Scott Adams of Dilbert fame has been taking it on the chin since he came out for Trump – and has become the object of the typical Internet storm one would expect when someone isn’t supporting the Left asks a question and then answers it (emphasis mine):

“I’ve been trying to figure out what common trait binds Clinton supporters together. As far as I can tell, the most unifying characteristic is a willingness to bully in all its forms.”

If you have a Trump sign in your lawn, they will steal it.

If you have a Trump bumper sticker, they will deface your car.

if you speak of Trump at work you could get fired. On social media, almost every message I get from a Clinton supporter is a bullying type of message. They insult. They try to shame. They label. And obviously they threaten my livelihood.

Heck, as we know here at the ‘Grok, if you are loud and proud of being a Conservative and write or talk about it, you can get fired.  Tick off some “protected sub-sub-sub Democrat identity group” and they will come and find you.

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Of course, it’s in Illinois (reformatted, emphasis mine)!

Early voting in Illinois got off to a rocky start Monday, as votes being cast for Republican candidates were transformed into votes for Democrats. Republican state representative candidate Jim Moynihan went to vote Monday at the Schaumburg Public Library. “I tried to cast a vote for myself and instead it cast the vote for my opponent,” Moynihan said. “You could imagine my surprise as the same thing happened with a number of races when I tried to vote for a Republican and the machine registered a vote for a Democrat.”

Hmm, it was explained that it was a “simple” calibration error.  Ayup, sure thing.  Curious thing, though – it seems this “machine flu” was caught in Amarillo, Texas, too (reformatted, emphasis mine):

…It’s not as common to see the stories I’ve been seeing today. Two voters from Canyon posted the experience they had while voting. Apparently, when these voters chose the straight Republican option, the ballot selected Clinton/Kaine instead of Trump/Pence. The same story has been reported in Dallas.

And another anecdote from Texas:

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Does the US oppress black Americans? Colin Kaepernick says “Yes”. Is this just the attempt of a “has been” to get noticed or is he right?

Are our black President, Cabinet Secretaries, Governors, Mayors, Judges, Congressmen, Senators, billionaires, millionaires, and thousands of other black officials oppressed? Are college educated and other blacks with good jobs, and those living in nice neighborhoods with good, safe schools for their children oppressed?

However, many poor Americans, including many blacks, live in oppressive conditions; they live in poverty, in areas where jobs, especially good jobs, are scarce, in high crime neighborhoods with frequent shootings, and send their children to poor and dangerous schools. These conditions exist in many inner cities.

These cities are almost exclusively controlled by Democrat politicians.

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With the cool and confident demeanor exhibited by President Clinton, President Obama and other sociopaths, Hillary Clinton repeated the lie that President Obama was forced withdraw American forces from Iraq, despite the objections of American military leaders and State Department veterans, by the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) created by President Bush. This lie has been protected by the media and by the obscurity of the facts.

When President Obama took office, Iraq was stable. President Bush had negotiated a SOFA based on the assumptions that conditions in Iraq would remain stable or improve, that a significant (30,000 – 50,000) American force would remain, and that a strong American influence would help maintain stability in Iraq.

When it was negotiated, all parties expected to renegotiate the SOFA if conditions changed.And conditions changed.

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And in this case, follow the money coming from Federal employees and going to which Presidential candidate?  A report from The Hill (reformatted, emphasis mine): Government workers shun Trump, give big money to Clinton

“Government employees are, on balance, more moderate or more liberal as opposed to the general population,” Schultz said. “Not across the board, but in general.” Government employees are “more likely to believe in government as opposed to, let’s say, a privatization program,” he added, “programs that we would view as hostile to government.”

• State Department, which Clinton once led, saw more than 99 percent of contributions going to Clinton.

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Nest thermostats offline in massive outage during U.S. heatwave

Nest outage cuts remote users off from Dropcams, thermostats

Being a techie, I always wanted a “connected” home and started way back when X10 was the cool thing to play with.  Not exactly robust, sometimes glitchy to run and control.  I did give it up but always thought about picking it up again.  But when I read that a Government official, Carol Browning,  thought the advent of Smart Meters was license to have Govt change the relationship between electricity consumers and their power generator, I gave up on that REALLY quickly:

And so [we will be] giving people and companies a role in the management of how we use electricity.

Notice the collective “we” and then the “giving” part – it’s as if Gubmit

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“In the end, it was the candidate, Hillary Clinton, the future president of the United States, who wanted ducks on the ground,”

James O’Keefe, who founded Project Veritas and has been a long time friend of the ‘Grok, has now released the third video in his series of investigative videos of what goes on behind the scenes of the Democrat Party campaigns dealing with those whose stock in trade is dirty tricks (we have them here and here). Sure, there are those on the Left that completely dismiss this from “editing” but just the reactions of the Dems to the content are showing that they are absolutely going bonkers in damage control.  Scott Foval has been fired and Robert Creamer (the husband of US Representative  Jan Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL and proud Democrat Socialist (more the Socialist than Democrat but I might be splitting hairs on that) and visited the White House over 300 times and directly with Obama 40 or so times) have both already been canned. Oh yeah, the latter is a convicted felon – so WHY was he at the WH? More on that later- the video (emphasis mine):

Part III of the undercover Project Veritas Action investigation dives further into the back room dealings of Democratic politics. It exposes prohibited communications between Hillary Clinton’s campaign, the DNC and the non-profit organization Americans United for Change. And, it’s all disguised as a duck. In this video, several Project Veritas Action undercover journalists catch Democracy Partners founder directly implicating Hillary Clinton in FEC violations.

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For Immediate Release – October 25, 2016
Contact: Greg Moore (603) 303-9297

Americans for Prosperity Comments on Massive ObamaCare Rate Increases for 2017

MANCHESTER – Americans for Prosperity – New Hampshire (AFP-NH) offered the following comments in response to news that ObamaCare rates for 2017 will include massive hikes.

“Earlier this year, AFP-NH raised the alarm on this critical issue when the first rate proposals of up to 60% went public,” said Greg Moore, AFP-NH State Director.  “These massive price increases in ObamaCare are entirely predictable and something that anyone who understands the insurance marketplace could see coming a mile away. 

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