Anonymous ID: de9a9f Sept. 19, 2022, 3:17 a.m. No.17542800   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2802 >>2804 >>2808 >>2809 >>2850

Ranked Choice Voting Is a Rotten System

 

When Democrats push changes to election laws, you can bet it’s to boost their chances of victory.

 

Ranked choice voting is embraced by its supporters as a means of cutting through the hyper-partisan political atmosphere and electing consensus candidates rather than populist extremists. But enough of the propaganda from Democrats and their establishment Republican pals who stand to benefit most from this process. What exactly is ranked choice voting, and what are its consequences?

 

In a ranked choice election, voters are encouraged to rank all the candidates on the ballot from favorite to least favorite. First-place votes are counted, and if one candidate emerges with at least 50%-plus-one of the vote, then that person is declared the winner and the election is over. However, if no clear winner emerges, then another round of vote counting takes place in which the candidate with the lowest number of votes is eliminated. The votes of those who cast their ballot for an eliminated candidate instead go to their next choice. This process continues until only two candidates remain, with the winner being the one with the most votes in the final round.

 

If this sounds convoluted and confusing and ripe for fraud and complete misrepresentation of the will of the voter, then you understand ranked choice voting better than you think you do. In fact, the whole process is so cumbersome that it can’t even be conducted without computers. That alone should be a red flag to anyone wondering about the wisdom of ranked choice voting. Any voting process that’s meant to select a human candidate should be simple enough to be conducted by humans.

 

Ranked choice voting raises other red flags, too. Consider urban elections, which predominantly feature Democrat candidates because their platform seeks out and appeals to urban voters. In a ranked choice election, the few Republicans who have the resources to get on the ballot aren’t likely to survive the first round of voting. The election quickly devolves into a one-party exercise in which an entire bloc of voters is rejected along with their issues of concern. Likewise, any election in which several well-known (read: establishment) candidates, regardless of party affiliation, suck all the oxygen out of the room, leaving lesser-known candidates to languish without having a chance to reach voters.

 

Ranked choice voting is dangerous to the electoral process because it subverts the will of the voter. It is mathematically possible in some instances for a candidate who is no one’s first choice to end up winning an election. It is also similarly possible for a candidate who pulls more votes on the first ballot to lose.

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Anonymous ID: de9a9f Sept. 19, 2022, 3:18 a.m. No.17542802   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2808 >>2809 >>2850

>>17542800

Ranked choice voting raises other red flags, too. Consider urban elections, which predominantly feature Democrat candidates because their platform seeks out and appeals to urban voters. In a ranked choice election, the few Republicans who have the resources to get on the ballot aren’t likely to survive the first round of voting. The election quickly devolves into a one-party exercise in which an entire bloc of voters is rejected along with their issues of concern. Likewise, any election in which several well-known (read: establishment) candidates, regardless of party affiliation, suck all the oxygen out of the room, leaving lesser-known candidates to languish without having a chance to reach voters.

 

Ranked choice voting is dangerous to the electoral process because it subverts the will of the voter. It is mathematically possible in some instances for a candidate who is no one’s first choice to end up winning an election. It is also similarly possible for a candidate who pulls more votes on the first ballot to lose.

 

To see the failure of ranked choice in action, we need look no further than the recent Alaska special election to fill the vacant House seat of the late Don Young. In its first test of ranked choice elections in one of the reddest of red states, Democrat Mary Peltola was victorious over former Republican Governor Sarah Palin and Nick Begich III, who ran as a Republican despite coming from a Democrat political family. Among Republicans, Palin represented the populist vote, and Begich represented the establishment vote. We don’t have final tallies, and we may not get them, but it is highly likely that while many loyal Republican voters who ranked Palin first also ranked Begich second. But, since things turned out the way they did, it would appear that a large portion of Begich voters were closet Democrats who ranked Peltola second. By the way, Peltola finished fourth in the first round of voting with 10% of the vote. Palin finished first with 27%.

 

Peltola, Palin, and Begich will be doing this all over again in November to determine who represents the state in Congress for the next full term. And it looks as if the same scenario may play out all over again. Democrats have a vested interest in seeing Begich lose in the hope of making the election a referendum on Palin, who is a prime target of hate among Democrats and certain to stir their base to turn out to vote.

 

Ranked choice voting allows candidates and their political party backers to game the system, as parties can encourage loyal voters to throw their support in targeted ways in early rounds to shape the final ballot. Additionally, voters are given repeated bites at the apple after backing losers, while those who remain committed to one candidate are penalized.

 

Ranked choice voting does not improve our election process. It subverts it by forcing voters to pledge support to candidates they would never consider in a winner-take-all race, and by silencing anti-establishment candidates seeking to shake up the status quo — which is something we sorely need these days. If the people are to have faith in their electoral process, they must be allowed to vote for a single candidate of their choosing. Any other system should be viewed with suspicion.

 

https://patriotpost.us/articles/91391-ranked-choice-voting-is-a-rotten-system-2022-09-19

 

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Anonymous ID: de9a9f Sept. 19, 2022, 3:32 a.m. No.17542863   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2865

It’s All About the Midterms

 

The president is not popular. His policies have failed. He’s determined to win, no matter the cost.

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What’s gotten better in America since Joe Biden took office? It’s hard to come up with a list. The economy is in tatters. Inflation is booming. Food and energy prices are out of control. The poorest Americans are hurting more than they have in years. With an increasingly belligerent China and Russia joining forces, America’s national security looks more precarious than it has in decades. In the face of this record, the Biden team has gone low. With no record to run on, Biden’s advisers knew they had to flip the narrative. The new strategy is clear: Gin up your own base, and vilify your opponents.

 

Why would Biden take that course now? What’s changed since his inaugural address focus on national healing and unity? Only two things: No. 1: He has no record of accomplishments to run on; and No. 2: The midterm elections were looking like a disaster. The problem with sewing division to win the elections, or at least to not lose as badly as you otherwise would, is America is already at a breaking point. How much more political instability can the country take?

 

The huge strategic errors under the Biden administration are too numerous to catalog. Upon taking office, there were signs that the government was already overstimulating the economy. In the wake of this, really for purely ideological reasons, Biden insisted on adding even more stimulus. With a thin Democratic majority in Congress, Biden managed to inject almost $2 trillion more into the economy. Even liberal economists, the few independent enough to be honest, called out this huge mistake at the time.

 

Economists will debate how much of the current runaway inflation Biden caused, but there’s not a lot of debate that it added to the problem. On top of this, the Federal Reserve kept interest rates too low for too long. Biden encouraged this with his initial theory, shared by the Fed chairman, that inflation was just “transitory.” Biden then rewarded Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, who was responsible for this historic mistake, with another term. In the process, in a political sense at least, he came to completely own the inflation problem. There is still no issue more important to voters. With midterm elections approaching, this was a disaster. The newest inflation numbers and the huge stock market drop that came with them just solidify the enduring nature of this catastrophe.

 

Besides their financial well-being, voters care about safety and security. Biden gets an F on both of those as well. Crime, drug overdoses and suicide are all booming. Police are quitting at record levels. They are also increasingly refusing to risk their own personal safety to make arrests when left-wing prosecutors will allow the criminals to walk within days. The southern border is essentially wide open. Even the most pro-immigration Americans don’t understand the logic of an open border. Only left-wing ideologues can defend this record. Outside of the Democratic primaries in a few of the most left-wing districts, candidates are running scared.

 

On the broader national security questions, during Biden’s time in office, America’s standing in the world has dropped. His hurried and botched withdrawal from Afghanistan came at the cost of innocent American lives. More broadly, it signaled weakness to our enemies. Would Russia have attacked Ukraine anyway? We will never know, but we do know that Russia and China sense a weaker America. Voters don’t like this.

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Anonymous ID: de9a9f Sept. 19, 2022, 3:33 a.m. No.17542865   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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In the face of this impending political disaster, we have seen two of the most cynical moves in American politics. First, Biden unilaterally, without Congressional authorization, decided to relieve what may amount to more than $1 trillion in student loan debt. If a Republican president dared to try anything so audacious, the newspaper headlines would be screaming about unfettered executive power. What’s worse, Biden did not even limit his largess to those most in need. Americans nearly wealthy enough to be in our top tax brackets are eligible for this giveaway. Recent data shows that these groups are the only ones still thriving in the Biden economy. The poorest Americans are hurting the most. Most others are just stagnant with cost increases gobbling up any wage growth they are seeing. The only Americans seeing actual growth are those with Bachelor’s degrees or higher.

 

In other words, Biden is stretching the law to the breaking point to benefit one of the only groups already doing well in today’s economy. With so many others hurting more, why would the president do this? Those Americans with Bachelor’s degrees or higher are now the base of his political support. Elections are around the corner. Is it all just about politics? Hard to come up with other answers.

 

If Biden’s real goal was to gin up his base voters with a student loan giveaway not tailored to those who need help the most and not even authorized by Congress, that’s pretty bad, but it’s not even half as corrosive as upping the ante on America’s current political chaos by, in essence, declaring half of all Americans as enemies of the state who must be destroyed. Why would an American president, especially one who claims to want to unite the country, take such a position? The press, of course, gave Biden’s actions the most charitable interpretation. Democracy and the rule of law are under attack, and the president had no choice but to speak out. That’s their take.

 

There are two big problems with this. First, the issues Biden is highlighting have been around since his inauguration. Biden only now has changed his tone and decided that half of all Americans are actually now fascists. Second, and even more damning, if this was all really a principled stand for democracy and the rule of law, why is Biden’s own party supporting many of the most MAGA candidates in Republican primaries with tens of millions of dollars in funding?

 

It’s all about the coming midterms. The president is not popular. His policies have failed. He’s determined to win, no matter the cost.

 

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/91359-its-all-about-the-midterms-2022-09-16

 

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Anonymous ID: de9a9f Sept. 19, 2022, 3:42 a.m. No.17542894   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2895 >>2896 >>2901 >>2902 >>2908

“Done … the Seventeenth Day of September, in the year of our LORD one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven.”

 

Each year, September 17th marks the anniversary of the signing of our Republic’s Constitution at the Philadelphia Convention in 1787. It is the most consequential governing document in history and enshrined Liberty and Rule of Law in a way that no other outline for government ever had.

 

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“Done … the SEVENTEENTH DAY of SEPTEMBER, in the year of our LORD one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven.”

 

This is the last line of the U.S. Constitution.

 

Signer of the Constitution James McHenry noted in his diary (American Historical Review, 1906), that after Ben Franklin left the Constitutional Convention, he was asked by Mrs. Elizabeth Powel of Philadelphia: “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.”

 

Webster’s 1828 Dictionary defined “REPUBLIC”: An “exercise of the SOVEREIGN POWER is lodged in representatives elected by THE PEOPLE.”

 

To help explain, DEMOCRACY has come to have two definitions: one is the general concept of people ruling themselves; the other is an actual system of government.

Anonymous ID: de9a9f Sept. 19, 2022, 3:42 a.m. No.17542895   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2908

>>17542894

As an actual system of government, a DEMOCRACY is where THE PEOPLE are KING ruling directly, whereas a REPUBLIC is where THE PEOPLE are KING, ruling through their representatives.

 

As an actual system of government, a DEMOCRACY only successfully worked on a small basis, like a Greek city-state, where every citizen went to the marketplace everyday to discuss politics.

 

“Politics” is from the Greek word “polis” which means “the business of the city.” The same word translated into Latin is “civics.”

 

“Citizen” is also contrasted with “subject.”

 

Kings have “subjects” who are subjected to their will. Democracies and republics have “citizens.”

 

“Citizen” is a Greek word which means co-ruler, co-sovereign, co-king. Citizens participate in ruling themselves.

 

Democracy, as a system of government, is limited in size, as once a city grows so large that citizens cannot come to the market everyday, control is transferred to those who carry news of what is being discussed, which can be slanted one way or another. Republics can grow larger, as citizens spend their time taking care of their families and farms, and representatives go in their place to the market everyday to discuss politics.

 

A “constitutional republic” is where the representatives are limited by a set of rules approved by the citizens.

 

Theodore Roosevelt stated October 24, 1903: “In no other place and at no other time has the experiment of government of the people, by the people, for the people, been tried on so vast a scale as here in our own country.”

 

A republic only lasts as long as the citizens have morals, virtue, and self-control.

 

John Adams warned October 11, 1798: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other …”

 

He added: “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge … would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.”

 

In the Roman Republic, “representatives” were hereditary positions.

 

The American Republic is a hybrid, where representatives are democratically elected.

 

Yale President Ezra Stiles stated in 1788: “Most states of all ages … have been founded in rapacity, usurpation and injustice … All the forms of CIVIL POLITY (government systems) have been tried by mankind, EXCEPT ONE: and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.”

 

John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, stated September 8, 1777: “The Americans are the first people whom Heaven has favored with an opportunity of deliberating upon, and choosing the forms of government under which they should live. All other constitutions have derived their existence from violence or accidental circumstances.”

Anonymous ID: de9a9f Sept. 19, 2022, 3:43 a.m. No.17542896   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2908

>>17542894

Ronald Reagan stated in 1961: “In this country of ours took place the greatest revolution that has ever taken place in the world’s history. Every other revolution simply exchanged one set of rulers for another.”

 

Declaration signer James Wilson, who also signed the Constitution and was appointed to the Supreme Court by George Washington, remarked at Pennsylvania’s ratifying convention, November 26, 1787: “Governments, in general, have been the result of force, of fraud, and accident. After a period of 6,000 years has elapsed since the creation, the United States exhibit to the world the first instance … of a nation … assembling voluntarily … and deciding calmly concerning that system of government under which they would wish that they and their posterity should live.”

 

John Adams wrote in his notes on Canon & Feudal Law, 1765: “I always consider the settlement of America with reverence … as the opening of a grand scene and design in Providence for the illumination of the ignorant, and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.”

 

In 1802, Daniel Webster stated in a Fourth of July Oration: “The history of the world is before us … The civil, the social, the Christian virtues are requisite to render us worthy the continuation of that government which is the freest on earth.”

 

After the U.S. Constitution was written, it needed to be ratified by nine states in order to go into effect. Eight states had ratified it, and New Hampshire was in line to be the ninth, but disagreements caused it to stall.

 

The Governor of New Hampshire declared a Day of Fasting. New Hampshire reconvened its ratifying convention in June of 1788.

 

Harvard President Rev. Samuel Langdon gave an address which was instrumental in convincing the delegates to ratify the Constitution.

 

The Portsmouth Daily Evening Times, January 1, 1891, acknowledged Rev. Samuel Langdon’s influence: “… by his voice and example he contributed more perhaps, than any other man to the favorable action of that body.”

 

Langdon’s address was titled “The REPUBLIC of the ISRAELITES an example to the AMERICAN STATES,” June 5, 1788. In it, he stated: “Instead of the twelve tribes of Israel, we may substitute the thirteen states of the American union, and see this application plainly … That as God in the course of his kind providence hath given you an excellent Constitution of government, founded on the most rational, equitable, and liberal principles, by which all that liberty is secured … and you are impowered to make righteous laws for promoting public order and good morals; and as he has moreover given you by his Son Jesus Christ … a complete revelation of his will … it will be your wisdom … to … adhere faithfully to the doctrines and commands of the gospel, and practice every public and private virtue.”

 

Langdon continued: “The Israelites may be considered as a pattern to the world in all ages … Government … on republican principles, required laws; without which it must have degenerated immediately into … absolute monarchy … How unexampled was this quick progress of the Israelites, from abject slavery, ignorance, and almost total want of order, to a national establishment perfected in all its parts far beyond all other kingdoms and states! From a mere mob, to a well regulated nation, under a government and laws far superior to what any other nation could boast! …”

 

Langdon concluded: “It was a long time after the law of Moses was given before the rest of the world knew any thing of government by law … It was six hundred years after Moses before … Grecian republics received a very imperfect … code of laws from Lycurgus. It was about five hundred years from the first founding of the celebrated Roman empire … before the first laws of that empire.”

 

After Langdon’s address, New Hampshire’s delegates voted to ratify the U.S. Constitution, thus putting it into effect.

 

Professors Donald S. Lutz and Charles S. Hyneman published an article in American Political Science Review, 1984, titled “The Relative Influence of European Writers on Late 18th-Century American Political Thought.”

Anonymous ID: de9a9f Sept. 19, 2022, 3:45 a.m. No.17542901   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2908

>>17542894

They examined nearly 15,000 writings of the 55 writers of the U.S. Constitution, including newspaper articles, pamphlets, books and monographs, and discovered that the Bible, especially the book of Deuteronomy, contributed 34 percent of all direct quotes made by the Founders.

 

When indirect Bible citations were included, the percentage rose even higher.

 

Benjamin Franklin wrote to the Editor of the Federal Gazette, April 8, 1788 (The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, Farrand’s Records, Vol. 3, CXCV, pp. 296-297; Documentary History of the Constitution, IV, 567-571): “I beg I may not be understood to infer, that our general Convention was divinely inspired when it form’d the new federal Constitution … yet I must own I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence, that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance to the welfare of millions now existing, and to exist in the posterity of a great nation, should be suffered to pass without being in some degree influenc’d, guided and governed by that omnipotent, omnipresent Beneficent Ruler, in whom all inferior spirits live & move and have their being.”

 

Alexander Hamilton wrote of the Constitution in his Letters of Caesar, 1787: “Whether the New Constitution, if adopted, will prove adequate to such desirable ends, time, the mother of events, will show. For my own part, I sincerely esteem it a system, which, without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.”

 

George Washington opened the Constitutional Convention, stating: “Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God.”

 

Harry S Truman wrote in his Memoirs-Volume Two: Years of Trial and Hope: “The men who wrote the Constitution knew … that tyrannical government had come about where the powers of government were united in the hands of one man. The system they set up was designed to prevent a demagogue or ‘a man on horseback’ from taking over the powers of government … The most important thought expressed in our Constitution is that the power of government shall always remain limited, through the separation of powers.”

 

Ten days after his Inauguration, President Washington wrote to the United Baptist Churches of Virginia, May 10, 1789:

 

“If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed by the Convention, where I had the honor to preside, might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical Society, certainly I would never have placed my signature to it.”

 

President Washington, the same week Congress passed the Bill of Rights, declared, October 3, 1789: “Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me ‘to recommend … a Day of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness’ … I do recommend … the 26th day of November … to be devoted by the People of these United States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be …”

 

Washington continued: “That we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks … for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted, for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed.”

Anonymous ID: de9a9f Sept. 19, 2022, 3:45 a.m. No.17542902   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2908

>>17542894

Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: “America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of Divine Providence in behalf of the human race.”

 

G.K. Chersterton wrote in “What is America” (What I Saw In America, 1922): “America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth … in the Declaration of Independence … that all men are equal in their claim to justice, that governments exist to give them that justice … The Declaration … certainly does condemn … atheism, since it clearly names the Creator as the ultimate authority from whom these equal rights are derived.”

 

James Madison wrote to Jefferson, October 24, 1787, that writing the Constitution: “… formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived … Adding to these considerations the natural diversity of human opinions on all new and complicated subjects, it is impossible to consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle.”

 

George Washington wrote to Marquis de Lafayette, February 7, 1788: “As to … the new Constitution … it appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the delegates from so many different states … should unite in forming a system of national Government.”

 

Daniel Webster stated: “Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in six thousand years, cannot be expected to happen often … Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution of your country and the government established under it … Such a government, once destroyed, would have a void to be filled, perhaps for centuries, with evolution and tumult, riot and despotism.”

 

James Madison wrote in Sept of 1829 (Writings 9:351–57): “The happy Union of these states is a wonder; their Constitution – a miracle; their example the hope of liberty throughout the world. Woe to the ambition that would meditate the destruction of either!”

 

U.S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge stated in 1919: “The United States is THE WORLD’S BEST HOPE … Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance … for if we stumble & fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.”

 

Indeed.

 

https://patriotpost.us/references/76161-constitution-day

Anonymous ID: de9a9f Sept. 19, 2022, 4:33 a.m. No.17543049   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3057

The Queen chose all the food for Diana and Charles wedding feast.

For the main meal, she chose a chicken breast, sliced like a vagina and stuffed with a mousse.

Symbology is EVIL.

Anonymous ID: de9a9f Sept. 19, 2022, 4:35 a.m. No.17543055   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3056 >>3104

Monday Short Cuts

 

Notable quotables from Gavin Newsom, Ken Burns, Clay Travis, and more.

 

Insight

 

“A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense has really become very uncommon. Straightforward ideas appear strange or unfamiliar, and any thought that does not follow the conventional curve or twist, is supposed to be a sort of joke.” —G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

 

Re: The Right

 

“‘Cheering on’ the Dobbs decision was completely worth it. Just as cheering the overturning of Dred Scott v. Sanford or Schenck v. United States was worth it. Not everything is about short-term partisan gain. You might also cheer because if someone had told you 10, or even five, years ago that Roe would be overturned, you wouldn’t have believed them. Roe has been treated as a sacred text for over 50 years, not only by the press but by most of our institutions. The ‘right’ to terminate life for convenience’s sake had been irrecoverably tethered to feminism and progress. For millions, it probably remains the only SCOTUS decision they can name. And once the left procures a new ‘right,’ it rarely relinquishes it. The prospect of there being six justices willing to uphold the Constitution in the face of this immense pressure was improbable, to say the least. So, yes, cheer.” —David Harsanyi

 

“Even if we accept everything we’re hearing about the political fallout over Dobbs, the blowback is quite underwhelming. If a two-point swing in the presidential approval rating during a midterm election is the price for overturning Roe, then it was maybe the greatest bargain in history. Just because Dobbs was ‘worth’ celebrating doesn’t mean Republicans shouldn’t have been better prepared for the probable outcome. It always amazes me how timid and ineffective Republicans are at making the pro-life case, which makes me suspect many of them are unhappy that pro-life legislation is no longer just a theoretical proposition.” —David Harsanyi

 

“If Republicans truly believe that they can’t defend a 15-week ban, maybe they are right to find any excuse to try not to talk about abortion. But that path leads, ultimately, to implicit surrender. You can’t blame Lindsey Graham for wanting his party to do better.” —Rich Lowry

 

Hot Air

 

“We didn’t have any blackouts in California. Ron DeSantis, you were wrong again. You made it up. Lot of people made it up. Folks on Fox, you made it up. I know you wished it happened — trust me, many of them did because they want to kill our green energy transition. They want to double down on stupid and continue to drill and actually do more damage.” —California Governor Gavin Newsom

 

Arbiters of “Truth”

 

“I think there is a risk when you’re talking to certain politicians if you’re willing to say what you’re saying is not true, and sometimes you have to risk looking partisan by doing that. But I think we can’t bow to that threat. I mean, as long as I’m confident when I am that we’re arguing about facts, undisputable facts, I have no problem saying, ‘You’re not telling the truth.’ Even if that causes somebody to say, ‘You’re just being a political hack.’ You have to do that. That’s what we have to stand up for as journalists — right and wrong; fact, not fiction.” —ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos

Anonymous ID: de9a9f Sept. 19, 2022, 4:36 a.m. No.17543056   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3060

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Non Compos Mentis Award

 

“These vulnerable migrants were reportedly misled about where they were heading; told they would be headed to Boston; misled about what they would be provided when they arrived; promised shelter, refuge, benefits, and more. These are the kinds of tactics we see from smugglers in places like Mexico and Guatemala.” —White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

 

Village Idiot

 

“This is coming straight out of the authoritarian playbook. This is what’s so disturbing about [Ron] DeSantis — is to use human beings, to weaponize human beings, for a political purpose. It’s like when somebody disagrees with him in Florida — like The Walt Disney Company — he punishes them. This is not the actions of a person participating in a democratic process in which there’s an exchange of ideas. This is about punishing political enemies, putting on shows, political shows, political theater. And in this case, this is with the lives of human beings.” —filmmaker Ken Burns

 

And Last…

 

“Martha’s Vineyard’s response to 50 illegals being sent to them was to declare a humanitarian emergency, activate 125 National Guard soldiers, and shipping them out of their town in less than 24 hours. You literally can’t make it up.” —Michael Seifert

 

“Martha’s Vineyard couldn’t handle 50 illegal immigrants for even 24 hours. They called in the buses and deported them from the island. But I thought left wingers loved diversity?” —Clay Travis

 

“‘Stop moving people around for political stunts!’ said the people who support an open border policy that involves shipping hundreds of thousands of people to small towns and cities across America.” —Ben Shapiro

 

https://patriotpost.us/articles/91385-monday-short-cuts-2022-09-19

Anonymous ID: de9a9f Sept. 19, 2022, 4:49 a.m. No.17543090   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>17543057

Its is true, watched a documentary on the chief for the queen, who also did Diana and Charles wedding food.

He cooked that dish on the documentary.

The queen saw Dianna as just a cunt…

And so did the chef… worked out he was a human meat chef. The guy smirked… EVIL.

Anonymous ID: de9a9f Sept. 19, 2022, 4:55 a.m. No.17543107   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>17543093

#13409707 at 2021-04-12 17:20:32 (UTC+1)

Q Research General #16985: Another Day to Dig in Q Research Edition

 

>>13409682

 

o7

 

Note how the queens' crown are emphasized with the opposite color on the pentagram crowns.

 

FOLLOW the WIVES type of thing?https://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1381392669704871942/photo/1

 

chessfags, are oppo color crown orbs common in chess sets/pieces?

 

We digged on it, searching for it NOW

Anonymous ID: de9a9f Sept. 19, 2022, 5:07 a.m. No.17543130   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3137

'Charles & Camilla's son' Simon Dorante-Day drops DNA bombshell | 7NEWS EXCLUSIVE

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