Since it's Veteran's Day, it seems like an appropriate time to talk about how the Georgia General Assembly has screwed military voters out of their opportunity to vote in runoff elections for state offices like the one we're about to have on December 1 (for PSC). #gapol 1/

To begin, you have to understand that there is a federal law, the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (known as UOCAVA "you-oh-cava"), that protects military voters and citizens living overseas. 2/

One provision of the UOCAVA requires states to send absentee ballots to protected UOCAVA voters at least 45 days before any federal election. This is because mail to and from overseas military can be very slow. 3/

Back in the early 2010s, the Department of Justice under Obama sued the State of Georgia because the state's election calendar held runoff elections too close to the general election to allow absentee ballots to meet the 45-day deadline. 4/

Georgia argued in court that the UOCAVA did not apply to runoff elections and it lost. UOCAVA applies to *all* federal elections, including runoff elections. 5/

Thread for Sudan watchers summarizing the peace deal between Sudan’s transitional civil/military government and Sudan Revolutionary Front, whiwas signed in Juba yesterday. There's no official English translation yet.

So. Anyone who watched the Bobulinski interview last night now understands the seriousness of his allegations. He dropped bombshell after bombshell last night while also providing iron clad evidence to his claims. Text messages, emails, private meetings in dimly lit hotel...

(1/26) On April 18, Bob Woodward recorded Jared Kushner saying that Trump had taken control away from the doctors and was going to open the country back up. Why then? What was happening right around that time?

Hey I'm gonna tell you some things without attribution that you may choose to believe or not

1) 5GW/infowar is not something weird online people are reading into things, it's USG's public-facing governing paradigm & they are playing to win

2) You already know that anyone who says NSA et al "have no domestic mission" is lying to you, but they don't even pretend that's true in the quasi-public fora that coffee-getters like me attend

It means about as much as "interstate commerce" at this point, there are no borders

3) Mil officials at the highest levels are openly courting Big Tech at the highest levels to "practice good digital citizenship" (IOW fight the infowar for them) bc government can't - not bc they gaf about the Constitution, but bc nobody in Congress knows how to use a computer

4) MIC admits that "kinetic effects" (things that blow up) are no longer the primary concern - they're worried about narrative collapse because no one is curating the flow of media to people who are "tribal, susceptible to misinformation, less educated"

5) So far none of this is really news (except that they're open about it), but one thing that may surprise: they are not soft on China, they are scared shitless

They despise Trump openly but the only good thing they have to say is "at least he cut China out of US finance & tech"

Thread: I want you to watch this and think about what Gen. McInerney says in it.

This is a quite disgraceful and shameful update from the @barcouncil. Not *one word* on the government's decision - pushed through Parliament days after it was announced - to strip - without reservation - cardinal democratic and fundamental

Not so much as a whisper about the fact that the government has, by secondary legislation imposed under an Act that was before never envisaged to give such widespread powers:

- Removed wholesale the right to protest - something that even this government has said, in representations to *Zimbabwe* should not be done in response to this very virus;

- Banned all communal worship, despite its chief advisers admitting in evidence that there was no empirical evidence about the risk of infection;

- Continued to restrict the rights to family life, including by preventing the right to access to the 'home' for those considered to live in a different household, one give specific protection by the ECHR: Buckley v United Kingdom (1996) 23 EHRR 101 at [63];

THREAD of MAPS on LS elections :

A thread of my hand-annotated maps based on the last 3 Lok Sabha elections (2009, 2014, 2019). Do take a look! :)

There are a total of 543 constituencies across 28 states and 9 union territories. /1

Map of 2009 LS elections.

INC finished as the single largest party, leading to the UPA-2 government.

(Some colours have been reused for different parties due to lack of available colours. For example, light green is used for DMK in Tamil Nadu, and BJD in Odisha) /2

Map of 2014 LS elections.

BJP captured most of the northern and western states. BJD and TMC swept Odisha and West Bengal respectively. /3

Map of 2019 LS elections.

BJP held onto most of its seats and made further inroads into the eastern and southern states. /4

Interestingly, 157 seats (~30% of all seats) have been held by the same party since 2009. The super-strongholds.

BJP has 95(!) super-strongholds, way ahead of INC which is 2nd highest with 17 super-strongholds. /5

#Gaslighting alert:

You may come across bot-amplified activists pitching the idea that #Republicans have been packing the Courts for years, and therefore, hypocritically object to Democratic Party machinations to inflict #courtpacking on America if Kamala Harris and her running mate are elected.

So, is it true, have "Republicans been packing" the Courts for decades?

Well, let's start by agreeing that this, or any, conversation is pointless unless we share a common language. If you think so, then ...

The term "court-packing" was devised to describe a proposal by President #FDR to add additional justices to the Supreme Court thereby increasing the number of justices. His plan wasn't so crass as simply to add justices.

Rather, under FDR's plan, the number of justices sitting on the Court would be increased by an additional justice for each sitting justice that reached the age of 70.

(1/21) The Republican Party is an organized gang of sociopaths.

(2/21) Trump doesn’t care how many people in Omaha are stuck for hours in the freezing cold, over 3 miles from the nearest road or parking lot, after he’s left his rally, putting some in the hospital. And he clearly doesn’t care how many people die of Covid.

(3/21) One of the defining characteristics of a sociopath is that they view themselves as the only “real“ humans on the planet, and everybody else is basically a prop in the amazing story of their lives.

(4/21) Other people, they think, don’t feel emotions or pain or anything else with the intensity that they do. They believe they’re the only ones who matter, because they’re the only ones who truly exist.

(5/21) The Republican Party, starting in 1980, has brought that sociopathic worldview to politics, and made it a cornerstone of policy as well as a criteria for elective office.

1. Phony Joe Biden.
Joe Biden is truly an ambulance chaser.  He had nothing to do with the vaccine that is about to be made available to the public, he had nothing to do with the manufacturing process that is already underway,

2. and he had nothing to do with the distribution process that is set in place, all of which were superbly instituted by President Trump and his team.

3. So, there he is, at a podium, reading from a teleprompter, telling us how he will follow the science, how he will distribute the vaccine, etc.,

4. now that Pfizer announced today that its vaccine is ready to go very, very soon (obviously, Pfizer chose to hold back its announcement until after the election).

5. This is the kind of bullshit we are going to hear from this clown (to quote him), who did absolutely nothing and has done absolutely nothing.

Indiana Governor continues Globalist Coronavirus Mandates beyond the Rule of Law. PCR are not an Indicator of COVID spread but an Antibody Test. The National Guard appears at Indiana Nursing Homes due to virus fear mandated by the Governor of the

1 / Who won the debate? Nobody: there was no debate. Kamala Harris would have won a debate if there was one. She is a trained litigator and masters the art of argumentation.

Why wasn't there any debate? Not between presidential candidates or VPs?

2 / Who knows. I suppose if one of the campaign managers insisted on rules the GOP side wouldn't have agreed and would proceed into yet another bout of conspiratory whining. Since it's all about perception and the perception of the average American is informed by...

3 / ... the intellectual capacity of a housefly, I assume this is what you get.

However, as someone who presided over more round-tables and presentations than I can count, let me tell you how it is done.

4 / The moderator has a fixed time for the whole thing to happen. Suppose I have two hours for the session. I give each presenter from 12-15 minutes to deliver their presentation and I have 3 pieces of paper that I show them: "10", "5" and "2" (to go).

5 / When the timer zeroes, I take the mic from the presenter whether he was done or not (yes, the ability of sticking to the allotted time is learned). I can either have presenters follow each other and open for discussion in the end or open for Q&A after each presenter.

Here's the big takeaway from the 2020 election. All the trends I've been expecting have been solidified and reinforced. A total and growing distrust in once revered institutions, especially media and pompous always wrong blue checks.

A feeling that faux "elites," oligarchs and the national security state are constantly lying and manipulating the public for ends that go against the public interest. Also more of an understanding you can't fundamentally change the system via voting for president.

Sanders, Trump supporters and non-voters will all increasingly feel this way in the coming years under a Biden/Harris administration. Both sides that lean populist, even if superficially, will now discount change via voting during these circuses.

This opens up the 2021-2025 period to outcomes that were previously incomprehensible. There's simply no trust or faith in anything, justifiably. The worst case scenario for cohesion would be Biden stepping aside and Harris being installed and this is not a zero chance event.

What we can expect is further macro decay on the geopolitical front as the empire continues to rot. Internal rot will continue domestically because the national security state oligarchy remains in charge. Hunger Games economy continues to accelerate.

Thread: Some thoughts as we go into the re-election of Trump. About 20% of the country is hard-core leftist. These people would love to see America become a communist dictatorship, and they’re silly enough to think it will benefit them.

But that leaves 80% of the country that is NOT hard core leftist. Of that 80%, another 10% is hard core Democrat. They’re going to vote for Biden no matter what we find out about his corruption, because they’re willing to sacrifice the country for their progressive vision.

That leaves 70% of the country that isn’t irredeemable. Of that 70%, 20% will normally vote Democrat, because, well, their fathers did or because the media has them convinced that GOP is evil (and Dems are either not or less evil) or just because. But they can be swayed.

And a lot of swaying has been going on. Between the riots, and the anti-American posturing of Dem politicians, $2 trillion “health” plans, banning oil production, and other craziness, a LOT of swaying has been going on. Gays, blacks, Hispanics, all have been migrating to Trump.

Mind you, some of them still won’t be swayed. They’ll either reluctantly pull the lever for Biden or they’ll stay home. We’re seeing some of that staying home factor in the voting numbers coming in from various states. The rest will vote for Trump.

(1) Thread time! Before we get rolling here, I wanna give a shoutout to @17Commentary and @GemmaSilent for the help with these digs. Yall made this a lot easier than it would have been otherwise! Give them a follow if you dont already!

Lets get to it!

(2) Gather ‘round the campfire, frens - it’s thread time!!

Last night, while all the outages were hitting, a bunch of puzzle pieces snapped together. It all popped together out of nowhere, and I am going to do my very best to explain my thoughts here. This thread wont be short.

(3) Obviously, this is all going to be guesswork, and I make no assertions either way, but this is all important knowledge to possess.

The first thing I’m gonna do is lay out what I think may have been a possibility, and then I’m going to tie it all together.

(4)

•POTUS will win the election.

•[They] will claim he “cheated”, and call his refusal to leave (because he didnt lose), a coup.

(The seeds for this are already being sown - Biden “leads” the polls, Trump wont leave office peacefully, the UN may intervene?). ➡️

(5) •This is why the EAS system has been tested rigorously.

•This is why POTUS has pushed for a wall and tighter border security.

I know - 🇨🇳 and the UN invading the US to forcefully remove POTUS seems farcical, yeah? Or does it?

1) Alright, fuckos. I'm starting to get pissed off.

Because apparently whenever the 25th amendment is brought up people feel the innate desire to become retarded.

When Pelosi recovers from her alcohol induced coma for 5 minutes to do some meaningless gesture, the same happens.

A coalition of more than 130 different organizations are planning protests across the United States, in the event Pres. Trump tries to undermine the integrity of the election and claim victory before all ballots are counted. The events are listed at https://t.co/nASdXGBPlk.

The coalition includes groups like Planned Parenthood, Black Lives Matter, the Women’s March, Supermajority, Vote Save America, and the Sunrise Movement.

‘We can’t assume that Donald Trump will respect the peaceful transfer of power,’ said group founder Sean Eldridge, adding that if Trump tries to interfere any further, ‘then we would mobilize.’

Trump has not yet committed to a peaceful transition of power, and his sudden push for all ballots to be counted by the end of Election Day is his latest effort to engage in voter suppression or intimidation tactics...

..., as well as cast the election as illegitimate before it’s even over. It is important to note that ‘race calls’ from news outlets on Election night are unofficial projections, not confirmed victories or losses. A full count is never completed on Election Day itself.