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Thursday 12 November 2020
The Georgia Secretary of State has decided that the "risk limiting audit" of the state's 2020 general election for President of the United States will include every single vote cast and be recounted by human hand. If memory serves, the current Secretary of State's election slogan was "Bring Backus the Abacus." (Which, to be fair, was more progressive than his predecessor, whose platform was "You Voted For Who I Say You Vote For.")
According to the SoS's website, 4,991,854 Georgians voted in the election. If one person were to count one ballot per second continuously, it would take that person 58 days. Of course, he'd be dead then, so he might not want to do that.
If ten people were working together, they could complete the task in a week. A hundred could get it done in one intense work day (with overtime). Too bad they can't put 1,000 people in a room with all 5 million votes. Done in under 2 hours!
Each county has to count its own ballots. If Coweta County is lucky enough to get 6 salaried employees together (in state-mandated teams of two) to recount their 76,799 ballots, they'll need 2 full work days (with no water breaks). Coweta is the 17th largest county in the state, so expect several counties to take longer. Lucky tiny Taliaferro (159th of 159 in population) should be able to count to 928 within an hour.
All this number crunching just to validate that maybe we will, finally, definitively know by next Friday where Georgians collectively stand on the question of which old white guy they want in the federal executive mansion. Personally, I'll take the one who can count.
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Saturday 7 November 2020
"My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.
"Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule. But there is a higher Power, by whatever name we honor Him, who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but mercy.
"As we bind up the internal wounds of Watergate, more painful and more poisonous than those of foreign wars, let us restore the golden rule to our political process, and let brotherly love purge our hearts of suspicion and of hate."
President Gerald Ford
Inaugural Address
August 9, 1974
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Saturday 31 October 2020
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Friday 16 October 2020
SAVANNAH GUTHERIE, NBC NEWS, Oct 15, 2010
Just this week, you retweeted to your 87 million followers, a conspiracy theory that Joe Biden orchestrated to have SEAL Team Six, the Navy SEAL Team Six, killed to cover up the fake death of Bin Laden. Now, why would you send a lie like that to your followers?DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
I know nothing about it, can I-GUTHERIE
You retweeted it.TRUMP
That was a retweet. That was an opinion of somebody—GUTHERIE
But—TRUMP
—and that was a retweet. I'll put it out there. People can decide for themselves. I don't take a position.GUTHERIE
I don't get that, you're the President. You're not like, someone's crazy uncle who can just—TRUMP
No, no. No, no.GUTHERIE
—retweet, whatever.TRUMP
That was a retweet. And I do a lot of retweets. And frankly, because the media is so fake, and so corrupt, if I didn't have social media.... I don't call it Twitter, I call it social media. I wouldn't be able to get the word out. And the word is—GUTHERIE
Well, the word is false.TRUMP
—and you know what the word is? The word is very simple. We're building our country, stronger and better than it's ever been before.GUTHERIE
Let's stop—TRUMP
And that's what's happening. And everybody knows it.
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There's no small irony in the fact that the party that openly promotes the philosophy of Constitutional Originalism has chosen as its leader a man the Founding Fathers could have never imagined.
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Wednesday 7 October 2020
Press Briefing by President William Henry Harrison, issued April 1, 1841:
MR. HARRISON: I just left Washington Infirmary, and it's really something very special. The doctors, the surgeons, the bloodletters, and I learned so much about pleurisy. And one thing that's for certain: don't let it dominate you. Don't be afraid of it. You're going to beat it. We have the best cupping equipment. We have the best opium, all developed recently, and you're going to beat it.
I went... I didn't feel so good. And two days ago, I could have left two days ago. Two days ago I felt great, like, better than I have in a long time. I said just recently, better than during the Battle of Tippecanoe. Don't let it dominate. Don't let it take over your lives. Don't let that happen.
We have the greatest country in the world. We're going back. We're going back to work. We're going to be out front. As your leader, I had to do that. I knew there's danger to it, but I had to do it. I stood out front. I led. Nobody that's a leader would not do what I did. And I know there's a risk. There's a danger, but that's okay. And now I'm better, and maybe I'm immune. I don't know.
But don't let it dominate your lives. Get out there. Be careful. We have the best snake oil salesmen in the world, and they're all happened very shortly [sic], and they're all getting approved. And the boiled mixture of crude petroleum and Virginia snakeweed is coming momentarily.
Thank you very much. And Washington Infirmary, what a group of people. Thank you very much.
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| Leave a Comment | Tags: covid19 great speeches in history history news politics trumps americaThursday 1 October 2020
The 19th Amendment to the Constitution granting women the right to vote was approved in 1920. How many of those women 100 years ago would have voted for someone who bragged he could "grab 'em by the pussy"?
Based on the suffragette art of H.M. Dallas. (And yes, I know she was British.)
You know who the bad guys are. Exercise your rights this year, girls.
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Sunday 30 August 2020
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Thursday 27 August 2020
Actual conversation:
ME: If America was a corporation whose CEO had run it the way America has been run for the past 6 months, would you renew the contract of that CEO?
DAD: Yes. I think America is doing great right now.
ME: Right now? A year ago, maybe. But not right now. Right now, things are terrible. (Points at television.) For example, there are riots in Wisconsin right now.
DAD: Donald Trump sent the National Guard into Wisconsin.
ME: If the presence of the National Guard is an indicator of greatness, why weren't they in Wisconsin last year?
DAD (looking at me like I had two heads): They didn't need them last year. There were no riots then!
You can't argue with logic like that.
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| Leave a Comment | Tags: dad family trumps americaMonday 17 August 2020
First panel: @PresVillain via Twitter.com
all other panels: Action Comics Annual #3 (1991)
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Thursday 6 August 2020
I admit, when I first received this text, my first thought was, "So this is how he knows voter fraud is so widespread."
Further inspection seems to indicate that this has nothing to do with any political party but is actually a phishing scam.
Although, in this day and age, there still might be a political party behind it. Who knows anymore?
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