Trump's been declared 277, and has majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
GOD BLESS THE USA!!!
Don't assume this is the steal just yet -- Pennsylvania law doesn't allow the counting of absentee ballots until election day. Given the trend of voter turnout, this could easily be absentee voting and expand Trump's lead in PA.
Trump going steady at ~70% odds of winning. If fuckery is going to happen, it'll happen in the middle of the night like it did last time.
In North Carolina's case it's because there are still a lot of rural counties that haven't fully reported yet. As of currently, Camel-toe's lead in NC is 1% or less.
To give themselves plausible deniability by hiding clandestine activities within an otherwise routine weather surveillance mission. If a P3 can hold 180 pounds of cargo, which is less than the weight of a healthy adult man, then it could have seeded the storm with dry ice at the same time as it collected meteorological data -- the mission it is typically used for.
It took only 180 pounds of dry ice to alter the path of Hurricane King by 135 degrees, and that was done in 1947. The average American adult weighs more than that. How much can a single plane do? Quite a lot, evidently.
Yes -- Governor Roy Cooper is a Democrat.
State level may be complicit, but I think county level offices turning away donations is misinformation -- The counties hit hardest by the hurricane are probably not physically capable of receiving donations due to service outages and damage to infrastructure, since County funding is handled by either a County Treasurer or a Tax Commissioner per county. If the offices that handle these transactions are out of service, there's not much that can be done monetarily.
Volunteers may be getting turned away because of the dangers of ongoing flooding, impassable roadways, mobile debris, potential mudslides, and damaged power lines. There are a lot of dangers in disaster relief that the 5000 or so professional technicians and other responders are trained to handle or avoid that most well-meaning Samaritans simply aren't equipped for.
County level agencies absolutely ARE handling things -- there are linemen up here in WNC who have been sent from all the way from City of New Bern, who have come from the east coast of the state to help with disaster relief.
If you want to lay blame on any government agency, I believe you should direct your anger onto the National Weather Service. By the time the first messages about Flash Flood watches and warnings started appearing for the Piedmont counties, the mountains were already severely flooded -- The NWS had two days in advance that they could have advised evacuation, even in the mountains, and DID NOT DO SO.
Chimney Rock is just straight up gone. Sylva and Black Mountain might have also been destroyed. Lake Lure, too.
Duke doesn't fuck around, and neither does Carolina Power. I saw the latter come through the morning after the storm hit.
That's because flood waters are extremely dangerous. They're usually full of stirred-up sediment, so you can neither tell how fast the water's moving nor how deep it really is. Statistically, more flood deaths occur in the confines of a vehicle than anywhere else.
This is very astute -- When you narrow a hose with flowing water, the water does not stop or grow less in volume -- it just moves faster and with greater force.
The dam may have held only because they opened the floodgates in time.
Their voterbase is peanuts compared to the combination of Charlotte and Raleigh, and everything else east of King's Mountain.
As devastating as the storm has been for Rutherford County, those linemen are from the same companies that restored power to most (90 some-odd percent) of Florida within a week's time. The only reason they are here right now and not up in the mountains yet is because the mountains are still flooded and there's work to do here.
The areas most affected are still lacking power and phone service. The White House doesn't care about WNC other than maybe Asheville, because other than Asheville (leftist stronghold), we were never going to vote for Kameltoe Harris anyway. Besides, what's the harm in sacrificing one minor city (Asheville) when they can do nothing and leave most of the country folk who would be voting for Trump high and dry? They still have Charlotte and Raleigh they can count on.
Not necessarily. If it weren't for the added scrutiny following the attack, I doubt anyone would be claiming this is Diguiseppi.
That too is significant.
You do realize that when the sun shines on one side of something, the side of it not shined on still has a shadow that, relative to the surroundings, is much darker?
It is considered perfidy to perform combative actions while in the guise of civilians or in the uniform of a neutral or adverse party (aka your enemy).
Using disguises in non-combative ways, such as for espionage or for infiltration of troops ahead of a conflict, however, is considered a legitimate ruse of war so long as they do not engage in combat while so disguised.
CNN probably saw the video the shooter made before it got deleted to cover up there being a credible threat for the SS director to act on. They could have been tipped off directly, but monitoring social media seems like a good way for a news network to keep a finger on the pulse of their audience.
The dark shape that everyone is assuming is a person is really just the shaded portion of that round thingy on top of the tower in really low resolution. The illusion of movement is a visual artifact created by the compression of the video that was taken of the tower.
The next 5-7 shots would have been from the Secret Service returning fire from buildings much closer to the stage.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Tell me that Virginia is blue.