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09/21/21 7:24 PM

#386097 RE: blackhawks #386073

Top post! "...and this, I promise you, was just a scrimmage. The real ball game still awaits."

Arizona Supreme Court allows release of Senate audit records
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Is the Maricopa County election audit truly an audit? Here's what professional auditors have to say
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The mess in Maricopa
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‘They are writing the playbook here’

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Democrat Katie Hobbs, Arizona’s secretary of state, received a security detail after a deluge of threats, but she has remained in the fray. As the state’s top election official, she has excoriated the “fraudit” all over the mainstream media, partly because she fears it will become the norm.
P - “Look, this is comical to watch,” Hobbs says of the Maricopa mess. “We’ve all laughed at it, watching it unfold,” but “it is very serious. This is precedent-setting. They are writing the playbook here.
P - Republican county committees around the country are making requests to do forensic audits, according to multiple state secretaries of state, and local officials nationwide are fielding bizarre offers from unqualified “auditors.” Byrne, the former Overstock CEO, is now backing an audit push in Pennsylvania. Earlier this month, hundreds of people showed up at a town meeting in Windham, N.H., to demand an audit; they turned their backs on the board of selectmen and chanted, “Stop the Steal.” An accountant from Nashua, N.H., has apparently raised $74,000 through a Christian crowdfunding site in an effort to hire Jovan Pulitzer to conduct a “people’s audit” in New Hampshire (Pulitzer says he is not an auditor, and did not initiate contact with New Hampshire or its citizens).
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The Gateway Pundit, a pro-Trump website that has access to the coliseum, declared that Maricopa officials “DELETED ENTIRE DATABASE DIRECTORY from Voting Machines.”
P - Trump repeated the accusation, announcing on his website that “the entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED!”
P - Jack Sellers, the Republican chairman of the board, called the allegations “false” and “outrageous.”
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John Eastman???

No, guessing Turley won't take it down. Why would he when he believes all he said represented the true picture at the
time. It just didn't turn out the way he predicted because of suppression polls, misrepresentation, and massive fraud.
"Another self ordained expert dumbass gets it wrong."
Jason Hartman interviews Steve Turley. Dr. Steve Turley on Stop The Steal & Voter Fraud
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The World Congress of Families, the international network of anti-LGBTQ and anti-choice activists who have allied themselves with right-wing nationalist and authoritarian leaders in Europe and Russia, will convene their 2019 global summit in Verona, Italy on March 29-31. U.S. Religious Right leaders scheduled to speak include anti-LGBTQ activist Jim Garlow, right-wing law professor John Eastman, and home schooling advocate Mike Donnelly.
P - The marriage of “traditional values” activism with the right-wing nationalist populism embraced by the Religious Right in both the U.S. and Europe is reflected in the appearance of another speaker. Steve Turley is an author and podcaster who argues that Trump’s “redemptive” presidency is one sign that “the political influence of the Religious Right is just beginning.” In his book, “The Return of Christendom: Demography, Politics, and the Coming Christian Majority,” he wrote, “I want to argue that we are actually seeing nothing less than a conservative Christian resurgence in our demographics and politics that promises not suicide but rather the salvation of the West.”
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See also:

TRUMP CAMPAIGN KNEW LAWYERS' VOTING MACHINE CLAIMS WERE BASELESS, MEMO SHOWS
Days before lawyers allied with Donald Trump gave a news conference promoting election conspiracy
theories, his campaign had determined that many of those claims were false, court filings reveal.

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10/03/21 6:14 PM

#387022 RE: blackhawks #386073

The Republican Party has lurched towards populism and illiberalism

Its rhetoric now resembles that of Europe’s most extreme parties



Oct 31st 2020

ON NOVEMBER 3RD tens of millions of Americans will cast their ballots for the Republican Party. But they will not be voting for the party of Ronald Reagan, or even of George W. Bush. Breaking with his predecessors, President Donald Trump has steered America’s conservative party towards protectionism and xenophobia, while disregarding norms of political behaviour at home .. https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/10/29/president-trump-has-had-real-achievements-and-a-baleful-effect .. and abroad .. https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/10/29/president-trumps-criticisms-of-the-world-order-had-some-merit , and weakening liberal values and institutions. According to new research .. https://www.v-dem.net/en/data/data/v-party-dataset/ .. by the V-Dem Institute, a think-tank based at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, Republicans have become more populist and less liberal under Mr Trump’s leadership than at any time in recent history.

The Swedish research group created a database of 1,955 political parties from 169 countries, going back to 1970, and invited 665 academics and country experts to score them across a number of values. The V-Dem Institute then created two indices, based on the experts’ responses. The first index, populism, measures the extent to which a political party says it is against elites and favours majority rule over consensus. The second, illiberalism, evaluates parties based on several criteria, including how likely they are to launch personal attacks against their opponents, to what extent they support free speech and fair elections, how likely they are to violate the rights of minorities and whether or not they encourage violence against their political rivals.

In the late 20th century the Republican Party already looked a bit less liberal and more populist than most mainstream European parties. But according to the V-Dem Institute’s analysis, it only really started to deviate to “illiberalism” when it embraced religious values under Mr Bush after his election in 2000. The party then veered into populism in 2010 with the rise of the Tea Party movement, which vowed to curb what it saw as the unjustifiable expansion of the federal government under Barack Obama. However, the greatest shift, especially towards illiberalism, came with the election of Mr Trump.

According to the V-Dem Institute’s metrics, Mr Trump’s party is now more similar to Europe’s most right-wing parties, such as Law and Justice in Poland or Fidesz in Hungary, than to any mainstream political group in western Europe. The Democratic Party has also flirted with populism in recent years—but not nearly to the same extent as the Republicans.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/10/31/the-republican-party-has-lurched-towards-populism-and-illiberalism

"Sadder by far....

It Shouldn't Be This Easy to Overthrow the American Republic "

I just reminded myself The Economist doesn't have a paywall. Just have to register with an email.