- I've seen the extended video. Just prior to where this video starts, the camera man yells "Gun! Gun!" about 10 seconds before Ashli Babbitt attempts to breach the barricade. Nobody knows why she didn't heart that or ignored it. It was noisy. Interestingly, the camera man appears to be John Sullivan, the Antifa/BLM operative arrested for being in the Capitol building. You can see him in other videos shot from different angles.
- You don't know the camera man isn't alarmed. You can't see him. It's also likely nobody knew the extent of her injuries in the seconds after the shooting.
- She was breaching the last line of defense. 3a. The cops didn't know she was unarmed. 3b. The cops have radios and surely have heard the mob is "out for blood" (intending to hang or kidnap senior members of the government, etc.). Of course, they are going to shoot. Why would someone try to breach that barricade unless they intended to do hard to the congresspeople the cop was defending? It's not obviously a bad shooting. The cop was suspended (which is normal) until the shooting is investigated.
Here's a pretty good analysis of her background...
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2021/01/08/the-journey-of-ashli-babbitt/
That's a good point about Pence. Apparently, Pence never gave Trump the impression he would block the electoral vote counting.
People here seem to think Trump is censored in any meaningful way just because he can't tweet. He's not. He could be having nationally-televised press conferences every day if he wanted.
It will be interesting to see if Rudy gets a pardon. I'm betting he won't since he'll be a witness at the impeachment trial and that would look like Trump is trying to buy off witnesses. Rudy isn't able to defend Trump for similar reasons. That's probably a good thing.
Obviously, this is a matter of opinion. For example, I think it was mistake to have Rudy leading the legal charge and possibly a mistake to try to litigate the issue in the first place (vs. demanding forensic audits). They didn't prevail in almost any of the 60+ cases they brought. Rudy hadn't practiced law for many years. He continues to promise huge revelations and doesn't deliver. In court (unlike everywhere else), he refused to claim fraud directly because he didn't have hard evidence and could be sanctioned by the judge without it. I think Powell and the circus in GA (including Trump's self-focused rally prior to the runoff election) helped the Dems win those Senate seats. That's as bad as losing the Presidency, in my opinion. I could go on and on...
I agree about the information. It's amazing how fast new developments are reported here.
This will probably be my last comment since I'll be considered a serious threat to TDW group-think. You are in a fantasy world if you think you are red pilling any significant number of normies. I was actually a Trump supporter until I came to this site after the riots. However, the people here convinced me that there's a difference between supporting Trump and worshipping him in a haze of hopium. The movement is more important than the Man. Nobody seems to be able to face the truth and just keep telling each other that it's ok. Well, it's not. Trump and his team fucked up big time. But that doesn't mean MAGA is a lost cause... unless everyone fights hard to stay in their thought bubbles. Then it is definitely lost although others, grounded in reality, will carry on the fight. In a sense, I have been red-pilled, but it's not the red pill you all "think" it is.
Ashli, actually.
Where do I sign up?
Even if Trump is no longer President, he won't be gone. I'm sure they'll still find something to criticize.
Yeah, I know about the denial of the USPS worker disavowal. I personally put this in the category of "who really knows" at this point. Other news outlets claim that Project Veritas actually wrote the postal worker's claim in the first place. In any case, it's hardly damning proof of anything without any hard evidence of ballot backdating.
The Carter-Baker Report also said with proper safeguards, there was little evidence of voter fraud with mail-in voting. In May, the Carter Center urged federal and state governments to expand access to vote-by-mail options.
https://cartercenter.org/news/pr/2020/united-states-050620.html
I'm going to pop out of this thread at this point before I ask one-too-many questions and really piss people off. Thanks to everyone for the info.
I certainly can't speak for the mods, but they'd still be exposed to being blocked by their network service provider (ISP). However, the risk would be less than it is now.
Although there is a service called Cloudflare Pages for hosting web sites, my understanding is that TDW is not hosted there. Cloudflare is just used as a CDN for performance, DDoS protection, etc. There are other CDN providers and we could even create our own custom CDN, but it's not easy and not as cheap as CF.
A "server" is just a computer connected to a network that listens for network connections. Your home computer could be a self-hosted server. For TDW they'd need multiple computers and related equipment (like network switches that route messages between a computer and the network). Often this equipment is mounted in a special cabinet called a "rack". The big benefit of a rack, versus just stacking computers on tables, is that it's more organized and easier to power and maintain the hardware.
Cloud computing is basically where someone else is hosting the physical computers. There is also technology, called "virtualization", that can make a single physical computer appear to be multiple "virtual" computers (AKA "virtual machines"). When people talk about "running on bare metal", they mean the server is not running in a virtual machine.
There are tradeoffs with running your own servers (AKA "on-premise" vs cloud). For example, you need staff to monitor and manage the local computing and network resources and respond quickly to outages. Cloud computing platforms are also able to change the number of (virtual) servers dynamically as load increases or decreases. This can save money by only paying for resources that are actually required.
That's true, but not necessarily practical. Cloudflare's primary purpose is to improve web site performance through local caching of content. This is called a Content Distribution Network (CDN) and requires servers located all over the world to store and serve content for fast retrieval by users (based on their physical location). The DDoS protection, advanced DNS, etc. are value-added features on top of the CDN.
I know [M] means a user is a moderator. What is [S]?
Do you have reference(s) that provide the historical understanding?
Apparently, the truck driver claim was investigated by election officials. I assume it wasn't investigated by LE because there was no indication that laws had been broken.
https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/fact-check-explaining-the-claims
The postal worked claims about backdated ballots were later disavowed (sorry about the MSM reference).
What happened with Roger Stone's claim that North Korean smuggled ballots into Maine? I can't find any information about that investigation.
I'm not left-leaning, but I admit I'm not as far-right as most people here. I've never used reddit and have very rarely have used my twitter account.
Which article/section of the PA Constitution has the requirement you describe? I want to check it out. TIA.
Are you referring to the GA boxes-under-the-table video? My understanding is that issue was resolved after officials reviewed the unedited video and interviewed the poll workers. I think there may have been some lack of transparency on both sides (which did the R observers leave when they weren't required to do so? Why was the video edited to make it look worse than it was? etc.).
I'm going to stop asking questions here at this point (I can tell I'm annoying some people), but thanks for giving me some pointers for further investigation.
Right, the claim is the shall strengthens the floor for the absentee voting provisions, a minimal requirement, but doesn't limit extending the absentee voting provisions (including allowing anyone to vote by mail). I don't know if they are arguing honestly (can't read minds), but it does make logical sense. Part of the problem is that Republicans didn't question the new law (that they originally authored and passed) until after the election, although it had been enacted a year earlier. Such a tangled mess...
Thanks! I appreciate the thoughtful response. A lot to think about there. It's interesting that the coattail argument is used in the opposite way by Dems (if I understand it correctly). They ask, if there was fraud for Biden, why didn't the down ballot candidates benefit from that too. They say that people were voting for split government (although it didn't work out that way after the GA senate runoffs). With COVID and DJT being one-of-a-kind, I wonder how much one can infer from patterns in past elections. I do agree that Trump's legal strategy didn't turn out to be a great one, compared to other options.
Sorry, I'm probably not communicating well. Here's the actual case document if you want to read it (with the PA defense that I outlined).
I didn't just say the "claim was not valid". I gave a couple of specific reasons why it was not (according to the docket). Again, the document will be much specific and clear than I can be, if you want to read it.
I also said the votes related to the PA Supreme Court rulings were not enough, not that votes related to the constitutional claim weren't enough.
I understand these are hard questions and I might be labeled a shill for asking them. I'm willing to take that risk for the truth. There's a lot of people like me asking questions and looking for better answers/truth than we're getting from the MSM. I was just accepting a lot of what I was hearing until my family started giving all this other information. This debate with them has been difficult.
Yes, that was Kelly's claim, but it was not valid. Title 77 defines who must be allowed to use mail-in ballots. It doesn't limit who can be allowed to use mail-in ballots. (This is from the state's response to Kelly's U.S. Supreme Court complaint). I'm still researching the response related to the PA Supreme Court's decisions. Those were the arguments that were too complicated for me to understand. Unfortunately, AFAICT, the number of votes potentially affected by the PA Supreme Court decisions alone wouldn't be enough for Trump to win the state.
ok, I'll stop asking so many questions, but I really do want to know. I think for myself and try to make objective, evidence-based decisions. However, my brother-in-law is making some good counter-arguments and I'm starting to have some doubts. At least in PA, it was the Republican Legislature that passed the laws allowing mail-in ballots, not the Democrats. No courts were involved in that specific action (they were in others). Thanks for all the info.
He lives in PA and he knows about the legislature argument. The Republican Legislature in PA passed the laws allowing mail-in ballots in 2019. They later claimed it was unconstitutional (at the state level) but the constitution doesn't actually prohibit it. It's frustrating. I've tried to read the US Supreme Court briefs related to the case and it's too complicated for me to understand.
Thanks. I've tried to use that federalist article to convince him but the reasoning is too weak. It asks why was were there so many more voters than normal? Why did Biden get so many votes? It's too easy for someone to say... simple, "Trump was a crap President and everyone came out to be sure he was not elected". Of course, it also means there was many more Trump supporters too, just not enough to win. In any case, none of it is strong enough evidence to convince someone of fraud, unless they already want to believe it.
I saw the YouTube interview with "the rogue mod". Is it true that the site source code is only accessible to one mod (I assume doggos) who is not an American? In the interview, he said allowing other mods access to that code was a prerequisite for transfering the thedonald.win domain to the mods. I'm not sure it makes much difference, but just verifying if that was fake news or not.