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November 6, 2020

Novemberverbrecher (November Criminals ie. DolchstoBlegende ie Stabbed in the back myth) inbound

Stab-in-the-back myth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth





The stab-in-the-back myth (German: Dolchstoßlegende, pronounced [ˈdɔlçʃtoːsleˌɡɛndə], lit. 'dagger stab legend')[a] was an antisemitic conspiracy theory, widely believed and promulgated in right-wing circles in Germany after 1918. The belief was that the German Army did not lose World War I on the battlefield but was instead betrayed by the civilians on the home front, especially Jews and the republicans who overthrew the Hohenzollern monarchy in the German Revolution of 1918–19. Advocates denounced the German government leaders who signed the Armistice on November 11, 1918 as the "November criminals" (German: November­verbrecher).

When Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in 1933, they made the legend an integral part of their official history of the 1920s, portraying the Weimar Republic as the work of the "November criminals" who stabbed the nation in the back to seize power while betraying it. The Nazi propaganda depicted Weimar as "a morass of corruption, degeneracy, national humiliation, ruthless persecution of the honest 'national opposition'—fourteen years of rule by Jews, Marxists, and 'cultural Bolsheviks', who had at last been swept away by the National Socialist movement under Hitler and the victory of the 'national revolution' of 1933".

Historians inside and outside Germany unanimously reject the myth, pointing out the German army was out of reserves, was being overwhelmed by the entrance of the United States into the war, and by late 1918 had lost the war militarily.

To many Germans, the expression "stab in the back" was evocative of Richard Wagner's 1876 opera Götterdämmerung, in which Hagen murders his enemy Siegfried – the hero of the story – with a spear in his back.
November 6, 2020

Let's All Pretend We're Somewhere on the Amalfi Coast

Get lost in a daydream. The limoncello will help.

https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/things-to-do-in-amalfi-coast



Just looking at photos of Italy’s Amalfi Coast is transportive. Timeless and breathtaking, its feels almost completely fabricated by the imagination, one magnificent swirl of pastel colors, lemon groves, seaside cliffs, cobblestone staircases, multi-course feasts, and vacationing celebrities who want nothing more than to invite you onto their yacht. Tourists flocked to the Amalfi Coast for centuries before the words “UNESCO World Heritage Site” made any sense, and they’ll continue to do so as soon as it’s safe. Until then, order up some limoncello to stoke your daydreams and get lost in these pristine, not-to-be-missed Amalfi Coast destinations.



Positano

When most of us think "Amalfi Coast," this is the exact thing we have in mind. While its trademark pastel buildings buildings are exceptionally beautiful when viewed from the deck of a boat, they don't lose any of their luster when you're wandering steep footpaths that cut up and down the cliffside. Crucially, there’s also a Positano shuttle that transports tourists to and from the airport when tourism is humming, which is handy since traffic throughout the coast can bottleneck, especially in the summer months.



Ravello

Ravello is probably best-known for its terraced cliffside gardens, which all but demand to be wandered endlessly on warm afternoons. But this is also home to the two-month-long Ravello Festival, which will hopefully be making its triumphant return in 2021 (along with tourism in general). During those days, you're in for live music and art shows spanning countless genres, drawing both local artists and ones that are known around the world. And as long as you’re already in Ravello, do walk about 45 minutes (downhill!) to the smaller town of …



Atrani

Stop for lunch and a glass of wine in the central piazzetta (that’s a piazza, but small) of Atrani. In a region full of tourist hot spots, this small fishing village is a less-trafficked breath of fresh air that still holds all the charming elements that drive people into the bigger resort towns like Positano. You’ll find tiers of pastel houses and Baroque churches and winding stone staircases running up the cliffs from the beach. Stroll along the quiet port before you walk a few minutes further into ...



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November 6, 2020

AOC and other Democrats urge Georgia voters to fix their absentee ballots before a Friday deadline.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/05/us/election-results

With Georgia’s 16 electoral votes likely to be decided by a tiny margin, Democrats are urging voters there to fix absentee ballots that were rejected because of invalid or missing signatures before the deadline on Friday evening.

Those who voted absentee — a group that this year has been heavily Democratic — can check online to see whether election officials have accepted or rejected their ballots. Absentee ballots are often rejected when the voter forgets to sign or uses a signature that does not match the one on file with the state, possibly because it is many years old. Election officials are supposed to contact voters in such cases but are not always able to do so.

Voters have until 5 p.m. on Friday to submit a simple affidavit form to “cure” such ballots. With Georgia hanging in the balance as the last votes are counted, national Democrats — including Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York — are amplifying the message in hopes of salvaging every vote possible.

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1324515509505794048

November 5, 2020

Robocalls told at least 800,000 swing state residents to "stay home" on election day.

The FBI is investigating.

A firm that tracks robocalls said more than 3 million calls were made on Nov. 3, which contained a cryptic message instructing people to “stay safe and stay home.” The tactics join other efforts to confuse voters this election cycle.

https://www.propublica.org/article/robocalls-told-at-least-800-000-swing-state-residents-to-stay-home-on-election-day-the-fbi-is-investigating#1011344



More than 800,000 people with phone numbers tied to six presidential swing states have been targeted with automated phone calls on Tuesday suggesting they remain at home on Election Day, a tactic that has alarmed voters and has drawn the attention of the FBI, documents and interviews show. All told, more than 3 million calls were made to people across the country on Tuesday, instructing them to “stay safe and stay home,” according to data and call recordings provided by the firm TelTech, which owns the RoboKiller smartphone app. One message, only a few seconds long, delivers the message in a monotone, robotic voice.

Government officials and voters interpreted the messages as potential voter suppression, though it’s not clear what the intent was since the messages apparently began last December, before the coronavirus pandemic. It is also not known who was behind the cryptic messaging campaign or whether it targeted people with particular party registrations or political leanings. Nor was it clear whether the calls had any effect on voters’ willingness to go to the polls. In many states, significant numbers of people have already voted by mail, making the apparent veiled threats irrelevant.

Nonetheless, the robocall campaign added to a trove of tactics that could undermine Americans’ confidence in the election, from disinformation on social media to hacking attempts that could slow vote counting. Calls like it drew pushback from state officials, including New York Attorney General Letitia James, who tweeted Tuesday afternoon: “Attempts to hinder voters from casting ballots by spreading misinformation is illegal and will not be tolerated. That’s why I am actively investigating robocalls allegedly spreading disinformation.”

https://twitter.com/NewYorkStateAG/status/1323723959511191552

The available data doesn’t show how many of the callers listened to the full message. Neither the recording provided by TelTech nor those heard by voters who spoke with ProPublica mentioned specific political candidates or even the election. But the messages were so ubiquitous that they prompted complaints from voters, as well as federal law enforcement officials. “Because it talks about safety, I thought, is this about COVID? But it doesn’t actually say anything about COVID,” said Mariah Montgomery, a Brooklyn nonprofit worker with a Los Angeles area code who received the phone call twice in one day last week. “It did seem potentially like voter disinformation or suppression, given the timing,” she said.

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November 5, 2020

well, FUCK.....Collins Wins in Maine, Denying Democrats a Crucial Senate Pickup

After the most difficult race of her career, Senator Susan Collins held onto her seat, dealing Democrats a major setback in their push to capture the Senate majority.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/us/politics/maine-election-susan-collins.html

BANGOR, Me. — Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, claimed victory on Wednesday in her bid to secure a fifth term, beating back an avalanche of Democratic money and liberal anger in the most difficult race of her career to defeat Sara Gideon, a Democrat, and strengthen the party’s hold on the Senate. Her triumph, reported by The Associated Press, preserved Ms. Collins’s status as the only remaining New England Republican in Congress. She became the first senator in the state’s history to be directly chosen by voters for a fifth term in the upper chamber, dashing Democratic hopes of a crucial pickup as their ambitions of a Senate takeover hung by a thread.

Ms. Collins, 67, who had trailed in most public polling this year, overcame the liberal groundswell in part by centering her campaign on local issues and distancing herself from Mr. Trump, even declining to say whether she would vote for him. Toiling to preserve an image she has carefully cultivated as an independent-minded moderate, she reminded voters of her accomplishments for the state and emphasized her likely ascendance to the helm of the powerful Appropriations Committee, which allocates federal spending, should Republicans keep the majority, as well as her personal relationships in the state. “I feel that this is an affirmation of the work that I’m doing in Washington to fight hard every day, to fight hard every day for the people of Maine,” Ms. Collins said to a small crowd of masked supporters cheering in a Hilton Garden Inn parking lot, shortly after Ms. Gideon called her to concede the race. “I will serve you with all my heart, I will work hard for you, each and every day, and together we will come together to work on the problems and challenges that are facing our state and our country.”

National Democrats, furious after Ms. Collins became a key vote in support of Mr. Trump’s tax plan and the confirmation of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in 2018, had singled out Ms. Collins as a top target on their path to reclaiming the Senate majority. As a result, the race had become the most expensive in Maine history, with national donors flooding the state with tens of millions of dollars and an onslaught of negative campaign ads. Ms. Gideon, the speaker of Maine’s House, had sought to frame the campaign as a referendum on Republicans, painting Ms. Collins as out of touch with the state and in lock-step with Mr. Trump and Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader. She capitalized on the growing polarization of the state in the Trump era, as Democrats and independent voters became increasingly frustrated with Ms. Collins’s pattern of expressing distress at the president’s language and actions, only to side with her party on crucial issues. But Ms. Gideon ultimately fell short, failing to keep Ms. Collins from attaining the 50 percent threshold required for outright victory under the state’s ranked choice voting system. Republicans had feared that the system could harm her chances, potentially consolidating liberal opposition to her given the presence in the race of a progressive, Lisa Savage, who had openly encouraged her supporters to list Ms. Gideon as their second choice.

“Mainers rallied around our campaign in a way I’ve never seen before, and while we came up short, I do believe Mainers in every corner of this state are ready to continue to work together to make a difference,” Ms. Gideon said in a somber concession speech. “Regardless of the result, together we built a movement that will help us make progress for years to come.” The pandemic offered an opportunity for Ms. Collins to counter the narrative by highlighting her work with Democrats, as she championed what would become a popular federal loan program to stabilize thousands of small businesses across the country in the $2.2 trillion stimulus law enacted in the spring. The creation of the Paycheck Protection Program, along with a series of measures to overhaul and replenish it, also allowed Ms. Collins to draw a sharp contrast with Ms. Gideon, who adjourned the state’s legislature in March and failed to secure bipartisan support to reconvene it. In the days leading up to Tuesday’s election, Ms. Collins crisscrossed the state in her campaign bus, visiting small businesses that survived the pandemic by taking advantage of the loan program and Maine towns that had benefited from her work on the Senate Appropriations Committee.

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November 4, 2020

DeJoy needs to be in prison, he needs to be the 1st of MANY, put him under the cosh till he squeals



I would wager those US House losses in FL-15 (Tampa it was our only real shot at taking back the FL delegation, it was a pure toss-up, but the Rethug won by almost 11%) totally possible R to D flip going in), FL-26 (Miami area, it ended up a D to R flip, against all the polls), and FL-27 (Miami area, it ended up a D to R flip, against all the polls) are HIGHLY suspicious as well

make those fucking fascist RW Cubans wail and gnash their teeth when their scum 'winners' are tossed out
November 4, 2020

I so hope (given this new 27% undelivered MIB South FL scandal) that we REALLY

drill down on the following SENATE races (plus POTUS in the ones listed)

NC (and NC POTUS race, which, like the Senate race in NC, is still not called)
IA Senate (we lost by margins WAY over all the polls)
MT Senate (we lost by margins way over all the polls)
GA Regular Senate (we already have a runoff in the Special) and GA POTUS
WI POTUS
MI Senate (and MI POTUS)
ME Senate (still not called) and ME-2, the only one of the 4 Maine EV's that Trump will win
NV POTUS
AZ POTUS
PA POTUS
FL POTUS and all the close or upset House races there
AK Senate
KS Senate


plus ALL the close House races we lost (or even if not 'close' then the upsets or out of the ordinary results)

and State-wide races as well where we lost close races

I smell Rethug ratfucks everywhere with the mail-in ballots and quite likely other forms of bullshit

November 4, 2020

Over 100m USD shit away on a fantasyland Senate race (SC) based off a couple dodgy polls

a nice face, decent story, and disliking Graham so much that common sense was tossed aside.

it was NEVER a 50/50 shot. I meticulously tracked the Senate for close to a year and half, and SC was never listed by me as a flippable (and I had 13 of them). That wasted money (and the 100m or whatever shit away on the McTurtle race, pumped into a flawed candidate (she launched her campaign by saying she would have fully supported and voted for drunkey rapey Kavanaugh ffs!) who, if the primary had happened a week later or so, would not even have been running against Moscow) could have helped other more cash-needy races.





200m USD or so combined shit down the loo

November 4, 2020

the Senate is not completely lost, if Peters holds on, we need two more seats to get to 50

the races nor called yet are all Rethugs seats (except for Peters)

GA Ossoff still can pull this off and get into a run-off
GA Special (will be a runoff for sure)
ME Collins now below 50%, if she finishes below 50%, then ranked-choice voting may scupper her
NC (still not called, fingers crossed for a miracle)
AK (this is a stretch, it looks like the polls were bullshit)


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