For any of you who thought the Kanye West’s presidential run was anything but a cynical attempt to peel Democratic votes away from Joe Biden in order to advantage the Trump campaign, I give you the following footage, shot today in Madison, of Lane Ruhland, an election lawyer with the Wisconsin Republican Party, dropping off signatures to get West’s name on the Wisconsin ballot. [Ruhland, who has served as the former general counsel of the state Republican Party, was contacted by a reporter this evening, and did not deny that it was her.] According to reporter Matt Smith, who shot the video, Ruhland arrived at the building after 5:00, missing the deadline, but was allowed in anyway to drop off her petitions.
“No comment” as woman enters election commission building just after 5p in Madison to drop off signatures for Kanye West pic.twitter.com/zVxePn5Fe2
— Matt Smith (@mattsmith_news) August 4, 2020
As for the answer to the question posed in the title of this post, here’s a clue… The most recent polling out of Wisconsin shows Biden leading by 5 to 10 points, and Trump can’t win reelection without the state.
One last thing. Here’s just a little piece of advice. If your side has to run fake candidates, gerrymander districts to the point of absurdity, and use dirty tricks to keep people from the polls, you might be on the won’t team.
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If this were the Democratic Party running a dummy candidate for the purpose of rigging a presidential election, our resident Trumpanzees would be saying it is treason and promising mass arrests.
Trump tweeted this just now:
“Nevada has ZERO infrastructure for Mail-In Voting. It will be a corrupt disaster if not ended by the Courts. It will take months, or years, to figure out. Florida has built a great infrastructure, over years, with two great Republican Governors. Florida, send in your Ballots!”
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1290967953542909952?cxt=HHwWgMC09fGguOojAAAA
It’s an amazing coincidence how the states where mail-in voting will work just happen to be the reliable red states with primarily older, white voters.
One wonders why Trump, when referencing states where mail-in voting might work, doesn’t mention Oregon, where they’ve been doing it without issue for over two decades.
iRobert, isn’t that what you said the Warren candidacy was about?
Anonymous, yes. I don’t wonder as it happens but yeah.
That clip from Mitchell and Webb must be my favorite thing on television ever. Followed by their sketch on the intimidating shop assistant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9cP-1kC3So
On Monday, Kanye’s campaign withdrew his name from the ballot in New Jersey after irregularities were found on the petition. Of the 1,327 signatures submitted, 733 were deemed “objectionable”. This includes people with no last names, no town listed, not registered to vote or not even from New Jersey. (From NJ.com article)
Aloha Lynne, I think I am the one who may have said that about Warren. Got Biden the nomination got Medicare for all off the agenda. If Biden picks Harris, Mission accomplished.
It’s interesting that Trump is so confident that a Florida vote is going to go his way. I think that’s questionable.
I love how republicans think that they can prop up Kanye and he’ll peel off Biden voters simply because he’s black, but it never occurred to them that Trump voters would be more likely to peel off for him because he’s an outspoken celebrity with no political experience. It rather neatly encapsulates their total lack of self-awareness, bald-faced racism and penchant for rat-fucking democracy all at once. I can’t wait to see this genius move backfire on them.
Wobblie. I don’t think Warren was running in order to get Biden the nomination. If her being in the race somehow gets Harris the nomination for VP though, then I guess I will not be able to say that I am unhappy even though I still don’t see it as a factor.
God I hope it isn’t Harris. Worst choice.
You make it easier to vote and people vote—who would have thought
https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2020/08/how-the-vote-went-in-washtenaw-countys-record-setting-primary-election.html?fbclid=IwAR3UhptyBRuIK6-U3B71yVak0jknQO5j-FGoC_I0uEvuFjbnyv0NI-MNo8I
It is pretty gross that they are exploiting this man, who is clearly having a mental crisis.
“If this were the Democratic Party running a dummy candidate for the purpose of rigging a presidential election, our resident Trumpanzees would be saying it is treason and promising mass arrests.”
Ross Perot, bitch.
Warlord, you’re just a moron
Based on what you write your IQ is about 89 max so I wouldn’t talk about that if I were you.
You say that like it’s a fact. No substance, dumbfuck.
You need to up your dosage, shit-for-brains.
You have vomited it all out and all you have left is bile.
This is good. The more fucked you are, the more psychopathic you get. Scoring high on the fuct-o-meter today.
Your a Qanon sucker who actually perceives Trump as something other than the obvious clown he is.
“You’re.”
What is your proof that Ross Perot had anything to do with the Democratic Party?
None
Whereas GOP operatives are openly filing Kanye’s papers.
You can’t see Trump is a mentally and emotionally stunted clown, because you share his afflictions, HW.
You’re a dick. You are incurably ignorant, and you have a bizarre ego problem.
Grow up you weeeeeeed addict.
Are you still in denial that the US daily death toll has gone up again?
How far off are the fake totals, HW?
Bile.
When it comes to deaths there appears to be a sine wave of lesser amplitude echoing the initial iteration. I suppose it probably will go down further than the first one too. A third even weaker one perhaps after that? It’s all possibility. I wouldn’t spew bile at someone for merely thinking about it from another angle. To me it sounds psychotic.
Perot helped Clinton and for some reason it was allowed that one special time. I think Bush wanted Clinton in. Seems obvious.
What you said I would scream treason about is not correct. I don’t see the point in saying things like that that are nothing but annoying.
You’re an idiot, HW. Viruses run through the population all the time. The pattern is more or less the same every time. It is highly predictable. The death rate will level off and then very slowly decline until autumn weather hits the US. That is when the virus spreads again like it did in Spring. That’s what all highly contagious cold and flu viruses do.
You have no proof that suggests Perot got into the race for reasons other than his own ambitions. You have nothing.
Kanye, on the other hand, is openly being put in the ballot by GOP activists.
You loose again, dickhead.
The sine wave is created through human action. We have established a new plateau because many states have re-enstated or extended lockdowns, it is not a “natural “ occurrence. You still believe it is “just like the flu”. More likely as students are forced into schools the spread will take off from this new higher plateau. The reality is it will spread totally out of control and begin to overwhelm our hospitals creating growing economic dislocation. It is what it is.
You would have been wise not to parrot your idiot hero. He lies every day and demonstrates his idiocy continuously. He is stunningly stupid and emotionally stunted. I can see why you admire him.
Look at the graphs of all other highly contagious cold and flu viruses. If you had any sense, HW, that would have been one of the first things you would have done, instead of going with the loser “hoax” claims.
I don’t have to have proof. It’s an exception to every other election with a predictable result. The appearance of impropriety is enough that it should not have been allowed. If extra parties are allowed once they have to be allowed any time or it’s obvious manipulation.
If you have that much bile why don’t you just try to kick my ass? I think that would prove more than this nonsense personal propaganda you are engaging in.
Oh suddenly no proof is required. No substance, HW.
Now you’re suggesting violence. That figures. You’re a troglodyte.
That hurts.
I’m so sorry, Trog. It was wrong to equate your people with the Trunpanzees. They’re the link we wouldn’t miss.
You are trolling me with statements like “duurr, da twumanzeez would say dis and dat…” Just shut the fuck up. It’s not even possible to have proof of that. You aren’t helping yourself with this trolling bullshit.
More re-infections being reported.
https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/2020/08/04/coronavirus-wisconsin-reinfection-reported-la-crosse-county/3294345001/?fbclid=IwAR0Qa_4iA9ip9wUDGhKZRZamhXRJoc2wBbWR30SUSN0iT9C7PRReAUlQX5c
You should wise the fuck up. You’re a pale imitation of your hero clown, The Donald. Your little more than a parrot. It’s pathetic. You’re a sucker.
You’re little more than a parrot. You’ve been owned by a bullshit Internet psych-op. You should try to pull your head out of your ass and recognize that. You’re being manipulated, stupid.
You should try to make me shut the fuck up some other way. You aren’t doing shit here. I don’t vouch for “GOP activists”. I’m an Independent and I think the President might as well be also for as different as he is from the Bush’s, etc. I don’t give a shit if Kanye West is on the ballot or not or who supports him. He is hardcore on abortion so they might be sincere. Don’t know or care. Definitely do not think this equates to anything I would want anyone tried for treason for. There you go. Not much you can say, might as well stfu.
Trump’s Disregard for Blue States Is at the Heart of His Shoddy COVID Response
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/trumps-war-on-blue-states-is-worse-than-previously-thought.html
(From New York Magazine)
If it were the Democratic Party doing the same thing, you Trumpanzees would be calling it treason and saying mass arrests were coming. You’re hypocrites to the extreme, and apparently are too unhinged to even realize it consciously.
I don’t want you to shit the fuck up, HW. Your insanity is helping. It is good for sane people to see as much from you as possible.
In the same way that Trump is the person campaigning hardest against Trump, you too make the best argument against yourself. Please don’t shut the fuck up.
You can’t answer why an insane guy is correct over and over and the sane people get it exactly wrong biiiig time. Look at how many perfectly incorrect things were stated about Russian collusion. I laid out exactly the CIA/FBI/State Dept./Obama White House plan to frame the President and others such as General Flynn. They said all the same things you are saying to me about all that for years. Now it’s stfu time. Soon it’s could be shtf time and then what? I don’t think Durham is playing around.
Oh, yeah, “soon.” Just like those tens of thousands of indictments have been soon to be unsealed…for years! You’re a sucker, HW. You’re being manipulated by a twitter psych-op. So pathetic.
By the way, stupid, you keep suggesting I attack you with physical violence, and yet you are anonymous here. Do you see the contradiction, idiot?
HW, does your dad know where you are?
You act like indictments aren’t coming from Durham. His criminal probe could be done at any time. Before the election, after the election…it doesn’t matter. Everything has gone my way so far. The magnitude of my stunning defeat of the maynardites on mueller matters has yet to be truly reckoned with. That’s only the first act though. Now comes prosecution which will bury you fools even further.
“YpsiLaw
Posted August 5, 2020 at 8:37 pm | Permalink
HW, does your dad know where you are?”
Why do you ask, YpsiLaw?
Oh, does Durham have tens of thousands of indictments coming? Moron.
Anything you might have been right about has been wiped out by your absolute idiocy on the pandemic. Just like your ridiculous hero.
Maybe the GOP minority in the Senate can hold dozens of hearing about Russiagate, like they did with Benghazi.
You’re a stooge being strung along.
“iRobert
Posted August 5, 2020 at 8:36 pm | Permalink
By the way, stupid, you keep suggesting I attack you with physical violence, and yet you are anonymous here. Do you see the contradiction, idiot?”
You don’t think it’s possible to meet an anonymous person on the web in real life? To me if you are throwing reason out the window and just want to spew bile at me online we might as well agree to settle it in person. You aren’t doing anything here but seething with hatred hahahahaha. It’s not good. A little friendly sparring might be just what the doctor ordered.
Were you also suckered by Trump’s birther bullshit all through the Obama administration. Did you ever realize it was a ploy to keep stupid assholes interested and active in opposing Obama? Or do you still think Obama was born in Kenya?
How would you suggest I meet you in person m, anonymous asshole?
“Oh, does Durham have tens of thousands of indictments coming? Moron.
Anything you might have been right about has been wiped out by your absolute idiocy on the pandemic. Just like your ridiculous hero.”
Your cortisol must be through the roof. How am I the idiot but you psychotically spazz about just a normal, common concept in the scientific world, the Case Fatality Rate. You are tripping out dude. You are another one who would benefit tremendously from a bit of The Devil’s Weeed.
You we’re using the term “death rate” and I simply tried to get you to tell us what number it was to which you were referring. Then you started acting like Trump in the Axios interview. You still don’t understand why the graphs he was trying to share were bullshit, do you? It was funny when I saw that video, because it echoed your same confusion on those numbers.
You hide your identity, HW. Did you even tell Bob enough for him to come beat your ass?
None of you derps have given an actual response to Obama’s own biography stating he was born in Kenya. How is it crazy when it’s in his own fucking Harvard published book?
I wasn’t paying close attention to the blog while you and Bob were talking about sorting differences out in person. Do you two ever sort things out?
Bob doesn’t know who I am but he thought he did. He now knows I know who he is. I have been introduced to Bob before.
Bob threatened to beat me physically in person. I said meet me down at Water Street right now and try it. He just melted like a little pussy and didn’t say shit. I think that is horrible; to be an internet pussy? Ugh…
HW: “None of you derps have given an actual response to Obama’s own biography stating he was born in Kenya. How is it crazy when it’s in his own fucking Harvard published book?”
Did you read the text from his book where he says this supposedly?
It’s definitely misidentification, sorry.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/born-kenya-obamas-literary-agent-misidentified-birthplace-1991/story?id=16372566
According to Snopes.com it was Obama’s literary agent that said he was born in Kenya.
I don’t have Obama’s book. But maybe someone else here does and can tell us what page it is where Obama says he was born in Kenya; or tell us what he actually says which is being interpreted by birthers as a confession.
Sorry?
You mean Trump’s birther claims were bullshit. Your answer did peg you as a sucker of that manipulation though…as I suggested.
Looks like I’m beating that ass, as you like to say.
“I simply tried to get you to tell us what number it was to which you were referring.”
I wouldn’t say simply. That implies that’s all there is to it. Your words were quite degrading. I can do that too all day but I have coherent points behind it. You want to be respectful again, I can do that too as you know.
Well why did the fuckin’ LITERARY AGENT put that in the book; on the flap, whatever? Why? It’s just “Ohp, made a mistake there!”
People are stupid, HW. Literary agents are no exception. People make unfounded assumptions continuously.
From Senator Richard Blumenthal’s twitter account
@SenBlumenthal
“Shocked & appalled—I just left a 90 minute classified briefing on foreign malign threats to our elections. From spying to sabotage, Americans need to see & hear these reports.“
“Protect our democracy from destruction by declassifying key intel describing the danger of foreign subterfuge to our elections. Congress has been briefed, but sworn to secrecy—unacceptably.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/SenBlumenthal/status/1290801645404794881
Huh! Guess it’s just more of those stupid people that say Barack Obama was born in Kenya like his publisher. This time they are at the Rockefeller Propaganda Network.
https://web.archive.org/web/20091020224623/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95550177
October 9, 2008
Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, NPR’s Africa-based correspondent, tells why her beat has proved one of the most interesting this year.
She discusses the stories that have been painful and devastating for many nations on the continent such as the violent political fights that have led to power-sharing deals.
She also describes the stories that have been exciting, including the U.S. presidential race of Kenyan-born Sen. Barack Obama.
“His home country in KEN-ya.”
You be like “There is nothing strange about that. It happens all the time. It’s totally normal.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0H8A-fQXFA
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/donald-trump-central-park-settlement-disgrace-article-1.1838467
I guess people who make mistakes are really in trouble now.
https://mobile.twitter.com/scottbix/status/962352937270956033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E962352937270956033%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-31584193811844214104.ampproject.net%2F2007242032001%2Fframe.html
Let’s not jump to conclusions especially if we don’t want to take them back.
HW, Americans do often talk about the country of their upbringing as their “home” country. His parents met in Hawaii and that is where he was born. He then spent most of his childhood in Kenya. For him it was home. “Home” doesn’t equate to birthplace, though for many people the two are one in the same.
We’re you born in the same place you would have grown up?
Forget those chicks.
Your persistence is epic HW.
The point I was making, however, was that the whole birther thing was a manipulation. It’s purpose was to attract and hold the attention of crackpots like Trump. It worked. And the Qanon psych-op is a similar one. It too is meant to corral and manipulate a mass of crackpots for purposes the crackpots don’t have any hope of grasping.
Politics isn’t interesting enough to the crackpots without the bullshit bait. They’d just drift off back into random directions and become less engaged.
I do know who you are. It’s never too late to administer an ass beating.
Trump was impeached because of the transactional way in which he makes decisions. Republicans gave him a pas. We now see his pay to play politics at work domestically.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/06/politics/trump-national-guard-coronavirus-texas-florida/index.html
Ross Perot was a good example of how a third party candidate can have a pretty big influence on an election, fwiw. This even when everyone involved is doing things correctly and legaly and whatnot.
Third party candidates are ALWAYS allowed in our elections, it is just that they usually are not popular enough or the election is not close enough for them to have an influence. Sometimes they do influence things though. Perot absolutely split the conservative vote and he is the reason Clinton won . We saw it in Michigan in 2016. Florida in 2000.
Conservatives obviously know this which is why they are getting Kanye on the ballot. They are hoping for a close election and that just enough people will vote for Kanye to change the outcome. It took just 18,000 Jill Stein Green Party voters to do that in Michigan in 2016 so the strategy isn’t crazy. It is a shame that they are exploiting someone’s mental illness though but we aren’t talking about people with decent morals. We are talking about people like EOS, HW, and FF. Exploiting mental illness isn’t an issue for them as long as their guy wins.
I don’t think it will work though.
You suck, Bullet. So do all of you fools. It’s so easy to waste you.
“He then spent most of his childhood in Kenya.”
Really! I did not know that. Where the fuck did you find that out? Show me.
“He then spent most of his childhood in Kenya.”
Really! I did not know that. Where the fuck did you find that out? Show me.
That’s a lie Cassandra. I believe in lifting up the mentally ill in our society in the name of equality of outcomes. We have not had a mentally ill president for awhile. Now it is your turn. Fair is fair. Biden 2020.
I can’t imagine being someone who thinks he knows what is going on to the point where he ridicules others but has no idea what he is talking about. An anti-birther who thinks Obama grew up in Kenya!
What I think would be honorable is to admit you are out to lunch each time you really fuck up something like this. Not only that but apologize to those you ridicule when it is you who is ridiculous.
FF, I guess that depends of if you consider personality disorders to be mental illnesses. We certainly have a president with a fairly obvious personality disorder.
Frosted Flakes
Posted August 4, 2020 at 1:08 pm | Permalink
The problem is Trump is never going to be ready because he is not very good at playing the expert about health stuf—because he is not.
Trump is what he is. Biden is what he is. The truth is what it is . It seems so strange to me that adults would celebrate gotcha tactics and tactics designed to fluster rather than to get at a truth. We need interviews where we get to the truth of what the other person is trying to say. Trump is slippery for sure. It’s ok for an interviewer to try to keep him on topic and answer questions but Swan seemed to just want to fluster.
https://tenor.com/view/gollum-sneaky-little-hobbitses-lotr-hobbit-sneaky-gif-3537314
Sneaky little hobbitses
https://www.polishnews.co.uk/jonathan-swan-reveals-the-easy-secret-to-exposing-trumps-lies-primary-follow-up-questions/
It’s called follow up questioning.
Not Necessarily Vague Guy,
Questions are essential, my friend—duh. They can also be misused—duh. Are you trying to play a game where you paint my comments to indicate FF is anti-follow-up questions? LOL.
May I ask: What is your point of quoting me? What exactly do you find objectionable in my comment? Identity it so we can discuss it. Do you think Swan was trying to further an understanding of what Trump was trying to say?
I find you extremely odd!!!!!
I know Obama didn’t really grow up in Kenya. I wanted to see if you’d believe that he did. You didn’t go for the bait.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urnRVr1P2bc
I thought you might go for it. I guess it’s only Q that can sucker you.
What 3 other countries did Trump have on his graph that he was showing Swan?
Between Kanye and Trump it’s hard to say which one is more seriously ill.
How old would everyone here guess I am? How about the other commenters here?
I think you are 67
your Old enough to know better, still to young to care.
And do the chaos spreads
https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/covid-cases-exposure-have-260-gwinnett-school-employees-not-working/RVZP4UFBPFHDNJJ73MNUFIKEPY/?fbclid=IwAR36WDvlYJjr2Bu08J_ZDXOwoL4kTdOd0umbzWLOH0lTY_2eu-l9gU-bCIs
Governor Mike DeWine has tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
You’re the same age as Wobblie. FF is 40, HW is 30.
I was thinking HW is in his 40s and FF in his 50s.
Hundreds actually. Not Thousands.
A lot of people are not aware that Epoch Times was started by Chinese dissidents who were persecuted by the CCP because of their religion.
I suspect it is good old fashion John Birch Society money that funds it. It is important to mainstream it for the coming conflicts with China. MAGA
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1044121
Epoch Times was started by Chinese persons who escaped the Chinese regime. They would be killed by the communists had they still been in China. It would serve Americans well to be educated on the horrors of communism. The only people today who think communism is a desirable form of government are those who have never experienced it directly or those who have to express support for it or face execution.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/covid-19-end-of-american-era-wade-davis-1038206/
Sad
IHME projects 295,011 deaths by December 1st.
End of September is when the flu season usually begins. Get your vaccinations because flu and/or COVID will be really hard to sort and the tests may be competing for space and/or reagents on the same instrument.
Remember a few months ago when the Trump Administration was predicting a worse case scenario of 240,000 total deaths?
Trump’s Disregard for Blue States Is at the Heart of His Shoddy COVID Response
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/trumps-war-on-blue-states-is-worse-than-previously-thought.html
Trump did get Kanye on the ballot in Iowa.