Here's a scary thought for Californians . . .

If California were to finally have that great" earthquake as has been forecast, it could be a double-disaster with Trump&Co running the country.

I can well imagine them denying California FEMA aid and/or holding back support in other ways to punish the "liberal" state Trump likely sees as his enemy.

If the Big One happens on Trump's watch, we may have to ask places like France and Germany for aid, in lieu of what our own national leaders might be motivated to deprive us of.

As ugly as it sounds, is this really implausible in
The Age Of Trump?

My plea:

https://blogger.googleus...few%20years%20%20%20.jpg

"It's not all bad ... The WOD is back!

Will the San Andreas Fault be weaponized against California by Trump&Co?

Maybe not.

It could end up being the Lone Pine area fault, the Hayward Fault, the San Jacinto Fault, the Imperial Fault Zone or maybe the Newport-Inglewood Fault. Or maybe a surprise fault?

Whichever, IF one moves bigtime, it will become a weapon of the Trump administration against California.

JMO, but I feel we can count on it, if the quake happens.

Remember SAVE R VOTE, Tom Corbet and Harri Hursti? It seems nobody remebers how he demonstrated how a voting machine cartridge could be manipulated to flip votes in the 2006 HBO documentary "Hacking Democracy." Have all the election integrity activists fallen on their swords or surrendered? After Trumps false claims of rigged elections, Democrats are afraid to question the veracity of the election results, but we still have no system of verification. A Recount is still merely a reprint. A random hand count of a small number of precincts can confirm or deny the accuracy of the election results to a certainty of 99 percent. I don't think it's ever been put into practice anywhere in the USA? "We have the most secure elections ever" is what we we've been told with no evidence to back up that claim. A democracy we might (probably) never will get back is worth fighting for. Remember Trump telling supporters they didn't have to vote? He also said he and Speaker Mike Johnson had a plan. Remember the 2004 Bush election party where a drunk representative said on video that, "It's all over but the counting --- and we'll take care of the counting."? I guess it's all gone down the memory hole.

Anyone seen the autopsy (Awe Topsy - 11)?

DonL @ #4,

It could be more real than we usually think (WOD Layers Revisited - 3).

Replying to #5 Paul

https://www.x.com/Spoona...atus/1854912281865552027

The 2024 Election was hacked at the tabulation level. I have a 25 year career, finding and/or conducting such hacks. It's easy-ish to do. GOP/Trump-Putin/Musk all have the resources, motivation and access to do it. Hand recount the 2 oddest precincts in each county. Solved.

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https://spoutible.com/thread/37794003

DUTY TO WARN

Gov. of Pennsylvania J. Shapiro, et. al.
Nov. 7th 2024

This is a formal Duty to Warn Letter. Per DNI Dir. Clapper’s 2015 directive to all agencies and contractors associated with intelligence and financial agency technologies. I have a Duty to Warn of suspicions of hacking, and have done so for my customers including Govt. Agencies, Dept. of Defense, F100 firms and numerous banks. I do so here as a directly affected voter.

Nearly all my investigations begin for one of two reasons. The hackers make a mistake triggering a system issue and/or the aggregate effects of the hacking creates results outside nominal expectations. There is a third and less common flag: an unrelated distraction to draw attention away from the hacking.

All three of these indicators are present in the election of Nov. 5th 2024. Element three, distraction via bomb-threats, is confirmed coming from Russian agencies. Element one is the inexplicable mismatch of reported votes vs. voter turnout. Here in Centre County initial tabulation was an absurdly how 67K votes when over 80K voters participated. Element two is also present. Our local scanner systems worked in testing, but were unable to communicate properly with tabulation systems after the bomb-scare. I note from experience - the failure of a scanning systems to properly load a database is an extremely common development when a system is changed without notice to the users. I have personally worked on similar issues where sudden scanner configuration failures were the first symptoms of system hacking.

With these three elements present, I suggest immediately doing a relatively simple set of preliminary checks. First, randomly selected precincts require manual comparisons of the number of voters who took ballots vs the scanned output of vote totals. Those did not match here in Centre County by apx 13K votes. Once added, those votes substantially changed outcomes and led to the outright reversals in multiple Centre County races.

Centre County BOE now shows vote totals over 80K votes. Apx. 6% above 2020 turnout. In my professional opinion every county in PA as well as many in WI, MI and GA currently reporting lower vote totals vs 2020 and/or also experienced a distraction bomb threat should undertake the same process. My professional opinion is: many thousands of voters are being disenfranchised, likely by a malicious actor via errors in tabulation software. My concern has been proven correct and warranted here in Centre County PA.

ESignature - Stephen R. Spoonamore

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https://x.com/Spoonamore

BRAD,

Just anecdotal, but ...

2 Good friends of mine (a teacher and his college-educated wife) both did their ballots together here in California, checking each other's work and sealing them up and taking them both to the drop-off box at the same time.

My friend's ballot was registered and went thru and was counted straight-away.
BUT----There is no record or report of his wife's ballot getting thru AT ALL, as if it DISAPPEARED.

My friend also knows someone else this just happened to.

OK, those are probably just individual anomalies.

But damnit, something happened in this election that was not right. The feeling is inescapable for me. And I am not alone---LOTS of people are feeling this.

Perhaps it would be a good idea to have a feature on your show where you talk to a number of the old experts on computer/black box voting and tabulation. Try to get a consensus for 2024.

I haven's heard from Bev Harris recently. What does SHE think about this election? What about Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Waserman? What does Marilyn marks think? Has Jonathan Simon found ANYTHING suspicious at all?
There was a statistician you had on the Bradcast years ago from the midwest named Beth (now with some school of aeronautics?) who noticed statistical anomalies back in the 20-teens (can't remember her name). What does SHE think?

A bunch of folks, including me, need to be "talked down" from our ledge by experts in the field. Otherwise, this paranoia will continue unabated.

It would make for a dynamic show, and would attract a lot of interest. A lot of folks NEED this, IMO.

You don't have to take sides. Just try to be an objective host, and get this argument out there.

Just a humble request, of course.

:)

DonL --- On the second part of your comment, I will speak a bit about some of that on today's show. There are a lot of folks still working and looking at information, as it is still early, with votes still be tabulated in many states and canvassed in the others. But, again, I am talking to a bunch of folks and will, of course, address anything that people need to know about, as soon as there is something I can add to it.

As to your friends in CA, did they BOTH sign up for Ballot Trax? (Which sends a text alert when a ballot is received)? I know here in Los Angeles, I can go to LAVote.gov and enter my address, etc., to see if my vote was received. Don't know where your friends are, but their County may offer something similar as might the Sec. of State's website. Are you suggesting they have already checked that, and found no information about the ballot being received?

There are also still MILLIONS of ballots to be processed in CA. So, depending on how the county in question notifies voters, a notification may still be coming in the days ahead.

Paul @5: There are many of us STILL doing that work, and have been at it since Election Day. For what it's worth, MANY states now have automatic Audit procedures (some better than others) that do exactly what you're mentioning: count ballots either by hand (good!) or by machine (not as good!) to try and verify that original tabulation was accurate.

Again, a lot of us are on it and will notify when/if there are points of concern that can be verified and need to be shared broadly.

Brad,

My friend just informed me, his wife's vote came thru late.

Don't know why, but it did, thankfully.

"Attorney explains why he’s advising some of Trump’s targets to leave the country" (CNN).

Thank you for your democracy integrity work, Brad. You are among the best of the best. I am so grateful for you and other.

Thinking about the statistical analyst that a few days ago Stephen Spoonamore was wanting, Jim Stewartson had this comment which seems valid to me.

x.com/jimstewartson/status/1856090161034953126

If the @TheDemocrats want to go down swinging they MUST INSIST that every single county that got a Russian bomb threat be hand recounted. That is foreign election interference. Period. Full top. You don’t need to prove a hack or Starlink or any of that.

#Recount2024

DonL @12: 🙏

BevBuddy @15:

Greatly appreciated, Bev!