Macro Polo

Let’s all try to be a little less stupid

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

Spencer Pratt is likely going to be overtaken by far left Nithya Raman today. This graph shows the count on Election Day through last night.

Nithya did this by suddenly winning 1st in every new ballot drop.

North Korean "elections" have more self respect. Even they’d find it absurd for 3rd to suddenly jump to 1st place in every ballot drop DAYS after an election. It’s just ludicrous.

[Macro Polo @PolymacroPolo]

@TahraHoops @arttavana Yes Karen bass has done a great job

[Dr. Clayton Forrester @DrClaytonForre1]

Trump hired a bunch of chuds to restore the Reflecting Pool, which they did on time and on budget. Liberals are absolutely furious because they don't want voters to see that you can just fix things.

[AG @AGHamilton29]

Stuff like this makes it very difficult for people to trust elections.

California has a serious problem.

Raman was in a distant third and now she’s leading every new drop to completely change the outcome. And there could obviously be legitimate explanations (esp since CA allows ballot harvesting, which is a problem in itself).. but no way anyone can look at them taking weeks to count ballot and outcome completely changing in one direction each time without having serious concerns.

[Heritage Foundation @Heritage]

Right-wing extremism is so uncommon that left-wing extremists have to fund it.

[La Jolla Populist @liberscravola]

I was wondering why are they making a big deal about a job that will be finished in under a month then it hit me, confession through projection. If the CA dems ran this project it would take months or years. They fully expected a empty pool all summer at the peak of DC tourism. The idea it would be done on time never even entered their minds.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

It's hard to overstate how much of an outlier California is for its slow vote-counting relative to literally any other state or almost any other industrialized democracy.

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

On the night of June 5, 1944, Eisenhower stood on a tarmac in England and watched 13,000 paratroopers board their planes.

He already knew what Air Marshal Leigh-Mallory had told him in private: up to half of them might not survive the night. 6,500 men. Dead before a single soldier touched the beach. Eisenhower had approved the mission anyway, called the decision "soul-wracking," and said nothing to the men.

Instead he drove out and visited them.

He chatted. Laughed. Asked where they were from. Shook hands. Cracked jokes. Not one of them knew their general had just signed what might be their death warrant.

When the last plane disappeared into the dark sky, his driver Kay Summersby looked over at him.

There were tears running down his face.

He drove back to Telegraph Cottage in silence. Then he sat down, picked up a pencil, and wrote a note he prayed no one would ever read.

"Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."

Look at what he edited.

He had first written "This particular operation." He crossed it out and replaced it with "My decision to attack." Then he pressed the pencil down hard and drew a long, firm line under the words "mine alone."

He misdated it July 5 instead of June 5.

He was so consumed with dread he had forgotten what month it was.

He folded the note and put it in his wallet. He carried it there as 156,000 men stormed the beaches of Normandy. When word came back that the beachhead had held, he took it out, crumpled it, and threw it in the trash.

An aide quietly pulled it out and saved it.

That note is now behind glass at the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, Kansas. You can still see where the pencil pressed hardest.

Right under the words "mine alone."

82 years ago tonight.

[Agrippa @agrippa_dr]

Gavin thought this wouldn’t age poorly because he couldn’t fathom completing a public works project.

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

Let me get this straight

> 84% of Americans support requiring a photo id to vote

> every major democracy in the world does this except the US

> even under our very eyes, the mail-in ballots in California are highly suspiciously slanted toward only one party

And yet majority can’t push this through?!

This is a traitorous level of incompetence

Pass the SAVE Act!!

[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

The DoJ announces that the SPLC paid klan members a monthly salary to stay in the KKK and recruit new members. That a non-profit would do this is sick and sad. Just what were they thinking?

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Florida processes more than 10 million votes in a matter of hours.

California takes days — or sometimes even weeks — to count the votes.

It’s pathetic — and it’s corrosive to our civic culture.

[Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ @InezFeltscher]

I like how it doesn’t even occur to these grandstanding “believe all women” hacks that a woman might be against the weaponization of low/no standard accusations *because she herself was a victim*. That actually, as people like @lyndseyfifield (and I) have been repeating endlessly for about a decade now, the casual way the left has decided to throw due process and evidentiary standards in the trash hurts the credibility of women who really have these kinds of experiences. For the hacks, it’s all a cheap political game, and they couldn't care less about making it harder for real victims to come forward.

Lyndsey isn’t asking anyone to believe her warnings about a man who appears to be a volatile, violent, pathological liar on mere accusation. She brought the exact kind of evidence that fair-minded people would ask for, the kind of evidence the lawyer gently cross-examining Christine Blasey-Ford asked Ford to produce (she couldn’t).

She brought specific dates and places, contemporaneous messages to third party witnesses, friends willing to sign their names to corroborate that she told them these things happened years before anyone but her group chat knew the name “Graham Platner.” All those things make her story very credible.

I’ve tried hard to hold consistent standards about these kinds of accusations across party lines. To date, I’ve publicly argued that the accusations against Al Franken (remember him?) and Andrew Cuomo were unserious, and that the most grave accusations (meaning beyond womanizing) against Swalwell lacked credibility. I also thought Tara Reid, Biden’s accuser, lacked credibility. Anyone can check receipts on this.

@krystalball (who retweeted this, and hasn't bothered to tag me) knows this btw because, among other venues, I did so on her show. Unlike Krystal’s cheap play now for bipartisan respectability on this issue regarding accusations against Biden, which everyone with an IQ above 85 knows fits her anti-establishment politics perfectly well and was a politically easy concession to make, I have actually defended even people whose politics I revile from these kinds of attacks because I believe in holding a high and consistent standard.

Holding these standards matters EXACTLY because things that by nature tend to happen in private are hard to prove, but they do happen. Abuse and assault are real and serious, not to be handled cheaply for political advantage. And immoral people use the left’s destruction of due process and evidentiary standards, which inevitably erode the credibility of ALL women who come forward with these stories, as a shield behind which to commit real abuse and assault.

I don’t “believe all women”, but because of the convincing evidence she has brought forward, and also because I know her personally to be a woman of good and honest character, I do believe Lyndsey.

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

I bucked all advice from my friends (and resisted my conservative bias) and decided to fully trust the Times journalists.

As they left my home they asked that I not talk to any other outlets and I insisted then and repeatedly over the following weeks that I would keep my word and only share this story with them.

But then the weeks dragged on. They kept coming back to us saying the editors needed more. I needed to go on the record (okay). We need more screenshots (okay). I met every bench mark they set, eager to provide more sources or evidence as needed.

After the story went up I began to ask them … wait, where are the stories from the other women? Where are their accusations of sexual assault? Why am I the focus? Why are there 11 paragraphs dedicated to detailing my work history (more than has been published about Graham’s by far)?

Why does it say “nobody could corroborate” when I offered them sources that COULD corroborate?

Why did they include an out of context quote from a friend joking “do not call Graham” after I called off my wedding? (Because she knew I would never).

Where were the screenshots they’d said they would use? Or the mention that I’d supported local democrats and that most of my family (and husband) are liberal?

The editors said it was too much, they explained.

The Times also failed to include any mention that I DID confide in multiple friends through the years that Graham had been abusive — long before he was running for office. Those friends confirm they told the Times so.

It dawned on me that this really was a set up all along. The journalists I trusted who convinced me to share a story I never wanted to tell methodically delayed and twisted this into a gift to the Platner campaign. Violating the trust of his victims. Shattering the trust I placed in them with the most vulnerable story of my life.

And at the end of my call with them I reluctantly accepted their insistence that this was still a powerful story and that I had done a brave thing. And I thanked them for all the hard work they had put into it.

Still fawning after all these years.

[Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers @UnderSecPD]

Here’s what prominent Brits said as America’s cities burned.

Very fortunately, protesters mourning Nowak have not ignited infrastructure, murdered anyone, or otherwise cut an antisocial swathe of destruction through the UK. To the extent any of them care what America thinks, we urge them to remain peaceful—and we expect they will. Just like Henry Nowak and just like Americans, ordinary Brits have been slandered as racist. Thus violent. They’re not.

[CtheLightTrading @canuck2usa]

One-third of Americans’ wealth is now tied to the stock market — a record high -- NYP

You don't say

[Jan Crawford @JanCBS]

There is no corroborating evidence Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford ever met. All four people who Ford said were at a party where the alleged assault occurred, including her close female friend, said there was no such party. The close friend also said she didn’t believe Ford’s story, and that she told the FBI Ford’s allies threatened her with a smear campaign if she refused to lie and confirm it.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Video of Chinese communist security forces killing hundreds of protesting students on the Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 4th, 1989. 🇨🇳

[Jan Jekielek @JanJekielek]

For 37 years, over 2,000 images taken by a Chinese state media photographer were hidden in a metal box, surviving brutal purges—until now.

These raw, powerful photos show the courage of the students, the scale of the protests, and the horror of what the Chinese Communist Party did.

Now, The @EpochTimes is making the photos public for the first time. [1/2]

[dank @cptdankkk]

Rob Gronkowski shares his advice for NFL rookies: You don't need a $200,000 car

“This is simple advice. You just need that $60,000 car. It's basically just as flashy. It's not going to make you more of a man or make you play better on the football field”

“If you start getting on that train right away and buying everything, all the jewelry, nice cars that depreciate in value the second you pull out of the lot, then guess what? You're going to want to live that life your whole entire time”

“Spend within your means and don't go overboard. You don't need everything flashy right away. Put it away because you never know when the NFL is going to be done with”

“If you put it away, you're set. You don't have to worry about anything. Even if you put $2 million away, you're set. It's fantastic”