,” the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office says its searching for the crooks responsible for breaking into nearly a dozen “high-value” homes over the last eight months.
Starting back in February and spanning most of the year, the sheriff’s office has noticed a crime pattern emerging.
“At least nine high-value, single-family homes throughout Arapahoe County have been burglarized during the dinnertime hours, usually one to two hours after sunset. The burglaries are happening in homes which back to open space, green belts, canals, trails, golf courses or have heavy tree cover along their property line,” the sheriff’s office said in a news release Thursday.
Investigators believe the local pattern is just a piece of a much larger pattern happening nationwide. The crooks are believed to be part of multiple South American theft groups, the sheriff’s office said, not elaborating further.
~ When the election results are declared, and especially if the outcome is not as you had hoped and prayed, remind yourself that, although it doesn’t always seem so, the Lord our God the Almighty reigns!
Finding the providence of God a soft pillow, and with my love in the Lord Jesus … ~
The Republican candidates can actually think on their feet, while the Dem candidates are play acting at being President and VP. Trump and Vance stand for the USA, while Harris and Walz just want to retain power for power’s sake. The real question is: Who stands behind those two figureheads?
It seems that candidates going on podcasts (like Trump and Vance did on JRE) with long conversations could be the new way of vetting people running for public office. There are several reasons for this: (1) such a format allows voters to get to know the candidates on a much deeper level; (2) voters no longer trust the biased MSM; and (3) very little is learned about a candidate’s beliefs and policies via MSM debates. A longer, free-flowing conversation is the best way to truly get an idea who a given candidate is and where he/she stands on the issues.
This piece is kind of long, but worth considering. Note that the title does not say that all election fraud claims have very simple explanations, but that most do.
This is about the 2020 fraud claims, but can inform us going forward.. Kevin had a good comment on yesterday’s thread explaining the truth behind a recent claim.
“Most election fraud claims still have very simple explanations.”
~ “I will approach all of this with an open mind, because if a political party or a group is trying to steal an election, it would be the highlight of my journalistic career to follow the threads and prove it. […]
Fortunately (because I do not want it to be the case that our elections are being stolen), four years later, a lot of the same claims I investigated in 2020 are being recycled. And a lot of them still have very simple, innocuous explanations. More often than not, people see a video or image online or read an article without understanding how elections work, and then assume the worst of all the people involved.” ~
“Monroe County District Attorney said the fraudulent voter registration forms were traced to FieldCorps whose clients included Biden-Harris, Mark Kelly and Arizona Democrats. Calls to the number listed went unreturned and the FieldCorps website was mysteriously taken down.”
There is indeed a simple explanation for Michigan’s “single voter IDs being used to cast multiple ballots”. Whether the explanation is accurate or not I can’t say, but it makes sense to me as a longtime programmer generating reports from databases.
It appears that one vote from one voter was reported multiple times, connected to all the voter’s current and previous addresses in the database, instead of just with the current one. I know exactly how a programmer could make that mistake in writing a report.
“Recently, the Bureau of Elections identified a formatting error in a routine report that shows the list of voters who have cast a ballot in this election either by absentee or early voting ballot. The formatting error in the data export process generated a line in the exported report for each formerly associated address of each individual voter listed, resulting in the same ballot for the same voter appearing on multiple lines of information all associated with one unique Voter ID.
Each of these voters only had one vote recorded for this election. This error in the data export process has been corrected and theseerroneous extra lines no longer appear on the report,” Cheri Hardmon, a spokesperson for the Secretary of State’s office said in a statement.
Seems old Hugh has had it with the lies and contextual manipulation from WaPo. Good. If only more would speak up and refuse to participate in these farces masquerading as newscasts.
I think I didn’t say it clearly enough. One vote from one voter was listed multiple times on a report showing who voted. That’s different from having it be counted multiple times.
“Happening Again: Levittown, PennsylvaniaVoters are being told to just fill out their registrations/ ballots and hand it to election workers, they will put them into the machine laterPennsylvania doing everything possible to interfere in this election”
“MEDIA: Trump says he wants to place Liz Cheney in front of a firing squad.
REALITY: Trump is taking about how DC politicians send our kids off to war from comfortable offices while never putting themselves in those war zones.”
“This Democrat fearmongering ad is amazing. It depicts JD Vance as President for life and Elon Musk opens up concentration camps for illegal aliens and homeless people before uploading his consciousness into a super AI to become immortal. So based.”
This fearmongering political ad may be the best ever. Emmy award type stuff, believable plot, great production work, and the fearmongering in a monotone voice is narrative genius.
“This Democrat fearmongering ad is amazing. It depicts JD Vance as President for life and Elon Musk opens up concentration camps for illegal aliens and homeless people before uploading his consciousness into a super AI to become immortal. So based.”
The piece I shared above also includes some excellent tips on how to use some critical thinking to ascertain the validity of the various accusations we read. (Diving this into two posts so as not to seem too long.)
~ “A lot of very smart, well qualified people are falling for these misleading stories — sitting members of Congress, venture capitalists, journalists, pundits, and more. It is impossible to avoid them, and it’s very hard not to fall for them. So here are some rules I try to follow that have helped me:
1.Do two minutes of targeted research. If I see someone claim that 100,000 dead voters just cast ballots in Michigan, I’ll search “100,000 dead voters Michigan debunked” on Google, DuckDuckGo, Brave, or whatever search engine I’m using that day. This is a simple way to stress-test claims: Go looking for the counter-evidence, and then see if someone else has already provided a better explanation.
2. Always pause and think. If Democrats were organizing a massive election fraud scheme, would they write up contracts and share them electronically for people to sign? If election workers were unloading trash cans full of ballots they forged at an election center, would they dump them out in front of a security camera? If a foreign political leader were organizing illegal election interference, would she post it on Facebook? More often than not, these allegations don’t pass a basic sniff test. Pause and think before you share.
3. Follow the money. Most people don’t just spread lies for fun. They are doing it for one of two reasons: 1) They are politically motivated, or 2) They are trying to make money. If someone has created a movie that “proves” election fraud happened, but you have to pay $19 to view it, red flags should be going up everywhere. If someone is sharing election fraud claims online and then asking for money to support their investigations, you should consider whether those two things are linked.
4. Ask follow-up questions. If I see someone making a bold claim online, I will ask them to explain it. They’ll often respond with statements like “Democrats are stealing the 2024 election. We all know it.” So… ask them how they know it. Once you do, you’ll have real evidence to analyze.
5.Find a second source. There are a lot of legitimate-looking news websites that are actually just political organizations masking as news. They exist on the left and right. If you can only find a claim being made by one source, there is a good chance something about it is fishy.” ~
Number 6 is pretty interesting. Lots of people fell for the what the commentary told them and missed that the votes were for Republicans, not Democrats.
~ “6. If there is evidence, ignore the commentary. Sometimes, people can convince you something is there that actually isn’t. In the example above, an account on X claimed a video proved Democrats were scanning ballots twice in Georgia. But when I looked at the evidence, I noticed that the video actually showed duplicated scans of ballots voting for Republicans. The commentary almost played a trick on my brain, but when I looked at the evidence while ignoring the commentary, I came to a different conclusion.
7. Read the comments and replies. If a claim is being shared on a social media platform or news website, there is often a space for people to reply or comment. The replies and comments usually contain dissenting voices. Read them. For instance, I’ve noticed that people often add context to videos or photographs in the comments and replies that weren’t included in the initial post. I always read the comments and replies for more information. Even though people like Peter Bernegger regularly block dissenting voices, you’ll always find a couple on any popular post.
8. Every state is different. Election laws in Georgia aren’t the same as those in Pennsylvania which aren’t the same as those in Wisconsin or California or Louisiana and so on. I often see people online claim that something is illegal because they don’t understand how election laws differ across states.
9.Consult the experts. I know that’s corny to say, but in this case it’s actually still important. Election experts are good sources. Most Americans have never worked as secretaries of state, poll workers, county recorders, auditors, investigators, or in other roles that give them unique insights into how elections are run. When you don’t have that experience, you can be convinced that regular, innocuous election activity is actually suspicious or dangerous. It’s okay to consult an expert’s opinion when they explain why certain allegations are bunk.
10. Maintain skepticism. More than anything else, rules 1–9 only work if you maintain a modicum of skepticism while navigating the information ecosystem we are operating in. That’s especially important if the information you are encountering reaffirms your world views. So, more than anything else, do your best not to be gullible; don’t believe in dramatic or jaw-dropping claims without trying to follow these steps.” ~
“56 Amish workers are helping in Western North Carolina with victims of Helene. They are in search of a base camp close to Black Mountain. They are bringing their own supplies to build “Cabins for Christ”. “
Wandering Views 
I have never seen an election where the lies about what a candidate said is so distorted and lied about.
Nor have I seen a time when what our President actually said is lied about so blatantly by the press secretary and media.
It is sad.
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Remember kids, vote fraud is a myth.
https://x.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1852200079010013314?t=hoINxbDlarXcIh8foGuJVg&s=19
“Arizona Democratic Ballot Firm Named in Pennsylvania Election Fraud.”
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“The firm being investigated for fraud in PA is a massive Democrat ballot harvesting firm based in ARIZONA.
They have been paid hundreds of thousands by Democrat organizations and candidates in AZ.
This must be investigated NOW!!!!!!”
https://x.com/CarolineWren/status/1852163078483493072?t=4j6EeylJyniVNBfkYNEz6Q&s=19
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“Lancaster, York, Monroe, and Cambria Counties in Pennsylvania are investigating an alleged voter fraud scheme.
Additional Pennsylvania counties may announce fraud investigations tomorrow.”
https://x.com/Athan_K/status/1852160439221669892?t=S68Ey2Ev_FW8kcfDRTBDLw&s=19
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Hey @stephen_richer & @billgatesaz, remember your friend Walter Ringfield Jr that you EMPLOYED and then he stole critical access fobs from MCTEC and you said it was “not politically motivated”?
Well the firm that paid him while he stole from YOUR OFFICE, Fieldworks, is now under investigation for massive voter fraud in multiple counties in Pennsylvania.
Do you still stand by him being “not political?”
Or perhaps he was paid by Fieldworks to steal your key fobs and now he’s being held in a jail cell for five months and counting. Is he being held there to keep his mouth shut?”
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“Harris Campaign Recruits Foreign Volunteers, Tells Noncitizens How To Skirt Donation Rules”
https://x.com/MZHemingway/status/1852210050124673137?t=Fyw7PLWXyHXMuUf4FqJ2xg&s=19
Well I’m shocked.
https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/31/harris-campaign-recruits-foreign-volunteers-tells-noncitizens-how-to-skirt-donation-rules/
“Part three of an investigation into how the Harris-Walz campaign is manipulating social media sites to artificially boost their popularity, spread election disinformation, and skirt election laws.”
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Doesn’t pass the smell test.
https://x.com/Travis_4_Trump/status/1852210458234585106?t=dKLZr1-qSiHKQNiBxr_vtg&s=19
“So… after centuries of living in the Stone Age, we can put a man on the moon, create computers that are intelligent, create a phone that carries ridiculous amounts of data, connect with people on different continents, and put a giant aircraft 30,000 feet in the air…
But we can’t count all of the ballots on election night even though we could do it for decades before 2024?”
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https://wng.org/opinions/the-pro-pornography-party-1730318199?mkt_tok=NzEwLVFSUi0yMDkAAAGWhteO5yQNGho-xj4QboG_iKppC8izZPVwKniWw8_9PSTfDYeCQFWZHlMNGdGuC3LahIbVYBWglwpGyhTgAHe9PjYQD-OlUWdDxiyRNBmeh_y8
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A recent study shows that it takes 29 years to go from mineral discovery to production. The Chinese government has already restricted deportation of some minerals that they mine. Twenty-nine years is a long time when a critical mineral is needed.
While much study must be done to assure good ecological decisions, most of this is regulation and lawsuits by environmental groups. This is a national issue, although many don’t realize it.
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Perhaps this will help you understand the lies Kathaleena.
https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1852084090868240582?t=cVMc–wxZgajkFbdPZ-b7w&s=19
“JD Vance compares the way Kamala lies to how his toddler recently lied about stealing Oreo cookies. It’s brilliant.”
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More selective editing from our propagandists.
https://x.com/MZHemingway/status/1852324454908448890?t=5gn31qxRtoFDJY3sara0rA&s=19
“Wow, I’m so shocked that propagandist Rupar cut it off before this line: “They’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying ‘Oh gee, let’s send 10,000 troops into the mouths of the enemies.’ She always wanted to go to war with people.””
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Welcome to Colorado…South American theft groups??!!! How about illegal invaders welcomed at the border by the Biden administration and Polis???🤬
ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. (KKTV) – Calling them the “Dinnertime Burglaries,” the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office says its searching for the crooks responsible for breaking into nearly a dozen “high-value” homes over the last eight months.
Starting back in February and spanning most of the year, the sheriff’s office has noticed a crime pattern emerging.
“At least nine high-value, single-family homes throughout Arapahoe County have been burglarized during the dinnertime hours, usually one to two hours after sunset. The burglaries are happening in homes which back to open space, green belts, canals, trails, golf courses or have heavy tree cover along their property line,” the sheriff’s office said in a news release Thursday.
Investigators believe the local pattern is just a piece of a much larger pattern happening nationwide. The crooks are believed to be part of multiple South American theft groups, the sheriff’s office said, not elaborating further.
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They’ve earned it.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1852231903803228656?t=c2JEGmTGv-FkF39woVTFtQ&s=19
“The trend away from legacy media continues”
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Is this a wise move by the retailer? I don’t think it has worked so well for others. Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it . . .
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13999209/Neiman-Marcus-bans-Christmas-fury-Saks-woke.html
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Art brings home articles he prints out in large print for me. Here is one someone here may appreciate:
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/father-sen-joe-lieberman-last-words-what-need-hear-right-now
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From Alistair Berg this morning:
~ When the election results are declared, and especially if the outcome is not as you had hoped and prayed, remind yourself that, although it doesn’t always seem so, the Lord our God the Almighty reigns!
Finding the providence of God a soft pillow, and with my love in the Lord Jesus … ~
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Alistair Begg – apologies for the typo. – dj
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The Republican candidates can actually think on their feet, while the Dem candidates are play acting at being President and VP. Trump and Vance stand for the USA, while Harris and Walz just want to retain power for power’s sake. The real question is: Who stands behind those two figureheads?
It seems that candidates going on podcasts (like Trump and Vance did on JRE) with long conversations could be the new way of vetting people running for public office. There are several reasons for this: (1) such a format allows voters to get to know the candidates on a much deeper level; (2) voters no longer trust the biased MSM; and (3) very little is learned about a candidate’s beliefs and policies via MSM debates. A longer, free-flowing conversation is the best way to truly get an idea who a given candidate is and where he/she stands on the issues.
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This piece is kind of long, but worth considering. Note that the title does not say that all election fraud claims have very simple explanations, but that most do.
This is about the 2020 fraud claims, but can inform us going forward.. Kevin had a good comment on yesterday’s thread explaining the truth behind a recent claim.
“Most election fraud claims still have very simple explanations.”
~ “I will approach all of this with an open mind, because if a political party or a group is trying to steal an election, it would be the highlight of my journalistic career to follow the threads and prove it. […]
Fortunately (because I do not want it to be the case that our elections are being stolen), four years later, a lot of the same claims I investigated in 2020 are being recycled. And a lot of them still have very simple, innocuous explanations. More often than not, people see a video or image online or read an article without understanding how elections work, and then assume the worst of all the people involved.” ~
https://www.readtangle.com/election-fraud-explanations-debunked-2024/
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These are election headlines from just a couple of days ago (all in one day!). I wonder which of these have “simple explanations”?
PA: Trump wins in Bucks County, PA after being forced to sue due to voting lines being shut down early.
VA: SCOTUS rules in favor of VA after Kamala DOJ attempts to reinstate self-identified non-citizens on VA voter rolls.
CO: SoS Jena Griswold (yes, the same person who tried to sue to get Pres. Trump off the ballot) leaks voting systems passwords online.
MI: Atty Matthew DePerno identifies single voter IDs being used to cast multiple ballots.
PA: ABC TV station accidentally airs election results of Harris winning PA by 5% with 100% in.
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“Monroe County District Attorney said the fraudulent voter registration forms were traced to FieldCorps whose clients included Biden-Harris, Mark Kelly and Arizona Democrats. Calls to the number listed went unreturned and the FieldCorps website was mysteriously taken down.”
https://x.com/ZitoSalena/status/1852310547485634900?t=rDGxJiwELdXcGlmhLKqC1w&s=19
Not so easy to explain away. This is happening in multiple PA counties.
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There is indeed a simple explanation for Michigan’s “single voter IDs being used to cast multiple ballots”. Whether the explanation is accurate or not I can’t say, but it makes sense to me as a longtime programmer generating reports from databases.
It appears that one vote from one voter was reported multiple times, connected to all the voter’s current and previous addresses in the database, instead of just with the current one. I know exactly how a programmer could make that mistake in writing a report.
“Recently, the Bureau of Elections identified a formatting error in a routine report that shows the list of voters who have cast a ballot in this election either by absentee or early voting ballot. The formatting error in the data export process generated a line in the exported report for each formerly associated address of each individual voter listed, resulting in the same ballot for the same voter appearing on multiple lines of information all associated with one unique Voter ID.
Each of these voters only had one vote recorded for this election. This error in the data export process has been corrected and these erroneous extra lines no longer appear on the report,” Cheri Hardmon, a spokesperson for the Secretary of State’s office said in a statement.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/31/no-michigans-qualified-voter-file-qvf-doesnt-show-election-fraud/75965486007/
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“Hugh Hewitt finally blows his top and walks out.”
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1852380551925076352?t=VzEtNq92fMsfY0nCrA2zZA&s=19
Seems old Hugh has had it with the lies and contextual manipulation from WaPo. Good. If only more would speak up and refuse to participate in these farces masquerading as newscasts.
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I think I didn’t say it clearly enough. One vote from one voter was listed multiple times on a report showing who voted. That’s different from having it be counted multiple times.
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“Happening Again: Levittown, PennsylvaniaVoters are being told to just fill out their registrations/ ballots and hand it to election workers, they will put them into the machine laterPennsylvania doing everything possible to interfere in this election”
https://x.com/its_The_Dr/status/1852379918031605851?t=3FctAwfBzzt9hFHPSWmI7w&s=19
It includes some video of the presser from Rep. Elise Stefanik detailing this scam.
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The desperation is palpable.
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1852361807698010294?t=DlP_5o7K0tTLVuc5AGtI1Q&s=19
“MEDIA: Trump says he wants to place Liz Cheney in front of a firing squad.
REALITY: Trump is taking about how DC politicians send our kids off to war from comfortable offices while never putting themselves in those war zones.”
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Wow.
As far as fearmongering political ads go, this is top notch stuff here.
https://x.com/stillgray/status/1852416506082275386?t=bBiVwQwVKj3BhCf68VE70Q&s=19
“This Democrat fearmongering ad is amazing. It depicts JD Vance as President for life and Elon Musk opens up concentration camps for illegal aliens and homeless people before uploading his consciousness into a super AI to become immortal. So based.”
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Not kidding here….
This fearmongering political ad may be the best ever. Emmy award type stuff, believable plot, great production work, and the fearmongering in a monotone voice is narrative genius.
I salute those behind this. Well done!
https://x.com/stillgray/status/1852416506082275386?t=B4iZrd92ulJaVN1npn3s5w&s=19
“This Democrat fearmongering ad is amazing. It depicts JD Vance as President for life and Elon Musk opens up concentration camps for illegal aliens and homeless people before uploading his consciousness into a super AI to become immortal. So based.”
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Propaganda.On.Overdrive.
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This whole election has been focused on propaganda and outrage, sadly; and both sides — one side doesn’t have a monopoly on that.
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That’s like LBJ’s Daisy ad in 1964, but with better special effects. Really over the top.
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Extend it. If you’re in line before the cutoff time, they need to let you vote. Those are the state’s rules.
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1852430876069769532?t=YMC7Nlg4gJnhrBUxdwEX2A&s=19
“Voters are reporting a 5+ hour wait line in Bucks County, Pennsylvania after early voting was extended until today, Friday, at 5 pm.
Blatant voter suppression.
“Bucks County elections officials did the bare minimum to comply with court’s order to provide voting access through 5PM today,”
Trump campaign’s @JamesBlairUSA said.”They staffed some offices with just 1 or 2 people, ensuring long lines.”
The following video is in Levittown, PA where @ScottPresler says he has sent an “army of people to record what’s going.””
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The piece I shared above also includes some excellent tips on how to use some critical thinking to ascertain the validity of the various accusations we read. (Diving this into two posts so as not to seem too long.)
~ “A lot of very smart, well qualified people are falling for these misleading stories — sitting members of Congress, venture capitalists, journalists, pundits, and more. It is impossible to avoid them, and it’s very hard not to fall for them. So here are some rules I try to follow that have helped me:
1.Do two minutes of targeted research. If I see someone claim that 100,000 dead voters just cast ballots in Michigan, I’ll search “100,000 dead voters Michigan debunked” on Google, DuckDuckGo, Brave, or whatever search engine I’m using that day. This is a simple way to stress-test claims: Go looking for the counter-evidence, and then see if someone else has already provided a better explanation.
2. Always pause and think. If Democrats were organizing a massive election fraud scheme, would they write up contracts and share them electronically for people to sign? If election workers were unloading trash cans full of ballots they forged at an election center, would they dump them out in front of a security camera? If a foreign political leader were organizing illegal election interference, would she post it on Facebook? More often than not, these allegations don’t pass a basic sniff test. Pause and think before you share.
3. Follow the money. Most people don’t just spread lies for fun. They are doing it for one of two reasons: 1) They are politically motivated, or 2) They are trying to make money. If someone has created a movie that “proves” election fraud happened, but you have to pay $19 to view it, red flags should be going up everywhere. If someone is sharing election fraud claims online and then asking for money to support their investigations, you should consider whether those two things are linked.
4. Ask follow-up questions. If I see someone making a bold claim online, I will ask them to explain it. They’ll often respond with statements like “Democrats are stealing the 2024 election. We all know it.” So… ask them how they know it. Once you do, you’ll have real evidence to analyze.
5. Find a second source. There are a lot of legitimate-looking news websites that are actually just political organizations masking as news. They exist on the left and right. If you can only find a claim being made by one source, there is a good chance something about it is fishy.” ~
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Number 6 is pretty interesting. Lots of people fell for the what the commentary told them and missed that the votes were for Republicans, not Democrats.
~ “6. If there is evidence, ignore the commentary. Sometimes, people can convince you something is there that actually isn’t. In the example above, an account on X claimed a video proved Democrats were scanning ballots twice in Georgia. But when I looked at the evidence, I noticed that the video actually showed duplicated scans of ballots voting for Republicans. The commentary almost played a trick on my brain, but when I looked at the evidence while ignoring the commentary, I came to a different conclusion.
7. Read the comments and replies. If a claim is being shared on a social media platform or news website, there is often a space for people to reply or comment. The replies and comments usually contain dissenting voices. Read them. For instance, I’ve noticed that people often add context to videos or photographs in the comments and replies that weren’t included in the initial post. I always read the comments and replies for more information. Even though people like Peter Bernegger regularly block dissenting voices, you’ll always find a couple on any popular post.
8. Every state is different. Election laws in Georgia aren’t the same as those in Pennsylvania which aren’t the same as those in Wisconsin or California or Louisiana and so on. I often see people online claim that something is illegal because they don’t understand how election laws differ across states.
9. Consult the experts. I know that’s corny to say, but in this case it’s actually still important. Election experts are good sources. Most Americans have never worked as secretaries of state, poll workers, county recorders, auditors, investigators, or in other roles that give them unique insights into how elections are run. When you don’t have that experience, you can be convinced that regular, innocuous election activity is actually suspicious or dangerous. It’s okay to consult an expert’s opinion when they explain why certain allegations are bunk.
10. Maintain skepticism. More than anything else, rules 1–9 only work if you maintain a modicum of skepticism while navigating the information ecosystem we are operating in. That’s especially important if the information you are encountering reaffirms your world views. So, more than anything else, do your best not to be gullible; don’t believe in dramatic or jaw-dropping claims without trying to follow these steps.” ~
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Trauma-informed design for IKEA-built tiny homes for homeless seniors: https://www.fastcompany.com/91218065/inside-ikeas-thoughtfully-designed-tiny-house?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
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The IKEA little homes are cool, but nobody builds like the Amish.
https://x.com/angelanashtn/status/1852042183718609241?t=BOLo7CVCmqHVkf1EKm0CVQ&s=19
“56 Amish workers are helping in Western North Carolina with victims of Helene. They are in search of a base camp close to Black Mountain. They are bringing their own supplies to build “Cabins for Christ”. “
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https://cabins4christ.com/
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The second link is for a Christian group doing the same as the Amish.
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https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/dekalb-county-ballot-scanner-overwhelmed-record-voter-turnout
Does not bode well for Election Day. This is not the location where we voted, but is in our county.
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