No one, absolutely no one, could have seen this coming!
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 02/05/2020 - 6:20pm
This is VERY wrong.
New results from Black Hawk County, Iowa appear to have incorrectly reported numbers for Deval Patrick and Tom Steyer that were meant for Bernie Sanders. https://t.co/G6JCYIDigK
— Shaun King (@shaunking) February 5, 2020
What are the chances that Bernie would be getting shorted votes?
Who could have predicted that?
You’re doing great, don’t listen to the haters
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) February 5, 2020
I'm with Dave.
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Even the Black Hawk Co. Dem chairman
said the votes were misrepresented. He personally reported them but the Shadow transformed Bernie into Buttjiggle, a reasonable spelling mistake anyone could make.
As for me, I'm jumping at Shadows
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy7IonOLQd8]
People are analyzing this data and coming up with WTF
A lot of "miscalculations" that people are finding and sharing.
I would allow for the possibility that the initially reported results were a fuck-up of the app and general incompetence. The slow release of results that were wrong and the continuing trickle of 1% by 1% of precincts? I see you, DNC pricks, I see you and your odious little hosehead Mayo Pete too.
Anybody remember the rumors
of a vote-flipping software called--wait for it--"FlipFlop" during the 2004 campaign?
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Gee, what a SURPRISE!
The TL;DR is that the app was nowhere near ready to launch and a "formatting error" is to blame. As the kids say, sure, Jan.
I ain't letting that app
fucking anywhere near any of my electronics, especially my electric chain saw.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
I'm with Dave as well
The Dems are still using #Hillary's playbook from 2016. If you want to get an idea of what ahead just read Democracy Lost: A Report on the Fatally Flawed 2016 Democratic Primaries
We have already seen many reports that Shadow, the DNC approved app (created by former members of the Clinton campaign)flipped votes from Bernie to other candidates.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
At this point, those 'running' the 'caucus' in Iowa
are little different from the apparatchiks 'counting' votes in some obscure soviet republic, circa mid 20th-C. Truly pathetic.
They should be shunned.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
You're being too hard on tham
They are obviously untrained hacks.
Wait until we get to N.Y. and California, those hacks are pros.
This is a slap in the face to the other candidates too
if I was on teams Warren, Klobuchar or Biden, I'd be so pissed off. Just when you think it wasn't possible to hate CIA Pete even more, something like this happens, and you find the well of hate - and it is brimming.
The DNC folks are saying it's coz only 95% of final alignment
totals have been counted for Black Hawk County.
I just looked and Buttigieg is still up 10 votes from the County totals that were submitted.
Bernie -24.
You can check it out here -- just select Black Hawk County:
https://features.desmoinesregister.com/news/politics/iowa-caucuses-resul...
I'm done with all this shit for now. I will be pretty much going offline re politrix and will only tune in again the day after New Hampshire primary.
Bernie and Butt will wind up with around 11-12 convention delegates each. They will probably make sure that Cheatin' Pete gets one more.
Have fun!
This table tells us what we want to know
It's a Procrustean algorithm. Buttigieg was right where they wanted him, so he only got 10 extra votes. They've thrown Biden, Warren, and Klobuchar under the bus, so it appears they've outlived their usefulness. They want Patrick and Steyer in the race. Bloomberg isn't running until Super Tuesday.
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
@gjohnsit Is this Polk or Black
Is this Polk or Black Hawk? I need to know before I repeat it.
I posted this in my
EB comment. Hilarious!
Okay - I'm NOBODY, but even I can figure out that this app was SUPPOSED to make those changes. That app was SUPPOSED to short Bernie and boost Mayo Cheat. The lady that owns the company is married to Mayo Cheat's campaign manager. Really? People think its a glitch? A hack? Get a grip on something other than yourself.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Even if you could pretend this mystery glitch was because
of moronic carelessness and not nefarious plotting, isn't it simply delicious that Buttigieg has been hammered for his idiotic posturing while the dodgy app creators and their adjacents have been grabbed by the hair and dragged into the spotlight? I am living for the way they are getting exposed. The shady financing, the suspicious website scrubbings, and my favourite part, the Hillbots working on this app are embroiled in this scandal (and I haven't seen anyone on their side, defending them).
Yeh, I don't think they meant this to be such a spectacle
And isn't it divine?
the name of St. George Soros is already attached to this mess. MAGA imbeciles are setting themselves on fire over the alleged financial connection between Soros and Shadow. I do not know if this is true, that Soros has money in Shadow, but this is spreading like wildfire.
I saw a report of the top finders
and Soros was #1. Sorry, lost the link.
We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg
I saw that too.
Wasn't it like $2,000,000 he ponied up for it?
A
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Well, the jury's still out.
Let's see if there are any consequences. Bernie's campaign was ready for this even IF the app hadn't failed.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Yup, and doesn't he look levelheaded and rational
he's going to come out of this a winner even if he loses Iowa. Bernie didn't break a sweat; he was prepared, he was calm, and the DNC is scrambling to mop up the hurricane of piss.
There will be no jury, only the court of public opinion.
The Democratic Party is a private organization and can decide how they choose their nominee for President of the United States of America. It needn’t be honest, or transparent. It’s still perfectly legal. The courts have already ruled on this matter.
The Democratic Party might just as well cancel ALL of the planned Democratic primaries and announce that they will let us know who they have choosen to represent their party when the ballots are printed.
“ …and when we destroy nature, we diminish our capacity to sense the divine,and understand who God is, and what our own potential is and duties are as human beings.- RFK jr. 8/26/2024
The jury's still out
is a saying not an actual thing. Sorry you got confused.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Yes, but...
They weren't supposed to get caught doing it. The vote switches were meant to be on the sly so no one would know that they did it. But the app malfunctioned and it became obvious what they were trying to do.
OT but here is the tweet that got reported to Twitter jail.
Just what was it I said that he didn't like?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Even if the app hadn't failed,
Bernie was ready for the cheating by having his own app and his own monitors recording everything. The fact the app malfunctioned didn't matter to them - it only mattered after Bernie said - I have pictures of every ballot. Game over.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Shadow has a new app. We can trust them.
Hey maybe Warren will have a plan for it?
And why not? She has one for everything else.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
That's funny!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Where did you see the info
that Bernie's team had pics of every ballot? I would like to read about that.
Sorry to confuse you, gramma.
I don't know if they have pictures but I wouldn't be surprised. He had monitors recording the results. How were they recording them? Were they just writing things down? Were they taking pictures? How were they recording the results?
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Thanks. I get you.
I knew it!!!
https://politics.theonion.com/dnc-blames-iowa-caucus-problems-on-single-...
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
Poor Muriel Luntz
let's hope the law is lenient and doesn't punish her too harshly.
She looks well meaning.
could have happened to anyone.
In all seriousness, this is really unfortunate for the folks who volunteered and worked for this in good faith, regardless of who they supported. As frustrating as this is for us, it seems the ground level people did everything right, according to all I’ve read.
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
All the time, money, and energy that went into Iowa
and not just Sanders supporters. This is such a punch to the gut of a lot of people who gave sometimes more than they could afford to participate and organize. Then the DNC rolls up with its piss-poor election stealing plan, ready to mobilize months of conniving and shit all over voters. I was reading a Twitter comment from a simpleton saying that Bernie Sanders isn't turning out Obama numbers (ergo has no chance against Trump), and all I could think was "between then and now, a cackling villain stole the primary in collusion with the party. Of course numbers are going down, they are lucky to have anyone show up." Yet Sanders is winning over independents and some Republican voters. But let's torpedo him! Because the Obama/Clinton consultancy cartel is more important than democracy!
FWIW
(and sorry to tell this story again, it's kind of a 'uge one for me.)
My late father was a loyal Republican and diehard Dittohead. Until I was helping my mom close out his affairs, I didn't even know Fox News and Bill O'Riley had paid subscriptions, both of which he had. The two of us couldn't talk politics for obvious reasons. Also worth mentioning, he was a small midwestern town guy (graduating class of 12, for instance.) So keep that in mind too.
Anyhow, in the thick of 2016, back when Sanders was getting screwed by the DNC and mostly ignored by the media, my father just out of the blue told me he would vote for Sanders if they'd actually let him win the primary. To me, this was so unexpected. I loved my father, but I always felt part of why he liked the right wing media so much was that they were over the top blowhards. (He was also a lifelong wrestling fan.
) So, I just expected Trump would be his guy.
I was so flabbergasted, I didn't follow up and I always wish I had. I love to know why. Naturally, he would have walked over hot coals to vote against HER, but the idea that he'd have voted for Bernie Sanders, who the media and DNC wanted us to believe was toxic to guys like my dad...well, I think you know the rest.
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
Kinda like the movie Rocky, Everyone loves an underdog
And Bernie as not just an underdog, he was an underdog that was probably fighting for stuff your dad could support because its stuff the majority of the nation supports.
Also could be he was running against Her, who I am sure he disliked immensely and got cheated by her so I am sure he could sympathize with Sanders over that too.
I was having the thought earlier that this situation might have help Sanders more in that regard what with this time too with the Iowa BS being so obvious.
They are retched scum though so I am sure they haven't given up on screwing Bernie yet.
But for gods sake can someone make sure the Clinton's don't get within 100 meters of Sanders, I don't want him to have another, "Heart Attack". (read that in Dr. Evil or Hillary Clinton's voice, it makes little difference. )
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
lol
Umm, Tom? I don't think you should be throwing shade at the elderly woman's upstairs though processes when your hand picked candidate has the same problem. But do proceed...
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
These editorial cartoons seem to fit.
Even after the long delay we still get mistakes.
The are still trying to cheat.
@humphrey
Is Bernie climbing a mountain of Bullshit in this one?
That's pretty epic, lol!
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
I loved this one. :)
https://politics.theonion.com/dnc-offers-startup-500-million-to-develop-...
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Does Fox Back Bernie? ;)
Wow, Tucker Carlson is even talking about them screwing Bernie on Fox right now.
Edited to ad! Holy Shit! They have Jimmy Dore on there breaking down Shadow and tearing apart about how it isn't mistakes when all the errors are in the establishments favor!
Good for him, he needs more exposure
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Jimmy did really good on Fox.
He got a LOT of info out real quick, some of which even made Tucker look uncomfortable.
When the clip gets uploaded I recommend it.
I am stoked to see Jimmy's star rising.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
I am so looking forward
to watching that video. Thanks for telling us about it!
PS. Alphalop ~ I picture you just like you are in that picture when I read your comments and answer you. It cracks me up!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Jimmy does a good job with Tucker
Jimmy was awesome!!!
Thanks for the video!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
I don't think that they really care.
That is exactly what it is Peter.
More specifically directed at Bernie since he is the only progressive.
Answer to Peter:
Because that's exactly what it is and you know it because you participated in that kind of dirty tricks yourself!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Well...
I am both SHOCKED and DISMAYED.
(with my most nondescript voice and most vacant facial expression.)
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981