babble: October 2019

Saturday, October 19, 2019

Stein recount campaign demands PA protect right to paper ballots

From Voting Justice:

Jill Stein and the 2016 recount team announced today that they have served notice to the state of Pennsylvania that the ES&S ExpressVote XL voting machine, recently recertified by the state, violates the terms of the settlement agreement in Stein v. Cortés. This 2018 settlement of the Stein recount lawsuit guarantees all Pennsylvania voters the right to voter-verifiable, auditable paper ballots by the 2020 election. Against public outcry and expert warnings, Philadelphia County has decided to purchase ExpressVote XL machines for use by all voters. The state has 30 days to respond, after which the plaintiffs can ask the federal court that brokered the agreement to enforce it.

https://www.votingjustice.us/pa_press_release

Together we are beautiful...

Together we are beautiful... I miss you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOm-XzyJZKE&feature=youtu.be

If I add enough film grain, do you think Frankie and Annette show up?

Ya think?

If you're struggling to afford your third vacation this year

If you're struggling to afford your third vacation this year, and you'll take three vacations next year, and the year after that, and the year after that... and you're upset your third isn't a "destination" vacation, you are not struggling.

These Facebook memes think I'm absurdly self-confident

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

I love it when Rocky’s first reaction in the morning is, “what the hell are you listening to?”

https://youtu.be/wPd4n3cAQEU

So, what is ranked choice voting?

https://www.facebook.com/dario4america/videos/751367065281952/UzpfSTgzMzMyOTQ0NjoxMDE1ODkxOTE4NzQ4NDQ0Nw/

Against public outcry and expert warnings

Against public outcry & expert warnings, #Philadelphia is attempting to ram new voting machines down voters' throats that CANNOT BE VERIFIED. That means if these machines are used in the 2020 election, there will be no way to know if the election results are true! #StopTheMachine

https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/1177668167537238016

Quivver - Long Time

https://youtu.be/_5ZYvWqSnFI

Nils Hoffmann - Drift (Ben Böhmer Remix)

https://youtu.be/9MVirZwr3zI

This year alone, we killed at least 1000 innocent people in Afghanistan

Rafael (via Twitter):

This year alone, we killed at least 1000 innocent people in Afghanistan. Add to that 30 pine nut farmers killed by drone operators who "confused" them as ISIS. Just as they finished work, and sat around a campfire.

https://twitter.com/rafaelshimunov/status/1175806907967254528

Better

https://youtu.be/dqxH3jThqq4

Manufacturing consent...

Manufacturing consent...

Telesur:

Colombian President Ivan Duque gave the United Nations what he called, "conclusive proof" of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's support of so-called terrorist groups during his speech to the organization's General Assembly on Wednesday, including a photo of National Liberation Army (ELN) members the Colombian president claims was taken in Tachira, Venezuela last year.
However, according to El Colombiano, the first media outlet to fact check the president's address, says that the claims are outright "wrong.

The author of the El Colombiano article, Javier Macias, says the photo was actually handed over "exclusively" to the newspaper in June 2015 by the nation's "military intelligence" and that the image is of ELN members, dressed as clowns, who are giving gifts to children and helping them draw.

https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Colombia-Presents-Fake-Evidence-of-ELN-Members-in-Venezuela-20190926-0027.html

Even if you believe billionaires somehow earned their money...

Greta Thunberg Shreds Neoliberal politicians

Jill Stein (via Facebook):

Greta Thunberg shreds neoliberal politicians: "We’re in the beginning of a mass extinction & all you can talk about is money & fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!"

Endless growth is the ideology of cancer. To survive, we need a new system that puts people, planet & peace over profit.

https://www.facebook.com/drjillstein/posts/3292536914119809?__xts__[0]=68.ARC3ZI3rFez-4jWgTVr0ZrmKdGlWMDigZmy1R1RCPgCeRS0I8FTYPqxojfNcPR5DB3r6RhmxypRUZoEf7xuMbdmo7uBsPEcSIzRdzclo0sF2MKd2mOID_fIrdZrkT4HMFONh-WkjMK8SyIhsebOtLMf_p4ZpH2lj12ujY-ThzTec_X92RgdVoaShzvghlzt26peOm9B0IxQR6JuP1W3IFPcrJ4mX9uYi63Vw5JiskQkFB5IuHoJhE-gC2CtdWj6AuXnZydg8z4zq0NEwi2h8t1CxW-U3QYgAgn1N2bjRnhFbvOr_OkVPa9Br47RvouG70iG9PWWX_g_APc5JR9A&__tn__=H-R

Factually, between Citizens United, gerrymandering, mass voter purges, closed primaries and that whole "living in a corrupt oligarchy that is forever shifting rightward" thing, your power as an individual American voter is severely limited. It is not however, non-existent.

As such I am baffled at why wealthy donors, the corporate media and bougie professional class liberals so casually insist the labor class voter completely surrender that tiny bit of power & influence by pledging to vote for whichever stiff the Dem Party forces on them in advance.

https://twitter.com/NatSecReporter/status/1176584977896607744?fbclid=IwAR0WMeAo5DPKIQPP-gkU2t3jXp40XR46Qc_qLx2KM7obCF65eXmMzYOhHF8

In a turn of events that should come as a total surprise (to no one)

In a turn of events that should come as a total surprise (to no one), it looks like Working Families Party's endorsement of Elizabeth Warren was a straight pay-for-play deal.

Elizabeth Warren’s daughter, Amelia Warren Tyagi, is Chairwoman of Demos, a liberal think tank.

Per Demos’ 2018 tax filing, they gave $45,000 to the Working Families Party. This was the first year Demos gave anything to WFP.

https://twitter.com/CANCEL_SAM/status/1176265744868417538

The 990 that's screenshotted in this tweet is here: https://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/2019-05/2018%20990%20Public%20Disclosure%20Copy.pdf

If Liz Warren answers a question on Yemen and can't decry selling weapons

Lady Bunny:

If Liz Warren answers a question on Yemen and can't decry selling weapons [to] the Saudis like Obama and Trump, then does that mean she'd continue to sell them weapons? Many liberals only cared about Yemen after Trump continued Obama's policy there.

https://twitter.com/LADYBUNNY77/status/1176363711499558912

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