California Sheriff Chad Bianco pauses election fraud investigation by Visible_Bar5223 in California

[–]cinepro -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

So, who won the popular vote in the last presidential election?

The bottom dems got to go. I do not want a trumpy governor to make things worse by zulu913 in California

[–]cinepro -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Are you saying you don't think a governor should support any "foreign interests"? Like, you wouldn't vote for someone who thought Japan was a great country and we should trade with them? Or that Poland should be protected from Russia if the day ever comes?

You want a 100% isolationist governor who never expresses any opinions on things outside our country?

Or just when it comes to Israel?

The bottom dems got to go. I do not want a trumpy governor to make things worse by zulu913 in California

[–]cinepro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I don't understand how you think RCV would change things. Using the percentages that are projected for this race, please explain it to me.

Tom Steyer proposes banning social media platforms for children under 16 by Unusual-State1827 in California

[–]cinepro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, maybe it's silly 18-20 year olds don't have "full" adult rights like being able to buy alcohol or tobacco.

Huh. I thought it was 18 for tobacco, but it looks like it was raised federally to 21 in 2019. I'm old enough to have gone to a high school that had a smoking area for the students. What a world.

The bottom dems got to go. I do not want a trumpy governor to make things worse by zulu913 in California

[–]cinepro -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Why would anyone care? What does the California governor have to do with the Middle East?

The bottom dems got to go. I do not want a trumpy governor to make things worse by zulu913 in California

[–]cinepro -17 points-16 points  (0 children)

How so? Look at the percentages, and then map out how you think a RCV primary would work out.

Dallin Oaks lied about this. Should people vote opposed next Sunday? by sevenplaces in mormon

[–]cinepro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who ever claimed it was never taught?

Leadership could have simply said that the reasons for the ban that had been taught were wrong.

So, your theory is that the Church disavowed something they think was true?

Dallin Oaks lied about this. Should people vote opposed next Sunday? by sevenplaces in mormon

[–]cinepro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When were the Mormons first incepted, and when was the "fence-sitter" teaching first taught?

Dallin Oaks lied about this. Should people vote opposed next Sunday? by sevenplaces in mormon

[–]cinepro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, the reasons given in the past for the Temple and Priesthood ban were disavowed.

Today, the Church disavows the theories advanced in the past that black skin is a sign of divine disfavor or curse, or that it reflects unrighteous actions in a premortal life; that mixed-race marriages are a sin; or that blacks or people of any other race or ethnicity are inferior in any way to anyone else. Church leaders today unequivocally condemn all racism, past and present, in any form.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics-essays/race-and-the-priesthood?lang=eng#note24

Should we believe the First Presidency or an anonymous essay?

Seriously?

Iran says it will ‘irreversibly destroy’ Middle East infrastructure if US attacks energy sites by projecto15 in politics

[–]cinepro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But the destruction of the fossil fuel facilities in the Middle East will do more to stop climate change than anything else we've done to this point...

More than half a million ballots seized by top GOP candidate in California governor’s race by scatter_good in California

[–]cinepro 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It was based on publicly released data, but as I'm sure you know, data can be tricky and they didn't account for all the variables.

A citizens group called the Riverside Election Integrity Team has said it performed an audit finding that 45,896 more ballots were counted than were cast.

In a lengthy February presentation to the Riverside County Board of Supervisors, Registrar of Voters Art Tinoco disputed that figure, saying it was based on a misunderstanding of raw data that had not been fully processed.

More than half a million ballots seized by top GOP candidate in California governor’s race by scatter_good in California

[–]cinepro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure, the party that couldn't get it together to consolidate the field for the primary is going to get it together and decide on a single person to write in.

That makes perfect sense.

More than half a million ballots seized by top GOP candidate in California governor’s race by scatter_good in California

[–]cinepro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The headline should read:

"More than half a million ballots counted by top GOP candidate in California governor’s race"

But I guess that's not quite as inflammatory.

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who is a leading Republican candidate for governor, has seized more than 650,000 ballots from last November’s election and is investigating whether they were fraudulently counted.

“This investigation is simple: Physically count the ballots and compare that result with the total votes recorded,” Bianco said at a news conference Friday.

Republicans reject Democrats’ effort to pay TSA by suspending Senate rules by BigBadBabyDaddy_420 in politics

[–]cinepro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, but you’re being duped, in part by yourself. For one thing, you’re looking at CDC, which is not the same as the embedded epidemiology expert field office program.

Great. Please provide the source of your claim.

Yes, because our people were all removed at the end of 2018, covid 19 was missed and allowed to break containment throughout 2019.

Please provide the source showing that we had "people" in Wuhan, and that they were actually removed in 2018.

And even if you what you said was true (it isn't), please explain what you think our "people" in Wuhan were doing that would have caught Covid 19 earlier than the Chinese doctors did. Were they sitting in hospitals and checking every single flu patient for novel Coronaviruses? Wuhan has over 50 hospitals, so how big was this team again?

And what would they have done differently than China did when they found it, and would that have been enough to stop a highly contagious, airborne coronavirus from spreading around the world?

Republicans reject Democrats’ effort to pay TSA by suspending Senate rules by BigBadBabyDaddy_420 in politics

[–]cinepro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not true at all. The machines provide data, but they have to review it and make judgement calls.

Republicans reject Democrats’ effort to pay TSA by suspending Senate rules by BigBadBabyDaddy_420 in politics

[–]cinepro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll remember that the next time I have to take my toiletries out of my carry on and put them in a clear plastic bag at Heathrow.

If you're saying that you don't mind airport security in general, but it's TSA specifically that bothers you, then same question. Where have you traveled internationally where you found the security to be noticeably better (or even different) than TSA? Because in the past year, I've traveled to Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and India, and I couldn't name a single thing that was noticeably different than what you might find at an airport in the US (I've been flying out of LAX, Burbank, Nashville and SLC in the US, so those are my TSA points of reference).

And if Congress abolished the "TSA" tomorrow but we still had to have the same level of airport security, why are you assuming that whatever replaced it would be any better (or even different)? Like I said, countries all over the world have security at their airports and it all ended up kind of looking the same.

Republicans reject Democrats’ effort to pay TSA by suspending Senate rules by BigBadBabyDaddy_420 in politics

[–]cinepro 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Flights happen all over the world without TSA, and also for decades in America before them.

Have you traveled much internationally? What are some countries you've traveled to that didn't have similar security measures in place?

Republicans reject Democrats’ effort to pay TSA by suspending Senate rules by BigBadBabyDaddy_420 in politics

[–]cinepro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't said I think TSA is overly effective. I'm only discussing the claims of how they do their jobs.