Thursday, November 5, 2020

How a story is buried

The Milwaukee City Wire is reporting that Seven Milwaukee wards report more 2020 presidential votes than registered voters. The story has details about the number of registered voters, and of recorded votes for Trump and Biden, in each of Milwaukee's 327 voting wards. Of these wards, 90 reported voter turnout higher than 90%, seven higher than 100%, and one a whopping 202%!

How do you "debunk" something like this without actually, you know, debunking it? Easy. Make up a similar but false story -- using all the same key words -- debunk that, and flood the search results.


Search for the story, and you get tons of "fact check" sites assuring you that it's absolutely false that Wisconsin -- the whole state -- had higher than 100% voter turnout. Was anyone ever really claiming that, or is this just an ad hoc strawman made up for the express purpose of burying the real story? (In other news, it is absolutely false that Joe Biden once raped Jeffrey Epstein's niece in a laptop repair shop in Ukraine!)

I've clicked a few of the "fact check" links, and none of the ones I looked at so much as mentioned the alleged irregularities in Milwaukee. The real story is there in the search results if you scroll down a bit, but of course most people won't do that. They'll take one look at the results, assume there's nothing to see, and move on.

Let me take this opportunity to remind you that I don't vote, don't support either candidate, and don't think it matters much which liar wins. But whoever wins or loses, I sure hope they take a lot of other liars down with them.

But behold, ye have rejected the truth, and rebelled against your holy God; and even at this time, instead of laying up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where nothing doth corrupt, and where nothing can come which is unclean, ye are heaping up for yourselves wrath against the day of judgment.

Yea, even at this time ye are ripening, because of your murders and your fornication and wickedness, for everlasting destruction; yea, and except ye repent it will come unto you soon.

Yea, behold it is now even at your doors; yea, go ye in unto the judgment-seat, and search; and behold, your judge is murdered, and he lieth in his blood; and he hath been murdered by his brother, who seeketh to sit in the judgment-seat.

And behold, they both belong to your secret band, whose author is Gadianton and the evil one who seeketh to destroy the souls of men.

-- Helaman 8:25-28

Oh, by the way, happy Guy Fawkes Day.

Ex-Mormon convergence continues apace

From the front page of the Latter-day Church of Don't You Dare Call Us Mormons:


“The shocking police-produced death of George Floyd in Minnesota last May was surely the trigger for these nationwide protests, whose momentum was carried forward under the message of ‘Black Lives Matter,’” said President [Dallin H.] Oaks. “Of course, Black lives matter! That is an eternal truth all reasonable people should support.”

Wednesday, November 4, 2020

My last chance to post a Biden sync before Biden becomes irrelevant

Yes, it’s like 3:00 a.m. in Taiwan, but this just came to me, and if I wait till tomorrow to post it, it’ll be too late.

In the unlikely event of a Biden/Harris win, you heard it here first: Clickhole called the race for Joe and Kamala almost a full year before there was even a Joe/Kamala ticket!


In fact, the Joe/Kamala candidacy may have been known as far back as 1992!


(Yes, I know the Tarot is predicting a win for the incumbent, but keep in mind that the Tarot is well-known to have a pro-trump bias.)

Tuesday, November 3, 2020

More on the birdemic in the Tarot

Both the Tarot de Marseille and the Rider-Waite predict the birdemic, but Rider-Waite does it better. See The Magician's Table for details.

Oswald Wirth's Emperor card

Over at The Magician's Table, I discuss Oswald Wirth's Emperor card, its Swiss-ness, and its influence on the Rider-Waite.

Monday, November 2, 2020

Darkness and light

"God appears, and God is light
to those poor souls who dwell in night,
but does a human form display
to those who dwell in realms of day."

These lines were penned by William Blake,
but others have a different take:
Stare long into the deepest black;
the human mind is winking back.

Whose perceptions can be trusted?
Those whose eyesight has adjusted.

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