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		<title>By: Kick</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/05/19/the-circus-has-come-to-arizona/#comment-177782</link>
		<dc:creator>Kick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2021 18:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>TheStig
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&lt;i&gt;Well well...this Maricopa Caper doesn’t just have legs....it’s sprinting. All the voting machines in the hands of the Ninjas are compromised and must be replaced to insure election integrity. &lt;/i&gt;

That&#039;ll be costly. Do what Dominion did and hold the ninja Trump cult trash accountable in a court of law and sue them for their libel, slander, and damage to property. Make it hurt.</description>
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<p><i>Well well...this Maricopa Caper doesn’t just have legs....it’s sprinting. All the voting machines in the hands of the Ninjas are compromised and must be replaced to insure election integrity. </i></p>
<p>That'll be costly. Do what Dominion did and hold the ninja Trump cult trash accountable in a court of law and sue them for their libel, slander, and damage to property. Make it hurt.</p>
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		<title>By: Kick</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/05/19/the-circus-has-come-to-arizona/#comment-177781</link>
		<dc:creator>Kick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2021 17:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Don Harris
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&lt;i&gt;Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.&lt;/i&gt;

Opinions are like assholes. 

&lt;i&gt;The Republikillers saw how effective Russiagate was for Deathocrats in mobilizing their base so they came up with &quot;Bewitched&quot; to try and imitate &quot;I Dream of Genie&quot; or &quot;The Munsters&quot; to imitate &quot;The Addams Family&quot;. &lt;/i&gt;

False equivalency... again. Also, the great motivator in the 2020 election was Trump himself and his lousy performance at his job. 

Your perpetual imitation of a terminal ignorant fool is most sincerely not the least bit flattering to you.

Nobody came up with &quot;Bewitched&quot; to try to imitate &quot;I Dream of Genie&quot; since it was fantasy television that was &lt;b&gt;already in existence&lt;/b&gt; before &quot;Genie.&quot; &quot;The Munsters&quot; also wasn&#039;t created to imitate &quot;The Addams Family&quot; because the two shows debuted on television within a few days of each other, and the Addams are a fictional family of humans while the Munsters are a family of (mostly) &lt;b&gt;not&lt;/b&gt; humans patterned after Frankenstein&#039;s monster, Dracula (and his daughter), and the Wolf Man. They did inadvertently &quot;imitate&quot; each other by both debuting in 1964, both being filmed in black-and-white, both going off the air in 1966 after airing for only two seasons, and both going into wide syndication thereafter.  

Your fake/false &quot;facts&quot; and comparing of apples and oranges is again duly noted. No one is surprised that your repetitive trouble with reality also extends into fantasy. You just invent mountains and mountains of bullshit with your repetitive drivel and spew. 

&lt;i&gt;If we want to be &quot;Survivors&quot; we need to vote both corrupt circus sideshow performing parties off the island. &lt;/i&gt;

So you&#039;d prefer autocracy? Because only one party &quot;survives&quot; in that &quot;reality&quot; television show, and no one is surprised that you didn&#039;t think that through either. However, I do like your idea of voting off the &quot;sideshow performing parties&quot; because in the reality of Weigantia, that would most definitely be the fantastical tilting at windmills sideshow performing troll known as Don Harris. :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don Harris<br />
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<p><i>Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.</i></p>
<p>Opinions are like assholes. </p>
<p><i>The Republikillers saw how effective Russiagate was for Deathocrats in mobilizing their base so they came up with "Bewitched" to try and imitate "I Dream of Genie" or "The Munsters" to imitate "The Addams Family". </i></p>
<p>False equivalency... again. Also, the great motivator in the 2020 election was Trump himself and his lousy performance at his job. </p>
<p>Your perpetual imitation of a terminal ignorant fool is most sincerely not the least bit flattering to you.</p>
<p>Nobody came up with "Bewitched" to try to imitate "I Dream of Genie" since it was fantasy television that was <b>already in existence</b> before "Genie." "The Munsters" also wasn't created to imitate "The Addams Family" because the two shows debuted on television within a few days of each other, and the Addams are a fictional family of humans while the Munsters are a family of (mostly) <b>not</b> humans patterned after Frankenstein's monster, Dracula (and his daughter), and the Wolf Man. They did inadvertently "imitate" each other by both debuting in 1964, both being filmed in black-and-white, both going off the air in 1966 after airing for only two seasons, and both going into wide syndication thereafter.  </p>
<p>Your fake/false "facts" and comparing of apples and oranges is again duly noted. No one is surprised that your repetitive trouble with reality also extends into fantasy. You just invent mountains and mountains of bullshit with your repetitive drivel and spew. </p>
<p><i>If we want to be "Survivors" we need to vote both corrupt circus sideshow performing parties off the island. </i></p>
<p>So you'd prefer autocracy? Because only one party "survives" in that "reality" television show, and no one is surprised that you didn't think that through either. However, I do like your idea of voting off the "sideshow performing parties" because in the reality of Weigantia, that would most definitely be the fantastical tilting at windmills sideshow performing troll known as Don Harris. :)</p>
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		<title>By: TheStig</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/05/19/the-circus-has-come-to-arizona/#comment-177778</link>
		<dc:creator>TheStig</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2021 11:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well well...this Maricopa Caper doesn’t just have legs....it’s sprinting.  All the voting machines in the hands of the Ninjas are compromised and must be replaced to insure election integrity.  

https://news.yahoo.com/arizona-secretary-state-says-maricopa-001325279.html

Has the Ninja skipped town yet?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well well...this Maricopa Caper doesn’t just have legs....it’s sprinting.  All the voting machines in the hands of the Ninjas are compromised and must be replaced to insure election integrity.  </p>
<p><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/arizona-secretary-state-says-maricopa-001325279.html" rel="nofollow">https://news.yahoo.com/arizona-secretary-state-says-maricopa-001325279.html</a></p>
<p>Has the Ninja skipped town yet?</p>
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		<title>By: Kick</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2021 10:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>nypoet22
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&lt;i&gt;i hear there are quite a few excellent hackers in russia... &lt;/i&gt;

https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1328521/download

GRU, Russian military intelligence

Andrienko
Frolov
Detistov
Pliskin
Kovalev
Ochichenko

Just to name a few.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>nypoet22<br />
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<p><i>i hear there are quite a few excellent hackers in russia... </i></p>
<p><a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1328521/download" rel="nofollow">https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1328521/download</a></p>
<p>GRU, Russian military intelligence</p>
<p>Andrienko<br />
Frolov<br />
Detistov<br />
Pliskin<br />
Kovalev<br />
Ochichenko</p>
<p>Just to name a few.</p>
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		<title>By: Kick</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2021 10:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>nypoet22
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*laughs* :)</description>
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<p>*laughs* :)</p>
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		<title>By: nypoet22</title>
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		<dc:creator>nypoet22</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2021 18:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i hear there are quite a few excellent hackers in russia...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i hear there are quite a few excellent hackers in russia...</p>
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		<title>By: TheStig</title>
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		<dc:creator>TheStig</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2021 18:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>NYp22-

A hacker who covers his/her tracks well.

The Florida outfit CEO talks about &quot;ethical hacking&quot; - using your hacking skills to find vulnerabilities in a client&#039;s websites...for a fee mind you.  There is a strong potential for a marketing scheme that is vanishingly close to extortion.  As in: &quot;Nice little web business you have here.  Pity if some hacker should shut it down. Oopsy...my brother was clumsy.&quot;

I think this story is likely to have legs.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>NYp22-</p>
<p>A hacker who covers his/her tracks well.</p>
<p>The Florida outfit CEO talks about "ethical hacking" - using your hacking skills to find vulnerabilities in a client's websites...for a fee mind you.  There is a strong potential for a marketing scheme that is vanishingly close to extortion.  As in: "Nice little web business you have here.  Pity if some hacker should shut it down. Oopsy...my brother was clumsy."</p>
<p>I think this story is likely to have legs.</p>
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		<title>By: nypoet22</title>
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		<dc:creator>nypoet22</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2021 15:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>cyber ninja?

https://youtu.be/wgG3paWfzno?t=210</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>cyber ninja?</p>
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/wgG3paWfzno?t=210" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/wgG3paWfzno?t=210</a></p>
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		<title>By: TheStig</title>
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		<dc:creator>TheStig</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2021 14:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can’t find any background information about the technical qualifications of the Cyber Ninja CEO.  There is a corporate website...but it’s as fuzzy as a Cold War doctored passport photo.  There is a purported photo of the CEO...who looks to be about 25 yrs old.  He is a Christian...but cyber security not theology.  What is his education? What is hi work experience.  Cyber Ninjas reek of Republican Dirty Tricks. Follow the money.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can’t find any background information about the technical qualifications of the Cyber Ninja CEO.  There is a corporate website...but it’s as fuzzy as a Cold War doctored passport photo.  There is a purported photo of the CEO...who looks to be about 25 yrs old.  He is a Christian...but cyber security not theology.  What is his education? What is hi work experience.  Cyber Ninjas reek of Republican Dirty Tricks. Follow the money.</p>
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		<title>By: John M from Ct.</title>
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		<dc:creator>John M from Ct.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2021 00:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;None of this is inspiring confidence. None of this will cause our citizens to trust elections. In fact, it is having the opposite result.&quot;

The snark level is indeed world-class, especially in the context of an inter-governmental memo. But the above quote, it seems to me, captures the whole point of the audit, as it does the Big Lie of which the audit is a part.

The Republicans under Trump are working to convince their people, if no one else, that no election that doesn&#039;t result in a Trump victory can possibly be an honest one. In short, in Trumpland, American elections have only one purpose: to elect Trump, and his supporters. Any election that does not have that result is by definition a stolen, fraudulent, and invalid one.

So these snarky officials no doubt already know what&#039;s going to happen, even as they go on record to protest it. When the &#039;audit&#039; reports this June that Trump won Arizona by, say 11,780 votes, it will become part of the Big Lie in a meta-Lie kind of way. That is, it will be endlessly brandished to the 40% of the country who are Trumpists to prove that the &quot;stolen election of 2020&quot; is not a &quot;Lie&quot; at all, but audited Truth!

And all the snark in the world will never, never penetrate that bamboo-and-ultraviolet fortified bubble.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>"None of this is inspiring confidence. None of this will cause our citizens to trust elections. In fact, it is having the opposite result."</p>
<p>The snark level is indeed world-class, especially in the context of an inter-governmental memo. But the above quote, it seems to me, captures the whole point of the audit, as it does the Big Lie of which the audit is a part.</p>
<p>The Republicans under Trump are working to convince their people, if no one else, that no election that doesn't result in a Trump victory can possibly be an honest one. In short, in Trumpland, American elections have only one purpose: to elect Trump, and his supporters. Any election that does not have that result is by definition a stolen, fraudulent, and invalid one.</p>
<p>So these snarky officials no doubt already know what's going to happen, even as they go on record to protest it. When the 'audit' reports this June that Trump won Arizona by, say 11,780 votes, it will become part of the Big Lie in a meta-Lie kind of way. That is, it will be endlessly brandished to the 40% of the country who are Trumpists to prove that the "stolen election of 2020" is not a "Lie" at all, but audited Truth!</p>
<p>And all the snark in the world will never, never penetrate that bamboo-and-ultraviolet fortified bubble.</p>
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		<title>By: BashiBazouk</title>
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		<dc:creator>BashiBazouk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2021 00:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I like to see this, but it&#039;s tough. With the loss of house seats for Democrats last election and with reapportionment, gerrymandering and vote suppression I think the Republicans really have the advantage in retaking the house in 2022. Hopefully between Biden&#039;s popularity and Republican infighting that can be thwarted but it&#039;s going to be a near run thing. 

Whereas it&#039;s really looking good to gain seats in the Senate with 11 Democratic controlled seats and 22 Republican controlled seats up this cycle. But the Republicans came out to vote last time and will do so again this cycle. Democrats are going to have to fight as hard in 2022 as they did to defeat Trump if they want to continue to control both houses of congress.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I like to see this, but it's tough. With the loss of house seats for Democrats last election and with reapportionment, gerrymandering and vote suppression I think the Republicans really have the advantage in retaking the house in 2022. Hopefully between Biden's popularity and Republican infighting that can be thwarted but it's going to be a near run thing. </p>
<p>Whereas it's really looking good to gain seats in the Senate with 11 Democratic controlled seats and 22 Republican controlled seats up this cycle. But the Republicans came out to vote last time and will do so again this cycle. Democrats are going to have to fight as hard in 2022 as they did to defeat Trump if they want to continue to control both houses of congress.</p>
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		<title>By: TheStig</title>
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		<dc:creator>TheStig</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2021 23:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The only items lacking from the Maricopa County snark were tar, feathers and rails.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The only items lacking from the Maricopa County snark were tar, feathers and rails.</p>
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