George Rebane
[This article, sans update, was published here in the 25oct23 issue of The Union.]
Recently I attended a luncheon sponsored by a local Republican club that featured as speaker one of the party’s eight candidates for US Senate. She gave a barnburner talk outlining all the familiar iniquities of the Democrats both in Sacramento and Washington. Specifically, she reprised the Democrats’ work in
- Always raising taxes;
- Issuing more stifling regulations;
- Mismanaging the economy;
- Indoctrinating Neo-Marxism in the media, education, and entertainment;
- Watering down critical curricula in our schools – dumbing down students;
- Rewarding criminals and punishing victims;
- Promoting trans-gendering in schools, denying parental rights to raise their children;
- Maintaining wide open borders for illegal alien entry;
- Projecting foreign policy weakness, inviting bad actors to make war;
- Etc, etc.
The problem with her enthusiastic rhetoric was that her Republican audience knew all that stuff, and most could have given that speech themselves. What was sorely missing, and has been missing for years at such gatherings, is recognition of the dire straits the party is in, and what would be required for its resurgence in California.
Recounting the above list yet one more time is nothing but imitating a long-playing echo chamber which might be of interest to those conservatives who don’t pay attention to what is going on in the country and the world. The problem is that most of those folks don’t show up at such luncheons and meetings.
So, the Republican Party, irrelevant statewide and nationally chaotic, continues to ignore the fact that it can right none of the liberal and woke wrongs without first regaining its stature as a recognized can-do political force in the country. Endlessly repeating and pointing out the passing signposts to socialism has done nothing to change the direction of the country, and doing the same thing over and over again only confirms the definition of ignorance.
If Republicans are not putting their energies into planning and making progress on the party’s road to resurgence, then the rest of it will only be an ongoing stream of empty rhetoric growing weaker with the passing years.
[27oct23 update] An added thought. Given how other states are adopting our public policy insanities, California’s cancer has been aggressively metastasizing across the land. The reason is clear and hangs on ‘other people’s money’ that can best be understood in light of what Garrett Hardin (q.v.) taught us about the behavior of commons (more here and here). California has been very successful in taxing ‘the rich’, regulating the bejeezus out of everyone, and getting the feds to pony up every time we get our tit in a wringer, that it seems like a good idea for the folks in Ohio and Nebraska to copy. As our snowballing national debt attests, with everyone piling on, this commons awaits its inevitable fate.
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376 responses to “The Reprobate Republicans (updated 27oct23)”
I’m not claiming the votes were rigged, Punch. Just the whole election, starting with ballot harvesting and 3rd party collections.
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How many billions in training was thrown away with the fauci nazis diktats? –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/18/army-scrambling-get-back-soldiers-kicked-out-bidens-military-vaccine-mandate/
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Gregory
So if the votes weren’t rigged the election was legal and Biden won.
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#sadoldman @ 908 Can we get a welfare check? LOL
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Yes, Biden won a legal election rigged in favor of Democrats. Congrats.
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“So if the votes weren’t rigged the election was legal and Biden won”
Let’s remember that Jim Crow was “legal”.
So – Paul thinks it’s all fine and dandy.
Typical Democrat.
Power at all costs – to hell with morality.
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Gregory
What laws did the Dems break in the so called rigged election?
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Rigged elections are also possible by exploiting the so-called loopholes in imperfectly written or cynically fashioned election laws. This kind of generally unacceptable ‘rigging’ is possible in many other fields of law, and is often the objective of one party or the other to ‘close the loopholes’ in this law or that. Election laws are no exception.
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There was no law against a partisan organization spending a half billion dollars to run elections for public election orifices.
And there were laws against federal officeholders blocking partisan news at election times… but no enforcement.
Those two would have made a difference in 2020.
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So, congratulations, punch. Your side won. Everyone else lost.
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So, any additional thoughts about your so-called “fair” election?
A real feel-good aftertaste?
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George
Can you provide some examples of the so called loopholes you refer to in you’re 11:22 post?
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What a maroon @431!!
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Don
Can you define a maroon is Don. I know the word as an verb-to be marooned-not a noun. Just curious.
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Thanks for putting an exclamation point on it @547 ROFLOL!
Can you define a maroon is Don. as an verb
Bugs Bunny had you in mind from the start!
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“What a maroon! What an ignoranimus!”
-Bugs Bunny
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A 12 point win, a landslide against the socialists.
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2023/11/19/javier-milei-speaks-after-winning-argentina-presidency-today-we-embrace-the-ideas-of-liberty/
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PaulE 431pm – Loopholes in laws have been outlined in the press in great detail at least since the Great Depression. I don’t think there is any necessity to embarrass yourself by acting as if all this is new to you. If it is, then I suggest keeping it a secret, and quietly doing the research yourself.
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Creepy grampa joe and the kakkler are not loved –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-allies-try-to-calm-anxious-dems-stress-there-is-no-2024-backup-plan-ahead-of-prez-s-81st-birthday-report/ar-AA1kcvoC?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=b0934830017342b59f8fe10d106a461a&ei=85
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George
Of course I know what loopholes are. My question was what loopholes and how did they affect the vote count.
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Of course I know what loopholes are.
Are you sure? Because you ask a lot of questions for which you really oughta already know the answer….and you ask them again….and again…and again….and again…..and again.
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Fishole
Can you tell me specifically what “loopholes” apply to the Presidential election which Trump lost?
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Can you tell me specifically what “loopholes” apply to the Presidential election which Trump lost?
Not sure that would be of any benefit as you always seem so unsure and shaky on seemingly every issue. If you can provide a reasonable non cut and paste definition I’ll consider your request.
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The only benefit is getting someone besides Punch to do the work he desires at the moment, in order to shut us up.
There is forward progress… he’s gone from demanding evidence of election rigging to demanding testimony about loopholes.
Democrats stole the 2020 election, did much of the heavy lifting out in the open and stole it fair and square. The Zuckers kept the receipts for their tax preparer.
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Fishole, Gregory
What you fail to provide is what loophole, what state and how many votes. Otherwise it’s just a theory.
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Providing those facts would be evidence of election rigging.
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What you fail to provide is what loophole, what state and how many votes. Otherwise it’s just a theory.
Not at all…..before delving into more advanced concepts we still need to determine if you know what a “loophole” actually is!
As I said, you seem shaky on so many basic concepts.
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If you wanted such things you could find them yourself, Punch.
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No Gregory it is your contention and theory not mine. The burden is on you. You are the one who made those statements. Thats basic process when you come up with a theory such as you have.
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This the ponytail of ignorances choice the very creepy grampa joe –
remark to young girl at military’s Friendsgiving event
Biden, addressing service members at Naval Station Norfolk for ‘Friendsgiving,’ asks a 6-year-old girl if she’s 17
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-slammed-repeating-claim-naval-appointment-remark-young-girl-militarys-friendsgiving-event
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No Gregory it is your contention and theory not mine. The burden is on you.
Says the man who purports all sorts of things and then whines like a spoiled child for links…..which, by his own admission, he doesn’t read!
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Everyone here but Punchy thinks it stinks that two partisan Democrats poured a half billion dollars into election administration in 2020. It worked.
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If true was it illegal Gregory? That has nothing to do with the actual election and votes from specific states. Show me how it does. Where were the fraudulent votes? Dominion? that was a joke. Lost in court and Fox is paying big.
” Fox News agreed Tuesday to pay Dominion Voting Systems nearly $800 million to avert a trial in the voting machine company’s lawsuit that would have exposed how the network promoted lies about the 2020 presidential election.”
https://apnews.com/article/fox-news-dominion-lawsuit-trial-trump-2020-0ac71f75acfacc52ea80b3e747fb0afe
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What gave you the idea I don’t read links fishhole? I always read links in discussions that I am involved with . Show me where I didn’t.
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Punchy is desperately trying to change the subject.
It has nothing to do with Dominion or Fox.’s
Do you think a public good was served by allowing Facebook fortunes to be poured into CTCL’s coffers to help them help public offices cope with COVID?
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What gave you the idea I don’t read links fishhole? I always read links in discussions that I am involved with . Show me where I didn’t.
No Punchy that is your contention not mine. The burden is on you. You are the one who made that statement…..“I don’t read links….too busy, far too busy!”
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Punch, come back.
Do you think a public good was served by allowing Facebook fortunes to be poured into CTCL’s coffers to help them help public offices cope with COVID?
Yes or no. Simple question.
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Punchy?
Punchy?
Punchy?
Punchy?
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Gregory
Was there anything illegal about that Gregory and what does that have to do with the elections?. Link please.
fishole
Can you provide the entire sentence and when I said it. “I don’t read links….too busy, far too busy!” That’s an edited sentence. I don’t necessarily read links for things I’m not commenting on or interested in.
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Who gives a shit @831 ya po ol druid.
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Can you provide the entire sentence and when I said it. “I don’t read links….too busy, far too busy!” That’s an edited sentence. I don’t necessarily read links for things I’m not commenting on or interested in.
Sorry Punch 🤜 but you really have to learn to do your own research. You said something very similar to that ….but you have a situational memory…..probably something to do with being a useless hippy!
I must say though that watching you try to weasel out of things you’ve said in the past is highly entertaining for me….by all means please continue.
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It had everything to do with elections, Punch. In the swing states thatde ided the election. I guess you didn’t read the link i shared multiple times.
You also forgot where i explicitly stated there weren’t laws against it, possibly because no one had the chutzpah to try it before.
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Oh Lord – this is hilarious:
“That has nothing to do with the actual election and votes from specific states.”
Yeah – billionaires love to throw 10s of millions around at election time just for shits and grins.
Nothing to do with the “ACTUAL” election.
Next up:
Paul will lecture us on the evils of the decision in ‘Citizens VS United’.
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SO 1010p
Not 10`s of millions. 420million. In the states that were running closely. Not spead evenly across the country…
Official election offices. Ballot “curing”. For Democratic Party voters, mostly.
It stank. Still stinks.
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This is for Punchy, who didnt follow the link!:
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The 2020 election wasn’t stolen — but it could have been paid for. Mark Zuckerberg’s millions bought lefty activists access to local election offices, allowing them to organize massive get-out-the-vote efforts in Democrat-dominated cities from the inside.
US cities and counties shouldn’t be outsourcing election administration to partisans. But the vast Facebook-founder-funded campaign seduced many into doing just that.
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Through the Center for Technology and Civic Life and the Center for Election Innovation and Research, Zuckerberg put an unprecedented amount of private funding — $419.5 million — into mail-in and get-out-the-vote efforts in 2020.
That’s nearly as much as the $479.5 million in federal and state matching funds for COVID-related election expenses the same year. But Zuck’s bucks came with strings that boosted the activists’ drive to change rules to favor absentee voting and ballot harvesting — and to secure partisans’ access to election information, such as how many people voted in various areas.
As author Mollie Hemingway and researcher William Doyle outline for The Post, the left used Zuckerberg’s gifts to exploit the pandemic to change long-established voting rules, with the clear goal of creating a structural bias to give Democrats a leg up. The money wasn’t spent evenly across the country but focused on counties where Democrats thought they would be more competitive.
In Wisconsin, for instance, Zuck’s money funded “vote navigators” to “assist voters, potentially at their front doors, to answer questions, assist in ballot curing” — fixing otherwise unacceptable ballots — “and witness absentee ballot signatures.” One activist there even tried to get direct access to the Milwaukee Election Commission’s voter database.
And it worked. Of 25 CTCL grants of $1 million or more to cities and counties in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia, 23 went to places Joe Biden won.
In Georgia, Doyle found, counties that received Zuck bucks were, on average, 2.3 points more Democratic in 2020 than 2016; non-funded counties barely moved.
All of this was happening in a close-fought race, with just tens of thousands of votes out of millions swinging the crucial Electoral College wins that sent Biden to the White House.
It is worth reiterating that the election wasn’t stolen. No one invented voters or changed votes. But private partisans shouldn’t be allowed to do the job of local election boards. And CTCL’s “non-partisan” designation seems like a lie because it concentrated in areas that helped Democrats most.
It reeks — but Democrats are striving to make the arrangement permanent. A law to try to stop private groups from working on elections was vetoed by Wisconsin’s Democratic governor.
They claim that states trying to stamp down on the funny business are jeopardizing democracy. But democracy should never be outsourced.”
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Gregory – 420 million is 10’s of millions. 42, in fact.
Doesn’t matter – The exact same people that caterwaul about conservatives “buying” elections call any amount that is spent by the left to be the “smell of democracy”.
The actual amount is not the issue – the issue is that the left will spend any amount they want – including your tax dollars – but you have to abide by their arbitrary rules.
You are trying to have a logical argument against people with no morals or principles. In Paul’s case it’s a person with no intelligence. You might as well argue with a dog.
I have no idea at this point why you even try.
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So whats wrong sit “get-out-the-vote” campaigns Gregory? Don’t the Republicans do it and if not why?
Scott, do you consider Trump to be a man of “morals or principals”? Iw it “moral to band a porn star while you’re wife is home with a babe in arms?
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typo Is it moral to bang a porn star while you’re wife is home with a babe in arms?
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Posted by: Whiny Emery | 21 November 2023 at 05:56 AM
typo Is it moral to bang a porn star while you’re wife is home with a babe in arms?
It was more accurate with the typo…..
At this point I don’t think that your obsession with Trumpin general and this in particular is anything other than pure jealous spite. Something that you would be completely incapable of doing.
I’ve seen your photo Punch….I don’t think you could get laid in a Womens Prison with a fistful of pardons to employ the old punch…HAH…line! As sexual immorality it’s nothing compared to credible allegations of inappropriate behavior around minors that you ignore simply because Biden has a D after his name and you’re a progressive democrat.
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Anybody that knows me would laugh at your 4:49.
Show me one person who has accused Biden of sexual misconduct I can show you 25 at least accusations against Trump for sexual aggression. . That was all based on a fake photo. Why didn’t her parents make a complaint?
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