1 No, there is an immediate practical difference. There are actions that can and should be taken right away, where ever you are in America. You need to be engaged with your local election officials, and your neighbors. Unless you are in an industry that will blacklist you from talking about this stuff, and then you need to be thinking about getting out. If your neighbors are basically sound, you can do things if your local election officials are not basically sound. If your local election officials are basically sound, you can establish process/precedent that sees the true costs of electronic voting machines. You need to pay close attention to how the officials think about electronics. The ideal isn't quite a tin foil hat nutter who does not believe in using cellphones, but skepticism of smartphones would be appropriate. You want people who understand that electronics are made by humans, and the function depends on how they are made. If neither your neighbors nor your local election officials are sound, relocation would be ideal. Practically, relocating to a place where you could know that your neighbors are sound would be difficult.

2 Given that the party in party has discovered that election stealing is fairly easy to do, has major benefits, has a high success rate, and little to no penalties or disadvantages, I do not see how any sort of voter motivation will work.  When you have something that works, you keep doing it until it does not.


They have already demonstrated that cheating tens of thousands of votes is doable and straight-forward.

It is only a matter of time (Might even be next year, certainly by 2024.) before they start cheating hundreds of thousands of votes.

I know you are trying to do the right thing trying to remind people to not get discouraged, but frankly, I think we might have gone past that.

3 It wasn't a discovery.

Dubious elections go back quite far, unless you suppose that the terrorism of Jim Crow resulted in those elections being free and fair despite the outright explicit electioneering.  And the parties switched places my ass.

There are fifty state parties.  Showing significant Democrat continuity in one, such as the one I have roots enough in understand the political history of, proves a lack of Democrat clean hands at the national level. 

JFK essentially stole 1960.  He had Southern states with enough EVs that the effect of terrorism in suppressing the Republican vote cannot be assumed minimal.  (The so called Southern Strategy that modern Democrats complain about is merely the result of their corrupt asses being kicked out after people had time to realize that they really had been made to quit the terrorism, and that the ACW is a really long time ago.) JFK was not a lunatic of the modern grade, and his theft of the election was tolerable in comparison.

When you consider all of the little signs, Democrats may have been stealing Presidential elections under the modern scheme as far back as 1992, and the Democrat leadership definitely thought they had stolen 2008 and 2012.  Consider the entitlement in 2000 and 2016.  Consider the edge to Obama's race war nutjobbery.  If he thought he had fairly won the white vote, why is he so insecure about whites?

It is not at all a coincidence that the Clintons came out of the Arkansas Democratic Party.  They have no principled objection to white supremacist terrorism, or to election fraud.

The degree of knowing we have is simply a result of them deciding to 'fix' the 'mistakes' they made in 2016. 

They've been doing stuff with political polls for a long time, media is disinformation, and there is an appearance that the courts were fixed.  Courts may not have been fixed, but law faculty are in the university echo chamber, and don't understanding how badly they hurt credibility in the public eye, going on along with what the echo chamber insists. 

Despite that, there is a path to addressing it that is not an active shooting war.  1.  In red states, voter activism to force fair voting process on electoral officials.  2.  Then, replacing establishment Republicans at the state level with actual trustworthy Republicans.  3.  Then, getting actual things done with regard to legal system and university problems. 

It is a great deal of work, and we may have a shooting war anyway.  Opposition leadership is well and truely insane, and the folks who purport to lead or represent us are Quislings and Chamberlains. 

Everything we can get done properly in a nominally red state is a tool for the wider propaganda war. 

1 Given the current rate they are going, we will be talking about the theft hundreds of thousands of votes in each state in a few years, especially when the certain party controls the places where the votes are being counted.

They already demonstrated that they can do it with no consequences.  I fail see why they would have any reason not to keep on going and push it.

1 While Victoria is still going full Health Nazi, New South Wales plans to phase out almost all restrictions by December 1.  No vaccine mandates, no vaccine passports, no checkins or contact tracing.  Masks still expected to be required on public transport though, so I won't be doing that.

2 "Masks still expected to be required on public transport though, so I won't be doing that."
You monster, gratuitously contributing to glueball wormening!

1 I found that just three deep breaths can drop my blood pressure from 160 to 120.

2 Yeah, I have problems with carrying around too much tension. Breathing helps. Another thing that helps is an exercise involving lying down flat. Hands clasped behind my head. Holding my head still, and facing straight up, look as far right as my eyes travel, and hold. Breath a while. Then switch to looking left the same way, hold and breathe. Then actually turn my head to the right, hold and breath. Then the left, again. It is possible that this only has good results for me because of something wrong with me. News is depressing, but I've actually been on net positive. Compared to the first Obama years, which I spent very depressed. May just be my personal situation, and making slightly better choices in my emotions. I mean, it seems pretty clear that a few of those with power over us are deeply disturbed, and that is never a wonderful situation to feel trapped in. Compared to the Obama years, however, while I still don't see a way out, I do have a lot better understanding of the grounds for hope.

3 Argh, I had javascript off, and so a bunch of white space was eaten.

4 Are there any more sedentary job prospects within non-driving distance available? Given the health issue(s?), something less strenuous might be preferable.

5 There are probably some temporary disability plans that can help out in the interim, if you do get fired. If you get going on the paperwork immediately, you may even see some cash in 6 months....

6 You may try looking into your state's public transportation options, not to ride a bus but because many also have special discounted transportation options for the disabled, including those who can't drive. Usually something like a taxi or a van service that may only charge you a few dollars. A 30-second search turned up this: https://vda.virginia.gov/drivingtransport.htm  I'm not sure how quickly you can get access to something like this, but may be worth investigating.

7 Hope you can find another possible work place.  My son got a job with your 'current?' employer after being overseas for a number of years.  They recently told him(verbally) that he needed to go to another work site for some special training.  When he went there, his ID badge would not let him in to the different location, but he was able to talk with the people on site and show his badge and got let in.   Then said company claimed he was filing false work hours because he didn't show up for the 'mandatory' training.  Since his badge wouldn't work there he was not OFFICIALLY present, so he COULDN'T have been there for the training - so they fired him. I'm sure his being over 40 had nothing to do with the setup. Meanwhile, he has started working elsewhere.

8 Arrghhh.

1 Akshully, it is simply that the senior Democrats are evil, have always been the enemies of Americans, and the Democratic Party has for over a hundred fifty years had a corrupt institutional culture that routinely practices tactics that should put it beyond the bounds of civil politics.  Those since FDR who have prospered within the Republican Party have largely been inclined to turn a blind eye to this, where they are not actively complicit.

Note, the regime that did this does not see it as a humiliation for them, they see it as a way of humiliating /us/. Obama is a narcissist, and if you are not familiar with those, you are underestimating his distress and rage at American blacks and whites for not starting a race war on his schedule. As for the assets of the PRC, PRC interest is in humiliating us, because of their own internal stability issues.

They are going to war with the American people anyway, but this may be 'kill the chicken to frighten the monkey' thinking.

What we have here is a profound failure of the American cultural consensus on peace between religious sects; That peace does not and has never held with the followers of the evil religion of communism. 

It is simply that Thomas Kratman saw things all too truly when he wrote Caliphate, and put words into the mouth of his backstory antagonist Pat Buckman. 

Wake up America, it is time to put our own house in order. 

However, unlike the literary Buckman, we may still be sane enough to remove those who wish us harm from power, /without/ destroying the Republic.

Very few of even the actual people who voted Biden are on board for this war against Americans.  So, they don't have the balance of force to make it happen.  They are relying of the faint vestiges of institutional prestige, even as they waste more of that prestige on vicious moronic nutjobbery.  We win, they lose, and we perhaps win so easily that we do not need to pursue all former adversary forces to complete destruction.

2 You know, Taliban was ready to give up Osama bin Laden to us. They only asked for it to be done through another country. But Bush administration said now.
Even so we should have been out of Afghanistan in 2006. They didn't win, we lost, with full foresight.

3 I am pretty sure the Taliban was never seriously contemplating surrendering bin Laden and his Al Qaeda associates et al. even after it became plainly obvious that they were guilty as sin so that blind people could see it.  It did not prevent the Taliban to try and play games with offers of this or that that were as serious and well intention as the offers of cease fire and negotiations that the North Koreans and Chinese extended during the Korean War when they want time to prepare for the next offensive without getting beaten by US firepower, i.e. simple stalling tactics.

1 The cynical answer - because there are far more people who do not play video games, let alone Resident Evil video games, than do.  Thus the pool of people who would be amused/thunderstruck by a company named Umbrella is far smaller than the pool of people who could not be bothered to think twice about it when they see it.

I feel the same way whenever I see any beauty products from Vichy Laboratoires.

1 Awesome!  More than I've done this week.

2 Congrats!

3 That's 1.2 miles more than I've walked in six months. You are amazing muppet!

There are many obvious reasons that come to mind, but for the sake of facetiousness, I'm going to suggest that a lack of mean tweets is the cause. Certainly, there is a correlation.

1 Well...While I do believe the reasons stated is correct, I also think the North Koreans might also be doing so because of what just happened in South Korea.