You can go back to the mid-1800s, and find various people disgruntled over the way that the EC was functioning, and simply say nothing has changed over the years.
So if you dump the EC? The election would be mostly about urbanized areas (Chicago, NY, Miami, Houston, Denver, SF, etc). States like North Dakota or Idaho...wouldn't matter.
But if you were this crazy and foolish....why limit your change to only the EC? Why not dump all fifty primaries in a two-week period....mid-June for example, force both parties to have a convention in early August, and just run the silly debate season (a year prior) to occur in May....two weeks prior to the election?
Thursday, 9 July 2020
The Worst of All Scenarios
Lets say on the morning of 4 November, we wake up and find that several unusual things happened on election day. In this mix, at least three states are having trouble reaching a conclusion, mostly because of mail-in ballots. The end can't be concluded, and Trump appears to have won only 27 of the 30 states that he won in 2016. If the three states go to Biden? Joe Biden then wins.
Lawsuits start up. It's not just at the state level....it's thrown at individual counties. Neither candidate can reach 270.
In mid-December....the Electoral College process would kick in (normally). In this scenario, at least three states would have judges dellaying things, and unable to hold the vote.
End-result? No winner. So you go to early January when the House and Senate come in, with new members.
The House would be given the power to vote on the Presidency. The problem here? You vote state by state. If you have nine house members from your state, and four are Democrat....then the five Republicans would edge out the vote and the state votes via the House mechanism for Trump.
So it matters on this House election. Presently? This is an odd part of the story. While Pelosi and Democrats hold a majority.....25 states are GOP-majority situations. Penn is a 0-majority state, meaning it has no vote coming, then three Democratic states hold only a one-vote lead at this point.
How the House election might go? Imagine that two seats in Penn flip to the GOP, then imagine Colorado, Michigan, Arizona and even Minnesota flip enough seats, Trump would easily win via this mechanism.
But lets go to another scenario where nothing much changes, and Trump can't win 26 states via this mechanism. As the end of the presidential period ends....the mechanism would then confirm the head of the House (likely to be a Republican) as President, and the Senate would then confirm the VP. This would be done until a change in state by state voting occurs.
A deeper crisis? No doubt.
You could very likely have a House Speaker turned President (Republican) with a VP who is a Democrat.
Massive anger by both the Republican and Democratic voters? No doubt.
But this ought to make you understand that the House election in November is just as important as the Presidential election.
Lawsuits start up. It's not just at the state level....it's thrown at individual counties. Neither candidate can reach 270.
In mid-December....the Electoral College process would kick in (normally). In this scenario, at least three states would have judges dellaying things, and unable to hold the vote.
End-result? No winner. So you go to early January when the House and Senate come in, with new members.
The House would be given the power to vote on the Presidency. The problem here? You vote state by state. If you have nine house members from your state, and four are Democrat....then the five Republicans would edge out the vote and the state votes via the House mechanism for Trump.
So it matters on this House election. Presently? This is an odd part of the story. While Pelosi and Democrats hold a majority.....25 states are GOP-majority situations. Penn is a 0-majority state, meaning it has no vote coming, then three Democratic states hold only a one-vote lead at this point.
How the House election might go? Imagine that two seats in Penn flip to the GOP, then imagine Colorado, Michigan, Arizona and even Minnesota flip enough seats, Trump would easily win via this mechanism.
But lets go to another scenario where nothing much changes, and Trump can't win 26 states via this mechanism. As the end of the presidential period ends....the mechanism would then confirm the head of the House (likely to be a Republican) as President, and the Senate would then confirm the VP. This would be done until a change in state by state voting occurs.
A deeper crisis? No doubt.
You could very likely have a House Speaker turned President (Republican) with a VP who is a Democrat.
Massive anger by both the Republican and Democratic voters? No doubt.
But this ought to make you understand that the House election in November is just as important as the Presidential election.
Wednesday, 8 July 2020
Just Observations
1. Iron-clad rule....Marxists don't share power. Their ultimate purpose is to eradicate all existing opposition. If you think Nazis are evil....these people are just as bad.
2. The thing about leaving the WHO. In 1948, they were a noble idea and cause. Maybe for the first thirty years, they had a purpose and positive path ahead. Over the past twenty years? They became unfocused....unable to touch various topics....and politicized. Rather than go and recognize that problem....they felt intimidated and refused to consider change.
3. I don't see the Washington Redskins staying in the DC area if the name goes to a change situation. For DC, they pushed the wrong button here. My prediction? They end up moving to San Antonio, Texas or Oklahoma City.
4. If you declared racism a mental disorder....would it change much of anything?
5. The chief problem of the defund the police effort? You end up with private security in a thousand ways that you never dreamed of, and have some 9th-grade drop-out named Larry who now seems to be the only real protection you have in your neighborhood.
6. Could the NBA go through a woke-situation, where they realize that only 30-percent of fans care about their wokeness? Would they then be woke-woke?
7. Just me, but I'd pay $75 to sit in a Presidential debate area where Joe Biden and Kanye West were in discussions.
8. Did Joe Biden say that the police have 'become the enemy'? Yes, but if you asked him to define the enemy....he'd get on the subject of WW II movies and Nazis. So don't bring it up.
9. Senator Chuck Schumer linked to Jeffrey Epstein? Yes, but it's best not to discuss this matter.
10. The FBI says HALF of all it's counter-intelligence cases....involve China.
2. The thing about leaving the WHO. In 1948, they were a noble idea and cause. Maybe for the first thirty years, they had a purpose and positive path ahead. Over the past twenty years? They became unfocused....unable to touch various topics....and politicized. Rather than go and recognize that problem....they felt intimidated and refused to consider change.
3. I don't see the Washington Redskins staying in the DC area if the name goes to a change situation. For DC, they pushed the wrong button here. My prediction? They end up moving to San Antonio, Texas or Oklahoma City.
4. If you declared racism a mental disorder....would it change much of anything?
5. The chief problem of the defund the police effort? You end up with private security in a thousand ways that you never dreamed of, and have some 9th-grade drop-out named Larry who now seems to be the only real protection you have in your neighborhood.
6. Could the NBA go through a woke-situation, where they realize that only 30-percent of fans care about their wokeness? Would they then be woke-woke?
7. Just me, but I'd pay $75 to sit in a Presidential debate area where Joe Biden and Kanye West were in discussions.
8. Did Joe Biden say that the police have 'become the enemy'? Yes, but if you asked him to define the enemy....he'd get on the subject of WW II movies and Nazis. So don't bring it up.
9. Senator Chuck Schumer linked to Jeffrey Epstein? Yes, but it's best not to discuss this matter.
10. The FBI says HALF of all it's counter-intelligence cases....involve China.
Just Observations
1. Someone brought this up today....on smog/pollution checks with the yearly car inspection business. In California, it's $85 and 25 minutes being hooked up to the machine. In Tennessee, it's $8 and two minutes hooked up to the machine. It's the same basic test, and I would dare anyone to show that there is any legit difference in the inspection of car A....if taken from one state to another.
2. If you approach working-class democrats (the ones who pay taxes and work)....then tell them that you not only want to get rid of guns, but you want less police (defunding the police)....about fifty-percent of them will just start laughing. They marginally might listen to the first argument, but the less police gimmick? That merely pushes them to vote for Trump.
3. So, imagine this....a public housing complex in Melbourne, Australia.....tower-type building. 3,000 residents in the complex. 500 cops surrounding it. No one enters....no one leaves. Covid-19 situation, and the whole population of the building is on lock-down. Testing is being conducted, but everyone is forced to participate for a five-day period of self-quarantine.
4. The key question that Trump will throw at Biden throughout the three debates? Why do you hate America? Over and over. Joe will deny he hates America but he'll stumble through this theme, and each debate will be won by Trump....solely on the 'hate America' theme. If you had brought up this discussion three years ago, most everyone would have laughed at the mere suggestion of 'hating America'. Yet, here we are.
5. It's an odd story that has developed over George Floyd (the dead black guy from Minneapolis). One of the key parts of the story which is never discussed....the reason for the phone call to the cops from the store....was the $20 counterfeit bill. No one seems to be asking anything about the bill or how Floyd came to have it.
Oddly, Floyd and this choker-policeman....worked at the same restaurant, for years. So it gets brought up....this is a restaurant which is owned by a guy who originally came out of Jordan, and is known as a developer. No one asks questions over the money for the developments though. Some chatter has started up about the restaurant (El Nuevo Rodeo), and there is this belief that behind the operations....they had some type of money-laundering and counterfeit-money operation going on.
Floyd is choked to death on 25 May....a full month into the Corona period, and virtually everything is shutdown. This $20 counterfeit bill? It's probably some cash flow that Floyd stumbled upon and it's what paid his daily cost of living. When the idiot cop arrives and stumbles upon the fact that it's Floyd (his associate)? This whole path leading back to the restaurant comes up. Whether it's thought out much, I think the cop couldn't let this counterfeit $20 start a massive investigation.
The read, I would suggest? Regional news source. The problem I see....this restaurant and whole background....leads to various political characters from Minneapolis, and none of them want the 'rest' of the story told.
6. Chief Justice Roberts stumbles at home, and gets taken off to the hospital? Cause? The statement is....shortness of breath. A bit odd, but maybe he was walking around with a mask on?
2. If you approach working-class democrats (the ones who pay taxes and work)....then tell them that you not only want to get rid of guns, but you want less police (defunding the police)....about fifty-percent of them will just start laughing. They marginally might listen to the first argument, but the less police gimmick? That merely pushes them to vote for Trump.
3. So, imagine this....a public housing complex in Melbourne, Australia.....tower-type building. 3,000 residents in the complex. 500 cops surrounding it. No one enters....no one leaves. Covid-19 situation, and the whole population of the building is on lock-down. Testing is being conducted, but everyone is forced to participate for a five-day period of self-quarantine.
4. The key question that Trump will throw at Biden throughout the three debates? Why do you hate America? Over and over. Joe will deny he hates America but he'll stumble through this theme, and each debate will be won by Trump....solely on the 'hate America' theme. If you had brought up this discussion three years ago, most everyone would have laughed at the mere suggestion of 'hating America'. Yet, here we are.
5. It's an odd story that has developed over George Floyd (the dead black guy from Minneapolis). One of the key parts of the story which is never discussed....the reason for the phone call to the cops from the store....was the $20 counterfeit bill. No one seems to be asking anything about the bill or how Floyd came to have it.
Oddly, Floyd and this choker-policeman....worked at the same restaurant, for years. So it gets brought up....this is a restaurant which is owned by a guy who originally came out of Jordan, and is known as a developer. No one asks questions over the money for the developments though. Some chatter has started up about the restaurant (El Nuevo Rodeo), and there is this belief that behind the operations....they had some type of money-laundering and counterfeit-money operation going on.
Floyd is choked to death on 25 May....a full month into the Corona period, and virtually everything is shutdown. This $20 counterfeit bill? It's probably some cash flow that Floyd stumbled upon and it's what paid his daily cost of living. When the idiot cop arrives and stumbles upon the fact that it's Floyd (his associate)? This whole path leading back to the restaurant comes up. Whether it's thought out much, I think the cop couldn't let this counterfeit $20 start a massive investigation.
The read, I would suggest? Regional news source. The problem I see....this restaurant and whole background....leads to various political characters from Minneapolis, and none of them want the 'rest' of the story told.
6. Chief Justice Roberts stumbles at home, and gets taken off to the hospital? Cause? The statement is....shortness of breath. A bit odd, but maybe he was walking around with a mask on?
Tuesday, 7 July 2020
My Thoughts on Ghislaine Maxwell
1. No one in her position would remain in the US, in open sight like she did....unless she felt awful safe.
2. For the next two months....total silence on her case and what she is saying.
3. Over the next two months, I expect around fifty significant suicides to occur, from Hollywood to London. Bankers, actors, politicians, etc.
4. Toward late September, the list of names will start to appear. Some US Senators will be listed (some retiring this year, some already dead, some fairly embarrassed), from both Republican and Democratic sides. Some bankers will suddenly retire after being listed.
5. Suddenly the news cycle for the month of September to late October will be occupied over Maxwell.
6. Maxwell will name five or six dead folks, who might have met an untimely end by an arranged situation.
2. For the next two months....total silence on her case and what she is saying.
3. Over the next two months, I expect around fifty significant suicides to occur, from Hollywood to London. Bankers, actors, politicians, etc.
4. Toward late September, the list of names will start to appear. Some US Senators will be listed (some retiring this year, some already dead, some fairly embarrassed), from both Republican and Democratic sides. Some bankers will suddenly retire after being listed.
5. Suddenly the news cycle for the month of September to late October will be occupied over Maxwell.
6. Maxwell will name five or six dead folks, who might have met an untimely end by an arranged situation.
The Two Plus Two Problem
"2+2 only equals 4 because of western imperialism.”
- Brittany Marshall, Twitter comment
I sat and pondered over this comment for a good hour.
The Greeks, the Persians, the Romans, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Hindus gave us math and science.
If you walk into a real engineering class today (2020), and go over the basics of mathematical formulas.....a lot of these have been around for a minimum of 1,000 years....some on for 2,000 years, and a handful for 3,000 years. The professor may not admit this.....but those silly Hindus spent a heck of a lot of effort to rationally conclude things.
In math, if you mess around with two and two....it has to equal four, or there's something wrong.
It's like a Ford brake specialist working on modern brakes, and x-amount of pressure will be applied, and on every single occasion.....x-pressure must go hand-in-hand with x-amount of reaction by the brakes. If this doesn't occur....10,000 out of 10,000 times....then something is wrong.
So I look at Ms Marshall, and I have this feeling that she doesn't really know much on engineering, modern technology, or history.
The significant problem here is that people are walking around with no appreciation of what has occurred over the past 3,000-odd years. The reason that you can fly from Dallas to NY City in three hours? Well....10,000 different calculations occurred, between the control towers, the aircrews, the fuel people, and the design folks...to get that plane in the air and safely to the destination.
The same is true with electrical voltage and the way that you can feel safe touching your washer....knowing that something won't happen and give you a blast of electricity.
The handling of a pistol? Well, there's math and science built into it, and the safety-button meets various conditions.....involving a dozen-odd formulas.
Your dog being seen at the Vet? Science calculations have occurred and the dog's weight equals x-amount of medication, which relieves them of pain and suffering.
The sanitation factor of your food? Well, all that handling and cooking....relates back to science and math again.
The roasted aroma of your Starbucks coffee? Science and math again working as they should.
So if you come to some conclusion that two and two can't equal four.....you might want to look for a bridge to live under, and start learning to exist off nuts, berries, and pond-water.
- Brittany Marshall, Twitter comment
I sat and pondered over this comment for a good hour.
The Greeks, the Persians, the Romans, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Hindus gave us math and science.
If you walk into a real engineering class today (2020), and go over the basics of mathematical formulas.....a lot of these have been around for a minimum of 1,000 years....some on for 2,000 years, and a handful for 3,000 years. The professor may not admit this.....but those silly Hindus spent a heck of a lot of effort to rationally conclude things.
In math, if you mess around with two and two....it has to equal four, or there's something wrong.
It's like a Ford brake specialist working on modern brakes, and x-amount of pressure will be applied, and on every single occasion.....x-pressure must go hand-in-hand with x-amount of reaction by the brakes. If this doesn't occur....10,000 out of 10,000 times....then something is wrong.
So I look at Ms Marshall, and I have this feeling that she doesn't really know much on engineering, modern technology, or history.
The significant problem here is that people are walking around with no appreciation of what has occurred over the past 3,000-odd years. The reason that you can fly from Dallas to NY City in three hours? Well....10,000 different calculations occurred, between the control towers, the aircrews, the fuel people, and the design folks...to get that plane in the air and safely to the destination.
The same is true with electrical voltage and the way that you can feel safe touching your washer....knowing that something won't happen and give you a blast of electricity.
The handling of a pistol? Well, there's math and science built into it, and the safety-button meets various conditions.....involving a dozen-odd formulas.
Your dog being seen at the Vet? Science calculations have occurred and the dog's weight equals x-amount of medication, which relieves them of pain and suffering.
The sanitation factor of your food? Well, all that handling and cooking....relates back to science and math again.
The roasted aroma of your Starbucks coffee? Science and math again working as they should.
So if you come to some conclusion that two and two can't equal four.....you might want to look for a bridge to live under, and start learning to exist off nuts, berries, and pond-water.
Sunday, 5 July 2020
Just Observations
1. Kanye West running for President? Yes....announced yesterday. All fifty states? He didn't exactly say that. If I were guessing, he'd go to the 15 most black-populated states, and get onto the ballots there. To be honest, in most states....you need to have a couple thousand folks sign you up, and that's probably the biggest stumbling block to his candidacy.
Does this matter? He's intending to say he's the black candidate. So if you were BLM, or pro-BLM....you'd have to vote for him. Naturally, it takes votes away from Biden and the Democrats.
Will this change much of anything? Black voter impacts are usually in the south, and Trump had those states locked down. It's states like Ohio, Michigan, New Jersey, and Virginia that I might wonder about.
Guessing the impact? The McMuffin-character in 2016 took around 750k votes in 2016....so I'm guessing with some effort and a little bit of cash flow, West ought to take double that (1.5-million range). Course, there is this question of California, and he might actually take a million votes there, and Trump might gain a million votes there (over 2016 numbers)....suddenly, California might be close to a Trump win.
2. It's just curious....so many people angry and frustrated with America....that they don't pull out a map and pick some pleasant country to go to.
3. The strategy that BLM/Antifa and the path ahead is more about intimidation....than some national cohesiveness? Walk into any middle-class neighborhood and explain this.....people start laughing.
4. Does the black vote matter? If you use the statistical data and say that a state with 20 percent of population is black (meaning a higher chance of influence), then there are only 8 states that meet that threshold. Alabama, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina. Twenty-five states have a percentage of 10-percent or less....meaning their effect on the state vote is marginal.
5. My argument about peaceful protesters....if a 100 show up and 3 of them destroy things and set fire to cars, what does it say about the 97 who simply stand there and watch? Are they still peaceful, or are they intimidated to do nothing, or just don't care?
6. As college starts up shortly....I'm just wondering how many assaults occur on Trump-kids, and legal problems ahead for colleges to defend.
Does this matter? He's intending to say he's the black candidate. So if you were BLM, or pro-BLM....you'd have to vote for him. Naturally, it takes votes away from Biden and the Democrats.
Will this change much of anything? Black voter impacts are usually in the south, and Trump had those states locked down. It's states like Ohio, Michigan, New Jersey, and Virginia that I might wonder about.
Guessing the impact? The McMuffin-character in 2016 took around 750k votes in 2016....so I'm guessing with some effort and a little bit of cash flow, West ought to take double that (1.5-million range). Course, there is this question of California, and he might actually take a million votes there, and Trump might gain a million votes there (over 2016 numbers)....suddenly, California might be close to a Trump win.
2. It's just curious....so many people angry and frustrated with America....that they don't pull out a map and pick some pleasant country to go to.
3. The strategy that BLM/Antifa and the path ahead is more about intimidation....than some national cohesiveness? Walk into any middle-class neighborhood and explain this.....people start laughing.
4. Does the black vote matter? If you use the statistical data and say that a state with 20 percent of population is black (meaning a higher chance of influence), then there are only 8 states that meet that threshold. Alabama, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina. Twenty-five states have a percentage of 10-percent or less....meaning their effect on the state vote is marginal.
5. My argument about peaceful protesters....if a 100 show up and 3 of them destroy things and set fire to cars, what does it say about the 97 who simply stand there and watch? Are they still peaceful, or are they intimidated to do nothing, or just don't care?
6. As college starts up shortly....I'm just wondering how many assaults occur on Trump-kids, and legal problems ahead for colleges to defend.
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