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There was never any reason to allow mass mailing of ballots. Anyone could've gotten an absentee ballot and used it if they feared the virus. Those can be verified. With all of the voting changes made in the states in 2020, it cannot be assumed there wasn't a ton of fraud among the ballots, nor can it be assumed much of it wasn't covered up by corrupt election officials and partisan hacks hell bent on reviving the leftist agenda in this land.

Anyone who doesn't believe a corrupt government, that attacked Trump from the day he announced he was running for office, could orchestrate a political coup during the election in 2020, probably believes Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK. Remember: The Warren Commission proved he did. Then the Zabruder film came out giving evidence he didn't. But to this day, the corrupt government spins the lie that he did it. Just because our government says a stolen election is a "Big Lie", doesn't mean it is. When the media calls it a "Big Lie" and claims and evidence "baseless", it is not being objective. It's doing what it's paid to do, which is push the cover up.

LOL! They may hate Biden now, but they all still hate Trump. The brainwashing did it's job.

Trump is the only person in American politics that relates to the average American and their issues. At one time he was one of them and has been fighting the corruption that is attacking the masses for decades. He knows how to deal with it and he refuses to let the corrupt class win. If you hate Trump, the corrupt class loves you.

If you need a survey like that to decide where you stand politically, you are not thinking for yourself and are allowing an abstract to define you with a label. Most of the questions involve complicated issues that cannot be answered with these survey answers. Too much today defines everything as black, white or grey, when the definition should be limited to right or wrong.

So, a govt that lies to us all the time about everything, is telling us the truth about the 2020 election? What ever happened to the 60's mantra of "Question authority"? Who was working for the people as President and who is working against the people as President? Some may call this tin foil hat conspiracy, but a real journalist, not leftist talking heads, is speaking out about how corrupt our govt has become. People better start listening if they want freedom in their future. China: The Enemy Within | Official Trailer | The Daily Wire

Michael Junge March 16 at 12:24 PM · This Tesla was in a single vehicle accident Thursday 3/10. Moderate to significant front end damage with the car “blowing up into flames” I believe is what the caller said. Crews arrived quickly - treated and transported injured and reported about 4000 gallons of water to extinguish. These pictures are from yesterday 3/15 in the tow yard where the car was brought to. Since last Thursday evening (5 days ago), this vehicle’s battery (circled area) has burned 3 times, per the tow yard - requiring FD response and thousands of gallons to extinguish and cool. Each time crews waited on scene after extinguishment to be sure battery was cooled down. At some point, the yard flipped the car over - for better access to the battery for FD. A normal passenger car fire can usually be extinguished with what we have on one Fire Engine (less than 750 gallons). We’ve put many cars out with probably less than 500 gallons. There are apparently lines circulating fluid around the battery and drive unit to keep them at normal operating temperature. Interesting to say the least.

I had a 1974 Chevy Monte Carlo that needed unleaded gas. That was the first car I owned that used it. It had a 350 ci. V8 and was choked with all sorts of pollution controls and a cat converter. It was a real dog for acceleration and highway passing. That was the beginning of the governments war on good cars. It added thousands to their cost and killed performance for 3 decades. The performance is back, but the prices are now what a house used to cost.

Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at Townhall. Twice in thirty days, YouTube censored videos of mine on topics that I previously covered for Real Clear Investigations and Real Clear Politics. The video platform blocked me from posting anything for two weeks, and said that the ban would be permanent if another violation occurred in the next 90 days. In January, a violation was issued after I posted a video on the problems with mail-in voting in Missoula County, Montana (“A River of Doubt Runs Through Mail Voting in Big Sky Country,” Real Clear Investigations, March 24, 2021). A recount of the mail-in ballot envelopes found that 4,592 (6.33%) of 72,491 mail-in ballots lacked envelopes. Without an officially printed envelope, registration information, voter signature, and postmark date, election officials cannot verify the vote’s legitimacy. It is against the law to count such votes. My appearance on an America’s Voice news show also drew YouTube’s ire, this time for violating their community standards on “Elections misinformation policies.” The guidelines explain, “This currently applies to: Any past U.S. Presidential election.” In fact, the video never directly discussed the presidential election and never said that Donald Trump won the election. Trump won Montana handily, so the results there were never in question. After an appeal, YouTube wrote back and said that it had carefully reviewed the video again, but still wouldn’t change its decision. The company did not respond to my arguments. Another apparently offensive appearance came in February on Sebastian Gorka’s national radio show. That interview discussed President Biden’s nascent national gun registry, after the ATF revealed that it had created a searchable digital database of 866 million firearms purchases (including some 54 million in 2021 alone). In this case, I was not in trouble for anything that Gorka or I said in the interview, but because Gorka supposedly violated community standards in other episodes. So, apparently, I am responsible for monitoring not just what I say or what others say in my presence, but also for what others say at other times. In May 2020, YouTube flagged my eleven-second clip of a character in CBS’s Blue Bloods making the false claim that police commit suicides at high rates because they have “easy access to guns.” the clip was yet another example of the misleading information that television shows provide about guns. I accompanied the video with a post about academic research that shows there are no drops in overall suicide rates when guns are banned or when guns are required to be locked up. Someone complained to YouTube about my post, but I never learned what the problem was. I was simply told, “It’s important to us that YouTube is a safe place for all.” These aren’t the only run-ins I have had with social media censorship. Twitter twice censored a post of mine claiming that the 2019 New Zealand mosque shooter was “a socialist, environmentalist, who hates capitalists & free trade.” I also wrote that the killer believed his attack would “lead to more gun control” in New Zealand and the United States. Twitter didn’t bother to provide me with an explanation for why they locked my account for months. After I wrote about the incident in the New York Daily News, the Crime Prevention Research Center tweeted out a link to my article and its account was subsequently locked. The most maddening thing is the frequent lack of clarity about the exact nature of the violations. I have now taken to also posting on Rumble, which doesn’t censor content, but it will take a while before I gain as many followers as I have on YouTube. All this is happening at the same time that the social media giants are refusing to block the accounts of terrorists and invading governments. But that wasn’t the end of the story. After my appeals to YouTube failed, I reached out to Grover Norquist, , an influential Washington, D.C. conservative and president of Americans for Tax Reform. His staff interceded with Google, YouTube’s parent company. After four days, Google removed all of the strikes on my account and reactivated it. “I would like to apologize again for the disruption our errors caused you,” a Google staffer wrote me. While things eventually worked out, my accounts were closed for two-and-a-half weeks this year, I would have gotten nowhere if I didn’t know an influential person who had personal contacts. The problem is more fundamental. The staffers are intentionally censoring people they disagree with, and I doubt they got in any trouble for their “errors”. YouTube doesn’t respect free speech, and people are less informed because of it. John R. Lott, Jr., “Social Media Censorship Particularly Hits Those Without Political Connections,” Townhall, March 16, 2022.

We can only dream of NY ever defending our gun rights against anti-gun elected hacks. That is why gun owners move out of the state when they get the chance. Yesterday, an Alabama House committee passed a bill that would prohibit state and local enforcement of federal gun control by executive order. The enactment of this legislation would take a step toward ending some federal acts that infringe on the right to keep and bear arms within the state. Rep. David Standridge introduce House Bill 310 (HB310) on Feb. 8. The legislation would prohibit state and local agents from enforcing or administering any executive order issued by the president that “limits or restricts the ownership, use, or possession of firearms, ammunition, or firearm accessories by law-abiding residents of the state.” The bill would also ban the expenditure of public funds for the same. This would stop state and local enforcement of President Trump’s bump stock ban, along with two ATF regulations from executive orders issued by Joe Biden to criminalize “pistol braces” and to require registration of popular “80 percent lowers” — homemade firearms. It would also bar state and local enforcement of any other future gun control schemes implemented by executive order. On March 17, the House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee approved HB310.

Personally, I think automobiles have been devolving since the muscle car era of the late 1960's. But that's just what I think a real automobile should be.

EV's are actually catching fire while charging or when they are involved in an accident. That's not a small flaw that can be fixed with a recall. EV's may turn out to be the Ford Pinto of the 21st Century.

Yes, I have driven a few different models, including hybrids, just to be better informed. You have hit on all of the supposed advantages of EV's, although lower maintenance costs and reliability are debatable, but haven't listed any of the many disadvantages. I've tried to list them with my above posts so people can be more informed about them. Currently there is a lot of info coming out regarding the safety of EV's, especially their potential to catch on fire. I think as time goes by, we will see the EV is not the answer to the problem of pollution. The free market should be allowed to operate as it should regarding the success or failure of EV's. Anytime the government inserts itself into any market and pushes "winners", while attacking "losers", the end product will be one that benefits the government at the expense of the people.

Non Compos Mentis Award "I may be Irish, but I'm not stupid." —Joe Biden

I hear one drumming not far from my house, but there are far fewer than there were just 2 or 3 years ago.