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I'll take movies I've never seen for $500 Alex... :p nor would I....
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That clip is from Idiocracy a movie made by Mike Judge who is the creator of Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill and Office Space among other things. Idiocracy is not a great movie (plot/character development, pacing, etc.), but it is very funny, deceptively smart/wicked and very quotable - I recommend it.
 
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Over 46 million early voters already cast ballots as Harris, Trump enter final sprint​

  • More than 46 million Americans had already cast their ballots in the 2024 election as of Tuesday morning, according to NBC News’ tracker, accounting for roughly a quarter of the electorate.
  • Some states, like North Carolina and Georgia, have reported that their early voter turnout is setting records this election cycle.
  • Though early voting data can provide helpful signs of potential patterns, and help gauge voter enthusiasm, it’s not a predictive model of Election Day outcomes.
More than 46 million Americans have cast their ballots in the 2024 election as of Tuesday morning, according to NBC News’ tracker, accounting for over a quarter of the anticipated electorate.

Both nominees, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, have encouraged voters to get to the ballot box as soon as they can.

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At Trump's MSG Hate Rally, Trump Says He & Mike Johnson Have An Election "Secret" To Retain Power​

Oct 28, 2024
Donald Trump held a hate rally at Madison Square Garden Sunday night. The reviews are in: NPR - "Off-color jokes, vitriol take over Trump Madison Square rally"; The New York Times - "Trump at the Garden: A Closing Carnival of Grievances, Misogyny and Racism"; and The New York Daily News - " RACIST RALLY."

But one of the most troubling things revealed at the rally was Trump telling the crowd that he and House Speaker Mike Johnson have a "little secret" evidently designed to retain power after Trump loses the election.

The good news is, unlike 2020 when Trump tried to unlawfully retain power, he is not president this time around - Joe Biden is.

This video discusses how President Biden needs to exercise his core constitutional powers to stop Trump and Johnson from moving forward with their scheme to again try to defraud the American voters.


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Trump Lawyers DOUBLES DOWN on FAILED Plan​

Oct 29, 2024

Cleta Mitchell, a Trump lawyer who barely avoided indictment, now leads a shadowy organization by, her words, divine providence, hell-bent on suppressing the vote of Americans under the guise of "voter integrity." Lisa Graves and Alex Aronson of Court Accountability Action join Popok to discuss the new NYT investigative reporting unmasking Mitchell and her "Election Integrity Network."


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At Trump's MSG Hate Rally, Trump Says He & Mike Johnson Have An Election "Secret" To Retain Power​

Oct 28, 2024
Donald Trump held a hate rally at Madison Square Garden Sunday night. The reviews are in: NPR - "Off-color jokes, vitriol take over Trump Madison Square rally"; The New York Times - "Trump at the Garden: A Closing Carnival of Grievances, Misogyny and Racism"; and The New York Daily News - " RACIST RALLY."

But one of the most troubling things revealed at the rally was Trump telling the crowd that he and House Speaker Mike Johnson have a "little secret" evidently designed to retain power after Trump loses the election.

The good news is, unlike 2020 when Trump tried to unlawfully retain power, he is not president this time around - Joe Biden is.

This video discusses how President Biden needs to exercise his core constitutional powers to stop Trump and Johnson from moving forward with their scheme to again try to defraud the American voters.


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Once again the leftist media projecting what they are going to do. Cheat. There is no other way. Kamala is about as popular as a nat on a ticks ass. As Hillary found out in 2016, spewing hate and angry rhetoric and calling the opponent and his followers names is not a winning strategy but seems to be all she has.

The mere fact that the left opposes voters to show ID is in itself evidence of cheating. Then we have this administration trying to block any efforts to clean up the voting rolls in certain states. Insanity.
 
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Inside a Trump Official’s Plan to Unleash the Military on Americans​

Newly leaked video shows one of Donald Trump’s former top administration officials detailing his plans to give the Republican presidential candidate unchecked power to unleash the military on Americans if he wins re-election.

The plan involves creating “shadow” government offices that would create flimsy legal justifications to override objections from military leaders and carry out executive orders, including sending in soldiers against protesters and other perceived enemies, according to a stunning new report from ProPublica.

“We’re trying to build almost a shadow Office of Management and Budget. We’re trying to build a shadow Office of Legal Counsel,” said Russell Vought, who oversaw Trump’s OMB in 2019 and 2020, in a video from 2023.

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The closer we get to the election the crazier the news gets. I can't understand what happened to this country. We used to have elections where the candidates would talk about their views on different subjects and how they would deal with things if elected. People would vote and go on with their lives. The losing candidates would congratulate the winner and go on with their lives. Somer would run again in a new election if they felt like they might have a chance of winning. Everything was low keyed and pretty much amicable.

Now it's like war. Normal rules of civilized society seem to have been thrown out the window. WTF happened?
 
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At Trump's MSG Hate Rally, Trump Says He & Mike Johnson Have An Election "Secret" To Retain Power​

Oct 28, 2024
Donald Trump held a hate rally at Madison Square Garden Sunday night. The reviews are in: NPR - "Off-color jokes, vitriol take over Trump Madison Square rally"; The New York Times - "Trump at the Garden: A Closing Carnival of Grievances, Misogyny and Racism"; and The New York Daily News - " RACIST RALLY."

But one of the most troubling things revealed at the rally was Trump telling the crowd that he and House Speaker Mike Johnson have a "little secret" evidently designed to retain power after Trump loses the election.

The good news is, unlike 2020 when Trump tried to unlawfully retain power, he is not president this time around - Joe Biden is.

This video discusses how President Biden needs to exercise his core constitutional powers to stop Trump and Johnson from moving forward with their scheme to again try to defraud the American voters.


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There Is No “Little Secret” Speaker Power over the Electoral Count​

At his rally in Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Donald Trump offered an aside to Speaker Mike Johnson about a “little secret” concerning the election and the House of Representatives. “[W]e can take the Senate pretty easily. And I think with our little secret, we’re going to do really well with the House, right?” Trump said to Johnson. “Our little secret is having a big impact. He and I have a secret. We’ll tell you what it is when the race is over.”

Many took this as a nod to possible efforts to obstruct the joint session where electoral votes are counted on January 6. It’s not entirely clear what Trump might have meant, and Johnson has been evasive about whether he would seek to lead, as he did among House members four years ago, with ill-founded objections to a possible Democratic victory.

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The closer we get to the election the crazier the news gets. I can't understand what happened to this country. We used to have elections where the candidates would talk about their views on different subjects and how they would deal with things if elected. People would vote and go on with their lives. The losing candidates would congratulate the winner and go on with their lives. Somer would run again in a new election if they felt like they might have a chance of winning. Everything was low keyed and pretty much amicable.

Now it's like war. Normal rules of civilized society seem to have been thrown out the window. WTF happened?
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The left is afraid to give up power since they have used that power to take out their political opponents and are now afraid they will be the ones headed to prison.
 
JD going on Rogan tomorrow. Kamala will only do an hr and only if Rogan travels to her which he never does.
 
searcher said:
We used to have elections where the candidates would talk about their views on different subjects
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And they were most often lies.
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and how they would deal with things if elected.
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And those were most usually lies. "Campaign promises"
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Everything was low keyed and pretty much amicable.
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That's because they were on the same team.
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Now it's like war. Normal rules of civilized society seem to have been thrown out the window. WTF happened?
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The candidates are not on the same team this time.

This is not new. You should remember learning about "yellow journalism" in history class.
 
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Once again the leftist media projecting what they are going to do. Cheat. There is no other way. Kamala is about as popular as a nat on a ticks ass. As Hillary found out in 2016, spewing hate and angry rhetoric and calling the opponent and his followers names is not a winning strategy but seems to be all she has.

The mere fact that the left opposes voters to show ID is in itself evidence of cheating. Then we have this administration trying to block any efforts to clean up the voting rolls in certain states. Insanity.
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Accusing your enemy of that which you yourself are doing is a recognized Saul Alinsky tactic that the left uses regularly. If you want to know exactly what the democrats are doing, just listen to what they accuse Trump of. Their corrupt, complicit media covers for them.


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pmbug said:
That clip is from Idiocracy a movie made by Mike Judge who is the creator of Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill and Office Space among other things. Idiocracy is not a great movie (plot/character development, pacing, etc.), but it is very funny, deceptively smart/wicked and very quotable - I recommend it.
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I eschew movies for the most part... I suppose it kind of leaves me out of 'cultural enrichment'... LOL
 
Now this is newsworthy...

Hundreds of ballots discovered after they fell off truck in Florida​

ByAnnabella Rosciglione

Containers with hundreds of ballots in Miami-Dade County, Florida, were found on the side of a road overnight after they fell out of a county truck, the Elections Department confirmed Tuesday.

Christina White, the county’s elections supervisor, said the containers were sealed, and the ballots had already been scanned and tabulated. The Miami-Dade Elections Department released a statement saying the incident was due to “human error” and that none of the ballots were tampered with.

“The worker forgot to lock the back of the truck, and as they drove off, one sealed bin and one sealed bag fell out,” Christina White, the county’s elections supervisor, said Tuesday morning.

The incident happened between 9:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. The county worker driving the truck did not immediately stop after the ballots fell out. Another driver passing by the scene retrieved the containers, according to a video from Only in Dade.



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Hundreds of ballots discovered after they fell off truck in Florida - Washington Examiner

The county’s elections supervisor said the containers were sealed, and the ballots had already been scanned and tabulated.
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Irate MAGA hat-wearer punches elderly poll worker after refusing to remove cap: report

A Donald Trump supporter in Texas is facing an assault charge after he was accused of punching an election clerk who was escorting him out of a polling site for refusing to take his red “Make America Great Again” cap off.The violent incident occurred Thursday evening in San Antonio during the...
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Democratic strategist Sawyer Hackett, a former adviser to ex-HUD Secretary and past San Antonio mayor Julian Castro, blamed the former president.

“Trump is responsible for this violence, and I doubt it’s the last,” he wrote on X.


and Biden's responsible for Antifa, FBI, CIA rioting on J6
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Gotta be the only country in the world funding this shit.

Where's all the Kamala rallies in packed football stadiums? I honestly haven't been looking (My confirmation bias showing) but would be interested to know if she gets any crowds the size of Trump.
 

Jon Stewart on Trump's Xenophobic MSG Rally & Mass Deportation Plan | The Daily Show​

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Jon Stewart on Trump's Xenophobic MSG Rally & Mass Deportation Plan | The Daily Show​

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No need to spend money on deportations. Cut off government funding and make it illegal to fund the illegals as well. Then make it illegal for anyone to hire illegals with penalties of 10k per illegal hired plus 6 months in prison for each illegal hired. The illegals will take themselves home.
Next step is to end welfare. Phase it out over a 6-12 month period and then they go out and get jobs or join the homeless and go hungry. Might take awhile for some of them 400-500 pounders to go hungry but they will be healthier in the end for it.
 


All the major elements of the FBI & CIA conspiracy to interfere in the 2020 election on behalf of Joe Biden are now confirmed:

— FBI had the Hunter Biden laptop in Dec. 2019 & knew it "was real" immediately

— FBI, spying on Giuliani, knew he would give the laptop to media

— FBI ran a disinformation campaign in the summer of 2020 to "prebunk" the story with journalists & social media companies, both directly and through Aspen Institute, by falsely claiming Russians were planning disinfo relating to Hunter Biden

— "Former" FBI General Counsel turned Twitter Dep. Counsel, Jim Baker, convinced colleagues to censor the NY Post story after they had determined that it had *not* violated Twitter's Terms of Service

— CIA Director Gina Haspel approved, within a few hours, a disinformation campaign by 51 "former" CIA and other Intelligence Community leaders who falsely claimed the laptop was Russian disinformation

The result was that millions of voters thought the laptop was fake and never learned that Joe Biden oversaw a vast influence-peddling scheme involving China, Ukraine, and other nations, with his son and brother, until after the election.

These are high crimes for which people should go to prison.

 
Cigarlover said:
No need to spend money on deportations. Cut off government funding and make it illegal to fund the illegals as well. Then make it illegal for anyone to hire illegals with penalties of 10k per illegal hired plus 6 months in prison for each illegal hired. The illegals will take themselves home.
Next step is to end welfare. Phase it out over a 6-12 month period and then they go out and get jobs or join the homeless and go hungry. Might take awhile for some of them 400-500 pounders to go hungry but they will be healthier in the end for it.
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Not to mention if Trump does raise tariffs and end income tax (thus the private Federal Reserve) there will be plenty of jobs for Americans.
 


GPS—31,834 mobile devices at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. for a Kamala Harris rally.

91% have attended 3 or more Harris rallies.

Interesting, just over 11,000 were from Atlanta, Georgia, followed by 6,500 from California.

Using our Antifa/BLM/Pro-Palestinian overlays, 6,122 were linked to 3 or more Antifa/BLM/Pro-Palestinian protests/riots.
 


CAUGHT ON TAPE: Democratic Operative Details Potentially Illegal Ballot Harvesting Schemes Used to Rig American Elections; Appears to Admit 2020 Election Fraud Took Place in Georgia

MugClub Army - please be aware of this type of activity ahead of Election Day!

Send ALL tips and information regarding election irregularities to LWCtips@protonmail.com and be sure to join us on Election Night for The Election Livestream of the Century: The Rumble on
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We cannot allow 2020 to happen again!
 
In PA early voting really doesn't exist in the same way it does in other states. Your best bet is to sign up to vote by mail and send in the ballot the day after you get it.
In my part of the county there are plenty of polling places for those who vote in person.

Trump campaign announces lawsuit against Bucks County over long lines and early cut-offs for voters casting mail ballots​

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign is planning to file a lawsuit against Bucks County over long lines and early cut-offs at county election offices for voters requesting and casting mail ballots, Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley announced Tuesday night.

“I’m proud tonight to tell you that the Trump-Vance campaign has just filed a huge lawsuit against Bucks County for turning away our voters,” Whatley announced to the crowd during Trump’s rally in Allentown. “We are going to fight this thing in court, and all we ask of you is to stay in line. Donald Trump needs your votes. Donald Trump needs Pennsylvania. America needs Pennsylvania.”

Though Whatley said the suit had already been filed, it could not be located on Bucks County’s database of court records Tuesday evening.

Over the last several days, Republicans have grown increasingly frustrated with the purple county’s elections officials’ approach to on-demand mail voting, the closest equivalent Pennsylvania has to early in-person voting.

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For anyone interested:

Polling Places | Bucks County, PA

Check out a helpful list of polling places in Bucks County, and access tools to help you find which one is yours.
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A GOP committeeperson in Pa.'s Delaware County was detained for allegedly attempting to influence voters amid confusion over mail ballots​

PHILADELPHIA — Tensions over long lines as voters seek to cast an on-demand mail ballot began to boil over Monday when a GOP committeeperson from Marple Township was detained and cited for disorderly conduct at the Delaware County Government Center after officials say she interacted with residents waiting to vote.

Val Biancaniello, 55, was “disruptive, belligerent, and attempting to influence voters waiting in line,” according to a statement Tuesday from a county spokesperson.

Biancaniello’s detainment comes as frustrations over long lines, offices running out of material, and voters being turned away have been reported across Pennsylvania as counties face high demand for on-demand voting that is driven in part by voters who want to cast their ballot early but are uncomfortable voting by mail after former President Donald Trump spent years sowing doubt in the system.

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searcher said:
... Forgive him for he knows not what he does
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Is the pen mightier than the sword? Words have power. Rhetoric can incite action. There are lunatic fringes on both sides of the aisle. Trump's call seems to me to be very mindful of this dynamic. Biden/Dems are being reckless/irresponsible/evil with their rhetoric (depending upon how intentional you think they are).
 
pmbug said:
Is the pen mightier than the sword? Words have power. Rhetoric can incite action. There are lunatic fringes on both sides of the aisle. Trump's call seems to me to be very mindful of this dynamic. Biden/Dems are being reckless/irresponsible/evil with their rhetoric (depending upon how intentional you think they are).
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But, but, but, Trump is literally Hitler. And he is an existential threat to democracy!

I know this because the party that installed a candidate without going through the process of primaries told me so.

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pmbug said:
Is the pen mightier than the sword?
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Depending upon how it's used...........most definitely.

pmbug said:
Words have power. Rhetoric can incite action.
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Totally agree.



pmbug said:
Trump's call seems to me to be very mindful of this dynamic
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In this particular case.........yes.

pmbug said:
Biden/Dems are being reckless/irresponsible/evil with their rhetoric (depending upon how intentional you think they are).
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You could be right here, but you've left out the fact about one of the peeps in Trumps MSG basically calling PR's garbage.



As for "Forgive him for he knows not what he does" - that was me having a laugh and Trump playing to a certain audience.

Personally, I can't wait for this election to be over, the votes counted, all the court cases decided and things returning to some semblance of normalcy.
 
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