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Time: the critical fraud ingredient

There’s a fair amount of ways to steal an election: mail-in ballots, no voter ID, hacking voting machines, creating and submitting counterfeit ballots en masse, impersonating a dead voter, taking advantage of outdated voter roles, and the list goes on. But in most cases, time is the critical ingredient. The more time there is between the actual vote being cast and the final tabulation of votes, there more time there is to introduce corruption. That’s why, regardless of the outcome of this election investigation(s), we must remove the element of time from voting. Going forward, starting with the Georgia…

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Trump, Palin, and Joe McCarthy

As I consider President Trump’s past four years and where we are in this election process, I can’t help but think about Sarah Palin and Joe McCarthy. In four years, Donald Trump has exposed everything the left is all about: the corruption, arrogance, deceit, lust for power, desire for control, move toward socialism, contempt for average Americans, disgust for liberty, lack of morality, and desire to destroy the meaningful institutions that define America. The left has been been referring to it as “divisive,” but what Trump’s rhetoric and actions have really been is “defining.” He has more clearly defined…

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Working in mysterious ways

I’ve been predicting a Trump blow out landslide for months. To anyone who would listen. To me, it was an absolute certainty. On what grounds? God’s will. Justice. The rise of black, latino, and women voters. The work of the Trump team’s ground game. The rallies. The record of success. The lack of Biden enthusiasm. The lack of Biden’s ability to complete a sentence… As the night went on, it was looking like the landslide was on. Not as big as I predicted, I admit. But it seemed fairly decisive. When most of us turned in, I think the…

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Today’s choice: feelings vs results

Today’s the day. Election day. Today, we decide whether we’re going to be guided by our feelings or guided by results. Democrats will be the first to tell you (because they’ll push and stampede to the front of the line) that they don’t like Donald Trump, and it’s very personal. But right behind them will be many conservatives and Republicans who aren’t necessarily huge fans of him, personally, either. The difference is that, as the old axiom goes, liberals feel and conservatives think. Conservatives are going to vote for more of the results we’ve witnessed the last four years….

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Systemic ideologism

One of the founding principles of The Bubbler is that we try to be a place where you can find points of view others are afraid to say (or simply hadn’t thought of before). Today’s entry fits that description. No one in America suffers more discrimination than conservatives. White supremacy is a myth. There’s nothing to it. I’ve traveled this earth for more than 50 years, and I can’t remember ever meeting or even witnessing a white supremacist. It’s a completely fabricated and exaggerated label that leftists like to apply to conservatives. The goal of applying this label to…

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Big Plywood is behind it all

Over the weekend, I saw plenty of stories referencing all of the cities and urban areas across the country that are boarding up their shop windows in anticipation of unrest over this Tuesday’s election results. Can’t people see what’s really going on? Big Plywood is playing us all. Ask yourself, who stands to gain from all of this business boarding up that’s going on? Of course! Big Plywood. I think it’s time we got to the bottom of the rioting and looting. Many think it’s Antifa or Biden supporters. Nah. I think it’s more sinister than that. I think…

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My tombstone

Since it’s Halloween, I felt a little macabre this morning and started thinking about my death. And I was thinking about all of the people in our country scared to death of COVID. They’ll do anything to avoid getting it – even if it increases the chance of dying from something else. We’ll lockdown stores and schools. Keep all of our kids indoors, not exercising and sitting in front of screens all day. We’ll drink and do drugs to kill time. Depression may set in, and God forbid if we attempt to just end it all. We’re all going…

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Static is part of the worldview

Much of The Bubbler Institute is the study of the relationship between personality types and political worldview. In past articles, we’ve covered how leftists tend to see things through a static lens, whereas conservatives see things as dynamic, fluid, and ever-changing. For example, if you raise prices, the leftist will simply calculate the same number of purchases multiplied by the new price. Conservatives will estimate that the number of purchases will go down as people change their behavior based on the new information. This is static vs dynamic. And it helps to explain why “cancel culture” fits so neatly…

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Illegal immigration: today’s slavery

If you read enough (or any) conservative media when talking about public education, and you would think our high school history books are just teaching kids how racist we are. But this week, I was helping my teenage daughter study for a history exam, and I had a chance to dive into her history book. (I must confess, I had been anticipating this moment when she was born and I was envisioning my arguments with liberal teachers.) Surprisingly, I thought her history book was a very fair and balanced recap of history. The bigger crime wasn’t the ideological leaning…

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Freedom of speech protects the minority

Nothing signals the death of critical thinking in this country more than the attack on free speech. The First Amendment, which was literally the first Amendment for a reason. Nothing is more essential or critical to a functioning republic. Nothing. If people are not free and comfortable to say what they’re thinking, we cannot sustain a free nation. Without the freedom to say what we think and what we believe, we are effectively censored. If we are censored, that means the government (or media) can control the information we’re given and, more importantly, the information we’re not given. Information…

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