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01 Nov 20 5:10 am
+ Madame Tussauds in Berlin dumps Trump before U.S. election
(Reuters) - The waxwork museum Madame Tussauds in Berlin loaded its effigy of TV star-turned Republican president Donald Trump into a dumpster on Friday, a move apparently intended to reflect its expectations of next Tuesday's presidential election.
In what seemed a further calculated insult, the statue of his predecessor and nemesis Barack Obama, who counted Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel among his closest allies, remained in place, beaming and besuited.
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01 Nov 20 4:32 am
+ Video: Trump Supporters Tried to Run Biden Bus ‘Off the Road’
Trump supporters “followed the Biden bus throughout central Texas” and “ran into a person’s car, yelling curse words and threats,” one Texas Democratic Party leader said
By PETER WADE
Multiple videos posted to social media on Saturday morning apparently show Trump supporters in trucks and cars harassing a Joe Biden and Kamala Harris campaign bus in Texas, causing the campaign to cancel a planned event in Central Texas.
A Biden campaign spokesperson told Forbes that the Trump supporters “attempted to slow the bus down and run it off the road.” And one local Democratic Party leader, Katie Naranjo, tweeted photos and said Trump supporters “followed the Biden bus throughout central Texas” and “ran into a person’s car, yelling curse words and threats.”
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31 Oct 20 4:40 am
+ FBI: Extremist suspected of plot to kidnap Mich. governor also threatened Trump
Thu, October 29, 2020, 8:51 AM CDT
A man charged in an alleged conspiracy to kidnap Michigan's governor also made threatening online comments about President Trump, former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton and other prominent political figures, an FBI agent said in a federal court filing.
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29 Oct 20 11:06 pm
+ The New York Times
'Tsunamis of Misinformation' Overwhelm Local Election Officials
Kellen Browning and Davey Alba
Thu, October 29, 2020, 2:01 PM CDT
Fueled by inaccurate comments from Trump and others, election lies have spread across social media. They include claims that Black Lives Matter protesters incited violence at polling places, that mail-in ballots were dumped, that ballot boxes and voting machines were compromised, and that ballots were “harvested,” or collected and dropped off in bulk by unauthorized people.
Election officials in places such as Philadelphia, El Paso, Texas, and Santa Rosa, California, are bearing the brunt of the fallout, according to interviews with a dozen of them in seven states. Some have had to contain misinformation-induced voter panic. Others are fighting back by posting accurate information on social media or giving newspaper and television interviews to spread their messages. Many are working longer shifts to debunk the distortions.
But their efforts have largely been fruitless, they said. When one rumor is smacked down, another pops up. And the reach of the rumors online is often so vast that the officials said they could not hope to compete.
“They’re definitely overwhelmed,” said Isabella Garcia-Camargo, an organizer of the Election Integrity Partnership, a new coalition of misinformation researchers.
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29 Oct 20 11:32 am
+ Trump supporters left in cold for hours after Omaha rally
20201028_new_trump_ar34Thousands waited, some for hours, in the cold for buses following President Donald Trump’s campaign rally at Eppley Airfield on Tuesday night.
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Hundreds of people who attended President Donald Trump’s rally Tuesday evening at Eppley Airfield spent up to three hours in freezing temperatures waiting for buses to take them back to their cars.
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26 Oct 20 5:18 pm
Oh, increasingly, those Q ANON bonebrains have certainly become a truly disturbing Anti-Logic Cancer, Karl.
They've BEEN on The U.S. News for months. Unfortunately, the "mentality" has even finally somehow metastasized into The Active Political Arena too as at least one Republican Candidate somehow got enough dysfunctionally-conservative/gaslighting suggestible idiots who ARE stupid-enough to "Drink The Hyperpartisan Kool-Aid" to Vote for her.
You already even have too many Evolution Deniers In Congress. It's a goddamn Theocratically-Oligarchical Classist Corporatocracy, unfortunately, not A Real Democracy nor even A Republic, despite the brainwashing propaganda taught to naive youngsters in school.
It's all most obscenely-deplorable.
-_-
But here's a YOUTUBE Link on this Q ANON Cult; this guy Mike Figueredo is far better than me at expounding on it:
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25 Oct 20 6:11 pm
+ Twitter says fake "Antifa" account was run by white supremacists
Twitter has shut down multiple accounts that it says were operated by a white supremacist group posing as liberal groups encouraging violence.
Twitter said the white supremacist group Identity Evropa used one fake account, @Antifa_US, to call for violence in majority white suburbs, in the name of the Black Lives Matter movement. The account's removal was first reported by NBC News.
"This account violated our platform manipulation and spam policy, specifically the creation of fake accounts. We took action after the account sent a Tweet inciting violence and broke the Twitter Rules" the company said.
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24 Oct 20 9:45 pm
+ Far-right extremist shot at Minneapolis' police precinct to spark violence during Floyd protests, FBI says
Kathryn Krawczyk
Fri, October 23, 2020, 1:43 PM CDT
A far-right extremist has been accused of opening fire on Minneapolis' third police precinct and sparking violence during May's George Floyd protests.
Ivan Harrison Hunter, a 26-year-old from Texas, was charged Friday with one count of interstate travel to participate in a riot. An admitted member of the "Boogaloo Bois," Hunter opened fire on the precinct and later looted it and helped set it on fire, the FBI said in a sworn affidavit released Friday.
The Minneapolis police's third precinct was just a block from where Floyd was killed, and became the center of protests against police violence that devolved into the destruction of the precinct and buildings around it. Hunter is one of several far-right extremists accused of intentionally ramping up that violence. Armed with a mask and tactical gear, Hunter fired 13 rounds at the precinct while officers were inside and ran away shouting "Justice for Floyd," the FBI alleges. He later bragged about "help[ing] the community burn down that police station" on Facebook.
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24 Oct 20 8:04 pm
+ How Texas could be the linchpin in finally dismantling the Electoral College
Peter Weber
Fri, October 23, 2020, 8:46 AM CDT
The framers of the Constitution set up the Electoral College because they had to invent a way to "pick the leader of a self-governing republic" and were worried "most people wouldn't know national political candidates," he explained. But they never even discussed today's winner-takes-all system, "and when they saw it start to be adopted in the states in the early 1800s, they were horrified. James Madison, the man we think of as the father of the Constitution, tried to pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting the use of winner-take-all rule because he saw how corrosive it was to erase up to half of voters in the state."
Madison failed, but Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) almost got a constitutional amendment enacted in 1969 — President Richard Nixon was on board, it had broad national support, the House approved the amendment, and nearly three-quarters of states were set to approve it, Wegman said. Sadly, "three Southern segregationist senators" filibustered it to death in 1970, killing "the best effort we've ever had in American history to abolish the Electoral College."
This only became a partisan issue after George W. Bush then Donald Trump won the Electoral College while losing the popular vote, but it's a double-edged sword, Wegman said. "Right now what we're seeing is some really big and important Republican-majority states are shifting demographically." Texas, with its 38 electoral votes, "is going to turn blue" as soon as 2024, he predicted, and "if Republicans can't win Texas, I think their paths to an Electoral College victory are basically eliminated."
In the next eight years, "when both parties have suffered enough in a short enough time period that they realize that it doesn't help anybody," Wegman said, "I think we have the opening to switch to a system in which everybody counts equally, and everybody's vote matters."
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24 Oct 20 11:20 am
+ Why is QAnon more obsessed with an imaginary sex-trafficking ring than with Jeffrey Epstein’s real one?
Caitlin Dickson
Fri, October 23, 2020, 8:31 PM CDT
On Wednesday evening, the anonymous figure known as “Q” took to the fringe message board 8kun to issue one of his signature prophecies: “BOOMS EN_ROUTE TOMORROW. This is not a drill. Q.”
Such vague and ominous forecasts have become a regular feature of the ever-evolving online scripture on which the cult-like conspiracy movement known as QAnon is based. For the past three years, Q — whom disciples believe to be a high-ranking military or intelligence officer or group of officials with access to classified information — has posted thousands of these cryptic messages, known as “Q drops,” for followers to try to decipher.
Very few, if any, of Q’s predictions, starting with the first Q drop posted to 4chan on Oct. 28, 2017, which warned of Hillary Clinton’s imminent arrest and a violent nationwide uprising, have come true. A scan through some of the responses to Q’s latest promise of forthcoming “Booms” indicate a mix of excitement and skepticism from followers who’ve clearly been disappointed in the past.
That I have eaten Jalapenos, Habaneros, Banana Peppers, Sriracha, and other sorts of Hot Sauces for years now.
Yum.
P.S. It honestly seems to me that Eating Hot Stuff really does seem to help with Opening-Up Stuffed Sinuses (ooooo, you're GOING to blow your nose a lot) , Makes Your Eyes Feel Brand-New (like you're in 2nd Grade again, ha) from all the Crying, WILL heat you up on cold days, WILL make you feel like a supercharged/amped-up Popeye (but only if Hot Peppers happen to be Your "Spinach", I guess, heh), WILL wake you dafuq up (because a hot, steamin' cuppa Coffee just doesn't cut it for me, unfortunately), and MIGHT maybe even Boost Your Immune Factor?
While I Am Not Anarchist (Anarchy may be a wonderful concept, but I certainly do not believe that the so-called Human Race is advanced-enough to manage it), I Confess That:
"I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police. I Will Never Ever Blindly-Trust The Police....."
That because I *LOOOOOATHE* yet again going through some damn Oblivious Moralizing Endless Talk about "What Is Real True Goth?" (and what is it that *IIIII* myself truly am, Individualwise) from some Potential Admonisher somewhere (yet again), I simply describe myself as "Goth Influenced"...or "Goth Inspired", rather than "Goth".
Jyeah.
P.S. I mean, sure, I certainly understand that "GateKeepers" indeed *DO* have a most truly important job to do, yes, agreed (I myself used to do it, but I guess since There Are Others Who Truly Know The History..."Certain Integrities Must Be Preserved." -Simon Cowell), so then I perhaps can maybe Evolve into something more of a "rulebender" and flex some of "The Boundaries" now and again instead of being The Inflexible Hardcore Goth of years past, heh..... XD
KARL: LOL Much agreed, DevilsFood! If I can laugh at my own faith system then it's okay. It's a strength to be able to laugh at yourself. Besides...my faith system attracts a lot of eccentrics so it's too easy to do. Ha, ha! : - >
LU: Oh, yeah...I tend to forget that Not Everyone is okay with being Self-Deprecating, even though I poke fun at myself all the time, yeh... ;)
KARL: Ha, ha! That's okay, everybody's different! ; - )
LU: Agreed, K, aye...
Also, I too am most certainly NOT Blindly-Patriotic.
