Is insanity a viable defense against a charge of perjury?
Do you have any idea how much I want to contact Rudy and Sidney and tell them I am the person that hacked the election? It would be hilarious if they were to actually contact me. I could tell them some real sounding BS story with technical details. And then at some point near the end say “Yeah, I added millions of votes for Donald Trump, but I could not add any more without it looking suspicious. I’m impressed you managed to recognize that there was something wrong with the vote totals. I did my best, but I just could not overcome everyone’s natural hated for Trump. Sorry. Hey, do you suppose he’d give me a medal for trying to help get him elected?”
If there wasn’t some possibility of getting into some kind of hot water (or a MAGA hit list), then I’d seriously consider it.
Mod note: Don’t be a jerk.
Just a quick request: With whom was I being a jerk?
I’m not Hari_Seldon (for a starter, I’m substantially less cute) but upon seeing that comment I thought “Ah, the valuation of women by their appearance and usefulness as sex objects, that’s a beloved classic. It’s sure to go over well.”
Considering the number of times you have been warned for inappropriate sexist comments, you shouldn’t need to ask this question. You certainly shouldn’t still be making such remarks.
Further questioning of moderation should go in ATMB.
The fun part of this is that the state with the most votes for Trump is California. (this wasn’t true in 2016 - it was 3rd to Texas and Florida)
I’m not a security expert but I am a software developer, and I can follow the technical sections of the affidavit, and since you piqued my interest… it’s garbage.
He pointed an app called SpiderFoot at dominionvoting.com, which is their publicly facing website for PR purposes and likely has nothing to do with their voting machine software or any of their internal networks. SpiderFoot, which I’m not otherwise familiar with, is a collection of OSINT (their preferred term) data used to map relationships between domains. I’d assume that it’s riddled with false positives and is only useful as a starting point for serious security researchers. Here’s what their website says about their sources:
OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) is data available in the public domain which might reveal interesting information about your target. This includes DNS, Whois, Web pages, passive DNS, spam blacklists, file meta data, threat intelligence lists as well as services like SHODAN, HaveIBeenPwned? and more.
That last source, HaveIBeenPwned, is a useful website that collects publicly available password hash dumps to let you know if your password has been compromised at any point. Per the affidavit, some user@dominionvoting.com addresses exist in the haveibeenpwned. This is representative of the quality of this guy’s analysis.
He further goes on to notice that one of the dominion servers is called “belgrade,” and that, based on a linkedin search, two people who live in Serbia might have worked at Dominion Voting in the past. This sort of nonsense doesn’t stop here, with him pointing out strained connections to Iran, China, and Pakistan.
After that section he goes completely sideways and drops this turd:
Smartmatic creates the backbone (like the cloud). SCYTL is responsible for the security
within the election system.
Smartmatic is a Dominion competitor, and Scytl is… another Dominion competitor. Nothing about this sentence makes any sense, but that doesn’t stop him from finding an old Scytl github repo and… pointing out that their software can be used to tally votes. The relevance of this is beyond comprehension.
There’s a couple more nonsensical insinuations before he says,
In my professional opinion, this affidavit presents unambiguous evidence that Dominion
Voter Systems and Edison Research have been accessible and were certainly compromised
by rogue actors, such as Iran and China
In my professional opinion, I agree with your assessment that he’s never been officially part of the IC, least of all in the actual military. I’d go further and say that he’s never actually made a living doing any sort of cybersecurity work. He sounds like your typical conspiracy theory nutter with access to Google.
Curiously, in debasing myself by reading into these conspiracy theories, I now see that the guy peddling the “CIA facility in Germany stormed by special forces” nonsense has said that the nickname of the 305th is “Kraken,” and that’s why Sidney Powell used that term, and the 305th is actively working with Powell and Trump’s legal team to uncover all of this. You’d think a retired 3 star would understand that the 305th has no operational role, and that their nickname isn’t “Kraken,” and that… oh whatever, it’s Chinatown at this point.
Yeah, that one I noticed. The other two named servers are called “barracuda” and “webmail”. So…if naming a server “belgrade” means it’s actually in Belgrade, does naming a server “barracuda” mean it’s actually…located in a school of barracudas? Made of barracudas? For use by barracudas? The mind boggles.
See ATMB
I have somewhat related fantasies. What I would like to do is create an utterly insane conspiracy theory regarding the Dems - something patently absurd like, “Joe Biden actually died of a heart attack about three weeks ago. Hilary Clinton had plastic surgery to look like Joe Biden, and the person you now see claiming to be Joe Biden is actually Hilary Clinton. Within a week or two after inauguration they are going to fake Biden’s death and Kamala Harris will take over as President. Hilary will then have the plastic surgery undone and Kamala will make her Secretary of State again, at which point she’s going to cut a deal with Ukraine to bring over Ukrainian soldiers to bomb all of America’s oil & gas and coal producing facilities, forcing most businesses to shut down unless they buy overpriced and unreliable power from windmill companies that Bill Clinton and “the Squad” jointly own.”
Etc., etc. Then release this bizzaro-world nonsense into the world, and point and laugh as the CT kooks eat it up and spread it around. After having a few good laughs, show incontrovertible proof that this cannot possibly be true and the story was an exercise in craziness designed to prove to QAnon followers that they can’t believe all the stoopid that they’re lapping up without critical thinking.
Of course, the problem with this idea is that it would fail miserably because if the stories got off the ground there are only two possible outcomes:
(a) some people would persist in believing the lies anyway; and/or
(b) if QAnon cultists did actually accept that they had been had and the story was false, they’d spin it as just more proof of how the other side hates America.
At Leitrim by any chance?
Why? “Dominion” was established by the 1907 imperial conference as meaning a British possession that had more self-governance than a Crown colony, but was still a British possession, subject to the British government and Parliament. Why would we want to keep using a term that is a century out of date and doesn’t reflect our status as an independent nation?
Ms Powell has filed another lawsuit, alleging shenanigans in Michigan:
"In another case for Edison County, MI , Vice President Biden received more than 100% of the votes at 5:59 PM EST on November 4, 2020 and again he received 99.61% of the votes at 2:23 PM EST on November 5, 2020. These distributions are cause for concern and indicate fraud …”
Finally, proof positive of Democrat Election Fraud™! There’s just one minor quibble: Edison County, MI doesn’t exist.
That’s pretty impressive in itself (even with Edison County being mythical)
More people live in mythical counties than in real counties.
After reading @steronz’s post above, and re-reading 305th MI guys affidavit, I’m embarrassed to admit, I’ve got to withdraw my original objection to his use of the term OSINT. He’s just saying he’s using publicly available information in his analysis. That’s a technically correct usage. I mean, it’s an overly technical bit of jargon that obfuscates rather than clarifies his meaning, and it seems like he’s using it just to make himself sound cooler, but it’s not actually wrong. Mea culpa. I’m sorry, 305th MI Guy.
Active service members and veterans are not perfect in their terminology, and dropping the word “Battalion” is really no big deal. I rarely, if ever, use the full styling of the units I served with.
That said, service members and veterans are also not always honest about their experience. Stating he was “an electronic intelligence analyst” with the 305th is a dishonest misrepresentation of the facts. He was either a student or an instructor there. This also raises a legitimate question; did he even graduate from that program? Was he ever a working intop? If he was, why would he not refer to THAT unit? It’s akin to a person implying they’re a doctor, and when you ask where they practice medicine, telling you what school they took their pre-med courses at.
“Expert” doesn’t mean anything in most contexts. Unless it’s a specific term of art in a particular profession it’s a filler word. Anyone can call themselves an expert.
Affadavits don’t QUITE mean nothing, but they’re pretty goddamn close. There’s a reason trials are not conducted by reading stacks of affadavits.
At first I assumed this is another one of those cases of them mixing up Michigan and Minnesota.
Here’s the thing; “Edison County” exists nowhere in the United States, in ANY state.