Ben Dukes

SAG-AFTRA | Actor | Writer | Producer | Repped by @bohemiagroup1 | UGA Letterman - Go Dawgs! - Tweet mostly about UGA Football and Life in the Film/TV industry.

[Ben Dukes @BenDukes]

Re: “Voter Fraud” in CA:

There is nothing that makes the likelihood of later-counted votes being fraudulent any higher than earlier-counted votes.

The system is woefully inefficient, because the priority in CA is “count every single ballot” NOT “count every ballot on time.”

Would it be better if Mail-In Ballots needed to be RECEIVED AT THE ELECTION CENTER on election day? Yes. It would. It would eliminate the late count talking point, it would let people vote, get a result, and move on. The weeks-long ambiguity is infuriating.

But, CA wants to be sure people have ample ways to vote on the day-of, ostensibly to “protect the rights of citizens.” The simplest change of “Election Day is literally the last day. If it is received after that, it won’t count - plan accordingly” does not disadvantage anyone, and would solve the issue.

Not only that, but giving a reasonable expectation of “this is your civic right, and your civic duty - you should take it seriously and be responsible with your time” shouldn’t be a high bar to clear, and shouldn’t be viewed as “unfair.” You simply put on all the materials MUST BE RECEIVED BY ELECTION DAY - IF MAILING, ALLOW 7 BUSINESS DAYS. If people can’t do that, oh well, their vote doesn’t count this time. It’s CA, there will be another vote in 6 months.

But, the idea that CA Dems needs to sit around and wait for night 1 numbers so they’ll “know how many votes to create” is silly. If they’re going to create fake ballots en masse, enough to sway elections of any size, they should be doing it throughout the entire process. They’re no more likely to get caught early than late.

I have problems with the election system, and with the electorate - but let’s not pretend there’s a big warehouse of people furiously filling out ballots after the first results come in. If they’re doing it, they’ve been doing it for weeks, as polling data showed things moving in the wrong direction.

It shouldn’t be hard to understand that in a state that leans hard to the Democrat side, there will be pockets that skew that direction HARD. It’s weird that those areas always seem to get their ballots in late, especially when those areas are usually the urban centers… presumably where mail and ballot boxes are CLOSER to the counting house, as opposed to say, farm communities in NorCal, but it’s not out-of-pocket to think that these left-leaning areas would break the previously established pattern of votes by nature of their near unanimity of policy preference.

It is certainly strange that only approximately 50-60% of California can get their vote in by Election Day.

I have problems with our elections process, not the least of which is the apparent lack of interest in shoring it up from the party who has a stranglehold on the electorate.

Perhaps that’s by design, or perhaps the leaders are simply high on their own supply, and are so certain of their righteousness that they can’t envision changing anything at all. Things are working perfectly, right? After all, THEY are in office.

And apparently, they’ve done something to inspire absolute blind loyalty from people watching their cities fall into decay, their homes get burned to the ground or slide down hills, their gas prices outpace any other state in the contiguous 48, their bridges go unmaintained, their energy prices soar, housing construction get held up in permitting for years, and their primary industry fly to other states.

The electorate for some reason happily signs up for more of all that.

But, you know, weather.

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The people telling you AI is going to destroy the economy also told you computers would shut down on Jan 1 2000 because they wouldn't know what to do with the year "00."

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Whew. Close one.

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It's not so much that it takes CA too long to count ballots (it does)... it's not even that the assumption is always that democrats vote later (they do)... it's that somehow we can get the first 65% done in less than 24 hours... but it's gonna take a week or more for the rest?

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@pedrobangingi @GeorgeFoster72 you'll notice I said, "for me"

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@JosephKahn tell it to really break your balls, to look at your script from the POV of a top film exec who will absolutely not greenlight anything that isn't a surefire hit.

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Me searching for the window to replace the door God shut.

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@kevinbrueck No one is illegal with stolen weed!

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Found out yesterday that in Mexico, weed is legal.

Unless you're visiting from another country. It remains strictly illegal for non-citizens.

Imagine that.

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I'm sure that "Rewards" programs that have expiring points do, in the aggregate, inspire people to buy more often from the store so that they can use the rewards before they expire.

They inspire me to avoid that store, for trying to game me.

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@LukeBarnett My primary question is... "Why did you shave for that headshot"?

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As of now, roughly 66% of Angelenos are voting for change in the Mayor’s office.

Pundits tell me there is no way Pratt could win the general, because Blue No Matter Who…

But part of me wonders if the noise of a city crumbling can wake voters from their hypnosis.

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@davidpollack47 That man couldn’t stand in the heat for 3 seconds. Not sure he’s ready for Mountaineer celebrations.

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Last night when I went to bed,

Bass 36
Pratt 29
Raman 21

This morning,

Bass 34
Pratt 30
Raman 22

The prediction was that Pratt would cede votes to Raman and she would overtake him. So far, the evidence is that Bass is ceding ground to both.

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I wouldn’t say “nobody” does this. There are various hippie communes and such across the US.

But, there’s a solid point being made here, that the government isn’t forcing people to participate in Capitalism. But for either Socialism or Communism to flourish, it MUST be forced.

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

Under capitalism, socialists are free to build socialism.

Under socialism, capitalists aren’t free to build anything.

Nothing stops a group of socialists pooling their money, forming a company, and splitting every wage and every pound of profit perfectly equally.... Or to donate all profit to the government.

It’s legal. It’s easy. Owning the means of production is as simple as setting up a company.

Marx wrote his manifesto before the invention of limited liability companies. Back then “seize the factory” meant seizing it from the handful of families who could afford one.

That argument expired the day anyone could start a company with limited liability, raise investment and hire who they want.

Socialists are free to lead by example and demonstrate their system works. They can out-recruit, out-motivate, out-build and out innovate based on their ideas if they like. It would prove the philosophy works. Capitalism will happily host their experiment.

The fact that nobody does this tells you a lot.

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I do not understand people using the term "gobsmacked" about the relative success of Steve Hilton in a Primary election against a field of numerous democrats. He's under 30% of the vote. Do these news folks really not expect the lead candidate of the opposition to get 1/3?

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@TrillWilsosa Delp's knee is the best part, tbh.

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I mean... it's kinda dope.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

This is the only way I would buy a Tesla. 🔥

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@Fred_Butler It was a force kick. nbd.

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Watching NBC news call Joe Rogan a Right-Wing podcast is.... well, it's something.