I want to destroy their way of life.
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Never apologize, never retreat. The poster’s creed
https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1422038735793819652
“Take away the star and add a shirt and shoes” and they’re taking away our liberty to show up in a Wendy’s drunk from a boat party. Come on now, it’s 5 o clock somewhere. That’s my liberty.
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Least surprising news ever:
New Jane Mayer article on the funding behind Stop the Steal.
These disparate nonprofits have one thing in common: they have all received funding from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Based in Milwaukee, the private, tax-exempt organization has become an extraordinary force in persuading mainstream Republicans to support radical challenges to election rules—a tactic once relegated to the far right. With an endowment of some eight hundred and fifty million dollars, the foundation funds a network of groups that have been stoking fear about election fraud, in some cases for years. Public records show that, since 2012, the foundation has spent some eighteen million dollars supporting eleven conservative groups involved in election issues.
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Well now I’m glad the Bradley Center was torn down.
We will never get the money out of politics and it got 100x worse with citizens United.
There has to be direct graft going on. It can’t just be for funding campaigns.
“Error-riddled” cased dismissed
misspells Dobbs’ name as “Loud Dobbs.”
Would need to see more evidence before conceding that this is a misspelling.
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I think someone already posted the Applebaum piece on Mike Lindell but:
And now Lindell is spending on more than just advertising. Last January—on the 9th, he says carefully, placing the date after the 6th—a group of still-unidentified concerned citizens brought him some computer data. These were, allegedly, packet captures, intercepted data proving that the Chinese Communist Party altered electoral results … in all 50 states.
That’s why Lindell has spent money—a lot of it, “tens of millions,” he told me—“validating” the packets, and it’s why he is planning to spend a lot more. Starting on August 10, he is holding a three-day symposium in Sioux Falls (because he admires South Dakota’s gun-toting governor, Kristi Noem), where the validators, whoever they may be, will present their results publicly.
I feel like someone is running a pretty awesome grift on him here. WaPo looked at his “packet captures” and they appeared to be Pennsylvania voter roll data, converted to hexadecimal in an effort to make them look more hacker-ish. PA voter rolls can be bought from the state. I also enjoyed this from the WaPo article:
It’s also the case that the MAC addresses presented in the Byrne document and the first Lindell video are obviously made up. A MAC address is composed of six numbers, from 0 to 255, encoded in hexadecimal from 00 to FF. Some of the digits have particular meaning; the second character of the first number, for example, can be used to identify how it is administered and how it receives information. Yet, despite those differences in functionality, the second characters in each address in that file are evenly distributed from 0 to F (that is, 0 to 16). None is significantly more common than any of the others.
I know this is confusing, so let me use an analogy. Imagine that you had a list purporting to show a random collection of license plates. In your state, cars are given plates that start with the letter “A,” trucks get the letter “B” and tractors get a letter “C.” You analyze your list and find that it includes 1,000 “A” plates, 998 “B” plates and 1,003 “C” plates. You might suspect that something was up.
In fact, the same holds true for nearly every number included in the MAC addresses in that file. They all appear about as frequently as the others, within a narrow range. All except 255, “FF” — as though someone was generating random numbers less than 255, forgetting that 255 should be a permissible value.
Like I really don’t think that Lindell sat people down and said “OK, we gotta fake a bunch of plausible looking hacking shit”. And he definitely didn’t sit people down and tell them to randomly generate fake MAC addresses. My assumption is that this is a scam that someone is running and that they astutely identified Lindell as a great target: rich, stupid, extremely gullible and outside of the political machine so that there’s nobody to rescue him from the scam. Recall that Lindell says that this whole thing started when he was approached by “concerned citizens” and that he has spent vast sums of money “validating” what they brought him. I’m going to guess these concerned citizens were prepared to organise this validation for him.
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Yeah, the guy is getting bled like a stuck pig.
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It’s interesting that the Communist Chinese chose to alter vote results in all 50 states. I don’t think I would have bothered in, like, Vermont. I suppose that’s Communism for you though, very inefficient.
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What you fail to understand is Trump is the most popular president in history and would have won all 50 states if it wasn’t for the election fraud.
Yes this is pretty much their line.
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How the fuck do you go on vacation when THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WAS STOLEN? This is no time to go wobbly!
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From Show Me to Pardon Me state. Sad.
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