Open Mic for the week of 11/4/2024

by Jaybird · November 4, 2024

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Philip H
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November 4, 2024 at 11:40 am

Stochastic political terrorism continues before election day, enabled by social media companies who are obeying in advance:

Two days before Halloween, a Pennsylvania postal worker was delivering a box of mailed-in ballots to the Northampton County Courthouse. A man filming with his phone began asking questions and followed the postal worker into the building.

The man doing filming was told that the man with the box of ballots was a postal worker.

“I dunno, apparently he’s with the post office, but that looks very suspect,” said the man filming, zooming in on what he said was “an obscene amount of ballots.”

The video then zoomed in for a closeup of the postal worker’s face. As of Nov. 2, it had nearly six million views.

The day after posting the video of the Pennsylvania postal worker, its creator wrote on X that if the subject of his video did turn out to be just a public servant doing his job, “I’ll take this down and issue a correcting statement. We are after the truth, whatever that may be.” As of Nov. 2, the video remains online.

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/02/nx-s1-5174151/election-2024-voter-fraud-harassment-influencers-elon-musk-xReport

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- pillsy in reply to Philip H
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  November 4, 2024 at 12:32 pm
  
  When you remember that, in addition to any potential political benefits you gain from terrorizing political adversaries and civil servants who stand in the way of your partisan projects, this also draws a ton of clicks and engagement from people who are more stable than the violent maniacs without actually being stable in an absolute sense.
  
  It really is of a piece with FanDuel and gacha games and social media and “mental health” apps, pulling us into obsessive and easily monetized loops, with any other impact being a happy (or not-so-happy) accident.Report
  
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Philip H
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November 4, 2024 at 12:39 pm

This man doesn’t deserve to go back – he cares not one witt about the Constitution or Rule of law:

At a rally in the must-win battleground state, the former president told supporters that he “shouldn’t have left” office after losing the 2020 election; described Democrats as “demonic”; complained about a new poll that shows him no longer leading in Iowa, a state he twice carried; and said he wouldn’t mind if a gunman aiming at him also shot through “the fake news.”

Trump spent much of his speech pushing unfounded claims of cheating by Democrats in the 2024 election and sowing doubts about its integrity as polls show him and Vice President Kamala Harris deadlocked nationally. He ranted about alleged election interference this year and lamented his departure from office after losing to Joe Biden four years ago.

“I shouldn’t have left. I mean, honestly, because we did so, we did so well,” Trump said during his rally in Lititz as he claimed the US-Mexico border was more secure under his administration.

It was a rare public admission of regret over participating in the peaceful transfer of power after he incited his supporters to violently storm the US Capitol as he tried to subvert the results of the 2020 election that he lost but refused to concede — something Trump is currently facing federal charges over.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/03/politics/trump-dark-closing-message/index.htmlReport

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Philip H
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November 4, 2024 at 2:51 pm

Anyone know where TFG gets his Enemies from inside rhetoric? John Birch knows . . .

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/03/nx-s1-5176529/john-birch-society-movement-conspiracy-politicsReport

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LeeEsq
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November 4, 2024 at 4:34 pm

It is getting lost in the run-up to the election but the Epstein tapes reveal some rather monstrous things:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/listen-to-the-jeffrey-epstein-tapes-i-was-donald-trumps-closest-friend/Report

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