Came to this thread too late, and somebody probably already noted this... This IS Illegal. You can't give anybody anything to entice them to vote, register, not vote, not register....
§ 10307. Prohibited acts
(a) Failure or refusal to permit casting or tabulation of vote
(b) Intimidation, threats, or coercion
This sort of thing is considered 'coercion'... either way, for or against participating in the voting process.
This is why states are allowed to criminalize giving people in line waiting to vote water. The interpretations are pretty strict. You can't even pay someone to register, regardless of party, regardless of whether they even turn up to vote.
They're not paying them to register, they're paying them to post a voting plan. And insult Donald Trump. And apologize for not voting. No other obligation, just three lines of text online:
1. "Sorry."
2. "I plan to vote at my nearest voting place."
3. "Donald Trump is a human toilet" (on social media.)
The toaster stays on the counter and the canisters stay on the shelf, but the water flows up. That blows my hypothesis that it's just people what have backwards gravity.
New hypothesis: water has backwards gravity Down Under. Corroborating evidence: humans are high in water content, therefore also would have backwards gravity, as observed. Confounding factor: plants are observed not displaying backwards gravity. Mitigating supposition: those plants are fake.
This whole “needing to make a voting plan” is nuts. Up here in Canada, you can check a box on your tax return so that you’re added to the voter rolls. Elections Canada’s long and generous list of acceptable identification (https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=ids&document=index&lang=e) will make you Americans cry. I have literally shown up at the local polls on election day, with my wallet and a handful of mail (paper when I did it, but today it can be email!), registered, and voted, in a couple hours or less. It can be that easy for voters, and damn well ought to be.
I'm guessing someone at Lone Skum's voter scam site has blocked the CAH email, because when I tried to use it just now it keeps telling me "Submission failed: first name, last name, phone number, email, address, and referrer email or phone number are required" despite all of those fields being completely filled in.
It told me the same thing and I think that it is a problem with Elon's form because it finally worked. I think my problem was my address. All the fields you fill in also have be highlighted blue for it to work.
In other news, huge-faced Chuckles Kirk calls Obama an "effeminate soy boy" for the way he's talking to Black men about Kamala. It seems he needs to be more manly masculine for this audience. https://x.com/JoeMyGod/status/1845234432137113752 (that face!!!)
Good question. It seems that some MAGAts are starting to say this whenever people bring up climate change, socialized health care, or other liberal positions. The use here is ironic and meant as satire. ( :
Sweetness and light. Their show around 1970 did an acoustic set, then brought out the amps... Brought out Neil Young too, and they rocked the fucking house. Something to see and hear!
Was this verbiage always there, and does it negate the point of the MuskIsDumb initiative? I'd not want to give up my info unless it serves the purpose!
"To be eligible, both the referrer and the petition signer must be registered voters of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, or Wisconsin."
I had a long conversation yesterday, with a republican woman I've known for awhile, it has put me in a dark frame of mind.
I did not know how difficult it was to be a wealthy person in the US these days. They walk around with a target on their backs don't you know, they are afraid to leave home, a gated community in Burlingame Ca.
Kamala will take all their things away. She is both evil and very stupid this Kamala person. And it's really really hard for them to say her name correctly, almost impossible, a tongue twister.
There was much more. Life is harrrrd.
I wish this stuff rolled off my back. It eats me up and is frightening.
If they can't get a licence to shoot around 12 poor children from their cars each year they are being oppressed. The poor just breed up* and need to be thinned otherwise they might suffer.
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*RFK had 11 children!! 11! I am suprised he took enough time off fucking his wife to get shot. It must have been a short window of opportunity.
You must have the patience of a saint to even talk to one of those stupid people. She obviously lives in the Faux News bubble. She deserves a good swift kick where the good Lord split her.
I used to live in Burlingame back before the downtown area was gentrified with all of the expensive shops and restaurants and stupid, annoying people like this woman. I loved Burlingame Hardware, where I bought my Pyrex double-boiler which I use to this day. Sadly, it went out of business long ago. It really had a small town vibe back then.
I live in Chicago and work in a hospital in a relatively wealthy first ring suburb. I often make conversation with patients and families. I am talking to a family who lives in a WEALTHIER suburb and I mention that I ride from Chicago on my bike to work. Immediate response "aReN't YoU aFrAiD yOu'Re GoInG tO gEt ShOt????!" (because I live in the big bad city with all the brown people and with all the guns.) I looked them in the eye and said "I take my chances"
Yes, but by focusing all that wealth on his pet projects, resources and trained personnel get pulled away from other projects. I imagine there are barely any nurses left in the hospitals in the region that don't focus on disease and child mortality, so people might be dying of broken toes when they shouldn't have.
The problem isn't his willingness to help, I am sure he is a reasonably decent person, the problem is the amount of money a single man has. That always distorts the entire economy of wherever he chooses to act. Still, doing something is better than doing nothing, though best would be if he didn't accumulate that much money at all. I think he can be just as happy with 50 million net worth.
Think of money (or power) like gravity, having some is good, but that doesn't mean forever adding more in a single point is harmless. You wouldn't like living on a planet where the gravity is ten times as much.
Yeah, “people might be dying of broken toes” (?!) isn’t really the moral equivalent of eliminating bodily autonomy for half the people in this country—and by extension the rest of us to at least some degree—or expropriating it for a fascist oligarchy.
If all billionaires did no worse than Gates, they wouldn’t be *nearly* such a problem for the rest of us.
The point is that people shouldn't die from broken toes, it is the easiest thing in the world not to let people die of broken toes. But if there are zero medical experts available because some rich fuck pulled them all into his pet project, then sure, their pet project's targets will get reached, but the entire medical services sector falls apart around them. And that damage lasts, because people get retrained into the new job fighting, for example, malaria. So there are no longer any general practitioners or OB-GYN, no surgeons, no pediatricians. All because a billionaire saw a documentary about, for example, malaria in the Congo and decided to throw an amount of money that is comparable to a significant fraction of the country's GDP in funding against the problem.
Also, "eliminating bodily autonomy for half the people in this country", when did we stop talking about eradicating disease and reducing child mortality? and when did it become about a specific country? Pick a subject and stick to it please, or I will have to accuse you of moving the goalposts.
We shouldn't *have* billionaires, no matter how good they are. Because being that rich they cannot help but do damage. There's a reason the saying is about a bull in a china shop, and not about a wasp in a china shop: The bigger they are, the more damage they will do, even with the best intentions.
I want to buy a drink for Peanut Butter Goldfish Jared.
"More elephant cock than i bargained for"
Came to this thread too late, and somebody probably already noted this... This IS Illegal. You can't give anybody anything to entice them to vote, register, not vote, not register....
§ 10307. Prohibited acts
(a) Failure or refusal to permit casting or tabulation of vote
(b) Intimidation, threats, or coercion
This sort of thing is considered 'coercion'... either way, for or against participating in the voting process.
But CAH doesn't really know if anyone who gets their cash actually votes so if they don't, then how could they be charged with "coercion"?
This is why states are allowed to criminalize giving people in line waiting to vote water. The interpretations are pretty strict. You can't even pay someone to register, regardless of party, regardless of whether they even turn up to vote.
They're not paying them to register, they're paying them to post a voting plan. And insult Donald Trump. And apologize for not voting. No other obligation, just three lines of text online:
1. "Sorry."
2. "I plan to vote at my nearest voting place."
3. "Donald Trump is a human toilet" (on social media.)
Proud to say that since my book is now available at the library, I completed my ballot to drop off whilst there.
Blue votes all the way down.
You wrote a book?
Sorry I wasn’t clear. I put a book on hold for when one came back from being on loan.
“Potato/potahto.”
Green checkmark success!
Sorry for the nitpicking - chanteuse is a female nightclub singer, chartreuse is a color...
I had a drag queen friend whose name was Chartreuse Chanteuse.
I think that was intentional, as in “joke”.
Ahh - should have recognized that...
Donald trump is a human toilet. There. Did it for free.
I can no longer live with the lie about how my people exist!!
Here is the proof!!!!
https://substack.com/@darthtrad/note/c-72426074
The toaster stays on the counter and the canisters stay on the shelf, but the water flows up. That blows my hypothesis that it's just people what have backwards gravity.
New hypothesis: water has backwards gravity Down Under. Corroborating evidence: humans are high in water content, therefore also would have backwards gravity, as observed. Confounding factor: plants are observed not displaying backwards gravity. Mitigating supposition: those plants are fake.
This whole “needing to make a voting plan” is nuts. Up here in Canada, you can check a box on your tax return so that you’re added to the voter rolls. Elections Canada’s long and generous list of acceptable identification (https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=ids&document=index&lang=e) will make you Americans cry. I have literally shown up at the local polls on election day, with my wallet and a handful of mail (paper when I did it, but today it can be email!), registered, and voted, in a couple hours or less. It can be that easy for voters, and damn well ought to be.
Here we have an entire apparatus set up to prevent us from voting!!! It’s called the Republican Party.
In my socialist hell-hole you are required by law to take place in democracy!!!
It is worse than North Korea! Without the fermented cabbage!!!
OK. You can buy fermented cabbage anytime.
Penn State won and Ohio State lost. To quote warrior poet Ice Cube, “today was a good day.”
Don’t you mean, THE Ohio State University?
I'm guessing someone at Lone Skum's voter scam site has blocked the CAH email, because when I tried to use it just now it keeps telling me "Submission failed: first name, last name, phone number, email, address, and referrer email or phone number are required" despite all of those fields being completely filled in.
'Free speech'! My flabby white ass!
'$47 or GTFO ya Saffie Coont!'
It told me the same thing and I think that it is a problem with Elon's form because it finally worked. I think my problem was my address. All the fields you fill in also have be highlighted blue for it to work.
I tried again on a different browser and was successful then. Might be another weird security/privacy setting issue.
In other news, huge-faced Chuckles Kirk calls Obama an "effeminate soy boy" for the way he's talking to Black men about Kamala. It seems he needs to be more manly masculine for this audience. https://x.com/JoeMyGod/status/1845234432137113752 (that face!!!)
That's right! Because Charlie Kirk - as a Navy SEAL - personally led the mission to eliminate Osama Bin Laden!
Oh wait.... he didn't! That was Obama.
Charlie Kirk sounds like he's been vaccinated.
wtf is that supposed to mean?
Good question. It seems that some MAGAts are starting to say this whenever people bring up climate change, socialized health care, or other liberal positions. The use here is ironic and meant as satire. ( :
Obama could probably knock him out with one punch. Kirk and his ilk are the true "effiminate soy boys".
Noted stalwart of masculinity... *checks notes* Charlie Kirk...
Charley Kirk is evil pusillanimous worm food.
Those poor evil, pusillanimous words, um worms.
Yup!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGT0P0XJRFM
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
Sweetness and light. Their show around 1970 did an acoustic set, then brought out the amps... Brought out Neil Young too, and they rocked the fucking house. Something to see and hear!
Was this verbiage always there, and does it negate the point of the MuskIsDumb initiative? I'd not want to give up my info unless it serves the purpose!
"To be eligible, both the referrer and the petition signer must be registered voters of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, or Wisconsin."
'Give me my free money you fucking illegal migrant!'
I had a long conversation yesterday, with a republican woman I've known for awhile, it has put me in a dark frame of mind.
I did not know how difficult it was to be a wealthy person in the US these days. They walk around with a target on their backs don't you know, they are afraid to leave home, a gated community in Burlingame Ca.
Kamala will take all their things away. She is both evil and very stupid this Kamala person. And it's really really hard for them to say her name correctly, almost impossible, a tongue twister.
There was much more. Life is harrrrd.
I wish this stuff rolled off my back. It eats me up and is frightening.
I live nearby and have a friend in Hillsborough so you can imagine that they also feel the same. It’s tragic.
If they can't get a licence to shoot around 12 poor children from their cars each year they are being oppressed. The poor just breed up* and need to be thinned otherwise they might suffer.
_-------
*RFK had 11 children!! 11! I am suprised he took enough time off fucking his wife to get shot. It must have been a short window of opportunity.
How many wives/mistresses is that with?
You must have the patience of a saint to even talk to one of those stupid people. She obviously lives in the Faux News bubble. She deserves a good swift kick where the good Lord split her.
I used to live in Burlingame back before the downtown area was gentrified with all of the expensive shops and restaurants and stupid, annoying people like this woman. I loved Burlingame Hardware, where I bought my Pyrex double-boiler which I use to this day. Sadly, it went out of business long ago. It really had a small town vibe back then.
I live in Chicago and work in a hospital in a relatively wealthy first ring suburb. I often make conversation with patients and families. I am talking to a family who lives in a WEALTHIER suburb and I mention that I ride from Chicago on my bike to work. Immediate response "aReN't YoU aFrAiD yOu'Re GoInG tO gEt ShOt????!" (because I live in the big bad city with all the brown people and with all the guns.) I looked them in the eye and said "I take my chances"
Does your bike have snow chains?
I ride in the winter if the roads are dry. (I'm too old to ride in the snow)
Good for you! “I take my chances I don’t mind working without a net, I take my chances ev’ry chance I get” Mary Chapin Carpenter.
"Things have improved. The air is only 87% bullets"
Some people are little better than robots.
Gates was whining the other day that if it was up to Bernie, he’d *only* have a billion dollars; and he’s a long way from being one of the bad ones.
I think he his a pretty bad one. He just has enough $$ and is bored enough to pretend otherwise.
At least he tries to eradicate disease and reduce child mortality instead of private tropical islands, personal space programs, or SCOTUS justices.
Yes, but by focusing all that wealth on his pet projects, resources and trained personnel get pulled away from other projects. I imagine there are barely any nurses left in the hospitals in the region that don't focus on disease and child mortality, so people might be dying of broken toes when they shouldn't have.
The problem isn't his willingness to help, I am sure he is a reasonably decent person, the problem is the amount of money a single man has. That always distorts the entire economy of wherever he chooses to act. Still, doing something is better than doing nothing, though best would be if he didn't accumulate that much money at all. I think he can be just as happy with 50 million net worth.
Think of money (or power) like gravity, having some is good, but that doesn't mean forever adding more in a single point is harmless. You wouldn't like living on a planet where the gravity is ten times as much.
Yeah, “people might be dying of broken toes” (?!) isn’t really the moral equivalent of eliminating bodily autonomy for half the people in this country—and by extension the rest of us to at least some degree—or expropriating it for a fascist oligarchy.
If all billionaires did no worse than Gates, they wouldn’t be *nearly* such a problem for the rest of us.
The point is that people shouldn't die from broken toes, it is the easiest thing in the world not to let people die of broken toes. But if there are zero medical experts available because some rich fuck pulled them all into his pet project, then sure, their pet project's targets will get reached, but the entire medical services sector falls apart around them. And that damage lasts, because people get retrained into the new job fighting, for example, malaria. So there are no longer any general practitioners or OB-GYN, no surgeons, no pediatricians. All because a billionaire saw a documentary about, for example, malaria in the Congo and decided to throw an amount of money that is comparable to a significant fraction of the country's GDP in funding against the problem.
Also, "eliminating bodily autonomy for half the people in this country", when did we stop talking about eradicating disease and reducing child mortality? and when did it become about a specific country? Pick a subject and stick to it please, or I will have to accuse you of moving the goalposts.
We shouldn't *have* billionaires, no matter how good they are. Because being that rich they cannot help but do damage. There's a reason the saying is about a bull in a china shop, and not about a wasp in a china shop: The bigger they are, the more damage they will do, even with the best intentions.
Feature, not bug
It's legit terrifying how many USA people are all-in on authoritarism.
White privilege comes with sunglasses and a power trip to a past that never existed.
Brane Klenzer: Have some Li'l Feller pics taken a few minutes ago before he headbutted me and desocketed my nose.
https://substack.com/profile/16884722-hamilton-and-the-crew/note/c-72410850?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=a1wc2
He's adorbs, even though he shows love by head-butting you.
His expression in the color photos! Like, WTF are you doing now? Whar my tail???
Sounds like he took option 3. head butt while awake. Ever the drama, LF