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Journal Journal: Three Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy Political Attacks On Trump 133

Journal by smittyoneeach
The 14th Amendment is a dead letter. 06Jan was an Op.

Instead:

1. Point out that DJT is a spendthrift. A substantial fiscal reform platform would do well against him.

2. While 06Jan was a farce, him letting the prisoners of 06Jan was terrible. He tacitly agrees with the bogus charges by not making an issue of the disgusting treatment of citizens.

3. He can't both take victory laps over Operation Warp Speed, and be critical of the Covid response. He could whine that he was the victim of a masterful squeeze play, but he needs to admit that he got rooked.

Our politics is a complete farce. Unless and until we have a no-kidding Article V Convention along lines similar to those articulated by Levin...I have no idea where this goes, but it looks like a dog's breakfast to me.

EXIT QUESTION: Why are the opponents not arguing the obvious?
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Journal Journal: Senator Cotton and Kurt Schlichter 184

Journal by smittyoneeach
Senator Cotton notes:

Every time a Republican won the presidency this century, Democrats tried to stop the certification.
Yet none of them faced criminal charges over what is obviously First Amendment protected activity.

In defense of Fanni Willis, her charges are no more garbage than the rest of the piffle on offer from the Democrats.

Schlichter seems equally unimpressed:

Some people ask me my legal opinion of these frame jobs masquerading as criminal cases. Well, I have no legal opinion of them because these have nothing to do with the law. When not invented out of whole cloth, they consist of inapplicable statutes stretched tighter than Nancy Pelosi's lifted and Botoxed face to try to encompass perfectly legal activities by people whose real crime is opposing the ruling class. And the accused aggravated their crimes by having succeeded for a time.
Do you think these laws only go one way? Do you think this precedent canâ(TM)t be used right back against you and yours?

Interestingly, we've been looking at the Saul/David transition in ancient Israel in Sunday School. Violence begets violence, and it is a hard thing to see every branch of government twisted, weaponized, and used to push people in completely unhealthy directions. Pray for peace.
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Journal Journal: No, Time Travel Is Not Possible 3

Journal by damn_registrars
I'm certain of this now. Not because someone would have assassinated Hitler, or Stalin, or any other political figure. Not because someone would have prevent 9/11. Not because someone would have stopped the assassination of JFK, MLK, or Archduke Ferdinand.

No. We have a plague that certainly someone would have prevented if they had the ability. I would have done so if I could have.

I'm talking about Windows 10.

I don't get a choice on my work operating system, I have to use software that runs in Windows 10, and it needs drivers that only run in Windows 10. There's no other choice.

But what really blows my mind is how astonishingly unstable it is. Even Windows 3.0 was more stable. Old versions of MacOS were more stable as well.

That is only the start though. Stability is something you can accept. What really goes beyond that is how incredibly unpredictable it is. I'm not sure that it's possible to make a piece of software of any kind that is that unpredictable without setting out with that as a design goal. If you don't know what I'm talking about, try to bring up the command prompt in the fewest possible number of actions. It should be by pressing the Windows key, then typing "cmd" and enter. Yet how often does that work? Maybe 20% of the time. Another 15% of the time Windows will try to be "helpful" and suggest something else similarly named. The rest of the time you'll press the Windows key, and you'll get a black menu with no options, that only responds to the Escape key (if even that).

How did they manage to screw up such a simple function? They wanted us to launch applications through menus - instead of desktop shortcuts - but the menus don't work. Now I need more desktop shortcuts to get around the broken menus.
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Journal Journal: Ah, That Voting 'Elephant' 8

Journal by smittyoneeach
https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2023/08/24/fox-news-and-the-other-elephant-in-the-room-no-questions-about-election-integrity-n2162993

I took in the bulk of the Tucker interview of the Eminence Orange on X, and listened to Shapiro's summary of the Fox debate on the drive home today. Both were farce.

For all I groove on tech and have made a living doing it, I am a total election Luddite. I want
- hard copy
- first past the post
- Australian ballots
- filled out by registered voters
- on election day
- who are in an audited poll book - with regularly audited results.
Certain, strictly scrutinized early voting may be reasonable.

Having a machine tally the paper ballots isn't unreasonable. I disagree with Vivek's ideas of raising the voting age. To my mind, if you're a taxpayer, you have a say.

This is a timeless, classic argument lacking a "correct" answer. Some fancy having competency tests to ensure that voters meet some knowledge threshold, to preclude Trumpian demagogues from getting too populist. This seems a cure worse than the mail-in-voting disease, to my mind.

Whatever reforms are undertaken, and mine would be in the direction of simplicity, the goals to balance are fairness and security. Nobody talks security, and that speaks volumes.
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Journal Journal: The infallible mobile dictionaries 1

Journal by damn_registrars
I carry smartphones from both of the main mobile ecosystems; an iPhone for work (we use a couple iPhone apps that were written in-house for some of what I do) and an android phone for personal (keep some things separate). One thing I've noticed is that no matter how I try, some parts of the internal dictionaries - particularly the suggestions that it will come up with while writing an email or text - cannot be changed no matter how many times I try.

My first gripe is the suggestion of "u" as a word. Not once in my life have I used that as a word. I don't pay per text on either phone, and I don't know anyone who still does. I use real words in my text messages, to help with clarity. Yet no matter how many times I tell either phone not to offer that, they still do. Of course this is made slightly worse by the fact that the QWERTY layout (now over 150 years old, according to wikipedia") places the letters "i" and "u" next to each other.

My second gripe comes up more often in my field, and probably hits other people less often. At work we have a support group with the acronym "fsg". Once in a while I might refer to them in texts or emails with coworkers. Recently I've noticed - particularly in text though I caught outlook doing it as well - that "fsg" gets autocorrupted to "fag". It particularly surprises me that the dictionary on an iPhone would do that.
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Journal Journal: Deeveeaar gets the resumes and ID cards of over 500 scammers. 6

Journal by RailGunner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UGzLZbL7zM

And yet, the Jaipur Police and Indian Media are strangely uninterested in this story. So, Indians, where you guys at? Is your country so corrupt that it's beyond repair? Where are the good men and women of India who should be outraged that their country is starting to only be known for it's scam call centers?

What's worse - one of the scammers is a 15 year old girl. Where are the "won't someone think of the children" liberals at? You guys going to sit there and do nothing?

Here's what you should do. Share this video. Share it on Xwitter, Reddit, Facebook, and tag Indian Media and Police. Let's try to bring these scammers to justice and make a dent in the roughly 22 BILLION dollars these assholes are stealing from people who's only crime is not being tech saavy.
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Journal Journal: So September 11th is on a Monday this year ... 147

Journal by damn_registrars
As we keep seeing one indictment of the former POTUS after another, I'm left to wonder if anyone would dare to release an indictment against Trump - and potentially Giuliani - on September 11th? Giuliani had so taken ownership of that day as his greatest achievement that it is practically called "Rudy Giuliani Day"; it would seem like it would be quite the shot across the bow to hand him an indictment on that day.

Not that he has a political - or legal - career left to salvage after what he has sacrificed at the altar of Saint Donnie, but an indictment on his favorite day would put a little more emphasis on what he has thrown away.
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Journal Journal: Devon Archer is a Bit Too on the Nose 10

Journal by smittyoneeach
https://lidblog.com/devon-archer-reveals-biden-brand-influence-peddling/

Not to go anywhere near being a Biden apologist, but the Tucker interview &c sound like a bunch of innuendo that tickles the confirmation bias without getting too specific about the who/what/where/when/why.

Once upon a time we had cases in courts of law with people under oath.

Now it's so much poo flinging in the court of public opinion.

"Progress", or something.
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Journal Journal: Oh, You Do Too Know That It's Purely Coincidental 12

Journal by smittyoneeach

On March 17, Hunter [Biden] accidentally admits it was his 'laptop from Hell.. The next day, DA Alvin Bragg indicts President Trump.
June 8, an FBI document is released showing that the Ukrainians paid the Biden crime family millions and millions of dollars. The next day, the Mar-a-Lago raid, and the Mar-a-Lago indictment.
Last week, Hunter Bidenâ(TM)s sweetheart plea deal fell through, when the judge realized that there was blanket immunity. The following day, a superseding indictment [was brought] against Donald Trump.
July 31, Devon Archer goes to testify in front of the House. That was only after they failed to put him in jail prior to the fact. What happens the next day? The January 6 indictment that weâ(TM)re here for today.
This is not a coincidence. This is election interference at its finest, against the leading candidate right now for president, for either party.

Will no one rid us of these turbulent conspiracy theories?
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Journal Journal: One ends, another begins, the world turns and turns 1

Journal by Marxist Hacker 42

It's been a few weeks, but I'm finally over the shock and going public.

My last day at Intel, baring a miracle, will be 8/31.

That miracle would be some hiring manager, in a time of austerity measures, desperately needing a data guru of the type I've become over the last 7 years.

Breaking out of that role would lead me to lower compensation, but perhaps even more job security.

Starting a new job external to Intel 9/5 would be like winning the lottery- enough severance to cover the job change and pay off all my debt and leave me with less than 50% of my yearly salary to pay off my mortgage, plus two stock vesting grants, plus three more paychecks. So that's what I'm targeting the most.
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Journal Journal: Will No One Rid Us of These Turbulent Conspiracy Theories? 2

Journal by smittyoneeach

@ChuckGrassley just dropped FBI FD-1023 in which Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky says he paid Joe & Hunter Biden millions to make corruption prosecutions go away. Says he put Hunter on board to "protect us, through his dadâ¦Hunter will take care of these things through his dad"

I have it on damn_registrar's word that all anti-Democrat words are just conspiracy theories.

Obviously, we need more government control of speech to tamp down these pesky counter-arguments.

Am I doing this correctly, d_r?

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