Tuesday, July 28, 2020
I Believe I Just Got The 'Goodbye Look'. The Insanity of The Left
It becomes obvious to any one to step back, step away, or. Just go away. You become irrelavent. You matter nothing. Old, or just no one cares anymore.
Even my own children tell me to shut up. Even though you are fighting for their future. Despite everything you taught them, they just are so succumbed in this world of hatred, must try to live within it, to the point where your words become dangerous to them. They must now navigate a future of silence or be violently attacked.
My great friends on the Conservative side have turned away as well. They are afraid. Standing up for freedom with Trump flags on a sidewalk was all that and a bag of chips until the bag went empty and all that was left was a hollow chant while Marxists ran riot and cops just stood down shrugging their shoulders.
And rightfully so. Doxxing. Targeting. Guilt by association. FBI shows up at your door because of a post while the city around you burns.
America is doomed. Soon I will be silenced. But this old bastard has one more thing to say before my front door gets breached.
(Winston and I tip our cups of Victory Gin in salute to each other.)
Who are these people? Just Google BLM. Just Google ANTIFA.. Like Glenn Beck always says.. " Do your own research!" I am the Meat And Potatoes Guy! I write this blog! After 12 years of this (and my show) do you actually think what I say and write is NOT backed up by facts? These people are anarchists and they are violent. Two of the leaders were on NPR openly stating this fact. Click the donate icon on their web page and see where your money is going. If Biden wins and/or we lose the House or Senate? No one is safe.
After my very controversial post on FB they did not come after me. They came for my children.
It is textbook Marxism and Alinsky.
They came after an innocent woman who was there in Worcester helping to paint Black Lives Matter on MLK BVLD. So, all you did was prove me correct. All you did was prove everything historians have said since Marxism started.
They are violent, hateful and they have no problem eating their own. It isn't (and never was) about tolerance and diversity. It never was about racial justice. No Leftist movement ever, in the history of Leftist movements was ever about freedom, equality or any of the bullshit proclaimed.
It has always been about power and control. Hatred and violence is their strong arm.
Once Communism took over Russia the banner waving anarchists who destroyed, burnt, tore down, raped and pillaged, assaulted, looted. Even the politicians, who are now trying to placate and side with you in solidarity; demanding police be removed.... Were... Eventually... Removed themselves...
So, enjoy this time in the sun my BLM/ANTIFA Comrades. The boxcars are awaiting your eventual shipping away. History is repleat with this ever skipping vinyl record of the same verse over and over again.
You are stupid. Not ignorant. Ignorance can be cured by learning, reading, listening, understanding.
No, you are just plain stupid. You instantaniously react with violence and hatred. You operate on the Limbic system of your brain. It is pointless of me to explain what the Limbic part of your brain is because.. YOU ARE STUPID!
Remember! It is all about tolerance and diversity! Never mind the store you just destroyed might be black owned. Maybe a Latino, Asian, LGBT family that worked hard and poured all their money into it. It is all about social justice right?
As the flames leap higher into the night sky.
You have no idea what you are rioting about because you are stupid fucks. Some guy said something on FB so let's attack his innocent daughter. Watch any Mark Dice or Ami Horowitz video and the SMH stupidity of these people will make cutting out and swallowing Drano an actual option.
Here is another molitov cocktail.. Go for it! Set off another round of fireworks at police. Awesome! Assault more innocent women with kids in the car. Watch the video of the single mother attacked and her three year old drop kicked. Why not?
Its all about racial justice. Diversity, free speech, protest. Right? Oh look! There's a Starbucks! Lets burn it down cuz....... Just cuz....!
Lets kill some guy's horses cuz..... Just cuz...!
If (and that is a big if) you eventually attain your power. The actual people who rise to the top will come for all of you. You will be rounded up. Summarily executed in the street. The rest shipped off to gulag or work camps because capitalism will be no more: So, how will you get simple things like cell phones or coffee. You will be required to produce this stuff... Or be shot.
But hey!!! It is all about equality.. Right? You took everyone's money, homes, burnt down the businesses.. You stuck it to the rich man! BLACK LIVES MATTER!! BLACK LIVES MATTER!! BLACK LIVES MATTER!!
Why are the lights out? Why don't the faucets work? Uhmm, I need baby formula..
Always remember. You stood up for racial justice! (as a black child starves).
Even Malcolm X told you in his speeches that you are being played by political forces larger than your movement. But, never mind him. Tear down another statue. Set another building on fire.
In all the riots I have watched and filmed myself, at no point in time have I actually seen a true African/American. Not one person recently emigrated from Africa. Not one!
Would you like to know why?
I have spoken to many in my community. ( I am a journalist after all. ) They want NOTHING... NOTHING!!! to do with you stupid BLM/ANTIFA idiots! They actually come from countries with actual, REAL despotism, racism, violence, dictatorships. They came to America for (hold onto your vagina hats)... Freedom. They do not want to be associated with any of this insanity. They are Christians, mostly from Ghana, Sierra Leonne and Liberia...
Talk about three places with racial injustice.
Ohh, wait.. Here is a thought.. Why don't you BLM/ANTIFA people go to these places and set shit on fire there?
I know. It's a dumb question. None of you would last fifteen minutes in any of these rat's nests. You would be shot on site, sucked up, sold on the slave market and your 64 genders would be shown a new hole to stuff a cock into. Meanwhile you riot in shoes and clothes made in countries where ACTUAL slavery exists. You even loot stores so you can steal more or it! How fucked up is that?
And now for the apology.
I am sorry my children have been caught up in this net. I will rot in hell for what I said and the violence that has come upon their heads. This is my doing and I accept full responsibility.
Leave my children alone.
However, if you want me to apologize for what I said? Well, toss another coin into the wishing well pal cuz it ain't happening. All you have done is prove me correct. Instead of a cogent debate, exchange of ideas and some sort of compromise, speaking to me like Americans and pointing out where I was wrong you have (again) just reverted to your Limbic. Your first thought is violence and hatred. It is all you know.
I never said I would shoot protestors. We all have a right to speak up, speak out, demand change. Go vote!
But once you start assaulting, looting, burning. You are no longer a protestor. You are a threat to safety and you become an insurrectionist. Under the Sedition Act and the Patriot Act you are subject to arrest, trial and the penalty is death. It is a Capital crime. By your actions you violate every one of the ten Amendments to the Constitution as it it pertains to every other American.
So, like many in this country we are armed and we will respond accordingly. Where necessary we will pro-actively face you down in the street and bring violence upon you to stop the looting and riots. Our neighborhoods are filled with all creeds and colors. Filled with children. We will protect them. Many of them are my friends. Many are business owners from all walks of life and I am humbled and honored to enter their establishments, greet them kindly and conduct business.
I have two types of weapons in my posession. Guns and shovels.
The first stops the problem.
The second disposes of the problem.
.... And That Is The Diatribe....
Sunday, March 15, 2020
The One Trick Pony- The True Impact of TCI. Part II
It is a narrow minded and heartless idea to add insult to injury by taxing the poor and unemployed on the very lifeblood they need for transportation.
But in the new era of "green energy", Maura Healey has embarked upon a new path to drag up an old tax increase.
Governor Baker pushed TCI. As if the riots in France were no indication of the impact of Legislative Climate Initiatives Baker forgot his own response with voters over gasoline taxes. Then Candidate Baker, was firmly opposed to the tax increases. This was a major issue of his campaign.
Governor Baker pushed TCI. As if the riots in France were no indication of the impact of Legislative Climate Initiatives Baker forgot his own response with voters over gasoline taxes. Then Candidate Baker, was firmly opposed to the tax increases. This was a major issue of his campaign.
Maybe he was just pushing it off until Maura moved in.
This, from a Boston Globe article at the time:
This, from a Boston Globe article at the time:
"The people who are really going to be hit hard as a result of this are people who are driving into Boston every day, day-to-day workers, people driving for Uber, Lyft for work. They’re going to see dramatic increases," study author William Burke said. "I think our estimates are even optimistic compared to what could actually happen."
Burke is mostly correct. However, Burke is certainly NOT poor or unemployed. Nor does Burke live West of Worcester Mass. Never mind driving into Boston. How about a person in Ringville Mass having to drive to get gas to get a child to school, and then to work (another 20-30 min. drive). Then, they have to drive home, pick up the child, get milk, get gas.
You see my point?
The poor suffer.
NOTE: I live in rural Connecticut. It is $20 a day in gas to get anywhere, any day, for any reason.
In 2014 I interviewed the 2nd Franklin County District Candidate Karen Anderson. She and Susanna Whipps were looking to replace the longtime Democratic Incumbent Denise Andrews. One of the main topics of this interview was the Gasoline Tax.
In 2014 I interviewed the 2nd Franklin County District Candidate Karen Anderson. She and Susanna Whipps were looking to replace the longtime Democratic Incumbent Denise Andrews. One of the main topics of this interview was the Gasoline Tax.
Not only does a tax on fuel affect businesses, commuters and transportation companies the hardest hit are residents in the more rural areas of the state. Residents East of the I-495 corridor cannot comprehend this. In most of those cities and towns you can take a walk, or a bike to a local store and acquire whatever you need at any time. In the rural areas of Massachusetts that's virtually impossible.
Disregard the economic issues facing rural communities. The sheer logistics, geographics and topography is the affect. Kids still have to walk a way's home from designated school bus drop offs. If you are parent with a special needs child, the complications are exponential.
It is a fair bet many of these parents have to drive their children to and from their destinations. The costs in fuel alone must be crippling.
The tax will cripple the poor and extoll hardships on the middle and lower class of Western Massachusetts. And it will do nothing for "transportation" as the Governor claims.
The tax will cripple the poor and extoll hardships on the middle and lower class of Western Massachusetts. And it will do nothing for "transportation" as the Governor claims.
The MBTA does not run out to North Adams Madam Governor.
This is entirely unacceptable. The poor suffer.
I am not going to cloud this piece with manufactured Climate Statistics. Energy policy must be derived from the needs of those who need energy the most and NOT from Legislators who neither understand those needs but in many cases; never pay for it themselves.
I knew Geoff Diehl. I interviewed him. I ran into him on his campaigns many times, and he always took the time to speak with me personally, He is a gracious man and knew firsthand what the TCI tax would mean. If he was the Governor none of this crap would even be on the table.
From a recent article in The Commonwealth Beacon: by Bruce Mohl 1/17 24b1/1/17 24y
"At a time when the state is attempting to encourage a dramatic shift to electric vehicles, the governor indicated it was time to chart a new course for transportation financing in what she called the clean energy era. "
I knew Climate Change would come into play at some point. But the money. What happened to the money?
"...Democrats in the chamber gave Healey warm applause throughout her speech, but even among them there was concern about all the new spending initiatives at a time when state tax revenues are static. Revenue projections are falling short of target levels this fiscal year, forcing Healey to close a nearly $1 billion budget gap by paring back spending by $375 million and tapping interest earned on state bank deposits. Healey did not mention the budget cuts in her remarks..."
Wait the fuck-a-sec... Wasn't there money in surplus from the previous Administration?
"But she did mention free lunch meals for public schools students, stockpiling the abortion pill known as mifepristone."
Oh, so, is that where the money went?
"House Speaker Ron Mariano, a supporter of the tax cut, said he is looking for more details that will come with Healey’s budget proposal next week. “Believe me, we’ll hear if any line items are underfunded,” Mariano told reporters. “Free school meals, that’s something I really believe in and it’s going to be expensive. There are a lot of things in the budget that are expensive already.”
Oh, make sure of that Ron! Watch out for those line items that affect YOUR town. Ronny goes on to explain how much money from the "Millionaire Tax" is yet to be determined. Cuz, they have to figure out how many people making over one million a year packed up and left the state.
What a tool.
So, we can clearly see it is business as usual in the golden dome of Boston. Illegals get all the perks, Business owners get fucked. The poor pay more for gas and groceries. Prices rise, taxes rise and our elected (cough) vote in another raise and wonder why shit is all fucked up here in Massachusetts.
But the new gas tax will solve our Transportaion issues.
....And That Is The Diatribe....
Friday, January 24, 2020
A Moral Call To Action
There exists a very long list of statistics and historical examples that support the argument against the proposal of Sanctuary State status. There are also countless personal accounts of violence committed by illegals present in our country.
What isn't being addressed is the moral call to action.
On September 5th in 1980 Mother's Against Drunk Driving was founded by Candace Lightner after her 13 year old daughter was killed by a drunk driver. Throughout the 1980's drunk driving laws grew increasingly tougher reducing DUI fatalities by over 1/2 as of last year.
The group had its greatest success with the enacting of a 1984 federal law, the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, that introduced a federal penalty (a 5%—later raised to 10%—loss of federal highway dollars), for states that did not raise the minimum legal age for the purchase and possession of alcohol to 21. After the United States Supreme Court upheld the law in the 1987 case of South Dakota v. Dole, every state and the District of Columbia made the necessary adjustments by 1988.
Each year, The Century Council, a national non-profit organization funded by a group of alcohol manufacturers, compiles a document of alcohol-related traffic fatalities. Between 1991 and 2013, the rate of alcohol-related traffic fatalities (ARTF) per 100,000 population has decreased 52% nationally, and 79% among youth under 21.[4]
The reason why this is relevant is because at the time there was a moral call to action. People were dying! States were forced to comply with the national laws or lose funding. The horror stories of fatalities appeared all over the nightly news.
The moral question is: Why are we not addressing the deaths of 4000 Americans a year at the hands of illegals the same way we addressed the drunk driving deaths decades ago?
Every time there is a mass shooting the call to confiscate everyone's weapons is raised. On the national debate stage one 2020 Presidential Candidate claimed, "..Hell, ya! We're going to take your AR-15's!"
Despite the fact that the United States is amongst one of the lowest (statistically) in gun related fatalities in the world the moral call to confiscate guns is reaching a fever's pitch. A pitch that may lead to removing one of our most basic Constitutional Rights. Given the level of violence committed by illegals currently, those numbers are likely to double should we remove lawfully owned firearms before we remove unlawfully entering individuals.
But no outcry when an American dies at the hands of an illegal.
Nationwide, from 2011 to 2018, non-citizens, mostly illegal aliens, committed 667,000 drug offenses, 42,000 robberies, 25,000 homicides, 91,000 sex crimes, 213,000 assaults, 95,000 weapons offenses, and 81,000 auto thefts, according to a report from the US General Accountability Office (GAO). The GAO also found that the average criminal alien had been arrested seven times.
If these numbers existed for drunk driving fatalities the 18th Amendment would have been reinstated by now. In fact if you add up the numbers supplied here they total 1,214,000. The more Sanctuary status is awarded to cities and states those numbers will accelerate.
1,214,000.. I want you remember that number.
In October a Mr. Perez Valesquez from Guatemala was arrested for a DUI in Cayuga County NY. AN ICE Detainer was previously attached to Mr. Valesquez for repeated unlawful entry into the United States. However, a Judge let him go on a 'promise' of a reappearance to court.
On Nov. 10 Mr. Valesquez was arrested (again) for Vehicular Homicide while driving drunk (again).
In 2018-2020 North Carolina arrested and charged 331 illegals with sexual offenses to children. Over half of those cases were repeat offenders, previously deported offenders and/or on some sort of ICE Detainer Watchlist.
At what point in time will law makers, judges, or the media understand that when people are willing to break a Federal Law and cross the border illegally multiple times what makes any one think they will "..promise to reappear.."? In fact, virtually all of the catch and release cases fail to "..reappear.."
Especially if they have a record of breaking the law repeatedly.
Last year was a record year for detainees crossing illegally into the US. Excluding women and children and the 1/10th of 1% who actually do want a better life there was still a large number of "unknowns". We don't have any background records or ID on these people. Many of these unknowns were processed and then released into the country on this "promise". Then there are the ''got-a-ways". Those who CPB were unable to catch.
Are our elected officials willing to say publicly that they are comfortable with that?
If an illegal is arrested for a crime and is held over for ICE Detainment that criminal is taken off the streets. That person is processed, tried and either sent to an American prison or handed over to authorities of their home countries. For it is a fair bet that if they are committing crimes here in this country they are probably wanted for crimes they committed in their former countries.
It is also a fair bet that's one of the reasons they left and came here in the first place. Because they are wanted criminals back home.
And another question begs on this subject of being comfortable with the unknowns.
The CDC has reported that many cases of diseases long since eradicated in the United States are now surfacing once again. They point directly to the mass influx of people pouring into our country unlawfully. Europe has reported this as well.
This is another "unknown" factor I am talking about. Never mind the violence factor.
There are literally ten's, if not hundred's of thousand's of men, women and children carrying infections and diseases let loose in our nation.
Their children are attending school stressing a system still in the throws of COVID recovery. None of these children are vaccinated but you can be damned sure YOUR kid wouldn't be let in the door without every inoculation under the sun. These people who slipped through the system, who aggressively cross the border multiple times are not the least bit interested in making sure little Hector has his DPT shot.
But, Judges let them all go on a promise to re-appear.
The frustrating thing about all of this is that immigration groups paint us as racist. The government will bus people in, manipulate the message, attempt (and in many cases succeed) to shut down our voice. All we are trying to do is point out the dangers, point out the facts, statistics and put a face on the effects of illegals in our country and the dangers of Sanctuary State/ City designations.
But now these Sanctuary areas are beginning to feel the effects of their misguided Leftist open arms policy. The video coverage doesn't lie. Cities are swamped with roving gangs of migrants from London to Los Angeles. Lootings are increasing. Oslo Norway is still the rape capital for Islamic violence against women. Ranchers along the southern border are arrested for defending their homes instead of the migrants being detained for trespassing and entering illegally. Over 80,000 children are simply lost. No one knows where they are or what happened to them.
Nationwide, from 2011 to 2018, non-citizens, mostly illegal aliens, committed 667,000 drug offenses, 42,000 robberies, 25,000 homicides, 91,000 sex crimes, 213,000 assaults, 95,000 weapons offenses, and 81,000 auto thefts, according to a report from the US General Accountability Office (GAO). The GAO also found that the average criminal alien had been arrested seven times.
If these numbers existed for drunk driving fatalities the 18th Amendment would have been reinstated by now. In fact if you add up the numbers supplied here they total 1,214,000. The more Sanctuary status is awarded to cities and states those numbers will accelerate.
1,214,000.. I want you remember that number.
In October a Mr. Perez Valesquez from Guatemala was arrested for a DUI in Cayuga County NY. AN ICE Detainer was previously attached to Mr. Valesquez for repeated unlawful entry into the United States. However, a Judge let him go on a 'promise' of a reappearance to court.
On Nov. 10 Mr. Valesquez was arrested (again) for Vehicular Homicide while driving drunk (again).
In 2018-2020 North Carolina arrested and charged 331 illegals with sexual offenses to children. Over half of those cases were repeat offenders, previously deported offenders and/or on some sort of ICE Detainer Watchlist.
At what point in time will law makers, judges, or the media understand that when people are willing to break a Federal Law and cross the border illegally multiple times what makes any one think they will "..promise to reappear.."? In fact, virtually all of the catch and release cases fail to "..reappear.."
Especially if they have a record of breaking the law repeatedly.
Last year was a record year for detainees crossing illegally into the US. Excluding women and children and the 1/10th of 1% who actually do want a better life there was still a large number of "unknowns". We don't have any background records or ID on these people. Many of these unknowns were processed and then released into the country on this "promise". Then there are the ''got-a-ways". Those who CPB were unable to catch.
Are our elected officials willing to say publicly that they are comfortable with that?
If an illegal is arrested for a crime and is held over for ICE Detainment that criminal is taken off the streets. That person is processed, tried and either sent to an American prison or handed over to authorities of their home countries. For it is a fair bet that if they are committing crimes here in this country they are probably wanted for crimes they committed in their former countries.
It is also a fair bet that's one of the reasons they left and came here in the first place. Because they are wanted criminals back home.
And another question begs on this subject of being comfortable with the unknowns.
The CDC has reported that many cases of diseases long since eradicated in the United States are now surfacing once again. They point directly to the mass influx of people pouring into our country unlawfully. Europe has reported this as well.
This is another "unknown" factor I am talking about. Never mind the violence factor.
There are literally ten's, if not hundred's of thousand's of men, women and children carrying infections and diseases let loose in our nation.
Their children are attending school stressing a system still in the throws of COVID recovery. None of these children are vaccinated but you can be damned sure YOUR kid wouldn't be let in the door without every inoculation under the sun. These people who slipped through the system, who aggressively cross the border multiple times are not the least bit interested in making sure little Hector has his DPT shot.
But, Judges let them all go on a promise to re-appear.
The frustrating thing about all of this is that immigration groups paint us as racist. The government will bus people in, manipulate the message, attempt (and in many cases succeed) to shut down our voice. All we are trying to do is point out the dangers, point out the facts, statistics and put a face on the effects of illegals in our country and the dangers of Sanctuary State/ City designations.
But now these Sanctuary areas are beginning to feel the effects of their misguided Leftist open arms policy. The video coverage doesn't lie. Cities are swamped with roving gangs of migrants from London to Los Angeles. Lootings are increasing. Oslo Norway is still the rape capital for Islamic violence against women. Ranchers along the southern border are arrested for defending their homes instead of the migrants being detained for trespassing and entering illegally. Over 80,000 children are simply lost. No one knows where they are or what happened to them.
The entire system is upside down.
The US Government is squarely to blame. There is ZERO desire to close the border. The massive opposition during the Trump years was a shocking indicator of the hatred the Democrats harbored against this country. But more importantly: who is funding these mass migrations? If things are so destitute in these rat hole countries where are all these people coming up with the cash? Cartels are wealthy but they have very little incentive to fund illegals on a massive scale. They have plenty of mules.
The only other possibility are the nations themselves from where many of these people are coming from. Paying people to leave rather than keep them in prison, on public assistance (if it exists) or even feed is better economics.
And as the previous video proves the incentive to slough off the least desirable of a third world nation's people may be the altruistic thing for more developed nations to absorb, it does very little for the host nation. As we can see already from NYC the social system has collapsed. A net gain of the tens of millions of migrants will destroy the fabric of our American culture. Giving them residency status, voting rights, driver's licenses and a monthly stipend will cause a zipper affect that will run through our courts, schools, homes and our quality of life.
Until there is a moral call to action to stop this hemorrhage we will bear witness to the slow bleed out of this Republic and preside over it's wake.
....And That Is The Diatribe...
Thursday, January 2, 2020
Rank Choice Voting-Tactical Voting and Borda-Part IX
The interesting thing about RCV is the number of names they attach to it. In various countries that use this system it can be called any number of things, Apportioned voting, Preferable voting, Approval voting, Instant Runoff Voting. It is all the same. It does not pass the smell test of "Arrow, Condorcet, or Diverger's " Laws. The simple mathematics of this system defies all reason. In Fact, in an earlier segment of this expose' even Lewis Carroll deduced the impossibility of a Rank Choice Voting system electing a real candidate who just runs an awesome campaign and 'WOW's the electorate. Carroll agreed with Arrow that, in effect, you ARE voting best to last. Any attempt to change the system, or mechanism is just screwing with the mechanism. It does not present a candidate with some awesome idea. It just rig's it to ensure the trailing candidate wins by harvesting secondary votes from lesser candidates who lost outright in the first place. In 1850 MIT Professor William Ware dabbled in this and took those thrown away votes to trick the RCV idea so that the loser's voters could still exchange their second and third choices to elect a winner. The European system of RCV (at that time) just tossed all those third, fourth, etc losers outright. Ware tweaked this and thus we have modern day RCV in America.
As John Stuart Mill stated voting is a trust between candidate and voter. If voting is a 'right' then it becomes property. And, what is to stop a person from selling his/her property? Or, in this case, 'Ranking' your vote? You are essentially selling your vote. You choose the candidate you WANT to win then selling your vote to the lesser candidate you may (or may not) be happy with.
In my presentation last August on RCV former founder of The Worcester Tea Party Ken Mandile said that I was wrong on RCV being a form of vote harvesting. That vote harvesting is the collection of fake ballots and RCV is not that. Well, he is partially correct and partially incorrect.
My two great guests on my podcast Tom Weaver of truethevote.org and radio host John Matthews from California who runs an organization to track voting have both been on my podcast several times, have read my expose' and agree and concur that Rank Choice Voting IS a form of vote harvesting.
The political group known as Voter Choice for Massachusetts has accomplished the task of collecting the required signatures to put RCV on the November 2020 ballot. It is unknown at this time who funded this campaign. Petitions can be easily distributed grassroots.
Their great claim is that they garnered signatures from all 351 Massachusetts cities and towns. If that is true then they only had to get 320 signatures from each city and town. An easy feat. You can be sure of the PR on this one.
Where the shenanigans start is if the people of Massachusetts reject RCV. Then the big money will pour in for an end run to the State Supreme Court to overturn the results of the vote.
https://www.facebook.com/voterchoice2020/posts/159563875401168?notif_id=1576420542974705¬if_t=comment_mention
In March of 2010 Burlington VT voted by referendum to repeal RCV in it's Mayoral Elections. A year later then Mayor Kiss attempted to bring it back. It was rejected again by a 58-42 margin. Unfortunately the key problem that RCV refuses to address is low voter turnout. Out of the 33,218 registered voters in Burlington VT only 7641 bothered to show up. Just as the low voter turnout re-elected Fall River's indicted Mayor and electing Ocasio Cortez low voter turnout is a must happen for RCV to succeed.
https://rangevoting.org/Burlington.html?fbclid=IwAR0FcUqzexbF26Xc_QV-xmdlnm86E7i4DJwZHUOaKHyW9AJxOx9Fil2HK8A
Interesting. Former Democrat Alderman, awarded a contract to design a new voting system. Who wrote that check?
More importantly? Who funded the fight against the repeal of RCV in Burlington?
The advocacy group supporting RCV in Burlington, Fifty Percent Matters, raked in over $20,400.00. Donations over $100 all came from outside Burlington which include $6500 from FairVote.org from Maryland. $1000 from Raymond Pecor (more on him later), $750 from Dem. St. Sen, Hinda Miller and $400 from League of Women Voters.
But the Gold Medal goes to the Vermont Public Interest Research Group with under half the total raised. $10,000.00.
https://www.vpirg.org/
In 1975, the Vermont Public Interest Research and Education Fund (VPIREF) was established as VPIRG's 501(c)3 outreach and education arm. For over 40 years, VPIRG has brought the voice of average Vermont citizens to the public policy debates concerning the environment, health care, consumer protection and democracy.
While the 2010 VPIRG Exec. Director Paul Burns was quick to decry the SCOTUS decision on Citizens United; "Corporations are not people". He had no problem raking in over 1.5 million dollars for 2010. 28% from Foundations and Grants (many corporate funded) and 2% listed as 'other'.
In fact RCV groups nationwide are anything but 'grassroots'. As I pointed out in previous segments the donors are corporations. Publicly funded corporations in the form of grants. Vermont is 15th in Democrat donations. The state is overwhelmingly Left.
In 2019-2020 over 86% of all money raised by PAC's, individuals, foundations, etc went to Democrat candidates or Democrat causes.
https://www.opensecrets.org/states/summary.php?state=VT
In 2019-2020 over 86% of all money raised by PAC's, individuals, foundations, etc went to Democrat candidates or Democrat causes.
https://www.opensecrets.org/states/summary.php?state=VT
| Category | Total | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Total Itemized Contributions ** | $2,384,211 | 47 |
| Total to Candidates and Parties | $2,408,996 | N/A |
| Total to Democrats | $2,093,194 | 41 |
| Percent to Democrats | 86.9%† | 1 |
| Total to Republicans | $275,023 | 50 |
| Percent to Republicans | 11.4%† | 50 |
| Individual donations ($200+)* | $2,833,558 | 47 |
| Soft money donations | $56,052 | 42 |
| PAC donations | $84,513 | 46 |
Tactical Nomination and Borda
Rank Choice Voting becomes the Trojan Horse to Democrat hegemony because it promises to throw up a large number of candidates from that party. In a RCV style election you can have several candidates from the same party all getting ranked. The winner doesn't matter because in the end you elect either the winning candidate or a second place someone who shares your ideology. This is known as Tactical Nomination.
The third tier candidate gets eliminated. In some cases even the rankings get tossed. In a race where one party's voters outnumber another the chances of having any representative opposition voice is nil. In fact lesser tier candidates can be purposely buried by vote rigging.
The Borda count was developed independently several times, as early as 1435 by Nicholas of Cusa, but is named for the 18th-century French mathematician and naval engineer Jean-Charles de Borda, who devised the system in 1770.
The Borda count determines the outcome of a debate or the winner of an election by giving each candidate, for each ballot, a number of points corresponding to the number of candidates ranked lower.
This is insanity. The only places a RCV/Borda system is used in elections are Slovenia, Nauru, Kiribati and up until 1970 in Finland, but only for a select cadre of candidates.
And this is exactly what Mill warned us about. As European Parliaments grew and gained more power over the Monarchies voting was reserved only to the privileged few. The RCV system adopted was devised by the aristocracy. This ensured that only preferred candidates gained the appropriate seats.
It is a fact that every city using RCV as their system of voting is all Democrat. In an odd twist RCV fulfills one of it's promises. Eliminating the 'spoiler' candidate. No third party in their right mind would waste money running in these areas. Any Republican who runs faces (at best) some of the poorest numbers. Even 2nd or 3rd place rankings from sympathetic moderate Dems wouldn't be enough to clench a win.
With Maine now firmly a RCV state and the ballot question in Massachusetts Vermont is poised to become the next state to fall. It is a known fact that the players pushing RCV are not just going to settle for cities or even states. As I have proven in past segments with the quotes from the Fairvote.org site itself they want to rewrite the Presidential elections as well. They are landing key states on each coast as well as growing in battleground states. The New Hampshire Primaries are considering RCV as well as the Iowa Caucuses.
There WILL come a time when Democrats regain control over the White House and/or Legislature. As RCV grows in numbers, locations, the push to register illegals and the elimination of the Electoral College.
RCV, like the Trojan Horse it is will present itself as the solution to our election problems.
.... And That Is The Diatribe...
With Maine now firmly a RCV state and the ballot question in Massachusetts Vermont is poised to become the next state to fall. It is a known fact that the players pushing RCV are not just going to settle for cities or even states. As I have proven in past segments with the quotes from the Fairvote.org site itself they want to rewrite the Presidential elections as well. They are landing key states on each coast as well as growing in battleground states. The New Hampshire Primaries are considering RCV as well as the Iowa Caucuses.
There WILL come a time when Democrats regain control over the White House and/or Legislature. As RCV grows in numbers, locations, the push to register illegals and the elimination of the Electoral College.
RCV, like the Trojan Horse it is will present itself as the solution to our election problems.
.... And That Is The Diatribe...
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