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oralloy
 
  0  
Mon 3 Feb, 2020 10:10 pm
Looks like quite a mess in Iowa. First the new computer system that was supposed to give everyone near realtime results, crashed, leading to results being reported in the old fashioned way, by phone.

And now there is a precinct secretary announcing results by Twitter, saying that he's been on hold for more than an hour waiting to report results.

https://twitter.com/shawnsebastian/status/1224538096571686912
coldjoint
 
  0  
Mon 3 Feb, 2020 10:39 pm
@oralloy,
Quote:
First the new computer system that was supposed to give everyone near realtime results, crashed, leading to results being reported in the old fashioned way, by phone.

No one is accusing the Russians yet?
Builder
 
  0  
Mon 3 Feb, 2020 11:02 pm
@coldjoint,
Quote:
No one is accusing the Russians yet?


Glitter will be along any minute now.
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glitterbag
 
  3  
Mon 3 Feb, 2020 11:05 pm
I'm so happy, there have been 12 responses that I haven't read because somebody is ignore.....it's a great day in the neighborhood.
oralloy
 
  -1  
Tue 4 Feb, 2020 12:02 am
Trump Campaign commentary on the difficulties that the Democrats are having in Iowa tonight:

"These are the people who want to run our entire health care system?"

https://blog.4president.org/2020/2020/02/donald-trump-campaign-statement-on-iowa-caucuses.html

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glitterbag
 
  4  
Tue 4 Feb, 2020 12:08 am
love it, one more I don't have to listen to.
oralloy
 
  -1  
Tue 4 Feb, 2020 12:19 am
@glitterbag,
The problem with progressives is, the only thing that they are any good at is acting childish.

Whenever you put progressives in charge of anything important, you end up with a train wreck.
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Sturgis
 
  3  
Tue 4 Feb, 2020 12:19 am
And another person exits the Trump administration.
Took less than 5 months to can him.

Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs Dismissed Abruptly
oralloy
 
  -1  
Tue 4 Feb, 2020 12:20 am
@oralloy,
oralloy wrote:
And now there is a precinct secretary announcing results by Twitter, saying that he's been on hold for more than an hour waiting to report results.

He was on TV with CNN when they finally took him off hold and answered the phone.

They then hung up on him before he could report his precinct results to them.

https://twitter.com/shawnsebastian/status/1224549582857756674

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oralloy
 
  -1  
Tue 4 Feb, 2020 12:45 am
Live update from the #IowaCaucuses:

https://twitter.com/NunesAlt/status/1224576203501162496

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oralloy
 
  0  
Tue 4 Feb, 2020 12:57 am
Actual headline from the Associated Press:

"Dems lay a big caucus egg: No results from Iowa election"

https://apnews.com/e1d514c83f33e880dc3d40c49116999f
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glitterbag
 
  2  
Tue 4 Feb, 2020 01:24 am
@Sturgis,
Oh crap, somebody developed a spine.
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coluber2001
 
  2  
Tue 4 Feb, 2020 01:35 am
https://pics.me.me/q-whats-the-difference-between-punxsutawney-phil-and-donald-trump-30695451.png
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izzythepush
 
  1  
Tue 4 Feb, 2020 02:07 am
@glitterbag,
It's great. If you really want to piss them off, post from Al Jazeera.
oralloy
 
  -1  
Tue 4 Feb, 2020 02:17 am
@izzythepush,
You have strange ideas about what would bother us. Why would that upset anyone?
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Builder
 
  -1  
Tue 4 Feb, 2020 03:44 am
Let's get to the real impeachments, shall we?

Flashback: Auntie Maxine Bragged About Obama’s Database

Mar 19, 2018



RUSH: Auntie Maxine, who’s the queen of the resistance. She was on a TV show called Washington Watch with Roland Martin. It’s on some network called TV One. And he said to Maxine, “The reality is like anything else, you’d better get what you can while he’s there, because look, come 2016…” They’re talking about Obama, and they’re talking about African-Americans and other minorities. “Hey, you better reach in and grab everything you can while Obama’s there, because after 2016, Obama’s gone.”

Now, if I may make a brief departure here, in less than a year, Donald Trump has done more for the lives and the future of African-Americans than Barack Obama even thought about in eight years. Black unemployment never came down under Barack Obama. Black prosperity didn’t move any at all. But here’s Roland Martin. What does this mean? “The reality’s like anything else. You better get what you can while he’s there.” What does that mean? “You better get what you can.” Like in benefits? What the hell does that mean?

Well, we all know what it means, and we all know what it meant for these people to vote for Obama. That’s why you did it. Remember the woman in Tampa that wanted Obama to get her a new kitchen? That’s what his election meant to her, a new kitchen. Maybe a new van to drive around in while she did whatever other things that she did. Anyway, here is auntie Maxine’s answer to that.

WATERS: Well, you know, I don’t know. And I think some people are missing something here. The president has put in place an organization that contains the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life. That’s going to be very, very powerful. That database will have information about everything on every individual in ways that it’s never been done before.

RUSH: And that’s the last we heard about it because I will guarantee you that somebody got hold of Auntie Maxine and said, “Do you see this glue? If you don’t shut up, this glue is going right between your lips and you’re not gonna be able to open your mouth ever again. Shut the hell up, Maxine.” And we haven’t heard another word about this. Play it again, Sam. I want you to hear this one more time, this is 2013. This is the year that the New York Times is going bonkers writing one complimentary story after another about Obama’s genius data collection team working in the White House.

WATERS: Well, you know, I don’t know. And I think some people are missing something here. The president has put in place an organization that contains the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life. That’s going to be very, very powerful. That database will have information about everything on every individual in ways that it’s never been done before.

RUSH: Well, that sounds — I mean, this is three years before Trump and Cambridge Analytica. Obama is gonna have this massive database with very powerful, information about everything on every individual. Can you imagine if, let’s say Steve Bannon called a press conference and said, “You know, my buddies at Cambridge Analytica, we’re preparing this massive database. We’re gonna know everything about everybody. It’s gonna be the most massive data collection on people in this country there’s ever been.” Do you think there’d be praiseworthy articles about it?

I tell you, they’d put everybody in prison that had anything to do with it if something like that happened. Here’s Maxine bragging about it, and it happened, is the point. Why do you think Google was practically — look, I’m being redundant here. But you could look it up. Google practically lived there. They had a satellite office. Google and Obama were inseparable, and there’s only one reason for that. And remember how Obama got elected in the first place, by exposing sealed divorce records of his opponent running in the state Senate race in Illinois.


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Builder
 
  2  
Tue 4 Feb, 2020 04:22 am
And for the curious, my son got his green card, and is now a legal "alien" in the US of A.
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hightor
 
  2  
Tue 4 Feb, 2020 04:55 am
@Builder,
Yeah, if Rush says it, you know it's got to be true.

Here's your "top secret database":

National Mortage Database

And this is what Rep. Waters was referring to in 2013:

A New Assessment Process to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing
Olivier5
 
  1  
Tue 4 Feb, 2020 05:45 am
What the F...?

Quote:
Iowa Democratic vote-reporting meltdown hands opening to Trump
by Stephen Collinson, CNN
Updated 0913 GMT (1713 HKT) February 4, 2020

The Democratic 2020 crusade to oust President Donald Trump could not have got off to a more disastrous and embarrassing start.

The party couldn't even deliver a first-in-the-nation election night winner after a vote-reporting debacle in Iowa — where candidates spent months and millions of dollars vying for a glittering opening prize in their nominating duel.

"Iowa, you have shocked the nation," said former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

It was a bold attempt to declare victory in the absence of a result, but the 38-year-old inadvertently cast an ironic judgment on a political train wreck.
The big Hawkeye State miss will be agonizing for whoever comes out on top but for any candidates who under performed -- perhaps former Vice President Joe Biden -- it might turn into a priceless lifeline.

The caucus nightmare also played right into the hands of a President spoiling for months to brand his rivals as weak, disorganized and even worse — plotting to rig the results to hand its crown to an establishment favorite. There's little doubt that Trump, who consistently erodes distrust in institutions and governing systems, will weaponize such a narrative if it looks like he will lose in November.

Trump operatives are already spinning conspiracy theories and disinformation about what the Iowa Democratic Party said were "inconsistencies" in its results. Their aim is to create a narrative that tars the eventual nominee as illegitimate. And on the eve of his State of the Union address and two days before he's set to be acquitted in his impeachment trial, things cannot have worked out better for the President.

"It would be natural for people to doubt the fairness of the process. And these are the people who want to run our entire health care system?" Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale said, gleefully wringing every last drop of political advantage out of the Democratic blushes.
oralloy
 
  -1  
Tue 4 Feb, 2020 05:54 am
@Olivier5,
Progressive incompetence can be pretty funny.
 

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