#JAILTOTHECHIEF- Shit Just Got Real

[Eunoli]

Welcome to our cyberpunk future:

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

Welcome to our cyberpunk future:

Just remember, most of us aren't 'people' to these assholes.... [in general]

 

[Sredni Eel]

Apparently not all states require an in-person application. For example, California's new law doesn't seem to require one. What stops a relative from simply using the documents mailed to them by the State of California?

Very little, I suppose, but each ballot has a barcode on it and once that barcode is scanned, the person whose name is on the ballot can no longer vote.

I receive a mail in ballot every year, because I inadvertently signed up for it back in 2008. I was able to vote in person for a couple of elections, but the mail-in ballot was invalidated on the spot. Not just that, but I had to stand there for quite a while watching as the folks at the voting station made sure I hadn't already voted.

So, it's pretty difficult to cheat with mail in ballots.

 

[Free]

Trump's Twitter wars offer a surreal glimpse into a President's mind

Sometime in the next few days, the 100,000th American will succumb to Covid-19 in a pandemic that President Donald Trump once predicted would just "miraculously" disappear.

www.cnn.com

In 50 years, Trump's weekend Twitter blasts may come across as a startling document of a presidency rooted more than ever in personal obsessions, and incessant wars with the media and his increasing throngs of political enemies.

There was little evidence of a deeper meaning to his presidency at this stage than personal and political grievances. Also missing is a more sweeping policy framework for a potential second Trump term. And other than a relentless push to support an aggressive opening of the country, for instance in a new demand for schools to open, Trump seems far less interested in how the task can be accomplished safely -- other than retweeting CDC hand washing advice -- than his boiling political feuds.

Meanwhile, we here in the U.S. have pretty much crossed the 100,000 dead threshold due to the coronavirus. The article refers to it as a "surreal glimpse into a President's mind." I'm absolutely sickened by that view.

 

[Kara Spengler]

How many authenticated cases of such fraud have there been in the US in recent years? Is it a big problem?

Not a problem at all. Yet some people want to encourage internet voting and I can rattle off a long list of how that can be manipulated on a large scale. Or just search vv for the Tom Scott videos about evoting.

 

[Sredni Eel]

Oh, and Trump can suck it. At the moment it looks like Palo Alto schools are going to be 100% online when school opens in August.

This may still change, because it's a volatile situation, but at the moment the whole concept of brick and mortar school looks (if you pardon the pun) pretty remote right now.

 

[danielravennest]

How many authenticated cases of such fraud have there been in the US in recent years? Is it a big problem?

In the 2018 election, one, in North Carolina. A republican candidate hired someone to "farm" votes - collect absentee ballots.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

In the 2018 election, one, in North Carolina. A republican candidate hired someone to "farm" votes - collect absentee ballots.

IIRC, this included filling them in, only letting people sign them.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning

It is the first time the social media giant has said one of Donald Trump's tweets could be misleading.

www.bbc.co.uk

ETA: and he's not a happy bunny

 

[Sredni Eel]

Uh oh. Trump's having a meltdown because Twitter appended his latest tweets about mail in voting causing fraudulent elections with "Here, check out the facts for yourself"



Here's the tweet that got him in a lather.

 

[Free]

Also,

Trump, for some reason, compares coronavirus death toll (over 98,000) to that of swine flu (under 20,000)

On a day when the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus pandemic neared 100,000, President Trump sought to direct the nation’s attention back to the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic as a way to smear the reputation of his Democratic rival Joe Biden, who was vice president at the time.

news.yahoo.com

Even polling at the time that Trump apparently doesn't like was Biden's fault!

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Yeah, Adding extra helpings of speech on top of other speech isn't stifling speech.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Buuut, it's Twitter, they'll try automating it, and in half a day some nerds in Saint Petersberg will have figured out how to position OANN as the de facto fact checker.

 

[Kara Spengler]

Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning

It is the first time the social media giant has said one of Donald Trump's tweets could be misleading.

www.bbc.co.uk

ETA: and he's not a happy bunny

Lol! Who wants to tell him free speech only applies to what governments can do. A private company can make any restrictions it wants as long as it does target a protected class.

 

[Clara D.]

Lol! Who wants to tell him free speech only applies to what governments can do. A private company can make any restrictions it wants as long as it does target a protected class.

He's just representing his base. The people that shout "FREEDOM OF SPEECH" in completely inapplicable situations.

Almost like they never actually read the Bill of Rights or Constitution or anything.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Pff. It'd take massive election fraud for Trump to break even in California.

But, he'd rather shit all over the integrity of our election process to relieve his prolapsed ego.


Also ...

 

[Jolene Benoir]

Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning

It is the first time the social media giant has said one of Donald Trump's tweets could be misleading.

www.bbc.co.uk

ETA: and he's not a happy bunny

He's just upset that his 24/7 lie factory was challenged, and not even very well by Twitter. If it was my company I would have slapped it with a big "This is a lie" image rather than a rather weak-kneed, "Go look at this page" informational. But then, they've allowed him to lie incessantly for what, a decade now? Further, their refusal to completely wipe his baseless and disgusting tweet re: Scarborough is beyond the pale.

This is a weak and small man, though I'm sure my saying that is nothing new. He's also a tyrant who cannot stand to have even a single piece of the filth that emits from his mouth challenged in the slightest way. I can only imagine the nightmare it must be to be in close contact with him on any basis.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

In the 2018 election, one, in North Carolina. A republican candidate hired someone to "farm" votes - collect absentee ballots.

Of COURSE it was a Republican. Le sigh.