As someone who’s been singing the National Anthem at rodeo events for over 20 years, I’ll just say….
There’s a way it was intended to be sung, without your own spin. This was 💯the way! Bravo!
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Tens of thousands of Spencer Pratt voters are now receiving rejection letters from the county clerk saying that their ballots were not counted due to signature irregularities. Yet, Governor Gavin Newsom just passed legislation that would make it illegal for anyone conducting oversight, to contest signatures that they deemed fraudulent. Democrats allow ballots to be signed with an X, a -, or a 🙂 to pass and count, but all of a sudden, only Republican signatures are being flagged for irregularities, rejected, and not counted. 🤔 One of these California Republican voters said that his signature has been on file for over 20 years and there has never been an issue until he voted for Spencer Pratt. Nithya Ramen has beaten Spencer Pratt by less than 3000 votes. There are at least 18,000 Pratt voters who received this letter saying their votes were rejected.
@Stellaaa@spencerpratt The increased voter rolls makes sense, because California doesn’t appear to remove voters one they die/move, or are otherwise ineligible.
I wish everyone who has moved works check their voter status to see if someone voted in there name. I used to live in CA…checking now.
I am not an “election denier.”
My argument to our voters is that we almost always have the numbers to make it Too Big to Rig.
But I understand why our voters are suspicious. I am, too.
We have election laws, and those laws are easily violated and often impossible to detect. Even when detected, it’s too late.
We know illegal voting exists, because people are convicted of it every election, but we don’t know the actual scale of it because some ways of committing it is undetectable. In some ways it doesn’t even matter if the scale is small because some local elections are decided by 5, 10, or 20 votes.
For example, it is very easy to sidestep the signature verification process altogether, and CA passed a new law preventing observers from even challenging signature verification. Voter ID would close this loophole.
Delay and late acceptance exacerbates this perception, as well, putting pressure on an already not well-managed system, keeping the process opaque and confusing to an already distrustful public.
Indeed, the 14 states including California that count ballots received after Election Day are unconstitutionally extending the date of Election Day by one, two, or three weeks - and SCOTUS will hopefully put an end to that in the next 60 days.
When we point these things out, our colleagues across the aisle call us crazy conspiracy theorists, voter suppressionists, or even worse, racists. They do that obviously because this system is to their benefit.
We simply recognize reality that in order to have a functioning Republic (or Democracy whatever word you want to use), the public must have confidence in our elections and our current laws and system does not provide that.
Rather than call us names, address the issues.
I have spent the last decade having to go to DC for work.
Most of dc was hard to look at— homelessness everywhere, the city felt like Gotham at night. After blm quite a lot of businesses shuttered and never reopened.
Most notably, grass was dead, planters were destroyed and trashed, walkways, cement and stone were all poorly managed. They were dirty, overgrown with weeds, water was dirty and grass was brown patchy and terrible.
Now you walk around dc and it’s the exact opposite. Truly the entire city has been revived. Planters restored, grass cut back and filled in. You can walk around at almost any hour without fearing for your life. The memorials which I feel are beautiful at night in particular, are the nicest I’ve ever seen them. No broken fixtures or lights.
It’s amazing what can happen when you take care of a city.
President Trump has done for DC what Rudy Guiliani did for NYC and Americans should never forget it.
Zero tolerance for Nazi ink. Why is @JohnFetterman the ONLY Democratic Senator willing to say what everyone knows? He dropped truth bombs on CNN this morning about Graham Platner
✅“All Democrats, we all know that that was Nazi ink, and everyone knows that he said these terrible things online.”
✅“The only reason he’s apologizing is because he got caught.”
✅“He’s lied to America, he lied to my colleagues in the Senate.”
No redemption arc. Just a guy who tried to delete his history, got exposed, and now expects us to pretend it never happened.
Thanks Sen. Fetterman for having the courage to speak out.
Palestinian students at UNRWA schools:
“Stabbing Jews brings dignity to the Palestinians. We have to stab the Jews. They teach us that Jews are terrorists. I am ready to stab a jew and drive a car over them. I am ready to join ISIS.”
Does this seem like a normal society to you?
This is really pulling the mask off. The previous narrative was "late ballots always lean toward Democrats, it's just demographics"
But now we are seeing that late ballots always lean toward the specific Democrat who needs more ballots.
That is not possible.
@Celina08888@warDaniel47 Well, he did say why he is middle of the road in the second half of this clip…it’s the lunatic left.
It’s an opportunity for conservatives to grow the base with disaffected democrats.
@lukemaciastx
You have a great podcast.
For anyone attending the RPT convention next week, his latest podcast is required listening before casting a vote for party chair.
https://t.co/RIoAKN4xTe
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.