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Glenn Youngkin’s Right-Wing Allies Are Ready To Claim Virginia’s Election Was Stolen. Donald Trump and his supporters, including surrogates for Republican Glenn Youngkin’s campaign for governor, have already begun spreading lies about election fraud. Glenn Youngkin, the Republican private equity executive locked in a tight Virginia governor’s race with former Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D), has said during debates that he would “absolutely” accept the results of Tuesday’s election were he to lose. But some of Youngkin’s most ardent right-wing allies and supporters do not feel the same way. In the week leading up to Election Day, several of Youngkin’s prominent right-wing supporters ― including some who’ve acted as surrogates for his campaign ― have set the stage to claim that Democrats fraudulently stole the election. With polls tightening in recent weeks, the Virginia governor’s race is a toss-up that either candidate could win, and the narrative in Virginia and nationally suggests that Youngkin has momentum and enthusiasm on his side heading into the race’s final 24 hours. In that environment, Youngkin’s right-wing allies have once again primed conservative voters to believe that there’s no way a Democratic candidate like McAuliffe could prevail unless there is fraud, even in a state where Democrats have won every statewide election since 2009, including two governor’s races, four presidential contests, and multiple races for lieutenant governor and attorney general. Even if Youngkin were to lose and concede the race to McAuliffe, it seems inevitable that some of his most influential backers will refuse to accept defeat. The loudest of those claims have come from Amanda Chase, the Virginia state senator who faced formal censure earlier this year after she attended the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally that precipitated the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, and who has repeatedly lied about widespread election fraud in the 2020 contest former President Donald Trump lost. Chase has used radio interviews, Facebook and other platforms to spread elaborate and convoluted conspiracy theories about Democratic plots to “steal” the Virginia election, the biggest contest to take place since Trump’s loss last year. Glenn Youngkin’s Right-Wing Allies Are Ready To Claim Virginia’s Election Was Stolen | HuffPost Latest News

Did they ever ask why you didn't have a battle jitney?

Republicans pushing ‘hit and kill’ bills to allow motorists to run down protesters: report As the organizes of the fatal 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville are standing trial in a civil lawsuit, Republicans across the country are organizing to pass "hit and kill" bills that allow motorists to run down protesters. On Monday, the Boston Globe reported on a "Back the Blue Act" signed by Iowa's Republican governor, Kim Reynolds. The bill took the side of drivers who run over protesters. In June of 2020, the driver of Reynold's state-issued Chevrolet Suburban struck a Des Moines Black Liberation Movement protester who was urging the governor to restore voting rights. "Iowa is one of three states, along with Oklahoma and Florida, to enact laws this year giving drivers some degree of legal immunity if they use their vehicles to hurt protesters, part of a wave of 'hit and kill' bills introduced in 13 other states by Republican legislators since 2017. Most of those proposals came after one of the most sustained periods of demonstrations in US history following Floyd's murder, and the effort to crack down on protesters has sent a chilling message to activists, who believe it will encourage violence against them," the newspaper reported. There is currently pending legislation in Tennessee, New Jersey and Washington. Republicans pushing ‘hit and kill’ bills to allow motorists to run down protesters: report - Alternet.org

Already there.

A mystery, man.

Would Rider fans allow their girlfriends to do that?

The GOP in the last year has been very busy suppressing potential Democratic voters, installing their people in every facet of election administration and gerrymandering the ridings to a degree unheard of until now in US politics. All this while they were screaming that the Democrats were rigging the elections

Stefanson was, I believe, the minister of health who made all the major cuts there that led to the lack of capacity to respond to the COVID, not to mention increasing wait times on knee and hip replacements from 12-15 months to 2 1/2 years + where it is now. She is going to have to wear that.

The PCs were pretty much guaranteed to lose the next election, which probably one of the reasons Pallister not only bailed but has also sold his house in Winnipeg. With this internal blood-fuel so closely resembling Trump's hiss-fit debacle it will likely increase the magnitude of the pending loss. Landslide election wins rarely make for good government, though.

How worried should we be about the "delta plus" variant? The delta subvariant known as AY.4.2 – ominously dubbed "delta plus" – is TKing headlines as cases of it are increasing in the United Kingdom. Earlier this month, the U.K.'s Health Security Agency published a report stating "a delta sublineage newly designated as AY.4.2 is noted to be expanding in England." The descendant of the highly transmissible delta variant has two mutations to the spike protein, and it appears to be on "an increasing trajectory" as most recent data suggests it made up approximately 6% of all sequenced cases in the U.K. So what does this mean for the United States? First of all, the delta subtype variant has already been detected on our shores. However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently stated delta plus is not a cause for concern . . . yet, but the agency is monitoring the situation closely. READ MORE: Delta variant twice as likely to hospitalize victims, new study finds "We're watching it very carefully," CDC Director Rochelle Walensk Walensky said on NBC's Meet the Press last week. "We have had a handful of cases here in the United States, but it has not taken off as it has in the U.K." As some may recall, before the delta variant exploded in the U.S., it was the dominant strain in the United Kingdom. In many ways countries in the U.K. have become blueprints for the United States, which is why news about the "delta plus" variant increasing abroad can be unnerving for Americans. Does this mean a delta-plus wave is imminent? Experts who have been following the pandemic tell Salon it's likely not going to be worse than the original delta surge, but it is a variant to keep track of since it's possible that AY.4.2 is more transmissible than the current dominant delta variant. "Any variant is potentially a cause for concern, and given what happened with delta I'd be really hesitant to say something absolutely isn't a problem, particularly given how little we know," Justin Lessler, a professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina's Gillings School of Global Public Health, told Salon. "But that being said, what we do know about the delta plus variant doesn't indicate to me that it's a major problem, at least for the United States. "It looks to be about 10% more transmissible than delta," he continued, "and in our work on the scenario modeling hub, when we looked at a hypothetical variant that was 50% more transmissible than delta, we did see resurgences in that case, but we didn't see big ones that put us back to the size of the delta wave or last winter's winter wave." How worried should we be about the "delta plus" variant? | Salon.com

Because its all they have in lieu of logic, legal precedent and decency. That is was close at all says something both sad and alarming about the state of the provincial (and probably federal) PCs. Edging ever closer to fascism while pretending to be tolerant.

As stupid as this sounds, it absolutely pales in comparison to all the other insanity in the US.

Yes. much like Sonny Wade did back in the 70's. Cruise through the regular season and then turn it on in the playoffs.

In the short time Harris was behind center last night, he did show some potential. Khari ought to be able to bring out the best in him.

Rod? Is that you?

And, true to her Trumpian roots, Glover refuses to accept the outcome of her party's election.

The whole point is to stir up controversy, regardless of harmful outcomes, even to the point of emboldening insane, violent advocates.

Suitor has a rich fantasy life. He needed it to survive living in Regina for half the year.

Updated 'Trump Train' 911 transcripts reveal Texas cops refused to send escort to Biden bus As supporters of then-President Donald Trump surrounded and harassed a Joe Biden campaign bus on a Central Texas highway last year, San Marcos police officials and 911 dispatchers fielded multiple requests for assistance from Democratic campaigners and bus passengers who said they feared for their safety from a pack of motorists, known as a "Trump Train," allegedly driving in dangerously aggressive ways. "San Marcos refused to help," an amended federal lawsuit over the 2020 freeway skirmish claims. Transcribed 911 audio recordings and documents that reveal behind-the-scenes communications among law enforcement and dispatchers were included in the amended lawsuit, filed late Friday. The transcribed recordings were filed in an attempt to show that San Marcos law enforcement leaders chose not to provide the bus with a police escort multiple times, even though police departments in other nearby cities did. In one transcribed recording, Matthew Daenzer, a San Marcos police corporal on duty the day of the incident, refused to provide an escort when recommended by another jurisdiction. "No, we're not going to do it," Daenzer told a 911 dispatcher, according to the amended filing. "We will 'close patrol' that, but we're not going to escort a bus." The amended filing also states that in those audio recordings, law enforcement officers "privately laughed" and "joked about the victims and their distress." Updated 'Trump Train' 911 transcripts reveal Texas cops refused to send escort to Biden bus - Alternet.org

Pumpkin Humour

All NHL games have several minutes of fluff before the game actually starts, so arriving 10 minutes late is no big deal.

The Tories, both federal and provincial, know that without the nutball fringe, they have no chance of winning any elections. So they have to pretend while knowing that they have no intention of following through. Cynical, but its all they have.

That is a scary number- we can only hope it is a one-day anomaly.

As content as O'Shea is here, I think that the Argos may see him as the messiah who will fill the stands if he becomes head coach and thus may make him an offer he cannot refuse. CFL head office would certainly support that.

In an interview earlier this season, Whitehead said that the Bombers showed no interest in re-signing him. There may be issues we know nothing about.