Re: Marjorie Taylor Greene "likes" the Mossad-did-it Theory

On Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 3:43:01 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
> On Sunday, April 11, 2021 at 7:38:19 PM UTC-5, John Corbett wrote:=20
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> > > In some states, like mine (Tennessee), you have to apply for an absen=
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> > > ballot. That's kind of hassle too, by the way. You also have to provi=
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> > > reason why you feel the need to vote by mail.=20
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> > Oh, horrors! Should I complain that it is a hassle that I have to regis=
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> > Why can't we just vote on the honor system?

> Voting and registering to vote are two different things. Hell, I can't=20
> even remember when, where or how I registered to vote.=20
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> There are several times when I had voted absentee on the ASSUMPTION that =
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> would not be home during election day. I had no way of knowing my flying=
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> schedule that far in advance. I gave as my reason that I would not be in=
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> my state at the time of voting. But, on a few occasions, it turned out I=
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> *was* home and I *could* have gone to the polls. Yet, I had already voted=
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> absentee. Was that fraud?

> > > They provide a list of the=20
> > > only acceptable reasons. You cannot make up your own. The state gets =
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> > > decide what is a valid reason. Not having child care is not an option=
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> > > transportation is not an option.=20
> > > https://sos.tn.gov/products/elections/absentee-voting=20

Sounds more "draconian" than Georgia's laws. Quick, call the NFL, NHL, 
NBA, NCAA, Coca Cola, Delta, etc. TIME TO GET WOKE AND BOYCOTT TENNESSEE!

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> > If you don't fall into one those many categories on that list, there is=
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> > reason you shouldn't be able to get to the polling place either during =
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> > early voting period or on election day. I have zero sympathy for anyone=
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> > who fails to get their vote cast.

> I don't think you can even relate to the life situation that many people=
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> are in. You're probably not in that situation - have never been in that=
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> situation - nor even know anybody in that situation.=20

And what "situation" would that be? Are Republican voters ever old or 
infirm or disabled? Get your Dem operatives out of the ballot-harvesting 
business and into the ride-providing business and do the grass roots 
organizing needed to get YOUR people to the polling place that Tuesday in 
November. Ditto Republicans on the ground game.

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> Do you think the fact that we had one of the highest voter turnouts in=20
> presidential voting history for the 2020 election - during a 100-yr=20
> pandemic, no less - was a good or bad thing?

If the gains were due to often unchecked mail-in ballots sent out in 
defiance of the laws of the particular state legislature (which happened), 
then it's a bad thing. If voter ballot harvesting on a broad scale 
occurred (see the Project Veritas story on ballot harvesting in 
Minnesota), it's a bad thing.

Playing Devil's advocate for a second, but is a high voter turnout always 
a good sign? It could be that as we have become a hyper-politicized 
nation--where politics infests everything--perhaps voter turnout is juiced 
up by the prospect of radical changes in a system that has always played 
the political "game" between the 40 yard lines, and now each side sees the 
other side trying to spike the ball in the end zone. Statehood for P.R. 
and D.C.? Packing the Supreme court? Ending the filibuster? Nationalizing 
elections? Open borders? Masks as far as the calendar stretches and 
COVID-19 passports to conduct normal business? Teaching first graders 
about transgenderism? Forcing employees to take systemic racism/white 
privilege training? The re-segregation of schools, the the "settled 
science" that America was founded on racism as the basis for our history 
curriculum?

Are you--as a retired airline pilot--worried that a major airline has 
pre-ordained that half of it's new pilots in the not-so-near future are 
going to be women/minorities? The next Mohammad Atta will wear Captain's 
bars and fly United. Woke kills. What the hell is going on when we put a 
fence around our Capital but won't complete the fence on the southern 
border?

Low voter turnout can be a sign that Americans are generally happy with 
the state of affairs and trust either party to deliver sensible 
strategies. Think of how far off-the-rails the Dems have gone, even from 
the days of Bill Clinton, who famously proclaimed that the era of Big 
Government was over. Think of then candidate Obama coming out against gay 
marriage. As liberalism has no self-governing mechanism to limit its 
plummet to totalitarianism, we're finding this polarization, and it's 
aided and abetted by America's corporate, anti-capitalism Ruling Class. We 
can see this manifested in the actions of Coca-Cola and MLB and Delta and 
so on, all prominently put in our faces everyday by the tech giants. The 
Dem strategy seems to be to control what we see, and whip up racial 
animosity to keep the growing brown population of America from leaving the 
Dem plantation. The strategy may work.


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> liberal use of absentee ballots, I don't think that would have happened.=
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> And yet - there was no evidence of widespread fraud - and it's certainly=
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> not for the lack of trying to find it. But, you think we have to clamp=20
> down on voting regulations because - using your metaphor - it's like=20
> insurance.=20

Good grief. The gaslighting is unreal. Team Woke was claiming right up to 
the EVE of this past election about voter fraud, and **POOF** literally 
minutes after the 2020 election, any mention of possible voter fraud by 
supporters of Team Trump got one labelled as a kooky conspiracist and 
plunked into social media jail.

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> The reason I don't have flood insurance is because I don't live in a floo=
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> zone. So, I'm not going to expend financial resources for an extremely=20
> unlikely event. When you fly commercial, do you get addition "flight=20
> insurance?" No! You don't because you know the probability that airliner=
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> is going to crash is remote. Since 2010, there have been two fatalities o=
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> major U.S. air carriers. There was a seven year stretch where there were=
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> zero fatalities. Should all the airliners install shoulder harnesses in=
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> each passenger seat (like the flight attendants wear) to increase safety?=
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> This would be a huge expense to install in all airliners. It would be a=
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> "solution" that addresses a problem that doesn't exist.
> > Are we supposed to believe that somebody who wants to vote can't figure=
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> > out what they need to do to get their vote cast.
> In everything in life, every time there is an additional hoop to jump=20
> through, there are always people who are either not willing to jump=20
> through that hoop are don't even know that the hoop exists. There more=20
> hoops, the more people are left behind. Have you ever not mailed in a=20
> rebate for a product you bought simply because it was a hassle? You=20
> intended to - but you didn't. Maybe you didn't even know that the product=
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> had a rebate. Have you ever forgot to take a coupon to the store for=20
> something you intended to buy but you bought the product anyway? Or, mayb=
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> you don't even use coupons because, sometimes, they can be a hassle.=20

What a silly comparison.

1.) Show up on election day and cast your ballot with a valid picture ID.
2.) Request an absentee ballot within the laws of your state and following 
the instructions, return it with a copy of your valid photo ID.

Is our Democracy that lost that that we can't even do this? How in the 
hell did we run elections 50 years ago?

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> Obviously, not for you - but small obstacles do disenfranchise some=20
> people. The fact that you have no sympathy for these people - thinking=20
> they're lazy - doesn't change the FACT that such people exist.
> > In addition, these=20
> > regulations apply to ALL voters so it is absurd to think these regulati=
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> > are aimed at keeping black people from voting.
> You don't think closing the polls on Sunday is not targeting the "souls t=
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> polls" tradition in many areas?=20
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> David Emerling=20
> Memphis, TN