緊急事態 “The claw”

If you can watch the video of richard spencer refer to jews, poc, and other “degenerates” as “worthless creatures” and still say that we can’t fight fire with fire, that wanting to attack nazi’s makes you as bad as one, or that we just need dialogue, I want to be unequivocally clear: you are my enemy and you put my life and the life of my friends and family in danger. 

Amethyst 💜🔮💜 www.foxlark.com

“Alt Right” is coined term to normalize White Supremacists and Neo-Nazis. I reject that term. They’re nothing but racist, fascist, Neo-Nazi, white nationalists who want to go back to the good old days when white folks could lynch black people, and have them “picnics” aka “pick a negro.” I’m so tired of these bullshit media outlets trying to normalize this shit, continuing to use the term “Alt Right” and not calling it what it is. It’s interesting how we’re all of sudden publicly treating these white folks as if they aren’t deplorable, and the racist white supremacist anti semantic shit they say isn’t problematic. Oh okay we in the era of rebranding White Supremacist, Racists, White nationalist, and Neo nazis.

Good to know.

Me.

thank you marvel 

A must-see! ✊🏾

I am behind u. I am touching u. I am watching u respond 2 me. I like the way we move. #decolonizingbeauty #saddikhaliphotos

Foot

The beans are growing nicely this year.

literally if i was drinking something I’d spit it out right now

this is

STOP

me after i listen to inner me

sometimes I wanna reply “bitch me too” to my mutuals posts but I’ve never talked 2 them so they might not see it as friendly joking so i just dont

reblog if it’s okay to say “bitch me too” to you if you’re mutuals

When the party ain’t jumpin jumpin, you go to the bathroom to take pictures.

“Rigged” Election?

I am in the middle of writing a much longer post with a bunch of research of why I think hacking might have played a role in the 2016 presidential election, but since time is of the essence, I want to get some of this information out there! It’s vital that as soon as possible there is a full investigation of 2 factors:

1. Potential hacking of election results

   Trust me I know how it sounds, but I have reasons. Namely, there are huge discrepancies between exit polls and early voting results and final vote counts. 

      a) Exit Polls

          Here’s the calculated discrepancy between the exit polls and reported     counts by state. Note that 22/28 states shown have discrepancy in favor   of Trump. The Election Defense Alliance, an independent election integrity group, calls this pro-Republican bias in election results (which happened in the 2004, 2008, and 2012 elections) a “right-shift”. Because of the way exit polls are conducted the odds of these discrepancies, regardless of outcome, are approximately 1/1,000,000 (source: http://freepress.org/images/departments/PopularVotePaper181_1.pdf). Add in that each of these discrepancies are happening in favor of one party repeatedly, the odds of that occurring by random chance are astronomical. 

      b) Early Voting 

           Additionally, most states allow early voting, so people are submitting ballots weeks up until election day, meaning a large proportion of total votes are submitted BEFORE election day. This was true of Florida where ~70% of the total voters voted early. Based on exit polls, before election day, Hillary had 41.3% of the total votes she would need to win Florida. Therefore, even if only 6.7% of Florida voters on election day voted for Hillary she would have 50% of the total vote. Yet Hillary is reported to only have received 47.7%, which would only happen if 6.4% of Florida voters on election day voted for Hillary. Maybe that did happen but the odds of that occurring are incredibly small. 

2) Voter Suppression

This one doesn’t have as much math because it is so difficult to calculate the number of voters that were suppressed but a few key factors were in play that make voter suppression highly likely. 

         a) Invalidation of the Voting Rights Act (VRA)

         I have read many accounts of people being turned away from voting but don’t have good numbers to back it up so I’ll just leave these 2 images to compare. The 1st is the states that have enacted restrictive voting laws since the VRA invalidation in 2015 and the 2nd is the election result map.

Note that Wisconsin, Ohio, and Florida (all swing states that went for Obama 2012) both had new voting restrictions and went for Trump this year. 

           b) Project Alamo 

            This was the ominous name given to the media project designed by Steve Bannon and driven by Trump media expert, Brad Parscale. In the words of a senior campaign staffer the goal of Project Alamo was to design their media efforts to “‘We have three major voter suppression operations under way,’ says a senior official. They’re aimed at three groups Clinton needs to win overwhelmingly: idealistic white liberals, young women, and African Americans.” (source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/inside-the-trump-bunker-with-12-days-to-go). Again the effectiveness of this campaign will be difficult to quantify but it does show that a prominent part of the Trump strategy was voter suppression. 

Okay, but what can we do?

-Put pressure on officials to do an audit of the election results including signing this petition (https://www.change.org/p/demand-an-audit-of-the-2016-presidential-election)

-Donating to election integrity groups like the Election Defense Alliance site: http://electiondefensealliance.org 

-Educate yourself about types of voting fraud and relay this information to your representatives. Here’s a good read about why electronic voting is making election audits more difficult: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/11/18/election-audit-paper-machines-column/93803752/

Even if it is too late to change the results of this election, it is paramount that we maintain the integrity of our elections. 

 UPDATE:

The Department of Justice is currently taking a phone tally of those interested in a vote audit for the 2016 election. If you are concerned with any of the information in the above post please call  202-514-2000 ex: 4 and express your desire for a vote audit. 

Here’s a potential script:  “My name is ___, and I’m a registered voter. I’m urging you to support the call to audit the vote, investigate voter suppression, particularly in North Carolina, Florida, Pennslyvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, and investigate Russian tampering of US election results.”

For those with social anxiety/selective mutism/speech problems:

It took me several attempts to get the words out, but you have unlimited tries. You can do it!