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Charlotte's avatar

Call me weak-minded, but I really think that decision about using the old 2022 map is a head scratcher. I just don’t understand how they had a primary based on the 2025 map and now want to revert to the 2022 map. It basically disenfranchises over 400k voters. It’s all so odd.

Anne Emerson Hall's avatar

The problem is the state sent out absentee ballots based on the 2022 map.

Richard Whitney's avatar

I wonder how many that affected, compared to the ones that actually voted in a now non-existent district.

Mrs. RW

GregWA's avatar

Why would they tell us the answer to that? :)

Kathryn Dewalt's avatar

Wasn't that "early mailing" a deliberate move to thwart what the Left sees as an advantage?

And how is that legal?

It seems to me that they CONTINUALLY view elections as simply a power grab opportunity... rather than an opportunity to serve ALL their constituents.

GregWA's avatar

Responding to all who replied to Charlotte's original post: easy way to see if the outcome is fair, just imagine if the R and D roles had been reversed! No way a new gerrymandered map favoring Dems would have been thrown out.

Phil Denter's avatar

"Their gerrymandering sticks better than does ours!"

Lori's avatar

The conservative judges have to throw some DEI bones to the libtards on scotus.

Kathryn Dewalt's avatar

They don't have to ... but that appears to be exactly what they're doing! 🤬

What part of "home court advantage" don't they get?

You can bet Mrs Childers' Tahoe that if the SCOTUS had a liberal majority... no bones would be coming our way!

TB's avatar

Yeah this sounds like that Jeff occasionally mentions -- they throw one in the direction of the left, in order to lower the heat when they are about to release another opinion favoring the right. (Which might be the SAVE database one he talked about, or it might be something else.)

Suzie's avatar

Me too, as far the decision went. But I’d read somewhere that the whole issue actually falls at the feet of their Secretary of State, who was warned not to use the new map in this election, as it was still to be decided by referendum, but he did it anyway. And thus the predictable chaos ensued.

Charlotte's avatar

That was definitely the inception of the problem, however, it still resulted in the primaries using the 2025 map. It’s just weird that for 20+ years, after an error, the SCOTUS usually put a bandaid on it and said, well, mistakes were made, but we can’t undo it, now deal with it until next time. But here, they wouldn’t even entertain the fact that people are being objectively disenfranchised. Weird.

jmsmithmd's avatar

Seems kind of criminal.

The Great Santini's avatar

I found this puzzling too, until I turned up the following: Missouri Law allows a ballot initiative to prevent execution of a law until the ballot initiative is voted on. Democrats got an initiative about the redrawn map on the ballot, so the redrawn map law is frozen until the election. .

Charlotte's avatar

Interesting. So basically, GOP should have also had a ballot initiative to pass the execution of law until the ballot initiative is voted on? It’s annoying that there are so many Marc Elias’s on the Democrats side doing this monkey business.

The Great Santini's avatar

Well, yes, but the real problem is that the MO Legislature did not exempt redistricting from the laws that could be stopped by a ballot initiative.

Charlotte's avatar

I was joking :), I figured they didnt have that provision, just more to highlight the absurdity of it all.

Truth Seeker's avatar

Your assessment is anything but weak minded, it is accurate.

It is also telling that the judiciary is wacky.

CMCM's avatar

I find it hard to take anyone named "Sparkle" seriously. Sounds like a stripper's name. But a judge? Had my parents named me something that silly, I would have changed it well before I was even in high school.

Sarcastia's avatar

I wouldn't even name one of my cutest lambs Sparkle. That name belongs in a Disney cartoon.

Astragale's avatar

Or for a small white poodle with a diamond collar!

LB (Little Birdie)'s avatar

I think it might be the name of a toilet bowl cleaner, kid you not!

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Curtis's avatar

She's from Trinidad and Tobago. so....

Truth Seeker's avatar

or a young childs nickname, certainly not a judge

SP's avatar

CMCM, I'm confident race had nothing to do with her grades, advancements, and acceptance to universities and nomination to current position. I guess she knows what a woman is, at least.

Kathryn Dewalt's avatar

My thought too! I was asking myself "Is there a part of this decision that you're not understanding?" But I don't see what that could be!

I feel like the Conservative Justices are trying to disperse their decisions the way moms disperse treats... doing their best to divide evenly!

But is that really the way it's supposed to be managed? 🤷

Words Beyond Me-Janice Powell's avatar

✝️✝️✝️

Do all the workers of iniquity not know,

Who eat up my people as they eat bread,

And do not call upon Yahweh?

There they are in great dread,

For God is with the righteous generation.

— Psalm 14:4-5 LSB

✝️✝️✝️

Jan Hollerbach's avatar

David was King of Israel. He wrote the Psalms. If you read the Hebrew Bible, God is always calling out the unbelievers of the House of Israel.

Phil Denter's avatar

Whereas Jesus Christ of Nazareth warned us in Rev. 2:9 [I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.] and Rev. 3:9 [Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.] of those evil-doers that claim to be His "Chosen People."

Like we say in ice hockey, "Keep yer head up!"

DLEducator's avatar

Nope, Calling His chosen people to obedience.

Bard Joseph's avatar

None are from the original tribe, All European. Palestinians are closer to the "chosen"

Phillip Zinni III DO FAOASM's avatar

Sorry there are no natural / ancestoral Palestinians.

There were Philistines then much later after Jewish revolts, the Romans destroyed the Second Temple in 70 CE and renamed the province Syria Palaestina after the Bar Kokhba revolt.

Leskunque Lepew's avatar

Palestinian = Christians Jews Druse and Arabs

Bard Joseph's avatar

Chosen to be Canaanites.

"Now time grows short. History will not allow the people of Shem additional centuries, or even decades, to come to their senses and realize what is going on. Just as they have been victims of massacres and genocides for centuries, the people of Shem now face the determination of the Canaanites to exterminate them utterly and finally. a goal they hope to achieve by the end of the millenium."

The Curse of Canaan

Eustace Mullins 1987

Rosa Fang's avatar

VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE

DO NOT GET BLACK-PILLED!

Juju's avatar

I love Jeff’s take. I often in my own life plan for the worst possible scenario. In doing that I discover for many things I don’t have reason to panic or live in angst after all. And if that worse scenario comes I was over prepared for it and it doesn’t crush me.

It’s a good way to discern who is full of it around here. Doing the mental exercise of “ok, let’s assume you’re right ….” reveals those who are squawking the loudest over the silliest concerns - and then it becomes … why? We know why. Black pills cause illness and cure nothing. That’s their motive.

Kat's avatar

If MAGA survived 4 years of Cabbage Head, MAGA will survive another midterm election.

Leo Woman's avatar

The governor races are important, too, in my opinion. I live in Pennsylvania. We need to send Josh Shapiro on his way to nowheresville!

SJacob1957's avatar

And Ms. Kathy Hochul in NY. What a disaster!!

Paige Green's avatar

God forbid we get the most corrupt Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson, as our next governor here in Michigan.

The biggest problem is that Democrats don’t get the real story on their candidates. MSM makes sure their patrons don’t see or hear any of that.

Woe the Low Information Voter.

SHug's avatar

Here's one for Michigan

In the 2022 CAIR speech, El-Sayed opened by dismissing the substance of Oklahoma's constitutional amendment.

"When the state of Oklahoma voted in a referendum to amend the constitution to ban Sharia law. What does that mean? I don't know. And yet the voters banned it anyway."

He then placed the vote in a historical sequence that included the forced removal of Native peoples, the destruction of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, commonly known as Black Wall Street, and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. As Breitbart News reported, El-Sayed told the audience:

"You all sitting in this room, in this town, we're sitting in a space, in a time when I don't have to tell you that the same exact forces that drove Native peoples from their land two centuries ago, destroyed Black Wall Street a century ago, bombed a building decades ago, and tried to ban Sharia law not a decade ago. Those forces are alive and well today."

That framing is worth pausing on. El-Sayed did not argue that the Sharia law ban was misguided policy or poorly drafted legislation. He argued that the voters who approved it were animated by the same impulse that produced ethnic cleansing, a race massacre, and domestic terrorism. Oklahoma voters, in his telling, were not citizens exercising self-governance. They were part of a continuous thread of American evil.

https://x.com/NRSC/status/2086866359388864698?s=20

Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

And get everybody you know to vote too. Go to the polls together. If you vote by mail, DON’T, INSTEAD hand carry it to a county office instead.

InquizitiveOne's avatar

In Marion County, if you don't wish to mail your ballot, you can drop off your mail in ballot at one of the many drop boxes at the early polling locations. If you wait until Election Day, you must bring your ballot to the supervisor of elections office to turn in- UNLESS you keep the mail in ballot in your car and go inside the polling place and vote in person! (You can also give your mail in ballot to the check in person at the polls to spoil but it's easier for everyone to just keep it in your car and go inside to vote in person)

MaryAnn's avatar

My county now boasts a ‘smart drop box’ for ballots. It captures the image of the person who is depositing the ballot and scans the barcode to identify the voter attached to that envelope/ballot. This is a very blue county. I am puzzled.

Jane's avatar

A.K.A. No Panicans!

WP William's avatar

The LEFTIST COMMIES infesting the Supine Court Of The United States: The Illegality of individuals participating in Elections is acceptable at ANY Level as long as the Fed Gvt. allows States, Counties, Municipalities to conduct their own extra-Constitutional Immigration, Voter Registration, and while free-flowing Federally Obligated subsidies and entitlements and benefits to fraudsters, criminals, and Leftist Organizations. WHEN THE CRAP is "MY SIDE" going to talk about IMPEACHING the Traitorous "Justices"????

James Goodrich's avatar

Everyday Americans are lucky enough to have choices to make, how we decide is our free will. We all have this power over our lives. The choices we make will determine the direction of our life. If we push aside what we know is right, evil is sure to enter our world.

If I were sick and went to the hospital. The doctor saw me and prescribed a drug that he knew may harm me, but he would be paid. He knew the chances are that I would end up on a machine that forces breath into my lungs, but inevitably I would die, the doctor had pushed God aside. I could have been the best God fearing person in the world but bad things happened to me.

Why do bad things happen to good people? Could it be someone has pushed God aside, and because God gave them free will God had stepped back. Real love is also found with free will. This is the daily battle. When people choose to push God aside evil enters this world.

A judges decision, MRNA injections, glyphosate, remdesivir, pedophilia, solar geoengineering (chem trails), childhood vaccine schedules, plastics in our water, smoking. Others choices can affect us. Maybe bad things happen to good people because someone has pushed God aside.

God only wants our heart. If we give it to Him we have chosen a wise path.

Lori's avatar

I am waiting for bad things to happen to bad and evil people as there are a plethora of those and they go on and on and on and on with nothing happening to them.

Willing Spirit's avatar

Or nothing happening that you are aware of. If you follow the lives of the rich and famous or even the dregs of society; you see their young dying of violence or drug use, multiple marriages and divorces, endless scandals…

Just because they hang out in resorts and seem to live fabulous lives of travel and excitement doesn’t mean they enjoy peace and happiness. For the most part they are probably utterly miserable, like the denizens of the Last Ditch Bar. Fancy food and drink may well be sawdust and sludge in their mouths, soon to be regurgitated in misery.

Life is a b*tch and then they die.

Sure, we’d like to see them self implode or even explode right before our eyes, but ‘revenge is a dish best served cold’ and I would add, “well marinated”.

Lori's avatar

On this one, I will have to respectfully agree to disagree. If I want something well marinated, I will wait for my Grand Marnier Chocolate Cake to drench. For example, Manson/Bundy/Gacy lived way too long. Those on death row sit for years on our tax dollars not having to work or be productive and then their sentences are commuted to life. SRAers and Epsteiners-no arrests. People who were murdered in hospitals during covid and those who got the shot bc they trusted Fauci, drop dead or suffer with jab injuries and not anyone arrested, jailed or death penalized like Fauci and his evil ilk should be. Divorce and multiple marriages are a nothing burger as far as justice and punishment. I don't give a shit about their vacations, lifestyles etc. We need to see their crimes in public view so they are humilated (if that is even possible) and given immediate death penalty.

I don't include drug use as relevant as those who do that are idiots and survival of the fittest takes over so does not count. Those allowing harvesting of organs like Xi, those who perform human rights abuses for decades, those who genocide, serial killers, pedos who rape and murder kids. This is the big stuff. The crimes that need to start with Dexter and end with a death so horrible that maybe the bill was paid....and that may not be enough.

SHug's avatar

Ditto Lori!

.I don't know what 'justice' looks like after death. I do trust God to handle that justice of the spirit. But, we are not only beings of spirit, we are beings of the physical, as well. So I also want to see justice while we yet live so those so wronged, or their families, have the possibility to remove the weight of the crimes against them. It is the difference of wondering; did I do something wrong/provoke this to have this horrible thing happen to me/us? OR were the actions this person did to me simply evil & wrong? Ask any survivor of a rape, or those who suffered the murder of a family member. That is a weight the victim/family carries. And action NOW prevents the perpetrator future acts of the same type or worse and prevents future victims also being damaged.

I too, want a slice of that cake! Or your recipe?

Cathie Scibilia's avatar

Lori, I want a slice of that cake! Or your recipe? Also your words ring true.

John Chapman's avatar

The bad things for bad people happen, but usually not at the dramatic headline level. The Trump Admin has had noteworthy successes at taking out some really corrupt players and is working up the ladder. The game has to be played with the cards dealt and that often means snagging a bad actor on a relatively minor charge that can be proven vice the big headline indictment that is more difficult to prosecute. Remember, the murderous Al Capone was taken off the board on a tax evasion conviction, not a murder or racketeering charge. Out of play is out of play.

christopher peacock's avatar

This is why it is pure wisdom to have a heaven and hell

Lori's avatar

Add in hell on earth in addition to hell in the hereafter for those abominable ones and that would be much better.

Margot Wooster's avatar

Oh it will. Very few people live past 100 years or so, and that’s very short compared to eternity.

Karmy's avatar

Respectfully, I disagree, James. I don’t believe God will let someone else’s choice to push God aside affect me unless He Wills it. Perhaps some bad things that happen to good people is God’s plan to purify us. I recently read that St. Francis de Sales said when chaos hits say “This is the path to Heaven.”

James Goodrich's avatar

So why do people have free will. Why do people do evil things, and if God doesn’t step back when people get hurt by evil people, why does it happen???? Just askin 😊…

Karmy's avatar

God gave us free will just like Adam and Eve. They chose to disrespect God’s command to not eat from a certain tree. They were tempted by the adversary so they could know all by being like God. That was their choice. They could have chosen to obey God.

God has given us his Commandments to obey. Scripture makes it clear that satan rules this world temporarily. “We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.” 1 John 5:19.

We have free will to obey God or listen to the adversary. In the end, you will have the day when Jesus gives you the illumination of conscience “your entire life, your actions, how your actions affected others” and you will be given the choice to repent and choose Him or not.

There is a book I’m reading and one of the passages talks about a near death experience of Hellmut Laun in 1929. He explained he was in an immaterial space and discerned in the far distance a spiritual center to which he was directed to and it aroused a deep yearning to come nearer to it as to the ultimate, blissful goal. He moved toward that Center not in a straight line but in “circles that became narrower at each revolution. That way I came nearer and nearer to the Center.” He described raptures and a deepening yearning. He also mentioned “a departed soul who was detained on the spot where it found itself and could not come nearer to the Center” “this spiritual being, had its gaze fixed on that Center with an unquenchable craving…because something, whatever it might be, impeded him to come nearer to the rapturous goal”. He writes more about how pained this soul was that it could not move closer though he pined for it.

What If that is hell, yearning to go to God but being prevented from approaching all the while knowing the raptures and ecstasies you want to experience.

This article talks more about free will.

https://www.wordonfire.org/articles/can-there-be-free-will-with-an-all-knowing-god/

David Eldon Wood's avatar

I had to listen to this twice, but now it’s clear to me. The omnessence of God does not exempt me from my choices. I have always known that, and I have patterned my own life on that principle. I generally state that the golden rule is to do unto others as I would want to be done by.

RunningLogic's avatar

Very interesting! Thank you for sharing this!

mm's avatar

1Pe 4:12  Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

1Pe 4:13  But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. KJV

LMWC's avatar

Well stated, James. ❤️

Six Shooter's avatar

God allows us to choose whom we will serve, Him or ourselves. He doesn't force, he wants us to take him willingly, as a gentleman would. He loves us and wants us to love him in return.

Evil surrounds us here on earth and sometimes bad things happen here to good people, but this is not our final state. This is not our place of reward for living in the love of God. We are spiritual entities residing briefly in bodies of meat and bone to learn, to teach, and to share so that others may also know the truth and choose serving God others over themselves.

If either good or bad happens to you here, it may be that those things are not a result of your own behavior, but rather that they caused your path to be altered to effect another's life. Maybe the real impact of a change is five people removed from you and you never learn of its importance. What if it isn't about you?

Paul prayed multiple times for healing of his "thorn of the flesh" and God said "My grace is sufficient." Paul was at risk of the sin of pride and the injury kept him humble, focused, and prevented him from sinning. Paul was good, why did something bad afflict him? So he could better deliver the message God needed shared.

Mayor's avatar

Apparently the Dems have no concern about the number of American citizens who are disenfranchised when ineligible voters vote in our elections. My understanding is that it doesn’t automatically remove people from the voter rolls; they first get a card in the mail stating they need to provide proof of citizenship or they will be removed from the voter rolls. How hard is it to provide proof of citizenship, especially if you are a newly naturalized citizen?

John Boy West's avatar

The good news is when you come here illegally or overstay your visa, you’re often from a country with limited freedoms and overreaching government forces. A notice in the mail from the « government » may engender a fear of voting if you are a noncitizen. Good.

GregWA's avatar

I've had the same thought: all this Fed scrutiny must have various bugs digging deeper into their hidey holes. And I don't mean just the illegals voting, but the employers hiring illegals, those committing fraud and the state and local government types who knew and enabled it. All of the corrupt scammers in and out of government must be shifting gears at least.

RunningLogic's avatar

Agree. And apparently some places are seeing rent costs go down as more illegals get deported too!

https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2026/09/25/rents-drop-when-illegals-leave-n2432727?

Bryn Cannon's avatar

Just ask your leftist friends who are concerned how they would feel if the RNC spent some of its millions on bringing a bunch of foreigners here on election day and paid them $100 to vote R.

Juju's avatar

Right? What would they do if we paved the way for hundreds of thousands of conservative foreigners (like South Africans) to come here and vote Republican. 🤣 I can see the meltdown now.

Graphite 🇨🇦's avatar

Maybe Canadian refugees from the socialist Carney/Trudeau regime?

Bryn Cannon's avatar

That would be relatively cheap! The RNC should flood CA on Election Day, where you’re not allowed to ask for ID. I can just see the results now - a landslide for Hilton, and then democrats racing to implement voter ID laws so it never happens again! Hilarious.

Silent scorn's avatar

A landslide for Hilton = a dream come true ❤️🇺🇸

GregWA's avatar

Am I a Californian, eh? Ya, you betcha, for sure I am, eh!

CMCM's avatar

You don't know what a fabulous idea this is! I wish there were really a practical way to accomplish this. Meanwhile, the biggest hurdle is to get discouraged and often apathetic Republican or other conservative voters to the polls to actually vote. CA mails out the ballots and they tend to get buried under things by the time election day rolls around, and people forget. Also, what delicious fun it would be to see the Dems of this state beat by their own stupid rules.

RunningLogic's avatar

That *would* be funny! :D I can imagine the Democrats' faces lol :D

DaveL's avatar

Let’s have the whole province of Alberta!

Silent scorn's avatar

Calling El Salvador! 😂😂

Reasonable Horses's avatar

Funny how the federal govt is obligated to confirm voter citizenship, but thirteen states and DC are not obligated to identify voters. Make that make sense.

The letter and spirit of the law are meaningless without “a moral and religious people.” Motivate them with money, or motivate them with brute force.

Quiltlady's avatar

I prefer to motivate with truth and encouragement.

Reasonable Horses's avatar

if only immoral people responded to either

Truth Seeker's avatar

Many are the choices. Much is dependent on skillset.

John Chapman's avatar

It’s not about protecting eligible voters, it’s about maintaining all aspects of engineered corruption in the election system: unauditable vote counts/validation, mail ballots for harvest, masses of ineligible voters and forever recounts and extended ballot postmarks. They can’t win on the merits, they must cheat.

Wise Old Woman in the Woods's avatar

Living in the hellscape of CA created by one party rule, the thought that the Dems will regain power in the house is depressing. On CHD TV, there is an interview of a woman whose son was injured by a flu vax ten years ago. The vax court found against her - of course. She ended her story by saying when she and her husband left the Soviet Union they felt so blessed to be in the US. Losing in the court she said she felt she was back in the Soviet Union. Haunting words for sure.

CeeMcG's avatar

Sad story! I’m praying that Hilton gets enough votes to overcome the inevitable cheat by the Democrats in California.

Juju's avatar

Karen Bass actually said in a podcast “why do we even have an election? We don’t NEED an election!” I can’t believe that sound bite hasn’t gone viral. 🤣🤡🤦🏼‍♀️

Wise Old Woman in the Woods's avatar

what was the context? While I know CA has fraud, they don't need it. there are so many crazy people who see a Republican label an act like they are vampires responding to a crucifix

Juju's avatar

"That's why the governor's race is over. Our governor's name is Xavier Becerra. You don't need an election on November 3. A Republican cannot win in this state. And yet, a Republican with a British accent?!"

It’s from the Flagrant and Funny podcast (iHeart) hosted by Jemele Hill and Cari Champion.

Here’s the video snippet of that portion:

https://x.com/californiapost/status/2103254716675133821?s=46

Bgagnon's avatar

Juju - remember it’s California! The #1 anything Dem goes state! Bass is an idiot. I’ve never heard her say one thing that was intelligent or well thought out. It was very obvious during the news clips of her during the Palisades fires!

Lori's avatar

Sparkle was born in Trinidad/Tobago. Why the hell does she have any right to be a judge in our country enforcing our American laws when she comes from a shithole with lawlessness that runs rampant. Furthermore, Ketanji or whatever the hell her stupid name is talks about balancing the equities; typical woke DEI speak from someone who benefited from DEI and affirmative action herself (or whatever her pronoun is).

Willing Spirit's avatar

It is infuriating. I seriously doubt this vast # of DEI judges we have in our land could have possibly come close to obtaining their degrees, certifications and positions on their own merits. They were judged on the color of their skin or on their gender, not their character or abilities.

Lori's avatar

For sure not their own merits. And for most of them, quotas for skin color and gender were the determining factor.

Peter's avatar

Well Obama wasn’t born here and he was a fine president, right? 😝

Lori's avatar

Sarcasm at its finest for obama the abomination.

Nikki (Gayle) Nicholson's avatar

Good morning to all, may the good Lord bless us all and protect us from the evil one. thanks Jeff for another amazing research.

PRice's avatar

I 'd like to opine that voting for a RINO, which I did earlier this week, is still better than not voting.

Dena's avatar

It’s true- sometimes, oftentimes our only choice is a vote for the less bad candidate. Like in Maine with Susan Collins for ex. Until we can get better candidates it’s just the way it is, don’t sit it out & pout - vote.

SadieJay's avatar

The lesser of two weevils.

Dena's avatar

Evils?🙂 yes. Also Staying home elects Democrats!!

SadieJay's avatar

It is from the movie Master and Commander with Russell Crow. Thought maybe I could land a laugh. ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-aPp7Kiiyg

CMCM's avatar

Exactly. When I try to explain this to a person who doesn't like either candidate, they never seem to comprehend it. Not voting is a form of voting, and you are abdicating your right to choose by allowing others to choose for you. Even a less than perfect choice is better than no choice.

Dolce Far Niente's avatar

Voting in this country is purely binary. If you fail to vote, you are in effect casting a vote for the opposite side.

And the assertion that both sides are equally evil is nonsense, as is the idea of "sending a message" to the GOP. Trust me, the GOPe knows we're out here, knows what we want and HATES it.

We DO need to purge the Republicans, but it won't be accomplished by electing Ds, which is what will happen if the black-pillers have their way.

Dena's avatar

Yes - staying home elects democrats.

RunningLogic's avatar

And I would argue that we have a much better chance of purging the bad Republicans if we keep the House and Senate and as many states as possible, than if we lose them.

Richard Whitney's avatar

How could not voting be construed as voting for the "other side"? What other side?

Not voting is a vote for "A pox on both your houses".

Mrs. RW

Suzie's avatar

Some elections have come down to as little as 6 votes.

Voting most definitely can make a difference.

Dolce Far Niente's avatar

Put aside your emotional reactions and think instead about what the foreseeable consequence of a "pox on both your houses" will bring.

It will bring on a Democrat win. Is that fine with you?

Richard Whitney's avatar

I don't understand your reasoning. How would people who hate both choices, so refuse to vote, bring about a Democrat win?

Are you assuming that every non-voter would vote Republican? I doubt that.

The Democrats cheat. That is how they win. People that don't vote have nothing to do with that.

Mrs. RW

John Baker's avatar

Mrs RW, not voting would only send a message if no one voted at all. That’s not going to happen. Worst of all, the politicians who run both the houses upon which you wish pox consider low voter turnout as satisfaction with the status quo. Please hold your nose and mail in a vote for the GOP.

Richard Whitney's avatar

I don't do mail-in. I don't trust them.

And the percentage of non-voters is getting higher, as the country disintegrates, and the politicians become more visibly corrupt and war mongering.

There are elections when the disgusted party of voters outvotes those voting for either of the duopoly parties, if you count not voting as a vote against both.

Mrs. RW

CMCM's avatar

In a state such as California, which has far fewer Republicans and Independents than die-hard Democrats who reflexively vote D without knowing a single thing about a candidate, if you don't vote you are allowing the Democrat domination to continue unabated. If enough people have that attitude about not voting, then this is what allowed and continues to allow one party to control everything as is the cases in California. Voting for a less damaging but not great candidate may help create conditions down the road in which you can actually choose and elect a good candidate. It takes time, but if people give up and don't participate it never happens. I would say if you refuse to vote, don't complain about conditions you don't like.

Michelle Enmark, DDS's avatar

Completely agree, CMCM! Voting is exercising your right and making your voice heard. Not voting, or voting for a Green Party or some other obscure candidate that has absolutely no chance of winning is throwing away your vote, IMHO. I did it with Trump vs. Hilary- couldn’t stomach either one so voted for some obscure candidate. Wasn’t the best idea I ever had, but I learned and won’t do that again. Straight R ticket this time for the second time in my life. Still a registered D because of inertia. No need to change that when primaries are open. Turnout is the key to this election!

Bitsy54's avatar

I’ve always wondered if it would make sense to have to reach a percentage of the total votes to win, thus spotlighting “neither candidate has the support to be chosen” For example: 100 total registered voters. 4 candidates. Candidate 1 gets 10 votes, candidate 2 gets 5 votes and candidates 3 and 4 each get 3 votes. A total of 21 votes, not even 25% of registered voters but the laggard who got his whole family to vote wins?! This is how I keep seeing the elections fleshing out. 1 million registered voters but only 150,000 vote. The low voter turnout number speaks to several possibilities: WAY TOO MANY registered voters are not actually real; many registered voters are “RINOs” Registered in name only”, but can’t really be bothered to participate; Fed up voters are disgusted with the Uniparty (but see an alternate party as having a chance of winning) so they sit it out in protest.

My state has 9 political parties: 6 are vying for a senate seat. Why are only the “in cahoots” Uniparty candidates being chased with checkbooks? IMHO watching young NY City voters vote for Muslim Communist Mayor is telling me they have been lied to by both sides and are saying, “what the heck, let’s try door number 3”. Even when the D’s and R’s say they’ll give “free stuff” to this group the decision is “nope! You’ve lied to us before, we don’t trust you.”

Just my take on the mess we’re watching.

daverkb's avatar

It may not matter. Yes, I hear the noise continuously, but keep I an eye on the cash flows, and how items (gold, Fx, yields, paper) shift over time.

https://rumble.com/v7fhqdc-golds-biggest-shift-in-decades-ft.-craig-hemke-lftv-ep-290.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5ETNX/

It looks like a classical liquidity trap to me, and Hemke's lays it out very nicely. And then look at the TNX (ten year treasure index). Use at least the 1 year chart view. And note the near time sharp 'spiking' up on the right side of the chart. Seeing is the believing.

And so, I have to wonder if we have gone beyond words now, and into mathematical certainty? And I do sense desperation in the air, especially with Bessant acting so weirdly. And maybe not immediately, but possibly trouble in 2027 or 2028.

The general equities markets, however, don't look too threatening. But I have noticed a downturn in the transport index. However things work out time-wise, and we never know for sure, I do believe the case made in the video is inescapable. It's like that play ... No Exit.

SHug's avatar

Daverkb, " with Bessant acting so weirdly." - could you describe that please?

Richard Whitney's avatar

Yes, as George Bush the Lesser once said: "This sucker is going down".

Both parties preferred way to deal with collapse is to bail out Wall Street and screw the citizens, so.....

Mrs. RW

FH's avatar

Exactly. I call not voting a passive-aggressive way of supporting the status quo or worse.

Those who are able to get involved in local elections have the power to help develop better candidates. By the time we see the choices for higher offices, county-state-federal, those choices have their support networks and funding bases in place. Plus name recognition.

We are where we are because we citizens & voters got complacent over decades, and/or allowed our disgust to rule our common sense.

RunningLogic's avatar

Passive-aggressive is the perfect description of it, thank you for that!

Johnny-O's avatar

You gotta get your $5k amiright????

Alan Davis's avatar

Jeff - Mr positive on our Sat morning. Thanks. If Dems get house this wont be the Pelosi type house, this will be a DSA house and the level of blocking ICE funding or any other Trump win will be way worse. The Dems have transformed in our lifetime to be hard core socialists w a heavy dose of Commie! While some sections of states have turned to Sharia. Its splintering before us. I pray we can keep both houses but I also dont trust Mike Johnson nor Thune to do what Trump really wants to do.

Lori's avatar

Well if that happens, do we sits on our tails and watch Islam and the Pikers of the world take over or do we finish them. I will be first in line to do the second. They cannot ever be allowed to takeover as this is not what America was founded on. If they are not finished utterly and completely so no one tries it again, we will not be able to complain bc we sat on our tails and did nothing watching the shitshow take our country. As for me and my family, we will fight til the end.

JT's avatar

Unless I misheard, ICE is funded through 2029 via the Secure America Act...don't know what a malignant minded House might dream up to thwart that, but they would certainly try.

Susan Seas's avatar

Not to mention States can choose to use. We know the Blue state Won’t! So No help for us. 😞 I AM trying to move!

Willing Spirit's avatar

From Scott Presley;

“The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that states may use the SAVE database to

verify the eligibility of voters. I'm asking county recorders & election officials to contact DHS for the

free SAVE database

You do NOT need the permission of secretaries of state or the governor.

Then, you'll have a list of ineligible voters *prior* to Election Day.

X Sep. 25, 2026”

Courageous Blue State election officials can request. Granted, they will need deep courage.

Juju's avatar

THAT’S where I heard it!!! Thank you. Yes, conservatives in blue states can still use it and try to act on it and they are now protected by the law from retribution.

RunningLogic's avatar

Scott *Presler*

(only correcting the typo in case anyone wants to find out more about this, to simplify their search)

Curtis's avatar

Probably auto-"correct"... 😑

Michelle Enmark, DDS's avatar

Scott Presler is such a force for good in the R world! Great information that I hope many county recorders and election officials take advantage of, Willing Spirit!

Susan Seas's avatar

I don’t believe we have any 😖😭

John Galt?'s avatar

Keep an eye on the "conservative" black-pill social media influencers. They will shift into overdrive - not to convince people to vote a certain way, but rather to spread a cloud of disappointment that *discourages* voting at all. It will come from every direction. Let's keep track.

shayne's avatar

I'm just going to take a WILD guess and say "Sparkle Sooknanan" may be on that list of "hey you're not legally in this country" 😂😂😂

Susan Seas's avatar

Jeff didn’t say it but my mind automatically added “if that’s her real name” 🤣🤣🤣

RunningLogic's avatar

Jeff's "glitter pen" comment about her name was hilarious!! :D

Seeing her name reminded me of that "test" some parents use to see if a name is a good one for their child--can I imagine a doctor or a lawyer with that name? Clearly, Sparkle's parents did not do that test :P And why am I surprised that Sparkle is a Biden judge *eye roll*

Curtis's avatar

She's from Trinidad and Tobago....

SHug's avatar

I'm wondering if we are required to have the full vote of Congress to remove her and others just like her?

Jeffrey N. Gratton's avatar

The election story may be bittersweet, but the facts are that there is a tsunami of illegal voting indictments now occurring, the democrat machinery is exposed and collapsing, and I wager that soon the enemedia will meet more comeuppance than it has bargained for.

All of which, directly or indirectly, contributes to more honest midterms: anyone not entirely certain of their voting eligibility will be thinking twice before heading to the polls.

Richard Whitney's avatar

I think that the problem is not illegals voting so much as the stuffing of the ballot boxes using "mail-in ballots", done by Americans.

That is what happened in 2020.

Mrs. RW

Arnold C Fossen's avatar

We defeated that in 2020, which is why the shutdown counting and added 100s of thousands of fake main in ballots that were not mailed in. This is the problem we did not defeat in 2020. Moreover, too make the numbers work, they likely destroyed an approximately equal amount of Trump ballots. This also we did not stop. More eyes and lawyers are needed.

Richard Whitney's avatar

I don't know what you mean by "we defeated that in 2020".

No, what happened in 2020 is that in the middle of the night, in key precincts in key states, the count suddenly went from "Trump is winning" to late night ballot dumps that skyrocketed Biden's count.

Of the ballots that were dumped at 2am, there was a statistically significant mis-match in the votes. They were overwhelmingly for Biden. Not a joke, man.

I don't know if they destroyed Trump votes. I remember a vote count going down recently, but I can't remember what country it was, let alone what state, if it was in the US.

Mrs. RW

jmsmithmd's avatar

Eyes can’t tell whether they are counting legit ballots or mail in fakes. The place to watch is at the elbow of the person pulling the ballots out of “signed” envelopes and no one watches there. Or supervises the mailing out.

Richard Whitney's avatar

The mail-in ballots that were uncreased and clearly had never been in an envelope, were a clue.

Mrs. RW

Willing Spirit's avatar

Yeah, don’t worry about those illegals…they’re not a REAL problem😜

AJF's avatar

Mrs. RW, couldn't agree more.

Lynne Morris's avatar

And I think the hysteria in the enemedia (love that BTW) may backfire. You never hear much about it anymore but an important aspect of punishment is that it deters others from committing the punished conduct. So if those likely to engage in ineligible voting realize they may be prosecuted therefor they may be deterred from doing so. And the enemedia is spreading that word far and wide.

Jeffrey N. Gratton's avatar

Yes, and that's the way I see it too. The REAL effect is the psychological one.

And let's not forget the poll workers and election oversight officials ... we can be sure they are far more awake to the possible consequences of any malfeasance.

Jeffrey N. Gratton's avatar

It is also worth noting that ICE has removed 900,000 illegals during the current administration.

How many of THOSE would have been voting this upcoming November?

Marlene Swann's avatar

I’m wondering if an Election Inspector, (volunteer but still required to take an oath to serve) - is considered an “Election Official” with the authority to request the NY SAVE database rolls…. Just curious. I would sure like to see a list of ineligible voters prior to Nov. 3. Esp in NY. 🤔

Reasonable Horses's avatar

Are election inspectors poll-site officials in your state, like presiding judges or clerks? In Texas, those officials are bound by state law as interpreted by the Secretary of State. In the 13 states that don't require voter ID, I'd guess the SoS would not allow a volunteer to access the SAVE database.

But you raise an excellent issue. We should ask our county election admins (and party chairs?) if our voter rolls are compared to the SAVE database. Whether they are or aren't, people who work for us need to know we are looking over their shoulders.

Willing Spirit's avatar

Certainly worth a try. Would immediately be legally challenged, but all the requests will be anyway.

jmsmithmd's avatar

Try asking for the list and see!…

David Eldon Wood's avatar

Good morning C&CERS. It’s a beautiful morning here in the mountains of middle California. I see no lines in the sky and I am hopeful for the day when my country is finally being freed from the insane invasion of dangerous people. TAW

Politico Phil's avatar

What? Trump is going to start mass deportations??

Juju's avatar

Right. They throw ropes and chains and anchors around him, dig the ground beneath his feet and replace it with quicksand and concrete, and then you blame him for not reaching the door. 🙄🤦🏼‍♀️ Your ire is better aimed at the saboteurs of his efforts.

Dolce Far Niente's avatar

Phil has no ire; he merely wants to create it in others.

Politico Phil's avatar

Well, I only asked a question. However, your responses are revealing.

Richard Whitney's avatar

According to my friend in California, who teaches ESL in elementary school, and is totally pro-immigration, all the men arrested in the widely publicized bust of the pot farm last year were back within weeks.

So, no.

Mrs. RW

Willing Spirit's avatar

Well, I’m totally taking the word of your Pro immigration ESL (English as a Second Language) elementary school teacher friend; not at all a Trump hater, I’m sure!

James Mecham's avatar

And you believe a pro-illegal immigration ESL teacher?

You need to research the story not go with a lie.

Richard Whitney's avatar

Why would she lie about that? She was very upset when they were busted, and she was relieved when they came back. She teaches some children whose fathers were busted.

I think they should have been busted, and I don't think they should have been allowed to come back and I think their children should have gone home with them. So we argue about that.

But I have absolute certainty that she knows that they came back.

Mrs. RW

Politico Phil's avatar

Thank you Mrs RW. Clearly, not even a fraction of the 50 million illegal invaders are going to be deported, never mind the 50 million non-citizens that are here on "VISAS". Already, almost a THIRD of the US population are now aliens... and I don't mean space aliens. So TAW?

Clearly, the wars in Ukraine and Iran are not going to end. They are continuing and expanding under Trump. WWIII is growing as can be expected. And this doesn't even address the genocides in Gaza and Lebanon at the hands of the Israeli Zionists using munitions given to them by Trump. So TAW?

Also clearly, Trump supports the "covid" bio-weapon shot and the mRNA slow kill platform now being used in all injections. It was, after all, his "Operation Warp Speed" and he is proud of it even though millions of Americans have been killed and disabled by the military bio-weapon shot. So TAW?

Clearly, Trump fully supports the Depopulation and Replacement Program of the High Table elite and indigenous Americans (meaning us) are the ones being eliminated. Somehow, I don't think TAW is a good thing for us.

BUT... we could have had Kamala! /s

dancingtime's avatar

Boy or boy do you ever need a change of sources....and training in analyzing...It is rather frightening to think of the number of people locked into pisspoor understanding of events...reminds me of those who think that Russia is communist....

daverkb's avatar

Phil ... all may true, and your concerns should be handled in a very, very serious way ... and so far appear to not to be. But here is the question. Can all of this be funded indefinitely? Or are we near the end of the funding rope? And if not, what does catastrophic mad spending me for us. Below is what I posted to Mrs. RW. See what you think.

****************************

It may not matter. Yes, I hear the noise continuously, but keep I an eye on the cash flows, and how items (gold, Fx, yields, paper) shift over time.

https://rumble.com/v7fhqdc-golds-biggest-shift-in-decades-ft.-craig-hemke-lftv-ep-290.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5ETNX/

It looks like a classical liquidity trap to me, and Hemke's lays it out very nicely. And then look at the TNX (ten year treasure index). Use at least the 1 year chart view. And note the near time sharp 'spiking' up on the right side of the chart. Seeing is the believing.

And so, I have to wonder if we have gone beyond words now, and into mathematical certainty? And I do sense desperation in the air, especially with Bessant acting so weirdly. And maybe not immediately, but possibly trouble in 2027 or 2028.

The general equities markets, however, don't look too threatening. But I have noticed a downturn in the transport index. However things work out time-wise, and we never know for sure, I do believe the case made in the video is inescapable. It's like that play ... No Exit.

(And Phil ... with No Exit the game of musical chairs stops)

James Mecham's avatar

Phil,

You need to start actually READING C&C.

President Trump and Administration are doing a great job of deporting illegals.

Politico Phil's avatar

Highly publicized token deportations... typical psyops. Same with the "closed" border. Should another population "migration" begin due to war and/or famine, the human invasion will start all over again with no one on the border to stop it. The Depopulation and Replacement Program is alive and well.

James Mecham's avatar

And your unwillingness to see facts reveals much about you.

KC's avatar

The “illegals” are being used to usher in biometric digital ID. It’s just for our security. Proble. Reaction. solution. Technocracy is the solution.

dancingtime's avatar

The war in Ukraine is a proxy war run by the City of London...

Bard Joseph's avatar

Sounds anti semantic