I thought that the first Trump shooter might have been a NAFO, which was proven incorrect, but it’s hilarious that this one is as NAFO as you can get.

Looking at the fiasco of the Ecuadoran government storming an embassy to arrest an opposition leader, I don’t think the Venezuelan government wants to repeat that. It would alienate a lot of countries, and give the US the perfect excuse to ramp up sanctions further.

Boxing was initially taken off the 2028 Olympic program due to the IOC’s dispute the with International Boxing Association. Basically, the IOC wants to have an alternative governing body for the sport.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/boxing/65838021

https://apnews.com/article/olympics-boxing-los-angeles-2028-iba-dbd2a1d19715881d0718353092d03a9d

Trump as reverse Guaido is becoming more real by the day:

“If something happens with this election, which would be a horror show, we’ll meet the next time in Venezuela, because it’ll be a far safer place to meet than our country,” Trump said to Musk. “OK, so we’ll go. You and I will go, and we’ll have a meeting and dinner in Venezuela.”

Trump had alleged that Venezuela has released violent criminals from its jails and sent them to the United States to reduce its own crime rate.

“Their crime rate is coming down and our crime rate is going through the roof. And it’s so simple. And you haven’t seen anything yet because these people have come into our country and they’re just getting acclimated and they don’t know about being politically correct, law enforcement or lack of law enforcement and our police. I have to just end with this. We have great police,” he said.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-flee-venezuela-loses-election-elon-musk-interview-1938321

Abbas and the Palestinian Authority are Israeli puppets used by the zionist entity to help police and discipline the West Bank. There are wings of Fatah, including its armed wing, that aren’t in line with Abbas/the PA, but overall the organization is mostly compradors at this point.

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I’ve seen Joe Rogan and Tim Pool. Idk who else.

What would the GOP even do? Vance is obviously unacceptable on the top of the ticket, both to the general public and the majority of the GOP’s factions. They’ve already had the convention.

Would be hilarious if they somehow turn what was a likely win a few months ago to destroying the party.

If the Ukrainians do interrupt the gas flow, wouldn’t that have massive political blowback? There’s no “plausible” deniability like Nordstream.

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It would be the other way around. They’d be suing you for shopping at their competitiors and thereby acting against your economic self-interest (as determined by Walmart.)

Looks like the State Department may be backing down on the Venezuelan elections: https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-cne-turns-over-electoral-data-to-supreme-court-us-walks-back-gonzalez-recognition/

In response to a question, US State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller said that the Biden administration had not recognized González as president, a departure from the position assumed by Secretary of State Antony Blinken who declared González as the “winner” of the election.

Miller instead pointed to ongoing mediation efforts by Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia. He further emphasized the need for Venezuela to “transition back to democratic norms”, stopping short of calling for González to take office.

I’m surprised that Walz got the nod. I really thought it was going to Shapiro to reassure AIPAC and the Israel lobby that Kamala wasn’t got to rock the boat on that front (the same reason that Biden was picked in '08). It doesn’t mean that she’s changing anything about the Biden policy, I am sure some zionists are freaking out regardless.

A good article on the security measures in Venezuela’s election. It includes details of the anti-fraud and cryptographic measures, some thoughts on the potential nature of the cyberattacks, and why the CNE and PSUV have delayed publishing their tallies.

Venezuelaanalysis - Luigino Bracci Roa - August 5, 2024 - Cybersecurity Expert on Fraud Claims and Voting Safeguards in Venezuela’s Presidential Election

I thought that this was in particular interesting in explaining the electoral court’s involvement:

Why doesn’t the PSUV publish its tally sheets?

Another frequently asked question is: If María Corina Machado’s team has published 24,000 tally sheets (or 9,000 according to Jorge Rodríguez), why doesn’t the United Socialist Party (PSUV) publish its own tally sheets to back up the results? It is worth noting that the PSUV has done this in the past, for example after the 2013 elections.

A PSUV source, an expert in legal matters who requested not to be named, shared the following information:

They explained that the PSUV had witnesses at all polling stations across the country (about 30,000), and therefore has all the issued tally sheets. In contrast, González’s team had witnesses at only 30 or 35 percent of all polling stations (Vente Venezuela claims to have tally sheets from 80% of the stations, around 24,000, but Jorge Rodríguez said in a press conference last Friday that they only had 9,000 tally sheets).

The PSUV suspects that the opposition might be falsifying the tally sheets, a claim that Rodríguez and Diosdado Cabello have publicly made in recent days.

Thus, according to the confidential answer provided, the PSUV plans to go to the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, submit all the tally sheets, and wait for the opposition to do the same. The TSJ will use the CNE’s authentication mechanisms to determine which set is genuine.

There is concern that if the PSUV publishes its records on a website without first having them certified by the TSJ, the opposition might obtain and use them (especially those they do not have) to create or falsify tally sheets (facsimiles), potentially generating media noise or sowing doubts.

The fact that González did not appear before the Electoral Chamber last Friday raises many questions. If they have the evidence, why not challenge the elections before the appropriate body? Are they willing to have their election evidence verified?

On the other hand, Professor Theoktisto reminded us that, legally speaking, the valid tally sheet is the electronic record transmitted by the voting machine to the tallying center. “By law, the valid tally sheet is the digital package, electronically signed with the various encryption schemes used to protect both the security and authenticity of the data and its transmission.”

The first printed tally sheet, which is placed in an envelope and sent to the CNE, is also important, although it serves as a physical backup to the electronic tally sheet. The copies held by political parties are merely backups and have no legal standing unless there is a challenge to the election.

The reliance on personal transportation to get from A to B changes the class character, and thus actions, of unrest and dissidents in the US. Compare the various actions during 2020, the urban-based George Floyd uprisings, and the right-wing anti-lockdown and Stop-the-Steal movements. Raising the barrier to entry by adding an hour-plus driving time, and more importantly risking your own car getting damaged, limits who’s attending demonstrations and limits their tenor. Obviously, you have events like Charlottesville and January 6th, but those were pre-planned events put together by an array of right-wing organizations working in relative concert. There may be a lot of angry racists in the American exurbs, but there’s a limited number of far-right ideologues who are going to invest the time and personal risk.

The example of white nationalist riots in the UK does have me worried, but the US doesn’t have the same urbanized white underclass that the UK has. The US certainly has a lot of reactionaries, but they’re either dispersed in rural areas or dispersed in the suburbs. They can’t easily be cajoled into spontaneous violence.

Can you imagine if another country demanded a foreign audit of a US election? The entire political class would be united in hysterical indignation.

Those are all common vexological motifs. What matters is that the original claim is spurious and racist.

Have you looked at the Minnesota flag and Somalian flag side-by-side?