Since 1996, 73 noncitizens have been convicted of voting illegally. See? No one is saying it doesn’t happen. We say it’s a statistical irrelevance. We’ve had 15 elections since 1996, including that one. So, on average, across the nation nearly 5 people who shouldn’t vote try to vote in each election.

Suddenly, the Census Bureau has “found” 24,000 phantom people voted in 2020 who shouldn’t have? That sounds like propaganda, to me. Let’s take a closer look, though, shall we? It turns out, the Census Bureau used a commercial database to check against. Commercial databases are notoriously inaccurate. The Census Bureau didn’t identify the federal database it used to check the commercial database against, so there may be errors, there, too. Finally, there might well be errors in the matching process.

Mark Lindeman, policy and strategy director at Verified Voting, a nonpartisan group focused on election technology put it most succinctly when he said, “This document doesn’t tell us anything about elections. It just shows that the Census Bureau has gone off the rails.”

Here’s the funniest part, though. It would be safe to characterize these claims from this team as false. In fact, they’re straight-up lies designed to throw doubt on the process and give MAGA something to shout about when the time comes. (MAGA needs to feel good while attacking government buildings and such.) But let’s pretend, for a moment, that the number is correct. 24,000 people in 2020?

158,429,631 votes were cast for president in 2020. According to David Becker, executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, “All of the numbers cited in the Census analysis are smaller than the margins of victory in each state and would not have been enough to change the winner of any state in 2020.” That assumes all 24,000 votes were cast in one state instead of across the entire nation, which nobody is claiming, not even the Census Bureau.

This just KEEPS being not-a-problem but the right keeps pushing it as the most pressing problem the nation has ever faced. It’s a lie, straight up. More importantly, though, it’s a pretext. He’s setting the stage for his claims of rigged elections. He’s lying, but at least now we can see where and how the fight is shaping up. Who ever thought we’d be fighting our own government for fair elections? This whole thing is like a bad fever dream, and I really want to wake up…

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Dear MAGA, nobody would want to put too fine a point on this, but your President is a traitor. I know, he’s also, more importantly, your Precious so you’ll find a way to overlook this little peccadillo. You can make any excuse, all the excuses, you want to make. He’s a traitor. He undermines US interests to the benefit of Russia. The US is obligated by treaty to help Ukraine, specifically against Russian aggression, yet 47 has betrayed Ukraine repeatedly.

Russia attacked Ukraine illegally and under a trumped up pretext. Now the Drumpfster chides Zelenskyy to stand down and surrender to Russia. He’s helping Putin bring in more money by defying an order he signed himself only a few months ago. Word is, he ordered his co-conspirator Elon Musk to shut down Starlink, a communications network Ukraine has been relying upon for information – just before an attack from Russia. You can tell me all day long that was just a coincidence. You’ll be wrong, all day long…

47 had a reason for restricting access to Starlink. He was angry at Zelenskyy for attacking Russia’s oil infrastructure. The thing is, attacking Russia’s oil infrastructure is a legitimate and even smart war move. The USA shouldn’t condemn such a move. We should be helping. Such an action would hurt the criminal aggressor in an illegal war. But put another way, such an action would hurt Putin in Russia, and trump can’t have that.

So those are the facts, MAGA. Your President has turned his back on an American promise in order to help an American adversary. Sure, to you, he’s still your Precious. But I call him a traitor…

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Well, I’ve done my duty. I voted. On paper. I took it to the Registrar’s office and hand delivered it. I’ve received official word my ballot has been accepted. I felt good about it so I did it again. Then again. I’ve voted over and over and over now. My gods, it’s been so easy. I just made a few copies on my cheapo copier, filled ’em out, and took ’em back. Nobody will ever know. Bwa-ha-ha-ha!

I didn’t, of course. I just wrote that to break a few conservative brains. They actually think that’s what people do. They’re too deluded to be embarrassed so I’m going to go ahead and be embarrassed for them…

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One skill 47 actually has? Delaying legal actions against him. He’s very good at that, ostensibly because he has had SO much practice at it. He’s doing it now, with the Trump/Epstein files. He has near-perfect control over the files themselves but still can’t manage to make the Trump/Epstein thing go away. And understand, it isn’t going away. Progress is much slower than it should be, exactly the way President Pedo wants it, likely because of how badly the files ultimately implicate him, personally. But progress is being made.

Donald Trump was best friends with a known child trafficker and a likely co-conspirator in a human trafficking sex ring. Hey, human trafficking runs in the family! One of the most damning bits of information comes from an at-the-time thirteen-year-old girl who claims she was forced to perform oral sex on the Evil Don. The FBI took the case seriously – and that was back when the FBI still operated on a professional level, before the FBI had been corrupted.

There’s a risk a court is about to force Team Evil to release the hand-written version of her statement. That would show more information than the sanitized version they released. 47 absolutely does not want this information released because he’s afraid it will hurt his standing with MAGA. Isn’t that silly? So far, the only thing that has hurt his standing with MAGA is high prices. They don’t care who he rapes or what crimes he commits, just so long as gas prices are down – and they’re not.

I hope the court orders the release but I expect to be disappointed when MAGA once again simply disregards evidence in front of their faces in favor of their preferred and curated image…

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The left is trying to make a big deal about the scene where our National Embarrassment waves to phantom people off in the distance – off camera. The camera was tight on the Pedo when the waving started. Then it panned back to reveal a demented man waving at nobody. The world started laughing at him because he looked like such a fool. There’s a possibility that shot wasn’t for us, “us” being rational people.

Right wing media will simply cut the shot before the camera pans back and cons will think he was actually waving to many adoring crowds, because that’s what they’ll be told. For 47, it’s part of the show, the deception. The whole world knows it was a performance. MAGA will forever be in the dark.

But what if it wasn’t just a show? What if Evil Don actually saw adoring crowds off in the distance in that direction? Phantom people, to be sure, but that doesn’t mean a demented old man didn’t “see” them. We KNOW he’s suffering from some form of dementia. The hand bruise is where they administer the medication keeping him even as cognizant as he is now. The sleeping is a side-effect of the meds, and the regular dementia tests doctors keep giving him is monitoring his decline.

Telling him they’re IQ tests is something of a master stroke. Evil Don believes it because he loves to believe positive sounding things about himself. So the doctors get to administer dementia tests and he gets to keep bragging that he “aces” them. He can still identify a giraffe. Wonderful. But he IS suffering a decline and it’s entirely possible he actually saw adoring crowds out there cheering him on. Putting our government in the hands of a madman was a bad move. It just was…