Month: October 2020

Trump Love, Trump Addicts, Trump Who? Bumper Numbers, Desperation

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How Investigators Found Academic Who Faked Hunter Biden Documents

found online by Burr

 

Christopher Balding – Photo and Biography now deleted from Fulbright University site     [Cached Image]

Note from Burr: Poor Giuliani, exposed in so many ways

From NBC News:

One month before a purported leak of files from Hunter Biden’s laptop, a fake “intelligence” document about him went viral on the right-wing internet, asserting an elaborate conspiracy theory involving former Vice President Joe Biden’s son and business in China.

The document, a 64-page composition that was later disseminated by close associates of President Donald Trump, appears to be the work of a fake “intelligence firm” called Typhoon Investigations, according to researchers and public documents.

The author of the document, a self-identified Swiss security analyst named Martin Aspen, is a fabricated identity, according to analysis by disinformation researchers, who also concluded that Aspen’s profile picture was created with an artificial intelligence face generator. The intelligence firm that Aspen lists as his previous employer said that no one by that name had ever worked for the company and that no one by that name lives in Switzerland, according to public records and social media searches.

One of the original posters of the document, a blogger and professor named Christopher Balding, took credit for writing parts of it when asked about it and said Aspen does not exist.

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America’s Obsession with Socialism – How It Began

found online by Raymond

 

Eugene V. Debs, five time candidate of the Socialist Party of America, 1900‑1920     [Image from Wikipedia]

From Heather Cox Richardson in Letters from an American:

The same people who had bitterly and publicly complained about Black Americans participating in society as equal to whites began to argue that their problem with Black voting was not about race, but rather about class. They said that they objected to poor voters being able to elect leaders who promised to deliver services or public improvements, like schools and roads, that could be paid for only by taxes, levied on property holders.

In the South of the post-Civil War years, almost all property holders were white. They argued that Black voting amounted to a redistribution of wealth from hardworking white men to poor Black people. It was, they insisted, “socialism,” or, after workers in Paris created a Commune in 1871, “communism.”

This is the origin of the American obsession with “socialism,” more than 40 years before Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution.

Since that time, Americans have cried “socialism” whenever ordinary Americans try to use the government to level the economic playing field by calling for business regulation—which will cost tax dollars by requiring bureaucrats—or for schools and roads, or by asking for a basic social safety net. But the public funding of roads and education and health care is not the same thing as government taking over the means of production. Rather it is an attempt to prevent a small oligarchy from using the government to gather power to themselves, cutting off the access of ordinary Americans to resources, a chance to rise, and, ultimately, to equality before the law.

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His Campaign Has Cash problems & Trump Is NOT Donating

found online by Raymond

 

Campaign Money     [Image from Washington Post]

From jobsanger:

The Trump campaign has a cash problem. Most interesting is that Trump, who said he could self-fund his campaign, has only given a paltry $8000 to the campaign.

Does he expect to lose, and not want to waste his own money on a losing effort?

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Let Me Get This Straight – Not Enough Followers Same as Censorship

found on Twitter by Burr

 

Could it be the more you tweet, the less people like you?

Almost as weird as claiming fraud because voters might choose the other candidate.

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Darkness at Midnight

found online by Raymond

 

The decline of American democracy won’t be televised     [Image from Vox]

From nojo:

By the end of the day Monday, perhaps no later than Tuesday, Republicans will be poised to complete their long-term goal of turning the United States into a tyranny.

It’s not that abortion will be outlawed, or Obamacare, or hundreds of thousands of marriages, although all are possible in the nearly three months remaining until Inauguration. Great harm will have been done, but much of it can be undone.

Instead, it’s that the election may turn — as it has before — on the Supreme Court siding with power against justice. Atop all the voter suppression we’ve seen to date, one adverse ruling regarding, say, Pennsylvania, might be enough to throw it.

And then we’re finished. Not because America sought a tyrant, but because it was deliberately and methodically saddled with one. A significant minority of citizens will have completed its goal of wresting enduring power from the majority.

Tyranny, not by a small cabal of miscreants seizing the reins of government, but by half of white Americans ensuring that their historical unjust dominance over the rest of us remains unchecked for the foreseeable future.

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Is Socialism Constitutional?

found online by Raymond

 

Democratic Socialism Gains Popularity     [Image from CNBC]

From libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara:

Clearly, socialism and individual rights are morally incompatible. The right to pursue your own happiness clashes with socialism’s collective moral vision, the demand to subordinate your self-interest to the collective’s central authority.**** Just as clearly, voluntary socialism is legally compatible with a government that constitutionally protects individual rights. In and of itself, socialism is not unconstitutional.

When, in the early 20th century, socialists began to turn to the government to impose their socialist creed on the entire society, socialism became unconstitutional. When massive government intervention arrived, such as the “anti-depression” policies of Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt (e.g, public-works spending, farm-price maintenance, wage support, forced unionization, unemployment insurance, Social Security), socialism ceased being a voluntary arrangement and became a threat to the lives, liberties, property, and personal pursuit of happiness of every individual in the country, including to the many people who never consented to join the socialism. Unconstitutional socialism grew in lockstep with the subsequent steady growth of coercive, government-imposed socialist programs (called the welfare state) over the following hundred years.

Today’s modern socialists have pretty much captured a major political party.*** Unlike the early American socialist movements of the 19th Century, which were essentially private and voluntary, today’s socialist movement has become a political movement geared to overturning today’s semi-free “welfare capitalism” and imposing full, undiluted socialism, by coercive tyrannical legislative means, on the entire American society. This political socialism is really just crime under cover of law, violates individual rights, and is thus unconstitutional in the U.S.

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