Big Blitz

First - the Covid protocols that warranted these changes to our elections - essentially making them ripe for shenanigans and has eroded trust in them. FYI, these were changes even Obama and Hillary opposed - granted it was around the same time they opposed gay marriage and could define a women….but still: Covid-19 was the excuse Democrats used to radically transform our nation’s election systems in ways that make them less secure, less fair, and more vulnerable to mischief. Virtually all of the “temporary” changes introduced—ever-earlier voting, mass mail-in balloting, and lax penalties for fraudsters—have become codified everywhere Democrats rule unopposed…. NewDEAL wants every state to expand early voting and adopt no-excuse absentee voting—note that eleven of the fifteen states that require a reason to vote absentee are Republican-run—as well as automatically mail every voter a ballot without their solicitation. That is effectively adopting all-mail elections, something eight states currently do (only one of which, Utah, is Republican-run). Democrats knew they needed private drop boxes purchased with “Zuck bucks” to hoover up all of those mail-in ballots in 2020, so NewDEAL recommends making them a permanent feature of all future elections. (The true goal is to turn USPS into a mail-in ballot collection machine, with drop boxes as a stopgap measure.) NewDEAL also wants to weaken signature-matching requirements on absentee ballots because they “discriminate against voters who already face other obstacles to voting.” Any errors, the group says, can then be corrected with liberal ballot-curing laws. But that’s not all—states, they say, should also extend the deadline for postmarking absentee ballots to Election Day, guaranteeing that ballot-counting will drag on for days or weeks after the first Tuesday in November. Eighteen states plus D.C. currently accept and tabulate ballots received after Election Day, in some cases up to 14 days later. They aren’t all blue states, either—North Dakota is engaged in a lawsuit with the right-leaning Public Interest Legal Foundation for its late-acceptance law. The parties have known for decades that voting by mail is the least-secure way of conducting elections. That was a central finding of the 2005 bipartisan Carter-Baker report. Both Team Obama and Clinton protested a recount in Florida’s 2008 presidential primary because officials wanted to hold it via mail, with Obama campaign manager David Plouffe voicing his “real deep concerns” about the “reliability and security of a mail-in vote.” One of the ugliest features of the 2020 and 2022 elections was the way counting dragged on long past Election Day, creating ample opportunities for mischief and secrecy. No one seriously thinks codifying these malpractices will encourage trust in election security—that was never the point. Democrats have put all their resources into building a gigantic ballot-harvesting machine that can register and turn out tens of millions of voters each cycle. But this juggernaut relies on unreliable voters who fail to register or show up on Election Day. So operatives have staked everything on mail-in ballots, believing they can ensure those ballots are marked and counted, and each of these policies makes their job easier… https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-lefts-elections-fortification-in-2024/ FOR DEMOCRATS, PATH TO VOTE-BY-MAIL VICTORY RUNS THROUGH THE POSTAL SERVICE “Progressives” are angling to build an illegal supermajority on the Postal Service governing board, destroying what’s left of election integrity—but only if Senate Republicans let them. Restoration News was the first to report on the latest front in election integrity: The battle for control of the U.S. Postal Service. Now that conflict is heating up. In May, the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) launched a new offensive to seize control of the USPS Board of Governors with the goal of transforming the $81 billion organization into the world’s biggest mail-in ballot collector. APWU protesters gathered outside the board’s quarterly meeting in Washington, D.C., to haranguePostmaster General Louis DeJoy—a Trump appointee—and demand Biden replace the DeJoy-friendly board with a “progressive” majority bent on firing him and expanding vote-by-mail. Their agent of choice: Former Rep. Brenda Lawrence, the recently retired Democrat representing Detroit. Lawrence is a former postal worker and member of both APWU and the National Association of Letter Carriers. The other likely candidate is former Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), who passed the $57 billion Postal Reform Act of 2022 (with DeJoy’s help), expanding mail delivery services and postal worker healthcare benefits. Either woman would effectively serve as the postal unions’ representative on the board. Both support massively expanding USPS’ vote-by-mail capabilities, as do all ofBiden’s board nominees, notably Republican Derek Kan. But there’s a catch. The 9-person board is limited by law to 5 members of either party. Democrats already control 5 seats: 4 by overt Democrats, and a fifth through the nominally “independent” Amber McReynolds. As we’ve pointed out, McReynolds is the former head of the National Vote at Home Institute, the activist organization responsible for the Left’s rapid adoption of all-mail elections in 2020, and an outspoken “progressive.” Labeling her an “independent” is ridiculous on a board where partisan leanings matter. There’s no reason Biden wouldn’t pick either Lawrence or Maloney to replace the outgoing Democrat Donald Lee Moak. But activists are angling for the President to also replace outgoing Republican member William Zollars, handing the Left an illegal supermajority of 6 votes—and the power to finally fire DeJoy. The coalition’s top priority is filling both seats with governors who will “deliver a majority on the board,” “with or without Republican support” in the Senate. https://www.restorationofamerica.com/restoration-news/eric/for-democrats-path-to-vote-by-mail-victory-runs-through-the-postal-service/

Controlling us. Protecting themselves.

So Goff is in the top 10 and number 2 QB?

Perfectly normal. Nothing to see here.

Pretty much. Biden shown the door. Maybe he gets a chef on the way out to. Hopefully the chef wasn’t close to Hunter.

Will only help in Georgia. Another governor that won without Trump.

I don’t give a ***t. The least of our concerns in 2020 was the sham election. Under historic CCP circumstances. So what did Kissinger and Xi meet about this week? Yea that Kissinger. Still alive and meeting with authoritarian thugs on behalf of Xiden.

Is this a joke? It’s insulting and f…ing disturbing quite frankly. But honestly - extremely grateful you posted it. I’d present it as evidence in a trial as proof how every single moron going along with Covid did so knowing this was an authoritarian revolution that would get Trump out of office consequences for the Republic be dammed. So to recap - you look back and think of Biden 2020 as the greatest campaign you’ve ever seen. Just let that sink in folks. An election fully rigged. In a sham pandemic. A country in full retreat from life thanks to China. Hold a BLM protest but if Trump wants an outdoor rally - he’s going to get people killed. Just say you think Biden would beat Trump in 2024 and do a better job of concealing the fact you sided with the CCP hoping Trump would lose. It’s embarrassing.

Amazing.

On it…

You’re proving the point about how completely detached from reality the electorate is. A video that means absolutely nothing - where are all the Brownshirts and subsequent atrocities in the best run state in the Union? Unless you want to count an inability for children to read LGFSY$&ruTsQ9875 sponsored drag hour / borderline porn in elementary and middle schools or that women (which DeSantis can define) can’t abort (kill) kids after 6 weeks as oppression then sure…….he’s just a terrible governor who’s blueprint for America should obviously look more like Pennsylvania or California. We have almost 5 years of him as an executive in Florida. If you don’t want this country run like Florida then I don’t know what to tell you. Has some other state offered a better path? Everything the Left says about him is delusional. Everything Team Trump is saying about him is a lie. Interesting Team Trump talks about no other Republican in the race.

No. Why?

Will significantly help in VA

This was my sense as well from everything I’ve been told about the movie. My kids said people were laughing at the ridiculousness of it - not taking it seriously and it came across as satire. I’ll probably end up watching it on demand with my wife. Not at all because I want to I swear.

Nothing good happens in July and August. Put them all in bubble wrap.

This exposed more about the current makeup of our people in this country then it did the people who are in charge of it.

CRE Storm: Over $800 Billion In Office Space In Nine Cities Could Become Obsolete By 2030 In a recent Bloomberg interview, Barry Sternlicht’s Starwood Capital Group warned that the CRE space is in a “Category 5 hurricane.” He said, “It’s sort of a blackout hovering over the entire industry until we get some relief or some understanding of what the Fed’s going to do over the longer term.” The current downturn in CRE could persist for years, if not through the end of this decade. Jan Mischke, a partner at the McKinsey Global Institute, along with Olivia White, a senior partner at McKinsey, and Aditya Sanghvi, a senior partner and leader of McKinsey’s real estate special initiative, published a note in Fortune, warning “$800 billion of office space in just nine cities could become obsolete by 2030.” The authors of the report blame the CRE downturn on the “shift to remote and hybrid work prompted two further shifts in people’s behavior”: First, many residents, untethered from their offices and therefore less fearful of long commutes, moved away from urban cores. New York City’s urban core (that is, the dozen densest counties in the metropolitan area) lost 5% of its population from mid-2020 to mid-2022. San Francisco’s urban core (San Francisco County, Alameda County, and San Mateo County) lost 6%. Second, consumers began shopping less at brick-and-mortar stores–and far less at stores in urban cores, where people were now less likely either to work or to live. Foot traffic near stores in metropolitan areas remains 10 to 20% below pre-pandemic levels, but the differences between urban and suburban traffic recovery are substantial. For example, in late 2022, foot traffic near New York’s suburban stores was 16% lower than it had been in January 2020, while foot traffic near stores in the urban core was 36% lower. “The reduced demand will have major impacts on urban stakeholders. For example, in just nine cities that we studied especially closely, $800 billion of office space could become obsolete by 2030. And macroeconomic complications could make matters even worse,” the authors continued. Without office workers in downtown areas, economic recoveries in major cities will be a “U” shape or, in some cases, an “L.” The unraveling of downtowns is already underway. We shared a video this week of scenes of San Francisco’s downtown transformed into a ‘ghost town.’ Building owners in the crime-ridden metro area are already giving up and defaulting as vacancies rise, crime surges, and refinancing is near impossible in today’s climate as the Federal Reserve keeps interest rates sky-high to tame the worst inflation in a generation. https://confoundedinterest.net/2023/07/22/cre-storm-over-800-billion-in-office-space-in-nine-cities-could-become-obsolete-by-2030-office-vacancy-rates-soar-as-fed-went-crazy-with-stimulus/ This is going to reshape the electoral map and how they tax you. Without their big city tax base to fund state and local governments, you’ll start to see new tax proposals or plans that will do nothing but anger everyone that already can’t afford anything …. BUT what I’ve been saying is much more likely is you State workers that think you’re safe, the Ds will turn on you so fast if left with no choice due to the electoral shifts and no longer a need to prioritize programs (education) that over half the public is fed up with.

My 2 oldest saw Barbie this weekend. They’re in high school and arguably more conservative then me. Went with groups of friends. They didn’t think it was some lib indoctrination film. They actually thought it was neutral. I continue to find the disconnect between what young people think vs the adults fascinating. Sometimes things are more complicated. The movie didn’t market itself as anything but live action Barbie. At least not that I saw. We knew it was going to do anything but glorify the dam doll - and that women should just want to be pretty and wear expensive clothes. I don’t believe it’s core audience was supposed to be 9 year olds but rather 40 something moms who took their kids, and high schoolers.

I thought “woke” wasn’t a real thing?

So, not Snow White