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ProfessorPlum

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August 2, 2017

TYT: Trump's Lawyer BUSTED Lying About Russia Meeting



They are lying. OF COURSE!
August 2, 2017

TYT: Trump Dictated Don Jr.'s Excuse For Russian Meeting



emphasizing both how stupid and how guilty the president is
July 31, 2017

I was going to write a brilliant post about how the Mooch was like a cuckoo hatchling

Loud, obnoxious, shoving his nest-mates out of the tree to their deaths, grabbing all of the resources.

And now, I'll never get the chance.

Adios, Mooch-a-cho!

You've managed to lose your job and your wife and family. All to suck up to power and a man you rightfully disdained on national TV.

July 31, 2017

An Unbelievable Voting Machine Hack

We'll never know if our voting machines are hacked/rigged. Because touch screen machines create no checkable physical artifact of a vote, all they have to do is have the same vote totals as the number of voters and they can return any result desired. If the security is broken.

I don't know if votes have been changed, either in local, state, or federal elections. None of us know at present. But what I do know is that the machines offer no assurance that they cannot be hacked. And, I know that the GOP would absolutely use any and all means, including altering the results of the machines, to win. They have shown no respect for the process, only the lust for power.

What that means is that if results are being hacked, it is in the hackers' best interests to make the results as realistic as possible. Give a candidate trailing in the polls a surprising win, but only by 1 or 2%. Try to match previous voting patterns as best as possible, or create winning anomalies in just a few key districts.

BUT. If the machines can be hacked, then they need to be hacked and shown to be hacked. To do this, the hacker should create An Unbelievable Voting Machine Hack - a result that can't possibly be true. 100% of the vote for the Democratic candidate. Every vote but 1 for a little known independent. Create a result that lays bare the vulnerabilities of the system. Even just in one precinct.

If this can be done (especially if we put the GOP on the losing end of the result), it might finally wake somebody up.

The only drawback is that it would be a crime. But maybe worth the risk.

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