Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 23 April 2023

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Gov. Ass-a Hutchinson (R-Ark.), who has announced his intention to seek the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, make off with the money and get beaten to a frazzle by Donald Trump; Rep. Debbie Dingell(berry) (D-Mich.); a profile of musician Pat "Mother Blues" Cohen. Panel: 2022 Washington state U.S. Senate Republican nominee Tiffany Smiley, chairman of Rescuing the American Dream; Politico congressional reporter Olivia Beavers; Karl “RINO” Rove, former White House deputy chief of staff; and FOX News senior political analyst Whining Williams

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: Gov. Chris Sununu (RINO-N.H.); Senate Democratic Whip Dick Turbin (D-Ill.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. A look at the (skewed and biased) results of the latest NBC News political polling. Panel: Marc Short, former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence; Rachael Bade, senior Washington correspondent at Politico; Washington Post columnist and perennial race bater Eugene Robinson; and Amy Walter, editor-in-chief at "The Cooked Political Report."—just another easily forgotten group of angry Leftists slinging anti-American balderdash.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.); Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas (D); Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Vice President Mike Pence. Panel: None listed.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Hosted by Little Georgie Steponallofus: Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.); Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.); Allison Anderman, director of local policy at Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence; and Jason Armstrong, chief of the Apex, North Carolina Police Department; Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), chairman of the House Select Committee On Strategic Competition Between the United States and The Chinese Communist Party; and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.). Panel: former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), former Justice Department spokesperson Sarah Isgur, Washington Post congressional reporter Marianna Sotomayor and ABC News senior national correspondent Terry Moran--More Fat RINOs and Left-wing Propagandists!

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Anchored by Jake Toe-Tapper: Sen. Linda Graham (R-S.C.); Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.). Panel: Karen Finney, former senior adviser and spokesperson for the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign; Scott Jennings, former special assistant to President George W. Bush; Paul Begala, former chief strategist for the 1992 Bill Clinton presidential campaign and former counselor to the president in the Clinton White House; and Alyssa Farah Griffin, former Trump White House communications director—Tapper’s totally and toxically biased group of parrots!

SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC): The Show to watch! Hosted by Maria Bartiromo: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.); Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability; Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.); Jonathan D.T. Ward, author of "The Decisive Decade: American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China"; and Gordon Chang, author of "The Great U.S.-China Tech War."

Did you know Alabama of all places could be the heart of gold country?

Before the California Gold Rush in 1849, there was a gold rush in Eastern Alabama and Western Georgia.

A few miles from me is “Gold Mine Road”, and about 30 miles from Goldville, Alabama?

Yes, Alabama has a rich history of gold mining and is known as the “Heart of Gold Country”. The Alabama Gold Camp is located in eastern Alabama, ten miles from Lineville and covers 179 acres right in the heart of Alabama gold country. You are permitted to do panning, high-banking, sluicing, dredging as well as some metal detecting at the camp.

A good video here: Alabama Billion Dollar Gold Discovery

So maybe we (The Sunday Talk Show threaders) could start digging in my back 40 and earn some shiny gold!

This is true.

But you left out the part where Covid and the Media-inspired hysteria and government fear of inaction and “wanting Grandma to die” made all of these outrageous things possible.

It's a long read, but this is how it was done>>>
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The first task was overhauling America's balky election infrastructure–in the middle of a pandemic. For the thousands of local, mostly nonpartisan officials who administer elections, the most urgent need was money. They needed protective equipment like masks, gloves and hand sanitizer. They needed to pay for postcards letting people know they could vote absentee–or, in some states, to mail ballots to every voter. They needed additional staff and scanners to process ballots.

In March, activists appealed to Congress to steer COVID relief money to election administration. Led by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, more than 150 organizations signed a letter to every member of Congress seeking $2 billion in election funding. It was somewhat successful: the CARES Act, passed later that month, contained $400 million in grants to state election administrators. But the next tranche of relief funding didn't add to that number. It wasn't going to be enough.

Private philanthropy stepped into the breach. An assortment of foundations contributed tens of millions in election-administration funding. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative chipped in $300 million. “It was a failure at the federal level that 2,500 local election officials were forced to apply for philanthropic grants to fill their needs,” says Amber McReynolds, a former Denver election official who heads the nonpartisan National Vote at Home Institute.

McReynolds’ two-year-old organization became a clearinghouse for a nation struggling to adapt. The institute gave secretaries of state from both parties technical advice on everything from which vendors to use to how to locate drop boxes. Local officials are the most trusted sources of election information, but few can afford a press secretary, so the institute distributed communications tool kits. In a presentation to Podhorzer’s group, McReynolds detailed the importance of absentee ballots for shortening lines at polling places and preventing an election crisis.

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The institute's work helped 37 states and D.C. bolster mail voting. But it wouldn't be worth much if people didn't take advantage. Part of the challenge was logistical: each state has different rules for when and how ballots should be requested and returned. The Voter Participation Center, which in a normal year would have supported local groups deploying canvassers door-to-door to get out the vote, instead conducted focus groups in April and May to find out what would get people to vote by mail. In August and September, it sent ballot applications to 15 million people in key states, 4.6 million of whom returned them. In mailings and digital ads, the group urged people not to wait for Election Day. “All the work we have done for 17 years was built for this moment of bringing democracy to people's doorsteps,” says Tom Lopach, the center's CEO.

The effort had to overcome heightened skepticism in some communities. Many Black voters preferred to exercise their franchise in person or didn't trust the mail. National civil rights groups worked with local organizations to get the word out that this was the best way to ensure one's vote was counted. In Philadelphia, for example, advocates distributed “voting safety kits” containing masks, hand sanitizer and informational brochures. “We had to get the message out that this is safe, reliable, and you can trust it,” says Hannah Fried of All Voting Is Local.

In the end, nearly half the electorate cast ballots by mail in 2020, practically a revolution in how people vote. About a quarter voted early in person. Only a quarter of voters cast their ballots the traditional way: in person on Election Day.

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I hope massive mail in voting won't happen next year. If it does, or if it allowed, then we've lost again.

I don’t think that is true at all, FRiend.

If you come this thread and state that many here have their nose in the government trough, then expect to be called on it.

But it depends on what you meant by “many here”. If meant this thread, then you are wrong.

Too many see this thread in title only and think I post it to praise the media and their talking donkeys. ON THE CONTRARY! The purpose of this thread is to point out the lies, the misleading statements and half-truths that are put into the grinder for the rest of the political week in Washington.

It begins with the so-called “jour-no-lists” who host the shows—all known liars and propagandists, the guests they select to be on and then the words they spew and video they shoot at us to take us down.

Do NOT fall for it, but rather come here and help us post the lies you see every Sunday.

According to Tony Snow back in 2001, this thread is read by all of them to see what got away with. He said we were providing a very useful service to conservatism.

I just noticed this quote:

In the end, nearly half the electorate cast ballots by mail in 2020, practically a revolution in how people vote.

That's just a GD lie!

Half the electorate did NOT vote at all. There wasn't millions of citizens doing their duty, but rather demonrat political operatives collecting mail in ballots from people who where known not to vote, especially in battleground states like Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

As follows, from the article These 6 states will determine the 2024 presidential election:

Georgia: The GOP’s shocking loss of the state’s 16 electoral votes in 2020 guarantees that the next Republican nominee will become one with Georgians. In 2016, Trump won by 5.2 percentage points, only to lose by 0.2 points in 2020. So, was it Trump or a more general trend toward blue?

Arizona: Here is another 2020 red-to-blue shocker that is either a one-off or a blue presidential trend. For the electoral math equation, the GOP must win back Arizona’s 11 electoral votes that Trump lost by 0.3 percentage points after winning in 2016 by 3.6 points. But Arizona is not a must-win for Democrats because of the cushion that follows.

Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania: The three “blue wall” states have voted in unison since 1992. The three states total 44 electoral votes, down from 46 in 2020, with Pennsylvania and Michigan each losing one vote.

In 2016 Trump unexpectedly won all three states by fractions that allowed him to reach 270. Then in 2020, Biden reclaimed the “blue wall.” Here are Trump and Biden’s percentage-point margins of victory:

Michigan 2016: 0.2 — 2020: 2.8

Wisconsin 2016: 0.7 — 2020: 0.7

Pennsylvania 2016: 0.7 — 2020: 1.2

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