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Peyton Robb? Zane Richards?

What is your point in stating the obvious?

Just got back from a full week rafting the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon… and I’m speechless. A mile deep between ancient rocks walls, running big-water rapids, waterfalls, hiking, camping under the Milky Way every night, and waking up to the smells of bacon and the sounds of the river. This was an epic vacation. No cell service. No crowds. My soul is reset. Put a Grand Canyon river trip at the top of the list. Unforgettable. 10/10.

I listen to both but will make no recommendation there. I recently discovered a new-to-me genre on a trip that had me laughing out loud; LitRPG. I picked the audiobook Dungeon Crawler Carl on Audible. The main character, Carl, is a sarcastic, blue-collar everyman who constantly roasts the absurd, deadly situations he’s thrown into. His dry, deadpan commentary while everything goes to hell is hilarious. The audiobook versions are splendid! LitRPG (short for Literary Role-Playing Game) is a genre of fiction where the story is built around video game-like mechanics. I had no idea I would enjoy it... and then went through 8 books in the series...

No way on popularity votes with the inconsistency in how states run the election making it even easier for the tyranny of the majority.

Covid origins. Biden is healthy. Imane Khelif is a female. Hunter Biden laptop is disinformation. Russia collusion. Just a few lies that many believed and many still do. Yet the 2020 election that the D's wrote an article about how they rigged and of which all signals indicate was rigged was "the most secure election in history." Gawh!

This reminds me of Trump supporters more concerned that Trump was caught on camera talking about grabbing women than what he said and what it implied. Fraud occurred (and was sometimes caught). But fraud occurred! Nobody was charged. But fraud occurred (and is difficult to catch)! Election trust is low and we can do something about it... but we are not. Why is that?

"No fraud found" is a great outcome. "Fraud found" is also a great outcome. Transparency is important.

Nah man the Republican leadership is disconnected from its people on other topics. On this sub topic of voter ID within Election Integrity, it's the Democratic leaders calling it Jim Crow while the street interviews and well accepted surveys have Democrats fully supporting Voter ID.

Remember Garland Favorito... the Georgia election integrity activist who won court approval to inspect the 2020 Fulton County ballots, only for the county to keep blocking access? Bet he is happy that now the DOJ has seized those ballots and a large FBI team is now reviewing them. While it's too late for criminal charges due to the statute of limitations... (no surprise there...) any transparent outcome (lawful or crime) could help restore trust.

The democrat people overwhelmingly support voter ID. The democrat leadership does not. What fuckery is this between what the voters want and what leadership does on election integrity?

Not when the states refuse to share. I inserted the word "potentially" in the actual document because I don't know how they verified the amount. Other states that do leverage SAVE had initially had estimates of 10x higher from public records. As mentioned, a 10x reduction to 25K in four states is a serious problem.

This Michigan FBI case file is a strong 2020 election fraud signal: of 107 voter registrations reviewed, 91 people didn't exist in databases and 12 of the remaining 16 had mismatched (likely forged) signatures. Only 4 were legitimate. --- Title: (U) Database Checks Spreadsheet Date: 05/19/2023 From: DETROIT Contact: [REDACTED] Approved By: [REDACTED] Drafted By: [REDACTED] Case ID #: 56D-DE-3407960-1B1_REVIEW (U) [REDACTED] 1B1 Review Subfile;Synopsis: (U) Database Checks Spreadsheet Enclosure(s): Enclosed are the following items: (U) Database Checks Spreadsheet Details: Database searches were conducted on the 107 voter registration applications from item 1B1 (Box containing voter registration forms. MUPD PR# 94333) in an attempt to identify voter registration applications with potentially fraudulent signatures or listing non-existent individuals. The database searches revealed the following: Ninety-one individuals returned no results in database checks. Sixteen individuals were confirmed to be existing people but only four had signatures on file that matched the signatures provided on the associated voter registration application. A spreadsheet summarizing the findings is attached in the 1A portion of the file. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Michigan-Voter-Registration-Investigation.zip

This Cyber security email alleges the Intelligence Community (IC) deliberately downplayed and obscured Chinese election influence activities in the President's Daily Brief (PDB). The IC is supposed to be apolitical... --- ...year of 2020... I think I mentioned to you before that there is some pending [REDACTED] that makes it clear China has been caught conducting election influence. At least that’s how it was described to us. [REDACTED] But as you scroll up, note that NSA is “deliberately massaged our one pending PDB to avoid any direct links to the election." While this is important for your report I’m sure, it also has the potential to be a near-term issue we will need to draw attention to. This is a really good example, but far from the only one, of what I’ve been raising since the summer—that the IC is deliberately avoiding mentioning a connection to elections for non-substantive reasons. Obviously since the [REDACTED] isn’t released yet—they’re holding it until next week—there isn’t a PDB so maybe it won’t end up being an issue. But this is a highly irregular way to do things, especially as someone trying to raise tradecraft and substantive objections to the mainline analysis and isn’t getting our work incorporated or even mentioned. [REDACTED]National Intelligence Officer - Cyber ODNI/National Intelligence Council https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Chinas-Acquisition-and-Exploitation-of-American-Voter-Data.zip > Email Massaged PDB...

Even if the non-SAVE compliant state information is inflated by 10x, this is a serious issue for elections decided by small margin. --- The Department of Homeland Security has identified OVER 250,000 POTENTIALLY NON-CITIZENS ARE ILLEGALLY REGISTERED TO VOTE in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Nevada. Meanwhile Texas has 2300 identified. The difference is that Texas leveraged SAVE to process their full voter list whereas the states mentioned do no. DHS had to use public information to identify potential issues. Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) is an online service for registered federal, state, territorial, tribal, and local government agencies to verify immigration status and U.S. citizenship of applicants seeking benefits or licenses. Read more... https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Noncitizens-on-State-Voter-Rolls.zip

Quality post. Deep.

Must be China and Russia... or Still a maintenance issue. The developer browser tool shows the (Cloudflare server timing field) cfOrigin taking 0.5s on good loads and 14–17s on bad ones. The problem is with Intermat's web server. When the server is still up and just slow, it is not a denial of service attack.

"Okay"

There was a time and a place for Truth Social. Never bought stock... X made it so there was no reason to go somewhere like Truth Social or Gab (ick) or Blue Sky or Threads

I don't know if "they" said it but do recall members speculating on it. A DDos attack floods a website with traffic to slow it down or bring it down. Why would anyone from China purposely DDos this tiny site? I never followed it too closely so obviously could be wrong but the China DDoS comment sounds like a GWN fallacy.

I am thrilled about the celebrations and anxious because it will be disrupted with troublemakers and violence (attempted or realized). I really want to go but am not going! Actually angry that I have to consider my safety for an otherwise awesome occasion.

Invision forums slow down over time if the database isn't regularly maintained... old logs, activity records, and cached data build up and cause sluggish performance. Since this is a smaller platform with limited revenue, regular maintenance (pruning, optimization, server tuning) is likely infrequent. That's the most likely cause here. This isn't a prime target for hackers...

You rang?

Eagle/Vail/Avon.

Up in the Colorado mountains this week. This beautiful.