Roundup
(1) This is one of the reasons why states should not automatically mail ballots to all registered voters:
A Marina Del Ray woman has admitted to bombshell charges that she paid homeless people on Skid Row to register to vote in a 20-year scheme tied to illegal petition signature collection.
She even let homeless people use her own address to register to vote — meaning mail-in ballots could be sent to her home, a plea agreement obtained by The California Post states.
(2) And speaking of elections, they’re investigating 2020 (again? still?):
[Todd] Blanche didn’t hedge. He didn’t offer the usual bureaucratic non-answer. He said it directly: “Well, there’s a ton of evidence that the [2020] election was rigged. That’s not something the DOJ needs to tell you about. There’s been evidence about that for many, many years. What I can tell you is that we have multiple investigations going on in Arizona, in Georgia, in Fulton County, Georgia.”
The questions driving those investigations are fundamental ones that, frankly, should have been asked and answered years ago. Why is it taking so long? Blanche addressed that head-on, too. “They’re very good at hiding misconduct and hiding — hiding what they’re doing,” he said. “And so that’s why we’re very focused on finding out whether the right people voted, whether people who were supposed to vote voted, whether there was one vote cast per voter.”
I doubt anything will come of this – not necessarily because there wasn’t fraud (although it’s certainly possible that there wasn’t), but because election fraud is indeed very difficult to prove except in very isolated cases in which a person is caught red-handed (as in example #1 above). I’ve said it before and I’ll probably say it again, but with universal mail-in voting as well as machine in-person voting, there simply aren’t enough built-in safeguards. The perception of fraud being relatively easy to pull off and relatively hard to find is in itself toxic to election trust. Election security and trust in the validity of elections are exceedingly important and have been tremendously undermined in recent years.
(3) And speaking of elections – again – Cassidy is toast:
Cassidy, who has represented Louisiana in the U.S. Senate since 2015, did not finish in the top two of the Republican primary. He will not advance to the June 27 runoff. His Senate career is over.
The two candidates who did advance, Trump-endorsed Rep. Julia Letlow and State Treasurer John Fleming, now face each other in a runoff that will determine which of them represents the Louisiana Republican Party against the Democratic nominee in November. In Louisiana, that general election is a formality.
Trump advocated against Cassidy, and understandably so: Senator Cassidy voted with seven other GOP members for Trump’s conviction in the impeachment effort that followed J6. But that wasn’t all Cassidy did – or tried to do – to Trump:
In 2023, after Trump was indicted for mishandling classified documents, Cassidy called for Trump to drop out of the 2024 presidential election. When Trump won the Republican nomination, Cassidy declined to endorse him.
(4) Cuba has obtained drones:
Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones and recently began discussing plans to use them to attack the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, U.S. military vessels and possibly Key West, Fla., 90 miles north of Havana, according to classified intelligence shared with Axios.
Why it matters: The intelligence — which could become a pretext for U.S. military action — shows the degree to which the Trump administration sees Cuba as a threat because of developments in drone warfare and the presence of Iranian military advisers in Havana, a senior U.S. official said.
I would have thought it shows the degree to which Cuba is a threat.
(5) On Trump and China:
At their joint press conference on Thursday, President Trump said that he and Xi were “united” when it came to Iran: no nukes, open the Strait of Hormuz without Iranian blackmail, and no Chinese weapons sales.
And while President Trump said before the summit he didn’t need Chinese help with Iran, after their initial meeting, he told Sean Hannity that China will help “in any way it can.”
If all of this comes true, it is very bad news for Tehran.
That’s a pretty big “if.”
That’s from Axios? To that outlet, America IS the threat.
Oh no! I’m in range of Cuba drones. Should I build a bomb shelter?
Re: Cuba / Trump 47
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Today I settle all family business.
–Michael Corleone, “The Godfather”
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I’m not saying Trump is a gangster, but he does bring a Corleone thoroughness to his second term.
Cuba will end its Fidel era; it must, because without Venezuelan oil it is high and dry. The fastest way for the Fidelistas to die is to bomb South Florida with drones.
@ambisinistral: A bomb shelter won’t do you very much good without the air raid sirens to warn you.
I wonder if Cuban drones can go as far as Mar-a-Lago? Maybe that’s too far.
Just getting a person to register doesn’t mean they will be voting, but someone else will pick up the slack
The scam of mailing out ballots to all voters on the rolls has to stop. For this reason alone, Left Coast elections are entirely unreliable.
I’m from the northeast, am politically center-right, moved to Louisiana in 1999. I did not vote for Cassidy for two main reasons: (1) did not care for him not supporting Trump in 2024 (we need Trump especially with the Left having taken so much control of our institutions) and, perhaps more importantly, (2) I would be hard pressed to say what Cassidy has done or how he has distinguished himself as the other senator from Louisiana.
I have to give Cassidy credit for dealing with his defeat in the primary with tremendous grace.
2) “Election security and trust in the validity of elections are exceedingly important and have been tremendously undermined in recent years.
Which is why radical, win-at-all-cost elements on the left are doing all they can to destroy trust in the electorate. It’s a tried and true strategy, divide and conquer.
4) “The fastest way for the Fidelistas to die is to bomb South Florida with drones.” Cicero
It is not uncommon for fanatics to be dismissive of common sense.
Skip: “Just getting a person to register doesn’t mean they will be voting, but someone else will pick up the slack.”
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100% . Especially in lefty districts.
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Kate: “The scam of mailing out ballots to all voters on the rolls has to stop. For this reason alone, Left Coast elections are entirely unreliable.”
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200% true!
I’m not sure how we stop it, though.
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Neo wrote
I doubt anything will come of this [new GA and AZ election fraud investigations] – not necessarily because there wasn’t fraud (although it’s certainly possible that there wasn’t)…
It seems to me that the possibility of there having been no fraud is extremely small.
Wouldn’t want to forget the great state of Maryland….
“Trump Demands DOJ Probe Of Maryland’s 500,000 “Illegal” Mail-In Ballots”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-demands-doj-probe-marylands-500000-illegal-mail-ballots
Let’s Go Feds!
File under: Boiling the Fraud
Speaking of fraud, here’s a creative initiative:
“From Bundestag to Bacteria: Germany’s New Frontier in Green Idiocy”—
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/federal-government-funds-project-suppporting-rights-of-worms-bacteria-viruses/
Opening blurb:
This one is pretty dazzling!
“…Disgraced Russia Collusion Hoax Architect Andrew Weissmann Now Demands to CRIMINALIZE LYING — After Peddling the Biggest Lie in American History”—
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/hypocrisy-steroids-disgraced-russia-collusion-hoax-architect-andrew/
H/T Blazingcatfur blog.
+ Bonus!
“RNC Chair Joe Gruters Announces 130 LAWSUITS Filed Across 32 States to Stop Democrat Election Shenanigans — as President Trump Deploys ARMY of Election Lawyers to STOP THE STEAL”—
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/rnc-chair-joe-gruters-announces-130-lawsuits-filed/
Gosh, I thought it was unconstitutional to try to prevent the Democrats from stealing elections…
My oh my. How the Media will HOWL!
That story came from axios ‘too good to check’ and very convenient for opponents of free peoples
I get sent mail in ballots for every election addressed to me as well as ballots addressed to the two previous people to rent my apartment. Not only have I never signed up for mail in ballots, the two previous tenants rented my place pre covid (when non absentee mail ins weren’t even an option). I imagine this happens for every other apartment in my city of deep blue voters, which means every resident of the city, without even trying, gets to vote multiple times each election for Democrats. (Think of how many ballots someone who rents an older apartment receives in my city, as my building is only 7 years old. They could be getting 20-30 mail in ballots every election)
Well, you know, “vote early, vote often…”
Cuz ya’ gotta protect Democracy from the fascists who wanna uphold the Law.
(Can you imagine anything more awful?)
Speaking of “unconstitutional”, here’s Turley:
“Sorry, Kamala: ‘No bad ideas’ is a uniquely bad idea”—
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5880394-harris-bad-ideas-democrats/
H/T Powerline blog.
Not sure Turley understands here that “bad” means “good”. (OTOH, I’m not sure that Harris has ANY ideas, good OR bad….)
+ Bonus (Pritzkrieg)
“JB Pritzker Admin Depicts White People, Cops as Mosquitoes in Microaggression Training That Rails Against ‘Color Blindness’”—
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/jb-pritzker-admin-depicts-white-people-cops-as-mosquitoes-in-microaggression-training-that-rails-against-color-blindness/
One would like to laugh at this grotesque obscenity but it would be a big mistake to believe that Pritzker is a Democratic Party lightweight…
A small flotilla of old fishing trawlers just outside US territorial waters would be an effective drone launch platform. Many combat drones are fire and forget, in that they have programed flight paths and targets. Very concerning.