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Open thread 10/25/2024 — 13 Comments

1. 11,183 active eligible voters in Dixie county, Florida, tho that may be up as of 10/25/24 – w/ 2,214 DEM, 7,040 REP, and 1,964 Others. As a NPA voter I fall under Other. Moved here in 2009 and there is a big shift in parties since then – had lots of “Blue Dog” DEMs back then.

   If Trump allows Russia to take Ukraine then I’ll be voting against the Republican party—and their candidates in the future.

   Early voted this morning – having decided to vote against the Democratic party candidates. Just filled in the REP oval area.

   Had six Amendments – voted for #3 to “Legalizes recreational marijuana”.

   May vote by mail next time…

2. How on earth did we get to a point where people like this have power?

   https://archive.md/Q0dV5

   Ms. Thorndike was a legislative assistant to Bernie Sanders and policy director for the leftwing Rewiring America. “To electrify everything, you’ll need to replace any machine that currently burns fossil fuels—your gas-powered car, furnace, water heater, kitchen stove and dryer,” the outfit explains.

3. So another one has come out of the woodwork, accusing Trump of groping her at a beauty pagent. Are we going to get one a day now?

4. Technofog has the receipts its about a clean energy grift (no such animal) the timeline doesnt make any sense

5. This:
   https://twitter.com/TheKevinDalton/status/1849081097113702607?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1849081097113702607%7Ctwgr%5E4d0e8aa4ce8f65ee1e81ddbaa5b84498d62ae1f8%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.delawarenewshub.com%2F2024%2F10%2F25%2Fthursdays-final-word-politics-7%2F

   Is brutal!

   Well worth 2 minutes and 7 seconds of your time. It’s a black, mostly female audience in Philadelphia on MSNBC and they accurately and devastatingly outline Harris’ flaws.

   Trump might get 538 electoral college votes.

6. “Esoteric Trumpism?“, Michael Millerman reading various articles, (1:07:28): https://www.youtube.com/live/O6Qw3HD-fyQ

   Too much fun, too much hilarity. For god’s sake, don’t watch this thing.

7. Our friends in the mountains had a whole-house generator running on natural gas for a week and a half before the power came back on. It kept the fridge and freezer going, and more importantly, it kept the sump pump going. They had no damage. No thanks, I don’t want all-electric.

8. Krazytown:
   Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin —

   Let’s be clear about what just happened: only eleven days before a Presidential election, a federal judge ordered Virginia to reinstate over 1,500 individuals–who self-identified themselves as noncitizens–back onto the voter rolls.

   https://x.com/GlennYoungkin/status/1849826145258148113

9. It seems like VA ought to say fine, we’ll leave them on the rolls as provisional voters and hold their ballots until their eligibility can be individually determined. So let ’em vote, but don’t count the vote until election authorities are convinced they’re eligible to vote.

10. The Democrats’ fraud-foo is very strong, grasshoppers.

11. Keep the list of non-citizens, and if they vote, prosecute them.

12. crasey: I would say let ’em vote, but only count their vote if their eligibility is demonstrated BEFORE 7:00 pm Nov. 5. Even if they are demonstrably eligible, but that information arrives after the close of the polls, their vote should not count.

13. The budget of the CIA and NSA total $89 billion annually– which is more than the defense budgets of every country sans two– the US and China. But is that the actual budget? We don’t know and have no way of knowing, along with an additional 150 agencies of the federal government with the implementation of Standard 56 of the FASAB in 2019. These agencies can move money from one line item to another in the public accounting, as long as it is for “national security”.

    This also applies to private companies, as long as it is for “national security”.

    From a story by Matt Taibi in 2019:

    …FASAB issued a news release about SFFAS 56. The text of the new rule strongly resembled the original proposal. The money quote:

    This Statement permits the following

    – an entity to modify information required by other standards if the effect of the modification does not change the net results of operations or net position;

    – a component reporting entity to be excluded from one reporting entity and consolidated into another reporting entity

    In plain English, the new guidance allowed federal agencies to “modify” public financial statements, with essentially a two-book system. Public statements would at best be unreliable, while the real books would be audited in “classified environment[s]” by certain designated officials.

    When I asked FASAB who would be doing the auditing in “classified environment[s],” they answered:

    “Please contact the federal entity’s Office of the Inspector General for questions pertaining to who does the auditing in a classified environment.”

    This new rule is not confined to a few spy agencies. It appears to allow a stunningly long list of federal agencies to make use of new authority to “modify” public financial statements.

    The Treasury Department’s definition of a “component reporting entity” includes 154 different agencies and bodies, from the Smithsonian Foundation to the CIA to the SEC to the Farm Credit Administration to the Railroad Retirement Board. The notion that any of these agencies could now submit altered public financial reports under the rubric of national security is mind-boggling.

    Given how dishonest the DHS has been about border crossings for the last nearly 4 years, the fact the Labor department had been exaggerating employment numbers and had to significantly downgrade them, why would be trust anything coming from the federal government.

    There has been little reporting about this change in accounting practices by the federal government, and it’s been going on for several years.

    https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/secret-government-spending-779959/

    https://missingmoney.solari.com/fasab-standard-56-and-the-authority-of-the-director-of-national-intelligence-to-waive-sec-financial-reporting/

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