Running The Double-Reverse

Two Republicans initially voted AGAINST certifying the controversial election tallies in Wayne County, Michigan. This would have kept Detroit-area votes off the board and created a narrow pathway to a Trump victory in MI. Wild, right?

Under enormous pressure (presumably including death threats) they switched their votes a few hours later, certifying the results and kicking the problem up to the state level. System working? Not so fast!

A day later they rescinded their reversal, or tried to. It appears they aren't legally entitled to a do-over here, but that is why we have courts and under-employed lawyers.

Whatever. Flipping Michigan will not, by itself, take the election back from Biden. But a few more hats, a few more rabbits, and who can say? As long as Trumps lawyers think they'll get paid this show will go on.

Comments

[Jane]

Rudy lo-oks like he’s dripping blood. Okay, who shot him.

Now you will see why I like Sidney so much!

[Jane]

~all alone am I - I’ll declare it’s not a tie ~all alone on the right side of the deal

Democrats, you are cheats and will have many defeats - I just hope your jail cells are sealed ~

[Jane]

I guess I’ll keep going until someon pus the sign up! Oh Jim~

[Threadkiller]

I am convincing myself that there is more meat to Trump’s fraud allegations. No one marketing a show trial made for TV movie would have Powell’s voice attached to a lead character. She sounds like the cartoon Mama Bear. With an additional cheese grater in her gargler.

[Jane]

Now let’s see if those guys can read, Kiwi!

[Melinda]

Here, Jane.

[Narciso]

The left thinks systematically their premise is wrong but their logic is right.

[Melinda]

Major Patriot
@MajorPatriot
Per Sidney Powell: Dominion Executives are now MIA. There offices are being abandoned and moved.

https://twitter.com/MajorPatriot/status/1329482750907265027

[Jane]

The reporters must be having a cow!

[Captain Hate]

Tom R, the real trick was getting the “high IQ” college types to believe the Marxist bs.

Ever talk politics with math majors?

[Jane]

About bloody time Mel!

[Kathryn Anne]

I feel very confident now that I have heard how many votes we can expect to throw out that are fake and phony.
Biden is toast along with his sidekick Harris.

[Jane]

People need to go to jail! I want names!

[Captain Hate]

No one marketing a show trial made for TV movie would have Powell’s voice attached to a lead character. She sounds like the cartoon Mama Bear. With an additional cheese grater in her gargler.

All of this is true but unimportant.

[Jane]

Think any reporters ll reconsider? Me neither.

[Melinda]

(((Charlie Martin)))
@chasrmartin
Maybe they're too embarrassed after CNN ran with "Russia collusion" for four years without having their conspiracy theories called out.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy
At what point do news orgs start prominently identifying these Trump lawyers as conspiracy theorists? How much daylight is there between the outlandish claims they are making and those of someone like Alex Jones?

https://twitter.com/chasrmartin/status/1329486858661859333

[Melinda]

President Elect LoriJ
@LoriJfromPA
@LLinWood @realDonaldTrump @SidneyPowell1 @TweetWordz

EveJustWantedToKnowShit⏳ @myfinewords
I am sure @LLinWood and @SidneyPowell1 know this, but it seriously keeps me up at night, so I'm gonna keep screaming it.

Auditing the vote won't matter if Vote Safe is doing the auditing.

They are in contested states, and they are part of the scam.

They are a Soros creation.

https://twitter.com/LoriJfromPA/status/1329485886610956293

[Narciso]

Jenna ellis is more mellifluous; but you dont always chose the form of your truth teller.

[Jane]

Good to know!

[Melinda]

OL, What's that acronym again?

EconChick/IntelChick
@MikayesFiona
Wow, even I didn't realize this.

Rudy and his team's massive legal research proves that ALL REPUBLICAN POLL WATCHERS ACROSS SWING STATES WERE CORRALLED AT EXACT SAME TIME.

IN EACH STATE. That's statistically impossible. Had to be centrally directed.

https://twitter.com/MikayesFiona/status/1329481357488218119

[MissMarple2]

Willowed:

I have held this theory for some time:

1. Most of the public polls published prior to the election are bogus, publicized mostly to make a democrat win seem plausible.

2. Most African-American voters are assumed by the press to be Democrats (or at least , in order to make a Democrat win believable, ASSIGNED a Democrat party identity).

3. When Trump got the nomination in 2016, the Democrats still didn't understand how popular he was in the African-American community. (Due to my knowledge of music videos from my son's early obsession with MTV and my watching of 1980's kids movies such as Home Alone or TV shows such as Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, I was aware of how much he was in demand for cameo rolls, so I was WELL aware of this, which is why I thought he would be a good GOP candidate.)

4. The African-American vote in big cities may not actually BE heavily Democrat. It may be that the concentration of African-Americans in bis cities simply provides the excuse for the press to report a dem win, without having to provide an explanation.

5. Dominion/Smartmatic was simply a way to speed up and make this illegality more convenient, with the Corona virus muddying up the reason for the purchase or rental of these machines, as this press conference is demonstrating. The actual reason was to GUARANTEE a win for an insider (usually a Democrat although in many cases a compromised Republican) who had paid the most bribe money.

[Narciso]

So they will challenging in arizona and virginia can you do that, after they certified.

[Another Bob]

TK: “ No one marketing a show trial made for TV movie would have Powell’s voice attached to a lead character.”

Or someone dripping hair dye duti g a press conference.

[Jim Eagle]

[Reposting from end of last thread]

I remember when I was in DC, Fukuyama's "The End of History" came out and was almost required reading of every hill staffer, lobbyist and WH staff.

His speaker fees grew exponentially, as did his critics.

[Another Bob]

during

[Tom R]

So they will challenging in arizona and virginia can you do that, after they certified.

If I understood Rudy correctly the Trump campaign can't file federal lawsuits until a state's outcome is certified. It's why he said there is no federal lawsuit for Wisconsin yet because if Wisconsin follows their own state law and invalidates illegal ballots then Trump will win Wisconsin.

[Jane]

No one liked my poem/song? How rude!

[MissMarple2]

RUDY WANTS TO KNOW WHERE THE FBI HAS BEEN FOR THE LAST 4 YEARS!!!

[Manuel Transmission]

Re the blocked tweets. When I load one from a link here (on Safari), it is blocked, but hit the refresh button a couple times and it goes through.

BTW the blocked emails from gmail is similar to what we were experiencing with PL and AT links in our emails (not gmail). Finally after several sessions on the phone I got it bounced upstairs indirectly to the Greymail Operation and they put those sites on some double secret whitelist that was not visible to us.

[Melinda]

Password Hunter02
@BenKTallmadge
Replying to @EWErickson
You want to let China steal the election?
China Mobile, which has been banned in the US over national security threat, is literally inches away from Dominion Systems!

twitter.com/benktallmadge/…

Password Hunter02 @BenKTallmadge
Replying to @BenKTallmadge
Dominion Voting is in suite #200 & #370.

Jantzi Sustainalytics is in suite #300, right on top of Dominion.

Jantzi’s Chinese partner SynTao could easily hack Dominion.

twitter.com/benktallmadge/…

twitter.com/BenKTallmadge/status/1328020087182245889

https://twitter.com/BenKTallmadge/status/1329488639840030721

[Captain Hate]

The Horde is going crazy over the presser. Massive Kools smoke plume over Kalorama Kompound

[Melinda]

MC🕊
@mcshinemc
Smoothly stated ~in her cheetah sweater🔥

Qtah @Qtah17
BOOOOM 💥💥💥

Sidney Powell confirms the Scytl servers from Germany were in fact seized. These servers are the ones that store Dominion data. Patriots are in control!

https://twitter.com/mcshinemc/status/1329492164775190528

[Melinda]

Turley live tweeting Presser. Thread:

Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley
1h
Giuliani is raising the "curing" issue and the Equal Protection claim. The challenge is with the number of affected "cured" ballots and the tendency of courts to use the mootness doctrine to dismiss such challenges if insufficient to change the outcome. jonathanturley.org/2020/11/18/is-…

https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1329475587447148554

[Narciso]

Remember this squirrel they let loose at out length:

https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/19/the-new-york-times-claims-alexander-hamilton-owned-slaves-so-you-know-the-opposite-is-true/

[Jane]

Is Twitter melting down or ignoring it.

[Captain Hate]

The number and quality of behind-the-shed ass-whippings of presstitutes in this briefing are simply outstanding.
Posted by: filbert at November 19, 2020 01:36 PM (NiXyF)

[Narciso]

Well you judge

https://mobile.twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/1329492237454106625

[Captain Hate]

BREAKING: Michigan state lawmakers have brought articles of impeachment against Governor Whitmer
Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2020 01:38 PM (ZLI7S)

[MissMarple2]

Happiness intermission:

https://www.theblaze.com/news/charlie-brown-thanksgiving-christmas-specials-back-on-tv

[henry]

Moar media consolidation.

@cnbc

Buzzfeed acquires HuffPost from Verizon, reuniting CEO Jonah Peretti with website he co-founded

[Abadman]

I won’t bring over my reply in the last thread. TLDR. :-)

I agree the study demonstrated masks are not an effective control measure.

I do not believe the study proved masks have no effect on transmission

Both these statements can be true

A person with a 1 in 20 risk of dying and a person with a 1 in 1000 chance of dying might have different opinions on the threshold of a meaningful effect on transmission

I don’t agree with mask mandates, but I also do not believe wearing a mask is unreasonable, except when driving a car alone.

[Tom R]

I feel significantly more confident after Rudy's press conference.

[Threadkiller]

All of this is true but unimportant.

:-)

[JimNorCal]

A repeat message:
StopTheSteal.us has its Week 3 events this Saturday at noon. The focus event this week is Atlanta. But there are events at all or most state capitols as well.

I was at Sacramento last Saturday, there was a stage, professional sound system, speakers, and I'd guess somewhere from 500 to 1,000 people (it was pretty spread out, hard to gauge).
Perhaps 20 Antifa but we had a squad of Proud Boys and the police presence was solid. Plenty of brave elders, kids and ladies in the crowd. It felt safe.
I wonder if Gov Newsom will tell the police to stop coddling the Trumpsters this week? Try to give Antifa a chance to hassle stragglers like in DC?

OR OR OR OR ... !!!!
You can show your DEEP commitment to the cause of Liberty by ... eating turkey on T'giving.
Wow!
Edgy ... that'll make the Dems sit up and take notice!
https://pjmedia.com/columns/stephen-kruiser/2020/11/19/the-morning-briefing-resistance-to-tyranny-is-being-served-for-thanksgiving-2020-n1156812

[henry]

Jane, Twitter’s digital pillow is the smotheriest pillow ever.

[CCGirl]

I’m so confused, and I refuse to believe anything until we have something other than press conferences. I’m also so clueless I thought Fukuyama was the Japanese nuclear power plant damaged by the earthquake/tsunami years back 🤓.

Anyway, I’ll just go back to lurking. You guys can do all the research- thanks! And keep up the good work!

And yes, I believe we must never give an inch (more than we already have these past many years).

[Jane]

Ugh Narc. What a bunch of morons!

[Threadkiller]

Overall this press conference made up for lost ground that the people, who care, needed.

[JimNorCal]

"As long as Trumps lawyers think they'll get paid this show will go on."

Yep, we Trumpsters are all just in it for the money. No need to look any further or consider any alternative explanations.

[clarice]

I SURE WOULD LOVE A TRANSCRIPT OF THAT PRESSER.

[henry]

Obesity seems problematic. Vitamin D a good thing, helps deal with cancer as well as Kung Flu.

"Our study [also] highlights that obesity may confer resistance to vitamin D effects," said Chandler, an assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2020/11/18/Study-Vitamin-D-reduces-risk-for-metastatic-cancer-death-by-17/3131605710852/

[clarice]

I REALLY WANT MADURO AND SOROS DECIDING WHO WON, TM. YMMV

[Jim Eagle]

Rudy treats the press like they should be treated. Calls them out even before presenting his evidence.

I know him from Southampton. We sat next to him and his squeeze at the time at Tutto di Giorno. I think he is relishing being back in his element.

[Old Lurker]

I found every word of that presser compelling.

Bravo.

[Kathryn Anne]

Rudy was fantastic and thank you to whoever correctly figured out it was hair dye dripping down his face.
Truth coming out and expertly explained really will make a difference not only in this election but in the Senate runoff.
Karl Rove is pouring cold water on the press conference.
Please get better commentators.

[hrtshpdbox]

JiB, looks amazing, now I'm feeling like it's too long until dinner.

http://www.tuttoilgiorno.com/sagharbor-menu.html

[hrtshpdbox]

Rove is just one of the enemies of the people who inhabit the corridors at Fox.

[Dave (in MA)]

As long as Trumps lawyers think they'll get paid this show will go on.

Yeah, that's what Sulzberger Gazette readers want you to think.

[Buckeye]

Maybe it is time to give the press the same treatment they want to give the witnesses.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Not enough to be Statistically significant is not necessarily the same as statistically insignificant.--

Hmmm...does that mean if a woman wears a mask in place of her panties she actually can get a little bit pregnant?

[Soylent Red]

@MikayesFiona is legit good information. She rarely talks out of her ass, despite being given to self-aggrandizement.

Obesity seems problematic. Vitamin D a good thing, helps deal with cancer as well as Kung Flu.

Good all-around health advice. Augment with Magnesium.

[Buckeye]

Andy McCarthy was throwing cold water on the presser too.

He and Rove need their Fox gig.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Fukuyama's thesis was a perfect example of thinking current trends are permanent or that we have any idea how long they'll last or can foresee what might or might not upend them.

Yogi Berra was a much better political philosopher on the future than the historians.

[Kathryn Anne]

Buckeye:
Fox insists on calling Biden the President-elect.
For that reason alone I can’t bear to watch them,

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

If Joe Biden were bright, he'd concede, and move his family to a non-extradition country.

But Joe's never been accused of being bright.

[Jim Eagle]

Box,

We have or had one in Southampton. Just the best Italian by Mexican/Guatamalen chefs anywhere:)

[Old Lurker]

Speaking of compelling, Abadman, there is nothing especially bad about the masks, any more than those little cloth yellow stars were to the Jews in WWII.

It is the forced display of what is merely a symbol so that aberrant behavior can be found and corrected that makes them problems.

And, once the masks themselves are accepted as a symbol of control, so then are all the other demands and mandates and removal of rights and liberties that accompany the masks deemed not only acceptable but "good" and the rejection of them "bad".

Who it is "good" for is never quite explained, nor is the metric by which alleged good is measured explained.

Then we are left with "Orange Man Bad" and "Man destroys the earth with AGW" and "see my hockey stick.

After that we can be told to throw 12 year old virgins down into the pits so that some god will be pleased.

That is why masks are bad. Not whether they are "effective" or not.

-----

I have told the story about a B School Case circa 1970 about a small regional brewery which thought its beer was as good as anything on the market. So they performed blind taste tests and by all the science of the day, they PROVED that their beer was preferred 52:48 against all the national beers. So they spent gazillions and went national. And went bankrupt in a few months. In our class post mortem, we concluded it was never about a small blind taste test "science" advantage. Buyers just liked those Budweiser Horses and were loyal to what they were loyal too. Hearts and minds had been won over for years before the new guys came onto the field.

That is what masks mean. We cannot send hearts and minds out for reprogramming until we see which ones need it.

[Dave (in MA)]

Reynolds...

THIS HYSTERICAL HEADLINE DOESN’T SUGGEST CONFIDENCE, AND ALSO DOESN’T SOUND LIKE SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE ATOP A “NEWS” STORY, BUT HEY, IT’S THE NYT IN 2020: Trump tries to subvert the election, inviting Michigan G.O.P. lawmakers to the White House.

[Captain Hate]

But Joe's never been accused of being bright.

I'm confident he'll never catch the guy who keeps shitting in his pants.

[Old Lurker]

Andy McCarthy and Rove agreeing on something confirms my dislike of them both.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--If masks provided a 10% benefit is that meaningful? 20%,30%? Where do you draw the line?--

Here's the problem with that reasoning;

Although the difference observed was not statistically significant, the 95% CIs are compatible with a 46% reduction to a 23% increase in infection.

The effect was such that they can't rule out that masks were in fact harmful. I don't think it's too hard to draw a line about telling people to do something without even knowing whether it benefits or harms them.

[Dave (in MA)]

Here's where Newsome and his "old friend"'s birthday party took place "outside":

https://www.jsfashionista.com/wp-content/uploads/The-French-Laundry0-2.jpg

[Melinda]

Raheem Kassam
@RaheemKassam
EXCLUSIVE: Jill Biden Chief Of Staff Selling US Citizenship in 'Fraud-Wracked' Visa Scheme 'Abused' by Chinese Communists thenationalpulse.com/politics/jill-…

https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1329507316157341697

[Melinda]

U.S. Route 41
@USRoute41
She owe's her entire existence to the Bush Team establishment.

Matt Couch @RealMattCouch
Dana Perino is now urging Dominion to sue Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani in the latest edition of "Watch our Ratings Burn"

https://twitter.com/USRoute41/status/1329507778138955776

[Old Lurker]

As the mother of two actual STEM doctors, I think my wife gets angrier being told that "Dr." Jill Biden will be First Lady more than she does thinking Joementia will be POTUS.

[Kathryn Anne]

I will wait for it all to play out.
NYT is wrong.
It is Biden and Obama who tried to subvert this election.
I am sure Obama said we spied on Trump and nothing happened to us.
Why not go a step further and try to steal the election.

[Dave (in MA)]

“I’m hoping Dr. Jill becomes the surgeon general. She’s a hell of a doctor. She’s an amazing doctor.”

[Kathryn Anne]

No one will be more surprised than Fox News when this election is decided for President Trump and Fox anchors have to come crawling back to the President to get their ratings back,

[Old Lurker]

:-) Dave. All time great TV.

[Kathryn Anne]

I now watch Marie Bartiromo in the mornings.

[Melinda]

Lars Larson
@LarsLarsonShow
nothing to see here folks...gee, why would anyone think THIS is voter fraud.

Henry Olsen @henryolsenEPPC
This is when Milwaukee County, which everyone knew was counting its nearly 200,000 ballots in one place, released its count. Not fraud. twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…

twitter.com/henryolsenEPPC/status/13292388305834

https://twitter.com/LarsLarsonShow/status/1329510063526952960

[jimmyk]

Fox insists on calling Biden the President-elect.

Fox is now fully aligned with the MSM (making them superfluous), which has assumed the authority to declare election outcomes. For that reason alone, the Trump being declared the winner would be the greatest political event of my life.

[clarice]

OL, every time you wear a mask you are signalling the black plague is out there and we must continue to be fearful and mum about the depredations of our masters.

[Jim Eagle]

So, the Rage of The Machines, is more than a rock band?

[Barbara]

Willowed

Barbara, if Barr is not part of the solution, he is part of the problem.
henry

Fully agree. Esper and Krebs were IMO part of the problem and Trump fired their asses. Barr is still around.
Tom R at 10:29 AM

henry,

I fell back asleep after posting my earlier comment, but I completely agree with both you and Tom.

I believe the President is being careful about whom he fires at this point. He can't be happy with the way the Durham investigation has been slow walked. Nonetheless, firing Esper (who we're told already had his resignation letter written) was one thing. The dismissal of cabinet members (e.g., Chad Wolf and Barr, perhaps Haspell) might be leaped on by the media and Congress as an indication of instability.

In contrast, that brief speech by Watnick yesterday concerning the creation of what constitutes a new civilian Chief of Staff (Watnick) over U.S. Special Forces, equal to the others, had to be a shot across the bow to the Deep State. In short, the President is not playing by their rules anymore.

Posted by: Barbara | November 19, 2020 at 02:47 PM

[Abadman]

Not sure what I said to get that started OL.

Once upon a time the purpose of science was to understand things.

This seemed like some reasonable data to look at masks.

There was 2000-3000 in each arm if I remember right. If the effect was small probably not enough to reach statistical significance, but nothing to sneeze at either

The prevalence rate was stated at 2%. At that level the masks would need to be very effective for the results to be significant or meaningful or whatever you want it to be. It wasn’t, masks are not effective, case closed.

Is there anything else that can be gleaned from the study?

If the prevalence in the masked group is 1.8% and the rate I the control group is 2.1% that suggests that there may be a 10-15% difference( 2-3 per thousand in real numbers) between the groups. Whether this can be proven or not, it is a data point backed up with 5000-6000 total in the samples. In medicine those are relatively big numbers. This is not something to make policy on but I find it interesting. You may not.

It is just some information that might help people make their own choices

I’m not saying it is correct, just that it could be.

But hey I’m your strawman

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Why Does a Voting Machine Need Algorthmic Predictive Software for Simple Tabulation?

[clarice]

Twitter playing games with attkisson and her efforts to post a screen shot from one of the affidavits:https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fg_easton819%2Fstatus%2F1329360441156403201%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR257ijgd_-el97v2RlYdApDd0ziWVdvPG6IPES-Ja_ra1z1J9LwvzUb48M&h=AT21XTeZkvzt222qoMiXZUZhHjTNKgioNLx46fuFdoSe3gswPhbjGofUgVZegQxo_ewyKWx0S5xcPJzAwjhxMCyq8JpexX7ceWpuEG33zNd6wMh6zBHrcXm7yI8sFRKo9yc1OBk&__tn__=R]-R&c[0]=AT3tZcJmKayb7c_Ykx9UOal7ISckjX2FQYOsjE9v7jl8pmt62zUS4gWYyV3bk5j0iHP-6LJ13YTlIIGrMFcdILk5BzjBqqjsAvjpXlm2H1BBE_qukFBVtmtqasMpxGpymtgXGeXYt8DLcVc6XiZB

[clarice]

Sorry-twitter is working oddly for me today and yesterday.

[MissMarple2]

CNN ...All together 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/NV4wqx30Xy

— Ruthann (@TeaBoots) November 19, 2020

Only a 5-second video, but WELL worth watching! Video at link.

[Old Lurker]

Probably nothing you said Abadman! You just pushed a button I have been building.

I know you know my point is that ALL of these things installed after buying some time to protect the ICU's for a couple of weeks has been simple piling on by Petty Tyrants at horrendous human, social, and economic costs with very little to show for the price paid, and with not much actual science-science and certainly no cost-benefit behind any of them. And I at least have no doubt that some bug "crisis" was always a necessary ingredient in stealing the election.

[Old Lurker]

Abadman, I told the story about my little summer village wanting to privately raise and spend $40M to build a satellite fire station so that average response times could be reduced from 11 minutes to 7. My neighbors were aghast that some of us thought that was the stupidest waste of money ever.

[Narciso]

It was one of these clarice, cant find the affidavid

https://mobile.twitter.com/JuliansRum

[Old Lurker]

Steph "Why Does a Voting Machine Need Algorthmic Predictive Software for Simple Tabulation?"

Great minds, Steph. Now you know why I dated myself this morning by using the phrase "Friden Calculator".

[Old Lurker]

Do we need to use the back of the paper yet to continue the list of GOP leaders speaking out for fair elections and Trump's battle?

Didn't think so.

Shameless.

[Narciso]

How do you count a null set except possibly cotton and hawley

[Narciso]

I mentioned my own state rep, who is all in on the wuhan flu and redistricting what could go wrong?

[mike in houston]

OT

To YL,

If your kids ever develop an interest in horses you have an incredible gem in your town. NCMT has been around since 1939. I spent seven years there. Of course there were a lot more guys back then. Here is a short film about Troop. The old white barn in the pictures is the one where I use to ride. They have since built the new barn. What I learned there helped me get a job training field hunters while I was in college in Lexington KY.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=new+canaan+mounted+troop&&view=detail&mid=47E69E1090C89DD3415247E69E1090C89DD34152&&FORM=VDRVRV

[Melinda]

zerohedge
@zerohedge
*MICHIGAN SEC OF STATE SAYS ON TRACK FOR STATEWIDE VOTE AUDIT

https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1329491199439278083

[Dave (in MA)]

🚢

Rich Lowry@RichLowry
·
Well, that easily was the most outlandish press conference ever held by a team of lawyers representing the President of the United States