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324jl 8 points ago +8 / -0

We'll see who got it right soon enough.

I have a feeling that even Trafalgar is underestimating the Trump/Republican vote.

My current prediction, 56+ R Senate seats next year, 235+ R House seats. (218 needed for majority.) Trump wins popular vote, in addition to 329+ (possibly 351+) electoral votes.

Gonna be a wild week for sure.

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324jl 1 point ago +1 / -0

Of course, he's white! Need like 6 letters of recommendation from powerful people and perfect grades for a school like Georgetown.

Pulled from the liberal Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_University

Undergraduate admissions is highly selective. The university offers degree programs in forty-eight disciplines, enrolling an average of 7,500 undergraduate and 10,000 post-graduate students from more than 135 countries. Georgetown's notable alumni include 27 Rhodes Scholars, 21 Marshall Scholars, 33 Truman Scholars, 429 Fulbright Students, two U.S. Presidents, and two U.S. Supreme Court Justices, as well as international royalty and 14 foreign heads of state. Among the world's leading institutions in government and international relations, the school's alumni include more U.S. diplomats than any other university and many members of the United States Congress.

Admission to Georgetown has been deemed "most selective" by U.S. News & World Report, with the university receiving 21,318 applications and admitting 15% of those who applied for the Class of 2024. As of 2011, Georgetown's graduate schools have acceptance rates of 3.6% to the School of Medicine, 21.2% to the Law Center, 25% to the MSFS, and 35% to the MBA program. In 2004, a National Bureau of Economic Research study on revealed preference of U.S. colleges showed Georgetown was the 16th most-preferred choice. The School of Foreign Service has been ranked #1 in the United States for international affairs according to Niche, as well as #1 in the world according to Foreign Policy Magazine. The Medical School is ranked 44th in research and 87th in primary care, while the McDonough School of Business ranked 25th in MBA programs, 2nd in international business, 5th in nonprofit management, and 13th in part-time business studies. Georgetown University Law Center is ranked 14th in the United States and 12th in the world, as well as 1st in clinical training and part-time law, 2nd in tax law, 3rd in international law, 5th in criminal law, 7th in health care law, 9th in constitutional law, and 10th in environmental law.

The Georgetown undergraduate student body, at 6,926 as of 2016, is composed primarily of students from outside the District of Columbia area, with 33% of new 2016 students coming from the Mid-Atlantic states, 11% being international students, and the remainder coming from other areas of the U.S.

In 2014–2015, the racial diversity of the undergraduate student body was 57.0% white, 8.8% Asian, 6.2% black, and 7.5% Hispanic.

(What about the remaining 20.5%?)

As you can see, it's very hard to get into Georgetown.

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324jl 3 points ago +3 / -0

How can a naturally occurring plant be illegal, while GMO is not only legal, but subsidized?

Genesis 1:29

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

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324jl 4 points ago +4 / -0

Do they think this will change their minds? Seriously, they're definitely not voting for Joe and the Hoe now. As are most independents who see this bullshit.

NY's in person early voting is going on now. Skip the long election day lines and Democrat dirty tricks. Go and VOTE!

In NY early voting runs until November 1, 2020.

https://www.ny.gov/early-voting-and-absentee-voting-mail-or-dropbox#county-boards

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324jl 4 points ago +4 / -0

From another similar thread:

The case was dropped for almost a year due to chain of custody concerns but pressure from Giuliani may have gotten a new inquiry launched.

https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1320428880570716160

So it was initially dropped when they originally got the laptop, but didn't they say they didn't even look at the data until recently?

Also, seeing how they got the business partner in for an interview in a matter of hours, it would appear they're taking this seriously now? (Impossible to know whether it's for Justice or Cover-up purposes, but they seem to be actively pursuing this.)

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324jl 6 points ago +6 / -0

There are "Secure" cloud accounts, but you've probably never heard of them.

You want something with "Zero Knowledge Encryption" and/or "Secure Key Management."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_backup_services

If they're not your encryption keys, then it's not your data. And if you're making your own key, make sure it's extremely unique. Like "Over9000Hello777World44Start47Unique888Trump45" would've been a good one, but now it's public! Apparently that would take 470 million trillion years to crack... "Over9000Hello777" would apparently only take 19 days.

FYI, ANY public string of words or sentence is automatically assumed compromised. That includes obscure movie quotes, poems, song lyrics, any name, phrase, etc.

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324jl 4 points ago +4 / -0

There's a hierarchy. It goes like this:

  1. It's what you know.

  2. It's not what you know, it's who you know.

  3. It's not who you know, it's who you blow.

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324jl 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yeah, I'm getting that whenever I click a twitter link. Also the tweets don't load on .win sometimes.

It might be my adblocker, or it could be done on purpose by twitter. Either way I don't think we'll ever find out why.

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324jl 1 point ago +1 / -0

New York State imposed a tax penalty on me for not "Prepaying" quarterly income taxes. They did that over two years after I filed and paid my taxes. All because I took money out of a retirement account where they didn't withhold State income tax.

So the answer is, EVERYONE who pays income tax, or has income tax withheld, and follows the law.

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324jl 19 points ago +19 / -0

What the court is saying with this ruling is that every ballot they receive must be counted, regardless of whether the signatures match or not.

There are many laws that cover this.

Federally, there's:

18 U.S. Code § 494.Contractors’ bonds, bids, and public records

A signed ballot envelope is a "public record" or "affidavit"

Whoever falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits any bond, bid, proposal, contract, guarantee, security, official bond, public record, affidavit, or other writing for the purpose of defrauding the United States; or

Whoever utters or publishes as true or possesses with intent to utter or publish as true, any such false, forged, altered, or counterfeited writing, knowing the same to be false, forged, altered, or counterfeited; or

Whoever transmits to, or presents at any office or to any officer of the United States, any such false, forged, altered, or counterfeited writing, knowing the same to be false, forged, altered, or counterfeited—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

Here's the major one for that PA case:

52 U.S. Code § 20511.Criminal penalties

A person, including an election official, who in any election for Federal office

  • (1)knowingly and willfully intimidates, threatens, or coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any person for—
  • (A)registering to vote, or voting, or attempting to register or vote;
  • (B)urging or aiding any person to register to vote, to vote, or to attempt to register or vote; or
  • (C)exercising any right under this chapter; or
  • (2)knowingly and willfully deprives, defrauds, or attempts to deprive or defraud the residents of a State of a fair and impartially conducted election process, by
  • (A)the procurement or submission of voter registration applications that are known by the person to be materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent under the laws of the State in which the election is held; or
  • (B)the procurement, casting, or tabulation of ballots that are known by the person to be materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent under the laws of the State in which the election is held,

shall be fined in accordance with title 18 (which fines shall be paid into the general fund of the Treasury, miscellaneous receipts (pursuant to section 3302 of title 31), notwithstanding any other law), or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.

So the PA Supreme Court's argument is that it's legal for THE STATE'S ELECTION WORKERS to tabulate "ballots that are known by the person to be materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent under [Pennsylvania Law.]" ???

So, the PA SC is saying a person has no way to judge whether or not a signature is "materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent." So, according to the PA SC, election judges don't exist? Persons whose JOB it is to judge matters (like signatures on returned ballots or at polls) pertaining to an election.

In PA there's:

§ 4101. Forgery.

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of forgery if, with intent to defraud or injure anyone, or with knowledge that he is facilitating a fraud or injury to be perpetrated by anyone, the actor:

(1) alters any writing of another without his authority;

(2) makes, completes, executes, authenticates, issues or transfers any writing so that it purports to be the act of another who did not authorize that act, or to have been executed at a time or place or in a numbered sequence other than was in fact the case, or to be a copy of an original when no such original existed; or

(3) utters any writing which he knows to be forged in a manner specified in paragraphs (1) or (2) of this subsection.

(b) Definition.--As used in this section the word "writing" includes printing or any other method of recording information, money, coins, tokens, stamps, seals, credit cards, badges, trademarks, electronic signatures and other symbols of value, right, privilege, or identification.

(c) Grading.--Forgery is a felony of the second degree if the writing is or purports to be part of an issue of money, securities, postage or revenue stamps, or other instruments issued by the government, or part of an issue of stock, bonds or other instruments representing interests in or claims against any property or enterprise. Forgery is a felony of the third degree if the writing is or purports to be a will, deed, contract, release, commercial instrument, or other document evidencing, creating, transferring, altering, terminating, or otherwise affecting legal relations. Otherwise forgery is a misdemeanor of the first degree.

Also:

§ 4114. Securing execution of documents by deception.

A person commits a misdemeanor of the second degree if by deception he causes another to execute any instrument affecting or purporting to affect or likely to affect the pecuniary interest of any person.

Also, if you throw out someone's valid ballot:

§ 4103. Fraudulent destruction, removal or concealment of recordable instruments.

A person commits a felony of the third degree if, with intent to deceive or injure anyone, he destroys, removes or conceals any will, deed, mortgage, security instrument or other writing for which the law provides public recording.

IMHO, the US AG (Barr) should step up here, and demand the US Supreme Court look into this. The PA SC justices are guilty of § 4114 of PA LAW if ballots with obviously fraudulent signatures get counted. (Elections are ultimately about money, especially tax policy.)

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324jl 1 point ago +1 / -0

This is not available to you!

Okay, * Refreshes page *

Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!

Well, damn.

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324jl 3 points ago +3 / -0

The gem at issue appears to be a 2.8-carat jewel that Biden told The New Yorker he got from Ye Jianming, then the chairman of CEFC China Energy Co., following an introductory dinner meeting in Miami amid Biden’s divorce.

In court papers, Buhle estimated the diamond was worth $80,000, while Biden put its value closer to $10,000, according to The New Yorker.

So, it's actually 3.16 carats, and according to the grading report shown, would be about 60K to 70K on the Blue Nile website. https://www.bluenile.com/diamond-search

Looks like he got ripped off by around 12.5% to 25%, if what he told his wife is what "they" told him it was worth.

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324jl 1 point ago +1 / -0

In the states where they're mailed in, and they're not checking signatures, then there's not much a poll watcher can do to stop that type of steal.

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324jl 2 points ago +2 / -0

*Party registration is modeled by TargetSmart from multiple commercial sources.

Encouraging, but unverified.

That 10 point higher share of 65+ voters is interesting also. Either some very enthused seniors, or some very discouraged younger voters. Could also be fraud. I'd keep an eye on this.

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324jl 2 points ago +2 / -0

I think he meant to say they're off by 10 points.

I'd say 10 to 12 points for most states.

NYT and Monmouth polls both have Biden at +3 in Iowa, while Emerson has Trump at +2. Trump won Iowa by +9.5 in 2016.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/ia/iowa_trump_vs_biden-6787.html

Apparently every Pennsylvania poll has had Biden at +2 or higher since late August:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/pa/pennsylvania_trump_vs_biden-6861.html

Pennsylvania looks better than it did in 2016 in that regard:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/pa/pennsylvania_trump_vs_clinton_vs_johnson_vs_stein-5964.html

I think a lot of us really are feeding these polls bogus info just to mess with them. (If they think they're winning, they're not spending money/time in that state.)

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324jl 5 points ago +5 / -0

Yes. Also:

there is a rebuttable presumption that such person did so for no legitimate purpose

Meaning if you're charged for it, you're basically guilty unless you can prove yourself innocent. (That you had a legitimate legal reason.) It would be pretty hard to fight this, so you had better put a lot of thought into it and have a good lawyer on speed dial.

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324jl 9 points ago +9 / -0

You can, just not for "voyeuristic, profitable, defamatory or exploitative purposes."

Basically, you need a "legitimate purpose" and must keep it private.

Section 250.45 - 3. (a) For no legitimate purpose, he or she intentionally uses or installs, or permits the utilization or installation of an imaging device to surreptitiously view, broadcast or record a person in a bedroom, changing room, fitting room, restroom, toilet, bathroom, washroom, shower or any room assigned to guests or patrons in a motel, hotel or inn, without such person's knowledge or consent.

(b) For the purposes of this subdivision, when a person uses or installs, or permits the utilization or installation of an imaging device in a bedroom, changing room, fitting room, restroom, toilet, bathroom, washroom, shower or any room assigned to guests or patrons in a hotel, motel or inn, there is a rebuttable presumption that such person did so for no legitimate purpose

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/250.45

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324jl 2 points ago +2 / -0

hoping he brings a megaphone Airhorn.

Fixed that for ya!

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324jl 1 point ago +1 / -0

Definitely.

Not only are they unable to report this story on twitter, they're unable to report ANY news on twitter.

The fact that they block the whole account over 1 message is beyond ridiculous.

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324jl 1 point ago +1 / -0

Everyone keeps repeating this lie that the votes become worthless. You don't vote for the president, you vote for "electors" that have pledged to vote for the candidate.

In the case that someone on the ticket dies, they could literally pick anyone, although the electors are hand-picked by the DNC, so they'd probably hold a convention to make that choice.

The most logical outcome would be that Harris climbs to the top of the ticket, and another VP is selected. Though the electors can technically vote for whomever they want in some states.

This has happened before, but not where it would've changed who won:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1872_United_States_presidential_election#Results

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912_United_States_presidential_election#Death_of_Vice_President_Sherman

Biden could technically "win" the electoral pledged votes, and subsequently be voted against in the electoral college. But if Trump doesn't get more than half the electoral votes, it will be turned over to the house:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector

But it wouldn't be 1 representative 1 vote, it'll be 1 state 1 vote.

The Twelfth Amendment requires the House of Representatives to go into session immediately to vote for a president if no candidate for president receives a majority of the electoral votes (since 1964, 270 of the 538 electoral votes).

In this event, the House of Representatives is limited to choosing from among the three candidates who received the most electoral votes for president. Each state delegation votes en bloc — each delegation having a single vote; the District of Columbia does not get to vote. A candidate must receive an absolute majority of state delegation votes (i.e., at present, a minimum of 26 votes) in order for that candidate to become the president-elect. Additionally, delegations from at least two thirds of all the states must be present for voting to take place. The House continues balloting until it elects a president.

The House of Representatives has chosen the president only twice: in 1801 under Article II, Section 1, Clause 3; and in 1825 under the Twelfth Amendment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Electoral_College#Contingencies

Since DC doesn't get a vote, and a majority of states are republican, the odds are in Trumps favor there also.

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