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magicalmoments
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Trump's insane stand up comedy routine brought the democratic voters out, the ones who normally stay home on voting day. Republican office holders are going to think, do I call in trump to shore up the base support and risk motivating the democrats who usually stay at home? Or do I tell him to keep out of my state!
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Maybe you heard about the Republican in Virginia who ran ads comparing his Democratic opponent to Trump. That probably shouldn't have surprised me, but it did. At least that's proof that at least some Republicans recognise that he's a liability in all but the reddest states.
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Other than hating the entire human species as a whole, there are few individual humans I truly despise, but this is one:
Kentucky Gov. Bevin calls for vote recanvass as he refuses to concede
NBC News|1 hour ago
WASHINGTON — Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has filed a formal request for a recanvass of Tuesday night's gubernatorial election which appears to have left the incumbent roughly 5,150 votes short of re-election, losing in an upset race to Democrat Andy Beshear.
Kentucky Gov. Bevin calls for vote recanvass as he refuses to concede
NBC News|1 hour ago
WASHINGTON — Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has filed a formal request for a recanvass of Tuesday night's gubernatorial election which appears to have left the incumbent roughly 5,150 votes short of re-election, losing in an upset race to Democrat Andy Beshear.
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As Matt Bevin refuses to concede, critics warn Kentucky GOP ‘totally gearing up to steal’ gubernatorial election
Elections have consequences, right?
jaF0
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"Should a candidate pursue a contest after certification, they must file a written notice citing specific grounds for the contest within 30 days of the election board's final action.
Once that notice is given, the Kentucky General Assembly would then be authorized to constitute a board to review the evidence and hear depositions. This board must consist of three state senators and eight state House representatives.
Board members are chosen by lottery -- names are written on separate slips of paper and drawn at random. The board is then tasked with reviewing the evidence and discussing the allegations. Afterward, the board would file a recommendation to the full General Assembly for further action if necessary, which could include a vote.
Republicans control both chambers of the General Assembly -- 61-39 in the House, including two special election contests the GOP won last night, and 29-9 in the Senate. "
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/06/politics/what-is-a-recanvass/index.html
Once that notice is given, the Kentucky General Assembly would then be authorized to constitute a board to review the evidence and hear depositions. This board must consist of three state senators and eight state House representatives.
Board members are chosen by lottery -- names are written on separate slips of paper and drawn at random. The board is then tasked with reviewing the evidence and discussing the allegations. Afterward, the board would file a recommendation to the full General Assembly for further action if necessary, which could include a vote.
Republicans control both chambers of the General Assembly -- 61-39 in the House, including two special election contests the GOP won last night, and 29-9 in the Senate. "
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/06/politics/what-is-a-recanvass/index.html
jaF0
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Latest on the Kentucky governor’s election
(all times local):
4:15 p.m.
The Kentucky Senate’s top leader says Republican Gov. Matt Bevin should concede to Democrat Andy Beshear if a recanvass doesn’t significantly alter the vote count from Tuesday.
Senate President Robert Stivers said Friday that Bevin’s request for a recanvass of election results is appropriate. But without a significant change, the Republican lawmaker said it would be appropriate for Bevin to conclude “the election is over.”
With 100% of precincts reporting, Beshear led by a little over 5,000 votes out of more than 1.4 million counted.
The recanvass is set for Nov. 14 to verify the vote count.
Bevin’s recourse after that would be to contest the election, putting the outcome in lawmakers’ hands. Stivers said it would be a “very high bar” for Bevin to have any chance of prevailing.
(all times local):
4:15 p.m.
The Kentucky Senate’s top leader says Republican Gov. Matt Bevin should concede to Democrat Andy Beshear if a recanvass doesn’t significantly alter the vote count from Tuesday.
Senate President Robert Stivers said Friday that Bevin’s request for a recanvass of election results is appropriate. But without a significant change, the Republican lawmaker said it would be appropriate for Bevin to conclude “the election is over.”
With 100% of precincts reporting, Beshear led by a little over 5,000 votes out of more than 1.4 million counted.
The recanvass is set for Nov. 14 to verify the vote count.
Bevin’s recourse after that would be to contest the election, putting the outcome in lawmakers’ hands. Stivers said it would be a “very high bar” for Bevin to have any chance of prevailing.
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Step back and then look ahead
If you step back in time you will find that for thousands of years men have fought and died for empires and political goals and ideals. Kingdoms rise and fall. In the moment it all seems so important and men fight and scream and kill and die in a effort to impose their hot idea on how things ought to be. But time washes them away. They die and their cause dies. In relatively recent world history, think how men like Hitler inspired the German people to embrace his National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Government run news media belched out fake news that German people sucked into their minds. He convinced them that Jews held too much wealth and should be exterminated and their wealth shared for the good of the German people. Millions of Jews were exterminated along with any other factions that would not embrace his mind control. He dragged the world into a war that killed 55 million people. But now he is a fart in the wind.
The fake news today brews the same mind control hate. Over and over they beat the drum with twisted facts and half truths or just made up shit.
Millions are hypnotized by it. They believe they see the path to a new Socialistic Utopia. Hate is being brewed. People are being divided. The idea that wealth should be stripped from people and given away seems morally right. Slander and lying to gain power is justified.
In the end none of it will matter. Blood will be spilt. People will suffer. But the political leaders on all sides and their mindless followers will all end up like Hitler. Just a fart in the wind of history.
What happens on any given Tuesday doesn't matter. What happens in your own mind and heart everyday does matter.
If you step back in time you will find that for thousands of years men have fought and died for empires and political goals and ideals. Kingdoms rise and fall. In the moment it all seems so important and men fight and scream and kill and die in a effort to impose their hot idea on how things ought to be. But time washes them away. They die and their cause dies. In relatively recent world history, think how men like Hitler inspired the German people to embrace his National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Government run news media belched out fake news that German people sucked into their minds. He convinced them that Jews held too much wealth and should be exterminated and their wealth shared for the good of the German people. Millions of Jews were exterminated along with any other factions that would not embrace his mind control. He dragged the world into a war that killed 55 million people. But now he is a fart in the wind.
The fake news today brews the same mind control hate. Over and over they beat the drum with twisted facts and half truths or just made up shit.
Millions are hypnotized by it. They believe they see the path to a new Socialistic Utopia. Hate is being brewed. People are being divided. The idea that wealth should be stripped from people and given away seems morally right. Slander and lying to gain power is justified.
In the end none of it will matter. Blood will be spilt. People will suffer. But the political leaders on all sides and their mindless followers will all end up like Hitler. Just a fart in the wind of history.
What happens on any given Tuesday doesn't matter. What happens in your own mind and heart everyday does matter.
jaF0
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More than a week after Election Day, Republican Gov. Matt Bevin is conceding the Kentucky gubernatorial election to Democratic Attorney General Andy Beshear after a recanvass failed to significantly change the close final margin.
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/14/7794...-bevin-concedes-race-to-democrat-andy-beshear
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/14/7794...-bevin-concedes-race-to-democrat-andy-beshear
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Some lawmakers have said special attention should be given to the pardon issued to Patrick Brian Baker, who was sentenced to 19 years on convictions of reckless homicide and other crimes in a fatal 2014 Knox County home break-in. Prosecutors say Baker and another man posed as police to gain entry to Donald Mills’ home and Mills was shot in front of his wife. She drove him to the hospital but he died on arrival.
Baker’s family raised $21,500 at a political fundraiser last year for Bevin and Baker’s brother and sister-in-law also gave $4,000 to Bevin’s campaign on the day of the fundraiser, the Courier Journal reported. Bevin wrote in the pardoning document that Baker’s “drug addictions” led him to fall in with the wrong people and the evidence against Baker was “sketchy at best.”
But the Kentucky Court of Appeals upheld Baker’s conviction a year ago, writing in a unanimous ruling that “there can be no doubt, on review of the proof as a whole, evidence of Baker’s guilt was overwhelming.”
https://apnews.com/f89ed391e9f62e6e429a43365f5c0224
Baker’s family raised $21,500 at a political fundraiser last year for Bevin and Baker’s brother and sister-in-law also gave $4,000 to Bevin’s campaign on the day of the fundraiser, the Courier Journal reported. Bevin wrote in the pardoning document that Baker’s “drug addictions” led him to fall in with the wrong people and the evidence against Baker was “sketchy at best.”
But the Kentucky Court of Appeals upheld Baker’s conviction a year ago, writing in a unanimous ruling that “there can be no doubt, on review of the proof as a whole, evidence of Baker’s guilt was overwhelming.”
https://apnews.com/f89ed391e9f62e6e429a43365f5c0224
