You is all a bunch of poofs!

#15241

Service Dog wrote: ↑
Tue Dec 22, 2020 4:22 pm
Formidable.

I wonder how long the never-Trumper Biden is lesser of 2 evils people are going to be able to maintain the facade. Joe's hit the ground running with his cabinet nominees and it's raining globalist corporatists, China-friendly CCP mouthpieces, big tech moguls and possibly military adventurists too. It's looking worryingly like "Russia bad, let's work with China", real Susan Rice territory. Joe is doubling down on everything that caused Trump in the first place. Of course Joe is not compromised by China, it's all Russian disinformation and the press agree. Fawning over of CEOs of corporatons which censor on CCP orders is the latest network media directive. Congratulations US, you voted (perhaps) in a president with family members demonstrably compromised by China and strong evidence that he himself is compromised. Bad enough for the US but probably disastrous for us in South Africa with a CCP loving government. The last thing we need is a CCP with money to burn on predatory loan schemes and bribery.

#15242

Brive1987 wrote: ↑
Wed Dec 23, 2020 5:39 am
My 92 year old father in law told me (breathlessly) tonight that Trump had an airborne regiment ready to drop on Washington once the court had declared the election fraud “treason”.

He’s from South Africa, so I extend him some leeway.

We aren't unique with our tin-foilers. Where do you think they got all of that crap from if not from NTD, Newsmax,Fox and Sky News Oztralia youtube comments. None of this stuff comes from Trump. Why do you think he distanced himself from Lin Wood and Powell? I think there's a good chance that Robert Barnes is correct that Q is a disinformation operation to hurt Trump. If it is it's working. I'm just surprised that Powell fell for it. Not so much Lin Wood. Trump is not inclined, and never was, to engage in military power grabs. If he uses the word treason it is to make a point and it is projection to extrapolate that to military takeovers. I think that Trump's was taking a shot at a remote chance of the courts ordering election audits but the main goal is to force the courts to use lame justifications for rejecting his lawsuits and establish strong doubt about the election in the public mind. There's a tendency, and I include myself in this, to think that it's all over and the globalists and big tech censors have won, but the truth is that the "revolution" has just started and either Trump or someone with rounder elbows will be back shortly.

#15243

ThreeFlangedJavis wrote: ↑ I wonder how long the never-Trumper Biden is lesser of 2 evils people are going to be able to maintain the facade.

Late last night, I watched progressive journos react to Biden's leaked audio from a meeting last week-- with black leaders.

The Hill highlights Biden's jerky personality. Then (at 3m58s) they say Biden blurted out a deal he had been offered by the Republicans in Congress: if Biden keeps a low profile for 6 months/ until the Stolen Election furor dies-down, then the Repubs can do business with him. According to The Hill, that's a sucker's deal-- wasting the new-president get-things-done window. And Biden is such as sucker he believed it... & repeated it aloud on camera:
https://youtu.be/EGgvwsAF1wg

Katie Halper & (Bernie's campaign manager) Brihana Joy Gray... did a deeper dive into Biden's actual behavior during the meeting.
After each black leader would state their policy proposals and strategic concerns-- Biden would ignore everything they said-- and tell them meaninglesss, canned stories from the campaign trail-- about how he was inspired by Doctor King to enter politics, and he was so proud when a black man named Barak Obama was elected to the highest office overlooking this great country in which any child can hold their head up with pride and know that they are good enough to take a seat at the front of the bus into a bright future for all Americans and that little girl was Kamala Harris blah blah blah...
He'd be asked a question about agriculture policy-- and would reply by saying assault weapons are killing urban kids. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg4NsEUfWDc

#15244

Bhurzum wrote: ↑
Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑
Pseudomonas wrote: ↑
Tue Dec 22, 2020 2:26 am
I appear to be a less right wing version of Matt. I like cooking too. No braids, though.

Pseudomonas
I'm also 0.3% more of a man than you.
https://media2.giphy.com/media/g4S2Eoaa ... /giphy.gif

:lol:

Meh. I'm not worried, it just means that Matt's little toe is a bit more masculine.

Besides, I thought you were spending the rest of 2020 pissed :twatson: :twatson: :twatson:

Pseudomonas

#15245

Turns out the cunt was Yoda all along.

Don't blame me - I voted for Kodos.

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#15246

Based Joe Biden:

Yes, I know context was clipped off the front, but the last four years taught me that doesn’t matter.

#15247

Pseudomonas wrote: ↑Besides, I thought you were spending the rest of 2020 pissed

I've been seriously refreshed for several days now. Have had many fucked up conversations with friends and family (did you know, tattoos are a direct indication of lack of education? No exceptions, no excuses, any ink = idiot!), not looking forward to the clarity confrontation(s) when they come.

Fuck it.

I love tits, me.

#15248

Difference is the expensive booze versus the rubbing alcohol you usually drink.

#15249

Anyone know of any other online fora where discussions in a similar vein to those carried out here are being had?

#15250

MarcusAu wrote: ↑ Anyone know of any other online fora where discussions in a similar vein to those carried out here are being had?

I know this may sound silly/trollish but there used to be a quite sensible section of the Encyclopedia Dramatica forums. Don't get me wrong, it was butt-ugly, was prone to invasion by knuckle-draggers (yes, that's rich coming from me) and took ages to load but on the whole, it was quite adult.

Not been there for a while but it might be worth a drive-by.

#15251

MarcusAu wrote: ↑ Anyone know of any other online fora where discussions in a similar vein to those carried out here are being had?

Apparently... NBC broadcasts discussions exactly-like those found here... five nights a week?... on Late Night With Seth Meyers.

https://pagesix.com/2020/12/23/john-mul ... -worrying/

I had no idea. Certainly not grounds for sending someone to rehab. Excellent convo.

#15252

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Gotta give @thefatposipunk credit...

there's nothing remotely transgressive about green hair, tattoos, boots, ripped fishnets.

But being that fat is truly punk.

#15253

Best Xmas cover song of 2020.

#15254

"So long, and thanks for all the fish" says the EU. Maybe if it weren't for Covid Boris would have stuck to his guns.

#15255

MarcusAu wrote: ↑ other online fora where discussions in a similar vein

Which aspects of here do you have in mind? Does the 'forum' format matter (vs. a reddit-style format, or blog with comment section, etc.?) Does the discussion have to be multiple-paragraph exchanges/ or are memes and short twitter-like comments sufficient? Is the key thing tolerance for uncensored difference of opinion?

I gotta admit (and it's obvious) that thedonald.win has eaten a chunk of my brain, lately.
The front page (sort by 'Hot') is more cult-like... but sorting by 'Rising' or 'New' reveals opinions which might only get 5 or 20 upvotes. Sometime the stoopid shit is interesting 'local color'-- like overwrought prayers for Rush Limbaugh. Sometimes it's tedious-- like any post about Tulsi has "she's a gun-grabber" and "I'd fuck her" replies.

But dang they got some good stuff:

We have always been vaccinating Eastasia:

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ATF raid decoder:

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#15256

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ep8mcZgXEAA ... name=large

:lol:

#15257

I mean, what about transcows?

#15258

Bhurzum wrote: ↑ https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ep8mcZgXEAA ... name=large

Bhurzo--

Please buy yourself this book for Christmas. You won't regret it. It has pictures.

The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
by Carol J. Adams

Ahead of its time. Like a parody of the 2010's-- written in 1990.

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Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One: The Patriarchal Texts of Meat
The Sexual Politics of Meat
The Rape of Animals, the Butchering of Women
Masked Violence, Muted Voices
The Word Made Flesh
Part Two: From the Belly of Zeus
Dismembered Texts, Dismembered Animals
Frankenstein's Vegetarian Monster
Feminism, the Great War, and Modern
Vegetarianism
Part Three: Eat Rice Have Faith in Women
The Distortion of the Vegetarian Body
For a Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
Epilogue: Destabilizing Patiriarchal
Consumption
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

#15259

https://media.thedonald.win/post/VMmkydKU.jpeg

#15260

Service Dog wrote: ↑It has pictures.

Sold!

#15261

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free pdf: https://we.riseup.net/assets/187553/ADA ... theory.pdf

any random page is great:

Metaphoric sexual butchering recurs in literature and movies extolling images of butchered women. We find the rape and subse- quent butchering of a woman in the Hebrew Bible book of Judges. A Levite allows his concubine to be savagely raped by strangers:“They raped her and tortured her all night until the morning.”68 She falls down at the doorway of the house where the Levite is staying. He puts her on his donkey—we do not know if she is dead or alive—and takes her to his house. “He took the knife and he seized his concubine. He cut her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the territory of Israel.”69 Similarly, in D. H. Lawrence’s “The Woman Who Rode Away” a New Woman rides into a situation where she is to be sacrificed to the sun by a group of men in a cave. Lawrence’s lan- guage evokes both literal and sexual consumption. Kate Millet offers an acute analysis of this tale:“This is a formula for sexual cannibalism: substitute the knife for the penis and penetration, the cave for a womb, and for a bed, a place of execution—and you provide a murder whereby one acquires one’s victim’s power.”70
Sexual butchering is a basic component of male pornographic sexuality. The infamous “snuff movies,” so-named for the snuffing out
The Rape of Animals, the Butchering of Women 89
of a woman’s life in the last few minutes of the movie, celebrate wom- en’s butchering as a sexual act:

Him: I can’t go to Italian restaurants with you anymore because I can’t order my favorite meal: veal Parmesan.
Her: Would you order it if it were called pieces of butchered, anemic baby calves?
Dale Spender refers to “the falseness of patriarchal terms.”4 False- ness pervades language about animals whom we eat. Recently, the British Meat Trades Journal—concerned about the association between meat and slaughtering—proposed replacing the words “butcher” and “slaughterhouse” with “meat plant” and “meat factory.”5 To this Emarel Freshel, an early twentieth-century vegetarian, would have retorted: “if the words which tell the truth about meat as food are unfit for our ears, the meat itself is not fit for our mouths.”6

#15262

I saw this image a page or so back. Someone has put it to good use in a meme:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqAAKERXcAA ... me=900x900

#15263

Fucking hell, SD, that book is a laugh-a-minute! If it's a good representation of standard feminist writings, small wonder they're a shower of bat-shit fruitcakes. Screw the necronomicon, that accursed book would blast my sanity after a few chapters!

#15264

#15265

John D wrote: ↑ Best Xmas cover song of 2020.

Why settle for some clown's version.

In truth, I adore Puddles versions, especially Life on Mars and Under Pressure. He's brilliant, and I especially appreciate the inclusion of "Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow" stanza, which is apropos for 2020.

Merry Christmas Pitizens. And goodbye 2020. It's been an impossibly terrible year. For me it's been nothing less than disastrous, just unimaginably bad for a number of reasons. We'll all just have to muddle through somehow.

#15266

Prime Cut

Actors: Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek

Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA
Release Year: 1972
Duration: 88 min

Synopsis: A Chicago mob enforcer is sent to Kansas City to settle a debt with a cattle rancher who not only grinds his enemies into sausage, but sells women as sex slaves.

full movie: https://putlockers.fm/watch/0v8eQ1xw-prime-cut.html

trailer:

#15267

:fpig: Eē

#15268

Merry Xmas all -

I guess I will bore youall today. Skip this if you don't want to be bored. I am having trouble with my balance today. It is preventing me from being very active. My benign paroxysmal positional vertigo is acting up. I have done the Epley maneuver and it helps, but I was bad again today. I think I have some fluid in my ears as a reaction to getting some dust in my eyes. Anyway.... I told you I would bore you.

It is snowing here in Detroit and things look beautiful. Nothing looks like a fresh snow. I am happy for the kids here..... white Xmas and all. I am enjoying watching my blue jays and juncos and cardinals at my feeder.

I had my daughter and son-in-law over on Tuesday for our family Xmas so today it is just my wife and I and the dog. She is watching another of her horrible chick costume dramas on Netflix, where all the women are strong and bold and marry dukes and princes.... and 30% of the main characters are black. Haha.

Just reflecting on the shitshow that was 2020.

I worked my ass off as a supplier engineer at GM this year. This was my first time at GM so I had to learn EVERYTHING. It was a temporary job and my replacement takes over 100% in January. I did a good job... and received complements on my work... but... it is over and I am now moving on to a FCA project. I just got all the GM stuff figured out and now I have to do the same at FCA. Same story.... I have only worked a bit with FCA so I need to learn all the FCA systems.... damn. The good news is that my company just won a $100M per year contract and I will be the project leader. This program will keep me busy till I retire. It is a good place to be and not a temporary job.... we launch in 2023, so I will stay busy for a good five years. If I can get another $500k into my 401k I will retire.

I think I am determined to really crush this project at work. It will be good for me. Success feels good and I like to have some fire under my ass. This will probably be a good thing over all.

I was upset that I was on furlough for a few weeks this year. This is the first time in my life where I have taken unemployment. I really wanted to retire with a perfect employment record.... but Coco fucked that up. Of course I took the money. I may be proud, but I am not stupid.... and I love my money.

The lock down shit has me down so I hope that we can somehow go back to real living in 2021. I miss live theater and dining out and I miss big parties with friends. I host a big party with friends for New Years every year... maybe 20 people. We have such a great time. No party this year. I am surprised how much I miss it. I am sadder than normal... don't even want to play guitar even though I have plenty of time. Don't want to work on game rules even though I have plenty of time.... and I drink too much.

Anyway... merry Xmas all.

#15269

Service Dog wrote: ↑ After each black leader would state their policy proposals and strategic concerns-- Biden would ignore everything they said-- and tell them meaninglesss, canned stories from the campaign trail-- about how he was inspired by Doctor King to enter politics, and he was so proud when a black man named Barak Obama was elected to the highest office overlooking this great country in which any child can hold their head up with pride and know that they are good enough to take a seat at the front of the bus into a bright future for all Americans and that little girl was Kamala Harris blah blah blah...
He'd be asked a question about agriculture policy-- and would reply by saying assault weapons are killing urban kids.

I had a Biden as a kid:

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Talking Football™. You inserted little phonograph discs into a player depending on the play. Same limited set of play calls. The novelty wore off after a while, and as the cheap plastic record player device faded, the play calls became choppy and slurred.

#15270

Service Dog wrote: ↑ a cattle rancher who not only grinds his enemies into sausage, but sells women as sex slaves.

Important not to mix those two up.

#15271

Bhurzum wrote: ↑ https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ep8mcZgXEAA ... name=large

:lol:

Betting she's still a heifer.

#15272

Merry belated Christmas, you bastards. You too, John.

Well, John, I got my first paycheck in ten years just a few days ago. My perfect employment record left the station a long time ago. :D

#15273

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑
Bhurzum wrote: ↑ https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ep8mcZgXEAA ... name=large

:lol:
Betting she's still a heifer.

Remember, calling your cow Myrtle is misogyny. Or is it calling your Myrtle a cow? :think:

#15274

Dim half-memory: as a kid, I think I encountered a few of the tiny records, loose, and wondered how to play them.

#15275

I'm not one for advocating race or gender swapping for a movie - but it seems like that should make the attempt of adding something new...

#15276

Service Dog wrote: ↑ Prime Cut

Actors: Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek

Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA
Release Year: 1972
Duration: 88 min

Synopsis: A Chicago mob enforcer is sent to Kansas City to settle a debt with a cattle rancher who not only grinds his enemies into sausage, but sells women as sex slaves.

full movie: https://putlockers.fm/watch/0v8eQ1xw-prime-cut.html

Lee Marvin really hit a sweet spot in the late sixties early seventies for moves - Point Blank would be the one most would probably think of.

I recently saw part of an interview with him by Dick Cavett. Where Cavett was setting him up to criticise John Wayne - which he did not really do. But he came across as more sensitive that you might expect...

#15277

John D wrote: ↑ Merry Xmas all -

I guess I will bore youall today. Skip this if you don't want to be bored. I am having trouble with my balance today. It is preventing me from being very active. My benign paroxysmal positional vertigo is acting up. I have done the Epley maneuver and it helps, but I was bad again today. I think I have some fluid in my ears as a reaction to getting some dust in my eyes. Anyway.... I told you I would bore you.

It is snowing here in Detroit and things look beautiful. Nothing looks like a fresh snow. I am happy for the kids here..... white Xmas and all. I am enjoying watching my blue jays and juncos and cardinals at my feeder.

I had my daughter and son-in-law over on Tuesday for our family Xmas so today it is just my wife and I and the dog. She is watching another of her horrible chick costume dramas on Netflix, where all the women are strong and bold and marry dukes and princes.... and 30% of the main characters are black. Haha.

Just reflecting on the shitshow that was 2020.

I worked my ass off as a supplier engineer at GM this year. This was my first time at GM so I had to learn EVERYTHING. It was a temporary job and my replacement takes over 100% in January. I did a good job... and received complements on my work... but... it is over and I am now moving on to a FCA project. I just got all the GM stuff figured out and now I have to do the same at FCA. Same story.... I have only worked a bit with FCA so I need to learn all the FCA systems.... damn. The good news is that my company just won a $100M per year contract and I will be the project leader. This program will keep me busy till I retire. It is a good place to be and not a temporary job.... we launch in 2023, so I will stay busy for a good five years. If I can get another $500k into my 401k I will retire.

I think I am determined to really crush this project at work. It will be good for me. Success feels good and I like to have some fire under my ass. This will probably be a good thing over all.

I was upset that I was on furlough for a few weeks this year. This is the first time in my life where I have taken unemployment. I really wanted to retire with a perfect employment record.... but Coco fucked that up. Of course I took the money. I may be proud, but I am not stupid.... and I love my money.

The lock down shit has me down so I hope that we can somehow go back to real living in 2021. I miss live theater and dining out and I miss big parties with friends. I host a big party with friends for New Years every year... maybe 20 people. We have such a great time. No party this year. I am surprised how much I miss it. I am sadder than normal... don't even want to play guitar even though I have plenty of time. Don't want to work on game rules even though I have plenty of time.... and I drink too much.

Anyway... merry Xmas all.

Hey, you redneck mofo - I really appreciated this post. It made me feel connected to you, and that's important in these times.

For me 2020 was a cunt of a year overall. Work overall is good, and I could retire if I wanted, but I'm really enjoying the challenge. Making lots of analogue synth modules. The huge steaming turd though was that our beloved 16-year-old tabby died of septic shock after contracting a massive renal/bladder/UT infection. She'd been in remission from lymphoma for four years, and we were hoping she'd be around for a few more years. My lymphoma is in complete remission for the time being.

#15278

Merry belated Christmas to everyone at the Pit. Mine wasn't so great, was in the plow truck most of the day clearing snow from the storm that hit the Northeast. But, I had a good evening with my girlfriend. I got myself a big honking Instant Pot, and took it for a test drive by whipping up a big ol' pot roast. It came out fantastic, and it's safe to say I am now a big Instant Pot fan. In this shitty year of 2020, it's the small things that count, eh?

Still read you guys all the time and enjoy your posts... even Brive's attempts to make eating food the most boring thing in the world 😂

John D, good luck with your new gig. Screwtape, good luck finding alien stem cells for what ails you. Bhurzum, keep on being so fucking entertaining. Lsuoma, thanks for keeping this legendary site open, and sorry to hear about your kitty. Matt, keep the entertaining debates going. Service Dog, take John D's advice and write a book about your life! And to everyone, have a great holiday season.

Gumby

#15279

Good meal of the week: Chicken paprikash and potato leak soup (in the crock pot)

Birds at the feeder today: cardinal, junco, tufted titmouse, blue jay, house finch, white breasted nuthatch, downy woodpecker, red breasted woodpecker

Video of the day: A retired porn actress interviews Gad Saad. Yes.... I have a crush.... haha.

#15280

WARNING, Election Stuff.

I don't understand how it's possible to get legal redress for electoral violations against court resistance when the US and state constitutions are so interpretable as to allow cases to be rejected at will, even if the interpretation goes against a reasonable understanding of the intent. Bear in mind that Trump had a case rejected because the court did not consider the right to observe ballot counting to include the right to actually observe anything on the ballots. As Viva says here this decision by the state court punted standing back up to the SC when the SC punted a similar case down to the state court. You'd need to guess how law will be interpreted, by whom and when in order to even get a case heard. When you get the case heard and prove significant error the judge can then arbitrarily add more hoops to jump through. Even if you eventually ping pong your way to the right law to use in the right venue you'll be too late. Trump has no chance, that's clear, but don't swallow the media line that there is no evidence of electoral issues.

#15281

Sorry, minor misunderstanding, this was an Federal appeals court decision, but the gist of the issue is the same.

#15282

Sorry, minor misunderstanding, this was an Federal appeals court decision, but the gist of the issue is the same.

#15283

How can this only have 43 up votes?

#15284

ThreeFlangedJavis wrote: ↑ WARNING, Election Stuff.

I don't understand how it's possible to get legal redress for electoral violations against court resistance when the US and state constitutions are so interpretable as to allow cases to be rejected at will... Trump has no chance, that's clear, but don't swallow the media line that there is no evidence of electoral issues.

So.... have a few thoughts here.

1) Judges are very reluctant to take on controversy. Many are elected, but even those judges that are appointed live in the real world. There is very little motivation for these judges to take these election cases. It would make their life hell... and after all.. most judges are pompous windbag elitists. They hate Trump and they hate populism. They will always be able to come up with a way to dodge these cases.

2) In general, states are 100% responsible for running their own elections. Actions regarding election law are decided at the state level. This gave the SCOTUS an easy out. This is a state issue. and... indeed... Trump supporters where unsuccessful at the state level. Here in Michigan, our bitch secretary of state, Benson, used Covid as an excuse to send every voter a absentee ballot request. This has never been done before. So... every voter in Michigan was handed a way to get a ballot. This single action provided Biden with a win. and.... no one in Michigan was able to stop Benson from doing this.... why... because the judges would not take the case to stop her. The judges hate Trump and were happy to punt this.

3) The Republicans have no spine. The party really has no moral focus. They are currently mostly just pragmatists and just want to glide to election. They do not have a desire to fight for election reform. They just want to get elected themselves. Notice how much the MSM is loving on the Republicans right now... now that they are moving away from Trump.

#15285

Gumby wrote: ↑ Service Dog, take John D's advice and write a book about your life!

Seriously! I've been telling Dog that for years. Best Seller. It'd be like The Basketball Diaries only without the parts about Andy Warhol and alleyway blowjobs from trannies.

Well, there is Fang to write about.

#15286

If you have the Bypass Paywalls extension, you might be amused by this article:
Sidney Powell’s secret intelligence contractor witness is a pro-Trump podcaster

If you don't, here it is as text - it's long, but entertaining:

The Washington Post identified the witness by determining that portions of her affidavit match, sometimes verbatim, a blog post that the pro-Trump podcaster Terpsichore Maras-Lindeman published in November 2019. In an interview, Maras-Lindeman confirmed that she wrote the affidavit and said she viewed it as her contribution to a fight against the theft of the election.
“This is everybody’s duty,” she said. “It’s just not fair.”
In a recent civil fraud case, attorneys for the state of North Dakota said that Maras-Lindeman falsely claimed to be a medical doctor and to have both a PhD and an MBA. They said she used multiple aliases and social security numbers and created exaggerated online résumés as part of what they called “a persistent effort . . . to deceive others.”
► Show Spoiler
Powell’s reliance on Maras-Lindeman’s testimony may raise further questions about her judgment and the strength of her arguments at a time when she is becoming an increasingly influential adviser to the president. Trump’s legal team distanced itself from Powell last month after she falsely claimed Republican state officials took bribes to rig the election. But she has visited the White House three times in the past week, once to participate in an Oval Office meeting. Trump has weighed naming Powell a special counsel to investigate the election, according to previous reports.
Since Nov. 4, President Trump has repeatedly claimed his election loss as a result of massive fraud. The following is a roundup of his claims.
Maras-Lindeman, 42, served in the Navy for less than a year more than two decades ago and has said she worked later as a government contractor and part-time interpreter. She has identified herself as a “trained cryptolinguist.”
North Dakota’s assertions about her credentials came in a civil case brought by the state’s attorney general in 2018 over a purported charitable event she tried to organize in Minot, N.D., where she and her family resided. Attorneys for the state said she used money she collected — ostensibly to fund homeless shelters and wreaths for veterans’ graves — on purchases for herself at McDonald’s, QVC and elsewhere.
A judge ultimately found that Maras-Lindeman violated consumer protection laws by, among other things, misspending money she raised and soliciting donations while misrepresenting her experience and education. He ordered her to pay more than $25,000.
Maras-Lindeman has appealed to the state Supreme Court. In court filings and in her interview with The Post, she denied mishandling the funds or misleading donors. She blamed identity theft and bureaucratic failings for a proliferation of variations on her name and social security numbers associated with her.
Maras-Lindeman also claimed that she was targeted by the state for political reasons, noting that around that time she was exploring running for mayor of Minot — under the slogan “Make Minot Great Again.” She said that in 2018 she assisted the campaign of David C. Thompson, the Democratic challenger to longtime Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem (R). Thompson is now Maras-Lindeman’s defense attorney.
Thompson said in an interview that the case was a “vindictive exercise” and was excessive given the relatively small amounts of money in question. “They took a missile to kill a fly,” he said.
In an interview, Stenehjem — who signed a brief this month asking the Supreme Court to take up a case that sought to overturn the election — dismissed the claim that his investigation was politically motivated and said that anyone working with Maras-Lindeman should “back away” from her.
In a text message, Powell did not directly address questions about Maras-Lindeman’s fraud case and credentials. “I don’t have the same information you do,” she wrote to The Post.
Powell’s lawsuits — litigation she has referred to as “the kraken,” after a Scandinavian mythological sea monster — rely in key respects on a handful of anonymous expert witnesses. Among them is a purported military intelligence expert identified in court filings as “Spyder.” The Post reported this month that the witness is an I.T. consultant named Joshua Merritt who has never worked in military intelligence. Rather, Merritt spent the bulk of his decade in the Army as a wheeled-vehicle mechanic.
Like Merritt, Maras-Lindeman told The Post she had never spoken directly to Powell or anyone working on her legal team. She said she distributed the affidavit widely to like-minded people and was unaware it had come to Powell’s attention until it appeared as an exhibit in one of her cases.
Maras-Lindeman’s 37-page affidavit outlines a purported conspiracy by the Canadian company Dominion Voting Systems, which sells voting machines used in some states, and Scytl, a Spain-based firm that provides election software. She claims that votes cast on Dominion machines in key states were hacked as they passed through Scytl tallying systems and rigged in favor of Biden.
“The vote is not safe using these machines not only because of the method used for ballot ‘cleansing’ to maintain anonymity but the EXPOSURE to foreign interference and possible domestic bad actors,” she writes in the affidavit.
Like Trump and many of his supporters, Maras-Lindeman points to election night spikes in Biden’s vote totals — explained by officials as merely the result of densely populated areas reporting their counts — as evidence of a “digital fix” involving abrupt dumps of bogus votes.
In a statement last month, Dominion described allegations leveled against it by Powell and other Trump supporters as “baseless, senseless, physically impossible, and unsupported by any evidence whatsoever.” Scytl said in a statement that it “does NOT tabulate, tally or count votes in US public elections,” had no relationship with Dominion, and that its U.S. operations are run by a Tampa-based subsidiary.
Last week, Dominion said it had written to Powell to demand that she retract what the company said were defamatory accusations.
Federal judges have rejected all four of the complaints Powell has filed, two of which — in Wisconsin and Arizona — included Maras-Lindeman’s affidavit.
In Wisconsin, a federal judge ruled that Powell’s request that the results of the election be overturned is “outside the limits” of the court’s power. Attorneys for Gov. Tony Evers (D), in seeking the dismissal, said the complaint was “rampant with wild speculation and conspiratorial conclusions, and simply without any basis in law or fact.”
A federal judge in Arizona wrote that allegations “that find favor in the public sphere of gossip and innuendo cannot be a substitute for earnest pleadings and procedure in federal court” and “most certainly cannot be the basis for upending Arizona’s 2020 General Election.”
Powell has appealed the cases to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she is seeking to have them consolidated.
President-elect Joe Biden attacked Republicans for making baseless claims about the legitimacy of the election on Dec. 14 in Wilmington, Del.
Maras-Lindeman, who goes by Tore (pronounced “Tory”), spent recent weeks in Washington with a group of fellow Trump supporters working to bolster Powell’s legal campaign, according to social media posts and statements on her podcast, “Tore Says.” The group included Millie Weaver, a former correspondent for the far-right website Infowars, who released a documentary over the summer — “Shadowgate” — that helped propel Maras-Lindeman to prominence among conspiracy theorists on the right.
Maras-Lindeman told her listeners on Dec. 7 that she was speaking from “the belly of the beast” and that a group of Trump loyalists was working to take action against those who had stolen the president’s victory.
“There are really good people — patriots — gathered, working hard to ensure that they not only get to the bottom of what happened during this election . . . but they’re also seeking to prosecute,” she said.
Maras-Lindeman spent time at Trump’s hotel in downtown Washington and interviewed Patrick Byrne, the millionaire Overstock.com founder and Trump backer who has said he is funding a team of “cybersleuths” to scrutinize the election. Byrne and Maras-Lindeman told The Post he is not funding her.
In past episodes, Maras-Lindeman has discussed conspiracy theories, including one that baselessly accused high-ranking Democrats of human trafficking centered at a D.C. pizzeria. In an episode last year, she said, “What we realize is that this Pizzagate stuff, this satanic constant abuse of children, is an actual real thing.”
Maras-Lindeman, who is of Greek heritage, joined the Navy in December 1996 and spent eight months training in Illinois and Florida as an airman recruit before departing the service in August 1997, according to a Navy record.
In their civil case, North Dakota state attorneys said that Maras-Lindeman created a profile on Together We Served, an online veteran community, that incorrectly depicted an extensive military career.
The profile, which is no longer online, said that Maras-Lindeman reached the rank of lieutenant, served in the combat zones of Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq, and in the Office of Naval Intelligence, and was awarded multiple medals including a Purple Heart.
In the interview, Maras-Lindeman denied creating the profile and said whoever did had misstated the details of her career. She previously posted to Twitter a purported copy of her Navy separation paperwork, which said that she specialized in communications and intelligence.
Neither the record provided to The Post nor the paperwork Maras-Lindeman posted online stated a reason for her departure, but the papers she posted said that the character of her discharge was “general (under honorable conditions).”
In response to questions about the nature of the discharge, a Navy spokesman referred to the Navy Military Personnel Manual. The manual said it means, “The quality of the member’s service has been honest and faithful; however, significant negative aspects of the member’s conduct or performance of duty outweighed positive aspects of the member’s service record.”
In her affidavit, Maras-Lindeman identifies herself as a former “private contractor with experience gathering and analyzing foreign intelligence” and says that from 1999 to 2014 she had responsibility for delegating tasks to other contractors working for the United States and allied nations. She stood by that account in her interview with The Post.
In a court filing in North Dakota last year, she wrote that she had worked as a contractor since 1996 and had been “a vendor with certain programs associated with USSOCOM,” the U.S. Special Operations Command. A spokesman for the command said in an email that its contracting office could find no record of any contract with her.
She claimed in Weaver’s documentary that, as an intelligence contractor, she carried out a notorious 2008 intrusion into the State Department’s passport records on several presidential candidates. In a separate podcast interview, she said that she retrieved the records on direct orders from John O. Brennan, who then led a private security firm implicated in the incident and was later CIA director. “I went and got them,” she said. “He told me to go get them.”
A spokesman for Brennan said that Brennan had never heard of Maras-Lindeman.
Maras-Lindeman told The Post that, by its nature, her covert work could not be independently verified. “People like me don’t exist,” she said. “You just have to trust.”
According to a LinkedIn profile that has since been deleted, between 1997 and 2014 Maras-Lindeman obtained eight academic degrees in the United States and the United Kingdom, along with additional professional qualifications. The attorneys in the fraud case said in court filings that they could find records of her earning only one degree, a bachelor’s in biology from the University of Kentucky in 2011.
Maras-Lindeman told The Post someone else created the profile — despite claims to the contrary by state attorneys in the fraud case — and she declined to comment on its particulars.
After obtaining the degree, Maras-Lindeman and her family moved to Beaverton, Ore.
She took a voluntary job teaching Greek at Agia Sophia Academy, a private Greek Orthodox school in Beaverton. Her archived biography on the school’s website used the title “Dr.” and said she had a PhD. Attorneys for North Dakota later said in a court filing in the fraud case that Maras-Lindeman “is not a doctor and does not possess a PhD from any institution.”
The school’s principal, Christina Blankenstein, said in an email that the school could not vouch for Maras-Lindeman’s professional record because her position was unpaid. Maras-Lindeman worked at the school for between a year and two years, Blankenstein said.
In the interview, Maras-Lindeman said the school must have misunderstood paperwork she gave them saying that she was a PhD candidate.
After she moved to North Dakota, Maras-Lindeman asserted in series of small claims court cases that she was a pediatric oncologist, attorneys for North Dakota said in a court filing. As recently as November 2017, a website for a purported cancer research organization named “ML Laboratories” referred to her as “Dr. Tore Maras-Lindeman” and said she was its founder.
Maras-Lindeman also used an email address and Twitter handle identifying herself as “Dr. Lindeman.” She told The Post she reserved the accounts so they would be ready for her when she earned a doctoral degree.

I don't think it says much for a lawyer's perspicacity when they are willing to advance such a person as a credible witness.

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Gumby wrote: ↑ Merry belated Christmas to everyone at the Pit. Mine wasn't so great, was in the plow truck most of the day clearing snow from the storm that hit the Northeast. But, I had a good evening with my girlfriend. I got myself a big honking Instant Pot, and took it for a test drive by whipping up a big ol' pot roast. It came out fantastic, and it's safe to say I am now a big Instant Pot fan. In this shitty year of 2020, it's the small things that count, eh?

Still read you guys all the time and enjoy your posts... even Brive's attempts to make eating food the most boring thing in the world 😂

John D, good luck with your new gig. Screwtape, good luck finding alien stem cells for what ails you. Bhurzum, keep on being so fucking entertaining. Lsuoma, thanks for keeping this legendary site open, and sorry to hear about your kitty. Matt, keep the entertaining debates going. Service Dog, take John D's advice and write a book about your life! And to everyone, have a great holiday season.

Gumby

What Gumby said, except for the bit about ploughing and pot roast (whatever the fuck that is).

I still think Service Dog is Q and Matt is his profit.

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John D wrote: ↑ How can this only have 43 up votes?

Buck had an interesting chat on Quillette as well. I linked it a while back.

#15289

So, just stem cells, eh, Screwy? I'd always imagined summat like this:

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John D wrote: ↑ How can this only have 43 up votes?

Out you popped, out of your mummies tumpkin and everyone shouted : “It’s a boy, it’s a boy!”. And somebody said “but it hasn’t got a winkle!”. And then I said “A boy without a winkle? God be praised, it is a miracle. A boy without a winkle!” And then Sir Thomas More pointed out that a boy without a winkle is a girl. And everyone was really disappointed.

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KiwiInOz wrote: ↑Out you popped, out of your mummies tumpkin and everyone shouted : “It’s a boy, it’s a boy!”. And somebody said “but it hasn’t got a winkle!”. And then I said “A boy without a winkle? God be praised, it is a miracle. A boy without a winkle!” And then Sir Thomas More pointed out that a boy without a winkle is a girl. And everyone was really disappointed.

Be quiet, Bernard.

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John D wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 26, 2020 10:57 am

ThreeFlangedJavis wrote: ↑ WARNING, Election Stuff.

I don't understand how it's possible to get legal redress for electoral violations against court resistance when the US and state constitutions are so interpretable as to allow cases to be rejected at will... Trump has no chance, that's clear, but don't swallow the media line that there is no evidence of electoral issues.
So.... have a few thoughts here.

1) Judges are very reluctant to take on controversy. Many are elected, but even those judges that are appointed live in the real world. There is very little motivation for these judges to take these election cases. It would make their life hell... and after all.. most judges are pompous windbag elitists. They hate Trump and they hate populism. They will always be able to come up with a way to dodge these cases.

2) In general, states are 100% responsible for running their own elections. Actions regarding election law are decided at the state level. This gave the SCOTUS an easy out. This is a state issue. and... indeed... Trump supporters where unsuccessful at the state level. Here in Michigan, our bitch secretary of state, Benson, used Covid as an excuse to send every voter a absentee ballot request. This has never been done before. So... every voter in Michigan was handed a way to get a ballot. This single action provided Biden with a win. and.... no one in Michigan was able to stop Benson from doing this.... why... because the judges would not take the case to stop her. The judges hate Trump and were happy to punt this.

3) The Republicans have no spine. The party really has no moral focus. They are currently mostly just pragmatists and just want to glide to election. They do not have a desire to fight for election reform. They just want to get elected themselves. Notice how much the MSM is loving on the Republicans right now... now that they are moving away from Trump.

Something needs to change then because as things stand there is no redress for a presidential candidate if a state violates it's own constitution and/or facilitates and ignores election/voter fraud. How a state runs it's election is a federal issue in that it plays a part in determining the head of the federal govt. How can it be that Texas can claim injury by virtue of it's voters having their vote potentially diluted by fraud in another state and have that adjudicated by the courts in that other state? This is surely the kind of thing the SC exists for.

#15293

I think it works

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There is something very sinister and perverse when the title of an article says, "President Trump blocks stimulus bill; ten million could lose their unemployment" and you expect it to be something like Trump blocked it because he's being petty about the election or something like that, but instead you find yourself astonished yet again on the wonders of journalistic manipulation. So could anyone enlighten me as to how Trump becomes the culprit when he wants to give low income earners more money? Is this some Yank business that my socialist brain just can't comprehend?

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KiwiInOz wrote: ↑ I still think Service Dog is Q and Matt is his profit.

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“We’re evaluating the sperm parameters and quality before the vaccine and after the vaccine. From the biology of the COVID vaccine we believe it shouldn’t affect fertility but we want to do the study to make sure that man who want to have kids in the future to assure them it’s safe to go ahead and get the vaccine,” Ramasamy said.

Study participants must have a fertility evaluation before receiving the vaccine.

To protect fertility, some men may want to consider freezing their sperm prior to vaccination.

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020 ... fertility/

Trump uploaded 3 videos to YouTube yesterday, which YouTube censored from view:
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#15296

This looks very professional...

Whilst I'm not in the "vaccine = evil scheme" camp, I'll be fucked if I'm going to allow some rando in a wooly hat and no gloves stick me with a needle. Doubly so if there's no medi-swabbing prior to the injection.

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KiwiInOz wrote: ↑ I still think Service Dog is Q and Matt is his profit.

After me comes the one more powerful than I, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.

#15298

Bhurzum wrote: ↑ This looks very professional...

Whilst I'm not in the "vaccine = evil scheme" camp, I'll be fucked if I'm going to allow some rando in a wooly hat and no gloves stick me with a needle. Doubly so if there's no medi-swabbing prior to the injection.

CNN reports: "In the UK there has been a number of infections at the vaccine injection site...."

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Gumby wrote: ↑
Still read you guys all the time and enjoy your posts... even Brive's attempts to make eating food the most boring thing in the world 😂

Gumby

Well merry Christmas to you too (and all). :D

Let’s consider.

+ 70% plus of Americans are overweight. Obesity is skyrocketing and occurring younger
+ The inevitable end-result of an unrestrained Standard American Diet is metabolic syndrome
+ The outcome of MetSyn is insulin resistance leading to T2D, amputation, blindness, CVD, stroke, heart-attack
+ Modern foods are chemically designed, priced & marketed such that they overwhelm joe-public who then embraces SAD
+ Pragmatics + profit stop the govt from intervening. Refined subsidised grain, seed oil, added sugar -> feed the masses

Forces are acting upon us at an individual level.
I can’t stop globally aligned power-bases from destroying local culture.
I can flip the bird to big-food and re-take control of my way of eating.

So.

Eschew the imposed refined-carb driven abusive relationship with food
Adopt a whole-food way of eating
Specifically: animal-centric, protein focused, moderate fat - for satiety and access to complete amino acids
Carnivore adjacent from choice
No eating till 2:30pm to give insulin a rest and draw on reserves
Keep energy to about 7000kJ
No snacking - eat mindfully
Drink water as an SOP
Supplement with resistance (for me push-ups) and aerobic (brisk daily walking) exercise
Stray from this approach in a very controlled rules-based manner.

My overall goal is to be healthier at 55 than I was at 25. 🤷‍♂️

Too many people mistake their emotional use of food as earned “variety and excitement”. Food is nutrition first - and the joy of a good steak is but icing on the cake.

:rimshot:

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