The 2020 Presidential Election Tournament

[william.scherk]

I got the video fragment embedded in a tweet.

2 hours ago, william.scherk said:

Confront the Brutal Facts with "Productive Paranoia"!

Here's Collins' offering or interpretation of the Brutal Facts association with the paradox/principle.

 

 

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

2 hours ago, turkeyfoot said:

If after Jan 3 and the new Congress, Dems took what 218 to 201 Rep seats?

TF,

Just to finish this idea. if the vote goes to the State Delegates in the House during a Contingent election, President Trump would easily win. The seat count is not important. The State count is. The Republicans already have the majority of States. And I believe Pelosi even lost a few States this go around.

So the count after Jan 3 would be even more in his President Trump's favor than if the election were held with the outgoing House (which is isn't).

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

5 hours ago, Ellen Stuttle said:

The theory is bonkers, as you note.  I haven’t a clue why Scott would propose it.

Ellen,

On the positive side of Scott, he has a very clever metaphor he uses in looking at behavior. He calls it the dog that isn't barking. I think he got it from a Sherlock Holmes story.

If there's one thing statistical experts love to do, it is shove their stats in your face, then yammer. 

Scott asks where are the leftie stats experts looking into the voter fraud stats?

There's a dog that normally barks its ass off that isn't barking right now.

Hmmmmmm...

Michael

[william.scherk]

3 hours ago, william.scherk said:

A political intelligence unit always tracks the actual moves of the other 'warring state.' 

This thread at Twitter will give you an idea of what was going on in a Maricopa court session. Some of the Trump-side testimony may surprise you. Not that we want surprises necessarily, but hey.

For a tonic or refreshing kick back at such as Klasfeld's thread and/or Law and Crime's squads of Trump 'enemies' -- for an antidote to brutal realities in the virtual Maricopa hearing, tune in at Steve Bannon's Place: https://pandemic.warroom.org. The fires are always burning there.

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Very interesting from Rudy.

Rudy talks about the part that pertains to him (nailing illegal votes), but he also gave out some very interesting facts about Dominion Voting Systems.

The first thing his said is that Dominion voting machines can be hacked. He said this is not in doubt.

The corporate part that is getting a lot of scrutiny is that Dominion Voting Systems is a Canadian company that is owned by Smartmatic through an intermediary Spanish company called Indra Sistemas. 

Smartmatic was formed back in 2003 or 2004 by three Venzuelans who were very close to Hugo Chavez and now close to Maduro. It's purpose when formed was to fix elections.

Dominion only runs Smartmatic software. And apparently all the voting records from this current USA Presidential election are in servers in Barcelona, Spain, or Germany, or Canada, where USA people cannot access them.

Do ya' think this will be another case like in the past?

Heh...

Legally, this is a nightmare for the bad guys. In PR terms, due to the Chavez and Maduro connection, it is a megaton bomb disaster getting ready to go off on the Dem's heads.

I've heard a lot of talk the Chinese are involved with this, too, but Rudy did not talk about that.

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

These people should be hunkering down.

Instead, they are offering themselves up on the sacrificial alter of the Deep State.

Department of Homeland Security calls election "the most secure in American history"

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A top committee made up of officials from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and its election partners refuted President Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud and irregularities in a statement Thursday, calling the election "the most secure in American history."

. . .

What they’re saying: “There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes or was in any way compromised," members of the Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council (GCC) Executive Committee said in a statement.

• Voting systems were made secure through pre-election testing, state certification of voting equipment and the U.S. Election Assistance Commission’s certification of equipment.
   
• The joint statement acknowledged “opportunities for misinformation” and urged voters to seek out election officials as “trusted voices.”

Here is the full statement: Joint Statement From Elections Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council & The Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Executive Committees.

And here are the good people who are climbing the stairs of the sacrificial alter.

Thank you for your service.

 

Michael

[Ellen Stuttle]

1 hour ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

On the positive side of Scott, he has a very clever metaphor he uses in looking at behavior. He calls it the dog that isn't barking. I think he got it from a Sherlock Holmes story.

Michael,

I pause in reading your post to provide the context of the very famous "dog that didn’t bark in the night."

I'm quoting from an essay which appears on a blog pertaining to legal writing - link.

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Briefly Writing

Blogging about the process of writing appellate court briefs, appellate court rules, and appellate law.

 

“The Dog that Didn’t Bark:” What We Can Learn from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle About Using the Absence of Expected Facts.

Mike Skotnicki

Posted on July 25, 2012

 

 

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The 1892 book, the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is a collection of short stories. One of the stories is “Silver Blaze,”a mystery about the disappearance of a famous racehorse the night before a race and the murder of the horse’s trainer. Sherlock Homes solves the mystery in part by recognizing that no one he spoke to in his investigation remarked that they had heard barking from the watchdog during the night.

Gregory (Scotland Yard detective): “Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?”

Holmes: “To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.”

Gregory: “The dog did nothing in the night-time.”

Holmes: “That was the curious incident.”

The fact that the dog did not bark when you would expect it to do so while a horse was stolen led Homes to the conclusion that the evildoer was a not a stranger to the dog, but someone the dog recognized and thus would not cause him to bark. Holmes drew a conclusion from a fact (barking) that did not occur, which can be referred to as a “negative fact,” or for the purpose of this discussion, an expected fact absent from the record.

I haven't read the essay past the part quoted.  I found it searching for a good description of the story.

Ellen

[Ellen Stuttle]

2 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Scott asks where are the leftie stats experts looking into the voter fraud stats?

There's a dog that normally barks its ass off that isn't barking right now.

Ha.  Right.  The silence is deafening in the volumes it speaks.

Ellen

[ThatGuy]

6 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Cut?

How about another slash coming?

Michael

Someone said this is  a fake DJTJR account...
 

 

[Peter]

Some Republicans are sounding consilly atory.  I don't know if it is fake news or not. We will know soon.  

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

2 hours ago, ThatGuy said:

Someone said this is  a fake DJTJR account...

TG,

Thank you very much.

Looks like I got owned.

I wrote that on the post, too. And I went to Twitter and thanked Julian's Rum.

The truth shall serve you tea.

 

Michael

[ThatGuy]

28 minutes ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

TG,

Thank you very much.

Looks like I got owned.

I wrote that on the post, too. And I went to Twitter and thanked Julian's Rum.

The truth shall serve you tea.

 

Michael

NP. A lot of us did. Tricksy trolls like to do tricksy things, because that's all they've got. Ain't no thing, though.

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

10 minutes ago, ThatGuy said:

NP. A lot of us did. Tricksy trolls like to do tricksy things, because that's all they've got. Ain't no thing, though.

TG,

I used to feel bad when I got played online. And I used to do that thing common in O-Land of explaining how the lapse happened and what my real intentions were and how I did not perceive yada yada yada.

Then one day I realized nobody gives a fuck. It's all bullshit.

 

So nowadays when you see me mess up, you will see me acknowledge it and move on.

As gravy, I found out I learn better not to fall for it again that way. This may not work with you the way it does with me, but I found that when I massage a screw-up with shame and embarrassment and downer emotional loads and lots of explanations nobody wants to hear, I tend to fuck up again in the same manner before too long.

Granted, at times I talk about it if it's hilarious or maybe there's something important involved other than the screw-up and my discomfort. But those cases are rare. 

So now I do it Rand's way: acknowledge reality, yeah, I got owned or whatever, and let it go--without pain or fear or guilt.

It's easier on me and easier on everyone. I mean, I'm a blabbermouth as it is. Who wants to hear my bullshit along with everything else?

 

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

1 hour ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

So nowadays when you see me mess up, you will see me acknowledge it and move on.

I forgot to say, if I believe an apology is in order when I really screw up, I apologize and move on.

No explanations or drama (unless I did something really terrible, which I never do  ).

A simple heartfelt sorry. And that's that.

And I accept apologies in the same spirit.

I lost a lot of stress when I started doing it this way.

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Good morning!

Here's your morning cup of anti-shit-show.

General Flynn Retweets Update Showing President Trump is Still On Track to Defeat Biden In Electoral College Votes

General Flynn only tweets once in a blue moon. 

Here's his tweet in the article.

There are others who are running similar projections.

Don't forget, the mainstream news is not an election authority. It's a bunch of loudmouthed assholes who act like they are.

America is a nation of laws. And they will prevail even if they are not popular enough for the loudmouthed assholes to worry about.

 

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Pussies.

Trump Law Firm Quits Pennsylvania Case After Project Lincoln 'Cancel' Campaign

These are obviously lawyers to the cronies, so President Trump is better off without them. Replacing them takes all the effort of a snap of the fingers.

President Trump knows how to deal with lawyers. He has the best in the world working on this election fraud and they ain't going anywhere.

On the other end, don't forget even the disgraced Michael Cohen was once a lawyer for President Trump. Cohen sold out everything dear to him and went to jail. President Trump is still rich and he's still President.

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

38 minutes ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Here's your morning cup of anti-shit-show.

And here are a couple of bagels with all the trimmings to go with that.

 

“Never Bet Against Me”: President Trump on Election Battle

Do ya' think he's got the creds to say that?  

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“Never bet against me.” Those were President Trump’s closing words to Byron York in a Washington Examiner interview about the election battle being fought by the Trump campaign. York said that Trump initiated the interview with a phone call.

Basically, President Trump only talked about throwing out illegal votes, audits, recounts and so on, then getting the Electoral College votes from the tally left over. He didn't mention Dominion or taking a case to the Supreme Court or any other measure prescribed in the Constitution.

 

Here is the article from Byron York where you can read the full write-up of the interview instead of just an excerpt.

BYRON YORK EXCLUSIVE: Trump talks post-election fight

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Whatever the case, Trump is forging ahead. When I asked him how quickly he might turn things around, he said, "I don't know. It's probably two weeks, three weeks." He knows the situation. He has heard many people tell him it's over and time to concede. But at the very least, it is important for his most devoted supporters to see him fighting to stay in office. And he closed with a good-natured warning for everyone who has told him there is no hope: "Never bet against me."

Somehow, I think that's just the start of the day of good news. Even though it's Friday the 13th.

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

On another note, I took a look at the guy General Michael Flynn recommended.

I like this guy.

Michael

[Ellen Stuttle]

14 hours ago, ThatGuy said:

Someone said this is  a fake DJTJR account...
 

 

When I click on that, I get a page that says, "This Tweet is unavailable."

OOPS, the "unavailable" tweet is the one supposedly by DJTJr, not the one by Julian's Rum.

Ellen

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

How does this make ya' feel?

EXCLUSIVE: Based on Reports By Auditors, IT Specialists, Data Analysts, and Statisticians – The Number of Illegitimate Votes Identified In Four Swing States Are Enough to Overturn Election

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In a little over a week, groups of volunteer IT specialists, Data Analysts, Auditors and more, have uncovered enough potential fraud to overturn the 2020 Election.
Over the past week, groups of professionals have gathered to ensure election integrity was present in the 2020 election.  These groups of Trump and America loving patriots are working on their own time and digging into election data to identify potential evidence of fraud.  Despite the MSM promoting a group of ‘experts’ claiming this was ‘the most secure election ever‘, the real evidence indicates a total different story.

In just a week we have uncovered enough potentially fraudulent activities and votes to overturn the 2020 election.

We’ve reported on numerous incidents of fraudulent activities across the country in this election.  From false claims of a water main break in Atlanta, to control deficiencies in the electronic voting machines used across the country, the lost flash drive in Milwaukee, to turning off the signature fraud confirmation software tools in Nevada, this election was a mess.

There are numerous legal questions as well, such has how to address the numerous illegal and corrupt activities the Democrats carried out in Michigan to steal the election.

Shockingly, Pennsylvania may have been worse.  (See the Trump team complaint in Pennsylvaniafor proof.)

There are enough legal issues identified to date to indicate this was the most corrupt election in US history.

So what is the impact?

Today we can say that there is enough information presently available on the potential fraudulent activities that when quantified would overturn the election.

Don't forget, these are mostly numbers from people who are looking at public information, not looking inside the system (which is being locked down).

Once they get audits and not just recounts (like they are now trying to pull in Georgia), many of these numbers will increase dramatically.

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

10 minutes ago, Ellen Stuttle said:

When I click on that, I get a page that says, "This Tweet is unavailable."

Ellen,

The Julian's Rum tweet shows. The fake Donald Trump Jr. tweet has been deleted.

So why does the text from the fake Donald Trump Jr. tweet show on OL?

The OL software encryption.

Whenever a tweet gets deleted that is embedded on OL, the text remains (as it was encrypted as text--it is a second copy so to speak), but the Twitter container doesn't show any longer. In Twitter-world, none of it should show up at all over here.

Notice that in the Julian's Rum tweet you quoted, the Twitter container shows. That means it is still a valid tweet (one that has not been deleted on Twitter).

To see the the Julian's Rum tweet, click on the date (9:32 PM · Nov 12, 2020) in your quote.

Michael

[Ellen Stuttle]

2 minutes ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

The Julian's Rum tweet shows. The fake Donald Trump Jr. tweet has been deleted.

Yeah, I know.  I'd caught it and added an OOPS to my post while you were replying.

Ellen

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

I'm not a lawyer nor am I fluent in the particulars and nuances of the cases I talk about (my training was as a Portuguese to English translator of legal documents), but this article says exactly what I have seen seeing and saying re the Supreme Court since the media election call for Biden.

The trick is to get the initial lawsuit into the Federal Court System based on something unconstitutional, not take over a State Court System case already ensnared in a lot of State laws, precedents and technicalities.

(Although, an exception is the case for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court stepping outside its Constitutional mandate. That's a strong one--almost a certain win for the Trump side. This case is not mentioned in the article.)

The article's author, James V. DeLong at American Thinker, "is a former editor of the Harvard Law Review." Also, I bolded some juicy stuff.  )

Trump's Pennsylvania complaint is brilliant

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The complaint filed in Pennsylvania by the Trump campaign is a superb piece of legal craftsmanship.

It was filed in federal court, not state.  The gist is that some of the state's actions, and particularly the exclusion of Republican poll-watchers during the counting of hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots, violated federal constitutional requirements.

The point is obvious enough once one thinks of it, but it's brilliant all the same.  It shifts the focus from state law, where a politicized Pennsylvania court has the last word, to federal law, where the U.S. Supreme Court rules.

. . .

Trump's Pennsylvania case does not have the complication of the state versus federal law interaction because it jumps over the state law and, as noted, relies on a host of U.S. SCOTUS cases about the importance of voting. 

The complaint has much more, designed to bolster its central point. Many other instances of fraudulent activity are cited, which lends credibility to the main accusation.  They are also indispensable to establish a factual case — that the exclusion not only occurred, but mattered, because thousands of ballots were counted in secret.

Reading the news reports, it appears likely that similar complaints are going to be filed in other swing states and that perhaps we are seeing the exposure of a broad-based effort to corrupt the election.  Joe Biden claimed that the Democrats were mounting the biggest voter fraud effort in history, and a good rule for living is that when someone tells you he is about to screw you over, believe him.

It is possible, then, that a number of cases will hit the Supreme Court in about three weeks.

Everyone in the legal world assumes that the justices, bruised by the excoriation the Court has received over Bush v. Gore (even though the result was right), would never put itself in the position of reversing the apparent results of a presidential election.  This assumption is the reason for the Democrats' efforts to create an irresistible bandwagon effect, but the president's lawyers may have out-maneuvered them.  The justices may have no choice except to decide the election, one way or the other, and to be put to the choice of reversing the media-claimed results or ratifying massive fraud.

The legitimacy of the Court could survive through, and even be enhanced by, a carefully explained reversal of initial results.  It could not survive a mealy-mouthed ratification of obvious fraud.  If Trump's lawyers make their case factually, the Court must agree.

This is the Supreme Court path to victory. Oops... not "the."

"A" Supreme Court path to victory among other Supreme Court paths.

Look at how many legal paths--strong legal paths--to victory President Trump has.

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

3 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Pussies.

Trump Law Firm Quits Pennsylvania Case After Project Lincoln 'Cancel' Campaign

These are obviously lawyers to the cronies, so President Trump is better off without them.

Just to be fair, maybe the problem wasn't cronyism. It could be caving to thugs.

And if caving to thugs is the case, being the high-powered lawyers they are, they are even pussier pussies than I thought.

Cowards ripe for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Who needs that in a fight?

Incidentally, if these lawyers were intimidated by thugs (and it looks like they were), it was the Lincoln Project boneheads who hired them.

Disgusting...

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

If you are following this discussion, you have to see this post on the Deep State Unraveling thread.

It looks like the US ARMY, with the collaboration or approval of the German government, confiscated the servers in Germany that Dominion was using to store the voter data from its USA voting machines this election.

This is a goddam thriller plot.

Michael