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ChiGoose

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  1. If Trump wins and launches his deportation of illegal immigrants, is he going to deport Elon Musk?

     

    Elon Musk worked in US illegally in 1995 after quitting school – report

     

    "[T]he world’s wealthiest individual was almost certainly working in the US without correct authorization for a period in 1995 after he dropped out of Stanford University to work on his debut company, Zip2, which sold for about $300m four years later.

     

    Legal experts said foreign students cannot drop out of school to build a company even if they are not getting paid."

     

    Oh, and here's a video of his brother admitting that they were violating immigration laws.

     

    If he lied about this on his citizenship application, he could be eligible for denaturalization.

     

    I'm assuming MAGA is going to be very concerned and upset about this...

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  2. 18 minutes ago, Biden is Mentally Fit said:

    Incels…dipping into the L Ron bag. Hard to believe that’s a good look. 
     

    I find the phone/gps thing interesting but am skeptical. Have you seen something that debunks it? 

     

    "I find it interesting but I am skeptical" is a good place to be for cellphone tracking data.

     

    It definitely has uses, which is why law enforcement and journalists use it. But it has significant pitfalls as well. 

     

    It's not accurate to a very specific degree which can cause confusion on where someone actually is, especially in a dense urban area (are they in the FBI office, the Starbucks next door or the McDonald's across the street?). 

     

    It's also subject to bad data. As far as I can tell, a lot of it is based on ad tracking from apps. The quality of this data varies wildly and can actually be fraudulent if you have some apps just faking data for clicks and dollars.

     

    Professionals can overcome these issues by using other investigative techniques, but partisans basing claims solely on the data aren't being honest about its limitations. And when the *proof* they provide of their claim is just a screenshot of an Excel document with no underlying source of the data, no context, no proof they even have cellphone data, and no supporting evidence, there's no reason to believe there's really anything there but partisan hackery.

  3. 2 hours ago, K D said:

    HERO!!!!!!!!

     

     

    Gotta love how easily MAGA falls for it. Every single time. Most gullible people on the planet. Even with these lines, couldn't tell it was a satire:

    • "You called us garbage and in order to prove that we aren't garbage, we got a truck that hauls garbage, does that sound like something garbage would do, would be to drive around in a truck that hauls garbage?"
    • "You can't call a group of people garbage unless it's meant to be funny and in that case those people need to stop being so soft. Maybe get a sense of humor. But if you call me garbage, that's offensive."
    • "I'm gonna show up to the polls wearing a garbage bag to show you what us white trash can do and they're gonna rename election day garbage day 'cause we're gonna be taking out the trash. Which is you. Even though I'll be the one wearing the garbage bag."

    Maybe try clicking on his profile where his bio says comedian and he has a bunch of videos trashing Trump...

     

    How long until Don Jr. or other MAGA leaders are posting this unironically as well?

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  4. 7 hours ago, The Frankish Reich said:

    This one has the ring of truth.

    1. Trump's type for sure. Foreign. Tall. Pretty.

    2. The invite to the semi-bogus "pageant"

    3. The long conversation at the party

    4. The grabby/handsy stuff, just like he called it in the Access Hollywood tape

    5. No apparent ulterior motive

     


    If you are in line to get groped by Donald Trump, STAY IN LINE 

  5. A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital

     

    "The fetus was on the verge of coming out, its head pressed against her dilated cervix; she was 17 weeks pregnant and a miscarriage was “in progress,” doctors noted in hospital records. At that point, they should have offered to speed up the delivery or empty her uterus to stave off a deadly infection, more than a dozen medical experts told ProPublica.

     

    But when Barnica’s husband rushed to her side from his job on a construction site, she relayed what she said the medical team had told her: “They had to wait until there was no heartbeat,” he told ProPublica in Spanish. “It would be a crime to give her an abortion.”

     

    For 40 hours, the anguished 28-year-old mother prayed for doctors to help her get home to her daughter; all the while, her uterus remained exposed to bacteria.

     

    Three days after she delivered, Barnica died of an infection."

     

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    "In a state that hadn’t banned abortion, Barnica could have immediately been offered the options that major medical organizations, including international ones, say is the standard of evidence-based care: speeding up labor with medication or a dilation and evacuation procedure to empty the uterus.

     

    “We know that the sooner you intervene in these situations, the better outcomes are,” said Dr. Steven Porter, an OB-GYN in Cleveland.

     

    But Texas’ new abortion ban had just gone into effect. It required physicians to confirm the absence of a fetal heartbeat before intervening unless there was a “medical emergency,” which the law did not define. It required doctors to make written notes on the patient’s condition and the reason abortion was necessary.

     

    The law did not account for the possibility of a future emergency, one that could develop in hours or days without intervention, doctors told ProPublica.

     

    Barnica was technically still stable. But lying in the hospital with her cervix open wider than a baseball left her uterus exposed to bacteria and placed her at high risk of developing sepsis, experts told ProPublica. Infections can move fast and be hard to control once they take hold.

     

    The scenario felt all too familiar for Dr. Leilah Zahedi-Spung, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist who used to work in Tennessee and reviewed a summary of Barnica’s records at ProPublica’s request.

     

    Abortion bans put doctors in an impossible position, she said, forcing them to decide whether to risk malpractice or a felony charge. After her state enacted one of the strictest bans in the country, she also waited to offer interventions in cases like Barnica’s until the fetal heartbeat stopped or patients showed signs of infection, praying every time that nothing would go wrong. It’s why she ultimately moved to Colorado."

  6. 34 minutes ago, Motorin' said:

     

    Except they said their motive was to prevent non-citizens from voting. So it wouldn't make sense to purge the voter rolls of non-citizens and then leave months for non-citizens to register, would it?

     

    Except that non-citizens voting rarely ever happens despite what politicians claim. It's just a boogeyman to convince people there's fraud when they lose.

     

    Even the conservative Heritage Foundation could only find 77 instances of non-citizens voting in a 24 year period. Another study found that out of 23.5 million votes in 40 jurisdictions in 2016 found a total of 30 non-citizens voting. (source)

     

    Meanwhile, some of the tools used for voter purges have had false-positive rates north of 90%.

     

    The risk of scores of non-citizens registering to vote and successfully voting in the 90 days prior to the election is infinitesimal. It's far more likely that you end up accidentally purging eligible voters from the rolls. 

  7. 45 minutes ago, Motorin' said:

     

    You seem like someone who is unfamiliar with the possability of institutional corruption. Which is rather odd, given that you live in the land of Maddigan, Ed Burke, Blagojevich, and on and on. 

     

     

     

    It's exactly the opposite. Because I live in a state that has experienced rampant institutional corruption, I'm acutely aware of it and it's implications for the people. 

     

    That's why I think poll watchers and election observers are a good thing (so long as they follow the rules). The GOP uses them too. The goal is literally to ensure that rules are being followed.

     

    If you have the opportunity, it could be a good thing to try yourself. Years ago, I got to be an observer on a recount. It was pretty cool to see and be a part of.

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  8. 15 minutes ago, Orlando Buffalo said:

    I am actually curious did we ever find out what really happened? Nancy wouldn't talk about it at first, and after a few days I lost interest since Pelosi was gonna fully recover.


    We did. It’s all pretty clearly documented and public. 
     

    In fact, most of it was pretty well known soon after the incident occurred but it wasn’t fun so people had to make up stories about gay lovers.  

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