Delay The Election?!?

Trump had a baffling tweet suggesting we might need to delay the election until it was safe to vote.

In a calm, measured reaction the head of the Federalist Society said a speculative tweet like this is grounds for immediate impeachment. OK, that's a bit of an over-reaction but it is revealing that a prominent conservative and beneficiary of the Trump/McConnell Judge Confirmation Assembly Line would openly rebel over, well, nothing.

Yuval Levin of National Review takes us through election law. Timing is up to Congress and some tweaks might make sense for 2020 since we will have a surge of mail-in ballots to count:

But there may well be a way for Congress to help the election go more smoothly in those later two parts of the code I just cited above. The problem mail-in voting can create, especially in jurisdictions that aren’t used to so much of it, isn’t about fraud but about delays in counting and verifying results. So what may need to be adjusted is not the date of the election but the Electoral College deadlines that follow it.

I made a case for a reform like this (with Kevin Johnson of the Election Reformers Network) earlier this month in the Washington Post. As things now stand, election day is November 3, states need to finalize their results by December 8 to avoid their being challenged in Congress, and then members of the Electoral College are to meet on December 14. Congress certifies the results on January 6, and the winner is inaugurated January 20. That means that there are 78 days between the election and the inauguration, but states have only 35 of those days to finalize their results. As we’ve seen in some primaries this year, that simply may not be enough time in some contested states.

So rather than changing the election date, Congress should act to push back—just for this year—the date by which states have to finalize results and the date on which the electors meet. Pushing those back by two or three weeks could give contested states a lot more breathing room to deal with the actual challenges involved in mail-in voting while the election, certification, and inauguration would all go on as scheduled.

 

Comments

[Narciso]

A mass mail vote means no chain of custody of the ballots and a host of other problems. Its like the tyrell corporation design fore replicants you cant fix it.

[Narciso]

I happen to know about this on a micro level,

[Narciso]

The chain of custody issues, delaying the certification is just an invitation for more mischie

[Narciso]

Indeed:

https://mobile.twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1289022267599380481

[matt - deplore me if you must]

This shaping up as a disastrous election. I want to know the winner on November 4. Period. Full stop.

No more fucking games.

You show up. you vote. Reps from both parties escort the ballots to the counting location and supervise and scrutinize each ballot before it is entered.

No more hanging chads. No more vote harvesting. These are frauds that should never be tolerated.

Mexico requires ID and many countries dye the fingers of voters. We, on the other hand are inviting fraud. I wonder which party that might be? And the republican squishes say nothing and never challenge the Leftists.

[Momto2]

We need to vote on election day. People with legitimate reasons should be able to request an absentee ballot which should then be locked up/signature checked by a verified poll worker on election night and then counted. PERIOD

Every other scenario is just an invitation for nefarious behavior.

[Narciso]

I thought the blade runner reference would be on point.

[lurkersusie]

Only 4?

FBI Los Angeles
@FBILosAngeles
·
Jul 29
In a case announced by
@LADAOffice & investigated by @FBILosAngeles
@LAPDHQ
, 4 men have admitted to their role in a scheme where money & cigarettes were offered to the homeless in exchange for false/forged signatures on ballot petitions & voter reg forms.

[rich]

i'm so surprised.

[clarice]

we better rest up to be prepared for the fall follies.

[rich]

people managed to vote during the civil war, world war one, and world war two ... but it is the commie cough that would be a bridge too far.

wasn't he asking a question?

[jim nj]

Two more pre-Clovis east coast sites the paleontologists argued about.

Virginia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cactus_Hill

Florida
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page-Ladson

I was never able to understand the paleontologist argument that an initial immigration some 14,000 years ago from Asia could allow for millions of people in South America, millions in Central America and millions in North America spread from Alaska to Florida and Maine in large quantities, by the time of Columbus, in such a relatively short time in a harsh environment.

Pushing that immigration back another 21,000 years and allowing for continued immigration makes more sense to me.

[rich]

>>>we better rest up to be prepared for the fall follies.

Posted by: clarice | July 30, 2020 at 11:57 PM<<<

i still have alien invasion on my bingo card. i'm feeling good about my chances.

[Narciso]

Murder hornet got lost, and of course the kaiju have yet to show an appearance.

[Narciso]

Or dragons in reign of fire also set in 2020 initially.

[rich]

Posted by: jim nj | July 31, 2020 at 12:00 AM

possibly even further. a controversial find in san diego points to a human presence as far back as 130k years and a very controversial site in mexico close to 200k years.

[jim nj]

My bingo card. I'm going with an anthrax attack on postal distribution plants just as the mail-in ballots are being processed out.

[JimNorCal]

Don Surber has a theory on the election-delay tweet.
It seems to involve taking PDJT seriously but not literally.

https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2020/07/trump-secures-election-date.html

[rich]

Posted by: jim nj | July 31, 2020 at 12:05 AM

i'm putting it on my bingo card to.

the dems couldn't accept 2016 so i doubt very much, regardless of the disaster, they'll accept 2020. tank still thinks she's governor of ga.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Just another case of Trump says "jump" and commies say "Evil monster, please tell us how high".

At least Howdy Doody presumably knew somebody was pulling his strings.

[jim nj]

And boats. Why do the paleontologists seem to assume that boats weren't around 35,000 years ago? Why did everyone have to walk to get somewhere? Some of those old-timers must have noticed that some stuff floats on water.

[lurkersusie]

Fauci is a fraud. My college roommate worked
for him at NIH for 25 years. He constantly took
credit for the actual scientist’s and researchers
breakthroughs and findings.

Yale epidemiologist: Dr. Fauci running 'misinformation campaign' against hydroxychloroquine | Just The News

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/yale-epidemiologist-accuses-fauci-running-disinformation-campaign

[jim nj]

I didn't take Trump's tweet seriously when it was first posted here.

I assumed he thought he'd get a silly reaction and he did.

It kind of struck me as since we're talking about how to vote why don't we talk about when also.

We can't change WHEN we vote. OK, why can we change HOW we vote?

[jim nj]

Another thing I don't like about paleontology is that by its nature it only searches on dry land for early settlements. I suspect that a lot of the early settlements are now underwater when the glaciers of the Ice Age melted and sea levels rose a hundred feet or more.

[jim nj]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-gold-rush/china-banks-regulators-move-to-cool-gold-rush-idUSKCN24U1C4?il=0

"Chinese regulators and major banks are rushing to curb precious metal trading by domestic investors to temper speculation that some fear could cause a repeat of this year’s oil trading mishaps.

More like they are just worried about finding more gold-plated copper ingots.

[jim nj]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/30/hong-kong-china-says-it-will-not-recognise-uk-overseas-passports

Hong Kong: China says it will not recognise UK overseas passports

Ambassador’s warning comes in response to UK’s special visa offer to Hong Kong citizens

I realize this is all just posturing, but China doesn't seem to be playing the game well lately.

[jim nj]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8578677/Its-like-prison-kids-Parents-blast-video-showing-reopened-Florida-schools.html

'It's like a prison for kids': Parents blast Florida school district's video showing 'apocalyptic' reopened classrooms with teachers in shields and lab coats as schools across the US make similar preparations

I particularly liked the scene with the kids walking in the hallway like prison cons.

[jim nj]

https://venturebeat.com/2020/07/30/huawei-has-the-same-app-problem-that-doomed-windows-phone/

[rich]

Posted by: jim nj | July 31, 2020 at 12:26 AM

during the boxing day tsunami a city was exposed off the indian coast.

this is a video (17 minutes) talking about other more famous underwater sites. robert ballard talks about the stone circle he found in the aegean.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I can't conceive of Biden picking Susan Rice.
Her major contribution to the ticket would be to give Trump the opportunity to note her blatant Benghazi lies and her neck deep involvement in Obamagate.
Makes no sense...so he'll probably do it.

[Manuel Transmission]

Jim nj and rich, yes it was about 15 months ago that I instigated a conversation that, I think Jim sunny was also in on where I talked up Graham Hancock after sitting through a two hr Joe Rogan interview and then went down to Seattle to see him. He’s always had a knack for blowing away all the hidebound curmudgeons and piece together fresh ideas which still get some acceptance from a few experts.

He argues comet not meteor with the best (broken up) strike in NW Greenland. He pushes man in NA waaay back and argues that the Amazon was heavily developed with their Australasian genetics. Lots more in that vein. With sea levels 400 ft lower we have almost no trace of those much earlier cultures and he did an earlier book even on that.

You can find all the books and other details on his website.

[Manuel Transmission]

Rich @12:59 that’s the stuff that Hancock wrote about in Underworld.

His wife, Santha muttered that she considered it a doorstop. (She does all the photography for his books.)

[jim nj]

MT,

I remember that. I haven't read Graham Hancock. I did look him up though at the time you mentioned him. I haven't been influenced by him. I must have picked up what I believe on my own.

I see he has a new book,

http://grahamhancock.com/america-before/

I think my first foray into alternative explanations for accepted dogma was from an author who connected the volcanic explosion that destroyed the Minoan culture with the plagues of Egypt. It sounded logical to me, but he was pilloried for his belief. Was he wrong? Hard to tell, but everyone piled on anyway because it didn't fit with what they thought.

That was maybe 30-40 years ago. Sometime after that I heard the quote I love. "Science advances one funeral at a time."

Don't buck common wisdom with some new idea because the vested interests will stomp on you. Kind of like today's HCL fight.

[jim nj]

https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/28/corporate-media-is-ignoring-broadest-riots-in-u-s-history-but-americans-hurt-by-these-riots-arent/

This is good if you can ignore the obligatory Trump digs.

The reporter traveled to the site of riots and interviewed the locals. Lots of interviews and photos.

"While the most extreme riots in cities like New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and particularly Minneapolis did receive considerable attention — however fleeting, incomplete, and unnecessarily inflected with knee-jerk partisanship — there were also smaller-scale riots in surprisingly far-flung places that you hardly would’ve known about unless you lived in the area, happened to visit, or intentionally sought out what remains of the bare-bones local media coverage.

To take just a small sampling: Atlantic City, NJ, Fort Wayne, IN, Green Bay, WI, and Olympia, WA all underwent significant riots, at least per the normal expectations of life in these relatively low-key cities. Did you hear anything about them? Because I hadn’t, and I’m abnormally attuned to daily media coverage. Only because I personally visited did I learn of the damage."

I hadn't heard of any of the smaller riots.

[jim nj]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/20/ban-ki-moon-trump-paris-agreement

I’m bewildered that Trump would imperil America by abandoning the Paris agreement. Ban Ki-moon

No need to read. And, no, it's not a 3 year old article. It's dated 27 July this year. Didn't this guy get replaced?

As I was saying, if you buck accepted wisdom, they just keep coming after you.

[JimNorCal]

rich 12:59, did you forget the link?

[jim nj]

Jim,

He forgot the link. I somewhat remember part of that story. There was some kind of event off the coast of India. Seismic tsunami or weather storm that caused the sea to recede and an underwater offshore temple momentarily appeared above the sea off the Indian coast.

Maybe a decade ago. Found it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami

[MissMarple2]

The Ghislaine Maxwell stuff has dropped, and it is pretty bad. Techno Fog has a thread with excerpts here:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Techno_Fog/status/1289014185637093377

There is even a video with President Trump interviewing a girl's family to offer them help. IN the Oval Office, so it's fairly recent. There is testimony talking about Bill Clinton being there multiple times. Also Alan Dershowitz and some MIT professor.

I am not bringing the stuff over here because I don't think we should have it here.

It occurs to me that the reason that the President wants the election date in stone is because a fair number of people are going to be arrested, based on this evidence.

[jim nj]

https://archaeologyonline.net/artifacts/tsunami-uncovers-city#:~:text=Tsunami%20Uncovers%20Ancient%20City%20in%20Mahabalipuram%2C%20India.%20MAHABALIPURAM%2C,which%20was%20battered%20by%20the%20Dec.%2026%20tsunami.

Tsunami Uncovers Ancient City in Mahabalipuram, India

[jim nj]

MM,

That is bizarre. What TechnoFog is posting are allegations at this point. No proof, but this sounds like it will get interesting quickly.

[jim nj]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/30/ghislaine-maxwell-documents-unsealed

Ghislaine Maxwell: court unseals documents related to dealings with Epstein

Cache of papers unsealed on Thursday night
Maxwell has been charged with involvement in Epstein crimes

Sounds like reporters are up late wading through the release and TechnoFog may have found the juicy parts first.

[MissMarple2]

I found an excerpt of a video on another thread.

I will bring it here just so you know I am not crazy.

I learned how to put subtitles in a video so that the message can be easily spread across .#savethechildren #VanessaGuillen pic.twitter.com/VZzD9ovDdp

— Isabella 🇺🇸🇲🇽 (@isabellarmrz) July 30, 2020

Video at the link.

[jim nj]

The internet keeps cutting out so I will say...

nytol

[Colts]

"This shaping up as a disastrous election. I want to know the winner on November 4. Period. Full stop.

No more fucking games."

Exactly! Trump should stop threatening to postpone the election.

Just have a ballot sent to people in those states which do mail-in voting. (And have more states--preferably all the states--change to allow mail-in voting, but it's a state-by-state thing, not a presidential edict.) The voters won't have to stand in long lines and risk catching coronaviruses, a virus that has already killed more than 150,000, and the voting will be easy and convenient.

Then take enough time to count all the votes, and don't preemptively attack the results before they are counted!

[MissMarple2]

My state does early voting. I don't want mail-in voting. The democrats are using the coronavirus to scare people into requesting it.

We have lived in this house 2 years and we STILL get mail for other people. In addition, our mail often doesn't come until 5 PM!

No mail-in voting. File for an absentee ballot if you don't want to vote in person.

[MissMarple2]

Mark Meadows
@MarkMeadows
· 6h
Tonight, once again, the White House offered a temporary extension of needed unemployment assistance—which expires tomorrow. And again, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi said no.

What we’re seeing is clear.

This is a politically motivated party that won’t take “yes” for an answer.
============================================
The excuse I read on this from Schumer tonight is that the President and his staff don't know how serious the Coronavirus is.
The inference is either they are dim bulbs or Schumer knows the Chinese are going to send some more over here.

There are a lot of people who do not have any way to get money. Maybe they can all go to Schumer's house.

[rse]

MM--

It was NOT just some MIT prof. It was one of the head mischief makers from one of their most manipulative 'schools' https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/09/07/133122/joi-ito-mit-media-lab-resignation-jeffrey-epstein-sex-abuse-donation/

with ties to the club of budapest (global cultural change via targeting consciousness) and its overlord the club of rome.

[rse]

MM--

I was on a webinar yesterday and red came down to doublecheck as a friend from her previous employer didn't understand that since she was leasing her car to make it affordable, she actually did not 'own' it. Apparently she was also unaware of excess mileage provisions.

I told her how leases work and then told her last weekend I saw the most oversized trailer in terms of both width and length I had ever seen outside the canadian rockies and it was on a residential cutthrough parralleling peachtrre road. Realized it was for transporting vehicles about 2 days after moratorium expired. It was out at about 7:15 before most people are up.

She had another friend lose her job yesterday after overcommitting on a house about 2 years ago and already being told her roommates would not be renewing their leases. My point and hers is that so many people have gotten themselves into commitments they really did not understand or realize had a downside.

[Captain Hate]

Hmmmm, who is Colts and why is he/she so adamant about mail in voting?

Speaking of mysterious online entities, has anyone met Neo?

[rse]

Mask kicked off sinuses which decided to drain into lungs making yesterday both a bad day and the first time in my life I made a ginger herb tea with fresh but now dried mountain mint from a farmers market, garlic chives, tian tian peppers, celery leaves.

Hubby pronounced it 'fragrant' with a note of sarcasm. I realized about 4 this morning I needed some good old fashioned chicken noodle soup today and that if I was going to use either chicken feet or turkey necks they needed to be roasted and put in while everyone else remained asleep.

Turkey necks it was. Decided to let it simmer for a couple of hours with a left over turkey carcass from the breast I roasted earlier in week. Take out chicken back bone in a few hours, add it, and then the rest of chicken for about an hour. Pull that and let it cool while all else simmers. Strip it and add all the skin, bones, etc back in.

Let it all simmer in oven at 275 until about 4 this afternoon when I will drain and add onions, celery, and carrots after chopping. Finish later with a can of diced tomatoes and noodles.

I plan to be better by tomorrow, just in time for the diva's return with the 2 kittens she was fostering during the lockdown as she leaves her college apartment and life behind.

[Captain Hate]

Terminate the FBI

The FBI has some serious questions to answer about why they did nothing about Epstein. They had evidence since at least 2011 and did nothing.

Posted by: JackStraw

[hrtshpdbox]

You show up. you vote.

Ah, the good old days. In Pennsylvania this year they're encouraging you to vote by mail just so that you can stay safely hidden indoors. PLUS, according to Mrs. hrt, they actually tell you that once you cast your vote by mail you can then, if you so choose, go down to the polling place on election day (masked and probably goggled too, of course) and change that mailed-in vote. What could possibly go wrong?

[hrtshpdbox]

And have more states--preferably all the states--change to allow mail-in voting

As long as illegals get to vote twice, then sure, why not?

[hrtshpdbox]

Trump says he'll serve just one term, uses executive order to change presidential term to fifty years. Biden starts campaign for 2066 election.

[MissMarple2]

Captain Hate, rse,

rse, Thanks for the info on that professor. I knew nothing about him.

I have been up since 3;30. Maxwell's stuff must have been released at around 1 or so.

What I have seen is enough to curl your hair, and this is only the tip of the iceberg. This is a super big plot and it is something that has been going on for years. I wonder how many of those pedophile rings I have been seeing rounded up in the news are related to this. I wonder if the Wall was more to cut off children being brought over the border.

If you add to this slimy stuff, selling all sorts of military equipment and secrets to China, allowing China too-favorable trade deals, HAVING AMERICAN CITIZENS KNEEL FOR THEIR OWN NATIONAL ANTHEM, installing communists in the CIA, FBI, Hollywood, Universities, etc., it looks to me like President Trump has a few cases of treason plus a lot of other unsavory things.

[MissMarple2]

hrtshpdbox,

This whole coronavirus thing is meant to scare people into staying indoors and at home, and I am not doing it.

As far as I am concerned, anyone in the democrat party past the very small fry are communists or satanists or both. How could you be in the FBI and participate in this? The CDC? The NIH? How could you stay silent while mobs burn your constituents' homes and businesses? While policemen are deliberately murdered?

Evil things have been happening.

[James D.]

The FBI has some serious questions to answer about why they did nothing about Epstein. They had evidence since at least 2011 and did nothing.

That's their track record on so many things. They had evidence about the Orlando nightclub shooter. And the Boston Marathon bombers. And the Awan family. And the 9/11 hijackers. And and and and and and and...

Bring everything into the open. Reveal ALL the crimes and all the failures and all the lies. Let's have one big ugly reckoning.

[hrtshpdbox]

communists or satanists or both.

Miss M, I was actually contemplating why they would be satirists until I noticed I'd read it wrong - too early in the morning! But you bet, there's plenty of people who don't care at all about the oaths they took, or their own integrity.

[Another Bob]

But isn’t this Maxwell doc dump mostly old news? Wasn’t all this already, at least, credibly speculated?

And FBI? That outfit has been corrupt since about day one. Heroic law enforcement by day, greasy private dicks for the elites at night. Prove me wrong.

[Captain Hate]

I think Jeff Daniels, from Dumb and Dumber, is playing Comey in the Showtime abomination. Perfect casting for that sanctimonious empty suit.

[MissMarple2]

hrt,

LOL! You should see what I type when I get up too early! Hey, I have a few questions which I am going to park here:

Where is Anthony Weiner? Huma Abedin? They have been missing for a very long time. Who has his laptop?

Where is Christopher Steele?

Does someone have a list of the people who were working in the White House who were let go because they were incompetent vs. those who were actual spies who are going to Gitmo?

Can a lot of the money that Congresscritters skimmed and took as bribes be reclaimed?

[MissMarple2]

Another Bob,

I am pretty sure I haven't seen that video of President Trump talking to the family of a female Army recruit before in the Oval Office.

I also don't think I knew about the MIT professor. Clinton and Dershowitz have been discussed, but there were no victims to accuse him, only rumors and that creepy photo of him in the dress.

[anonamom]

Dr. Zev Zelenko
@zev_dr
·
2h
ASK YOUR DOCTOR, but i recommend anyone over 20 to take quercetin 500mg one day and elemental zinc 25mg one a day indefinitely in order to prevent Covid-19 and potentially some other viral infections

[GUS]

It's baffling. Our gracious host said, that what Trump said is baffling. Hey Mr Maguire, have you heard DEMENTIA BOY SNIFFER try to speak extemporaneously in the last 4 years??
To even publish that this "could call for impeachment", is beyond absurd. Yet you play along.
Gracious host, why do you play footsie with the COMMIES??

[Captain Hate]

Anybody still believe this wasn't a planned operation?

Hong Kong Delays Legislative Elections, Citing Covid-19 Surge

Hong Kong postponed for a year legislative elections that had been scheduled for September, citing a coronavirus upsurge. The decision is likely to fuel the international furor over the city’s fast-diminishing political freedoms.

[Old Lurker]

James "Bring everything into the open. Reveal ALL the crimes and all the failures and all the lies. Let's have one big ugly reckoning."

When the decision was made in 2017 to sweep all the Obama-Clinton-Coup crimes under the rug #2weeks at a time, the fact that there are two systems of justice in the US was cemented in place, and the only small trick was stringing the rubes who thought otherwise along..

When the entire system of liberty, freedom, private property and free markets was swept aside in March 2020 by heretofore unimaginable rules, limits and regulations imposed by petty tyrants at all levels of government from POTUS down to Dog Catchers and those were hardly opposed by any elected leader and actually supported by SCOTUS, and when the end of July has arrived with ALL of those things still in place, then the illusion that we are free people protected by a constitution is revealed to be a fraud.

If something as heretofore unthinkable as a club of powerful old men screwing little girls in a vastly organized scheme protected by the government can be erased from history by simply running one man from the Whitehouse in three months after they hid everything else for four years, then who could be surprised that so much energy is behind making that happen.

That man is alone at his desk, nobody is helping him, and nobody fears him. He is reduced to seeing how much more free money he can borrow from our children to sprinkle on We The People Now to keep the circuses open.

And some think we will rise up like yesterday was Pearl Harbor and save our world as we thought it was? More people voted for Hillary Clinton than voted for Donald Trump. Nobody paid any price at all for crimes they committed to prevent Trump from winning anyway, so why should that change now?

[Jane]

Good Morning!

Looks like the hurricane/tropical storm is headed for North Carolina. Stay safe!

[Captain Hate]

Like clockwork

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/30/mitt-romney-im-fan-voting-mail/

[MissMarple2]

Old Lurker,

Just because everything didn't get done in exactly the order you wanted doesn't give you license to trash the President.

You don't know who is going to be charged in this. Do you think that the President, knowing how vile these people are, would walk away from this leaving his children and grandchildren as sitting ducks? Do you think he's going to let thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people be killed?

Why are you here, spinning gloom and doom, anyway?

[MissMarple2]

Old Lurker,

Just because everything didn't get done in exactly the order you wanted doesn't give you license to trash the President.

You don't know who is going to be charged in this. Do you think that the President, knowing how vile these people are, would walk away from this leaving his children and grandchildren as sitting ducks? Do you think he's going to let thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people be killed?

Why are you here, spinning gloom and doom, anyway?

[Another Bob]

What does the Guillen stuff have to do with Epstein?

[MissMarple2]

No idea why that came up twice.

Romney!! I will bet you he belongs in the same boat as Roberts!

[rse]

So much 'modelling' on what the world might be.

https://items.ssrc.org/covid-19-and-the-social-sciences/policy-models-in-pandemic/the-coronavirus-and-innovation/

[MissMarple2]

Another Bob,

I think you are misspelling something, but give me an example to clarify.

[henry]

A Bob, it’s a squirrel for the masses to look at while are freedoms disappear.

[henry]

our freedoms.

auto cucumber is stealing our freedom to use proper grammar in real time.

[Another Bob]

“Why are you here, spinning gloom and doom, anyway?”

Well, this is a conversation among adults. Is that point of view not permitted?

OL’s opinion fits the facts.

[Old Lurker]

You outdid even yourself there, MM.

[Old Lurker]

But "who gave me license" to say something on a blog?

Seriously?

[Narciso]

Troll get a 3.5 sad.

[sbwaters]

There has to be some thing behind Romney’s consistently antagonistic remarks — China and relatives, travel to the Caribbean, pizza.

[Narciso]

His firm was in partnership with huawei qatari investors who knows.

[MissMarple2]

Why thank you, Old Lurker!

I am paying attention to all of the happenings today. If you don't want to know about them, you (or anyone else for that matter) can ignore me.

There is no point in arguing. OL said his piece, and I said mine. We will see who is right.

[Narciso]

Decision was made earlier when the contracted thr drunk russian and his garbage was circulated all through out the govt.

[Captain Hate]

I'll defend OL even though I don't agree with him.

[MissMarple2]

Oh, the "license" thing. It's a phrase I picked up from my mother the English major, and both of my children are familiar with it, along with my older grandkids.

It creeps into my language without much significance other than its surface meaning.

[MissMarple2]

sbwaters,

Do you suppose the Latter Day Saints had something to do with a fringe area of this, much as certain Catholic priests did?

[hrtshpdbox]

I support blogger ID and licensing laws.

[MissMarple2]

Catturd ™
@catturd2
·
39m
Was Al Gore worried about the "Global Warming" he was causing when he flew to Epstein's creep Island with underaged girls - as the newly released documents show?

[Narciso]

The comey manque on blindspot finally got his comeuppance ironically he was doing one noble thing, which comey would never go.

[Another Bob]

I said I thought the Maxwell document dump amounted to old news. You mentioned this: “I am pretty sure I haven't seen that video of President Trump talking to the family of a female Army recruit before in the Oval Office.”

That was about Vanessa Guillen, right?

I’m wondering about the connection to Maxwell.

[Narciso]

This is why my novella has had some bloody twists, petraeus gets his comeuppance and london finds out the yellowcake was real.

[hrtshpdbox]

I understand Miss M's frustration with people putting down Trump's performance. I think he's been terrific, has improved the country (or, if you must, that it would be even worse if not for him). I think Trump is sincere with the American people, is doing his best, and has achieved a tremendous lot particularly when considering the lack of help he's gotten. I have great hopes for his second term, hopes which I don't think are unrealistic considering how able he's been so far.

[mockmook]

The problem mail-in voting can create, especially in jurisdictions that aren’t used to so much of it, isn’t about fraud

With that, I quickly determined that this article was more NRO nonsense -- a level of gullibility and naivety fit for a 2 year old.

[hrtshpdbox]

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[Tonto]

Here's a piece that might interest Olivia de Havilland fans.

[clarice]

https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/07/st-louis-prosecutor-re-opened-michael-brown-case-will-not-bring-charges/

[Another Bob]

Just because it isn’t today doesn’t mean your day on that ledge won’t happen ‘Box.

[Old Lurker]

MM "It creeps into my language without much significance other than its surface meaning."

So you say but what you said is who gave me the right to say something that you don't like.

You fail to see how you are using the very same weapons the left has perfected and are using against us.

I won't stand that from them or from you either, so until this is your blog, I will continue to say what I think.

You know where the hush button is.

[Narciso]

They never stop with thr process as punishment